Sleep from the beginning: Warhol 1963. & Today NY/Paris

...five-and-a-half-hour-film-Sleep...dorme-neném-enquanto-a-língua-inglesa-vem...
Pierre Huyghe
Sleeptalking, 1998
Video projection with sound
Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris
EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center)

Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center presents Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep

Festival de três dias

sobre a arte e a ciência de dormir

EMPAC HOSTS SLOW WAVE, A THREE-DAY FESTIVAL ON THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SLEEP

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On Friday September 25 through Sunday September 27, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center will present Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep, a festival of installations, films, music, and scientific exhibit devoted to the enduring enigma of sleep. Over three days, visitors will have a chance to view installations by Jennifer Hall, Allan Hobson, Rodney Graham, Fernando Orellana & Brendan Burns, Ana Rewakowicz and Andy Warhol; attend a performance of Alvin Lucier's Music for a Solo Performer, and revisit milestones in science. Slow Wave will examine the particular techniques through which sleep is understood, and will serve as a meeting ground for empirical and poetic modes of knowledge, where recordings of brain waves function as drawings and works of art double as experiments. Curated by Emily Zimmerman.

The installations are free to view. Space for the sleepover in Studio 2 on Saturday September 26 is limited; please reserve your ticket in advance by emailing John Cook, EMPAC Box Office Manager (cookj4@rpi.edu). Parking for this event is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website, http://www.empac.rpi.edu

SCHEDULE FOR EXHIBITION
Friday September 25: 5 to 7 pm
Saturday September 26: noon to midnight
Sunday September 27: 11 am to 2 pm

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday September 25, 2009
5 – 7 pm: Opening for the exhibition
Saturday, September 26 2009
6 pm - midnight: Lullabies from all around all around you
Concert Hall
Sit in the concert hall and listen to lullabies from all over the world played simultaneously from many directions.
6:30 pm: Portraying the Body in Sleep
Mezzanine
A workshop on reading polysomnograms, the primary means used by sleep labs to depict the changes that take place in the body during sleep.
8 pm + 9 pm: Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer
Concert Hall
Lucier's piece uses the brain waves of a seated, still performer to create spatial percussion music of resonances, rattles, and crashes. A rarely produced, radical composition from the 1960s with special guest performers from the Rensselaer community.
10 pm: Waking Life (Directed by Richard Linklater, 2001)
Theater
Taking its title from George Santayana's statement that, "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled," Waking Life follows a young man through a series of philosophical conversations that take place while he is caught in a lucid dream.
10:30 pm: Sleepover under Warhol's Sleep (1963)
Studio 2
Bring a sleeping bag and pillow and sleepover in Studio 2 under a projection of Warhol's marathon five-and-a-half hour film, Sleep. Prior to the sleepover, a selection of teas for sleeping will be served. Space is limited; please reserve your ticket in advance.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
9 am: Coffee and tour of the exhibition, followed by brunch and discussion (for participants of the sleepover)
Evelyn's Cafe

List of Works in the Exhibition

Jennifer Hall, Epileptiforms: 5 Rem, 1999
Consciousness as a Property of Matter Series
Rapid Prototyping Polymer Resin
Sterling Silver 12'x12'x'1.5"
Permanent Collection Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park

J. Allan Hobson, Hidden Landscapes, The Time-Lapse Sleep Photography of Ted Spagna, 2009. DVD Courtesy of the artist

Pierre Huyghe, Sleeptalking 1998
Video projection, 16mm transferred on video (3 min.) sound recording (60 min.)
Courtesy of Marianne Goodman Gallery

Rodney Graham, Halcion Sleep, 1994
Single channel video with sound
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund

Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Sleep Waking, 2008
Wood, aluminum, electronics, servo motors, Plexiglas
2'x2'x7' Courtesy of the artist

Ana Rewakowicz, A Modern-day Nomad Who Moves as She Pleases, 2005
Inflatable object (vinyl, nylon, mattress, blower) and video projection (speakers, video loop)
152 cm (diameter), 457 cm (length)
24 minutes 15 seconds Courtesy of the artist

Andy Warhol, Sleep, 1963
16mm film transferred to digital files (DVD)
Black and white, silent, 5 hours 21 minutes at 16 frames per second
Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

About EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a "technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before." Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage. EMPAC's building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.

About Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation's oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the social sciences and humanities. For over thirty years, the Institute has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and Ph.D. programs in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer offers Bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts, and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication – one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major research platforms that Rensselaer has established at the beginning of the 21st century.