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[Bik Van der Pol <bikvdpol@earthlink.net>]

NOMADS & RESIDENTS
A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting
networks, setting up meetings

Please join us for the presenations of  Bill and Mary Buchen, Ken
Butler, Paul van den Hout  and Hans Tammen.
They will present their ideas and projects at LOCATION 1, 26 Greene
Street, New York, on July 17, 7 pm

Bill and Mary Buchen will emphasize on the topic "sonic architecture
projects for public spaces, stupas for UFO's and extra terrestrial
seating"
Web Sites: www.sonicarchitecture.com and www.geosonic.com

Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose hybrid musical instruments,
collage drawings, performances, and installations explore the
interaction and transformation of common objects, altered images, sounds
and silence. His projects include Voices of Anxious Objects,  a
mesmerizing world trance textures and driving melodic gypsy grooves on
an  arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household
objects, sports equipment, and tools. Duchampian Dada meets Hybrid Hindu
Hendrix. Function and form collide as audio-visual antics and
explorations create a provoking cultural portrait of man/machine
adaptation and transformation. Ken Butler's works have been featured in
numerous exhibitions and performances throughout the USA, Canada, and
Europe. He has performed with John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Butch Morris,
The Soldier String Quartet, The Tonight Show Band, and The Master Gnawa
musicians of Morocco. His CD, Voices of Anxious Objects is on Zorn's
Tzadik label.

Paul van den Hout, an artist living in Rotterdam, Holland. Around 1990
he started making sculpture and installations closely related to our
furnished homes. After the introduction of musical instruments as part
of these installations, the instruments became the focus of his most
recent projects. Travelling in India he made a lot of friends and
contacts among instrument builders and musicians alike. It is for this
reason the Indian instrument has taken a special place in his projects
over the last four years, now produced under the name 'Green Onion
Projects'. Musical instruments, making and listening to music, are a
favourite way of sharing opinions and experiences among a huge part of
the world's population. One of the main goals of Green Onion Projects is
therefore communication. By producing new designs and concepts for
stringed instruments he has found the perfect way to meet people all
over the world to discuss their art and their visions. A new magazine
called 'Green Groceries' will be released in the fall of this year in
connection to Green Onion Projects.
Prior to his visit to New York he will do a research on wood supplies
for Indian stringed instruments in British Columbia, Canada. More
information on  the research project in the use of woods for Indian
musical instruments by Green Onion can be found on
www.greenonion.nl and info on his latest project on
http://www.greengroceries.net/red_western/In_Tune_with_Tun.htm.

Composer and improviser Hans Tammen performs with a remarkable
collection of mechanical preparations on his guitars, in site-specific
performances, and collaborative efforts with dance, light actions or
other art forms. With various sized ensembles and as a solo performer,
he gives concerts and performances at festivals and other venues
throughout Europe, in the US, Russia and Mexico. He has released CDs
with Denman Maroney, Michael Vorfeld, Ursel Schlicht, Dominic Duval and
Jay Rosen among others. His solo CD on Nur/Nicht/Nur was released 1999.
Critic Klaus Hübner recommended it -- "Anyone who's still says that
experimentalism, especially on guitar, has no future, should
hear Hans Tammen's Endangered Guitar." Originally from Germany, he now
lives in New York City.
website http://www.escape.com/~hanstammen

Big cities are in a continuous flux, with a coming and going of people
who settle in, stay temporarily or move through. Newcomers enter this
flux, become part of the life of the city, and make connections with
others. The city, as a space, contains possibilities through the dynamic
relationships between people, which may provoke an active engagement.
Strangers become friends, ideas become practice, models are being
transformed into action.
NOMADS & RESIDENTS makes connections with people who live here and with
people who visit, by setting up an active network of collaborators, and
creating and organizing public events in a variety of places. NOMADS &
RESIDENTS invites artists, guests, curators, critics, activists,
travelers and passers-by to present insight into their practice, their
ideas, histories, and drives.

The curatorial and organizing group of NOMADS & RESIDENTS  consists of
50% New York based and 50% temporary residents. They  actively seek out
information about who is coming to New York and when, they  invite
guests to present his/her ideas and  solicit the involvement of spaces
where these presentations can take place. They welcome advice, ideas
and  the enthusiastic support of others. The events will be partly
informal and casual, and will include presentations, lectures, talks,
sideshows, small exhibitions, performances. No real topics will be set
beforehand. Priority will be given to proposals that could become
projects that will be shared among the participants, to a practice that
can make resources and ideas available for common use.

Liesbeth Bik (artist, The Netherlands)
Catherine Ruello (curator/organizer, New York)
Heather Felty (curator, New York)
Andrea Geyer (New York based artist)
Gordon Knox (New York based initiator and organizer)
Jan Kopp (artist, France)
John Menick (New York based artist)
Phill Niblock (New York based artist)
Olu Oguibe (New York based artist/curator)
Cesare Pietroiusti (artist, Italy)
Jos van der Pol (artist, the Netherlands)
Annette Schindler (New York based curator)
Shelly Silver (New York based artist)
Wolfgang Staehle ( New York)

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