Photos from Charles Atlas/Lia Gangitano at NYPL
Check out the pictures from yesterday night’s screening of Paradox and discussion with Charles Atlas and Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc, at the Mid-Manhattan Library.
Art21 is co-presenting monthly screenings of each Season 4 episode at the NYPL throughout the spring.
Reminder: Charles Atlas with Lia Gangitano at NYPL tonight
Art21, BOMB, & the Mid-Manhattan Library
present
a film screening and conversation
Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode Paradox
After the screening Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc., will join consulting director and video artist Charles Atlas for a conversation and Q&A session.
TONIGHT Monday, April 7, 2008 at 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue, 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
Elevators to access the 6th floor.
All events are FREE and open to the public.
Save the date: Charles Atlas with Lia Gangitano at New York Public Library April 7
Art21, BOMB, & the Mid-Manhattan Library
present
a film screening and conversation
Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode Paradox
After the screening Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc., will join consulting director and video artist Charles Atlas for a conversation and Q&A session.
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 6:30pm
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue, 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
Elevators to access the 6th floor.
All events are FREE and open to the public.
Photos from Charles Atlas screening at EAI
Photos from last night’s screening and discussion with Art21 artist Charles Atlas at Electronic Arts Intermix in New York. His recently restored classic underground film, Hail the New Puritan was shown, along with an excerpt from his live installation Instant Fame and clips from recent live performances he’s done with Antony and the Johnsons and experimental Austrian musician Fennesz. EAI’s John Thomson led a lively conversation with Atlas after the film and between each clip.
View more photos on Art21’s Flickr site here.
Charles Atlas at Electronic Arts Intermix tomorrow night
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Free Admission
Electronic Arts Intermix presents a screening of the work of Season 2 video artist and Season 3/4 director Charles Atlas, followed by an in-depth talk. The recently restored Hail the New Puritan (1985-86), Atlas’ groundbreaking collaboration with choreographer Michael Clark, will be screened, along with excerpts from his recent Instant Fame installation series and his live collaborations with Fennesz and Antony and the Johnsons. Atlas will discuss his work and take questions from the audience.
A mesmerizing blend of dance, music, drama and “mockumentary,” Hail the New Puritan engagingly presents Clark as choreographer, dancer, celebrity, lover, and nightclubber. It portrays the vitality of London’s mid-’80s underground scene in the face of economic turmoil and political division, through the lens of athletic, post-modern dance.
Atlas has collaborated live with many eminent performers. In Turning, his recent partnership with celebrated singer Antony, he captured and processed images of thirteen “beauties” as they literally turned on a podium onstage, projecting their refashioned images onto a large screen. Atlas’ video intensified Antony’s intimate investigations of image, identity, and metamorphosis.
In his collaboration with Austrian electronic music composer and performer Fennesz, Atlas processed visual samples live, while Fennesz played guitar and manipulated appropriated sounds. In dialogue with the composer’s moody, atmospheric music, Atlas’ poignant collages were a dramatic mix of found film footage and video clips.
Atlas also used live mixing in his recent video installation Instant Fame. In a Warholian celebration of exhibitionism, he set up a studio in a gallery and shot footage of anyone who wanted to be videotaped: they could perform or simply sit for the camera. The images were reworked in real time and simultaneously projected in an adjacent exhibition space.
View additional images and clips of Atlas’ work on EAI’s site here.
