Paraphrase/NEXUS is a monthly performance series in which artists of various disciplines and media outside the visual arts realm create single evening performances that respond and relate to current NEXUS exhibitions. This programming offers a new context for the public to engage meaningfully with emerging and experimental artists and promotes further understanding to the meanings and methods behind our exhibitions. paraphrase/NEXUS is produced by perpetual mvmt < > snd.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Saturday, February 21, 2008 8 PM $5

paraphrase/NEXUS & uNintended performances

Hacking their own art: <fidget> will premiere a new work in response to "uNintended uses", an exhibition of hacked and repurposed materials on view at NEXUS Gallery. Dancer/choreographer Megan Bridge and digital artist Peter Price will bring along detritus from various older works (costumes, set pieces, clips of sound, video, and movement) and find unintended uses for their own "repurposed materials." Exploring the exhibition's directive, <fidget>'s new work will be a direct response to uNintended Uses: Price will create an interactive audio/visual software environment that will provoke, respond, and recontextualize Bridge's performative gestures as she hacks through older works, weaving a structure in real time as part of the improvisational performance.

<fidget> is a conceptual platform for the collaborative work of dancer/choreographer Megan Bridge and composer/media artist Peter Price. <fidget> creates total and interrelated performative experiences, drawing on an interplay of the sonic, the visual, and the kinetic. "uNintended uses"  will be an introduction for the Philadelphia audience to <fidget>'s aesthetic: sexy, sci-fi, cybernetic, psychedelic, concept and image driven multimedia dance theater.

PIMA Group, co-founded by dancer and choreographer Melisa Putz and musicians Michael Barker and Thomas Clark, is interested in developing new processes and approaches to the integration of dance, music and visual art. The works range from improvisational performance art work to more formal choreographed and composed pieces.

also on the evening's bill will be performances of some of the work in uNintended uses including:
chiptunes and visuals by Don Miller
gameboy guitar shredding by Joey Mariano
Michael "Mikronesia" McDermott playing "The Stuff Nightmares are Made of" by Chris Vecchio
a performance with Sarah Muehlbauer's "Pan Pipe"
plus Johnny Woods' interactive drawing device

PAST PERFORMANCES

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 8 PM   $5

paraphrase/NEXUS is pleased to announce an evening of improvised and
choreographed works by movement artists Eun Jung Choi – Gonzalez (NYC)
and Olive Prince (Phila)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 8 PM
As part of NEXUSradio project.
Inter Continental Collaboration Part 1
An evening co-curated by dancer Allison Lorenzen (Philadelphia) and sound artist Florian Tuercke (Nurenberg, Germany / www.urban-audio.org) performing:
CELLS an intercontinental composition for Cellphones

by Florian Tuercke in collaboration with katana (Nuernberg) urban research institut (Nuernberg) and NEXUS (Philadelphia)

Thursday, January 22nd 2009 8PM
Inter  Continental Collaboration Part 2
An evening co-curated by dancer Allison Lorenzen (Philadelphia)
and sound artist Florian Tuercke (Nurenberg, Germany / www.urban-audio.org)
As part of NEXUSradio project. in collaboration with forschungsgruppe-f  (Nurenberg, Germany)

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 8PM
"Fidget"  performance group featuring dancer Megan Bridge and musicain/video artist Peter Price and PIMA group featuring Melissa Putz will perform works inspired by "Unintended Uses",a show of "hacked" art.