Projects of co-workers
Video večer / Video Evening #11:
Alex Nathanson & Dylan Neely: What A Nice Time We Had Here
Audiovisual performace

Monday, June 4, 2012 at 8 pm
Photon Gallery, Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana

We are informing you about the exhibition project of Kolektiva Institute, co-organized by Vesna Bukovec, SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster.

In the eleventh Video Evening KOLEKTIVA presents audiovisual performance by New York based artsits Alex Nathanson & Dylan Neely. The project is composed of a live/interactive video projection and electric violin.

Their performance for Video Evening #11 is part of the European Tour (Berlin, Brno, Budapest, Vienna, Ljubljana, Zagreb). The performance duration is 45 minutes.

Alex Nathanson & Dylan Neely: What a Nice Time We Had Here

About the project

"The only thing I am afraid of is that we will someday just go home and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer, and nostalgically remembering what a nice time we had here. Promise ourselves that this will not be the case."
(Slavoj Žižek, NYC 2011)

What a Nice Time We Had Here is a collaboration between video artist Alex Nathanson and violinist and composer Dylan Neely. The projections are based in computer programs Nathanson writes in Max/MSP/Jitter to take sensor data from the live performance to control video play and animation. Neely’s improvisational style is influenced by Eastern European Roma folk music, punk, and minimalism. The project explores nostalgia, dreams, and the desire for meaningful social and political action, taking Zizek’s above quote as a starting point for exploring footage captured the morning of October 15th at Occupy Wall St. in New York City.

About the artists

"They perform (exclusively) with visual effects guru Grey Matter [Alex Nathanson], who stood out on his own for beautiful video installation that made the perfect backdrop for the night."
(bushwickdaily.com)

Alex Nathanson is a video artist, photographer, and curator based in New York. He is a member of the curatorial collective Pulp Legend and, along with Dylan Neely, founded The Bat Barn, a performance space in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His work has been shown at PS122 Gallery (NYC), 25CPW (NYC), and the School of the International Center of Photography (NYC). His live video projects have been presented in collaboration with the bands Man Forever, Vernous, and John Snyder at numerous art spaces in New York City. Most recently, he has has been awarded a residency for time based art at the Institute for Electronic Arts.
http://alexnathanson.com

Dylan Neely is a composer/violinist based in New York City. He is currently a participant composer in the New York Youth Symphony’s Making Score program, with an upcoming performance at Symphony Space (NYC) and reading by the American Composers’ Orchestra. Past honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Belgrade, Serbia, and multiple scholarships and awards from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where he graduated with his B.A. magna cum laude at the age of nineteen. Additional studies at the Belgrade Faculty of Music and Juilliard. He attended the 2011 highSCORE festival in Pavia, Italy, where his string quartet Balkan was premiered by Quartetto Indaco. His teachers have included Tatjana Milošević Mijanović, Larry Wallach, and Conrad Cummings.

More info:

• Video večer / Video Evening #11

Photon Gallery
Centre for Contemporary Photography of Central and South East Europe
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 (0)59 977 907
www.photon.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 12am - 6pm

Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Gallery Photon, Alex Nathanson & Dylan Neely

Video večer / Video Evening is a monthly event organized by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič from Kolektiva Institute in which we screen video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, asociations and festivals.

[Published June 1, 2012]