THE RENO FOLLIES
Comedic prvocateur, RENO
hosts and performs a groovy lineup
June 17 - 21
NONVIOLENT EXECUTIONS
written and performed by
Obie Award winner
Steve Ben Israel
June 26 - 29
EXCAVATION
Performance Event
Naoki Iwakawa - Action Painting
Carlo Altomare - Open Piano
April 3 and 10
See Slide Show of April 10
LIFE ON THE DIAGONAL
Written and Performed by
Barbara Colacello
April 24, 25, 26
APPEARANCE
A Suspense In Being
Theaterlab Ensemble
May 6 – 17
CAMERA OBSCURA
Installation and Performance
Orietta Crispino, Vibeke Jensen
Coming this Fall 2008
Tickets through SMARTTIX
212-868-4444
or Theaterlab Box Office
212-929-2545
Theaterlab
137 W 14th Street
New York City
Rehearsal Studio Rental info HERE
EXCAVATION
Action Painting Performance Event with
Naoki Iwakawa - action painting
Carlo Altomare - open piano
and special guest (April 10 only) Terrence Kelleman - body art
April 3 and 10 8 PM $10 Reception follows
Excavation is Naoki Iwakawa's current action painting performance project. A single large canvas is painted in a series of 13 sessions creating layers of hidden paintings. Altomare accompanies each session and Eckhardt records and simultaneously projects video from the previous sessions on the canvas. The object is to create a kind of archeological art object which contains in a single canvas the buried evidence of the series of painting performance events. These sessions began privately and will now open out into public performances. When the series is finished the canvas will be presented in an installation with documentation (slides, video projections, audio, various objects) which offer evidence of the process at different stages. These performances are the first public sessions of Excavation and represent about midpoint of the 13 sessions
Art is everywhere. But what is the creative process for the artist? How does an artist know when a painting is finished? Or if a single stroke is right? Where does it come from? What is the impulse to paint and what does the artist find out from the actual doing? What is this Doing? Naoki Iwakawa, co-fonder of The Cave in Williamsburg, carries us into a world of such questions. His paintings are records of this process of surrender and discovery.
His action painting events are always very physically dynamic throwing himself at moments on the canvas or splashing paints from shallow bowls, or else blowing pigments from the palm of his hand. These performances are always done in collaboration with musicians who provide a barrage of dynamic musical fields. The result is both meditative and kinetic, a kind of crisis Zen.
Composer/pianist, Carlo Altomare
joins Naoki Iwakawa on open piano
drawing a remarkable range of sounds
from his instrument using mallets,
sticks, and various tools.
Photos: Matt Williams