https://www.lauranewell.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2024-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/1710797470652-56ZHE3FWG1MN19DXHRPK/momentous%2Blineup.jpg Home Role: Programmer Date: March 9th, 2024 Momentous marked my debut as a festival curator, and it was an overwhelming success, selling out on the day of the event. What truly made Momentous magical was the collaborative effort with my co-curators: Katie Robertson, Curator of Food and Community; Cynthia Post Hunt, Curator of Performance; and Rin Piesert, Curator of Relative Intensity Noise. Together, alongside the wonderful efforts made by our entire production team, whose dedication and hard work were instrumental in bringing the vision of Momentous to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/41c43bfb-5fc6-43d7-aa92-1e0c71ee7e28/jon+batiste.png Home Role: Programmer As part of our Live on the Green concert series, Jon Batiste is set to come play April 23rd, 2024 on the Momentary Green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/bbba14e6-8c32-40aa-a961-4612c1b2ddb9/birdman+live.png Home Role: Programmer As part of our RODE House music series, Antonio Sanchez is bringing "Birdman Live". This is a live drum score by the original composer, Antonio Sanchez, while the movie Birdman plays behind him for the audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/0c427a9c-9780-4d21-8c0c-edf86fd4c953/the+dip.png Home Role: Programmer The Dip is set to come and play in our RODE House, April 13th 2024, with opener Jermaine Albino. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/7db43062-04d2-40c3-a5d8-20d1ca44e92f/chicano+batman.png Home Role: Programmer Chicano Batman is set to play the RODE House on May 1st, 2024, with opener Lido Pimienta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/83eae969-398b-46d9-bb40-0266d8ce689b/john+legend.png Home Role: Programmer John Legend is set to play "An Evening with John Legend" on the Momentary Green on June 1st, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/bc1bbef9-79d0-4a62-85e0-663e52e45fe7/portugal+the+man.png Home Role: Programmer Portugal. The Man is set to play the Momentary Green on July 6th, 2024 with opener Spoonbenders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/9ea5b782-b5b3-403e-95e1-7d60f200c3a1/nitty+gritty.png Home Role: Programmer Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is set to play the Momentary Green on July 14th, 2024 as part of our Live on the Green concert series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/316a6dbb-93da-40b8-982b-1d5111efc539/lake+street+dive.png Home Role: Programmer Lake Street Dive is set to play on July 17th, 2024, on the Momentary Green as part of our Live on the Green concert series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/82d892ea-04c7-482f-b5c7-98e97261524f/deadmau5.png Home Role: Programmer Deadmau5 is coming to play August 24th, 2024 on the Momentary Green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/2761ac9e-b51f-4f66-81c1-f870552382b9/slash+.png Home Role: Programmer Slash is bringing his brand-new blues festival- S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival to the Momentary on August 16th, 2024. This is a four-act bill, with Robert Randolph, ZZ Ward, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, and Slash himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/fa981cc9-6eba-45b0-a72c-88d5c459a04c/kaskade.png Home Role: Programmer Kaskade is coming to the Momentary on September 24th, 2024, to play the Momentary Green as part of the Live on the Green series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/ee2cfcec-a48e-450a-ba6d-9189897e9348/rossy+mija.png Home Role: Programmer Date: Dec 16th, 2023 I wanted to organize an all-female electronic bill, so Rossy and Mija were the perfect fit for a sold-out show. It marked the first of many electronic activations at the Momentary that I started implementing to cultivate the electronic music community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/e7e9fc6f-b591-456c-a2b0-9d5e84cb8294/adeem+the+artist.png Home Role: Programmer Date: January 5th, 2024 I wanted a fun, non-traditional country show, and Adeem the Artist was perfect for this. They were co-billed with Dylan Earl and Ashtyn Barbaree for a full night of country entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/4126ef85-9b05-4fe0-bd07-c504f8eaa59f/astral+project.png Home Role: Co-Programmer Date: January 26th, 2024 In collaboration with the NWA Jazz Society, I teamed up with Robert Ginsberg to bring the vibrant sounds of New Orleans jazz to the Rode House for a sold-out show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/7c6a5976-f26b-4dab-b08d-e7729b6e6f2b/soccer+mommy.png Home Role: Programmer Date: January 27th, 2024 Soccer Mommy, with opening act stepmom from OKC, was a brilliant sold-out show that attracted a younger audience, a demographic we've previously struggled to reach. It was gratifying to see new, youthful faces and introduce them to concerts tailored to their tastes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/82a69421-634d-4f1c-89d8-9424c9e6d556/step+mom.png Home Role: Programmer Date: January 27th, 2024 Stepmom, the opening act from OKC for Soccer Mommy, captivated the audience with their performance, leaving everyone in awe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/07ac268a-9d07-49d4-987c-bb483fdd20f7/soul+rebels.png Home Role: Programmer Date: February 2nd, 2024 I aimed to curate a New Orleans jazz experience, and the Soul Rebels were the perfect fit. To elevate it further, we invited guest MC Talib Kweli to the show, which truly brought the entire experience together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/1322d5f3-2aac-4064-aea7-54e46aff5bbe/little+joe.png Home Role: Programmer Date: February 24th, 2024 This band of Texas troubadours, led by “King of the Brown Sound” Little Joe Hernández, brought their Grammy-award winning talents to the