Category: Events
November 16
2017

YOGA in SOLACE
KYM ATX leads a Kemetic (i.e. Ancient Egyptian) Yoga practice and meditation to the ambient sound therapy of Falling Awake with the visual inspiration of Kel Brown and Lisa Choinaky: Solace. This event is free and open to all with a sacred exchange for the Yoga practice.
7:00–7:30 pm: Check-in and Mingle
7:30–8:30 pm: Kemetic Yoga Demo & Practice
8:30–9:30 pm: Social Hour
Sacred Exchange for yoga $12
2016
at Co-Lab Demo Gallery

CHRISTMAS
Matthew Steinke & Octant Ensemble
Matthew Steinke is a composer of new music and an inventor of new instruments. Steinke’s Octant Ensemble is a band of midi-controlled acoustic robots.
Co-Lab Projects and Northern-Southern are proud to present the third annual performance of Steinke’s program of Christmas music: The Stuttering Clock.
The concert is free! But we will accept donations toward The White Helmets, an organization dedicated to relief and aid to those trapped in war, www.whitehelmets.org/en

PERFORMANCE AND DOCUMENTATION
Brad Tucker as Bad Trucker
Caroline Gormley
Jared Leibowich
Bridget Evarts
Lisa Choinacky
Benjamin Cissner
Matthew Steinke/Octant
Monika Rostvold
Rachel Freeman
Sarah Saltwick & Katy Taylor
Sean Ripple
Shafer Hall
Sol LeWitt Bootlegs
BLUE FLAMES and WARM ASHES were companion events. BLUE FLAMES was a day-long show of music, performance art, experimental theater, poetry, story-telling, and visual art as choreographed movement. Weeks later, WARM ASHES presented documentation and remains of the previous show.
A flame is a verb as a noun — the object (the plume of fire) is an action (burning, a rapid chemical change). The is is a does. Ashes are what flames leave behind.
At BLUE FLAMES, Lisa Choinacky drew and hung two large pieces. The video documentation and the pieces were shown at WARM ASHES. Artist Bridget Evarts spoke as Liza Minnelli at BLUE FLAMES. At WARM ASHES she made a encore appearance, signing 8×10 glossies photographed at the previous event. And so on… Poets’ readings were made into texts. Stages for performance became installations. Singers’ songs were played on an old tape recorder at the spot in the room where the tape was recorded.
Lisa Choinacky



passenger Instructions for “This is Hardcore” – a performance for car


2015

CHRISTMAS
Matthew Steinke & Octant Ensemble
For the second year, Matthew Steinke presents the Stuttering Clock of Christmas, a recital of Christmas music performed by the acoustic robots and new musical instruments of the Octant Ensemble.
This year’s performance features The Magnetosphere, a device that remotely transforms metal objects into resonant musical instruments.
Two performances:
Saturday,
December 19, 2016
7pm
Sunday (matinee)
December 20, 2016
3pm

CHRISTMAS
Matthew Steinke & Octant Ensemble
Christmas music performed by Matthew Steinke (Satisfact, Mocket, Octant) and the Octant Ensemble of new and robotic musical instruments.
Hear the Tine Organ, the Robotic Harmonium, the Robotic Melodica and other inventions in a musical adventure referencing Bach, Handel, and traditional Yule-time themes.
Two Shows
Saturday
December 20, 2014
7pm
Sunday
December 21, 2014
3pm
2014

Matthew Caws
Leslie Sisson
David Israel
Booher
Aaron Blount
Joe Fletcher
Ralph White
John Wesley Coleman
In the spirit of the “South by So What” punk festivals hosted by the legendary Blue Flamingo (aka the Blue Flame), Northern–Southern hosted day of acoustic music and local fellowship curated by Leslie Sisson.
Sisson also played – her first show as the leader of the Panoramas (later the Moving Panoramas). The highlight was an enrapturing set by Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws.

