26 MAY 11, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM Three-day video performance festival coming to Ridgewood’s nonprofi t arts organization BY ANTHONY GIUDICE AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM @A_GIUDICEREPORT A unique, three-day video performance festival featuring more than 20 diff erent performances and installations by some of the most exciting experimental sound and video artists across New York is coming to Ridgewood this June. The festival, called Confetti Machine, will take over Outpost Artists Resources from Friday, June 2, through Sunday, June 4. Curated by Eric Barry Drasin, Confetti Machine will immerse the audience in a multisensory experience through a combination of sound, music and video. The fi rst night of Confetti Machine will be Oceanic Motion, where artists will display their collaborations between immersive projection artists and vocal choirs, scores for networked computers and string ensembles, audiovisual group therapy sessions, and more. Oceanic Motion will feature the following artists: Bulgarian Voices Trio and Ursula Scherrer, Joseph Branciforte’s Generative String Ensemble, and Diggers – Group Process III. Saturday night will play host to Extended Gesture, where a series of single channel audiovisual performances investigating contemporary practices in New Cinema and Realtime Video Performance that combines the best parts of technical systems, performance, score and improvisation. “Realtime Media speaks to the instantaneous transformation of perception, and our power to make the hidden suddenly visible,” Drasin said. “Using custom tools, we manipulate the signals, data and contextual meanings that defi ne the networks of our society, sculpting a new method to hear and see. These exercises sharpen our critical faculties, illuminating the pervasive spectacle that subjugates our narrative to the benefi t of those in power.” Extended Gesture’s artists will be Anastasia Clarke, Diggers, BKLN!Zulu, David Linton, Naval Cassidy, Jonas Bers, Tara and David Gladden, Ashcan Orchestra, Mark Fingerhut, Jen Kutler, Rob Ramirez, Joshua Goldberg/Matthew Gantt, Dylan A. Marcheschi and Long Distance Poison. Rounding out the three-day festival will be Together Together — an improvised electronics round robin, which serves as a platform for tool builders, artists and engineers to experiment in a performance-based environment. Artists will set up in a circle and play short, interlocking sets in a clockwise fashion. Together Together will feature Pete Shapiro + David First, Camilla Padgitt Coles, Matt Romein, Benton C Bainbridge and Fan Letters. Tickets for Confetti Machine are $15 for each night of the festival, or $35 for a three-day pass, and can be purchased at https://friends.better. space/festival/confetti_machine_realtime_ media_festival. Outpost Artists Resources is located at 1665 Norman St. For more information about Outpost Artists Resources or Confetti Machine, visit their Facebook page. BUZZ See some of Queens’ most beautiful churches during ‘Sacred Sites’ weekend this month BY EMILY DAVENPORT You don’t have to travel the world to experience beautiful art, architecture and history. You can fi nd all of that right here in Queens during the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Open House Weekend. On May 20 and 21, the conservancy’s seventh annual “Sacred Sites Open House Weekend” will let the public take a glimpse inside some of the most remarkable churches and synagogues and look at the artistic styles, faith and periods. More than 60 sites in New York City and over 150 statewide will be participating in the weekend. This year’s theme is “Stained Glass: Windows on this World and the Next.” This theme will highlight the extraordinary works of American stained glass masters. The following congregations in Queens will be participating in the Open House Weekend: Church of the Resurrection: 85-09 118th St. (between 85th and Hillside Avenues), Kew Gardens, May 20, 1 to 4 p.m. Rego Park Jewish Center: 97-30 Queens Blvd., Rego Park, May 20, 12:30 to 2 p.m. & May 21, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church of Newtown: Queens Boulevard & 54th Avenue, Elmhurst, May 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Bowne House Museum: 37-01 Bowne St., Flushing, May 20, 1 to 5 p.m. Free Synagogue of Flushing: 136- 23 Sanford Ave., Flushing, May 20 & 21, noon to 3 p.m. “Don’t miss the wonderful opportunity the Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Open House presents to explore the art, architecture and history these religious institutions offer,” said Peg Breen, president of The New York Landmarks Conservancy. “It’s exciting to discover the riches in your own community.” For more information and a full list of participating sites, visit www. nylandmarks.org.
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