SCOPE Miami 2009 Highlights
The Riot Temple
The Arctic Circle
Ellis Gallagher
Invisible Heroes
SCOPE Sound: SWEATSHOPPE
SCOPE Market: Covet Garden
The Riot Temple:
A visceral exploration of worship & violence
A collaboration between Ryan O'Connor, Aaron Taylor Kuffner and William Etundi Jr
Robot Orchestra: The Gamelatron is the world’s first and only fully robotic Gamelan Orchestra. Modeled after traditional Balinese and Javanese gamelan orchestras, the Gamelatron is an malgamation of traditional instruments with a suite of percussive sound makers. MIDI sequences control 117 robotic striking mechanisms that produce intricately woven and rhythmic sound. Performances follow an arc similar to classic Indonesian gatherings, where stories from great epics, such as the Ramayana, are told and settings are recounted in words that are, in turn, continued in music.
Ritualized Riot: The presentation of The Riot Temple includes a ceremony that evolves from the mundane to the profane. A dozen performers as walking ghosts in the periphery encircle the outer parameter. The growing sounds of the Gamelatron begin to cue their movement. Anointing the crowd with offerings, the ghosts become companion spirits as bystanders become participants, drawing the audience inward towards a distilled and finite moment. The size and scope of the ceremony is flexible depending on the venue. The entire work is made to be site-specific and has been successfully presented to groups numbering in the dozens to the thousands. While the core ceremony is 27 minutes long, the Gamelatron is able to play ambient concerts up to five hours.
For more information, please visit: www.theriottemple.com
The Arctic Circle, Art & Science Organization Set to Sail
This October, The Arctic Circle will embark on its first expedition into the High Arctic, with a collective of 18 juried professionals aboard and ice-class, scientific research sailing vessel. The traditionally rigged 150' Schooner will host a crew comprising international artists, architects and scientists that will set sail, using techniques of early exploration, for three weeks while working on individual projects in a collaborative environment.
Forging an alliance between the arts and sciences is a growing area of interest and importance. The Arctic Circle founder Aaron O'Connor believes that the organization provides a new focus that will serve to broaden creative exploration and raise awareness about the importance of the role that the artist and scientist hold in society.
SCOPE is pleased to present The Arctic Circle, the first of several projects hand selected by SCOPE's curatorial committee in association with the SCOPE Foundation. For more information please visit www.thearcticcircle.org
Ellis Gallagher
Ellis Gallagher's shadow chalk drawings, executed in both urban and interior settings, seek to enhance the beauty of everyday objects and mundane situations that are routinely overlooked. Chalk drawings of bicycles, fire hydrants, milk crates, shopping carts, fences, plants, and trees inspire curiosity and encourage the viewer to pause, observe, initiate conversation and experience their surroundings with a renewed sense of optimism.
Ellis Gallagher is a native New Yorker. As a former graffiti writer, his work can be found in New York City and beyond, in Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers by Peter Sutherland (Powerhouse Books 2004), as well as in numerous newspapers, magazines, on television and in films. Currently a Contemporary/Street Artist known as (C)ELLIS G., Gallagher's work has appeared on the cover of numerous publications and features.
For more information, please visit: www.ellisgallagher.com
Invisible Heroes
Similar to Robert Rauschenberg's seminal Erased de Kooning Drawing of 1953, The Invisible Heroes have erased their own drawings of Princess Diana, but with a twist. Here, rather than take an actual drawing rendered by Diana herself, they instead employ Diana's own childhood eraser - a conceptual inversion that privileges the tool over the finished work. Frequently used by Diana as a nine year old, this standard pink rubber eraser - familiar to everyone from grammar school days - was serendipitously acquired by the artists. The completion of the work, then, hinges not on the final graphite stroke, but on the "performative" effacement of their own original piece of art.
For more information, please visit: www.invisibleheroes.net
Comenius Roethlisberger & Admir Jahic
For the Big Mistakes (Lady Diana's Eraser), 2007
Drawing
201 X 160 centimeters- each triptuch
SCOPE Sound: SWEATSHOPPE
SWEATSHOPPE is a new multimedia performance collaboration between Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw that works at the intersection of art, music and technology. The duo develops software to construct a totally unique interactive performance, and creates unique ways of affecting an audience.
Whether Levy and Shaw are creating a dance driven electronic music performance that emphasizes sound reactive visuals, building interactive installations, or fabricating guerrilla technologies to augment public space, the duo strives toward an element of pop accessibility that is so often ignored in the technocentric world of experimental media.
Sweatshoppe hosts local bands, DJs, and live performances daily.
SCOPE Market: Covet Garden
To Market, To Market
SCOPE ART SHOW is pleased to announce the opening of COVET GARDEN, a marketplace
of artist-made goods, editions, books and live projects. Curated by Daria Brit Shapiro and Karelle Levy of AMF Projects (Miami) and Andrew Lockhart of Projekt NYC (New York), Covet Garden is a bazaar of artist-design, fashion, lifestyle goods, and special projects including live silkscreening by Rocky Grimes, Psychic Photo Readings by Stephanie Diamond, live tattooing by Miami-based artist Santiago Rubino, a mini-shop by New York-based artist Trong Nguyen.
Participating Vendors include: Mark Diaz (Miami), LACE nail spa (Miami), Gold Saturn (Miami), Surface 2 Air (New York), Ghostly Records (Michigan), KREL (Miami), It’s Bodega (New York) among others.
