Thingamajigs Performance Group (TPG) will be in residence at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive with a series of online performances and discussions covering a wide range of topics relevant to living in our current pandemic. Highlights of the residency include a 14-hour live stream of Sound of Wave in Channel, TPG’s collaborative work with Bay Area poet Stephen Racliffe. Also featured will be Korea’s Ensemble PHASE performing excerpts from a new work by composer and TPG member Edward Schocker. Examining our “sense of self”, Self_less’ mission is to bring awareness of the connections among brain, body, mind, and self.
All events in this residency will be presented with diverse artists' expressions that will explore personal journeys and social impact both in the past and present. These events will be hosted online at https://bampfa.org/event/livestream-sound-of-wave-in-channel.
“BAMPFA is happy to welcome Thingamajigs for their second residency - their first was almost exactly eight years ago in July of 2013. Though this one is by necessity virtual, rather than in-person, their series of performances, panels, and other events promises to highlight some of the most important contemporary music practices in the Bay Area and across the world. Some events look back on our pandemic year, some look ahead to future projects, and some meditate in the current moment. It will be an exciting and fruitful series!” -Sean Carson, program director (BAM/PFA)
Description
July 25, 9AM-9PM PDT (preceded by 14-hour livestream performance)
Durational Work
Sound of Wave in Channel
Created in 2021 by TPG and special guests. Sound of Wave in Channel is a 14-hour work created with poet Stephen Ratcliffe in the theater of BAM/PFA and features local musicians, composers, and movement artists, including Rae Diamond, Kevin Corcoran, Paige Sorvillo, and others.
A thousand page book of poems written in 1,000 consecutive days (10.1.13 – 6.26.16)
sound of wave in channel is the fifth in a series of ongoing durational works of 1,000 poems written in 1,000 consecutive days. Beginning where c o n t i n u u m left off (it’s title a recurrent phrase from that previous work, each poem has nine lines, the first three and last two being ‘transcriptions’ of things/actions/events taking place ‘out there’ in the world during the moment of the writing; the middle two pairs of lines composed of words taken from several source texts: Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception; Kandinsky,Complete Writings on Art; Heidegger, Parmenides and Poetry, Language, Thought; T.J. Clark, The Sight of Death; Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity and The Principle of Relativity;Giorgio Morandi(a catalogue of a 1981 show at SFMOMA); Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria; ; and Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (a catalogue of a 2005 show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). Published by BlazeVOX [books] 2018.
— Stephen Ratcliffe