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CSArts ( Climate, Sustainability and the Arts) Temple University + Harvestworks NY present new video-sound installations by Peter d’Agostino and Homer Jackson. The works were created during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual online preview for future onsite exhibitions.
Date: April 5 – 11, 2021
World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / CAPES (2019-21) Peter d’Agostino
Video walks performed in and around South Africa’s significant ecological and historical sites: Cape Town, Robben Island Prison, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Agulhas.
In 2018, Cape Town’s city manager warned of a looming ‘Day Zero’ crisis when water taps would run dry following years of severe drought. Robben Island, across from Cape Town in Table Bay, is the site of an infamous maximum-security prison for Black, Indian, and mixed race opponents of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela was incarcerated there for 19 of his 27 years in prison before serving as the country’s first black president from 1994-99.
While the Cape of Good Hope is widely known for early Portuguese explorations (1487-98) it also played a key role in the slave trade beginning in 1652. Cape Agulhas, at the geographic southern tip of the African continent, is the geographic divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Music and sound design: Joseph M. Williams, Jr. Virtual model: Danielle Hope Abrom. Special thanks: Tom Moses, Robben Island Museum.
Support: Climate, Sustainability and the Arts (CSArts), Film & Media Arts Sustainability Fund, Temple University, and Harvestworks Digital Arts Center.
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Walkin’ & Singin’ : New Songs of the Open Road ( 2019-21) by Homer Jackson
This installation reframes a performance event produced by Homer Jackson, director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, celebrating poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday in 2019. The songs, performed by participants walking through the city of Philadelphia, were inspired by Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” and songs that fueled civil rights marchers to “challenge with their feet the boundaries of freedom.” Written and arranged by minister and vocalist, Taylor “Toby VeNT” Martin, choirmaster, and composer Waverly Austin, and singer/songwriter James Solomon, the musicality of these tunes were buttressed by a chorus of professional singers and members of the general public. “Tear Down These Walls” by Austin and “As I Give…As I Walk” by Martin are featured in this new installation. Additional concept development: Asha Jackson.
Support: University of Pennsylvania Libraries Kislak Center and funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
BIOS
Peter d’Agostino’s pioneering video, photography, and new media projects have been exhibited internationally for over five decades. His work was in the biennial exhibitions of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gwangju, South Korea; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California among others. He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Laboratory, WNET, New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Italy as well as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and the Art / Sci Center University of California, Los Angeles. Surveys of his World-Wide-Walks projects were exhibited at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne Art Gallery, Bizkaia Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain; and Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City. The book, World-Wide-Walks / Peter d’Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (2019), was published by Intellect Press, UK and the University of Chicago Press, USA. Visit the website: peterdagostino.org
Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia with a background in teaching and social service. His work is presented as installation, performance art, public art, video and audio. He uses images, sounds, text, live performance, video, audience participation and found objects to tell stories. His visual, media arts and performance works have been exhibited at venues that include: The Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition program, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Hallwalls Arts Center, Buffalo; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis; Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach; Maryland Art Place, Baltimore; The Kitchen, Art In General, Aaron Davis Hall in New York City, and ArtBlackLive in Northhampton, UK.
With over 20 years experience as a teaching artist working in community settings, Homer Jackson has served as project director for a number of arts & humanities projects and has conducted workshops in senior centers, prisons, schools and community organizations. He is the founder and director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. Visit the website: philajazzproject.org/.
CSArts ( Climate, Sustainability and the Arts) Temple University + Harvestworks NY present new video-sound installations by Peter d’Agostino and Homer Jackson. The works were created during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual online preview for future onsite exhibitions.
Date: April 5 – 11, 2021
World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / CAPES (2019-21) Peter d’Agostino
Video walks performed in and around South Africa’s significant ecological and historical sites: Cape Town, Robben Island Prison, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Agulhas.
In 2018, Cape Town’s city manager warned of a looming ‘Day Zero’ crisis when water taps would run dry following years of severe drought. Robben Island, across from Cape Town in Table Bay, is the site of an infamous maximum-security prison for Black, Indian, and mixed race opponents of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela was incarcerated there for 19 of his 27 years in prison before serving as the country’s first black president from 1994-99.
While the Cape of Good Hope is widely known for early Portuguese explorations (1487-98) it also played a key role in the slave trade beginning in 1652. Cape Agulhas, at the geographic southern tip of the African continent, is the geographic divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Music and sound design: Joseph M. Williams, Jr. Virtual model: Danielle Hope Abrom. Special thanks: Tom Moses, Robben Island Museum.
Support: Climate, Sustainability and the Arts (CSArts), Film & Media Arts Sustainability Fund, Temple University, and Harvestworks Digital Arts Center.
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Walkin’ & Singin’ : New Songs of the Open Road ( 2019-21) by Homer Jackson
This installation reframes a performance event produced by Homer Jackson, director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, celebrating poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday in 2019. The songs, performed by participants walking through the city of Philadelphia, were inspired by Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” and songs that fueled civil rights marchers to “challenge with their feet the boundaries of freedom.” Written and arranged by minister and vocalist, Taylor “Toby VeNT” Martin, choirmaster, and composer Waverly Austin, and singer/songwriter James Solomon, the musicality of these tunes were buttressed by a chorus of professional singers and members of the general public. “Tear Down These Walls” by Austin and “As I Give…As I Walk” by Martin are featured in this new installation. Additional concept development: Asha Jackson.
