Christina Campanella is a multidisciplinary artist whose work utilizes music composition, recording, sound design, and performance to explore the intersection of live presence and electronic reproduction.
PARTS ARE EXTRA with filmmaker Peter Norrman (NYSCA Film, Media, New Technologies 2011); Live-sound installation BREATHE 2011, with sculptor Arthur Ganson (Kresge Gallery, Ramapo, NJ); multiple collaborations with Joe Diebes since 2003. Resident artist, HERE Arts Center (2006-09): RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE (EMPAC 10, Noorderzon 09, HERE 09) and TINDER (HERE 10, EXIT 09). Known as a performer for her "ethereal voice and instrumental prowess" (BUST Magazine), has toured extensively in music and theater: Theatre Garonne (Toulouse, FR), Fin de Siecle (Nantes, FR), STEIM (Amsterdam), Watermill Center (NY), Fusebox Festival (Austin), Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Long Beach Opera (CA), and art-rock clubs throughout the U.S. and Europe. Bands: Five Dollar Priest, Parker & Lily.
PETER NORRMAN (film/video) | CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA (music/sound)
With special guests: Joe Diebes, guitar (Thursday), and Erich Schoen-Rene (Friday)
Tickets and Show Info: http://here.org/shows/detail/817/
On a shared bill with Bora Yoon & Luke Dubois
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Peter Norrman • Christina Campanella
PARTS ARE EXTRA
a sound and cinema project
February 2nd & 3rd, 2012, HERE Arts Center (NYC): Christina Campanella & Peter Norrman perform live music in concert with a selection of short, experimental films taken from their 12-part series Parts Are Extra, an art platform with which to investigate the elusive language of cinema. Blending sonic collage with documentary-style footage and re-purposed archival recordings in both media, the duo creates a starkly fantastical universe of dystopian landscapes and eerie, dreamlike worlds. Driven by a live score of deconstructed electronic art songs, fractured narratives of uncharted journeys, spaces of transition, modern decay and the fragility of the natural world are subtly revealed.
I’m currently creating the sound installation Breathe, for “Arthur Ganson: Kinetic Mandala,” a showing of machine art by the Boston-based scupltor. A response to Ganson’s Machine with Breath, 1992, Breathe is live processing and composition of the sound of the work’s mechanical bellows, made audible via wireless headphones throughout the gallery. Opening reception with artist talks on November 2nd 2011.
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Arthur Ganson: Kinetic Mandala
Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College Art, Ramapo, New Jersey
November 2 - December 7 2011
Curated by Daniel Mason
This exhibition will feature over fifteen works by Boston-based artist Arthur Ganson that span the last thirty years of the artist’s achievement in kinetic art, video, drawing and photography. Programming will include a field trip to the artist’s studio, a lecture presentaton by Arthur Ganson, artist talks by Christina Campanella, Chehalis Hegner, and Mary ann Hoag, and a screening of the film “Machine with Wishbone” with director Randall Okita.
OBVIOUS THREAT | film 4:59
film, video: peter norrman | music, sound: christina campanella
part one of experimental film and sound platform PARTS ARE EXTRA
playing back the master from my tape loop installation and audio blog, the thing itself (2008)
(MAHWAH, NJ) - Arthur Ganson: Kinetic Mandala, a Ramapo Curatorial Prize exhibition surveying the works of Arthur Ganson, opens in the Kresge Gallery in the Berrie Center at Ramapo College on November 2 and continues through December 7. A panel discussion with curator Daniel Mason and artists Arthur Ganson, Christina Campanella, Chehalis Hegner, and Randall Okita will take place on November 2 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Adler Theater, and will be followed by an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. An artist and curator talk will be held at 6 p.m. in the Kresge Gallery. The exhibition will showcase the career of the Boston-based artist, featuring more than 20 works that span the past 30 years of his achievement in kinetic art and video.
Works inspired by Ganson’s art will also be featured including a musical score by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, photographs by Chehalis Hegner, and a short film by Randall Okita. In addition to these extant works, two new pieces have been specifically commissioned for this exhibition. New York-based composer Christina Campanella’s live-sound installation Breathe (2011) utilizes noises produced in real time from Ganson’s sculpture Machine with Breath (1992); and Boston-based photographer Chehalis Hegner has created a photograph that serves as the exhibition’s poster image.
more photos from botch by joe diebes, with xtina and john rose. next showing: late january 2012 at here arts center, nyc.
RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE | live at EMPAC, november 2010
documentation of the full show | created by latitude 14
christina campanella (music, sound) | stephanie fleischmann (words)
peter norrman (video) | mirit tal (live video) | mallory catlett (direction)
Spending the week at the Watermill Foundation Center working on the first draft of a new opera by composer Joe Diebes and poet Christian Hawkey. With director David Levine and fellow vocalists John Rose and Jonathan Kline.
