CONCRETE ESCORT At Guggenheim Museum /  by melinda shopsin

March 22, 2013
Guggenheim Museum
New York

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Simone Forti, Jutta Koether, Andrew Lampert, and Caitlin MacBride.

The Seanceat Columbia University /  by melinda shopsin

THE SÉANCE
Thursday, January 24, 7pm
Columbia University, New York City
Faculty House (enter on Amsterdam Ave and W 116th St)

Roundtable discussion on the history and scope of the cinematic event with Ed Halter and Thomas Beard (Light Industry), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives), and Chrissie Iles (Whitney Museum). Co-presented by the Film Studies Program, Department of Art History and Archaeology and Columbia Seminars.

HOME & MORE At CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, St. Louis /  by melinda shopsin

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August 9, 2012 @ 7:00
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

CAM is pleased to present an evening of live film projector performances by Andrew Lampert that will include his works HOME (2010), ETKA & MASHA: TEENAGERS OF THE OLD WORLD (2011), and THE GOOD LIFE (2012).

As a filmmaker, programmer, and archivist at Anthology Film Archives, Andrew Lampert explores cinematic relationships by experimenting with their constituent elements, such as sound, live action, and film. Known for his projector performances, Lampert often plays a highly participatory role in his projects, acting as projectionist, cinematographer, and even musician by generating live instrumentation to accompany a screening. His performances often reference the multiple realms and perspectives found within the theatrical experience, drawing upon the intricacies of cinematic time and viewer time. The result is work that exists in two spaces – one within the frame of the screen or film, and the other which contains the viewing audience; the artist refers to this effect as “contracted cinema,” or the reverse of expanded cinema. For Lampert, cinema is not simply celluloid, but the integrative experience of the here-and-now, the audience, and the projected world of the film itself.

 

 

 

CONSTIPATION Premiere at SF Cinematheque /  by melinda shopsin

 February 4, 2012
@ Artists' Television Access
San Francisco, CA

Andrew Lampert's CONSTIPATION (Contracted Cinema) (Cinema Expanded [again!])

presented in association with Oddball Films

Far from the fussiness of his downtown day job—preserving avant-garde classics at Anthology Film Archives—the cinema of Andrew Lampert sprawls with contingency and unscripted accident. Truly placed in the present tense, Lampert’s film/performance hybrids—equal parts stand-up shtick and conceptual conundra—hold the social space between projector and screen to be truly where the action is. Whether making short films or live productions, his work playfully engages structure, storytelling and portraiture to address the contemporary condition of cinema spectatorship in its waning days. Tonight features the premiere of a single-projector expanded cinema performance titled CONSTIPATION, the latest work in his ongoing CONTRACTED CINEMA series. He writes: “CONSTIPATION is a film for filmmakers. A Super-8 love letter/break-up note for Kodachrome fetishists. An entertainment for the public-at-large.” Also expect a few recent works including TASTE TEST, and undoubtedly many surprises. (Steve Polta)

 Spoiler Alert: This trailer contains no footage from CONSTIPATION

LAMP/LAMB AT ODDBALL FILMS /  by melinda shopsin

February 2, 2012
Oddball Films
18th St. and Capp St.
San Francisco, CA


It had to happen....Andrew Lampert meets/vs Jeff Lambert at Oddball Films in San Francisco. An evening of short films, strange footage, unknowable images selected for your viewing pleasure. Once in a lifetime? You bet. Learn more here: HERE



POPE/LAMP Goes Oslo /  by melinda shopsin

October 27, 2011
ANX
Oslo, Norway

POPE/LAMP is Andrew Lampert and Greg Pope, This will be a sonic and visual feast (possibly) incorporating 16mm, Super8, video and 35mm slide projections with sound effects, field recordings and the spoken word. A Multi-projection live installation with cracked narratives, fractured concepts and atomised foundations. Text and image contradict themselves to a standstill in this semi-improvised piece and out of this seemingly irredeemable wreckage a burning flame starts to flicker at the end of the tunnel ….

 

COLLABORATION AS A MEANS OF CONTROL /  by melinda shopsin

August 23, 2011
Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX

New York City-based artist Andrew Lampert regularly creates multi-projector live cinema performances and offbeat short films with his friends and musical collaborators. Each project is most certainly the result of shared efforts and creative input, yet the end results are attributed to him. For this video salon titled COLLABORATION AS A MEANS OF CONTROL Lampert will explore the grey area of ownership with a fun, funny and funky selection of new and recent films guaranteed to beg the question: Hey, whose in charge here anyway?

