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UPCOMING
THU 7/1- FRI 8/6, "IRRELEVANT: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian"

Arario Gallery, 521 W 25th street, bet. 10th & 11th aves, New York, NY 10001
Opening reception: Thursday, 7/1/2010, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

JANE'S PERFORMANCES:

THURS 7/1 What We Can Do in Florida
Single channel video, live voice & electronic music
Jane Hsu (video), Juan Calderon, Chia En-Hsieh (electronic instruments) Dalienne Majors(voice)
In a bright palette of anxious energy, a 7-foot latex Peanut man “What Can We Do in Florida,” is a video, voice, and musical performance based on the gestures of Mr. Peanut, who hops to the rhythm of humidity and decay in subtropical Miami. The piece reveals life’s unseen predators as we become highly mesmerized and hypnotized by terrible things. The vocal performance is a collection of found memories and record conversations from hotel holidays in Florida. Mr. Peanut is supported in part from the Peanut Pals, a global association of Mr. Peanut collectors and enthusiasts.

THURS 7/15 "Platypus," They Said
Single channel video, percussion, bassoon & electronic music
Jane V Hsu (video), Juan Calderon, Chia En-Hsieh (compositions) Michael Perdue (copper pots), Annie Lyle (bassoon)
A group of platypus pups are born to the improvised music of the bassoon, copper pots, and electronic instruments. “Platypus, They Said,” performed by The Meanwhile, a New York based contemporary music ensemble that experiment with familiar harmonic language and unexpected combinations of instruments. The platypus is a venomous animal that finds its prey with electrolocation, the ability to sense electric fields. The title of the piece is derived from Duras’ play, “Destroy, She Said,” about the interactions of three strangers staying in an empty hotel amongst the possible chaos of war.

PAST
SAT 6/5 , 4:30 p.m. "The Quiet of the Early Morning: A Chinese Ghost Opera
Music by Juan Calderon, Libretto by Jane Hsu, part of the '7 Wonders of the Tank: 7th Anniversay Showcase'
Irma Gonzalez, soprano | Matthew Krenz, tenor | Jason Cox, baritone | Jose Cuartas, baritone | Alfredo Tinoco, tenor
Nicholas DeMaison, conductor | Asami Tamura, piano | Amelia Lukas, flute
@ The Tank 354 W. 45th Street, bt. 8th/9th ave, $20 admission

THU-SAT 6/10-6/12, 8:00p.m."Lemon Elegy"
video piece based on Kotaro Takamura's 'Chieko-sho, with dances choreographed and performed by Sachiyo Ito & Company
Joyce Theater SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, $15 students; seniors / $20 adults

MON 5/10, 5:00-7:00 p.m."The Quiet of the Early Morning: A Chinese Ghost Opera
Music by Juan Calderon, Libretto by Jane Hsu
Pforzheimer Hall, Manhattan School of Music, 120 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10027

MON 3/22, 8:30 pm "Projection" curated by Cleopatra's at The Glasslands Gallery
scored by hex message; 289 Kent Ave(between south1st & south 2nd), Brooklyn, NY 11211
L to Bedford, J to Marcy

Projection is a curated program of screenings, compiled by Cleopatra’s, featuring 33 emerging artists and filmmakers.The screening consists of 3-minute, black-and-white silent videos produced in response to the phrase Future Tense. The silent reel has been shown in a group show organized by MaxHansDaniel at AutoCenter in Berlin, the benefit for Independent Curators International in New York, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair 2009 in Miami and The Cave Gallery in Detroit, Michigan.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Benedetti/Brown, Ed Brown, Jay Buim, Mary Helena Clark, Liam Everett, Loretta Fahrenholz, Petrova Giberson, Rebecca Gilbert, Kate Gilmore, Ethan Hayes-Chute,
Jane V Hsu, Scott Hug, Craig Kalpakjian, Ellie Krakow, Tobias Kaspar, Summer Kemick, Kyle Knodell, Josh Kolbo, Andres Laracuente, Kylie Lockwood, Zeljko McMullen, Robert Melee, Miss Joan Marie Moossy, JJ Peet, Sean Raspet, Birgit Rathsmann, Chris Rice, Mariah Robertson, Davina Semo, Brad and Vaughn Taormina, TIME STEREO, James Woodward, Olivia Wyatt

Hex Message takes listeners on a journey of sonic experimentation and positive juju, featuring Dan Hougland (of Excepter) on keyboards, gallerist Pascal Spengemann (of Taxter and Spengemann) on drums, Abigail Portner (of Rings) on keyboards, and artist Andrew Kuo on guitar.

