Screenings daily 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00  
Tickets available online beginning July 14

June 23rd - June 29th, 2010
Press Preview, Tuesday 6.22.10 6pm-7pm
Donors Preview, Wednesday 6.23.10 6pm-7pm
Opening, Wednesday 6.23.10 7pm-10pm
Viewing Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm

White Box
329 Broome Street, at the Bowery
New York, NY 10002 Phone: 212-714-2347
Email: info@whiteboxny.org, Web: www.whiteboxny.org
Admission: Free

(Lower East Side, NYC) The Social Art Collective is proud to present Heroin Stamp Project, an exhibition focusing on the branding of heroin in New York City. At once beautiful and unsettling, the images in the exhibit illustrate a complex narrative around public health and preventable consequences of injection drug use.

In the New York City drug trade, as in many enterprises, marketing and branding are key. Dealers distribute individual hits of heroin in glassine (a durable, translucent paper) packets, which are stamped with eye-catching insignia made up of colorful words and images. As individual branding agents, each stamp carries multiple layers of connotation. The designs tend to glorify the high ("Monster Power"), address the mortality of addiction ("Last Shot"), or draw upon pop culture references for notoriety ("Obama"). For decades, these stamps have inspired underground
brand loyalties that walk a thin line between the ultimate high and the last high; signaling a drugʼs potency, the most popular stamps often contain hits that trigger overdoses.

Collected from New York City streets over the course of the past five years, Heroin Stamp Project will present over 100 distinct stamped heroin packets. The exhibition is comprised of large-scale prints depicting these seductive, yet sinister symbols in startling detail. Blown up to monumental proportions, these images become confrontational, insinuating the complex
nature of drug use, from the market dynamics of suppliers and dealers, to the motivation and histories behind individual users. The gritty, torn glassine edge presented in each sharply rendered image imparts a visual trace of the drugʼs consumption. Each stampʼs graphic is nuanced by the confluence of highly charged words that accompany imagery or symbols assimilated from the domain of the everyday. “Game Over” borrows from the realm of the electronic videogame; “LIFE” appropriates the visual language of mainstream magazines; and “Notorious” nods to popular music. By juxtaposing the culturally familiar with the socially taboo, these loaded images trigger questions about the public policies and stigma that shape addiction and disease. Nearly 2,000 stamps arranged to represent one userʼs yearly consumption will chart a visual map of addiction on the gallery walls.

As GOOD Magazine wrote in their review of the project, “it's a fascinating look at things one doesn't otherwise get to see (which can make for great art), but the project also hopes to call attention to the public health issues surrounding drug use, and the associated health care costs that could be mitigated by things like clean-needle programs.”

Of all reported AIDS cases in the U.S. 25% have been transmitted through injection drug use. An estimated 75% of injection drug users are infected with Hepatitis C. The exhibit will leverage potent images to bring the health crisis among users to the public forum. Through this intimate, visual confrontation, a population that is often disregarded will have the opportunity to be humanized. Audiences are compelled to consider the problem of heroin addiction from a humanitarian and public health perspective often absent from public debate. Heroin Stamp Project draws its funding from community and grassroots sources. The project has been made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Significant funds were also raised through community members on the innovative startup website, Kickstarter, leveraging social networking to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.

A percentage of all proceeds from the sale of the pieces will benefit the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center (http://www.leshrc.org/), a community based not for profit committed to serving the diverse needs of the Lower East Side with tools and resources necessary to meet the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS and hepatitis c.

June 24th, 2010, 8:00 PM

A freeform meeting between two French musicians and two New York musicians spanning the spectrum between improvised and composed, noisy and tranquil, loud and soft, formal and irrational, acoustic and electronic.

In addition, Sharp will perform music from his new solo Tectonics CD "Abstraction Distraction" on the French label Autres Cordes. This is the latest installment of his continuing exploration of jungle, dub step, free jazz, and psychedelica in his Tectonics series which began in 1992 with the eponymous Tectonics and continued with Field & Stream and Errata.

Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer and central figure in the avant-garde music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Radio-Symphony of Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry, computer artist Perry Hoberman; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Sonny Sharrock, Oliver Lake, and Billy Hart; turntable innovator Christian Marclay; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka from Morocco. Sharp¹s work was featured in the 2008 New Music Stockholm festival with the premiere of ³Sidebands² and at the Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale in May 2007 with the premiere of his orchestral work ³On Corlear¹s Hook². He is now woorking on a commissioned opera for the Bavarian Opera in Munich. The documentary film about Sharp¹s work by Bert Shapiro, ³Doing The Don¹t², has just been released on DVD and screened at international film festivals.