Momentary, live on the RØDE House stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/0bb670ca-a36a-4992-b367-272f53630d9d/junior+brown.png Home Role: Programmer Date: January 27th, 2024 Junior Brown's performance was a blast and drew in an audience we typically struggle to reach. His eclectic style and infectious energy brought a refreshing vibe to the venue, creating a memorable night for both longtime fans and newcomers alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/91c3b08e-3760-4fe0-aafd-c48070bf652f/3deadidols.png Home Role: Co-Programmer Date: February 23rd, 2024 A local hip-hop show featuring 3DEADIDOLS, Lydia Newsom, Avian Alia, and DK Stargod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/7b0b7717-63dc-43ed-8771-3febd5245782/dylan+earl.png Home Role: Programmer Date: January 5th, 2024 Dylan Earl opening up for Adeem the Artist in the RODE House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/861f9238-116c-4db1-b7a1-f9195b4eb341/wu+tang.png Home Role: Acting Programmer Date: October 28th, 2024 Wu-Tang Clan is a New York-based hardcore hip-hop group, consisting of nine artists: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard until his death in 2004. Among its members are multi-platinum selling solo artists, multi-platinum record producers, Grammy winners, TV and film stars, screenwriters, product spokespersons, business owners and, most recently, major motion picture composers. One of the most critically and commercially successful hip-hop groups of all time, Wu-Tang Clan shot to fame through their uncompromising brand of hardcore rap music. Since their debut, they have introduced or launched the careers of numerous other artists and groups, and already in 1994 there were credited to be over 300 Wu-Tang Clan affiliates, known as the Wu-Tang Killa Bees, consisting of rappers, producers, and record label CEOs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/ff3bf574-83b4-4a54-badb-e9b5efd94837/alvvays.png Home Role: Acting Programmer Date: September 9th, 2023 Indie-rock band Alvvays on stage for our 2023 Live on the Green Series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/b50cdd97-523b-43f6-b3bb-25beb497100c/julia+jacklin.png Home Role: Acting Programmer Date: September 9th Julia Jacklin opening up for Alvvays on the Momentary Green for our Live on the Green series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/c0c5ae5b-724f-4e30-835d-b33dea445e1b/will+rawls.png Home Role: Programming Assistant Date: April 21 & 22 In the dance performance and video installation [siccer], Will Rawls experiments with stop-motion filmmaking techniques, wherein still photographs are strung together to produce a moving image, to consider how Black gestures are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in lens-based media. The project’s title is driven by the Latin adverb “[sic],” which indicates incorrect spelling within a quotation and which is often employed to contrast Black vernacular speech with standard English. Rawls turns this conflict on its head in order to illuminate the verbal and physical play of Black performance as something that eludes capture on screen and in language—and that speculates on the potential of strategies for narrating the world, uncorrected. [siccer] Performance Concept, Choreography and Direction: Will Rawls Performance: Holland Andrews, keyon gaskin, jess pretty, Katrina Reid, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Sound Design and Vocals: Holland Andrews and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Technical Director: David Szlasa Lighting and Scenic Designer: Maggie Heath Costume Designer: Saša Kovačević Dramaturg: Kemi Adeyemi Studio Rawls Director: Rebecca Fitton Producer: Sasha Okshteyn Assistant Producer: Indigo Sparks Company Manager: Alejandro Flores Monge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/a0237013-8bed-47b7-b548-7ba747163a16/caterina.png Home Role: Acting Programmer Date: April 8th, 2023 The musical vortexes of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Listening to the Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso has felt like traveling at light speed and slow motion all at once since 2017’s breakthrough double-album Patterns Of Consciousness. Far beyond any new age trope or modern synth trend, her music stands alone in its ecstatic intensity and cataclysmic emotional impact. Marking the debut album on her new label light-years, Barbieri now delivers her most profound work yet—a journey through inner-space as vast as a universe and as intimate as a heartbeat. The Spirit Exit opens and we fall in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/b74a072f-fc60-4952-8bc2-cb64e2a692bb/fujita.png Home Role: Acting Programmer Date: March 24th, 2024 Yosuke Fujita, also known as FUJI||||||||||TA, is a sound artist, organist, and composer based in Japan. Fujita’s artistic practice centers on the exploration, manipulation, and presentation of sounds commonly found within nature, including the use of air, water, and even the echolocation of bats. The crux of his performances is his hand-built pipe organ—an instrument that Fujita based on the traditional Japanese musical concept of gagaku, a slow and elegant form of classical music found in the 7th century. The organ itself is built of 11 pipes and has no keys. It utilizes an air pump, known as fuigo, which is modeled after a historic blacksmith’s own tools. The organ is reliant solely on the skill of its creator in order to produce a sound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/dd073041-e7df-41ae-b305-2e7104105c3f/yarn+wire.png Home Role: Programming Assistant Date: Mar 3, Mar 4, Mar 5, 2023 A co-production of: Rainy Days Luxembourg, Wien Modern, the Momentary, Ultima Festival Oslo, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Elbphilharmonie. This interactive performance with music and comics drawn for the occasion takes us to a forest full of special sounds—a place where children can also invent, discover