Miya Masaoka Michelle Handelman Triangle of Resistance Sunday, November 17

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Roulette Presents:

Miya Masaoka & Michelle Handelman

Triangle of Resistance

Sunday, November 17, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

What: Triangle of Resistance, Music by Miya Masaoka, Video by Michelle Handelman

Where:Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR

When: Sunday, November 17, 8pm

Cost/Info: $20/15 members/students/seniors, www.roulette.org

Brooklyn, NY: Roulette, celebrating 35 years of new and adventurous performance are thrilled to present the long-awaited collaborative music and video performance: Triangle of Resistance, which evokes the desires of resistance in various histories, specifically the Japanese American internment camps, the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Featuring music my Miya Masaoka and video projections by Michelle Handelman, Triangle of Resistance also features Jennifer Choi, Esther Noh, violins; Ljova, viola; Alex Waterman, cello; Satoshi Takeishi, percussions; Masaoka, koto; Ben Vida, analog synthesis with direction by Brooke O’Harra.

Miya Masaoka is a classically trained New York based composer, musician and sound artist. She has made works for ensembles, mixed choirs, Either/Or, Bang on a Can, So Percussion, ROVA, Alonzo King, La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, Joan Jeanrenaud (formerly of Kronos), and has also worked with the data from the brain, insect movement and plants. The New York Times calls her “an explorer of the extremes,” and she has created installations at residencies Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Headlands Center for the Arts. Masaoka has received the 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award, the Alpert Award, the Map Fund, The Japan Fellowship of the Asian Cultural Council. She has taught music composition at NYU and teaches at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. Masaoka is currently recording a CD with Anthony Braxton.

miyamasaoka.com

Michele Handelman uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. In the mid 90s Handelman directed and produced the feature documentary BloodSisters (winner: Bravo Award 1999), an in-depth look at the San Francisco Leatherdyke scene. Her videos have screened internationally including Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; ICA, London; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Guangzhou 53 Art Museum; American Film Institute and 3LD Art & Technology Center, NYC. Handelman is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and has been awarded grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Cultural Agency, MAP Fund and the Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund among others. An author and critic, Handelman is an Associate Professor in the Film/Video department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.

michellehandelman.com