HAELER ECHO

SPEECH ACTS ALAN GUTIERREZ, SARA MAGENHEIMER and BEN VIDA 

SUNDAY, APRIL 17TH, 2016

7PM

Haeler Echo invites you to Speech Acts, the third event of Season 2, featuring Alan Gutierrez, Sara Magenheimer and Ben Vida.

Speech Acts takes season two’s scenography of the domestic space and incorporates the voice, sound and the performance of speech in three respective performances. Work by Gloria Maximo, Carter Mull, Pooneh Maghazehe, Lia Lowenthal and Sophie Stone remains on view in the apartment as well.

Attendance is limited for this event, please RSVP to secure a spot.

Untitled (intermission #1)

Alan Gutierrez

Untitled (intermission #1) is a monologue delivered with the intention of setting the stage. This happens in-between other works, while the lights are on- exposing the existing architectures.

Hearing voices = you’re crazy Not hearing voices = you’re crazy Notes on Voice Sara Magenheimer

Sara Magenheimer will give a talk cataloging the variety of modes of voice she uses in her work and observes in the world, interweaving her relationship to her own voice with cinematic uses of the voice.

Speech Acts

Performed by Ben Vida and Mary Manning

Speech Acts are a collection of proposals for duo vocal performances. They are also the platform from which a number of works in different mediums have been produced (including single channel video and works on paper and panel). These pieces push the textual into the textural as the tempos, accents and rhythms of the language begins to take priority over linguistic meaning. Inspired by the graphic and typographical gestures of concrete and sound poetry, as well as the formal structures of Beckett’s dramatic works, the visual language of these pieces blur the line between text and image — at times obscuring the verbal significance of the language in order to foreground visual and sonic affect and impression. In a sense Speech Acts are a conversation between two characters who may or may not be the same person. While one voice struggles to communicate in simple terms, the other voice plays the ever slipping roles of stage direction, sub-text, inner dialog and autonomous narrator.

Alan Gutierrez lives and works in Miami, FL. His artistic practice is object, language, and production-based. Gutierrez has had recent solo exhibitions at Locust Projects (Miami) and Kosmeticsalon Babette (Berlin) with upcoming solo exhibitions at Regina Rex (NYC), East Hampton Shed (NY) and the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space (Miami). Gutierrez also runs Line Script Diary, a Miami-based short-run publishing house of text-based books and projects by artists, writers, and thinkers.

Sara Magenheimer is an artist based in New York. Recent exhibitions and screenings include White Columns, Foxy Production, Chapter, NY; Interstate Projects, 247365 Gallery, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn; Document, Chicago; Joan, China Art Objects, Los Angeles; Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal; The Luminary, St. Louis; The Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Images Festival, Toronto; The New York Film Festival, The Kitchen, Brooklyn Academy of Music; MOMA, Portland, OR; Futura, Prague, Czech Republic, and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. She has performed at Recess, MOMA P.S.1, Issue Project Room, Canada Gallery, the Performa 13 Biennial, and C.off in Stockholm, Sweden. She has received commissions from Triple Canopy and EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was the recipient of a 2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2015 Artadia Grant, and winner of the Prix De Varti at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival. She teaches at SUNY Purchase College and Bennington College.

still from Peter Gidal Room Film 1973

OPEN HOUSE

LIA LOWENTHAL, POONEH MAGHAZEHE, SOPHIE STONE

SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016 1:00PM-6:00PM

In the dismantling of form and content, integral structural elements and decorative, more incidental elements remain co-present. In the space of their co-presence, their weaving together, their folding in and enfolding, we may come undone, disoriented, forget how touse things. Or we may build new vocabularies of use and gesture, of style, of setting. OPEN HOUSE, the third event of Season 2: “Against, Beside, Above and Beyond,” invites actors to assemble in this domestic scene. There is no set schedule to the day. Guests are welcome to stop by at any time, stay for as long as they wish, and participate on any level. The OPEN HOUSE encourages prolonged and expanded engagement with new artworks by Lia Lowenthal, Pooneh Maghazehe and Sophie Stone, in an intimate context. The day considers different unscripted activities in a space of mutual reverberation. Self-organized and group study sessions may occur organically. By this we mean, talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some convergence of all three, collected under the name of speculative practice (Fred Moten and Stefano Harney on “study,” The Undercommons). Reading and discussion of a selection of texts chosen by the artists may take place independently or in groups spontaneously and/or continuously. Other activities may include the screening of a short film, listening and writing sessions, demonstrations by the artists, arranging flowers, cooking and tea-making. OPEN HOUSE stages an ongoing scenography in the living space, around and with works of art, by cultivating atmosphere, attention, and conversation in a variety of directions.

Works by Gloria Maximo and Carter Mull, installed earlier in the season, continue to be on view.

Organized by Josephine Shokrian, Rachel Valinsky and Lulu Wolf

Lia Lowenthal (b. 1984, New York City) is an artist based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, and a BA from University of California, Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include 321 Gallery (NY, 2015), Wendy’s Subway (NY, 2015), Southfirst (NY, 2014), Swiss Institute (NY, 2014), and Art in General (NY, 2012). Her work has been written about in the New Yorker and Paletten Magazine.

Pooneh Maghazehe (b. 1979 Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited works and collaborative performances at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Beijing 798 Biennale, Newark Penn Station, DePaul University Museum in Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, 247365, and ICA Portland. She received an MFA from Columbia University (2011) and MS in Interior Architecture from Pratt Institute (2005). Maghazehe has worked in the field of architectural design for the past 11 years. She owns and operates the interior design firm LM // PM Productions LLC and teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Sophie Stone (b. 1987, lives and works in New York) received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Her work has been shown at Nicole Klagsbrun, Shoot the Lobster, Night Gallery and Del Vaz Projects. Stone is also a co-founder of Petrella’s Imports.

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HAELER ECHO holds occasions for collaborators across various disciplines to gather in a convivial context. A program of events grouped under the banner of a seasonal thematic focus sets the stage for collective inquiry. We organize conversations around readings, film, performance, visual, and audio arts, and encourage evolving exchanges through a dialogical approach.

Haeler Echo Season 02: "Against, Beside, Above and Beyond" stages an ongoing scenography within the domestic interior. Works installed at Haeler Echo intervene in the familiar fabric of the living room, the dining room, the bedroom, and the kitchen. Their dispositions produce renewed encounters between objects and bodies and reorient the function of pre-existing furnishings and decor. This scenography gives way to an other space, one of mutual reverberation where the presence of the work has an evolving effect. Recognition of these interactions is encouraged through selected readings and discussions, and through presentations (screenings and talks) which often reveal, as Derrida writes, cooperation from the outside. Season 02 will be held from March through May 2016, and will present works by Julia Crockett, Alan Gutierrez, Lia Lowenthal, Sara Magenheimer, Pooneh Maghazehe, Gloria Maximo, Carter Mull, Sophie Stone, Ben Vida, and more tba.