FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Live performance in GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE February 26, 2010

GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE

840 BROADWAY, 2nd Floor - Brooklyn
(646) 578-3402

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JEN ZAK, AMERY KESSLER, KELLY PINHO
[BROOKLYN, NYC + NEWARK, NJ]

"3 GREAT ARTISTS
+ 3 GREAT PERFORMANCES"

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
8:30 – 11:00 PM

free and donations accepted
Free beer & wine+ live sound/performance by Verdun www.eyland.org/verdun/


Grace Exhibition Space is excited to present new works, part of a New Wave of Performance Art coming out of New York and the surrounding area: Jen Zak, Amery Kessler and Kelly Pinho

JEN ZAK www.jenzak.com
There is no boundary between performer and audience. There is no such thing as a solo performance. The "fourth wall" does not exist.
Performance is happening everywhere all the time, whether one acknowledges it or not.

My performance is the audience's performance - they are the stars.
AMERY KESSLER www.amerykessler.com/
I look to primal, basic and child like notions of expressing oneself, accomplishing a task, or cooperating. A few examples are a reinvented carnival game, a fusion of funeral and drum circle, and tasks such as hammering or sewing- each designed to change its usual purpose. Typically, the devices and subject matter of peoples interactions create a message. But as these facets of interaction are transformed, made simple or surreal, and their purpose equivocal- what is the consistency? What then is the message?

KELLY PINHO:
Kelly Pinho lives and works in Newark, NJ.
She is new to performance art, but has been making performances for video for years.
She first performed at Grace Space in July, 2009, and we strongly welcome her back

VERDUN www.eyland.org/verdun/
“Two Archipelagos looks at how different kinds of music-making machines interact, with human intervention often limited to making sure that various forms of noise interfere with each other. Verdun is generally preoccupied with oscillatory sounds, whether generated through analogue feedback loops or repeated digital synthetics. These are the vaguely pulmonary rhythms that come from the warp core aboard the USS Enterprise, or else from your CD player when something goes terribly wrong. Verdun also love to torture electric guitars. Beyond that, the sounds variety and singularity make it near impossible to describe.

NEW AT GRACE SPACE
Grace Exhibition Space is run & curated by Jill McDermid, Erik Hokanson and Viki Wang Hua.
We also run the ALICE CHILTON GALLERY for Performance Art Documentation
- Featuring performance art documentation: limited-edition prints, videos and artifacts
plus live performances during regular gallery hours

ALICE CHILTON GALLERY
147 Roebling Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Alice Chilton Gallery: www.alicechiltongallery.blogspot.com