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Sahra Motalebi
11/14/2009 5:00 PM at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101
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SAHRA MOTALEBI Such is the Game of Authenticity
Saturday Sessions : P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time: performance 5 PM, event 4 PM to 6PM
http://www.ps1.org/calendar/view/day/2009/11/14/
P.S.1 announces Saturday Sessions, a new program of emerging performance art that will take place on the second Saturday of each month and is open to the public. Designed to introduce new performance artists to New York audiences, the events will range from music to site-specific actions, Saturday Sessions debuts on November 14 with multimedia performances by Sahra Motalebi and J. Patrick Walsh 3. While P.S.1 has had a long tradition of showcasing performance-based art, from the Butoh dance of Min Tanaka to the films of Jack Smith, this is a new formalized program presenting a younger generation of artists.
Sahra Motalebi produces minimalist sensorial environments in her 30 minute music performance Such is the Game of Authenticity, exploring expressionism as an idiom and emotional reactivity in the art of song and story-telling within a virtual set. Video projections created from Motalebi’s architectural sculpture ’scenes’, one created with Colin Whitaker, along with music produced with Jay Israelson from her recent project Tender Mortal Means, EP (Static Recital, 2009) , will comprise the performance, "somewhat vaguely reminiscent of Greek theater meeting the earliest music videos from the 1980s set in the Goetheanum: both gorgeous and possibly cringe-making, but by no means inane or ironic; hideous, perhaps nerdy, but also certainly spiritual; virtuosic and scary but not at all mean-spirited."
Motalebi has exhibited sculpture and drawing internationally and her most recent performances include events at Vancouver Art Gallery and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-2084
http://www.ps1.org/
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