Upcoming events at Trinosophes
Friday, Oct. 25: Opening reception for "Limited Dictionary" A solo exhibition by Radek Szlaga
Performance by Poland's BNNT at 9 pm; free
Limited
Dictionary is an exhibition by Polish artist Radek Szlaga. The
multimedia exhibition is a part of a larger project Szlaga began several
years ago which focuses on his family's immigration to Redford,
Michigan, while he stayed in Poland. Through video, sculptural
installation and drawings, the artist deals with issues of identity,
separation, alienation, mythmaking, cultural difference, and fractured
language in art and in everyday life. A performance by Polish
"noise-bombers" BNNT begins at 9 pm. Don't miss Szlaga and BNNT at
Trinosophes, right before they leave for a performance and installation
at New York's Performa on November 9!
Radek Szlaga (b. 1979) lives and works in Warsaw, Poland, where he is assistant
professor at the University of Arts in Poznan. He is the co-founder of
the art collective PENERSTWO. Szlaga has been featured in solo and
select group shows at Arsenal Gallery (Bialystok, Poland), LETO Gallery
and Zachęta National Gallery of Art (both in Warsaw) Alexander Ochs
Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Temporary Gallery (Cologne, Germany) Galeria
Blanca Soto (Madrid, Spain), Waterside Contemporary (London, UK), Gare
Saint Sauveur (Lille, France), and POSK Gallery (London, UK), among many
others. Reviews of his work have appeared in Artforum and Newsweek
Polska, among other publications.
BNNT
are audio performances by Konrad Smolenski and Daniel Szwed, which are
usually held in open public spaces of a city, or in the
institutionalized spaces of galleries and festival venues. The band
members travel in a van that serves them as an improvised stage where
they perform in balaclavas or masks. Each performance involves a sonic
maelstrom with the use of an amplified string instrument modeled on the
Tomahawk missile (Konrad Smolenski) and a drum set (Daniel Szwed). This
is an interdisciplinary project involving both public performance - the
so-called sound bombing - and publishing activity, which the duo have
run for a few years now. BNNT has appeared at the Palais de Tokyo
(Paris, France), Manifesta 9 (Genk, Belgium), Offen auf AEG (Nuremberg, Germany), and elsewhere.
Saturday, Oct. 26: Disappears, Ritual Howls
Five years
into their existence as a band Disappears have finally exhaled -
following a steady run of singles, ep's, and three full lengths the band
retreated to their studio at the end of 2012 to take stock of where
they had been and where they wanted to go. Disappears returned fully
stretched out into the void with 2013's KONE EP. Abstract and
experimental, it erased any expectation's people had about what
Disappears sounded like or were capable of, as well as introduced new
drummer Noah Leger - a pivotal force in what was to follow. 'Era,'
Disappears' fourth album in as many years, was birthed during the
bleakness of the Chicago winter 2013 at Electrical Audio by now regular
foil John Congleton. Insular and dark, Era sees the band refining their
love of dub, minimalism and repetition into their most original and
stark set yet. Decision and consequence weigh heavy on the album - both
lyrically and through the bands decision to let the studio direct the
final forms of the songs. Era is Disappears at their most abrasive,
contemplative, and paranoid - it's the sound of the void looking back.
8 pm doors; $7.
Wednesday,
Oct 30: VCVD (Frode Gjerstadt, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Stine Janvin Motland,
Stale Liavik Solberg), Jason Stein/Tim Daisy Duo
Two
outstanding improvised music groups in one evening! Headlining the show
is VCDC, a quartet comprised of leading Norwegian improvisers and one
American. Our series has often featured the talents of saxophonist Frode
Gjerstad over the years, most often in his trio with young powerhouse
drummer Paal Nilssen Love; he's also a member of the Brotzmann Tentet
and has worked with Joe McPhee. This time he brings some fellow
Norwegians that haven't been heard here yet: Stine Janvin Motland
(vocals) and Ståle Liavik Solberg (drums). Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chicago's
most versatile creative cellist, rounds out the group. Not only has he
worked with improvised music heavy-weights like John Butcher, Peter
Brotzmann, Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Jim O' Rourke, Peter Kowald etc.,
but he's also contributed to recordings and performances by Smog,
Wilco, US Maple, Super Chunk, God-is-my-co-pilot and other rock
notables.
Opening
the show are two more of Chicago's finest improvisers, Jason Stein and
Tim Daisy. Jason is one of the few people in creative music to
exclusively focus on the bass clarinet. He's had an active career, with
recordings on such notable labels as Delmark, Leo, Atavistic and Clean
Feed; collaborators include a range of American and European notables:
Peter Brotzmann, Ken Vandermark, Eric Boeren, Michael Zerang and many
others. Tim Daisy is a heavily in-demand creative drummer and award
winning composer who was also named one of "13 Drummers for the Future"
by Downbeat magazine. He's recorded 6 records with The Vandermark 5 and
is on dozens of releases with some of the premiere musicians in new
music- including John Tchicai, Jeb Bishop, Fred Anderson, Dave Rempis
etc.
7:30 pm doors. $10-20 donation.