NYC RELEASE EVENT: The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive

Hosted by Artbook@X at Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels on the ground floor of X Initiative / X INITIATIVE, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, NY (the former Dia building) / Wednesday, September 16th / 7:00-9:00pm

The New York City release of The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive by Evil Twin Publications will be celebrated with an event hosted by Artbook@X at Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels on the ground floor of X Initiative on Wednesday, September 16th from 7-9pm. This will also be the first public viewing of the book in New York, documenting the thirty Sundown Salon events from 2001-2006. One continuous 140 foot long sheet of paper folds up to become the 380 page volume with color photos on one side and text on the other.

ACTIVITIES

robbinschilds - Telephone, a conversation [VARIOUS DOMES]
Sam Gordon - A Trial Run for "This is a Performance" [LITERARY DOME]
Travis Boyer & Donnie Cervantes - Community Hogan [DRUMS & SKINS DOME]
Feral Childe and Friends - Braiding Station [DRUMS & SKINS DOME]
Zerek Kempf & Joe Winter - Eye to Eye (performance)
Niko Solorio - POCKET NIKO performance [CENTER STAGE]
Dillon de Give - Coyote Dome information booth and "casting call" [PERIMETER BENCHES]
No Standing Anytime - NSA Think-Tent Community Consultancy [GASTRONOMY DOME]
Kol Solthon - Sounds for the Soundless [LITERARY DOME]
Dash N - The Bean Agency: Food for Stories [GASTRONOMY DOME]
LBI - Activities in the Bio-Dome of Curiosities [ECOLOGY DOME]
Culture Push, Inc. - Cyborg Nation performance [ECOLOGY DOME]
The X Initiative Interns and FieldWork - Audio Draw [LITERARY DOME]
Amy Yao - What Comes Up Must Come Down / the Fall of Man
Tom Tom Magazine: A Magazine about Female Drummers - Drumming Lessons [DRUMS & SKINS DOME]
plus...
Readings by Trinie Dalton and Svetlana Kitto
Videos by Terence Koh and Billy Miller

DETAILS

ECOLOGY DOME

Bio-Dome of Curiosities - by Leviathan Biological Installations (LBI) - All activities in the Bio-Dome of Curiosities will pivot around a centrally located "5 Boroughs Terrarium".† Salvaged material seating will be available around the pentagonal terrarium inviting interaction with the terrarium or to provide a tranquil space to sit.† Along four of the walls will be cabinets housing various curiosities including natural artifacts, photos and sculpture.† The organization of the artifacts in the Dome is inspired by primitive taxonomy. Leviathan Biological Installations (LBI) is a division of Anchor Aquarium Service, Inc.
LBI is specifically interested in the creation of systems that are aesthetically pleasing with a scientific bent. LBI promotes a concept it calls science lite, a form of pseudo science that strives to maintain a balance between art and science. LBI takes the liberty of discarding the dogma and convention of science when it gets in the way. Noel Rose is the owner of Anchor Aquarium Services, Inc. KD Derr is an Electron Microscopist by day and Sculptress by night. KD is preoccupied with exploring the frontiers where science and art intersect. Her mission: to make the curiosity and wonder of science available to the masses. Brian Bald is a collections photographer at the Museum of Natural History.

Cyborg Nation - by Culture Push, Inc. - In Cyborg Nation, one person wearing a Self-Contained Performance Environment (SCoPE for short) creates an intimate place for conversation and communication with people on site and in remote locations, one body acting as an opinionated conduit for the thoughts and productions of many. †The SCoPE includes a projector, speakers, screens and other miniature technologies for input and broadcast, and the Cyborg would be ensconced in a one-day installation. In Cyborg Nation, one-to-one conversation becomes a public display - intimacy becomes spectacle and strangers connect fleetingly and find depth in momentary contact.†In discussing the nature of our current marriage to technology, Cyborg Nation seeks to be a 21st century version of a Socratic dialogue. Events: A quasi-weekly event where the Cyborg occupies one of the larger dome tents and the public is invited to interact with the Cyborg, either in person, or by calling or sending in material from elsewhere. The event would be broadcast over the web in real time. Before the announced events, it would be good to have one or two more low-key "rehearsal" events, to get used to the space. When the Cyborg is not in the space, the detritus from the installation environment can be left as traces, as well as possibly a monitor that continuously plays the Cyborg photo gallery and any texts sent in during the events. Cyborg Nation is directed by Clarinda Mac Low and Walter Polkosnik. Clarinda Mac Low works as a catalyst, using art to connect people across communities, within communities and to †each other individually.Current projects: TRYST,performance and art interventions in everyday life and Cyborg Nation, public conversation on the technological body and the nature of intimacy. Walter Polkosnik is a scientist and hacker who has studied the physics of random media and string theory. He has worked in virtual reality, internet media streaming,†simulations of large biomolecules, designing electronic circuits, making holograms, fabricating high-temperature superconductors, among other projects.

DRUMS & SKINS DOME

Feral Childe and Friends - by Feral Childe - Meet Feral Childe at the Dome Colony for scheduled and spontaneous mayhem. Activities may include an acoustic performance, espresso bar, miniature trunk show and portrait studio. We will also be braiding; materials will be provided and you are all invited. Braiding will be ongoing; if we are not here, please let yourselves in and make yourselves at home!†
Feral Childe is the bi-coastal collaboration of Moriah Carlson (Brooklyn, NY) and Alice Wu (Oakland, CA). As Feral Childe, the two fuse experimental creative processes, thoughtful choice of materials, and attention to quality construction to make a sought after fashion collection of highly wearable silhouettes. Each Feral Childe collection incorporates organic and sustainable knits and wovens, and is proudly produced in New York.†This season, Feral Childe's collaborative drawings of school play props and stock characters become the Fall 2009 Collection: SCHOOL PLAY. The Feral Childe team drew in tandem to develop toile-like textile prints with hidden images. Look for the mysterious man in the tall black hat, wigwams, exploding stars, desktop cactus, godís eyes, stovetop, wooden chair and swinging chandelier. The clues are in the clothes.

