Video and Wine-tasting Benefit

Wine tasting by King Estate Winery

Video art screening curated by Richard Jochum

Music by Justin King and Tremble & Wag

Sample King Estate's world-renowned organic Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris along with a choice selection of inspiring video art! Justin King (of the King Estate Winery family) and Dumbo-area musicians will compliment the evening with acoustic music to sip by. A raffle for select Dumbo-area goods and services will round out this delightful spring evening.

Noah Klersfeld, still from "Water Undulating", 2010

Admission is $10, which includes 3 tokens for tastings of King Estate wines and hors devours. Additional tastings are $3.00. Admission can be reserved in advance or purchased at the door. The evening features short video program sponsored by Leo Kuelbs Collection and curated by conceptual artist, Richard Jochum. All proceeds from this event will go towards supporting DAC’s programs and activities supporting artists and their activities.

About King Estate

King Estate, celebrating 19 years of Oregon winemaking in 2010, is located southwest of Eugene, Oregon and produces primarily Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris wines. Founded in 1991 by the King family, King Estate is committed to producing Oregon wines of exceptional quality using organic & sustainable farming methods, meticulous fruit selection, impeccable winemaking practices and judicious blending. King Estate currently holds the first position in US sales of domestically produced Pinot Gris and has received dozens of awards over the years. 

About Justin King

Justin King is known internationally as a pioneering acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter. He is also a freelance photojournalist and his pictures from Iraq and Haiti have been featured in mainstream news media since 2008. In January 2011 he opened a full service recording facility in Brooklyn, NY called Vinegar Hill Sound.

About Richard Jochum

Richard Jochum is a visiting scholar and artist at Columbia University. He works as a media artist since the late 1990s setting up exhibitions all over the world. An Austrian citizen, Richard received his MA in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck, and his PhD from the University of Vienna dealing with strategies of coping with complexity in contemporary philosophy. He received his MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna before he moved first to Berlin and later to New York.

About Leo Kuelbs

Mr. Kuelbs’ specializes in publicly-presented video installations that have appeared in New York City and Berlin.  Based between the two cities, dozens of other shows have been curated, co-curated or presented by Leo Kuelbs and his working group, Leo Kuelbs Collection

Pawel Wotjtasik, still from "Crash", 2010

Click through for more information and video artist bios!

Screening program:

Noah Klersfeld, Water Undulating, 3:00 minutes

Noah Klersfeld is a video installation artist living and working in New York City. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Klersfeld was a recent participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program with the Bronx Museum of Art. He has recently screened work at The 6th Annual Video Marathon at Art in General in New York City, The One Minute Film and Video Festival in Toronto Canada and The Courtisane Film and Video Festival in Ghent Belgium. His recent installations include The Daniel Silverstien Gallery and The Bronx

Pawel Wojtasik, Crush, 4:42 minutes (chapter 1 and 2) (courtesy of Priska Juschka Gallery)

Born in Lodz, Poland before receiving a B.A. from SUNY Empire State College and M.F.A from Yale University.  He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Pawel Wojtasik's critical, and at points documentary-style video work foregrounds the means by which material waste, including that produced by the human body, is processed and eliminated. A culture of increasingly rapid consumption does not often permit glimpses into how its refuse is handled. While we have a vague idea what happens after items are thrown away, visceral experiences of these activities are scarce. Wojtasik takes us behind the scenes, and the results are unexpectedly beautiful and horrific.

Karina Aguilera Svirsky, The Conversation, 3:18 minutes

Skvirsky's work has been exhibited internationally in group and solo shows including: La Ex-Culpable, Lima, Peru (2010), Scaramouche Art, NY (2010), El Museo Municipio de Guayaquil, Ecuador (2010), The Grossman Gallery, PA,(2008), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT (2007), Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY (2006), Smack Mellon, NY (2007), Momenta Art, NY (2006) and others.  Recently, she participated in There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th Sao Paolo Biennial, where she exhibited work from her project, Memories of Development. Artist residencies include: The Cuts and Burns Residency (2009), Harvestworks, NY (2006), MacDowell Colony, NH (2010 and 2005), The Workspace Program from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2003), Smack Mellon, NY (2004), and others.

Jaye Rhee, Going Places, 1:46 minutes; Niagara, 1:00 minutes

Jaye Rhee revels in the space between the ironic and the poignant. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Rhee studied at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, MFA). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Kobe Biennale 2007 (Japan), Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Aljira Contemporary, Galerie Gana Beaubourg (Paris), Chicago Cultural Center and Kyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Seoul). In 2009 Rhee was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Gyeonggi Creation Center Pilot Program and participated in Palais de Tokyo Workshop Program. Her work has also been featured in Carol Becker’s essay, published in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art by The University of California Press, and reviewed by the New York Times, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, and Art in Culture.

