LAST ON STOREFRONT TV:

 

JANUARY 18 — DREAM + BEING CLOSING PARTY

E.S.P. TV  

BEING: The Gameshow
E.S.P. TV confronts the idea to “Dream” through the repurposing of a TV game show. The game show phenomena is intrinsically tied to american television broadcasting and middle class domestic living.  Each generation of TV viewers had their own show dedicated to fantasy-turned-reality, presenting the material wealth of the middle class as attainable prizes. 
Contestants vie against each other for money, prizes, vacations, new lives. For our live taping event, contestants will be challenged on their knowledge of  domestic life in New York City, today. Yes, they live here, but do they really exist here? 

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Storefront TV Studio events are free and open to the public. There is limited capacity within the studio and livestream is available at the Storefront Gallery. Programs are broadcasted live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/storefront-tv. 

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PAST AND FUTURE PROGRAMS of the pilot season of the STOREFRONT TV STUDIO

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OCTOBER

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OCTOBER 11 — CONNECT

E.S.P. TV
For the opening of BEING, E.S.P. TV broadcasted the first of 6 programs recorded in the Storefront TV Studio. Shows are produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN) and aired on Tuesday nights at 10PM on TW channel 67. After airing, the episodes are posted online at storefrontnews.org.

OCTOBER 15 — UNVEIL

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Box? 

Michael Young
Performance 1: Fear of Constraint is a performance enacting episodes from the 350-year love affair between architecture and drawing restraints from Desargues Theorem to Parametric Representation.

OCTOBER 22 — DISRUPT

E.S.P. TV
Presenting the second of 6 programs recorded in the Storefront TV Studio with Georgia (Brian Close as Justin Tripp), Cibo Matto (Hatori and Honda), and Matt Werth (Rvng records). Special guest movements by Maggie Lee and India Salvor Menuez. The space transforms to a living organism. 

 

The show is produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired on Tuesday nights at 10PM on TW channel 67 . After airing, the episodes are posted online at storefrontnews.org website.

 

OCTOBER 27— QUESTION

E.S.P. TV presents “Just Desserts”
The third of 6 programs recorded in the Storefront TV Studio, E.S.P. TV presents a cooking show with Saffron Eclair and Beby Hi! montaging past and present celebrity cooking shows, product commercials, and cues in social etiquette under a bizarre canopy of the absurd. 

 

The show is produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired on Tuesday nights at 10PM on TW channel 67 . After airing, the episodes are posted online at storefrontnews.org.


NOVEMBER

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NOVEMBER 13 — REACT

Perchance: A Talk Show of P’s
Prem Krishnamurthy
This first program will feature Peter Rostovsky, artist, Guillermo E. Brown of the band Pegasus Warning, and a surprise guest TBA. Over a three month period, like a hijacked episode of Sesame Street or a linguistically-challenged late night show, “Perchance” dedicates itself to the letter P by presenting a polyphony of people within its performative program.

 

NOVEMBER 21 — AMPLIFY

E.S.P. TV
The fourth of  6 programs with Robert Pietrusko. For this event, the artist transforms the broadcast studio into an oscillator. Six Microphones is a sound installation composed entirely of feedback. No sounds are generated, they are only amplified. The piece is an act of organized listening — listening to the space, to the audience and to itself. 


This installation is a participatory and sound-based installation. There is no script as such. The audience is invited to move through the work to thereby interact with the work. We visualize sound by raising ohm through our equipment and screening on montiors. All monitors are used for the opening event this way. There is ongoing historic footage, past E.S.P. TV material, news, and a monitor as osciliscope. 

 

The show is produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired on Tuesday nights at 10PM on TW channel 67 . After airing, the episodes are posted online at storefrontnews.org.


DECEMBER

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DECEMBER 11 — MERGE

Perchance: A Talk Show of P’s

6-7pm
Prem Krishnamurthy

Episode II of “Perchance” features actress Parker Posey, who amongst countless film roles starred in 1995’s Party Girl; Alexander Provan, editor of online magazine Triple Canopy and a participant in the 2014 Whitney Biennial; and Ksenya Samarskaya, a.k.a. ‘Postrophe, who may or may not speak about letters such as Pe, Pi, and P. 

 

Hosted by Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects, Paper Monument, and P!, “Perchance” is a talk show with a single organizing principle: all guests’ names (or pseudonyms) must start with the letter “P”. 

 

Like a hijacked episode of Sesame Street or a linguistically-challenged late night show, “Perchance” dedicates itself to the letter P by presenting a polyphony of people within its performative program.

 

DECEMBER 17 — DISRUPT

E.S.P. TV

The fifth of  6 programs with Erica Magrey and Jennifer Juniper Stratford. Studio visitors will browse a selection of corporate model androids produced by I.M.Communications, programmed with business and leadership skills, assertiveness training, and a range of social and artistic talents to ensure a well-rounded personality. Multiple levels of space, thought, and being bleed into one another in order to express, distress, and undress the I.M. Communications ethos. 

 

The show is produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired on Tuesday nights at 10PM. After airing, the episodes are posted online at storefrontnews.org.

 

JANUARY

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JANUARY 7 — UNVEIL

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Box? 

Michael Young

Performance 2: Fear of Tone is a drawing performance in three parts by Michael Young exploring the changing conditions of architecture’s technological mediation. In this performance, “Fear of Tone,” the line is lost into the groundless matrix of illuminated pixels formerly known as painting.