This is what it look like when I spoke at Aurora Picture Show

This is what it look like when I spoke at Aurora Picture Show

ANDREW LAMPERT PRESENTS: ANDY LAMPERT /  by melinda shopsin

May 31, 2011 @6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Please join EAI for a special evening with artist and filmmaker Andrew Lampert, including a screening with performative elements and a conversation between Lampert and musician/writer Alan Licht.

Andrew Lampert Presents: Andy Lampert is part of EAI's ongoing 40th anniversary programming. Celebrating video's rich history across the last four decades and its vitality today, EAI now looks to the future with a series of projects featuring young artists whose works are redefining the use of the moving image in contemporary art

Andrew Lampert is at the forefront of a new generation of artists engaging with film, video and performance, revisiting and extending the dialogue around an expanded cinema. Pursuing the alchemy between artist, art, and audience in a public space, Lampert explores the contingency of film as a medium, introducing unscripted and chance elements. Reveling in cinema as a performative environment, Lampert reclaims this space from a mass media culture to emphasize its potential for immediacy and accident—and to make each of his screenings and performances a one-of-a-kind event.

Lampert's media works defy strict categorization as films or videos. At EAI, Lampert will project Super-8 films and also present works on video. Taking on the role of projectionist, he will orchestrate the screening, providing introductions and commentary with performative elements. The event will include the first New York screening of a video from Lampert's new diary series, shot (often surreptitiously) with the artist's cell-phone-sized pocket video camera; short films described by Lampert as "the death of Kodachrome," and two works that look at adolescence, one in a fictionalized, filmic past (ETKA AND MASHA: TEENAGERS OF THE OLD WORLD, 2010, 12:29 min) and the other in today's video-saturated reality (MADELINE VICTORIOUS, 2010, 6:26 min). These projects are unified in their emphasis on the frame around the edges of narrative—the genres and clichés in which he cloaks on-screen action, the happy accidents during production, and the unexpected events during a screening that shape the audience's response and foreground human activity in the cinematic context.

Lampert explores the cinematic experience as content, experimenting with the physical spaces between projector, projectionist, audience and screen—and with the experiences made possible through their convergence. The cinema becomes a site of abstract and magical production in his performances, videos and films, as Lampert investigates the gap between an artwork's private intent and its public reception.

Following the screening, Lampert will join Alan Licht and EAI's Rebecca Cleman in conversation. Licht, an acclaimed musician, writer and curator, is a frequent collaborator of Lampert's. Over the last five years, they have staged a number of live performances together under the name Lamp/Licht. The program will conclude with a Q&A session.

IMAGES FESTIVAL: CINEMA IS NOT CELLULOID /  by melinda shopsin

April 6, 2011 @ 9:30
Polish Combatant's Hall
206 Beverley St.
Toronto

 Images Festival hosts me for this suite of works featuring the inimitable Caroline Golum.

 

 

Live Images #4: CINEMA IS NOT CELLULOID

An archivist by trade, Andrew Lampert spends his days reconstructing and preserving films, combining elements and materials to create a physical catalogue of significant works available in unchanging form to contemporary and future audiences. As an artist he tends to reverse this process, separating the elements that comprise a film to draw attention to the shifting relationships between sound and image, history, memory and time. His performances consist of silent films with live narration, sound tracks with live projection or a combination of both. The illusion of reality is sacrificed to the reality of the moment and the accidents that happen when elements are out of sync: "The projector and the screen and the projectionist and the audience together are far more integral to cinema than any film running through a projector in a booth behind the audience." For Lampert, cinema is what happens in the moment, and his performances engage with the layers and intersections of time as it is recalled, recorded, projected and replayed.For the Images Festival Lampert will perform the works AM I FROM BROOKLYN?, an autobiographical guided tour of Brooklyn and beyond; RIGMAROLE REVERSAL,  a non-sync account of a lost soundtrack; and CAROLINE GOLUM AS in which the eponymous actress auditions to play the filmmaker's great great great great great aunt in late 1700s Siberia.

