Lou Mallozzi

The Art Gallery of Knoxville

Lou Mallozzi (b. 1957) is an audio artist in Chicago who dismembers and reconstitutes sound, language, gesture, and image in various media. He works in live performance, radio art, sound installation, CD recording, soundtrack design, and visual art. He has presented works at numerous festivals, concerts, galleries, and broadcasts since 1986, including the Bludenz Festival for Contemporary Music (Austria), the TUBE Audio Art Series (Munich), Fylkingen (Stockholm), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Indiana), Podewil (Berlin), The PAC/edge Performance Festival (Chicago), Aetherfest Radio Art Festival (Albuquerque), The Resonance FM Radio Festival (London), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), The Chicago Cultural Center, The Donald Young Gallery, Corbett vs Dempsey, and many others.

Nato Thompson

The Art Gallery of Knoxville

Wednesday, February 15

Nato Thompson is a writer, activist, and curator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. The MASS MoCA describes itself as an open platform, a welcoming place that encourages dynamic interchange between making and presenting art, between the visual and performing arts, and between our extraordinary historic factory campus and the patrons, workers and tenants who again inhabit it.

Nato is a co-organizor at the Department of Space and Land Reclamation and strong believer in radical practice. His writings on art and politics have been published in Parkett, New Art Examiner, the College Art Association Art Journal and In These Times. He is also contributing writer to the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

SHAKING RAY LEVIS

Live at The Art Gallery of Knoxville

(Dennis Palmer, Bob Stagner, and Erik Hinds)

The Shaking Ray Levis is an ongoing collaboration of musicians with a common interest in free improvisation. The project was conceived and led by the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based team of Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner. They use storytelling, synthesizers, samplers and percussion to achieve their distinctive sound. They are the first American group to have recorded for Incus Records, the record label of British free improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey. Additionally, they have performed and recorded with John Zorn, David Greenberger, Fred Frith, Min Tanaka, Amy Denio, and Derek Bailey, as well as with many other critically acclaimed artists.

Featured here is a performance in December 2005 at The Art Gallery of Knoxville featuring Erik Hinds.

www.shakingray.com

www.erikhinds.com

Jaime Bravo

Exhibition Views, February 2006

The Art Gallery of Knoxville

Robby Herbst: Examining a Global Glitch

January 2006

http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/

Presented as part of the exhibition: Global Groove (Nation Building As Art)

Robby Herbst is interested in the networks of visual media that foster the development of intersubjective power. His new-genres practice explores, initiates, and enacts democratic negotiations with culture. Since 1996 Robby has been around the creation of several autonomously run media collectives (Radio Dumbo, Indymedia Seattle and Los Angeles, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest). Currently he is excited about the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest's slide library. The library attempts to address the many problems of LA's gallery and academic art systems by unveiling "dark matter", accomplished through the creation of a publicly accessible archive.

The Shiwiars Project

Valery Grancher

www.theshiwiarsproject.org

The Shiwiars Indians live on the western slope of the Andes cordillera, in High-Amazonia, in one of the zones of the planet the most isolated and in which the biodiversity is largest. It is however with them that the French artist Valery Grancher chose to establish a direct and creative bond and to divide it within the framework of its project for the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Valery Grancher

"A priori"d be taken of it. White chart is thus given to the artist to try the experiment of the bond, the total cultural immersion and, in the name of a project for the Palais de Tokyo whose forms of appearance are to be invented, to put it into practice "how to live together".

In the heart of this human group hedonist, in whom each act is a concrete bond with the cosmology of surrounding nature, with the natural reports/ratios with the life and death, the chamanic magic and the conversations with the spirits, Valery Grancher will have to learn how to move, to create an open and subtle dialogue so that each one finds its account there and that a new bond is woven between universes that all seems to oppose - a priori.

The Art Gallery of Knoxville

John Perreault: Globalization in Art

Presented as part of the exhibition: Global Groove (Nation Building As Art)

John Perreault is an Art critic, curator, poet and artist.

From 1966 to 1974 he was the Art critic for the Village Voice and then from 1975 to 1983 the senior Art critic and Art editor at the Soho News. His writings on Art have appeared in Art in America, Artforum and numerous Art journals and anthologies.

From 1978 to 1981 he was the president of the American section of the international association of Art critics. He currently writes regularly for NY Arts Magazine where he is also a contributing editor. He is a recent recipient of the Penny McCall Foundation award for Art criticism.

His Art Blog, Artopia, may be found at:

http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/

The Land Foundation:

www.thelandfoundation.org

Presented on the occasion of the Art Gallery of Knoxville, January 2006 exhibition: Global Groove (Nation Building as Art). The Land was initiated in 1998 and includes work by artists Rirkrit Tiravanija, Superflex, and Carl Michael von Hausswolff. The Land is a place dedicated to the merging of ideas by different artists to cultivate a place of and for social engagement.

Though initially the action to aquire the rice fields were initiated by two artists from Thailand, the land was initiated with anonymity and with out the concept of ownership. The land was to be cultivated as an open space, though with certain intentions towards community, towards discussions and towards experimentation in other fields of thoughts.

The Land Foundation reflects an honest attempt by artists to create open systems for new art. This video is a walk around the Land Foundation showing the artwork happening through this project.

In this exhibition, the Art Gallery of Knoxville reflects on how ideas of "global" are influencing artwork. The phrase "Global Groove" was introduced by pioneer video artist Nam June Paik in 1973 as a title for his own view of social communication after the influence of television. The idea of a "Global Groove" extended the phrase "global village" put forward by media theorist Marshall McLuhan.

Global Groove (Nation Building as Art)

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Valéry Grancher, CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Gordon Matta-Clark, Phill Niblock, Superflex (with a further discussion of work by Nam June Paik)

Exhibition Views, February 2006

The Art Gallery of Knoxville

The Movement of People Working by minimalist composer, film maker and photographer Phill Niblock portrays human labor in its most elementary form. It is the combination of his slowly evolving harmonic music that creates an otherworldly masterpiece.

The films and the music combine elements that seem contradictory, creating tension as a result. Impersonal motion patterns filmed in vibrant 1970s Kodachrome move side by side with glorious sounds that are caused by an acoustic phenomenon.

Phill Niblock is an Indiana-born (1933) New York-based avantgarde composer and multimedia artist, founder of Experimental Intermedia. Niblock's program is, fundamentally, to create music without rhythm or melody, by slow accumulation of microtones. Niblock's droning soundscapes originate from the superimposition and juxtaposition of sustained sounds which are, in turn, obtained from reprocessing acoustic instruments. Since this requires a competent manipulation of the sounds actually produced by the instruments, Niblock's music is often eventually refined by the composer while sitting in front of an electronic or digital tool.

Extreme Records: http://www.xtr.com/

Phill Niblock: http://www.phillniblock.com/