Franck Vigroux works in the fields of electronic music, new media, composition and improvisation. He leads many bands and projects such as Push the triangle, Supersonic Riverside Blues. He has played or recorded with musicians such as Bruno Chevillon, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ducret, Ben Miller, Helene Breschand, Joey Baron, Michel Blanc, Stephane Payen,Andrea Parkins, Matthew Bourne, Edward Perraud, writer Kenji Siratori, video artists Scorpene Horrible, Philippe Fontes, Mariano Equizzi. In 2009 he won the prize Villa Medicis Hors les Murs for an artist residency in New York. Franck Vigroux is also the founder of d¹Autres Cordes a record label dedicated to aventurous music. He has played in hundreds of festivals and clubs in Europe and Asia, as a guitarist or turntablist and conducted improvisers orchestras worldwide ( Nagoya, Barcelona, Leeds,etcŠ), he has been commissioned by Ars Nova ensemble instrumental and Radio France . He also presents audiovisual installations such as Recolte and O. Recent works for theater ³septembres² by philippe malone, music for films ³the nishiazabu affair² by mariano equizzi, ³dust² 30mn, directed by franck vigroux in 2007, ³recolte² video suite, 2009, by franck vigroux.

Zeena Parkins Multi-instrumentalist, composer, improvisor, well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp she describes her harp as a ³sound machine of limitless capacity². Zeena¹s unique vision is one that seeks to both meld and highlight opposites. She has broken musical boundaries to create a highly personal and stunning body of work. Or, to quote the WDC Period ³Music that makes you hike up your britches and howl like a coyote².

Helene Breschand was born in Paris and became very fascinated by the harp at an early age. She discovered in the 1970's the full spectrum of contemporary music from serial to free-jazz and new technologies and joined the Conservatory of Paris to study harp with Brigitte Sylvestre who opened her mind to a different approach of the instrument. Shefocussed ona represention for the hinge between written music and improvisation. She performs extensively as a soloist and in the worlds of improvisation, musical theater and the plastic arts and works with composers Luciano Berio, Emmanuel Nunes, Yoshihisa Taira. Among her groups, there is the Trio Hélène Breschand with Sylvain Kassap and Didier Petit; the duet "sombre" with guitarist Jean-François Pauvros and the group LABORINTUS. Her solo CD "Le goût du sel" has received widespread acclaim.
http://www.myspace.com/helenebreschand - http://www.helenebreschand.fr/

Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, FAJE, Chamber Music of America, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, SACEM, and CulturesFrance.

Sunday, June 13, 2010
7:00 PM
www.emf.org

On Sunday, June 13, 2010 Electronic Music Foundation and White Box Gallery grant their audience a taste of summer with the tripped-up, soul-deep improvisations of Houston, TX’s David Dove and Lucas Gorham in their creation Screwed Anthologies.

Screwed Anthologies combines the sounds of electro-acoustic trombonist/improviser David Dove and lap steel guitarist/improviser Lucas Gorham with the twisted tapes of H-towns own DJ Screw. Pushing DJ Screw’s tradition of creating time-bending environments, the duo infuse their sound with Screw’s aesthetic, one that has been described by Wire Magazine as “ the perfect articulation of what life in Houston feels like, the weight of the heat, the slow-moving traffic and the omnipresent low bass hum of the city grid.”   

Opening for the duo will be the debut of Brooklyn, NY’s Volume (1), a quartet featuring electro-acoustic harpist Shelley Burgeon, turntable-ist Maria Chavez, laptop artist Stephan Moore and electro-acoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

David Dove:
Trombonist, improvisor, composer, and educator David Dove explores a range of musical styles (including classical, jazz, experimental and 6 years in the band Sprawl), and is dedicated to free improvisation, gigging and experimenting
with like-minded Houston musicians, including New Zealander Paul Winstanley and Charalambides. Dove has performed internationally collaborating with artists such as Tetuzi Akiyama, Susan Alcorn, Frédéric Blondy, Kyle Bruckmann, John Butcher, Tom Carter, Eugene Chadbourne, Cooper-Moore, Alvin Fielder, Sonia Flores, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Thomas Helton, Susie Ibarra, Annette Krebs, Joelle Leandre, Joe McPhee, Tatsuya Nakatani, Kurt Newman, Le Quan Ninh, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings,  Susie Wasserstrom, Paul Winstanley, and many others. Conceiving of a new approach for music, Dove has also created Nameless Sound, an independent, Houston-based organization that reaches over 1500 young people every year through creative music workshops in public schools, community centers, homeless shelters, and refugee communities. 

Lucas Gorham:
Lap steel guitarist/siner/song-writer Lucas Gorham is a key player in Houston, TX’s music scene.  He fronts Grandfather Child, and has spearheaded Sad Gorilla, a series of solo sets, that weave a raw, soulful web of grooves (and deconstructed grooves),
blues, boogie, drone, noise, and improvisation, sometimes done in
guerilla style public performance.  Gorham’s wide range and open spirit have made him one of the most active collaborators in Houston’s busy improvisation scene.

