Activations
Vollsonar for Infinite Edges
FSIK HUVNX with Richard Vergez
August 28th, 2019
Miami Design District in collaboration with Ground Control Miami and Placeholder present Vollsonar for Infinite Edges, a performance by FSIK HUVNX and Richard Vergez.
As part of programming for ALL THAT IS SOLID, Ground Control Miami and Placeholder have invited musicians David Brieske and Richard Vergez to activate S/223 by introducing minimalistic sounds to build upon the exhibition's exploration of cross-disciplinary practices. For this, the final activation, the gallery will act as a performative environment where the works included in the exhibition become spectators, along with the audience, to this intimate gathering.
Vollsonar for Infinite Edges was originally recorded by FSIK HUVNX for bowed guitar; heard as accompaniment for a choreographed performance by Sabrina Talamo and the Second Tunnel Movement on August 15, 2019. The music that once filled the atmosphere of Paradise Plaza, dressing the environment prevailed by Yona Friedman's public sculpture, Space-Chain Phantasy, 2019, will now engulf the gallery to form a new language with the works featured in the exhibition. During Vollsonar for Infinite Edges, FSIK HUVNX will recreate a variation of the original recording in a live collaborative performance with Richard Vergez.
Temporal Replication
Jenna Balfe with Abagael / Sound by Sticky Bunz
August 22nd, 2019
In collaboration with Miami Design District & Placeholder
Miami Design District in collaboration with Ground Control Miami and Placeholder present: Temporal Replication by Jenna Balfe with Abagael Mahoney and sounds by Sticky Bunz
Temporal Replication introduces the opportunity to create a performative environment on a site commonly intended for leisure and consumption. The site-specific performance, inspired by Urs Ficher’s public sculpture, Bus Stop, 2017, suggests viewers engage with space and place while allowing opportunities for dialogue between art, architecture, design, and performance.
Urs Fischer’s public sculpture, Bus Stop, 2017, commissioned for Miami Design District’s, Paradise Plaza, alludes to references of non-gendered, neutral culture via the reduced quality of the skeleton––a feeling of ‘uncontrollable-ness’ is implied by the constant drops on the head and the seemingly unintentional pool of water that remains on the ground. Working in reaction to Fischer’s commentary, Temporal Replication incorporates the site-specificity of Bus Stop, 2017, asking us to take a moment and accept both the humor and horror, in times largely experienced through the dissemination of media/consumption frenzy.
Miami-based band Sticky Bunz will perform alongside Balfe during the activation followed by a short set including the three artists.
Infinite Edges
Sabrina Talamo & Second Tunnel Movement
August 15th, 2019
In collaboration with Miami Design District & Placeholder
Miami Design District in collaboration with Ground Control Miami and Placeholder present: Infinite Edges, a performance choreographed by Sabrina Talamo (Second Tunnel Movement).
As part of programming for ALL THAT IS SOLID, GCM & Placeholder invited choreographer Sabrina Talamo to activate a space dedicated to public sculpture. This intervention by Second Tunnel Movement explores the relationship between architecture, design, and performance while presenting a platform for discourse within the community.
Infinite Edges explores various movement textures, and shapes inspired by the landscape that encompasses Yona Friedman’s sculpture, Space-Chain Phantasy, 2019; commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and Miami Design District. Created as a structured improvisation, the dancers will use their environment, architectural boundaries, and intuition to highlight the complexities of Friedman’s design while creating their own in real-time.
Music by FSIK HUVNX.
TOMA @ Edge Zones Gallery
Performances by: DasSad, Diem Dangerous Rose, Fsik Huvnx, Honorable Demons, Krzystof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Street Rat, The Imbecile
January 12th, 2018
Organized by Ground Control Miami, the one-night performance intervention at Edge Zones Gallery curated 7 activations using time and light as the interruption that gave fluid transition from one to the next.
Special Thanks to BXLDR Miami for providing the local brews to accompany a night of performances.
Deductions: Organized by Danielle Mink with Ground Control Miami
Performances by: Coleman Zurkowski, Andean Shrine, Dracula, Rene Nunez Cabrera, Cienfuegos, Das Sad, Nick Klein & Secret Boyfriend
December 4th, 2017
Deductions a performative intervention organized by Danielle Mink. The evening of rooftop performances was organized as an extension of the Sunrise, Sunset exhibition. Deductions considered the context of the gallery as a repository of sound for the neighborhood of Little Haiti. Utilizing the intimacy of the gallery rooftop, multiple composers and artists explored derivatives in sound, while also working with various materials, approaches, and techniques.
Jonas Mekas, Walden Parts I & II
Miami Design District in collaboration with OMM
March 26th, 2016
In 2016, Ground Control Miami and Miami’s Design district welcomed seminal artist, filmmaker, and poet Jonas Mekas, to the Miami Design District for a screening of the artist’s diary film opus, Walden Parts I and II.
Since the mid-1950s, the Lithuanian-born Mekas (b. 1922) has remained at the forefront of the American avant-garde and alternative cinema, working alongside friends like Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger, and influencing subsequent generations of filmmakers and artists.
Walden was Mekas’ first diary film, originally titled Diaries, Notes, and Sketches, 1969. Representative of Mekas’ oeuvre, the six-part Walden is an intensely personal record of daily life in New York City edited from a collection of images gathered by Mekas using a Bolex 16mm camera. Walden was strung together in chronological order and presented with sounds he collected during the same period.