a collision of public art, live music and film
The commissioned artist team of Cheryl E. Leonard and Rebecca Haseltine will lead off the Corridor on May 30 with The Shallow Tide, a music and sculpture performance in the coves of Middle Harbor Shoreline Park.
It’s just not to be missed.
it’s on. see you there.
consider carpooling, bikes work too (cuidado), walking in numbers only, 30 minutes from west oakland bart.
fm radio is essential, as are layers of warm clothing.
check back for podcast soundtracks from port radio!
Cheryl E. Leonard and Ann Dentel were out at Middle Harbor conducting sound experiments for the new site-specific work Shallow Tide (in collaboration with Rebecca Haseltine).
Yet the Park staff is beginning not to call it a beach anymore, lest the public seek it out for conventional use. Many stories about sinking up to the knees while walking at low tide. It will take another couple years for the surface (created from dredging of Inner Harbor) to settle.
This may be the physical reason behind the phenomenon Cheryl described: sound is carrying great distances in the sand of Middle Harbor coves, something she just didn’t expect to find.
hugh livingston and his parabolic mic
Eight artists out at Middle Harbor today, a shimmering greyscale wind racing in our faces, steering the conversation to wind-based / wind-resistant art. With the Exploratorium launching its outdoor installations this week, we talked of interactive art that could deepen park visitors’ understanding of the natural and built worlds at Middle Harbor. And on the dancing about architecture tip: iLAND.
Tara Reinertson, the park’s naturalist, gave a free talk on the workings and history of the container shipping operation that surrounds the park, complete with a crash course in trade economics. We studied the Panamax cranes as they unloaded a ship from the Wan Hai lines, drawing the attention of a dock boss who glided over in a pick-up to confirm our good intentions through the chain-link fence.
Some more ideas for The Big Book of Creative Things To Do In Middle Harbor Shoreline Park:
Ten folks out at Middle Harbor this morning, including Dyemark and his singing / seeing kite, filmmaker Alfonso Alvarez doing timelapse documentation of the west bay view, and a collection of artist and thinkers walking around the Port Arnold and Western Pacific Mole. Although I asked some leading questions about how sound art could integrate into MH’s landscape the discussion ranged over rich territory: aeolian structures, environmental justice, habitat restoration, shorebird sightings, UC geographer Dick Walker’s The Country in the City, and how crazy it feels to be up on one of those big cranes.
Some ideas for The Big Book of Creative Things To Do In Middle Harbor Shoreline Park:
What else?
Photodocumentation pending on flickr. Try the tag “middle harbor”
-so’k
Artists are invited to participate in an upcoming Illuminated Corridor inspired by Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland, California. This call is for
project description
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illcorr oakland art day
Friday, October 3
7:14pm – 10pm
199 Kahn’s Alley
[in City Hall Plaza]
Oakland
free street performance
rain or shine
bring an fm radio
The Illuminated Corridor returns to celebrate Oakland Art Day with a relighting of Kahn’s Alley, the vertiginous entrance to City Hall Plaza bordered by the Oakland Art Gallery and the rising flank of the Rotunda Building.
One of the culminating events of Oakland Art Day at the Oakland Art Gallery, this Corridor explores three themes of Oakland’s art past, present and future:
Pardee, a meditationon the former Wetmore Pardee building (now the Dalziel City Administration Building) which housed over 50 artists’ studios from the early 70s to the mid-90s;
Rotunda, a contrapuntal exploration of the current identity of Kahn’s Alley; and
eWords, a new anthem drawn from the momentum of Oakland’s public-private cultural investment initiatives.
Walk among this collaboration of performative projectionists, intermedia artists and musicians as they relight civic space with experimental outdoor cinema.
Artists include
Keith Arnold, Big City Orchestra [Ninah Pixie, Das, Damara Arrowood], CJ Borosque with Lords Of Outland, Thomas Carnacki [Sheila Bosco, Jesse Burson, Marielle Jakobsons, Jim Kaiser, Gregory Scharpen, Agnes Szelag,Matt Waldron], Chen Santa Maria with Nate Boyce, Jen Cohen, Dyemark, Michael Goodier, Phillip Greenlief’s Large Ensemble, Jeff Hobbs, Killer Banshee, Lucio Menegon, Mike Missiaen, Reel Change [David Michalak, Andrew Voigt, Tom Nunn, Ann Dental], Geneva Rust-Orta and Sigi Arnejo, Patrice Scanlon, SL Morse [Alicia Byer, Amy Friebertshauser, Tyler Harwood, Zach Houston, Aurora Josephson, Sarah Lockhart, Aram Shelton, Damon Smith, Moe! Staiano], VoxMaids, Lexa Walsh and The Oakland Jingle Orchestra, and many others with live, hyper-local FM broadcast from Neighborhood Public Radio.
links to artists here
Oakland-based artists working in live cinema and music are invited to submit a proposal for participation in the upcoming Kahn’s Alley Illuminated Corridor.
Here’s the call itself.
Deadline for submissions: August 29, 2008
Performance date: October 3, 2008
The East Bay Community Foundation has awarded The Illuminated Corridor a challenge grant to support the commissioning of new work.
Now through June 30, 2008 we are asking for your donation to match the EBCF grant. Your dollars are automatically doubled to support the work of four Bay Area artists working in two teams: musician Cheryl E. Leonard and visual artist Rebecca Haseltine and media artists Gilbert Guerrero and Kathleen Quillian. These artists are partnering with the Corridor to create new work for Middle Harbor Shoreline Park. Follow the ChipIn link in the sidebar to be a part of the Challenge or visit the main illCorr site to learn other ways to join the community of donors who have made the Illuminated Corridor possible.
The Illuminated Corridor will join Neighborhood Public Radio at its American Life exhibition at the 2008 Whitney Biennial (March 6 – June 1). The Corridor will close NPR’s run at the Whitney, creating a one-night only outdoor performance that uses source material from NPR’s Public Radio Interfaces (PRIs) and television transmissions.
The Corridor, entitled NOVA, will be a compound work for film and music in collaboration with over 60 artists based in New York, including an instance of a Very Large Quartet of many many musicians, only four of which will be playing at one time. The event will feature a collaboration of Oakland-based performative projectionists Alfonso Alvarez and Keith Arnold with New York-based Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, and a cascade of new work from emerging and established artists who will activate the Corridor’s mantra of collisions of public art, live music and film with astonishing results.
Details continue to emerge, so great and complicated an endeavor this is, with many moving parts, all of them precious. Simply mark your calendar for May 31, 2008 at civil twilight (why that would be 8:53pm, of course). Location TBA, TBA, TBA, TBA.
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