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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.

  Ben Vida, sound artist and composer based in  New York, just released his new composition “tracers”.

We liked the richness brought by the different hypnotic patterns and the confrontational relation between the acoustic and electronic realms..