New Orleans Airlift Events http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events New Orleans Airlift Events weblog Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:46:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 THE MUSIC BOX – A Shantytown Sound Laboratory http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/11/12/the-music-box-a-shantytown-sound-laboratory/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/11/12/the-music-box-a-shantytown-sound-laboratory/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:48:37 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=441 *THE MUSIC BOX IS NOW CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE WINTER*

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VISITORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT.
THE MUSIC BOX LOOKS FORWARD TO AN ENCORE IN THE SPRING…. STAY TUNED

Please visit our Dithyrambalina site for more detailed information about this New Orleans Airlift project:
www.dithyrambalina.com

This fall the New Orleans Airlift is hosting a changing roster of sound theorists, tinkerers, kineticists, musicians and the Gamelatron – a robotic orchestra. All present will be creating and experimenting with instruments for a musical architecture. Purpose built shacks and miniature houses made out of New Orleans beautiful architectural details and plentiful salvaged materials, will house each sound artist’s instrument. Visitors will interact with this musical shantytown’s singing walls, heart- beat triggered percussion machine, organ staircase and light sensitive oscillators. Tri-monthly live performances will bring together stellar groups of local and national musicians to play orchestrated works on these “instruments”. Quintron, the musician and local legend, will conduct this experimental shantytown orchestra.

The Music Box is an important and exciting prelude to the building of Dithyrambalina, an interactive sound sculpture in the form of a permanent three-story house. The project is being led by the influential street artist Swoon who is know for her community driven, collaborative endeavors. Swoon has designed the house, but will rely on collaborating artists to bring the Dithyrambalina to life. The Music Box is the platform for these artists to develop the instrumentation that will be built into the Dithyrambalina’s walls and ceilings and floorboards in the same way plumbing and electric are configured for a traditional home.  The Music Box will shine a spotlight on Swoon’s collaborators, while Swoon herself will be on hand to wheat paste the shantytown with her iconic art work and give an opening talk on her dream of a musical architecture for New Orleans.

Please visit our Dithyrambalina site for more detailed information about this New Orleans Airlift project:
www.dithyrambalina.com

This program is supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. The grant is administered through the Arts Council of New Orleans. This project is also proudly supported by the Black Rock Arts Foundation. BRAF supports and promotes community, interactive art and civic participation. We also thank the Black Forest Fancies, The Historic District Landmark Commission, the Old City Building Center, The Hollygrove Market,  Architect Wayne Troyer, Miranda Lash (NOMA),  and Ben Hernandez (MOCAD) for their support.

Thank you to all our sponsors!

 

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/11/12/the-music-box-a-shantytown-sound-laboratory/feed/ 0 Katey Red and Rusty Lazer take it to Paris for Fashion Week! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/10/12/katey-red-and-rusty-lazer-take-it-to-paris/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/10/12/katey-red-and-rusty-lazer-take-it-to-paris/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:54:00 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=500 Katey Red, New Orleans’ Own Queen of Bounce music traveled to Paris recently with Airlift Co-CreatorJay Pennington (aka DJ Rusty Lazer) for an end of fashion week soiree to work in collaboration with outstanding designer Rick Owens, his amazing wife Michele Lamy and promoter Piko (Black Label Paris).  Katey, Rusty and the crew, which featured dancers Corinne Loperfido and renowned jewelry designer Arielle DePinto, were dressed in Rick Owen’s 2012 collection, which had been debuted only days before.  This collaboration marks yet another milestone in the New Orleans Airlift’s ongoing efforts to expose New Orleans culture and the artists who make it to worlds beyond rap music’s usual suspects.

(L) Katey Red in Paris with DJ Rusty Lazer + friend(R) with fashion designer Rick Owens

The event was part of the Spotlight Club series hosted by Owens and Lamy at Chez Francoise (a fine dining establishment by day that is only blocks from the National Assembly and Ministry of Defense).  Gareth Pugh and a host of other designers and revelers gathered to wrap up yet another successful fashion week with an outstanding performance by the always elegant Katey Red.  Expect more in the future as artists like Big Freedia and many others make their way overseas with the help of the Airlift whenever possible.

Congratulations to Miss Katey Red!  And Jay would personally like to thank everyone in Paris who made such an adventure a staggeringly successful reality!

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/10/12/katey-red-and-rusty-lazer-take-it-to-paris/feed/ 0 Siberian Breakdancer Ivan Stepanov comes to New Orleans http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/09/11/siberian-breakdancer-ivan-stepanov-comes-to-new-orleans/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/09/11/siberian-breakdancer-ivan-stepanov-comes-to-new-orleans/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:29:19 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=471 This fall the New Orleans Airlift will host Ivan Stepanov, a breakdancer from Siberia, for a residency.  Ivan has participated in international festivals and won numerous awards as a break dancer. His extensive dance training includes courses in South Korea and workshops with members of Rock Steady Crew and other leading US groups.  He also teaches dance and has organized and conducted programs for young people including a summer break dance camp and master classes.
During Ivan’s stay Airlift staff and friends will have the pleasure of taking him to his first second line parade and introducing him to the many rappers and dancers we work with in the New Orleans Bounce community. Both of  these New Orleans only experiences will expose Ivan to styles of music and dancing that you just won’t find anywhere else. In return Ivan will teach a series of youth breakdancing workshops (TBA).

