The Armory Show 2012 - Armory Arts Week New York
Satellite Events curated and produced by Opalnest

For the 2012 Armory Arts Week, Opalnest curated 2 satellite events - experiential productions, corresponding to the Armory Arts Week neighborhoods: Chelsea and Lower East Side/East Village.

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Press: Flavorpill, NY Times, Union Docs, The 22 Magazine, ART INFO, Asia Art Archive, Huffington Post

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NewIdeas MusicSeries partnered up with Opalnest to present the 17th edition of the avant-garde music programme, illuminating duo artist collaborations. Six electronic music composers / sound artists perform duos in 3 sets to evoke unpredictable sonic dynamics. Curated by Michael Vincent Waller and Helen Homan Wu.

Stephen Vitiello + Taylor Deupree
Keiko Uenishi + Richard Garet
Sabisha Friedberg + David Galbraith

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Opalnest producer Helen Homan Wu partnered with Videotage and Osage Gallery to produce the performances for One World Exposition – the first-ever collaboration between China and Hong Kong intermedia artists with a month of exhibitions, performances, and symposiums. The events bring together internationally recognized media artists working with video, film, lighting, theatre, computer games and interactive media.

Participating artists: Feng Mengbo, Ou Ning, Ellen Pau, Qiu Zhijie, Jeffrey Shaw, Johnnie To, Wang Jianwei, Yang Fudong, Danny Yung and Zhang Peili..

Curators: Isaac Leung (HK), Li Zhenhua (China/Zurich)

Presented by Videotage & Osage KT

Location: Osage Gallery Kwuntong (Hong Kong)

Official Media Partner: Sina Weibo (Beijing)

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FUTURE NOSTALGIA: MOVING IMAGES, MOVING CITIES

For the 2011 Shenzhen-HK Biennale, Opalnest programmed a dynamic line of special projects that explores the key theme of the architectural biennale, bringing the audience a sensory experience.

"Architecture creates cities. Cities create architecture" – Terrence Riley, chief curator

Artists: Phill Niblock, Carsten Nicolai (alva noto),
Cory Arcangel, Suki Chan, Jacob Kirkgaard,
Hiraki Sawa, Claudio Sinatti, Paul Clipson,
Andy Graydon, Cedric Maridet, João Vasco Paiva,
Lee Kit, Katja Loher, Jack Kubizne, Er Dao, Zen Lu

Producer: Helen Homan Wu

Location: Liang Cha Shop, Idutang Project Space,
OCT-LoFT (Shenzhen, China)

Partners: Neo Sound, Mooka Space, Idutang, 2U Design

Press: SZ NEWS, SZ DAILY, ART CHINA (full coverage)

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NAVIGATING DARKNESS, Tape Modern nr. 24
presented in cooperation with Heidestrasse Galleries and Halle am Wasser art openings

Artists: Alan Ruiz, Aliza Rand, Andy Graydon, Bonnie Begusch, Christopher Kline, Donna Huanca, Erik Smith, Fredrik Strid, Friedemann Heckel, Henrike Daum, Hiroshi Mcdonald Mori, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jenny Yurshansky, John von Bergen, Konrad Mühe, Marc Bijl, Mario Asef, Marlena Kudlicka, Max Sudhues, Michael Krenz, Mira O’Brien, Mitya Churikov, Nicole Cohen, Sandra Peters, Sven Stuckenschmidt, Snake BraId and Sea Urchin, Trygve Luktvasslimo

Location: Tape Modern, Heidestraße 14 Berlin

Curators:Opalnest & Berlin Collective

Partners: Berlin Collective, Berlin Music Days, Tape Club

Press: VICELAND, FRESHMILK TV, BERLIN ART LINK,
BERLIN MUSIC DAYS, BERLIN UNLIKE NET, ARTCARDS BERLIN

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Opalnest was invited to collaborate with Mercedes-Benz AVANT/GARDE DIARIES - a video documentation introducing innovative, forward-thinking individuals, groups, and inspirational artists.

Featuring: Aki Onda and Helen Homan Wu

The opening event for the inaugural Index Festival in NYC, from Aug. 3 - 28, 2011. "Our mission is to focus on projects that blur the vocabulary of science and art, dissect the media that describes our culture today, to disseminate out from the cultural institution, and further into the multi-textural international landscape." Opalnest was curatorial advisor and co-produced the opening event for Index Festival at M1-5 Lounge in lower Tribeca.

DJs: Maria Chavez, Jon Santos, Matt Radune, CtrlAltDel

Visuals: Sadek Bazaraa, Carrie Gates

Performance Artists: Shannon Gillen & Guests

Location: M 1-5 Lounge, Tribeca (NYC)

Partners: Broken Teeth Crew

Special thanks to Victoria Keddie and Kristin Tretheway

ARTIST CONVERSATIONS

A Panel Discussion on the role of the Internet for Curators, Artists, Collectives and Galleries. With special guest performances.

