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Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo�s �Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated,� will be exhibited Thursday, Oct. 30 through Saturday, Dec. 6 at The Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College. The exhibit will open on Oct. 30 with a reception from 5 � 8 p.m. in the Teaching Gallery, where Singer and Ranaldo will also present a live improvisational performance during the opening reception. The reception, performance and the exhibition are free and open to the public. More information.

argh. free and open and I am at the other end of the world. like almost everytime

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Troy, NY - the new Brooklyn

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SPACE WITHIN THESE LINES NOT DEDICATED



Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated

Thursday, Oct. 30 through Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, at the Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College.

Opening on Thursday October 30th, 5 - 8PM
With a live, improvisational performance by the artists

Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated is an exhibition that explores the intersections and connections between things; sound and image, object and space, material and application, things fabricated, things found. Working individually and together, Singer and Ranaldo open a dialogue between themselves, where images and ideas contrast, compliment, re-occur, waver, juxtapose and contradict each other. Electric guitars hang in space; strobes flash against the light; quiet, still moments and loud moments that move loom cinematic; spoken word recordings alongside a variety of sounds from various sources build a fractured narrative. Their multifaceted works suggest that despite our collaged and contingent selves - and it is all we have - a voice can be found that reflects and refracts the very location and experience of living this fractured life adrift.

Leah Singer is an artist known equally for her self-published newspapers, film/video projects, and visual art. Leah’s signature silhouette drawings grew from a 1997 self-published, all-graphic newspaper called ‘copy’. This and subsequent editions have been included in various private and institutional collections including The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Lee Ranaldo, co-founder of the experimental rock band Sonic Youth, is a writer, visual artist and musician. His visual art and sound works have been presented in galleries and museums worldwide. The visual art exhibition “Sonic Youth etc : Sensational Fix” recently opened at the second venue (October 10, 2008, Museion, Bolzano, Italy) of an extensive tour.

Jan Van Woensel, an independent curator, art critic and lecturer based in New York and Los Angeles served as curatorial advisor to Singer and Ranaldo in the conception of this show. He has previously curated exhibitions that have included works by Ranaldo and/or Singer in New York, Miami, St. Louis and Los Angeles.


Director HVCC Teaching Gallery: Tara Fracalossi
Curatorial Advisor Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo: Jan Van Woensel
Press Contact: Jessica Shahda, (518) 629-7180, j.shahda@hvcc.edu
HVCC: http://www.hvcc.edu/teachinggallery

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Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer to perform at HVCC exhibit

Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer to perform at HVCC exhibit

By TIM KANE, Special to the Times Union

First published in print: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Before Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo was a print maker who just happened to play guitar. Then the heavily amplified atonal band took off in the mid-1980s, releasing a slew of recordings and hitting the road for more than nine months a year for a decade.
With such a busy schedule, visual art became secondary for Ranaldo. But this has been changing. Although Sonic Youth is intact, a less rigorous schedule has allowed Ranaldo to return to "flat" art as well as multimedia collaborations.
Both come together in "The Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated," through Dec. 6 at the Teaching Gallery at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. Several of Ranaldo's alluring black-and-white dry point prints with evocative textual musings are included in the exhibit, along with a series of balloon sculptures by his partner, Leah Singer.
Starting in 2006, Singer, a filmmaker, and Ranaldo collaborated in an ongoing performance concept called "Drift," which played in venues as diverse as grimy punk clubs in Marseille, France, and the Pompidou Center in Paris.
As part of the HVCC exhibit, Singer and Ranaldo will do a one-time take tonight on their latest endeavor entitled "I Love You I Hate You." Exactly what the gig is remains to be seen.
Ranaldo may pick up a guitar, which will hang eye-level from the ceiling for anyone to play after the duo departs. Or he might just hunker down behind a laptop full of archival sounds, bounce them around the gallery, waiting for Singer to counter with projected images against mirrors, a strobe light and the prints themselves.
"Who knows?" said Ranaldo from New York City recently. "I'm leaning towards the guitar."
As with "Drift," Singer says there's an overall "framework" in "I love You" but "whatever happens, happens." The show will start around 7 p.m. and "maybe last 20 or 30 minutes," Ranaldo said.
Improvisation is a hallmark of Sonic Youth, so why should this be any different? One thing is for sure: "It will be sonic," Singer said.
Tim Kane is a freelance writer living in Albany and a regular contributor to the Times Union.

Art happening
When: 5-8 tonight, reception; 7 tonight, improvisational performance; exhibit up until Dec. 6. Hours: 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 1-7 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday; noon-4 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Teaching Gallery, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy
Cost: Free Contact: http://www.hvcc.edu/teachinggallery


http://timesunion.com/AspStories/sto...&category=ARTS

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12 hours of drone

November 14, 2008


The day before Halloween I went and checked out Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer’s collaborative performance/installation “Space within these lines not dedicated” at Hudson Valley Community College. Lee ran from various rooms, swinging one guitar from a rope and just messing around on another, creating a full on sonic assault while Leah projected what appeared to be footage of a crowd in Japan. To top it off I got to meet Lee and told him I wanted to father his babies

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Sounds like a good time was had by all.

I keep saying this, but I'm clearly living in the wrong state (VA).