M A N Y

presents

OnetoMANYthree

a two-day multi-media event

OnetoMANYthree was a two-day event that included: experimental video, new music, dance, spoken word, performance art, and interdisciplinary work.

The event took place June 15/16, 1999 at DIXON PLACE in NYC and featured:

Tony Alioto (tenor voice)

Monica Bill Barnes (dance)

Torsten Burns (video)

Steve Cohn (shakuhachi)

Douglas Geers (computer music)

Marija Krtolica (dance)

Verena Grimm (video)

Daniel Herskowitz (video)

Jillian Mcdonald (performance)

Judith Sainte Croix (new music)

Sue Spaid (performance)

Alysse Stepanian (performance and video)

Larry Weeks (spoken word)

The Kaleidoscope Ensemble 

Pauline Kim (violin), Ragga Petursdottir (violin), 

James Kim (viola), Christine Kim (cello)

featuring new music for String Quartet by: 

James Marentic 

Philip Mantione 

About the Artists

Tony Alioto (tenor) recently was in Warrior Sisters, a new opera by composer Fred Ho, released on Koch Records and is on Judith Sainte Croix's CD release from Sonic Muse, Visions of Light and Mystery, performing Dear One. He has sung with New YorkÕs Ensemble for Early Music and Theatre Metropole in Denmark. He is presently working on a solo work with Ms. Sainte Croix and writer Cherylene Lee.

Monica Bill Barnes is originally from Berkeley, California. Her work has been presented in California, Colorado, Texas, New York and Australia. New York performances include Dance Theatre Workshop, Dancespace Project at St. MarkÕs Church, Context Studios, the Downtown Arts Festival, Gonawus Arts Exchange, and Dixon Place. Some of her most inspiring performance experiences have been with Ann Carlson, Hilary Easton, Guta Hedewig, Jean Isaacs, Ellis Wood and in collaboration with Yasmeen Godder. Most recently, she has created TOUR BILL, a dance company which performs professionally and brings workshops and performances to homeless shelters, outreach groups and public schools.

Torsten Zenas Burns He has created video, photo, text and sculptural installation projects exploring energistic fictions. The pieces delve into speculative medicine, experimental communication potentials and improvisational gesture explorations. Other projects have been active collaborations with diverse artists including Anthony Discenza under the name Halflifers, Darrin Martin, Jenn and Kevin McCoy and Virocode. BurnsÕ video work is distributed by the Video Data Bank in Chicago, IL and the Lux Center in London, England. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, The E.M.A.F. and Transmediale Festivals in Germany, The Impakt Festival in the Netherlands, The Rencontres Arts Electronique Festival in France and most recently in the Kunstvlaa13 Art Fair in Amsterdam.

Steve Cohn has performed as a jazz pianist in New York and Los Angeles, where he began studying the shakuhachi flute at UCLA. After living in Japan for two years, he moved to New York where he has devoted himself to totally improvised music, combining unconventional use of non-western winds and percussion with a unique piano style. Cohn has performed his own works with the Steve Cohn Quartet in venues including ColumbiaÕs Miller Theatre; Fiesta International USSR, the Newport JVC Festival, Sweet Basil and the Ottawa Festival.

Douglas Geers teaches MIDI Music Production at Columbia University, where he is currently a presidential fellow completing his doctorate in composition. He is especially interested in computer music, and his new works feature various combinations of electronics and live performers, including himself. Geers music has been played worldwide, including performances in Hong Kong; Helsinki, Finland; Thessaloniki, Greece; Montevideo, Uruguay; Edinborough, Scotland; Banff, Canada; New York City, and others.

Verena Grimmwas born in Mexico City, and studied art in Barcelona, Spain . She collaborated and worked as a curator in Ex-Teresa Arte Alternativo, an alternative space in Mexico. In 1996 she received a grant from FONCA to realize a project in the Fortress, San Juan de Ulœa, Veracruz, Mexico. Her works have been shown in group exhibitions in Mexico, U.S.A. , and Ireland. In 1997 she had a solo show, ÒIntervaloÓ, in Galer’a de Arte Contempore‡neo, Mexico. In 1998 she presented an installation, Torre do los Vientos, in Mexico City, and in 1999, a video installation, Boca-abajo, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grimm uses modern medicine as a metaphor for the vulnerability of the fearful society that aims to protect itself by any means, from any menace from the outside.