Support: University of Pennsylvania Libraries Kislak Center and funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
BIOS
Peter d’Agostino’s pioneering video, photography, and new media projects have been exhibited internationally for over five decades. His work was in the biennial exhibitions of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gwangju, South Korea; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California among others. He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Laboratory, WNET, New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Italy as well as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and the Art / Sci Center University of California, Los Angeles. Surveys of his World-Wide-Walks projects were exhibited at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne Art Gallery, Bizkaia Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain; and Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City. The book, World-Wide-Walks / Peter d’Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (2019), was published by Intellect Press, UK and the University of Chicago Press, USA. Visit the website: peterdagostino.org
Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia with a background in teaching and social service. His work is presented as installation, performance art, public art, video and audio. He uses images, sounds, text, live performance, video, audience participation and found objects to tell stories. His visual, media arts and performance works have been exhibited at venues that include: The Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition program, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Hallwalls Arts Center, Buffalo; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis; Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach; Maryland Art Place, Baltimore; The Kitchen, Art In General, Aaron Davis Hall in New York City, and ArtBlackLive in Northhampton, UK.
With over 20 years experience as a teaching artist working in community settings, Homer Jackson has served as project director for a number of arts & humanities projects and has conducted workshops in senior centers, prisons, schools and community organizations. He is the founder and director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. Visit the website: philajazzproject.org/.
![The Workings Of Media [art and artists] Fall 2021: An Overview](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d5oI6dyp_S8/mqdefault.jpg "The Workings Of Media [art and artists] Fall 2021: An Overview
The Workings of Media [Art and Artists] is a series of presentations, workshops, open studios and exhibitions to understand social and cultural changes reflected through the lens of art and artists. Curator and director Carol Parkinson has selected these artists because of their use of the new media technology including data sonification and visualization, immersive sound, smell and social networks. The Art and Technology program is a component of our Creative Residency and Sponsored Projects programs and seeks to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work and to advance the art’s community and the public’s appreciation of the use of technology in art. Artworks in order of appearance:
Matthew Goodheart: remnants, an immersive sound installation of sonic instruments, found objects to be listened to with bone-conducting headphones (COVID restrictions will apply). Artist Talk October 30, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Dan Joseph: Informed by early minimalism, acoustic ecology, deep listening and ambient music, Periodicity Piece #10 will combine a diverse collection of sounds into a slowly changing sonic ecosystem. A Harvestworks Commission for our Immersive Room on Governors Island. Opens October 2, 2021. Performance Oct. 30, 2021 at 3 pm.
Sofy Yuditskaya: The Secret Pope is a video homage to Pope Joan, considered fictional in todays society, but a beloved story during the middle ages of a female pope that rose through the ranks of Christianity with her wit and skill. Pope Joan dressed in men’s clothes, but was discovered as a woman when she became pregnant. After she was discovered body examinations practices were put in place so that no women could rise to power in Christianity ever again. Gaze upon her as into a mirror, the Secret Pope is all of us. Performance October 31, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Jocelyn Ho: An installation and performance series of compositions for Women’s Labor, a feminist project that uses embedded technologies to transform old domestic tools into new musical instruments, to address gender inequality in domestic labor division and challenge persistent gendered social norms. Performance Sept. 18, 2021
George Moraitis: AttoWatt is an installation made up of long vertical metal bars and neon tubes. Light and sound travel from rung to rung simultaneously all around the installation with fast velocity creating various forms made of electricity within space. Performance October 23, 2021
Mike Bullock: Ephemerospheres, an installation of electroacoustic audio works for his custom wave field synthesis array. Compositions by Mike Bullock, Seth Cluett and LInda Gail Aubry. MIke Bullock is a composer and intermedia artist focused on environmental sound recording. Artist Talk Sept. 11, 2021.
LadyK : Inspired by bioluminescent marine organisms and digital network traffic, Luciferins is an interactive installation. Viewers walk through awakening graphical portals and field recordings, which open to depict invisible network traffic of websites. LadyK’s practice encompasses responsive systems exploring how our collective digital experiences are shaping our future. Artist Talk Sept. 11, 2021.
Performances
Liz Gerring Company with Michael Schumacher presents Nolan Park, a sound and movement installation. PROGRAM: 60 min. Program Times: noon, 2 pm & 4 pm. Performance Sept. 25, 2021 with Liz Gerring Dance Company.
Ginny Benson presents her live A/V performance")
![[August 17] LIVE PERFORMANCE – William Hooker- “Separated Twins” w/ Kevin Ramsay](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eZRW3trBX40/mqdefault.jpg "[August 17] LIVE PERFORMANCE – William Hooker- “Separated Twins” w/ Kevin Ramsay
Harlem Arts Fund 10b, Nolan Park, Governors Island.")
