(當次456聊天室英文為主)
6:30 door
music start 7:00

7:00 Nao Nishihara

7:45 Gao Jiafeng / Sean Ali

8:30 Jonathan Wood Vincent

Nishihara is staying NY as the grantee of Asian Cultural Council and Omomuki Foundation, from December 2015 to June 2016. He performed at Experimental Intermedia on 15th December 2015.
Focusing on the sound, Nishihara’s works have 2 aspects as the exhibition and the performance. In the other words, he does everything for sound. And he always focuses on the human body. Using sound, he tries to reveal the in-born abilities of the ears of us. Using objects, he tries to re-find our body, by provoking the movement of the body and showing the inevitable difficulty of the body. His works also include Kyogen (Japanese Traditional Farce), field recordings, study/ documentation of foghorns and instrument production. He translated the book Sound Art (by Alan Licht, Film Art Inc., 2010) along with Kazue Kobata and Hiroshi Egaitsu, and the book Music (by H.U. Obrist, Film Art Inc., 2015) along with Fumiko Uchiyama and others. He was born in Hiroshima in 1976. In 1998, he left Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Czech Language) before graduating. In 2009, he graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, with a degree in Musical Creativity and the Environment. In 2011, he obtained a master’s degree in Intermedia Art from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Jonathan Wood Vincent makes work that straddles songwriting, free improvisation, poetry, storytelling, stand-up, and all disciplines that transform fear, anger, and failure into joy. He embraces his temporality like an elephant kisses a rhino. He has performed with poet Miriam Atkin, dancer Zack Fuller (of Min Tanaka's company), reeds player John Dikeman, percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (in a rock band with a singer/stripper) and the uncategorizable Matthew Silver. Recordings on Sony, Emanem, Kimshee, and Stone Quarry.

Beijing/New York based Gao Jiafeng makes cross-disciplinary performances that are sound-oriented, humorous, improvised and site-specific, by integrating a variety of sound strategies within his own vocabulary gained from daily life: storytelling, field recording, cited Youtube videos, live Karaoke, Asian pop music, noise and improvisation, as well by morphing in between different performer's roles: the vibration source, the narrator, the commentator, the spectator, etc. As a curator, Gao produces monthly improvised and cross-disciplinary concerts at Chinese American Arts Council. He also manages Muted Portraits, a record label that releases only spoken-word context surrounding particular pieces of music. His instrument design "Tri-O", a MIDI controller based on geometric system-generated data irregularity, which was chosen the third place winner of 2014 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition judged by Cycling '74 CEO David Zicarelli. Gao recently received 2016 Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) Residency in Stockholm, Sweden.

$10 suggested donation
all money goes to performers
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gallery is on the 3rd floor ,
important: please take the elevator, as the stairway will lead you to nowhere!

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(當次456聊天室英文為主)
door 6:30
music starts at 7:00

Carlo Costa Solo
Ben Owen Solo
Lea Bertucci Solo

$10 suggested donation
all money goes to performers
curated by Gao Jiafeng
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Lea Bertucci is an American sound artist, composer and performer whose work bridges multichannel activations of acoustic space with composition, improvisation and performance. As an instrumentalist, she focuses on an electro-acoustic preparation of the Bass Clarinet that incorporates acoustic feedback as an extension of the instrument. In recent years, her projects have expanded to site-specific improvisation, compositions for electronics and instruments, multichannel sound installations and tape collage. Her debut solo LP, Resonance Shapes, was released in 2013 on the Obsolete Units label and has been praised by A Closer Listen as “A grand exploration of the possibilities inherent in sound”. Lea is a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence and is a Harvestworks New Works Fellow. She has been awarded commissions from Roulette in 2008 and 2012. She has performed and exhibited at Smack Mellon, The Queens Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archives, Caramoor, The Bronx Museum of Art, St. Mark’s Church, Experimental Intermedia, and the High Zero Festival among many others. Lea is active also as a curator, organizing performances of experimental music as both large scale multichannel performances, such as 2015's AUDITORIUM, as well as underground events in the greater New York area.

Ben Owen - Brooklyn, New York based experimental sound artist who makes frequent use of field recordings. Founder and proprietor of Winds Measure Recordings; the packaging and letterpress printing of which he designs as Middle Press.