Shelley Burgon:
Harpist Shelley Burgon is a performer and composer currently based in New York City.  She is a member of Stars Like Fleas and the chamber ensemble Ne(x)tworks.  As a soloist Burgon ventures into the world of spatialized electro-acoustic music by processing her sound and moving it through many channels.  She ahs performed with a variety of people such as Jennifer Choi, Fred Frith, Raz Mesinai, Butch Morris, Anthony Braxton and more.

Maria Chavez:

Peruvian avant-turntablist Maria Chavez’s work is focused on short solo electro-acoustic sound pieces.  Her instrument is a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, which provide the palette.  Many of her live sound installations have been focused on the different attributes of the paradox of time and the present moment, with many influences stemming from improvisation in contemporary art.  She has traveled extensively, sharing the stage with Pauline Oliveros, Alan Licht, Phil Niblock, Otomo Yoshihide, just to name a few. Some spaces that she has performed in include the Contemporary Arts Museum in Bordeaux, France, Akademie der Kunste in Vienna and Berlin and Sonoteca in Lima, Peru. She was an artist in residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the DIA:Beacon Museum and will be a perform at the Whitney Museum this summer as part of Christian Marclay's retrospective of works. For her work she has been awarded the Jerome Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant and the Van Lier Fellowship.

Stephan Moore:
Stephan Moore is a composer, performer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Many of his performances and installation artworks make use of large, multi-channel arrays of his Hemisphere speakers. He performs regularly with Scott Smallwood in the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught college-level courses in composition, sound art and electronic music at several schools. He is currently the Sound Engineer and Music Coordinator of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and one of its core musicians.

Suzanne Thorpe:
Suzanne Thorpe is a curator, composer and performer of electronic music who enjoys revealing the peripheral consciousness, exposing coexisting perspectives and concurrent realities via composition, performance and installation. She performs and composes for acoustic and electronic instruments, extending her voice with an ever-evolving set-up of analogue and real-time software components. Her recent compositions are multi-channel works that employ psycho-acoustic phenomena, aural harmonics and tuned filtering systems, and have been featured at Issue Project Room (NYC), Diapason (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Activating the Medium Festival (San Francisco), No Idea Festival (Austin, TX), Redux Contemporary Art Studios (Charleston, SC), Pyramid Atlantic Center for the Arts (Silver Spring, MD), and other venues. As an improviser she has performed with Chris Brown, Annette Krebs, Maggie Nicols, Bhob Rainey, Pauline Oliveros, Gino Robair, Zeena Parkins, Ulrich Krieger and Miya Masaoka, among others.  Before her solo career, she was a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Mercury Rev, with whom she composed, performed, recorded, produced and toured from 1989 through 2001, earning numerous critical accolades, and a gold record for 1998's Deserters' Songs. With Mercury Rev, Thorpe found herself sharing the stage with Bob Dylan, Hole, Spiritualized, Pavement, High Llamas, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, Porno for Pyros, Hum, Cat Power, Ride, Sonic Boom, Sonic Youth, and more. She has been awarded support for her work from Meet the Composer and NYFA, and has a discography of over 20 recordings released on the Sony, V2, Beggars Banquet, Geffen, Specific Recordings and Tape Drift labels. Currently, she is performing as ½ of the duo thenumber46, who can be heard this spring in support of their recent release Bleach & Ammonia.

Monday, June 7, 2010
7:30 - 10:00 PM
Suggested Donation $20

Come witness the one-of-a-kind algorithm that takes text and converts it into a chess match! Watch as books battle it out in a live chess game with a mind-blowing result for techies and artists alike. Hear D. Graham Burnett, a co-editor of Cabinet Magazine and the mastermind behind The Algorithm, as he presents his creation. The French-singing, ukulele-playing duo, “Les Chauds Lapins” will perform as The Algorithm is projected in a beautiful wall installation.

The Algorithm will take place at the White Box art space on June 7th, from 7:30-10pm.

This event is presented by Chess in the Schools, a New York nonprofit that teaches chess and provides college prep to inner-city students. Tickets are a suggested $20 donation and all proceeds benefit Chess in the Schools.

Details for calendar listings:
Chess in the Schools Presents: THE ALGORITHM
Who: Chess in the Schools Associate Board, Street Attack
When: June 7th; 7:30-10PM
Where: White Box, 329 Broome St. (Subway: Grand St.)
How: RSVP to cwasserman@chessintheschools.org

www.chessintheschools.org
www.whiteboxny.org
www.streetattack.com
www.leschaudslapins.com

Poetry Reading and Book Party
Jeremy Sigler, Karen Weiser, John Yau

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May 1, 2010, 6:00 pm

Come and Celebrate the latest publications by:

Jeremy Sigler, Crackpot Poet (BSE/BRB, 2010)
Karen Weiser, To Light Out (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
John Yau, Exhibits (Letter Machine Editions, 2010)

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Co-curators Matt Posey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and White Box NY announce a video screening night on April 17th, 2010. Videos that are screened address sociopolitical issues including race, gender, class, and economics. The screening represents new attitudes toward social interaction and encompasses numerous styles, including performance, appropriation, and documentary, to examine the individual’s role in a group.

