The Break/s: a mixtape for the stage
Marc Bamuthi Joseph for The Living Word Project
Directed by Michael John Garcés
Produced by MAPP International Productions
Friday & Saturday October 23 & 24, 8:00 PM
$15 / $10 / $5
Friday | Saturday

The Break/s is a multimedia travelogue of Planet Hip-Hop, where an art form forged in the street meets the commercial and cultural stresses of globalism. Using movement, spoken word, and personal narrative, poet and hip-hop theater sensation Marc Bamuthi Joseph explores the personal costs of hip-hop’s ascendancy from a local political art movement to a worldwide phenomenon.

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Art21: Systems
Wednesday October 28, 7:30 PM
Free + Open to the Public

A special preview screening of Systems, the fourth episode from the fifth season of the award-winning program Art21, including interviews with Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum.

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New Nothing
Zs & Little Women
Friday October 30, 8 PM
$15 / $10 / $5

"These days, anything goes..." Zs, the scariest band from EMPAC's Between a Rock and a Tiny Bell concert, returns on Halloween (well ok, a day before) for a careening set of "[sputtering] Morse code dots of percussion and saxophone" (Ben Sisario, New York Times) as part of the New Nothing series. Opening will be Little Women, a quartet whose ghost notes and violent disassembling of their instruments concoct riotous sets that run the gamut from pop to free jazz to noise and back again.

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TALK + WORKSHOP

Marc Downie: FIELD Talk and Weekend-long workshop
Talk: Friday November 6, 7 PM
Free + Open to the Public
Workshop: Saturday & Sunday November 7 & 8
$110 / $55

Marc Downie, the creator of the powerful digital art programming environment FIELD, gives a talk on the software and leads a two-day workshop in its manifold uses.

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SCREENING

DANCE MOViES COMMISSION 2008-2009
Saturday November 7, 7:30 PM
$5

The official premiere of four new works created through this year’s DANCE MOViES Commission, the EMPAC program that brings together moving bodies and the moving image.

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ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Mads Lynnerup, Take a Day for Yourself!

The genre-crossing Danish artist mounts a whimsical yet searching investigation of the everyday, incorporating video, posters, and ordinary people from the Troy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute communities.

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Sophie Kahn & Lisa Parra, Body/Traces

Illuminating the physical presence and disappearance of the body, this work addresses the questions: What happens to the body in motion when it becomes a still image? And what becomes of that image when it is returned to the moving body whence it came?

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Exhibitions are open Monday - Saturday, noon - 6 PM
Free + Open to the Public

News

The posters in Mads Lynnerup's exhibition Take a Day for Yourself! signed by the artist are available for purchase by request. Order one now!

Campus + Community

TALK
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Friday October 23, 1 PM
A special "behind-the-scenes" look + talk by Marc Bamuthi Joseph for the Rensselaer Community.

PERFORMANCE
RPI Percussion Ensemble, Symphonic Band and the Symphony Orchestra
Saturday October 24, 2 PM
Presented by: Rensselaer Music Association

TALK
NOX/Lars Spuybroek: The Radical Picturesque
Monday October 26, 6 PM
Presented by: Architecture Rensselaer

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