Events Calendar

SCENE(SEEN)/HERE(HEAR) is a summer programming series focusing on the theme of freedom in three artistic disciplines: literature, film and music.

THE MUSICIANS

La Big Vic
wish

VIDEO ARTISTS

Jon Williams
Rebecca Gaffney

CURATED BY CHRISTIAN FULLER

FROM THE CURATOR:

“The musicians and artists of the music program of SCENE(SEEN)/HERE(HEAR) evoke spiritual and psychological freedom. La Big Vic’s sound embodies the essence of exploration; breaking through mental constraints imposed by societal concerns to an unknown place full of endless possibilities. Like La Big Vic, the sonic boundaries of wish are limitless. A melodious shaman, wish uses arpeggiation to cleanse the spirit and oversaturated psyche. Jon Williams’ and Rebecca Gaffney’s video work disintegrates optical confinement and replaces linear perception, playing with the moment that occurs before we have time to completely formulate imagery and make it familiar.

I am pleased to present these artists and musicians in one program and have a sense that when the audience walks away they will feel a little lighter on their feet.”

La Big Vic

THE MUSICIANS

La Big Vic:

La Big Vic’s lead guitarist, Toshio Masuda, performed in a major label J-Pop boy band in his youth in Japan. He produced hip hop songs, commercials, and soundtracks before coming to America to become an inspirational R&B musician. Peter Pearson, the group's synthesist, is an apprentice to Pink Floyd's live sound producer Jeff Blenkinsopp at Expert Audio Repairs & Servicing (EARS) Inc. One of Jeff's last interns was Gavin Russom. La Big Vic's lead singer and violinist is Emilie Friedland, founder of Visitation Rites.

wish:

wish is Zeljko McMullen and various live collaborators. McMullen was born February 4th, 1980 in Massillon, Ohio and attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Bard MFA program. He co-curated the Paris London New York West Nile performance space and gallery from September 2006 until April 2010 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

He has exhibited work and/or performed in New York City at: D'Amelio Terras, Independent Curators International Gala, Art in General, Cleopatra's, Work Gallery, Canada Gallery, Glasslands Gallery, MATA Festival, Chashama, Secret Project Robot, Marvelli Gallery, Placard Headphone Festival, Roulette Intermedium, Diapason, The Kitchen, Paris London New York West Nile, and many more.

wish, The World digital collage for album art, 2010

THE VIDEO ARTISTS

Jon Williams:

Jon Williams is a Brooklyn-based artist with a background in formal computer science, film studies & Afro-Cuban percussion. His live video work explores digital-optical feedback technique and samples culled from marathon film screening sessions and the forgotten alleys of computer graphics. While utilizing both video cameras and analog video synthesis, most images are generated via real-time editing in a software patch environment. In November 2008, he orchestrated the video for Excepter's 17-hour election day telethon at Monkeytown in Brooklyn. He frequently performs music in ad-hoc / semi-improvised groups, including "gauze" art-rock group Enoch A.L.N. (with Rebecca Gaffney); in April 2011, he performed a 37 minute piece on synthesizer in a 13 person, one parakeet ensemble.

Rebecca Gaffney:

Rebecca Gaffney is a Brooklyn-based video and installation artist/musician/writer who works with out of phase strobelight, reflections, light/vid/music improv, transcendence, happenings, epic collaborations, aerial views, and "new shit". She has performed and shown at Canada Gallery, Secret Project Robot, Louis V. E.S.P., PS1, and St. Cecelia's Convent, where she also curated Spun 3{The Crest Jewel of}, a 70-artist video-light-sound installation show.  She plays in "gauze" art-rock group Enoch A.L.N. (with Jon Williams) and is working on a series of novels.  She has an upcoming solo show at Pendu gallery and is curating Spun 4 later this year.

                                        THE CURATOR

Christian Fuller, Gallery Manager and Curator of BRIC Contemporary Art, studied Literature and Creative Writing at Naropa University and Studio Art at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He is an artist and musician and has exhibited his work at Flux Factory, NY; Cornell University, NY; Glasslands Gallery, NY; HARCOZA, Tokyo, Japan; and published work in the Australian art publication Invisible City. He was one half of the band the Gamut who performed throughout New York and Brooklyn in such venues as Monster Island, Knitting Factory, Shea Stadium, Cake Shop, Paris London New York West Nile, SUNY Purchase, and Bruar Falls. He has currently started a solo music project called Young Fossil, and will be curating a show in January 2012 at BRIC Rotunda Gallery.