Sue Spaid, performance

Thomas Bachli

Adam Ames among the audience

About the Artists

Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin are New York-based artists, whose works have been featured at several New York venues and galleries. Type A is their collaborative project. Utilizing a variety of media, this work explores the ways in which men interact, i.e. competition, challenge, and play, and the resulting social and psychological (im)balance.

Tomas Bachli was born in Zurich and lives in New York. As a concert pianist, he has premiered numerous works of composers such as James Tenney and Gyšrgy Kurt‡g. Currently, he curates the music program of the Swiss Institute in New York.

Jeffery Byrd and Abinadi Meza live in Iowa and create works that poetically blend video with live action. They were most recently featured in the Cleveland Performance Art Fest. 16 Gestures (Mitosis) is a mysterious and poetic exploration of the body and individuality.

Jed Distler is a composer/pianist and the Artistic Director of Composers Collaborative. Distler's piano recitals encompass a wide spectrum of 20th century music, including his own works for which he has received numerous Meet The Composer awards. He will be premiering new music for toy piano.

Linda Ganjian is a NY-based artist who works in sculpture, photography, and video. Her work will be shown at PS 122 in November and the Rotunda Gallery in February. The Hand Dance videos strive to create a fantasy world out of the mundane objects and settings of domestic existence.

Douglas Geers is currently completing his doctorate in music composition at Columbia University. He has composed computer music for several years, and will be collaborating with artist, Luke DuBois.

Philip Mantione has composed music for a variety of contexts including art performance, site-specific sound installations and various concert venues. Steps combines live alto sax, computer-generated sound track, and a video collaboration with Alysse Stepanian.

James Marentic 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 and will present new music for piano and computer-manipulated samples.

Nurit Newman's video and installation work has been exhibited at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Exit Art, The Kitchen, The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, and other venues. Newman is the 1998 recipient of The Pollock Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Grant.

Linda Post«s work was included in 'Now Here' at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, and 'Young & Restless' at MOMA, NY. She has had one-person exhibitions at CRG Gallery, NY; Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, UK; and Vellan, Turin, Italy.

Leslie Raymond has most recently been generating site-specific public actions which explore the notions of 'site' and 'public'. This current research has been taking place in the foyers & bus stops of Ann Arbor, MI. Rife with Fire is a documentation of Stephen Rife«s work, originally recorded on 16mm film.

Sue Spaid is an art writer and curator, whose upcoming projects include The Workbook, Surface-Structure and Mid-career Survey of Artist Eileen Cowin. Previous performances included Pippi-style Feminism, Citizens to Elect The Dragon Princess President, Tree-top Awards TodayÕs Cultural Heroes and Olga The May-day Nymph.

Dave Soldier is a New York-based performer and composer, whose opera, Naked Revolution, premiered at The Kitchen in 1997. He leads the Kropotkins and Soldier String Quartet, which recently performed in the Tampere (Finland) Jazz Festival.

Suitably Contrite, loosely based on Socrates« The Apology, is a collaborative work conceived and performed by Sue Spaid with music by Soldier.

Alysse Stepanian is a video artist, painter, installation artist, and performer. 72 Hours : Acrobat's Little Leap : Stepanian deprived herself of sleep for 70 hours, and documented a set of activities in random intervals. The Title of the piece was inspired by an experiment conducted by the US military, under the code name Acrobat's Leap.

Jeffery Byrd & Abinadi Meza

Douglas Geers & Luke DuBois

Philip Mantione & Alysse Stepanian

Alysse Stepanian ,video installation still