"Live in the Limo" Armory Show Special VIP Event

The AC [Institute Direct Chapel]’s unmistakable white limousine is being hosted by 3 very innovative musical artists with an array of special guest co-Hosts.

Sawako, Joseph F. Di Ponio and Benjamin Lanz will collaborate and interact with other artists, musicians, performers, poets and you. All of these characters collide during this special moment in art in our movable white salon, toasting champagne as it provides us a temporary residence. Previous projects have included: "Critical Conversations in a Limo," "Sound Art Limo" and “Flatland Limo.” As part of the 2009 Armory Show, "Live in the Limo", will run from 3-6pm on March 6th, 7th, and 8th, making half-hour journeys (6 time slots available per day), to and from the entrance of Pier 92, upper level. Please E-mail [email protected] to reserve a seat and time as space is very limited.

Tokyo/Brooklyn-based Sawako, a sound sculptor, a composer/improviser, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist performs an improvised work drawing on the specificities of this peculiar, yet familiar space in motion.

New York City-based composer Joseph F. Di Ponio has created a work specifically for the limousine that will engage with the social and aesthetic relationships between composer, performer, audience and venue.

Trombonist/multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Lanz, working with various mutations of his instruments, improvises a series of miniature compositions that draw on our limo as a dynamic, yet at times contradictory, organism.

Our special guest co-Hosts traverse artistic boundaries and disciplines and include: Rainer Ganahl, Martin Gantman, Elizabeth Gower, Richard Kostelanetz, Taras Polataiko, Liselot Van Der Heijden, Lee Wells and Holly Crawford.

This event is FREE and open to the public. The AC Institute, 547 W. 27th St., 5th Floor, is a 501©(3) and is under the Direction of Holly Crawford. This event was co-curated by Sonya Hofer.