*G Douglas Barerett's Performance on Artcards Review

Panelists: Mark Tribe (founder, Rhizome) / David Andrew Frey (founder, Culturehall) / Kris Chatterson (Progress Report and painter) / Vince Contarino (Progress Report and painter) / Caitlin Masley (multimedia artist) / Chelsea Knight (video artist)

Performance Artists: Jesse Kauppila (SF), G Douglas Barrett (NY) / Aki Onda (NY, JP)

Moderator: Howard Hurst

Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn (NY)

Photo: Arnaldo Capo

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Opening the 2011 Armory Week, are performances remixing strands of analog and digital improvisations – a balance of post-punk impulses, subliminal electronics, vinyls and harp with arty experimental films.

Music Performances: Ryan Sawyer and Zach Layton, MERCE (Maria Chavez and Shelley Burgon), Thomas Watkiss / Visuals: Peter Gregorio, Maximus Clarke, Rey Parla

Location: White Slab Palace, New York City

Partner ARTCARDS

Press: ARTLOG, NEW YORK STEREOSCOPIC SOCIETY

Image: Maximus Clarke

A one-night performance featuring a group of eight visionaires – blending avant-garde performances, sound-visuals, electro-acoustics, disembodied musical instruments, a nomadic utopia – all coming together like a paradoxical chorus.

Music Performances: Shamos and Dangeroo, Windy Hill Mill, Zemi17 / Multimedia: Maria Chavez, Mary Mattingly, Michelle Hinebrook / Butoh Performance: Vangeline / Site-Specific Installation: Eiji Sumi

Curated by Helen Homan Wu

Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn (NY)

Press: ART INFO, GUEST-OF-A-GUEST, ASIA-IN-NY

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Image: Mary Mattingly (Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery)

Opalnest was invited to organize a New Year's Holiday event for Phaidon Store to promote their holiday sale.

DJ: RJ Valeo

Location: Phaidon Publishers Store, SoHo (NYC)

Press: REFINERY29

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Image: Type Records

"A blend of Hi/Lo-fi, electro-acoustic music and visuals with an avant-garde freeform performance act."

Sound: Ezekiel Honig, Link / Visuals: Joshue Ott, Mikhail Iliatov / Performances: Hyun Moraes, Kristin Reger, Martha Moszczynski 

Curated by Helen Homan Wu

Location: Culturefix Gallery, Lower East Side (NY)

Image: Mikhail Iliatov

A night of "ambient droned-out beats, synthed cords,
electro-acoustics with improvised soundscapes and
hallucinated visuals."

Music Performances: Sam Hamilton (NZ), Metal Rouge (LA), Driphouse, Dalot, Matthew Mcauley, Doom Trumpet / Performance Artists: David Bernstein, Anavelyse / Projections: Jack Kubizne

Location: White Slab Palace, NY

Curated by Helen Homan Wu

Press: ART INFO, ARTCARDS, HUFFINGTON POST

Metal Rouge (Photo: Lemule Barbour)

A group show featuring six female artists, exploring the phenomenal experience in human consciousness that exists in-between our sleep and wake states of mind.

Chaw Ei Thien, Sol Kjøk, Katja Loher, Carissa Pelleteri, Kelly Sturhahn, Aliona Yurtsevich

Curated by Helen Homan Wu

Location: Fardom Gallery at The Space, NYC

Press: The M Magazine, LADIES LOTTO

image: Carissa Pelleteri

The Suffolk, Lower East Side (NY)

Visuals: Jack Kubizne / Installations: Katja Loher, Nicholas Hall, Kelly Sturhahn / Performances: Kristin Reger, Lonely Christopher, Michael DiPietro / Music: Mot Mot, Chris Sevanick

Curated by Helen Homan Wu

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, Brooklyn (NY)

Live ephemeral expanded cinema and ecstatic 16mm/8mm film and sound performances in association with "Seeds of the Wild". Special guest artists Sam Hamilton and Eve Gordon from NZ. Sam and Eve first collaborated on the direct film, "Two Vivid Animations, (fuck horizontal and vertical or backwards)," exploring ideas around sound and image co-existing with equal import, and being able to create gut reactions with abstract sound and light. From there they quickly expanded their experiments from pre-made cinema-style film, through slide projector performance to multi 16mm film projector performances.

image: The Parasitic Fantasy Band

The Puffin Room, SoHo (NY)

Dan-ah Kim, Doug Groupp, The Parasitic Fantasy Band (NZ), Helen Homan Wu, Jason Tallon, Jonathan Matas, Ken Madore, Manami Hayasaki (UK), Moku Teraoka (Japan), Nadia Bertrand (Canada), Nesta Mayo, Orly Cogan, Ray Ray Mitrano, Robert Snyderman, Sam Hamilton (NZ), Song Xin, Thailan When

'Seeds' are new works by a flourishing group of artists from all over the world, portraying the roots of human nature, mythology, folklore, medicinal animals, wilderness, the micro/macro cosmos etc., while triggering a sense of being reconciled with nature. In today's globalised world, we are constantly in front of a screen. Time exists in a whole new dynamic. We structure and synchronize our schedules to the second, and are constantly being fed with instant information from all types of media. 'Seeds' artists pulls the viewer out of this context and places one in a cocoon of timeless tales, as if storytelling in the ancient manner, through the reflection of experiences, teachings of animals, and meditations on nature.

Curated by Helen Homan Wu

image: Manami Hayasaki

Cam'on Gallery Bar, Kyoto (Japan)

Image: Helen Homan Wu