For Immediate Release

Artists Meeting Presents:

Being and Event - A Night of Performance

Live at Postmasters Gallery, 459 West 19th Street, New York NY 10011, Sunday June 26^th starting at 8pm.

Being and Event refers to the book of the same title by philosopher Alain Badiou. Artists Meeting is presenting two types of performances. On the being side are performances by Maria Joao Salema, Don Edler, Paulina V. Ahlstrom and Abigail Weg. On the event side are performances by Sofy Yuditskaya, Olga Lysenko & Fernando Sanabria, GH Hovagimyan, Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley and the Nsumi Collective with Dungeon Master. 

This will be Artists Meetings Artists Meeting's fourth multi-media performance event at Postmasters and follow up to the 1st YouTube Slam, Triptych Party, Weirder The Better, and A-List Cannibal Cage Match.

Artists Meeting is investigating the borders of performance art. Some works disassemble musical instruments both physically and digitally.  Others engage the audience as participants questioning their own existence and place in the universe. The nature of objects are examined as well as the presence of the body and it’s digital representation within the virtual matrix.  Some of the works use advanced computer programming and interactive technology others present simple stripped down real life. Some engage the video media-sphere and the teleology of information at work in social networks of the web.   The overarching questions are, what constitutes being and what constitutes an event in the 21^st Century. 

Being and Event – Program

Being - 8-9pm

Don Edler – Drinking about the Universe -  invites the audience for free beer at his portable minibar. Partakers are encouraged to talk about their views of the universe.

Maria Joao Salema, The Moving Still Life- will project a video of an endlessly collapsing still life for the duration of the event

Paulina V. Ahlstrom – This Moment - will give the audience slips of paper with the words “this moment” written on them.  She will record participants thoughts either through cellphone video or twitter. She will project the results later in the evening. 

Abigail Weg - will be conducting an interactive installation using projected imagery to paint portraits of the audience

Being and Event – Program (cont.)

Event – 9 -11pm

Sofy Yudiskayana – Differences in Duration of the Eternal Return – The most interesting story is the one happening right now. Durations of difference in the eternal return are captured and reprojected onto their original site of occurrence quantized sound and objects in interactive performance

Olga Lysenko & Fernando Sanabria – The Wino ­– The full-scale wine-bottle-glass piano is a product of Olga Lysenko and Fernando Sanabria's long-standing fascination with sound and all things mechanically engineered and, perhaps, an attempt to test their understanding of both sciences by applying a single construction system to both. It is also an attempt to create a moment of magic.

Lee Wells - Artistic Survival Techniques for the End of the World and Beyond – the first in a series of multi-media-performance-lectures, briefly touching on a wide range of new topics.

GH Hovagimyan -  Boxing Rants – interactive shadow-boxing rant performance using a hacked Kinect Camera

Raphaele Shirley – Red line, cigarette, running man, spinning circle 2011 –

A light diode, smoke machine, 2 LCD video projectors, a stool, 1 performer

and NSUMI Collective with Dungeon Master

End of Program

Note: There is a suggested donation of $10 to Artists Meeting to fund continuing events. For more information contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Postmasters Gallery 459 West 19th Street, New York NY 10011, 1-212-727-3323

Postmasters Gallery opened in East Village in December 1984, moved to Soho in 1989 and in September 1998 the gallery relocated again to a large ground floor space in Chelsea. During its 27 years Postmasters has shown young and established artists of all media, actively seeking new forms of creative expression and show them in a context of painting, sculpture and photography. The artworks are generally content oriented, conceptually based, and - most importantly - reflective of our time. www.postmastersart.com