and collect sounds of their own. Daisy Press, Voice Yarn/Wire Øyvind Torvund, Composition Åshild Kanstad Johnsen, Illustrations, Concept, and Story Brittany Bland, Video Design Nitsann Scharf, Additional Video Production David Horvitz and Magin Schantz, Interactive Activities Maciej Lewandowski, Production Itohan Edoloyi, Lighting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65f890fd554b407628a16885/9fe71781-bc3e-4215-8b86-513538d3e35d/jonathan+gonz.png Home Role: Programming Assistant Date: Feb 3-15, 2023 ABOUT PEREJIL In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the deaths of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent along the two nations’ borders. Over the course of five to eight days, 12,000 to 35,000 were killed based on how they pronounced the word “perejil,” or “parsley” in Spanish, and how their pronunciation of the “r” gave away their Haitian Kreyol mother tongue. González’s durational duet for two—one performer and a body of parsley-mycelial bricks—reflect on this massacre as performers construct and dismantle a brick wall into a river formation almost endlessly, coupled by speech acts that reflect on this historical wound which continues to impact the physical and psychological borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Euro-American acts of intervention. Composing an immersive environment that weaves sound, projection, sculpture, and performance, Perejil seeks to provide a space for visitors to contemplate these independent and geographically interconnected Latin American nations with bonded Afro-Latin diasporic heritages and diasporic futures in a globalized present. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Jonathan González Jonathan González facilitates their work through the entity studio:cero. González’s pedagogical investments and creative practice are situated at the intersections of performance, with an attention to the interrelations of insurgent aesthetics, political economy, black study and embodiment. González‘s creative works unfold as performance for text and choreography, video art, sonic soundscapes, and platforms for collaborative study, arts advocacy, lecture and curation. These works are activated within the sites of theatrical spaces, galleries and museums, virtual spaces, and printed matter. Their pedagogy extends from their creative practice, adapting methods of ethnography, lecture and gathering to engender experimentation towards otherwise modalities of collaboration, representation and political education. González’s writings have been published by EAR | WAVE | EVENT, Dance/NYC, Regiones:CENTRAL, Movement Research Journal, Contemporaryand, The Creative Independent, Contact Quarterly, Cultured Magazine, deem journal, Angela’s Pulse, among others. They have been a recipient of fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Art Matters Foundation as well as a resident-artist with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Dance and Process: The Kitchen, Trinidad Performance Institute, Center for Afro-futurist Studies and Loghaven Artist Residency. Rena Anakwe, Soundscape Composer Rena Anakwe is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, poet and healer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality, and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology. Most recently, she was awarded a 2022 Art Matters Artist2Artist Fellowship, a 2021-2022 MacDowell Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Arts, a 2022 Jack Nusbaum Artist Residency at BAM and the 2021 Canadian Women Artists’ Award from NYFA & the CWC of New York. Currently her solo and collaborative work can be experienced at: The Guggenheim Museum and SCAD Museum of Art. Rena has collaborated, produced, and shown work at (select list): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Basilica Hudson, TFNA (Theatre for a New Audience), Park Avenue Armory/NY Live Arts, En Garde Arts/Brookfield Place, Weeksville Heritage Center and the Dia Foundation. She is based in Brooklyn, New York, by way of Nigeria and Canada. LaJuné McMillian, Motion Capture Technologist LaJuné McMillian is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJune believes in making by diving into, navigating, critiquing, and breaking systems and technologies that uphold systemic injustices to decommodify our bodies, undo our indoctrination, and make room for different ways of being. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at Pioneer Works, National Sawdust, Tribeca Film Festival, and Times Square. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies and fellowships at the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, NYU ITP, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College. Grace Jung, Bio-art Set Designer Grace Jung is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator devoted to collective healing through the process of world-building. She engages in the symbiotic interplay of diverse beings to co-create new worlds, collaborating with fungi, plants, scientists, architects, and engineers. The materiality of her work is born of a regenerative process that involves working in tandem with original biomaterials, mycelium, algae, and discarded objects to create new forms that are living. Her practice manifests in sculptural, installational, and experiential moments that bring forth the inherent interconnectivity that flows through all bodies. The parallel cultivation of relationships across scales raises questions of what it is to be alive and grow together. Grace studied Art Practice and Economics at UC Berkeley and completed independent research in bio-design at Central Saint Martins. She continues to engage in work that rewilds urban ecosystems through the Research and Design Fellowship at Terreform ONE, where she is now a Design Strategist. Performers Lucero Aguirre Robyn Jordan Simone Cottrell Allison Griffin Ben Edwards K. Angel Horne https://www.lauranewell.com/about daily 0.75 2024-03-18