Research Catalog

Title

Levels of nothingness [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ; [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

c2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael.
• Rossellini, Isabella.
• Massumi, Brian.
• Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1 videodisc (PAL) (61 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

An interactive performance-installation, inspired by Kandinsky's Yellow sound, where colors are derived from the human voice. A computerized microphone analyzes a live voice and controls a full rig of robotic lights to create a color show using the language and clichés of spectacular Rock-and-Roll concert lighting. -- program notes.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

• Performance art
• Interactive art
• Lighting > Special effects

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Dance.

Note

• No video after approx. 54 min., only audio.
• Demonstration includes the lighting effects catagories: bodies, emotion, everything, emergence, histories, levels of nothingness, mysteries, naming, nothing, singular, spaces, transformations.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Sept. 21, 2009 (7:30 pm).

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Mary Sharp Cronson.

Contents

Introduction (ca. 15 min.) / by Charles Fabius and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer -- Levels of nothingness (ca. 22 min.) / concept, direction, visuals by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ; libretto, Brian Massumi, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ; programming, Conroy Badger, Stephan Schulz, Karine Charbonneau ; speech and dialect coach, Sam Chwat ; performer, Isabella Rossellini -- Demonstration (ca. 11 min.) -- Post demonstration (ca. 12 min.).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5313

OCLC

471772793

Title

Levels of nothingness [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ; [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

c2009.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Performer

Performer, Isabella Rossellini.

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Sept. 21, 2009 (7:30 pm).

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael. Speaker

Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael. Artist

Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael. Director

Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael. Conceptor

Rossellini, Isabella. Performer

Massumi, Brian. Author

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor NN-PD

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5313