Sunday 7th March 2010

12.30 - 13.30

CPR / Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1
Brooklyn, NY 11211

19.30 - 20.30

DEPO / Tütün Deposu (19.30-20.30)
Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No.12
Tophane 34425 İstanbul

Cabaret Muse Me 7th MARCH 2010
 
Cabaret Muse Me,  invites you Skating through Dimensions ……..on the 7th of March 2010, 12.30-13.30pm (NY) 19.30 - 20.30 pm(Istanbul)
 
THE STORY
 
Cabaret Muse Me recounts a story of love and sharing above the clouds, and psychic connectivity beyond time and space, looking for fresher ways of being : SHARING

The story follows a crash, a time of crises, and a rexamining of notions - to see that we are all one - and as one, to come out from the dark and act  - for each one of us ( muse me ) affects / inspires another in micro activity to change macro destiny …
 
Written in the fall of 2008, cabaret muse me examines crises as personal and communal, economical and ecological, and it’s onset as as an advocation of examining new measures / methods of being ..
 
Sharing of food becomes the main ingredient, as the onset of the recession in Europe and the US in the fall of 2008, reminded that there was more to interaction then expression alone, and the performance is scheduled for a lunch time performance in the US in order to be able to invite homeless / people in need of food to the performance,
as well as the integration of art in daily life ( ART FOR LUNCH ! )
 
Internet was chosen as a means of production, enabling collaboration with people all over the world, without utilizing aeroplanes, saving the skies, the eco-system, and producing a large performance in times of recession.
 
PRODUCTION - ” CABARET MUSE ME - HIDING IN THE DARK / episode 2 ”
 
Cabaret Muse Me is a simulcast contempo cabaret, broadcast thru the web and created and performed in 3    spaces, in Istanbul & New York & WWW. “Hiding in the Dark” is the second of 7 episodes, each performed consecutively, in the end to be performed as a single matinee in 2010/2011.
 
A dance takes place in an embryonic loci, at CPR, Center for Performance Research, from where it is broadcast via internet to SPLATTERPOOL in NY and DEPO in IST, interacting with visuals and music on the way. A dinner is served, and the audience are the performers ..
 
Video and Photography of the process of the performances will be documented for a future exhibition.
 
THE PERFORMANCE / LAYERS
 
The audiences interact by sharing the same food, and visions and music ..
 
Two characters counteract, a 1930’s cabaret charater, versus a surreal contemporary connectivity character.
 
Cabaret Muse Me tackles subjects of space & time, and the reordering of notions of private/public
with a call for transparency and immediacy .. as veils begin to rise …
 
When technology begins to mirror our psyche’s …
 
An increased connectivity mirroring psychic connectivity in the public realm, is creating a dichotomy of views
- the parallel existances of “magic” and “transparency”.
 
CABARET muse me ADVOCATES  a peaceful acceptance of information technology as a world of sharing without veils, and the parallel existance of magic and transparency …. inviting you to come and dine, share food, music, visions and song ..
 
PROGRAM
 
Overture / “Crash”
Recital “Tree of Heaven”
Theme 1 “Hiding in the Dark”
Theme 2 “Supermarket Song”
Ornamentation of  Theme 1 “Hiding in the Dark” …
 
TIME/SPACE ( X,Y) in New York and Istanbul
 
New York
13.oo - 13.30

CPR  ( broadcast loci )
/ Center for Performance Research ( Broadcast Loci )
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1

Brooklyn, NY 11211
 
Splatterpool   ( broadcast loci, installation, food performance )
/
138 Bayard Street, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222

Istanbul
20.00 - 20.30 
 
DEPO  ( installation, broadcast, food, performance )
/Tütün Deposu Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No.12
Tophane 34425 İstanbul
 
 
Text and Performance : Gul Kozacioglu
Installation : Kelly Armendariz
 

CABARET MUSE ME is a CELEBRATION collaboration

DEVELOPED & PRODUCED with the kind support of
 
Center for Performance Research
DEPO
PTT FILM
 
http://www.cprnyc.org/
http://www.depoistanbul.net
http://www.pttfilms.com/
 
AND COLLABORATORS ..
 
