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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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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On Monday, November 30, 2015 the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and presenting sponsor Time Warner will host the Sixteenth Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square – New York’s largest holiday festival! Join legendary artists, up-and-coming musicians, dancers, street performers and more as we welcome the holiday season and light up the Upper West Side with an evening of music, food, dancing and fun for everyone.

The celebration begins with the lighting of the Upper West Side Holiday Tree in Dante Park at Broadway & 63rd Street and continues along Broadway from Time Warner Center to 68th Street.

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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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Date: Friday November 20, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354

Pianist: Wen-Yi Lo

Chinese American Arts Council teamed up with Chinese American soprano Sonya Chin Hwa Chiang held a press conference on 11/2, announced a solo vocal recital to be held on 11/20 at the Flushing Town Hall.
The solo recital will present the audience a feast of Chinese and Western music, including Chinese, English, French and Italian opera arias.

Please contact 212-431-9740 for ticket information.

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Song Ta
So, You’re a Big Deal?
November 8, 6:30 - 8 pm
Chinese American Arts Council, 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York

In his first public presentation in the United States, Song Ta will screen and survey his performance work, which perverts administrative tactics like beauty contests, population censuses, or school tests—always twisting the official line but not overstepping it. The talk will be followed by a moderated discussion.

This event comprises one answer to SCREEN's structuring question for Asia Contemporary Art Week 2015, "What Kind of Technology is Culture?" This technical perspective on the construction of culture proposes that culture formed the way an iPhone is built—through a procedure that can be generalized, replicated and even exported.

Song Ta (born 1988 Leizhou, China) is a young Chinese contemporary artist known for work that intertwines systems of administration with daily life. By playing with both transparency and opacity at the same time, he tests boundaries between the institutional and commercial definitions of art. He received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and currently lives and works in Guangzhou. Song's work have been shown in many international group exhibitions, such as A Hundred Years of Sham-Songs of Resistance and Scenarios for Chinese Nations, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Creating For The Future: Thinking About The Unthinkable, MOMENTUM, Berlin, Germany; among others. His recent solo exhibition The Loveliest Guy (2014) was shown at Beijing Commune. He is currently in New York as a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council.

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456 Forum@Gallery 456
456 Broadway, 3rd Fl, New York
October 25, 2015, 5:30p - 7:30p

456 Forum is pleased to present artist Johan Bergstörm Hyldahl and Tuo Wang’s 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

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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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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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On Sep 20, 2015, Qi Shu Feng Peking Opera Company, co-sponsored by Chinese American Arts Council, Presents 2015 Peking Opera Festival at NYC Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Program starts: 9/20/2015, 2:30pm
All inquires please call 718-290-6668

The programs include:

Clear Water Beach
One day, the outlaw hero XuShiying, known as the Green-Faced Tiger, comes down from his mountain stronghold while intoxicated. Subsequently, he is captured by government agents and sent as a prisoner to Beijing. When he and his captors pass Clear Water Beach, he is rescued by his sister and others. Passing by the same spot, Mu Yuji mistakes the heroes for robbers. XuShiying flees and Mu Yuji is taken as a captive by the government agents as a substitute.

The Princess and the Sword.
When the Prince of Xi’an rebels, the government sends Hai Jun as a spy to infiltrate the prince’s palace. One of the prince’s men, Bala, grows suspicious of Hai Jun, so he gets Hai Jun drunk and leads him to the tent of Princess Hundred Flowers, hoping to use the princess to get rid of Hai Jun. Little does anyone suspect, however, that the princess’s handmaiden, Jiang Huayou, is the younger sister of Hai Jun. She acts to protect Hai Jun, with whom the princess falls in love and presents with a sword as a token of her deepest affection.

The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
The Three-Inch Lotus is based on a novel of the same name by the contemporary author FengJicai. Foot binding has a more than 1000-year history in China. In feudal society it was a symbol of feminine beauty; it was also a means of signaling one’s rise in social status. In the early twentieth century, the mother of a poor six-year-old girl, GeXianglian, bound her feet so tightly that the bones broke and the girl was in unbearable pain. Ten years later she marries into a wealthy household, where she twice wins competitions with other women to see who had the smallest feet – “three-inch golden lotuses.” From powerless and poor to rich and honored, she experienced both the pain and pleasure of having bound feet. From an opponent of the practice of foot binding she became its apologist.