Centre A presents The 13Th OurTube

Wednesday, December 17th
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Hosts: Joomi Seo & Christopher Olson
Free Admission. Everyone welcome.

Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
2 West Hastings Street

For the 13th edition of Our Tube, you are warmly invited to join two Vancouver based artists Joomi Seo and Christopher Olson for an evening of sound and art appreciation. This will also be the last public event at Centre A in 2008. We hope to see you there and catch up before everyone goes away for the holiday. 

Joomi Seo will introduce the collaborative music project No World Improvisations by Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli. Jin Hi Kim is a composer and komungo performer studied in Korea and the U.S. Joseph Celli is a composer/double-reed performer/inter-media artist whose works range from solo acoustic to works with live electronics, mixed/multi-media, and improvisation. Using both traditional and new techniques, they present personal yet culturally rooted music. Also, screening excerpts from Phill Niblock's "Guitar too, for four", a.k.a. "G2, 44", will be presented. Niblock is a composer/multi-media artist/director of Experimental Intermedia based in New York, who applies the notion of minimalism to his music. 

The second part of the evening, Christopher Olson will be looking at the works of Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai, and the way both navigate experimental and electronic music and contemporary art. Ryoji Ikeda was a member of Japanese multimedia performance art group Dumb Type, and uses raw data and frequencies (sometimes beyond the range of human hearing) along with elements of performance, video and installation. Carsten Nicolai is a German sound and visual artist, working with space, form, mathematics and science. Working within the field of electronic music as Alva Noto and Cyclo, his fragmentary approach has led to a series of collaborations with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Excerpts of performances by both artists will be shown. Also, a brief look at phonography and field recording, exploring the sound of the outside world as a medium and palette with which to create new works, via sites like soundtransit.nl and Seattle's Phonographer's Union.

Joomi Seo is a multi-disciplinary artist who emigrated from Seoul Korea. Her current interest lies on sounding instruments in the context of performance art. She is a graduate of Emily Carr University and has shown works and performed in Vancouver and Boston. Seo is a board member of LIVE 2009 and her work has been part of recently published book Carte Blanche Vol. 2 Painting by Magenta Foundation in Toronto.

Christopher Olson is a writer, photographer and sound artist based in Vancouver. He writes regularly for Border Crossings, Vancouver Review, and Discorder. He is also a frequent photo contributor to Front Magazine. He has an upcoming residency and solo show at Blim Arts Society (Vancouver) in January 2009. Olson co-curates with Shane Krause for Standard Grey Editions, a small-run 3" CD-R label specializing in experimental and improvised music. To find out more, please visit standardgrey.blogspot.com. 

For more information, please contact: info[at]centrea.org or 604-683-8326