Headquarters for Tom Tom Magazine - by Tom Tom Magazine: A Magazine about Female Drummers - A 14' dome serves as headquarters, with 2 workstations (2 computers essentially), wi-fi, and 2 drum-kits, power, and some amplifiers. The space will be used as both the regular office space for the running the magazine and a place for spontaneous performance by female percussionists. Drum set and drum machine lessons will be held in the dome from 12-3 pm every Weds & Fri.

Hogan Community - by Travis Boyer & Donnie Cervantes - Suggesting a traditional Navajo tent, as a ceremonial structure and meeting place, a place away from home to keep in balance and to learn from others. A Gradient net covering brings light of different colors into the tent. The ceiling gives reference to the night sky. Some events we will present as part of Community Hogan: Blessingway - Vocal workshop: group †sing or chant; Dance workshop - Alexander technique; Ffarts - life drawing workshop(s) ongoing; Noise workshop.

GASTRONOMY DOME

The Bean Agency: Food for Stories - by Dash N - Beans and information on how to cook beans are given and in exchange, stories are told and collected. The project aims to encourage exchange around the topic of beans. Dash will be at Dome Colony X on Saturdays from 2- 4, beginning September 12th.†She will be serving local cranberry beans and giving out a "Basic Bean" recipe. She will also be there to listen and collect stories about beans. ††
Dash N was born in Miami in 1980. †She is an artist living and working in New York City. She is currently in her final year in the Columbia University MFA program.

NSA Think Tent at The Dome Colony Community Consultancy + Themed Refreshments - by No Standing Anytime
No Standing Anytime is Christina Kral & Adriana Young. We are Professional Pop Up Public Interventionistas [PPUPI] making temporary environments for people not to stand anytime (that is, to interact, relax and/or do something fabulous!). We mass produce spaces and experiences to:
- Transform public space;
- Build instant community;
- Conduct non-monetary exchange/trade;
- Perform constant community research;
- Enact reality shifts;
- Intervene in under-utilized spaces;
- Recycle the cityís detritus into productive public art.
To do this, we make all different kinds of portable platforms and mobile stations for people to give, take and make. We also firmly believe in wearing matching outfits.

LITERARY DOME

Audio Draw - by The X Initiative Interns and FieldWork - Audio Draw is a real-time combination of drawing and audio open to public participation of all ages. The project proposes a site for the use and collection of raw material in both media as a means to the development of a spontaneous creative community. Relying on contributions in the forms of pencils, thoughts, pens, cassette tapes, cds, vinyl, playlists, paper, markers, time, and other raw material Audio Draw is based on the process of donation and shared sharing experience as a way to encourage exploration and experimentation within both drawing and sound. FieldWork is a revolving group of artists and friends based out of New York City interested in organizing/participating in communal situations involving the creative use of raw materials.

CENTER STAGE & THROUGHOUT THE COLONY

Coyote Dome - by Dillon de Give - Coyote Dome is a performance about "Hal" a young coyote who appeared in NYC's Central Park in 2006 and "Lah" a 66-mile reciprocal walking journey made by Dillon de Give on the third anniversary of Hal's death (from Central Park to coyote country in Westchester). This performance will center on Dillon's toe which has remained numb since completing the walk earlier this year. Coyote Dome will also serve as an information booth and invitation to take part in next year's Lah walk in March. Dillon de Give, Brooklyn NY, creates site-specific situations and elementary school style plays.

Sounds for the Soundless - by Kol Solthon - Sounds for the Soundless is a live sound piece comprised of a series of random, barely audible sounds intended to either merge with the collective sound of voices, the hum of air conditioners, passing street sound fragments or to imitate sounds from nature ie. wind, birds, fire, water. Kol Solthon was born in Vancouver in 1971. †He is an artist living and working in New York.

Telephone - a conversation - by robbinschilds - Back and forth remote directing: robbinschilds shares their cumulative process of creation.
2 performers, 2 walkie-talkies, 2 tents.
Using walkie-talkies, the performers direct one another's actions from isolated locations.

Eye to Eye (performance) - by Zerek Kempf & Joe Winter - Two groups, each with their own fixation: Astronomers focused on the space above, Miners engrossed in a space below. When they collide, a physical struggle ensues, each attempting to redirect their opponents vision. The Lineman, arbiter of the space between--the Field--referees the competition.

"This is a Test" a trial run for "This is a Performance" - organized by Sam Gordon - To workshop the exhibition opening at ACP (Los Angeles, 01.23.2010) in one of the tents, a trial balloon, to gather work, drawings, ephemera....Action Painting vs. Performance Relic - Artifact vs. Document - Jibz Cameron, Jake Ewert, Daniel Feinberg, Keltie Ferris, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Jacob Robichaux, Rebecca Schiffman, A.L. Steiner, and Wesley Willis. artists meeting - video display and sales.

POCKET NIKO - by Niko Solorio - With his "conceptual partner in crime", a DG- 20 Casio Digital Guitar, POCKET NIKO creates a visualist collage of sound in the shape of analog digital beats and harmonies that has been described as "Neo Medieval-Minimalist Electro Pop".