LAETITIA SONAMI & SUE COSTABILE at Roulette: 8:30 pm

April 17, 2007

Type: event
Starts: Apr 19 2007 at 12:00AM
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ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

contact: [email protected] http://www.roulette.org/

Thursday, April 19th

Laetitia Sonami & Sue Costabile: "I. C. You"

Laetitia Sonami (live electronics) & Sue Costabile (live video) present "I. C. You", a live film shot & scored from two suitcases, a bowl of water & a piece of ice. Based on a script by NY poet Tom Sleigh, "I. C. You" follows the road-based travels of a truck driver delivering ice for the Universe Company. His job is to keep America cold. Sonami and Costabile open windows into his existence through photographs, drawings, videos, shadow theater and miniature lighting rigs. Also on the program is Sonami's "Invention of Perspective (the Appearance of Silence)", performed with her 'lady's glove' and Costabile on live video.

Sonami is an electronic composer, performer and sound installation artist. Her performance work combines text, music and "found sound" in compositions that have been called "performance novels". Her interactive installations focus on embedding every day objects with kinetic and sonic personalities. She performs with her lady's glove, a unique instrument embedded with sensors to track her body’s motion, turning hand movement into sound. She creates a truly original, intimate, spontaneous art form, transcending the technology with which it’s made. She performs worldwide and is based in Oakland, CA. (http://www.sonami.net/)

Sue Costabile aka SUE.C is a visual and performing artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation "instrument", Costabile synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, hand-made papers, fabrics and miniature interactive lighting effects. Dark, moody, textural, and physical, her live films inherit equally from the kinetic languages of Stan Brakhage's abstract cinema and Nicolas Schoffer's lumodynamic sculptures. (http://www.sue-c.net/)