Friday, Dec 2, 2016
7:00 – 10:00 PM
Sandbar Lounge
6752 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33141
On the occasion of Eli Keszler's LP release at Printed Matter, Empty Gallery will present a live performance by Keszler for NADAWAVE. NADAWAVE is a year-round programming series founded by Common Space and NADA that brings together experimental live music, performances, and nightlife. The program focuses on artists and musicians working with challenging sounds and influences, presented in the context of a vibrant high-energy dance party. In collaboration with partners, NADA has consistently showcased breakout musicians, DJs, and performance at parties, including Alterazioni Video, Fatima Al Qadri, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Deerhoof, Dent May, Diamond Terrifier, The Drums, Casey Jane Ellison, Fade to Mind, Gang Gang Dance, IOIA, Matthew Higgs, JUICEBOXXX, Juliana Huxtable, Ken Kagami, Kingdom, Maggie Lee, Max McFerren, Malcolm Mooney, Merkx & Gwynne, Narcissister, Nils Bech, Nguzunguzu, No Age, Omulu, Panda Bear, Michael Portnoy, Jory Rabinovitz, Scott and Tyson Reeder, Sadaf, Jon Santos, Omar Souleyman, Tygapaw, and more. |
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Empty Gallery is a 4,500 square foot space located at the edge of Aberdeen Harbor in Tin Wan, Hong Kong. With a strong emphasis on the experiential and experimental, exhibitions are curated within the context of the gallery’s unique space. Founded by Stephen Cheng, the gallery showcases established and emerging artists alongside a program of experimental and pioneering multimedia commissions, performances and music.
Eli Keszler (b. 1983 in Boston, MA) is a New York-based artist, composer, and percussionist whose practice is situated within the intersections of architecture, performance, installation, notation, and composition. Keszler’s installations and visual work have appeared at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; The Kitchen, New York; South London Gallery, London, UK; Barbican, London, UK; LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; Tectonics Festival Reykjavik, Iceland; and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands; among many others. Keszler has toured extensively throughout Europe and the US, performing solo and in collaboration with artists such as Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Oren Ambarchi, Joe McPhee, Jandek, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, T Model Ford, Ran Blake, and Ilan Volkov with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. His writing and work has appeared in Bomb Magazine, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Frieze, and Modern Painters.
David Grubbs has appeared on more than 150 commercially released recordings, including 13 solo albums, the most recent of which is Prismrose (Blue Chopsticks, 2016). He is the author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (Duke University Press, 2014). Grubbs was a founding member of the group Gastr del Sol and has appeared on recordings by Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Matmos, Will Oldham, the Red Krayola and many others. His ongoing collaborations include projects with visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch as well as with writers Susan Howe and Rick Moody. Grubbs is a grant recipient in music/sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and director of the Blue Chopsticks record label.
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