Email not displaying correctly?   PLEASE JOIN US THIS WEEK ON FRIDAY! LOUDSPEAKER: A CONCERT/SYMPOSIUM FOR EXTRA-NORMAL VOCALS  PRESENTED BY THE PERFORMA INSTITUTE   THE VOICE IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE  FEATURING ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS JOAN LA BARBARA, JACE CLAYTON,  FLORIAN HECKER, AND ALEX WATERMAN  INCLUDING A SPECIAL VIDEO PROGRAM   Friday, May 17, 2013 4:00 – 6:30 pm   The Cooper Union Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square   Free admission with reservation, rsvp@performa-arts.org Performa is pleased to announce Loudspeaker: A Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals, a concert/symposium that considers the historic grounding of extended vocal technique as well as current developments within contemporary avant-garde performance. Pioneered by New York-based vocalists such as Joan La Barbara, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, and Diamanda Galas, participants will demonstrate the range of sounds of which the voice is capable, from vocal rills and ululation (Joan La Barbara and Meredith Monk) to melisma (Whitney Houston and Beyoncé) and death growl (Napalm Death). The various formats and approaches to the voice will be presented and demonstrated by pioneering vocalist Joan La Barbara; writer, musician, and Performa 11 contributor Jace Clayton; Performa 13 commissioned artist Florian Hecker; contemporary vocalist Gelsey Bell; musician and composer Alex Waterman; and Performa 13 Curator Mark Beasley. The symposium will also feature key video works of vocal performance.  Loudspeaker suggests the numerous ways in which the affects of the Modernist avant-garde have over time been adopted and adapted by pop form. One of the key themes of Performa 13 developed by Mark Beasley is the voice in performance. A series of vocal concerts, commissions, and related presentations will look at the myriad forms of the voice as communicative material. These projects continue Performa 's investigation of experimental and avant-garde music through numerous public concerts: Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners (curated by Luciano Cessa and Esa Nickle); A Fantastic World: A Select History of Experimental Music (curated by Mike Kelley, produced and co-curated by Mark Beasley), both Performa 09; and Fluxus and Otherwise (curated by Mark Beasley and Zach Layton), Performa 11.  Loudspeaker: A Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals, organized by Performa Curator Mark Beasley, is a result of the practice-led Fine Art Ph.D. program at Reading University, UK; further text will appear in the forthcoming publication on The Voice in Performance. ABOUT THE PERFORMA INSTITUTE The Performa Institute is a year-round think tank that fosters learning, critical discourse, and deeper engagement in performance by directly supporting its scholarly investigation. The Performa Institute showcases a range of in-depth programs for the presentation and exploration of ideas and the exchange of research and knowledge, with a focus on the study of history and on forging a new intellectual culture surrounding contemporary art. It asks artists, curators, writers, and scholars to function as educators across disciplines to explore innovative visions for the future of art and ideas in New York City and around the world. The Performa Institute was launched on the occasion of the Performa 11 biennial (2011), during which it presented over 50 artist-led classes and workshops. Recent programs include Why Dance in the Art World (September 2012) and Get Ready for the Marvelous: Black Surrealism in Dakar, Fort-de-France, Havana, Johannesburg, New York City, Paris, Port-au-Prince, 1932-2013 (February 2013).   The Performa Institute is made possible thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lambent Foundation for Tides Foundation, Ford Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions.   ABOUT PERFORMA   Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading international organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live visual art performance in the history of the twentieth century and to generating new directions for the twenty-first century, engaging artists and audiences through experimentation, innovation and collaboration.   Performa’s unique commissioning, touring, and year-round education programs, involving all disciplines, forge a new course for contemporary art and culture and culminate in the Performa biennial every other November. In 2005, Performa launched the first-ever biennial dedicated to visual art performance, Performa 05, which was then followed by Performa 07 (2007), Performa 09 (2009), and Performa 11 (2011). Performa will present its fifth biennial, Performa 13, in November 2013.   For more information, visit www.performa-arts.org. Image: Joan LaBarbara performing with the Performa Intonarumori Orchestra, A Performa Commission for Performa 09.  Photograph by Paula Court. You have subscribed to the PERFORMA email list! @absolutearts.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile Our mailing address is: PERFORMA 100 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2013 PERFORMA All rights reserved.