2001-02 Past Performances

Thursday 01/10/02
Sink or Swim
The January presentation of Sink or Swim (S.O.S.), a monthly series produced by BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture at BRIC Studio, features "Ten Poems by Brecht", a creative collaboration and presentation by NaCI Theatre's Tannis Kowalchuk and Strike Anywhere's Leese Walker; Bharata Natyam dancer Sudha Seetharaman and video artist Anand Kamalakar of Trilok Fusion will perform Hope; and choreographer and puppetry artist Christopher Earle Williams. Special guest, "bassist laureate" Neill C. Furio, will delight audiences with songs and stories between each performance. Produced and curated for BRIC by Michelle Moskowitz. S.O.S. performances take place on the second Thursday of every month.

Thursday 01/17/02
Red Clay Practicum: presents Reverb
There are only two installments remaining of the Red Clay Arts In Studio Series, Practicum, and both events promise to provide the unique and substantive entertainment for which the series has become known. Curated by Charles H. Nelson and Kevin Sipp, Reverb is a sampling of artists and work from a proposed larger exhibit that will focus on the overlapping of contemporary visual arts practices and DJ Culture. The exhibition will consist of various installations in a variety of media including video, sound sculpture and paint. Contributing artists Jason Forrest, James Dawson Hollis, Roy LaGrone, Charles H. Nelson, Kevin Sipp, and John Daniel Walsh will display their creatively diverse artistic visions in creating a host of three-dimensional projects, such as a "Sound Lounge" with which performers as well as patrons can interact. Evolving technology and timeless expression blend in this feast for the aesthetic senses.

Thursday 01/24/02
No BRIC Studio Event
There will be no BRIC Studio event on Thursday, January 24. The next open-to-the-public BRIC Studio event is scheduled for Thursday, February 7. See below for details.

Thursday 01/31/02
Closed for MLK Day Private Event
BRIC Studio will be closed to the public to accomodate a private rental in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Day. See you next week!

For information about BRIC Studio rental please contact Michelle Moskowitz at mmoskowitz@brooklynx.org.

Thursday 02/07/02
Possible Fireworks
Premiere of a new music series, curated by Janine Nichols. Performance features saxophonist Roy Nathanson, formerly of the Jazz Passengers, jamming for the first time with invited guests Charles Gayle (sax), Myra Melford (harmonium) and Ikue Mori (drum machine/sampler.)

Thursday 02/14/02
BRIC: Sink or Swim (S.O.S.)
Curated by Michelle Moskowitz
Eclectic Valentine’s Day special features bassist-storyteller Neill C. Furio performing Valentitis, Tiny Ninja Theatre’s Shakespeare Sonnets, choreographer Penny McCorty performing Love Songs, and trapeze artist Elise Knudson’s Nest.

Thursday 02/21/02, 7:30pm
Red Clay Practicum: Cat Calls
The first installment of the Cat Call exhibition, this multimedia installation replicates the affect of the male sport of cat calling and its effect on women.

Thursday 02/28/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Presents: Words
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Interpreter of Maladies will read new work. Samantha Gillison, author of the critically-lauded novel The Undiscovered Country, will read from her latest novel, The King of America. Curated by Nelly Reifler.

Wednesday 03/06/02, 7pm
Contemporary Architecture In the Urban Environment:
Research and Practice
STEPHEN CASSELL
Stephen Cassell co-founded Architecture Research Office (ARO) with Adam Yarinsky under the guiding principles of inquiry and experimentation. The team redesigned the US Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square. Weaving together context and content, they ingeniously transformed this particularly difficult site. The small and distinct building is able to hold its own amidst the competing and attention grabbing structures in this intensely visual urban environment. ARO’s work has been widely published and has received awards from the American Institute of architects, the Architectural League of New York, the New York City Arts Commission and the I.D. Annual Design Review.

For complete information on the Contemporary Architecture In the Urban Environment lecture series click here.

Thursday 03/07/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio Presents: Possible Fireworks
Featuring Steven Bernstein (of Sex Mob) on slide trumpet, with his invited guests Scott Colley (acoustic bass), Melvin Gibbs (electric bass), Susie Ibarra (drums) and Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto sax), for a first-time, one night only no-rehearsal gig. Curated by Janine Nichols.