Marija Krtolica started her dance education in her native Yugoslavia. She has been sponsored five times by the SOROS foundation to create new work and teach at BITEF and ex-cinema REX theaters in Belgrade. In NYC, her work has been presented at Judson Church, Evolving Arts Inc., Educational Alliance and the International Fringe Festival. She has collaborated with Kate Wear and danced in pieces by Yasmeen Godder and Maureen Fleming.

Ivan Despic born and raised in Belgrade, is currently enrolled in the Academy of Music, Belgrade University. His music has been presented at the multi-media exhibition Water-like, Festival of New and Alternative Theatre in Novi Sad, and the International Composition Festival in Belgrade. His interest ranges from composing music for fashion shows to concert music.

Philip Mantione is a co-founder of MANY, and has composed music for art performance, site-specific sound installations and various concert venues. Recent performances include Assemblage for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp (Los Angeles County Museum of Art and broadcast live on KUSC radio), Music for Typist , computer-interactive music and projection (Greenwich House; Hayden Auditorium), E Pluribus, Pluribus for five musicians and tape (Renee Weiler Concert Hall) and Steps for alto sax and video tape (DCTV).

James Marentic attended the University of MN where he studied music composition and the humanities. He has lived in Los Angeles and New York since 1975. He is a performer on the saxophone, clarinet, flute and the double bass. He is the recipient of three composition grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian visual artist, living in Brooklyn, who works in video, performance, and textiles. She has had several solo and group shows in Canada and New York. Recent shows include: Blackguard , clothing and audio installation at A-Space in Toronto; The Wonderful World of Peafowl: Courtship of the Peacunt, video at Artists Space in New York and Heston Asserts Gun, a multi-media performance at Dixon Place in New York.

Judith Sainte Croix writes music for opera, orchestra, chamber and solo musicians and electronics. Her recent CD release Visions of Light and Mystery is available from amazon.com. For more information on her music, surf the web to http://members.tripod.com/JSC, listen to it at www.arcana.org/newmusicradio contact her at judithsaintecroix@lycosmail.com. Sue Spaid is an art writer and curator, whose upcoming projects include The Workbook, and Mid-career Survey of Artist Eileen Cowin. Previous performances included Pippi-style Feminism, Citizens to Elect The Dragon Princess President, Tree-top Awards Todays Cultural Heroes and Olga The May-day Nymph.

Alysse Stepanian has lived in Tehran, Iran, Los Angeles and New York. She is one of the founders of MANY. Her paintings, photographs, performances, installations and videos have been presented in Spain, Korea, Armenia, Southern California, and New York City.

Larry Weeks majored in draft-evasion at Marquette University, NYU (Washington Square) and the University of California, Santa Barbara during the height of the anti-Vietnam war protests (67-70). Weeks played keyboards in numerous bands in New York, the Midwest and California, including Blue and Red, Bulletproff and The Chris Kelly Band. HeÕll be reading an intensely personal piece about the self-inflicted death of his father.

The Kaleidoscope Ensemble was formed in 1995 as a piano trio in Los Angeles and has since expanded into larger ensembles that have performed throughout the east and west coasts. The string quartet includes: Pauline Kim (violin), Ragga Petursdottir (violin), James Kim (viola), and Christine Kim (cello). Individual members have been critically acclaimed on major concert stages world-wide. They have been in residence at the Landon Gallery in New York since 1996. The group will perform as a string quintet at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, June 1999.

Pauline Kim (violin) is the founding member of the Kaleidoscope Ensemble. She directed the Kaleidoscope Concerts at the Landon Gallery in 1996-97 and is currently manager of the Landon Concert Series. She has performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, the Ravinia Festival and her New York Recital Debut at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall. . Her performances have been featured on PBS and broadcast live on various radio stations throughout the country. Most recently, Miss Kim gave her debut in Chicago on the Rising Stars Series.

Christine Kim (cello) was the recipient of the Leonard Rose ÔCello Scholarship at The Juilliard School. She began cello studies at the age of four. At the age of eleven, she was featured in a Musical Encounters program of the Young Musicians Foundation which was broadcast nationwide on PBS. She has appeared at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, as well as festivals in Canada, Hungary, Germany and Italy. She most recently performed at Carnegie Hall in the 1995 New York String Seminar Orchestra under the direction of Jaime Laredo.

James Kim (viola) has focused his career on solo and chamber music in Los Angeles and New York. He has studied with Ralph Fielding of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and has appeared as soloist in HandelÕs Viola Concerto in California with the PCC Orchestra.