Percussionist and composer Carlo Costa was born in Rome, Italy. In 2001 he moved to Boston to study music. Since 2005 he’s been living in New York City where he regularly performs as a leader and co-leader of various projects, as well as a sideman. Carlo is primarily involved in music that ranges from avant-garde jazz to improvised chamber music and is an active composer for his ensembles and ad hoc projects. He has performed throughout Europe and the US in a wide variety of contexts. Carlo currently leads or co-leads Natura Morta (a trio with violist Frantz Loriot and bassist Sean Ali), the Carlo Costa Quartet (with trombonist Steve Swell, saxophonist Jonathan Moritz and bassist Sean Ali), Earth Tongues (with trumpeter Joe Moffett and tubist Dan Peck), the large ensemble Acustica, the trio Ancient Enemies (with alto saxophonist
Nathaniel Morgan and violist Joanna Mattrey), a duo with drummer Flin van Hemmen and a solo percussion project.
In November 2014 Carlo launched the record label Neither/Nor Records which is dedicated to experimental and improvised music.

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Sunday, December 20 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm

CAAC presents “Wave - Life and Death: Yuki Ideguchi”, curated by Kyoko Sato as a Program for Emerging Curators and Artists. This is an exhibition for 28-year-old Japanese artist Yuki Ideguchi, his first solo exhibition in New York City. Ideguchi’s works are based on the natural features, ideas, history and culture of Japan, with influence from China, other Asian cultures, and the United States. The aim of the exhibition is to foster greater understanding not only of Japanese culture, but also of cultural connections among Asia as a whole, and the United States. Visitors to this exhibition will have the unique opportunity to witness a piece of Asian cultural heritage influenced by China. Also it is of significance that CAAC, a Chinese organization, is holding a solo exhibition for the Japanese artist Ideguchi.

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Sunday, December 6 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm in EST

Please join us this Sunday evening at Gallery 456 with very special guest performers: dancers Li Cata and Liz McAuliffe, ballon/sax duo Captain Phillips by David Grollman and Sam Weinberg, and singer/songwriter Cannonball Statman.

Li Cata (Thunder) is a dancer and performer from Baltimore, currently living in New York. His movement training began while studying and performing on aerial silks in Chile, Baltimore, and New York.

Liz McAuliffe is a dance and performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her interests include queerness, catharsis, and collaboration. She has a background in contemporary dance, aerial acrobatics, and experimental theater.

Captain Phillips. A duo of David Grollman percussion/balloon and Sam Weinberg alto saxophone. We have been getting together with some frequency in the past few months playing, eating hammentaschen and professing our mutual love for a certain Tom Hanks film.

"Cannonball Statman comes from Brooklyn, New York, and delivers a unique blend of speed of light vocalising with an amazing guitar technique, which varies between scratchy anti-folk and stunning sonic dexterity. His songs are intense, oblique, and teetering on the edge of madness. One of the best, and most unique, sets of music I have heard all year." (Bob's Aural Delights)

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在11/30/2015下午5:30-9点，林肯中心即将舉行第16屆冬季藝術節的揭开序幕，美華藝術協會将呈现舞狮，功夫和各种表演，屆時歡迎大眾前往觀賞。

地點:東59街和哥倫布圓還 (Columbus Circle)
表演時間：6-9pm

詳情請閱林肯中心冬季藝術節官網。

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The performance will start promptly at 6:30pm. Please note that the gallery is on the 3rd floor. Feel free to call 917-499-2996 if you arrive late.

door 6:00pm

6:30 - PascAli
7:00 - Mara Mayer / Coco Karol : Chasing Stillness
7:30 - G. Lucas Crane

suggested $10 donation

curated by Gao Jiafeng

G Lucas Crane is a sound artist and sound performer from Brooklyn NY working within the mediums of the manipulated analogue cassette, live collage, noise, environment/life recording and compulsive physical frenzy. Many years recording and playing his sonic diary, put to tape and hacked to pieces live, have yielded collaborations such as the psychedelic rock band Woods, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice and Time Life, sound design work at Ps122, Chocolate Factory and Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and sweaty basement conflagrations around the world with his solo project, Nonhorse. He is a founding member of the art collective and performance space Silent Barn, in Bushwick, NYC.



Mara Mayer went to the Eastman School of Music where she earned her degree in clarinet performance. She now resides in Brooklyn, NY, where she is happy to learn more about different forms of music every day. Mara’s musical life is rich in bass clarinet, Balinese Gamelan, and performance art.
She teaches private clarinet and bass clarinet lessons and curates a series of new and experimental music called Home Audio. She also studied Cognitive Science and teaches yoga in New York City.

