2015.9.6 | 456 Forum x offscreen ::: (3) Rituals of Restoration Hosted by Screen 介面 ....more"The world, on both the micro and macro level, is constantly moving within a framework of units this irrepressible flux of time is the nexus of human experience and perception. Investigating the quantification of this motion... I alter the ‘natural’ rhythm of life to create a resonating interval." — Steve Cossman
Join us for a 47 minute screening of the work of Steve Cossman, focusing on his dedication to the materiality and power of 16mm film. The very nature of film—a series of chemically fixed images sped through a machine—captures the intuition that experience is a constant flux of blip-like moments. Many of the works on view are composed frame by frame, and deconstruct images into their constituent pixels and stills.
TUSSLEMUSCLE | 5 min / 16mm color / optical sound / 2007-2009 CRUSHER | 12 min / 16mm color / optical sound / 2010 RELAY | 12 min / Super 8mm color negative to DV / digital field recording sound / 2014 CLIMBER | 5 min / 16mm color / digital sound / 2013 RED CABBAGE | 3 min / 16mm color / silent / 2013 WHITE ROUGHAGE | 10 min / 16mm color / digital sound / 2013, sound element by Jahiliyya fields (Matthew Morandi, L.I.E.S.)
Steve Cossman is founder and director of Mono No Aware (est. 2007); a non-profit cinema-arts organization whose annual event exhibits the work of contemporary artists that incorporate live film projections and altered light as part of a performance, sculpture or installation. In 2010 he helped the organization establish a series of analog filmmaking workshops that has grown to include an equipment rentals program, a film stock distribution service, an in-person screening series entitled Connectivity Through Cinema and the New York Library of Cinema (NYLoC). Steve’s first major work on film, TUSSLEMUSCLE, earned him Kodak’s Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award at F.L.E.X. and has screened at many festivals and institutions internationally. In 2013, he completed residencies at MoMA PS1’s Expo 1 and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. In 2014, Brooklyn Magazine named Steve Cossman one of the ‘Top 100 most Influential persons of Brooklyn Culture.’ e currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a director, curator, visual artist, educator and activist.
SCREEN's current programming series asks: what’s outside the frame? A screen sometimes cannot hold the cultural memories and personal histories, and its outside filters in. This series focuses on the offscreen, whether as voiceovers, backstories, or psychology. Within the tradition of screen-based art, it’s the cues that are more than visual which impact audiences most: after all, audience derives from the latinate verb for “hear.” When the offscreen enters the frame, what’s real comes into focus.
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2015.8.2 | 456 Forum x offscreen ::: (2) Jeamin Cha ....moreWe invite you to the second viewing of our inaugural series "offscreen", presenting four works by Seoul-based artist Jeamin Cha, selected by Yu-Chieh Li:
It is not a question but a balloon. HD video, color, sound, 7:39, 2010. Hysterics. HD video, color, sound, 7:6, 2014. Autodidact. HD video, color, sound, 9:50, 2014. Fog and Smoke. HD video, color, sound, 20:40, 2013.
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August 2, 5:30PM to 7:00PM. Offscreen takes place every other Sunday at the same time at 456 Gallery of the Chinese American Arts Council, 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY.
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2015.7.19 | [July 19, 2015] 456 Forum x SCREEN(ing) ::: Ishu Han ....moreJoin us for the most comprehensive screening of Ishu Han’s work in the United States, who recently completed a residency with Asian Cultural Council. His video work comprises brief gestures that meditate on nationalism, ecology and privacy. The artist Hiroshi Sunairi will introduce his work and moderate a discussion. This is the first of many screenings, panels and exhibi- tions that SCREEN will be programming at 456 Gallery.
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2015.7.17 | [July 17, 2015] Book Launch Party - My Lustrous Life by Alan Chow ....moreMy Lustrous Life by Alan Chow
Riding history with Alan Chow. 7/17/2015, 3-5pm Gallery 456/Chinese American Arts Council 456 Broadway, 3rd Fl, New York
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He is the godfather of Chinese art in New York City. This is true confession of his forty years of career. He not only wrote about himself, he wrote a glorious history of many colorful and fascinating people.
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2015.6.28 | [June 28, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-7 ~Archive of Memory ....moreThis week we are going to see two short films. Let's talk about images and memories.