 

JANUARY 7 — UNVEIL

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Box? 

Michael Young

For Performance 3: Fear of Reproduction, fear of reproduction of the aesthetic act of cut and paste collage is revealed to be the source of serial repetitions of copy/paste in smaller and smaller, tighter and tighter, bit by bit mash-ups.

 

JANUARY 15 — QUESTION

Perchance: A Talk Show of P’s
Prem Krishnamurthy

Episode III of “Perchance” features gallerist Penny Pilkington, pioneer of the East Village art scene; Phillip Niemeyer, polymath designer, lawyer, and music video director; and Rob Giampietro a.k.a. Professor Pizza, who will help us to understand the constitution and contemporary contours of this paradigmatically palatable provender. 

 

Hosted by Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects, Paper Monument, and P!, “Perchance” is a talk show with a single organizing principle: all guests’ names (or pseudonyms) must start with the letter “P”. Like a hijacked episode of Sesame Street or a linguistically-challenged late night show, “Perchance” dedicates itself to the letter P by presenting a polyphony of people within its performative program.

 

JANUARY 18 — DREAM

E.S.P. TV

7:00 – 8:00pm ESPTV Gameshow (at the Storefront TV Studio)

8:00 – 9:00pm BEING Closing drinks (at the gallery)

BEING: The Gameshow
E.S.P. TV confronts the idea to “Dream” through the repurposing of a TV game show. The game show phenomena is intrinsically tied to american television broadcasting and middle class domestic living.  Each generation of TV viewers had their own show dedicated to fantasy-turned-reality, presenting the material wealth of the middle class as attainable prizes. 
Contestants vie against each other for money, prizes, vacations, new lives. For our live taping event, contestants will be challenged on their knowledge of  domestic life in New York City, today. Yes, they live here, but do they really exist here? 
Custom prizes for house and home, built by artist Clive Murphy, will be awarded to the winning contestant. With the right answer, they just might take home the object of their Crate and Barrel dreams.

 

The show is produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired on Tuesday nights at 10PM. After airing, the episodes are posted online at storefrontnews.org.

 

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Be sure to get Twitter updates @storefrontnyc @esptvnyc @p_exclamation

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About the Presenters

E.S.P. TV is a multi faceted organization that acts as a live studio broadcast, a program on public access television, and a theatrical performance. All events are taped live with a crew of cameramen, sound engineer, and video mixing team using analog broadcast media. Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and video mixing. The show is then edited and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired every Tuesday night at 10PM. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing. Our core mission is to preserve public broadcast, as well as showcase the ongoing use and ability of analog media in a digitally run world.  E.S.P. TV is an organization directed by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie dedicated to promoting the performing and media based arts. 

@esptvnyc

 

 

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Box?

A drawing performance in three parts by Michael Young exploring the changing conditions of architecture’s technological mediation. 


Michael Young is an architect and educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of the architectural design studio Young & Ayata. Their practice is focused on both speculative research and architectural projects. Michael currently teaches studios and seminars at The Cooper Union, Yale University, and Princeton University. His drawings have been exhibited recently in New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona, and in Lexington, Kentucky and are featured as part of the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program in New York. Michael earned his MArch II degree from Princeton University and his BArch from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is a registered architect in the State of New York.  In addition to practice and teaching, Michael is invested in writing and research in relation to the confluence of geometry, representation, and aesthetics.

 

 

Perchance: A Talk Show of P’s
Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects, Paper Monument, and P! conducts a talk show with a single organizing principle: all guests’ names (or pseudonyms) must start with the letter “P”.

 

Prem Krishnamurthy is a New York-based designer and curator. As a founding principal of award-winning design studio Project Projects, he has collaborated with clients including the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bozar Brussels, Guggenheim Museum, Mercosul Biennial, M+ Museum (Hong Kong), MoMA, RISD Museum, SALT Istanbul, Whitney Museum, and others. Project Projects is a two-time finalist for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s National Design Awards. Prem is also the director/curator of P!, a multidisciplinary exhibition space in New York City’s Chinatown. Since opening in September 2012, P!’s exhibitions with Åbäke, Thomas Brinkmann, Katarina Burin, Christine Hill, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Karel Martens, Sarah Oppenheimer, Amie Siegel, Société Réaliste, and others have been covered by publications including Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, ArtReview, Design Observer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. He has edited books including MATRIX / Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art (with Elizabeth Thomas) and Speculating on Change (with Vyjayanthi Rao and Carin Kuoni, forthcoming). Prem is the Associate Editor of the art journal Paper Monument and serves on the Board of Directors of the online editorial platform Triple Canopy.

 @p_exclamation

 

 

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ABOUT STOREFRONT TV

As part of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 30th Anniversary exhibition BEING , the organization launched the Storefront TV Studio, a platform for the broadcast of contemporary issues, ideas and projects that react to pressing challenges in public life throughout the history or Storefront, from the Gulf War to the Affordable Health Care Act. The Storefront TV Studio works as a live archive of present but also past projects developed by Storefront and brings art, news and ideas to audiences online through experimental formats. Programmed throughout the course of the exhibition is “Storefront TV: Season 1,” a series of talk shows, interviews and performances broadcast live from the Storefront basement on Ustream.

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