Coco Karol is a New York based dancer, teacher, and artist who makes cross-disciplinary performance work. She holds a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts and is a candidate for her MFA from Hollins University. As a dancer, Karol has had the privilege of working for Misnomer Dance Theater,Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Company, and Christopher Williams, as well as being a part of projects by Christy O'Harris, Bill Young, Jose Navas, and Steven Petronio. Karol has created work with musicians including Bjork, Ryan Lott (Son Lux), Koh Ohtera, Luna Cholong Kang, Daniel Carter,
Minna Rhee Choi, and Ear to Mind collective; and visual artists including photographer Steven Sebring, sculptor Eve Bailey, architect Marcos Zotes, stereoscopic artist Gerald Marks, videographer Azmi Mert Erdem, and designer Louda Larrain. Her work has been shown internationally as well as across New York at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, BAX, Ibeam, Spectrum, D.U.M.B.O Under the Bridge Arts Festival, New York Studio Gallery, Galapagos, Death By Audio, and curated by AUNTS. She has taught movement workshops in San Francisco to musicians of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, in Istanbul about movement and social movement, and in Roanoke investigating non-verbal communication and gestures of care.Karol is a dedicated teacher of movement, yoga, and qi gong. Her work is informed by her studies and practice in improvisation, butoh, authentic movement, meditation, and the belief that we move to move, and to be moved.Karol started Red Sole Productions, a small production company for dance-based media.


PascAli is a contrabass duo featuring Sean Ali and Pascal Niggenkemper that is dedicated to exploring the terra incognita of music, sound and improvisation. The “prepared” bass is a central theme and method of PascAli’s music. Augmenting their instruments with kitchenware, aluminum cans, balloons, mallets, lampshades, and almost any other kind of found object imaginable, PascAli creates entire worlds and soundscapes out of the noises their basses produce in this altered state. This unique bass duo, unique even among the tiny world of bass duos, makes music that ranges from serene contemplation to manic frenzy, invoking the sounds of space and stillness on the one hand and visceral percussiveness on the other. Liberating the bass from its traditional role as an accompaniment instrument, PascAli brings the bass into the foreground with a tireless mission of discovering and unlocking new vistas of sonic and aural experience.

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時間:　2015年11月20日下午７：３０
地點: 皇后区市政厅

鋼琴伴奏：羅文意

蒋金花将以中文、英文、意大利语以及印尼语献唱《月光曲》、 《费加罗的婚礼》、《一江春水向东流》以及《雷峰塔影》等歌曲。有意参与的民众可致电美华艺术协会咨询，电话：212-431-9740。

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宋拓
《So, you're a big deal？》
2015年11月8日, 6:30 - 8 pm
美華藝術協會, 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York

宋拓，中國藝術家，1988年出生於雷州，2010年畢業於廣州美院，目前在廣州生活與工作。他的作品常表現日常生活與行政體制糾纏的一面， 並且以既透明又不透明的運作方式來測試機構及商業藝術之間的界限。宋拓參加過的國際群展包括香港Para/Site藝術空間的 《土尾世界 － 抵抗的轉喻和中華國家想像》 ; 柏林MOMENTUM藝術空間的 Creating For The Future: Thinking About The Unthinkable。 他最近在北京公社辦過個展《宋拓: 最可爱的人》(2014) 。他目前受亞洲文化協會獎助在紐約作藝術項目。

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456聊天室于456藝廊
紐約市百老匯456號3樓
2015年10月25日 下午5:30至7:30

456 Forum is pleased to present artist Johan Bergstörm Hyldahl and Tuo Wang’s(王拓) recent video works, organized by Wei Xiaoguang.

Johan Bergström Hyldahl, Dear Jesus, Do Something!, 2014 Duration: 24 minutes

Johan Bergström Hyldahl, Winterreise, 2015 Duration: 15 minutes

Tuo Wang, Vanitas – Real and Natural, 2014 Duration: 10 minutes

Tuo Wang, La bohème, 2015 Duration: 9 minutes

臉書連結

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Suzan Polat & Gao Jiafeng @ 456聊天室（456 Forum）

Please join us this Sunday -- artist Suzan Polat and Gao Jiafeng will perform at 456 Forum. Followed by a Q&A, organized by Wei Xiaoguang.

The performance is going to start at 5:30 sharp. So please be on time! God bless MTA!

Address: 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor

About artists:
Suzan D. Polat is a dance artist interested in research and process based work. Her works have been shown at the Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Tank, the Lutheran Church of the Messiah, Bushwick Open Studios, and the Outpost Artists Resources in New York, as well as at the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art and Parlor X in Istanbul. Suzan was a danceWEB fellow in 2011 in Vienna. She collaborated with the Bureau for the Future of Choreography from 2012 to 2014. She is currently in the process of developing a dance theory and practice rooted in the concept of the talisman.

