Join us for our spring opening on Saturday, April 3rd. Synesthesia will present Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7’s solo show, " Inside VAULT SEVEN " at our gallery space and sound visual performance on the rooftop space. The exhibition and the performance will start at 5 pm until Midnight. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask.
●Date●
April 3rd, Saturday 5 pm-Midnight
※If it rains, we will reschedule for Sunday, April 4th 5 pm-Midnight. We will announce you via Eventbrite's Email.
●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get the address when you get a ticket from Eventbrite
●Solo Exhibition●
" Inside VAULT SEVEN "
TR7 creates an "Art Happening" that an agency for improvisation & ephemeral matrix of modalities. Maneuvering sculptural metaphors & activating social commentary works as signifier of the surveillance state and questioning the autonomy of self.
Accompany by Raoof's 11th iteration of the Micro Film Festival's immersive video installation are works who origins speaks to specific events/individuals. However, as in language, they have morphed to mirror the current state of the union & beyond. " It's like these works have an etymology of their own".
The use of assemblage works (of readymade materials) placed in conversation & or merged to speak to symbolic meanings & gestures that contain & question notions the human condition.
Furthermore, the a/v activation of installation will be conducted in 4 measures.
●Performance●
5-5:50pm- mario-enrique paoli
6:20-7:10 pm- Chaka Benson
7:40-8:30 pm-TR7
9-9:50pm- Vampÿrates with Reg Bloor
10:20-11:30pm- New York A/V Institute
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mario-enrique paoli
mario-enrique paoli studied guitar and music theory from an early age. Studied music theory and harmony with Dr. Neli Justicia, classic guitar with Juan Sorroche, and improvisation with Robert DeVore. In the late 70’s and 80’s he undertook studies of electronic music with Robert Ceeyly at BEEP (Boston Electronic Experimental Project Inc.) and electro-acoustic arranging and composition with Albert Mayr (Music of Times and Tides). In 1977 he moves to Boston to continue his musical studies in arranging and composition, film scoring and guitar at Berklee College of Music. In 1981 he was invited to join Mobius Theater Inc. (later named Mobius Performing Group, now Mobius Artist Group) based in Boston, MA. He worked with the company until 1990. While at Mobius he produced, designed and directed experimental music-performance works and collaborated and co-produced dozens of works with the company and with national and international performance artists. In 1982 co-founded the experimental television collective Subterranean Video (S.Vid), based at Boston Film and Video Foundation Inc. (BFVF) where many classic intermedia works were produced. In 1990 moves to NYC and works at Film Video Arts Inc. as an associate producer, film/video editor and workshop instructor. For the past 20 years he has been an adjunct faculty at The New School University, School of Media Studies. He has and continues to work, perform and collaborate on various music projects, including 'Signal to Noise' (an experimental electronica music ensemble), 'Oblique Strategists' (an experimental electric guitar duo with Karl Fury), La Electronica (a duet with Gianni Intili), enrique paoli (solo experimental guitar) and 'Wow and Flutter' a new solo electronica project.
Chaka Benson
Chaka Benson grew up on a diverse diet of Philly music ranging from Schooly D to Sun Ra. The Philly streets thrum and echo with improvisation and DIY spirit. This simple aesthetic informs his music and artistic approach. The sound from his modular synthesizer is ever-evolving, changing over time, layered, a challenge to pin down and always rewarded! His legendary live performances are well known on the experimental electronic music scene. Each performance has a new patch specially prepared for it and a new improvised set is performed each time. https://cmbperformance.blogspot.com/?m=0
Blood is the Music of Life <> Vampÿates {{DJs Richard Sylvårnes & Bradley Erøs}} <> with Guest Guitarist Reg Bloor
"just some hints at 'the mysterious mixed blood or the sanguine stew of our sources', both stolen & unburied (animal, mineral, vegetable & human, flesh ~ voices & sonic bites, spanning centuries of living creatures, from the exotic to the rare, screams & beastly howls, cries of murder & raging indictments, ritual & revolt, hypnotic hymns & piercing rants, savage litanies & soothing incantations, woven in a rhythm bed of loopy pulses & deeply entrancing throbs, the Vampÿrates' bloody mixology of music is a dense dark spell of layers, both organic & electronic, stirring & unnerving, that may send chills up your spine as you prepare yourself for the double-fanged pierce of pleasure."
New York A/V Institute
Boris Naz - drum machine, synthesizers DJ Activphaze - turntables and samples Yana Davydova - guitar VJ Fuzzy Bastard - live visuals https://borisnazarov.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkAudioVideoInstitute/
TR7
Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7 is an American interdisciplinary artist whose vocabulary delves into social commentary via historical & futurist aesthetic. Installation, video, performance , soundscapes, sculpture, painting, are utilities that embodies poetic & abstract narrative for his oeuvre.
His work has been in exhibitions at, The Italian Palace - Tangier Morocco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery at Columbia College of Chicago. African American Art Museum Philadelphia, & Fleisher Art Memorial.
Solo exhibition which include; Pageant Soloveev Gallery Philadelphia, Indigo Bleu Design & Cultural Center, Little Berlin Annex Space & Icebox Project Space, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia and Velocity Fund grant recipient for 2019.
Group showing at West Chester University, Goggleworks Reading Pa., Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia Pa., National Archive Philadelphia. Pa., University of Pennsylvania. James Dupree Gallery, Philadelphia City Hall, Moore College of Art, and others.
Also includes in 2015 Artblog People's Choice awards PEW Fellow (wish list), and (By way of - Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade ) 2015 Best Exhibit.
Artist -In- Residence Icebox Project Space 2017 along with creative director at American Muslim Museum & Archive. Commissioned projects with Paul Robeson House, John Coltrane House - Philadelphia, & Fairmount Park Conservancy. With Performative works at Kimmel Center, Vox Populi, ICA Philadelphia, Harlem Gatehouse, & Masjidullah Cultural Center.
Furthermore, he was the founder & director of acclaimed Taji Modern Gallery in Philadelphia circa 1998 - 2009. Also he a member of Philadelphia Dumptser Divers.
As TR7 social engagement base expands, so does his collaboration list; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, George E. Lewis, Amber Arts Collective, Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade, Yoichi Uzeki, Charles Lloyd, June Lopez, Eva Peston, Meg Foley Erik Honesty, Bariq Combs, Sebastienne Mundheim, Embarker, Chaka Benson & others.
Taji also spearheads 2Spiral Art Collective, collaborates with artists of vast disciplines to develop art that explores the transformative elements of compassion, freedom, justice, and productive activism.
●Rule●
Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com