Good Iron & Lucca ( FOOD )
Balina ( WEB )
Splatterpool ( SPACE / INSTALLATION )

more about the characters : (more…)

“ inspiration wind blew thru my window, setting alight bed in flames and feathers of hygge galore ! ........................................awoke, singing  ‘F.i.r.e.i.n.c.a.i.r.o’ …..”

Each of these prints, a wind encapsulated, catching inspiration, spirits…

Asking who creates, the artist or the spirit of the wind that blows,

Asking does Creativity come from within, belong to the artist … or from a  spirit which inspires.

Are we not all but vessels to life, that passes through, in whirlwinds of choice …

Each of these prints a wind, and ingredients blown within the whirlwind, which we combine/arrange/order …

Hudson Winds ( 30 x 40 ) cm digital print, 3 editions + 1

song 1: Hurricane, Bob Dylan

song 2. Winds of the Old Days, Joan Baez

song 3. Imagine, John Lennon

Istanbul Winds (21 x 29)cm, digital prints, 3 editions + 1

song 3 : Comfort of Strangers, Angelo Bandalementi

song 4 : Beautiful Boyz, Anthony and the Johnsons

North Sea Winds (21 x 29)cm, digital prints, 3 editions + 1

song 5 : f.i.r.e.i.n.c.a.i.r.o, the cure

song 6 : Alas, Caspar David

Interzone Winds ( 21 x 29 )cm digital prints, 3 + 1 editions

song 7. all of my love, led zepplin

Interzone Winds (30 x 40)cm digital prints, 3 + 1 editions¨

Complete List of  Prints from ‘ F.i.r.e.i.n.c.a.i.r.o ‘

1.Cracked Coocoon ( 21 x 29 ) cm

2.East Village Flight ( 20 x 70 )cm

3.Wings Left Behind ( 20 x70 )cm

4.Hudson Winds ( 30 x 40 )cm

5.Hudson Winds 2 ( 21 x 29 ) cm

6.Istanbul Winds ( 21 x 29 ) cm

7.Istanbul Winds 2 ( 21 x 29 ) cm

8.Interzone Self Portrait ( 21 x 29 ) cm

9.Interzone Winds ( 30 x 40 ) cm

10.Interzone Winds ( 21 x 29 ) cm

11.Interzone Winds (30 x 40 ) cm

12.Kalos Winds 1(21 x 29 ) cm

13.Kalos Winds 2(30x 40)cm

14.North Sea Winds (21×29)cm

15. North Sea Winds ( 21 x 29 ) cm

15.Hudson Winds 3 ( 30 x 40)cm

16. Copenhagen Winds 1 ( 21 x 29 ) cm

17. Copenhagen Winds 2 ( 21 x 29)cm

18. September Winds 1 ( 30 x 40 ) cm

19. September Winds 2 (30 x 40 ) cm

20.Winds ( 30 x 40 ) cm

21.WindsStill (30 x 40)cm

22.Wings Escaping 1( 30 x40)cm

23.Wings Escaping 3 (21 x 29) cm

To view / order prints visit Atelier Elipsis in Cukurcuma ..

F.ir.e.i.n.c.a.i.r.o text continues …

Who is the creator, the artist of the daemon, or the eye of the beholder, the experiences of the past with which we give shape to, interpret the Now ?

Take forth these prints as your own, where within each is encapsulated a wind of inspiration, the shape and order to come, yours …

In November 2009 Winds of Istanbul, the North Sea and the Hudson blew though my window, as a butterfly flapped it’s wings ın the East Village and I found myself in Istanbul again.

and  here I Subtract the artist :

Asking - ‘ Who is it that creates .. the inspiration, the order-er,or the perceiver ?’

note : like rorshach tests, these prints are ingredients blown and encapsulated of winds, each to u to interpret, accompanied simply by the smell of a wind and a melody.

Nb: daemons = spirits or guardian deities transferring knowledge of human things to gods and divine truths to humans.

See : Plato’s Symposium, as Diotema speaks of the Definition of Love :

   “What then is Love?” I asked; “Is he mortal?” “No.” “What then?” “Asin the former instance, he is neither mortal nor immortal, but ina mean between the two.” “What is he, Diotima?” “He is a great spirit(daimon), and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divineand the mortal.” “And what,” I said, “is his power?” “He interprets,”she replied, “between gods and men, conveying and taking across tothe gods the prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commandsand replies of the gods; he is the mediator who spans the chasm whichdivides them, (more…)