Black Cinema House
Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Dorchester Art+Housing Collaborative run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation. Kelly and I are both enamored of collective living spaces. Visiting the apartments on Chicago's South Side, the building site of the future connected arts center, and the Black Cinema House was a delightful afternoon of beautiful renovation, social investment, and inspirational conversations. The work Rebuild is doing in the MidWest is a profound inspiration to me as EbM and RIME move forward. They have partnered with the Chicago Housing Authority to re-imagine an empty residential project as mixed-income housing focused around a community arts center. They are fostering a number of cultural institutions in concert with this collective housing experiment: The Black Cinema House; The Listening House; The Archive House. Each is an important institution on its own. The strength and breadth of the vision Rebuild brings to a place is phenomenal. Rebuild and DAHC, they don't know this yet, are two of the local Chicago organizations I hope to get involved in RIME in 02016.
Speaking of which, in two weeks, on November 16, (and again on December 7) I will be going back down to the Black Cinema House for Kinosonik.
"In collaboration with Chicago Film Archives and Experimental Sound Studio, Rebuild Foundation’s Black Cinema House presents KINOSONIK, a pilot project of live music/sound performances with cinema. Two pairs of collaborating sound/music artists, selected by ESS, will each spend 4 to 6 weeks studying and working with several short films selected from CFA’s extensive vault. The artist pairs — Tomeka Reid & Olivia Block and Marvin Tate & Joseph Clayton Mills — have been selected because of their substantive and exemplary artistic accomplishments to date, their commitment to risk-taking exploratory approaches to sound and music, their long-standing experience in collaboration, and their interest in integrating their various sonic approaches with moving image.
Structured as two mini-residencies, the pilot program results in two live performances by each pair, one at BCH and one at ESS. For audiences, it promises to be a rare and deeply engaging experience of live sound with cinema, given the unique and sophisticated talents of the artists, and their commitment to rigorous improvisational and compositional approaches."
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Black Cinema House
Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Dorchester Art+Housing Collaborative run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation. Kelly and I are both enamored of collective living spaces. Visiting the apartments on Chicago's South Side, the building site of the future connected arts center, and the Black Cinema House was a delightful afternoon of beautiful renovation, social investment, and inspirational conversations. The work Rebuild is doing in the MidWest is a profound inspiration to me as EbM and RIME move forward. They have partnered with the Chicago Housing Authority to re-imagine an empty residential project as mixed-income housing focused around a community arts center. They are fostering a number of cultural institutions in concert with this collective housing experiment: The Black Cinema House; The Listening House; The Archive House. Each is an important institution on its own. The strength and breadth of the vision Rebuild brings to a place is phenomenal. Rebuild and DAHC, they don't know this yet, are two of the local Chicago organizations I hope to get involved in RIME in 02016.
Speaking of which, in two weeks, on November 16, (and again on December 7) I will be going back down to the Black Cinema House for Kinosonik.
"In collaboration with Chicago Film Archives and Experimental Sound Studio, Rebuild Foundation’s Black Cinema House presents KINOSONIK, a pilot project of live music/sound performances with cinema. Two pairs of collaborating sound/music artists, selected by ESS, will each spend 4 to 6 weeks studying and working with several short films selected from CFA’s extensive vault. The artist pairs — Tomeka Reid & Olivia Block and Marvin Tate & Joseph Clayton Mills — have been selected because of their substantive and exemplary artistic accomplishments to date, their commitment to risk-taking exploratory approaches to sound and music, their long-standing experience in collaboration, and their interest in integrating their various sonic approaches with moving image.
Structured as two mini-residencies, the pilot program results in two live performances by each pair, one at BCH and one at ESS. For audiences, it promises to be a rare and deeply engaging experience of live sound with cinema, given the unique and sophisticated talents of the artists, and their commitment to rigorous improvisational and compositional approaches."
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