Talisman dance no. 8 is a performance that exists to create a space and time for affects to pass between and among the performer, the spectators, and the site. On its own, talisman dance project operates as an improvisational practice and as a series of performance installments that look into the materiality of gestures and steps, what motivates their emergence, what defines their legibility, and the resulting objecthood of dance.

Gao Jiafeng is a crossdiscipline performer and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for a unique style of solo performance, which involves but not limited to freestyle storytelling, field recording, instrument improvisation, live Karaoke, DJing, body movements, etc. His work has been presented/exhibited by organizations and venues including Triennale Museum Milan (IT) , XP (CHN), Meridian Space (CHN), Kandala Records (TPE), Cochlea (TPE), Re-Records (HK), Flux Factory (US), Outpost Artist Resources (US). Gao is also known for his instrument design "Tri-O"- a MIDI controller based on geometric system-generated data irregularity, which was chosen the third place winner of 2014 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. He has collaborated with Li Zenghui, Arrington de Dionyso, Li Jianhong, Kurt Ralske, Todd Capp, Sean Ali, Michael Foster, Yi Xin Tong and many others.

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九月二十日，第十五屆中國京劇藝術節將在紐約大學表演中心揭幕，此次藝術節由齊淑芳京劇團主辦，美華藝術協會協辦，並特邀武漢京劇院來紐約盛大公演。

演出時間；九月二十日下午2點半
詳情請洽 718-290-6668

演出節目
白水滩
绿林英雄青面虎许世英酒醉下山，被官府抓获，解押前往京都，行至白水滩，被许世英之妹等救下，穆玉玑｛十一郎｝途经此处，误认许世英等是強盗，抱打不平，打退许世英却反官兵拿下当作替罪羊。

百花赠剑
安西王造反，朝廷派海俊打入安西王王府，充当间谍。王府总管叭喇察疑海，设计灌醉，扶入百花公主帐内，意欲借公主之手除去之，岂料侍女江花佑实乃海俊之妹，偶然相逢，遂加掩护。公主见海年少英俊，爱之，竟赠剑许以终身。

三寸金蓮
京剧《三寸金莲》改编自冯骥才同名小说。中国妇女的裹脚史已有１０００多年。封建时代，女人小脚是美的象征，也是改变身份地位的前提。清末民初，南方古莲镇贫家女童戈香莲６岁时被奶奶狠心裹足，备受骨断筋残之痛苦，终成“三寸金莲”——小脚女人。１０年后，少女戈香莲嫁入富人佟家。通过两次“赛莲会”（赛足），她从失宠到掌权，品尝到了裹足的甜头，从而从反对裹足变成封建礼教卫道士。

Sunday, September 20 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Gallery 456

Guy Debord once wrote that "the spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images." It's almost as if he'd also gone through a Britney phase.

Join us for 45 minutes of real emotion, by turns self-aware and self-forgetful, as we survey the work of Claudia Bitran. As a fan, a critic, and then a fan again, Bitran has de- and reconstructed the icons of the screen with her body and camera. There's everything from the most visible icons of pop (Britney Spears is back!), to its implied conventions (how different do a Korean horror and a French drama sound?), to its structural supports (what of a movie that's only credits?).

***Also showing: the newest cut of an extended trailer for her current project: a shot-by-shot remake of the entire Titanic. As Kate Winslet's Rose puts it, "I'll never let go."***

Stage Fright, 01:03, 2012
Alien Love, 01:48, 2012
Someone like You (ADELE - official cover), 06:09, 2011
Reality TV Presentation My Name is Britney Spears, 01:35
20 Short Britney Excerpts, 06:00, 2012-14
The Zone, 11:25, 2013
Intros, 04:00, 2014
Titanic Extended Trailer, 05:00, 2015

Claudia (Chile-U.S.A) graduated in 2009 from the BFA program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She exhibited her painting work in group shows in Santiago at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Quinta Normal, at the Museum of Visual Arts, at Matucana 100 Art space. She later became a Britney Spears impersonator for the a Chilean talent TV show “Mi Nombre Es”; this experience became fundamental for her studio practice. In 2013 she graduated from the MFA painting program at Rhode Island School of Design. In 2014 she was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

SCREEN's (www.onscreentoday.com) current programming series asks: what’s outside the frame and after the curtain? 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 the credits. When the offscreen enters the frame, what’s real comes into focus.

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