SAT 3/6 7:30 p.m "Forty-two Suns Rise"at Synthetic Zero, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi
Synthetic Zero Art Space, Bronx, NY, with live musical improvisation by Amelia Lukas, flute and Asami Tamura voice and koto.
FREE.

SAT 3/6, 8:00 pm"Resistance Can Be Tasty," curated by Ame Gilbert & Laura McGough for UMAMI Food & Art Festival
Screening of artist films and videos about food. Featuring: And There Were Two: Roadkill Eaters @ Tribeca Grand Hotel, 2 Ave of Americas & White St.
For $15 tickets, click here

And There Were Two: Roadkill Eaters

A screening of international artists’ short food films accompanied by a cookzine exhibit. Umami’s film highlights are pure Umami: earthy sensations transcending the expected. Hotdogs become ritual objects, tortillas offer language lessons and gefilte-fish is deconstructed. This showing is nothing like Food Network — its sensibility expands into a fifth sense.

Cookzines are self-published and self-distributed amateur cookbooks that have circulated within the punk and vegan communities since 1991 with the publication of “Soy Not Oi!”. This collection of over 50 cookzines includes texts from the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Japan and Germany in a range of handmade formats and styles – from small, intimate booklets to hand-scrawled pamphlets and small-press publications.
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THU 2/4 9:30-10:30 p.m. "Welcome, Silent Guest" at The Tank, curated by Amelia Lukas
Live performance of recent work featuring scores composed by Juan Calderon and performed by
Matthew Hough, Dillon Kondor, Daniel Forero, Ronen Shai, Asami Tamura, and David Utzinger. @ The Tank

THU 1.21 6:00-9:00 p.m. "Rites of Passage" group exhibition at The Cooper Union, curated by Thomas Michelli
The Cooper Union @ new academic building, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY
Featuring:"And There Were Two", "Things That Accord in Tone Vibrate Together" - world premiere, "You Can Take My Breath Away"

November, 2009 - Future Tense, curated by Cleopatra's
A traveling video show of 3 minute B&W silents curated by Cleopatra's
11/6/2009 - Cleopatra's Projection Project, Autocenter, Berlin,Germany
11/12/2009 - Independent Curator's International (iCI) Fall Benefit Gala, New York, NY

October 31, 2009 "Forty-two Suns Rise"
The Tank, NY, NY $5.00; 7:30 p.m. - Live musical performance of a 15th century Japanese tale of patience and revenge.
with Amelia Lukas, flute and Asami Tamura, voice & koto. http://www.thetanknyc.org/

June 12, 2009 "Third Coast"
"It Swims in Blue Holes: Journey Home from Cuba" will be projected on the Erie Canal Harbor in Buffalo, NY; 9:00-11:00 p.m.
Downtown Waterfront: http://www.squeaky.org/events/index.html

April 4, 2009 "Stranger Than Fiction"
Synthetic Zero Art Space, Bronx, NY presents "It Swims in Blue Holes: Journey Home from Cuba," 6:00-8:00 p.m.

"IT SWIMS IN BLUE HOLES" will be screened, along with a reading

Presentations and work by
Yasmine Alwan, Sergio Bessa, Melissa A Calderón, Ethan Ham, Jane Hsu, Edwin Torres and Spanic Attack, and Angie Waller
curated by Laura Napier

The movie Stranger than Fiction is about an author who is literally writing a real person's life as it happens. The event Stranger than Fiction features interdisciplinary art and literary work that fictionalizes: it follows the lives of strangers, disorients while browsing the internet, uses social networks in ways not originally intended, refers to new schools of thought, and is cryptically dispensed and dispersed.
sneaky preview: Wednesday, April 1, 5-9pm (for the Bronx Culture Trolley)

PS122 Gallery: 122 For $122
Dec. 13 (6-8) pm, with a preview (4-5) pm

Where: PS122 Gallery When: Saturday, 12/13 Opening: 12/13 6:00-8:00 p.m. Address: 150 9th Street & 1st Avenue, New York, NY, 10009 Phone: 212 228 4249 Website: ps122.org Transportation: 6 to Astor, N/R to 8th St, L to 1st, F to 2nd or Bus M15 to St. Marks

Click image for more. Il Show di Signore Betancourt, video still, 5 min, 2008

WORK THAT WILL BE SHOWN IL SHOW DI SIGNORE BETANCOURT This television show is a 24 hour, non-stop, anxiety ridden holiday commercial that is waiting for you in your hotel room of a foreign country. The abusive host, Signor Betancourt, asks the viewer to solve impossible math problems. When the answer is wrong, the furious host throws a fit, only to go through the motions again and again for the next callers. 5:00 min., 2008.

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