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Project:
65 MPH
"Exilerated Voyages into the
DETOURS
of Pure Chance"
Dates : Completed in MAY
Real Audio: You can now listen to an excerpt from ^65 MPH
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HERE FOR AN EXCERPT FROM 65MPH
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Location:
SOUTHFIRST (Williamsburg/Brooklyn)
Thank You to Florian and Mika.
Thanks to Earwax Records for their help with ticket sales. And this
project could not have happened without the help of many friends and
supporters especially Jacob. Thanks!
If
you miss e-Xplo or want to leave a message, e-mail us at bomb@e-xplo.org
Description
of 65 MPH Project:
Continuing
the physiographic narrative e-Xplo initiated with DENCITY,
65 MPH re-orients the "tourist" with a new vocabulary for the city structured
through the highwayâs imperative for speed and distance.
Mobility has become one of the critical questions of contemporary life.
Highway traffic and data networks are facilitating a continous flow
of persons and information. Such a transfer is supposed to take place
in ever shorter intervals inspite of an imminent traffic collapse.
Major construction projects, such as gigantic traffic interchanges,
are supposed to redefine the structure of our cities and our lives.
Underneath the face of these requirements, a desire is rushing along,
manisfesting itself intermittently, and creating alternative routes
ripe for exploration.
ABOUT THE BUS TOUR
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS OF THE TOUR
CONTACTING e-Xplo
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What
is the 65
MPH
bus
tour?
65 MPH is a live performance of electro-acoustic music/sound on a nightly
bus tour through New York's highways.
Rather than guide you through these spaces as a standard tour would,
your "tour guides" will navigate you through these spaces with sound
that is generated on the bus and sounds that have been collected from
the route. Your audio "tour guides" will be Heimo Lattner and Erin McGonigle.
They, along with Rene Gabri, will navigate you through the detours of
pure chance.
65 MPH can be seen as a point of entry into the highways and bridges
enfolding and connecting the city and its inhabitants. The artists involved
create a "public" project and a "social" space that provokes the "tourist"
or traveler to think about departures, arrivals, and the very networks
being constructed to order and connect our lives.
They also create a context in which the very act of "touring" is both
an answer and a question. Sound, time, architecture, landscape and this
tour bus are the forms that will open up these lanes of exploration.
65 MPH is presented by: e-Xplo
Who is e-Xplo?
click here to find out more about e-Xplo
Heimo Lattner, Visual and sound artist. A notorious protagonist of minimal
electronic music. His installations and performances have been presented
at: ICA, London; PS1, New York; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lyon; The
New York Kunsthalle, (selection) Radioworks for: WFMU, WKCR, Kunstradio/Vienna,
Radio Orange/Vienna, Radio Tilos Budapest, Radio Nova, Paris.
Erin McGonigle, Environmental and sound artist, Uses the process of
receiving the urban environment as an extension of social production,
formally known as Alien Action. Her solo and collaborative works have
been presentedat: Abandoned industrial spaces, NY; Kunstraum Goethestrasse,
Austria; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Lugar Commun, Portugual; Tanz
Fabric, Germany
Rene Gabri, Visual artist. Whitney Independent Study Program Alum and
Co-Founder of 16 Beaver. His work has been screened, exhibited, and
taken place in a variety of spaces and locations both in the US and
abroad.
Who can we contact if we have
further questions about the project?
We encourage those interested in the finding out more information about
the project to contact us by:
phone: 718.218.6425
or
e-mail: bomb@e-xplo.org.
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