The Collection Agency » Visual Research http://the-collection-agency.org Reinvisioning the past for the future Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:35:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 All our futures past promised monorails (new cities realize it) http://the-collection-agency.org/all-our-futures-past-promised-monorails-new-cities-realize-it/ http://the-collection-agency.org/all-our-futures-past-promised-monorails-new-cities-realize-it/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:30:39 +0000 agent http://the-collection-agency.org/?p=73 TCA MR0022

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Using cut-out bin vinyl samples and urban nature video, The Collection Agency take the familiar and transform it into something unexpected and sublime. With the typical tools of live VJ/DJ performance (laptop, turntables, CDJs, effects), the duo finds a way to spin unconventional experimental narratives out of inspired collective improvisation. Zarah Cabañas’s lush, painterly visuals work in perfect harmony with the dub-inspired soundscapes of Paul Amitai, as their live set often shifts through a variety of moods – from sparse, sun-dappled textures to thick sheets of distortion and deep, watery rhythmic pulses.

Selected live performances (2005-7):
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
vBrooklyn Video Art Festival – Brooklyn, NY
LEMURplex, Brooklyn, NY
One Step Beyond – New York, NY
Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
Hotel Pupik, Scheifling, Austria
River to River Festival – New York, NY
Apositsia International Music Forum – St. Petersberg, Russia
Galapagos Art Space – Brooklyn, NY
Dragonfly – Washington, DC
Eyebeam – New York, NY
Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
Nublu – New York, NY
Phatspace Gallery – Sydney, Australia
Territoria Festival – Moscow, Russia
Milwaukee Art Museum – Milwaukee, WI
Lux2006 VJ Festival – Sevilla, Spain
LOOP Video Art Festival – Barcelona, Spain
Knitting Factory – New York, NY

Links:
View video clip of previous performance
Paul Amitai MySpace page
Zarah Cabañas website

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New commission from The Collection Agency

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New commission from The Collection Agency

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New commission from The Collection Agency

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