Školská 28 /  by melinda shopsin

March 11, 2011
Školská 28
Prague, Czech Republic

A coming together of pieces from past and present, an introduction to Prague and to you A hello and what are we doing here?

 

 

 

curated by Henry Hills

Drawing by Martin Blazicek

Drawing by Martin Blazicek


Two Evenings: Reihe Experimentalfilm /  by melinda shopsin

MARCH 5&6, 2011
Leipzig, Germany

I was a guest for two evenings at Reihe Experimentalfilm thanks to Leif Magne Tangen.
Night #1 featured ALL MAGIC SANDS (single channel/double image, 2010) with SOME DECEMBER (2010). Night #2 featured a lot of Youtube clips (not mine) and various shorts.

Single Malt at Bowey Poetry Club /  by melinda shopsin

Jan 9, 2011
The Bowery Poetry Club
New York City

"Is there anything that says, "The holidays are here," more than a bunch of poets sipping whisky? And besides, doesn't poetry sound better when you are drinking? Bob Holman and Robert Fitterman host this crew of vagabonds and have matched each writer with a single-malt beverage. You can pick your favorite match at the end, but by that point it might be a tall order.

This year's readers: Anselm Berrigan, Kristen Gallagher, Andrew Lampert, Stacy Szymaszek and Lawrence Giffin."

Ecce Promo /  by melinda shopsin

November 19, 2010
National Arts Club
New York City

In conjunction with Alan Licht’s current show Cross Promotion at AVA and Diapason, the artist has organized a special evening of live press release readings. A variety of writers, editors, artists, musicians, curators, and normal people have been invited to read a favorite press release aloud, be it good, bad, or bizarre.

Readers: Domenick Ammirati, Michael Azerrad, Carly Busta, Howie Chen, James Hoff, Angela Jaeger, Glenn Kenny, Andy Lampert Zach Layton, Alan Licht, Justin Luke, Jack Mello, Jay Sanders, Elizabeth Schambelan, Michael J. Schumacher, Monica de la Torre, Mike Wolf

CONDUCING At Roulette /  by melinda shopsin

October 7, 2010
Roulette
New York, NY

CONDUCING was performed as part of EASY NOT EASY, a three night festival curated by Matt Mehlan (Skeletons) & Doron Sadja (MIRRORGATE, West Nile). Using the idea of "Simple Scores" as a starting point, they asked a wide array of some of NYC artists to compose and perform a series of "simple" new scores as well as some scores by more established artists. These concerts were to help raise money and awareness for Roulette  as they prepared to move to their incredible Art Deco theater in Downtown Brooklyn.

Performers:

Aki Onda – Tapes, Electronics
Richard Garet - Electronics
Ben Greenberg – Electric Guitar
Katherine Young – Amplified Bassoon, Electronics
Sergei Tcherepnin – Modular Synth
Maria Chavez – Turntables
Shahzad Ismaily – Bass, Synth, Etc
C. Spencer Yeh – Violin, Electronics

Greater New York /  by melinda shopsin

September 4 and September 11, 2010
Greater New York
PS1/MoMA

“Despite—or perhaps because of—his training as an archivist, Andrew Lampert’s films and performances undermine any expected reverence for the preservation and exhibition of media artifacts. “The projector and the screen and the projectionist and the audience are together far more integral to cinema than any film running through a projector in a booth behind the audience,” Lampert has written, in a short statement on his practice. “Celluloid is not cinema, not even close.” For Lampert, cinema is what happens right now, and he loves to tangle the lines between the documented and the live, creating sets of rules for each work that allow for improvisation and chance operations. As part of Greater New York Cinema, Lampert will present two afternoon events. For “Contracted Cinema” on September 4, Lampert will perform Jacka Spades (2009), his audio-visual record of a day of Super 8 filming in New York, presented back in real time, and the similarly peripatetic Am I From Brooklyn? (2010). On September 11th, “The Old World and This One, Too” will include Lampert’s take on the dance film and portrait genres, as well as the premiere of a Super 8 double-projection with artist Fern Silva, who will perform with Lampert as the duo Double Trouble. In keeping with Lampert’s events at Anthology Film Archives and beyond, both shows will include impromptu readings, odd bits of media ephemera, and door prizes to lucky audience members! ”
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AM I FROM BROOKLYN? (2010), screened on Sept. 4

AM I FROM BROOKLYN? (2010), screened on Sept. 4