Zoopraxographers #2
If in a Suitcase a Poet
November 30, 2o24, 8pm
(doors 7:30pm)
Two duo performances by Manfred Werder and Mark So, and by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu and Michael Pisaro-Liu, with a 16mm film by Naomi Uman between.
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$12 General
$17 (Ticket + $5 Donation. Donations will go to the artists.)
Seating is limited. Ticket reservations are recommended.
Buried in the Snow (2024- ) by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
B/W | 16/35mm | Three projectors and a poem etched onto film
——In memory of my childhood friend Wei Wei
On the edge of a cliff
Dust falls in the snow
becomes…….
snow
Cold Mountain Songs (2024- ) by Michael Pisaro-Liu
Songs just barely songs, a sliver of a present, a few moments at the edge of a disappearance, some seeds of time. From a growing collection of such pieces, discovered as much as made, composition after the fact. Silent tunnels and a spider’s web hold them together. Inspired by Cold Mountain (寒山), John Ashbery, Taku Sugimoto, John Fahey and Matsuo Basho.
Kalendar by Naomi Uman
2008 | 12 minutes | COLOR | SILENT | 16mm
This silent film obliquely tells the story of language acquisition. The filmmaker, struggling to learn a new language, comes to understand that the names of the months of the year have concrete manifestations.
(print from Canyon Cinema)
[ the music of history ] (2021- ) & [ the inscription of the sun ] (2024- ) by Manfred Werder
paper, tape, text, typewriter, voice
Once
this room is
real
readings 54 for Manfred (2016- ),
LENZ a companion (2023-4) & c. by Mark So
c20 audio cassette, notebooks, varia
Total Runtime: approx. 75 minutes.
Featured Artists:
Composer and performer, Manfred Werder wanders through the abundance in which he traces all possible enunciation regarding the world. His recent works [ the inscription of the sun ] and [ the music of history ] continue the practice of reflection and inscription of both found materials through the sun and typewriter and the public space through dérive. Earlier works include stück 1998 and performer series (1999- ), ten 4000 page scores whose nonrecurring and intermittent performative realizations have been ongoing since December 1997.
Mark So works at the cusp of experimental music and poetics. Recent readings, performances, installations, listening rooms, and streetwork have taken place in L.A., Portland, Marfa, New York, and Mexico City, including collaborations with Manfred Werder, Eileen Myles, and others. His work in print appears in Word Events (eds. John Lely & James Saunders), Walking from Scores (ed. Elena Biserna), Peripheries Journal No. 5, The Open Space, and with poet Tim Johnson, Pathetic Literature (ed. Eileen Myles). Marfa Book Co. published A Box of Wind, collecting nearly 300 scores from his Ashbery series. Recordings have been released on caduc., editions wandelweiser, winds measure, The Open Space, Motor Image, and his own death-spiral. He lives in and out of Los Angeles.
Filmmaker and artist Naomi Uman studied filmmaking at CalArts, graduating in 1998. She worked in kitchens and as a private chef before moving into filmmaking. Her experimental documentaries – often shot using 16mm film – are intimate portraits of others, and commonly focus on the role of women and of handiwork. They also always show her presence or her relationship to her subjects. Uman has also taught at the Fine Art Museum in Mexico City, leading workshops in handmade filmmaking. She has lived in Los Angeles and Ukraine, and is currently based in Mexico City.
Michael Pisaro-Liu is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, over the past two decades his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and large ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution. Pisaro-Liu is the Director of Composition and Experimental Music the California Institute of the Arts.
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work is grounded in experimental literature, the conceptual avant-garde, and philosophy. Liu's works are concerned with materiality in different contexts and eras, as well as its transformation, symbolism, decay, and emotional resonance. Through film, poetry, painting, sculpture, and other media, she reflects the light and darkness of the world she lives in. Her films have been shown at international film festivals and museums, including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Helsinki Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Image Forum Festival, Japan, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, The Museum of Kyoto, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
About the Curator
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work is grounded in experimental literature, the conceptual avant-garde, and philosophy. Liu's works are concerned with materiality in different contexts and eras, as well as its transformation, symbolism, decay, and emotional resonance. For Liu materiality includes both living and inanimate matter. Through film, poetry, painting, sculpture, and other media, she reflects the light and darkness of the world she lives in. Her films have been shown at international film festivals and museums, including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Helsinki Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Image Forum Festival, Japan, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, The Museum of Kyoto, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
This event is made possible with the support of the Swiss Arts Council.