Image Credit: DNA People, Ouroboros,
Ali Hossaini & SWEATSHOPPE, 2010

March 18, 2010, 8 pm – 4 am

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See us at Scope Art Fair!

March 3 - March 7



Lincoln Center Damrosch Park
62nd Street and Amsterdam (10th Avenue)
New York, New York 10023

White Box at Scope For more information email: administration@whiteboxny.org or call 212-714-2347

Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:30pm - $15

Marco Cappelli - solo guitar
Cappelli combines in this program two classics of the contemporary music repertoire for classical guitar (Henze, Ginastera) with a selection of pieces that he commissioned from New York "Downtown "composers for his critically-acclaimed "Extreme Guitar Project" and released as a CD on Mode Records.

Elliott Sharp & Andrea Centazzo - guitar and percussion duo
Two masters of improvisation meet on stage for the first time for a set of wide-ranging sonics and rhythmic extremes.

Marco Cappelli:
A classically-trained Neapolitan virtuoso, Cappelli is now a New Yorker who has delved into a fascinating array of collaborations (Anthony Coleman, Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Mauro Pagani, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico Rava, Marc Ribot, Adam Rudolph, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen, Cristina Zavalloni and more) and is invited regularly as guest in important classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque passi nel ¹900 al Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale...) as well in jazz and avantgarde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival - Austria, Pomigliano Jazz - Italy, Grim in Marseille - France, Barnsdall Theatre in Los Angeles, OutPut Festival in Amsterdam) both as a soloist and in ensemble settings.

Andrea Centazzo:
An Italian-born American percussionist and composer, in more than 30 years' career, Centazzo has crossed music genres and artistic expression forms, starting as jazz percussionist and improviser to become later a contemporary composer, a visual artist, a film and theater director and a multimedia artist. His discography includes over 150 LPs, CDs, and DVDs, almost all recorded for ICTUS RECORDS, his own label, founded in 1976 and still active after its 2006 rebirth in California. He has performed and recorded with Don Cherry, Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, Enrico Rava, Tom Cora, Theo Jörgensmann, Alvin Curran, Lol Coxhill, and others. Most of those musicians were involved in his Mitteleuropa Orchestra, a seminal 16-piece big band active between 1980 and 1983 in Europe. His most famous opera, TINA (1996), was inspired by the life and art of Tina Modotti. Two more operas followed, Memento in 2000 and Simultas in 2001.

Elliott Sharp:
Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer and central figure in the avant-garde music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators include Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Radio-Symphony of Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry, computer artist Perry Hoberman; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Sonny Sharrock, Arthur Blythe, Oliver Lake, and Billy Hart; turntable innovator Christian Marclay; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka from Morocco. Sharp's work was featured in the 2008 New Music Stockholm festival with the premiere of "Sidebands" and at the Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale in May 2007 with the premiere of his orchestral work "On Corlear's Hook". The documentary film about Sharp's work by Bert Shapiro, "Doing The Don't", has just been released on DVD and screened at international film festivals.

February 17th, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Fall/Winter 2010 Collection
Accessories by Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons
Photography Exhibition by: Mark Borthwick, Colin Snapp and Lily Ferguson

09 War Series
Biliana K Voden Aboutaam

Curated by Dr. Danielle Junod - Sugnaux

in collaboration with Galerie d'Art Junod - Nyon, Switzerland

February 12 - March 7, 2010

Generational Inmixing

Moderated by Jarrett Gregory
Panelists: Dineo Bopape, Christopher Reitz

Tuesday January 12 at 7PM

In conjunction with Hans Breder’s exhibition INMIXING: A Survey of Works from 1964 – Present, currently on view at White Box, a group of emerging artists, curators, and scholars will discuss Intermedia and Breder’s oeuvre as it relates to the shifting definitions of contemporary art today and into the future. The conversation will touch upon the state of performance, video, installation, and other mediums; graduate programs in the fine arts; as well as how curatorial practice can evolve to better meet the needs of both artwork and artist.

Corpus: What in Writing is Not to be Read

Moderated by Jarrett Gregory

Sunday January 17 at 7PM

Intermedia Event performed in collaboration with Herman Rapaport, Elliott Sharp, and Hans Breder.

Hai Scoperto L'America

Screening January 19, 7 pm

9 short videos realized by renowned New York artists.


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