Thursday 03/14/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio Presents: Sink Or Swim (S.O.S.)
This month's post-modern variety show will feature choreographer/filmmaker Andrea E. Woods, playwright Jen Boutell, choreographer Baraka de Soleil, and special guest, performance artist Deke Weaver. Produced and Curated by Michelle Moskowitz.

Thursday 03/21/02, 7:30pm
Red Clay Practicum: exittheapple
Keeping the 'fun' in profundity, exittheapple productions presents works-in-progress from the past six months including film, dance workshop/body warmup, music, games and the infamous "i am chair".

Tuesday 03/26/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio Presents: Words
Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Rails Under My Back (FSG, 1999), will read from his novel-in-progress Hour of the Seeds and his forthcoming story collection Radar Country. Albert Mobilio, author of The Geographics (Hard Press, 1996) and the forthcoming Me, With Animal Towering (Four Walls Eight Windows), will read poems.
Guest host: James Gibbons.
Series curator: Nelly Reifler

Wednesday 04/03/02, 4:00 - 7:30pm
Imagine New York
What have we lost as a result of September 11? How have we changed? What should happen on the World Trade Center site and throughout the region to move forward from September 11th?

The Municipal Art Society of New York and a network of partners, including BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, are holding a series of public "visioning" workshops, beginning the week of March 11 and culminating during the weekend of April 13 - 14. People in neighborhoods and towns throughout the region will come together to voice their opinions, ideas, concerns and visions for the future after the World Trade Center tragedy. The success of Imagine New York depends upon involving as many individuals as possible, and ensuring that their ideas and voices are heard.

Thursday 04/04/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio presents Possible Fireworks
Bass player Greg Cohen performs with his invited guests, Mark Stewart (guitar) and Joe Daley (baritone sax, trombone), for a first-time, one-night-only, no-rehearsal gig. Curated by Janine Nichols.

Thursday 04/11/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio presents Sink or Swim (S.O.S.)
This month’s post-modern variety show will feature Twirl by choreographer Dixie FunLee Shulman; The Mysterious Disappearance of Lawrence Castle by toy-theater artist Toni Schlesinger; improvisational theater and dance by Leese Walker; and special guest poet, Everton Sylvester. Curated by Michelle Moskowitz.

Thursday 04/18/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio and the Brooklyn International Film Festival present Film Shorts
This evening of short works will showcase the best of the past five years of the Brooklyn International Film Festival (formerly the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival.)

Thursday 04/25/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio presents Words: Short-Short Story Frenzy
Emerging and established writers, whose work runs the gamut from wild poetics to stark minimalism, come together with one common goal: to read stories a page (or less) in length. Curated by Nelly Reifler.

Thursday 05/02/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio presents Possible Fireworks
No tuba player has come closer to becoming a household name than Howard Johnson, who's played with Charles Mingus, John Lennon, The Band, and Art Blakely. In 1966, he started a 20-year off-and-on association with Gil Evans that lasted until Evans’ death. From 1975 to 1979, Johnson was a member of the first Saturday Night Live band, which he directed in 1980. In the late '70s, he formed the jazz tuba ensemble, Gravity, with whom he still performs. Curated by Janine Nichols.

Thursday 05/09/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio presents Sink or Swim (S.O.S.)
This month’s post-modern variety show will feature choreography by Jennifer Allen, a new theater work by Deke Weaver and Michael Farkas, songs by Jessica Eubanks, and special guests throat singer Akim Funk Buddha and tap dancer Chikako Cat Dragon.

Thursday 05/23/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio presents Words
Acclaimed author Mary Morris, whose books include House Arrest and Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone is joined by her husband, Larry O'Connor, author of the newly-published memoir Tip of the Iceberg. Curated by Nelly Reifler.

Thursday 05/30/02, 7:30pm
BRIC Studio and IGH Multimedia present:
Reel Alternative Film Salon
BRIC Studio is pleased to be one of the screening venues for the Fort Greene-based festival, REEL ALTERNATIVE FILM SALLON. The evening's program will feature a retrospective of one of the hottest cinematographers on the indie circuit today: Cliff Charles (aka The People's DP). He's the eye behind the lens on feature movies like Thirty Years to Life and Love Goggles. His shorts credits include Big Bank, Take Little Bank and Groupie by Mad Matthewz (another Salon Filmmaker). Shorts, music videos and excerpts of Cliff's critically acclaimed films will be featured. Q & A to follow.