Aby Warburg: Archive of Memory (26 minutes, 2003) https://vimeo.com/62673080
Hito Steyerl, November (25 minutes, 2004) https://vimeo.com/88484604
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2015.6.7 | [June 7, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-6 ~ Artist Talk ....moreArtist Talk ::: Ming Jer Kuo Location: Galery 456, 456 Broadway, 3rd FL, New York City Date: 6.7.2015 Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm
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2015.4.19 | [April 19, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-5 ~ Artist Talk - Sung-Chih Chen presents ....moreSUNG-CHIH CHEN presents at gallery 456 456 broadway, 3 fl, New York NY
Sung-chih Chen’s past works were all based on this idea, using the language of the material itself to present the sensitive segments of the life that are often ignored. The works are mainly showcased by spatial installation, and large spatial installation works are often in the unit of the common residential space. The works also incorporate the time-sensitive social events to reveal the strong force of rupture and destruction drawn from experiences, as well as subtle collection. Sung-chih Chen always tries his best to search for human nature in plain life, and for the remaining sense of beauty from ugly objects. This beauty comes from the destruction of natural law, from the residue after consumption, or maybe from the trace after violence…. Its abstracted marvel – memory fragments from daily lives between the form and the meaning reveals the multi contradictory relations of each individual toward the absurd reality. http://www.chensungchih.com/
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2015.4.19 | [April 19, 2015] Passing on the Kunqu Art: From Master to Disciples by Kunqu Society ....moreOn Sunday, April 19, 2015, 2 p.m. This Kunqu Society performance introduces four signature plays of Kunqu Master Jiqing Zhang to American audiences: “A Maddening Dream,” an episode from “Ballad of The Rotten-Ax Mountain”, “A Stroll in the Garden,” “An Interrupted Dream,” and “Dreamland Revisited,” three episodes from “The Peony Pavilion” (by Xianzu Tang in 1598 A.D.)
Performers: Ms. Fang Wang, Master Jiqing Zhang’s disciple, Plum Blossom Award winner; Mr. Jiulin Yu, Plum Blossom Award winner; Ms. Yuxian Weng; and other outstanding Kunqu artists from Suzhou Kunqu Opera Institute, Suzhou, China.
Date: April 19, 2015 Time: 2:00pm Location: Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
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2015.4.5 | [April 5, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-4 / 456 ~ Artist Talk ~ SNAKE DANCE ....moreSunday, April 5 at 5:30pm - 7:30pm 456 Broadway 3rd Floor, 10013 New York NY
HAO NI haoishao.com Originally born in Hsin Chu, Taiwan, Hao Ni is an artist currently living and working in the United States. Hao Ni received his BFA in 2011 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in May 2014. As a maker, Hao finds his inspiration from reading stories about poltergeist activities and things Bruce Lee said through out his career. His most recent exhibitions include "Accidental translation" at Fjord Space ( Philadelphia) and "Taipei Arts Awards" at TFAM (Taiwan)
TZUAN WU cargocollective.com/tzuanwu Tzu-An Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan 1985, and now bases in New York. He tends to develop the personal vision on the world through filmmaking. The topics he's currently interested in and inspired by are the relation between social narratives, the construction of the selfhood, and cinema. He holds a BA in Gender Study and Cultural Study from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2007) and a MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York (2012). His work has been selected in Golden Harvest Film Festival (Taiwan), Hirshon Film Festival (New York), Backup Festival (Weimar, Germany) and so on. He was awarded in the 15th edition of Paris Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas. Besides of these, he also works in the counter culture zine group <後母Post-Motherism>
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2015.3.22 | [March 22, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-3 ~ Field Trip ....moreField Trip - Surviving Juno, Month 2: International Bad Drawing Competition & Wei's Studio Warming
Sunday, March 22at 6:30pm - 9:30pm 44 Stewart Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11237, Room #11B, Floor 3
Spring Break Field Trip!!!! We will visit Artist Wei Xiaoguang's chilling studio in bushwick. His studio warm-up will be accompanied by international Bad Drawing competition. Welcome to join us!
About the Artist: Wei Xiaoguang (魏晓光) is a New York-based artist born in 1986 in Inner Mongolia, China. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing in 2010, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from CUNY Hunter College in New York City in 2014. His works of oil paint on canvas play with visual dimension and digital realism in a technique he refers to as Photoshop Realism. With a sleekness and simplicity that borrows from advertisement aesthetics, shapes seem to protrude from canvases due to Wei’s manipulation of light and shadow. Some brush strokes defy the flatness of the canvas with three-dimensional texture, while others offer the illusion of three-dimensions on the two-dimensional plane.
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2015.2.22 | [Feb 22, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-2 ~ SLIDESHARE ....moreThis week we will continue the SLIDESHARE sharing, anybody is welcomed to share their creative mind, whether it is a developing idea, an exhibition planning, a work in progress, an article recently read, a completed works or anything interesting that your had a glance upon. All are welcome to share with the forum, it's a discussion without limitations.
Date: Sunday, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:30pm-7:30pm Place: 456 Gallery, Chinese American Arts Council
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2015.2.8 | [Feb 8, 2015] 456 Forum 2015-1 ~ SLIDESHARE ....moreSunday, February 8at 5:30pm - 7:30pm Chinese American Arts Council Gallery 456
Lonely lonely what to do Work sucks no one loves Alcohol, friends none none none Adventure million mountains by myself
Hello guys, we will do a slideshare event in CAAC. Welcome to join us with your work in progress, interesting things your looking at, photos videos or otherwise.
Bring your own work in USB and BYOB
Date: Sunday, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:30pm-7:30pm Place: 456 Gallery, Chinese American Arts Council
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