D.Kimm & Brigitte Henry, Mademoiselle Clara Rabbit-Tamer, 6:26 minutes

Interdisciplinary artist, D. Kimm has published four poetry collections, including The Suite Mongolian (accompanied by a CD, Rebel Planet, 2001). She produced the album The Silence of the Men, in collaboration with guitarist Bernard Falaise. Her duet of "spoken-noise" Mankind, (with the performer Alexis O'Hara) has performed at various festivals in Canada (Festival International de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, Edgy Women, Suoni Per Il Popolo) and abroad (Poetry Festival in Berlin, Germany, Donau, Austria, Musique Action in France and Montevideo). Their first album titled Ice Machine was released in 2009 on the label Ambiances Magnet. D. Kimm has also directed three short films: Pending Corto Maltese (2007) and If you want to keep, you should walk away (2008), in collaboration with the late Patrice Duhamel, and Miss Clara tamer rabbit (2010), in collaboration with Brigitte Henry, all were presented at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema. She currently works at The Bride ever, a large interdisciplinary project that takes place over several years and whose first version was introduced in May 2009 under the OFF.TA (Off Festival TransAmériques). In 2010 D. Kimm Studio benefits from Quebec to New York (CALQ).

Brigitte Henry lives and works in Montreal. After studying photography at the Cégep du Vieux-Montreal, she started working on a project called Waterproof, portrait sous l’eau, which won numerous prestigious awards and was also published by L’effet pourpre. This underwater photographic study was the first step towards the realization of her fascination with the weightless human body. She experiments with space to appeal to the senses, to suggest another dimension, or else to propose an alternate reality. Her images are haunted by the strange and unusual, which develop into a plot for the observer. Brigitte has presented her photographs from the Waterproof series at l’Institut français de Prague in 2004, in Kosice, Slovakia in 2005, and at the ‘OFF’ from Mois de la photo in Paris (2006). She has directed several music videos (Lhasa de Sela, Patrick Watson), and she decorated room 15c of the Carlton Arms Hotel in New York City (2007).

David Greg Harth, Footage, 3:10 minutes

David Greg Harth is a visual artist born and based in New York. He has a BFA from Parsons School of Design, NY. He has exhibited in various galleries and art spaces since the mid 90’s nationally and internationally.  His work ranges from performance to video, photography, interactive work, drawing, installation, and poetry. Harth infiltrates the public realm with live street actions and individual participatory projects, often transgressing and questioning social boundaries. A major part of Harth's work involves gathering information, collecting, documenting and producing records of subjects ranging from current world events, political, social and economic, to more specific personal experiences.

Morgan O'Hara and TEAM-WIN, Live Transmission with Taiwanese Drummers, 3:17 minutes

Morgan O'Hara was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Japan, earned a Master's Degree in Art from California State University at Los Angeles, had her first solo exhibition in the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978. She began working internationally in performance art festivals in 1989, did her first site specific wall drawings at De Fabriek in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and began the practice of the Japanese martial art, aikido, in the same year. She teaches master classes in drawing and the psychology of creativity in art academies in the US, Europe and Asia. O'Hara has done many international residencies including two sessions at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
She is recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Gottleib Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, David and Rosamond Putnam Travel Fund and the Milton and Sally Avery Foundation.

Richard Jochum,  Run, 40 seconds

Richard Jochum is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts and an adjunct professor at Teachers College Columbia University in the Department of Arts and Humanities and the Film and Education Research Academy FERA. He has worked as a media and video artist since the late 1990s and has had numerous international exhibitions and screenings. Richard received his PhD from the University of Vienna (1997). His MFA in sculpture and media art is from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2001). Richard’s art practice is accompanied by publications and research in the field of cultural theory and contemporary art and he has been awarded several grants and prizes. His most recent public art installation is a flip book with 30 light boxes in a public railroad tunnel in Austria.

Angie Eng, Endings, 3:04 minutes

Angie Eng is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based performance. Eng was born in 1969 in San Francisco California. She was trained as a painter (UC Santa Barbara) in the post-classical tradition. She moved to New York City in 1993 and  soon discovered time based arts. During this time she became involved in the downtown electronic arts scene where she experimented with video sculptures, installation and with live video. She collaborated on numerous video performance projects, including The Poool a live video performance group she co-founded and co-directed with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999. She currently has a few video/music performance collaborations with Rhys Chatham (Echodes), Pascal Battus (Tremorrag) and a new women’s guitar video band in the works. She recently finished a piece, Liminal at The Mac Dowell Colony of the Arts with additional support from Experimental Television Finishing Funds, media the foundation in partnership with Harvestworks.  She will present this work at The New York Electronic Festival in the fall 2011 with Satoshi Takeshi and Audrey Chen.

TRT: 33 minutes