Issue Project Room: Floating Points

Floating Points: Volume (IV) with David Schafer

Collaboration with Stephan Moore of the Issue Project Room and Volume (IV), an improvising quartet featuring electroacoustic harpist Shelley Burgon, turntablist Maria Chavez, laptop artist Stephan Moore and electroacoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe. A space-frame structure was built, utilizing modular scaffolding, in the center of the performance space that the musicians performed inside of. The multi-channel speaker system was mounted to the outside of the frames and the entire structure/event was seen as a sculpture sited within the venue.

LOL: A DECADE OF ANTIC ART

“LOL: A Decade of Antic Art”

June 10-September 4, 2011
Opening Reception Friday June 10, 6-9pm.

“LOL: A Decade of Antic Art” is a survey of recent artworks which either riff off or intervene on the real. “LOL” includes works by Kendall Bruns, Kahty Chen Milstead, Chto Delat?, Patrizia Giambi, Gimhongsok, Larry Hammerness, Jonathan Horowitz, Katie Kehoe, Nina Katchadourian, Larry Krone, Jennifer Levonian, Ryan Mulligan, My Barbarian, Dan Perjovschi/Nedko Solakov, William Powhida, Rob Pruitt, David Schafer, Alysse Stepanian/Philip Mantione, Joey Versoza and the Yes Men!

A short review in the Baltimore Sun is included here.

Three pieces were included in this show. “Untitled Expression: Classroom Excercises” and “Untitled Expression: The Enunciation Lecture” were shown together in one space.

The front window of the museum was used to display the installation, “Richard Serra: The Signature Series”. The third piece, which will be screened at a local theater is a video titled “Choreography for Mime: Making a Sculpture”.

MDSE LUMENHOUSE CD RELEASE

MDSE has now released a third live recorded CD. David Schafer and MeKaniKdolls’s sound collaboration performed at Lumenhouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn as part of Arts in Bushwick’s “Site Fest”. .

The recording is now available on iTunes.

COLLECTIVE SHOW: CRUISE

Collective Show: Cruise was presented by Silvershed as part of the event School Nite at the Old School 233 Mott Street, New York, NY May 7-8. It is a project by THE THEY CO. in participation with the Festival of Ideas for the New City, organized by The New Museum.

“Driftworks”
2007
welded and powder-coated steel
31″ x 21″ x 19″

2007
inkjet mounted on Sintra, framed.
19″ x 14

collectiveshow.org presents: Delta Kame (Berlin), GIBS-MIR family (Zurich), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Lima Zulu (London), Reading Group No. 1 (New York), Silvershed (New York/Los Angeles)

{SØNiK} FEST CD RELEASE

David Schafer, MeKaniKdolls and their collaboration MDSE have just released their second live recorded CD.

The recording took place at {SØNiK} Fest 2.0 at BronxArtSpace, with performances by Schafer and just recently formed MDSE. The CD has two lengthy tracks that include “Jackhammer”, the full-length version by DSE, and “Triadic Irruption”, by collaboration MDSE.

The recording is now available on iTunes.

MDSE POSTER

MDSE poster
2011
11″ x 17″

SEPARATED UNITED FORMS BOOK LAUNCH, LA

Separated United Forms book launch at the Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA.

The launch included a noise/spoken word set performed live via turntables by David Schafer, which functioned as a score for an animation projection made up of 3D renderings of the sculpture. The animation was produced in collaboration with Machine Histories. Jan Tumlir as DJ followed with a blobby set.

 

MDSE AT LUMENHOUSE

On March 5, 2011, MDSE performed at Lumenhouse as part of Arts in Bushwick’s Site Fest.

Video, Sound, Performance at Lumenhouse was curated by Nicholas Shifrin and Andrew Brennan, who described the event as “physical instruments and kinetic performance/sound art, re-enacted YouTube sensations and ethereal vocal works.”

MDSE, comprised of electronic noise duo MeKaniKdolls and artist David Schafer performed a 35 minute set of live noise and voice improvisation.

The 6 participants include:

Aaron Berman
Andrew Brennan
Ryan Brewer
Lesley Flanigan
MDSE
Nicholas Shifrin

View all clips here

FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER, I’VE DREAMED THAT TOO.

“From One Side to the Other, I’ve Dreamed That Too.“
323 Projects
Curated by Robert Crouch, Volume Projects, LA.

“Considering Eve Sedgwick’s brilliant essay Queer and Now as a model for thinking critically about the winter holidays, 17 artists have been invited to present work which addressed Christmastime as not necessarily a season for rejoicing, but as a defined period of struggle and resistance.” –Robert Crouch

For this project, I read excerpts of Eve Sedgwick’s “Binary Calculus” and mixed the recording through guitar pedals, vocoder, and effects board.

Click below to listen:
Binary Calculus Remix

Participating artists:

Marcus Civin
Dino Dinco
Zackary Drucker
Seth Horvitz
i8u
Nina Katchadorian
Killsonic Women’s Chorus
M. Lamar
Lissom
Marc Manning
Lucas Michael
Taisha Paggett
David Schafer
Susan Silton
Jacob Sperber
Ultra-red
Dorian Wood

AN EXCHANGE WITH SOL LEWITT

“An Exchange With Sol Lewitt”, curated by Regine Basha. The exhibition will be on view at MASS MoCA from January 22, 2011-March 31, 2011, and on view at Cabinet from January 20, 2011-February 19, 2011.

For this project, I read Sol Lewitt’s “Sentences on Conceptual Art” and mixed the recording through effects pedals, vocoder, and effects board.

Click below to listen:
Sentences on Conceptual Art Remix