Doors 7:30p
Program 8:00p

UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

We’re thrilled to be joined by artist, Madison Brookshire, to share an expanded version of his work, Double or Nothing, and selections from Number Series, accompanied by live musical performances by LCollective. Through immersive, expanded cinema and live music performance, the audience is invited to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time.

In Double or Nothing, dual, offset 16mm projectors create an un-moving image of light, while a sine tone plays out of nearby speakers. In response to this dissonance of low chords and mechanical hums, Brookshire, accompanied by LCollective, will use instruments and voices to create long tones that harmonize with and amplify the space created by the mechanically established soundscape. Number Series delves into a visual exploration of dissonance and harmony, utilizing overlapping film projections and offset patterns of colors.

These unique performances will investigate hybrid forms of experimental film, music, and art; finding the vibrations between these often blending art forms, and challenging the traditional one-way relationship between the audience and the screen.

This will be a night of exciting and one-of-a-kind performances, be sure to come down!

Program

Double or Nothing Expanded by Madison Brookshire and LCollective

Duration variable, 2024

Offset 16mm projectors create an unmoving image: a field of light with a bright, inset rectangle. Sine tone, instruments, and voices play long tones that harmonize with and amplify the sound of the projectors or else are dissonant, making vibrations we feel as much as hear. Nothing happens.

Selections from Number Series by Madison Brookshire

approximately 30 mins, 2022-2024

Double projection creates an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence, creating an array of phenomena in the process.

Program Duration: Variable

Bios

Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles, where he makes films, paintings, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. Finding sympathies between experimental film, music, and art, he investigates hybrid forms, often inhabiting the areas at the edges of disciplines, where they begin to touch and vibrate one another. He frequently works with musicians and composers, such as Ezra Buchla, LCollective, Laura Steenberge, Mark So, and Tashi Wada. His awards include being named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, an ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and being an Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center and the Hammer Museum.

Teodora Stepančić is a composer, pianist and curator, founder of Piano+ and Shared Space concert series in Brooklyn, and core member of Netherlands based ensemble Modelo 62.

Douglas Farrand is a composer and musician living in Newark NJ. He works at the University of Orange, a free school and popular education center in Orange NJ, as a cultural and place-based community organizer. He plays the trumpet, cassette tapes, and assorted detritus.

Assaf Gidron is a composer, musician and sound designer. Originally from Tel Aviv, Assaf lived in the UK and the Netherlands before moving to Brooklyn where he writes and performs music, works in film sound, runs the Big Family Audio Co. studio and uploads images to the @moreshapes Instagram page.

Katie Porter plays clarinet, bass clarinet, sings, writes songs and curates performances. She exists mainly in the experimental realm, but can sometimes be found elsewhere.

Jesse Greenberg is a Queens-based percussionist, keyboardist, composer, and arts educator. He performs with the troubadour-inspired trio Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg, as a soloist, and as a glassy ruckus. He is the founding percussionist and composer-in-residence with ensemble ShoutHouse.

Mexican-American cellist, Laura Cetilia is at home with in-betweenness, straddling multiple worlds as cellist / composer / educator / artist while working within acoustic / electronic / traditional / experimental sound practices. Her compositions have been described as “unorthodox loveliness” (Boston Globe) and hailed as “alternately penetrating and atmospheric” (Sequenza 21). Her works have been performed by TAK Ensemble, loadbang, Mivos Quartet, Splinter Reeds, Dog Star Orchestra, a.pe.ri.od.ic, LCollective, and others.

JORDAN DYKSTRA (b. 1985, Sioux City, Iowa) is a Brooklyn-based violist and composer exploring the performer-composer-listener relationship through the incorporation of conceptual, graphic, and text-based elements.