As a representative of the Evens people, a culture of northern Siberia, Iva also performs national dances and sings the Yakut heroic epic Olonkho.  The Airlift cannot wait to introduce Ivan to our Mardi Gras Indian Tribes in New Orleans.  Ivan’s interest in contemporary hip-hop culture and his own tribal traditions is an easy fit with New Orleans where our traditions are living and breathing and informing all of our contemporary culture.

We met Ivan through ArtsLink Residencies. They offer artists and arts managers from 32 overseas countries five-week residencies at non-profit arts organizations throughout the US. The program enables artists and communities across the US to share artistic practices with artists and arts managers from abroad and engage in dialogue that advances understanding across cultures.

http://www.cecartslink.org/grants/artslink_residencies/

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A Grand Gift for a Unique City

From the salvaged remains of a decrepit Creole Cottage, the Brooklyn-based artist Swoon has re-imagined a permanent, interactive sculpture for the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. We call it the Dithyrambalina. It will look like a house, but it will function like a musical instrument. A growing group of local and national sound artists are working towards interactive instruments that can be built into its walls and floorboards so that visitors can bring the house to life through their touch. Ultimately, musicians will be invited to play the house, performing orchestrated works at block parties for their friends and neighbors. This project is for the love of New Orleans – its architecture, music, culture and its people.

Swoon has designed the look of house and we have formed coalitions with everyone from architects to salvage suppliers. The next phase of our project is to create instrumentation for the house. This Fall our sound artists will publicly test their prototypes in a temporary installation we are calling The Music Box – A Shantytown Sound Laboratory.

Please visit our Kickstarter page to find out how you can support this amazing project!

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/07/06/airlift-and-swoon-on-kickstarter-to-support-dithyrambalina/feed/ 0 Airlift celebrate’s with Swoon and the New Orleans Museum of Art http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/06/03/airlift-celebrates-with-swoon-and-the-new-orleans-museum-of-art/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2011/06/03/airlift-celebrates-with-swoon-and-the-new-orleans-museum-of-art/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:58:54 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=407 The New Orleans Airlift and the artist Swoon celebrate the opening of her new exhibition Thalassa with a night of music, art, food and dancing. The after party will be held on a Bywater neighborhood lot that is the future site of a permanent Swoon/Airlift collaborative installation.

Airlift Directors Delaney Martin and Jay Pennington will also be speaking about this project at the Museum with Swoon at 6pm on June 10th.

The Airlift is delighted that New Orleans Museum of Art will be introducing their friend and collaborator Swoon to a broader New Orleans audience. This party will celebrate Swoon’s unique art and her growing connection to our city and our cultural institutions.

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Shepherd and Repaal met Swoon on an Airlift project in New Orleans and a great working relationship was born of their collaboration. The Airlift is delighted to have facilitated this opportunity for these New Orleans artists.

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TABLEAU VIVANT: A WANDERING RETROSPECTIVE

Anna Barham /// Winnie Cott /// The Hal an Tow /// Bruce McLean / Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band /// Mistick Krewe of Comus /// The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant /// Pablo Picasso / Erik Satie / Léonide Massine /// Audrey Reynolds /// Tai Shani

Presented as part of Prospect 1.5 New Orleans

6th November 2010 Julia Street 6-9pm

&

13th November 2010 St. Claude Arts District 6-9pm

 

Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective presents a selection of historictableaux vivants alongside specially conceived tableaux by Tai Shani (UK), Audrey Reynolds (UK), Winnie Cott (FR), Anna Barham (UK) and The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant.

The show takes place on a flat bed truck that will proceed slowly up Julia St.,

making stops between the river and St. Charles Avenue. At each stop, a different tableau vivant will be performed. The show will be repeated the following weekend in the St. Claude Arts District.

Tableau Vivant translates literally as “living picture”: a group or individual in a carefully arranged pose that is held for a period of time. It frequently includes elaborate sets, costumes, props and sometimes music. Performed variously as a parlour game, carnival attraction, pageant, pedagogic tool or propaganda image, tableaux vivants usually illustrate popular mythologies, famous paintings, classical, archetypal or historic events, and are most often performed within the context of informal social gatherings. They are a way of stepping into the role of an historic figure, enhancing self-image or manipulating public identity; of bringing to life significant scenes in a subjective context, or revisiting a snapshot of the past and re-committing it to memory.

As well as having a strong relationship to the still image, the tableaux vivant is a living thing perpetually situated in a morphological state between statue and movement. The impossibility of holding a certain pose for a long stretch of time means that the tableau vivant can never embody the stillness to which it apparently

aspires – rather, is time stretched and slowed.

Presenting this group exhibition as a series of live tableaux exposes its unstable state, and within this, it’s numerous ends.

Locating the project in New Orleans, a city ingrained with the composite histories of popular performance traditions, Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective also considers the history of tableau vivant within the frame of popular folk performance. Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective inhabits a space between the histories of high art and popular entertainment: illuminating the nature of the tableaux but also suggesting an alternative history for contemporary visual art performance.

Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective is curated by Rosie Cooper (UK), produced by New Orleans Airlift and realized by The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant www.notableauvivant.com

FURTHER INFORMATION:

The Route:

Each stop on the route for both weekends will be pre-scheduled. Further details, including a map and times, can be found on the Tableau Vivant Society website www.notableauvivant.com

A small souvenir publication will be available to the audience on the route. It will include special contributions from Rose English, Mel Brimfield, Aura Satz, Sally O’Reilly and Henri Schindler.

About the Society:

The New Orleans Tableau Vivant Society’s membership includes a variety of New Orleans based artists from cross-disciplinary backgrounds that include theatre, dance and visual arts.

Founded in early 2010 by artist Delaney Martin, the mission of the Society is to reinvigorate the theatrical trope of “living pictures”. Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective is the Society’s inaugural presentation.

For more information on the Society, including future projects, please consult their website.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/11/15/london-comes-to-new-orleans-for-tableau-vivant-and-p-1-5/feed/ 0 SWOON’S DITHYRAMBALINA – A MUSICAL HOUSE http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/11/13/swoons-musical-house/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/11/13/swoons-musical-house/#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:36:44 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=346 SWOON// Taylor Shepherd / /Jayme Kalal/ /James K/ /Patrick Murray–Nellis

Musical Architecture for the Bywater

www.dithyrambalina.com

Street Artist Swoon plans a New Orleans art house

This model represents DITHYRAMBALINA, a landmark, interactive, public sculpture by the artist Swoon. Swoon’s design is inspired by local architecture and New Orleans musical heritage. To that end, the building itself will become a musical instrument.

Swoon’s local collaborators are mechanical artists who will build musical devices into the structure of the building that engage its resonance and form. Levers, pulleys, buttons and pedals will allow visitors to “play” the house.

Swoon is a celebrated street and installation artist. She is known for a series of intricate handmade boats that have floated the Mississippi, the Hudson River and most recently the Adriatic Sea and the canals of Venice, Italy during the 2009 Biennale. As with these floating crafts, the focus for our musical house is on salvaged materials, artistic and community collaboration, functional environments and interaction that involves sound and performance.

The house will reside on Piety Street in the Bywater Neighborhood, where we intend to present an ongoing series of annual block parties that host local and national musicians for orchestrated works that will be performed using the musical architecture of the house.

The building will also be used as a unique artist residency space for visiting artists participating in Airlift projects. The ground floor will function as a multi-use space for exhibitions, performances, and lectures that serve the wider community.

Swoon, her collaborators and the New Orleans Airlift need your support to fully realize the Dithyrambalina. A series of Swoon prints mounted on found wood are available for sale with proceeds going towards the project. Please write to us at info@neworleansairlift with sales enquires or to find out how else you can help! Or visit www.dihtyrambalina.com

The New Orleans Airlift would like to thank the following individuals and institutions for their ongoing support: Wayne Troyer Architects, Miranda Lash, Contemporary Curator, NOMA, The Old City Building Center, Tulane University, The New Orleans Arts Council, The Louisianan decentralized Fund and the Black Rock Arts Foundation.

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An after party for Prospect 1.5 St. Claude Openings! This multi-media spectacle will

highlight the activities of the New Orleans Airlift including their upcoming collaboration with the international art star Swoon!

Expect a showing of Swoon’s iconic wheat pastes. Swoon will also unveil an 12ft model of an interactive installation/dwelling she is building with local mechanical artists Taylor Lee Shepherd, Jayme Kalal, Patrick Murray-Nellis and James K. This “house” will become a musical instrument to be played by visitors!

The New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant will present their Grand Finale Tableau which features otherworldly flora and fauna, fire, and the fall of Rome.

Musical entertainment will be provided by local Bounce Music legend and Airlift

artist Big Freedia (who’s event decoration company will provide the atmosphere) and her DJ Rusty Lazer. The Airlift also brings you MC Sweet Tea (aka Tiana Hux) and CHRISTEENE (aka Paul Soileau), both former New Orleans residents,will be traveling from Austin to perform their outlandish musical and dance spectacles.

]]> http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/11/07/international-artist-swoon-comes-to-new-orleans/feed/ 0 New Orleans Bounce at P.S. 1. Warm Up! http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/08/25/new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up-new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up/ http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/2010/08/25/new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up-new-orleans-bounce-at-p-s-1-warm-up/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:55:38 +0000 admin http://www.neworleansairlift.org/events/?p=306 August 28th, Long Island City, NY

Rising Bounce superstar Big Freedia and the Airlift’s own D.J. Rusty Lazer continue to bring it to the people!  They will perform live at MOMA’s P.S.1 for the museum’s Warm Up series.

Big Freedia / New Orleans Sissy Bounce, New Orleans (live)

DJ Rusty Lazer / New Orleans (DJ set)

DJ Rashad / Juke Trax/Movel Trax/Ghettophiles, Chicago (DJ set)

GHE20 GOTHIK DJs Venus X and Brenmar / Brooklyn, New York (DJ set)

Traxx (DJ set, Nation Records, Chicago)

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