?Taking its name from Carolyn Brown’s eponymous book, the inaugural Chance and Circumstance festival aims to present daring, experimental work from a wide cross-section of the NYC and greater national arts communities.
Curated by the members of the new music troupe Ensemble Pamplemousse, the festival places special focus on trans-disciplinary work – drawing disparate influences from improvised music, experimental theater, conceptual art practices, installation art, and contemporary music performance.
Thursday May 11
7pm: TAK Ensemble
Program:
Sam Pluta: Escape Strategies (poppoppop float away!)
Kate Soper: Rhetoric
Charlotte Mundy: Bluff
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece 28
9pm
Sound art treasure hunt: Art and prizes and sporadic performances by makers and watchers!
Friday May 12
7pm Dan Weiss: Solo (Example)
9pm Pamplemousse: Part 1: New and recent pieces by Dave Broome, Andrew Greenwald, Jessie Marino, Natacha Diels, and Weston Olencki
Saturday May 13
7pm Object Collection: Tim Parkinson: Time with People
9pm Pamplemousse: Part 2: New piece by Bryan Jacobs + robots
Sunday, May 14
7pm Tyshawn Sorey: Solo
9pm Mocrep: Five members of Chicago-based performance collective Mocrep will perform a collaboratively created piece on the last night of the Chance and Circumstance Festival. The festival comes on the heels of a weeklong residency at dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, where they will be creating and performing the piece before bringing it to NYC. Their process comes from an active devising practice, drawing from multiple media and their individual experience as artists and musicians.
