This Week’s Must See Art Events: Grab the Popcorn Edition

You’ve probably already seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, so count this as great opportunity to see the film again, this time with all the art aura a museum can lend. It ranks as one of the most ambitious movies of our time, and there’s no way you’re going to be able to get the same experience watching it on your laptop.

Who wants to see a “reactive environment that incorporates video, sound and handmade objects”? We’re game. Carbon, an interdisciplinary artist and composer promises to gonna test the physical qualities of the space using magnetic tape, sound objects, field recordings and so on. Also performing will be Ganjatronics a project of Doron Sadja and Justin Craun. The duo creates danceable electronic soundscapes, a contrast to the more abstract sounds of Carbon.

Just three more events to go in Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery’s Shaun Krupa’s performance series. So far, Krupa has been face-painting, rolling around, fan-torturing and generally homaging Bruce Nauman. This week, we’ll see Algal Mat (Tuesday), Soil Table (Wednesday) and The Flooded Room (Thursday).

Here’s a rare opportunity for those us in New York: an exhibition that promises to showcase artworks from the oft-under represented indigenous communities of New Zealand. (And by rare we mean, we’re not sure if there’s ever been a show of this kind in New York.) The show’s curators are both pro Māori art specialists. Reuban Friend is himself an artist of Māori and Pākehā lineage, as well as the former curator of Māori and Pacific Arts at City gallery. Shelley Jahnke was named curator at Te Manawa this April. Her father is also head of the School of Maori Studies and co-ordinator of Maori Visual Arts at Massey University in Palmerston North.

The screenings for “Soundings: A Contemporary Score” begin this week, and they’re doozies. This week’s films are meant to transport the viewer to “unusual sonic realms”. This means we’ll be listening to Phillip Brophy’s alien sounds graphed onto pre-existing footage of the performers in Evaporated Music. Experiencing “Unusual Sonic Realms” also means listening to Fucked Up Lover by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, which combines the sound of 12 friends talking about mix tapes with footage from a Nick Cave performance.

There’s some other shorts as well from Luke Fowler, Aaron Ates and Audrey Ewelll. Together the programming is just over an hour and a half.

A screening that unites nearly a dozen video artists under the common umbrella of the Uncanny and how near-imitation can be used to produce eery critique. Some featured works include facial distortions by Georgia Sagri, Pilvi Takala going to Disneyland Paris wearing “unapproved attire”, and a hacked 3D-scanning software video that depicts a fractured reality from Takeshi Murata and Billy Grant.

Videos by Oliver Laric, Liz Magic Laser, lya Lipkin & Joen Vedel, Takeshi Murata & Billy Grant, Rachel Rose, Georgia Sagri, Shanzhai Biennial, Pilvi Takala, and Stewart Uoo

In celebration of the Eyebeam’s roster of fellows, residents and honorary fellows for the first time include more women than men, curatorial fellow Laurel Ptak has organized a feminist reading of the New York Times titled The Very First Year. The discussion will be led by Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden which will go over everything in that day’s paper, from content to ad placement.

Why go all the way up to Storm King to watch a movie about Andy Goldsworthy? Because it’s Storm King and you can also spend the day looking at David Brooks sculptures and Goldworthy’s snaking Storm King Wall.  This screening is outdoors so bring a blanket and a flashlight and tick repellant.