Join us for the first Home Audio of 2020 in an evening of music & movement collaborations at DeConstrukt in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Exact address sent upon RSVP.
8pm//BYOB//Snacks provided.

Performances by

Stranger
Dustin Carlson and Isabel Umali
Impulsive Instrument: Sean Ali and Azumi Oe

Visual art by Joanna Zabielska

Impulsive Instrument is a duo featuring Butoh dancer Azumi Oe and double bassist Sean Ali. The two artists collaborated for the first time in Katsura Kan’s New York production of Senryu Butoh at the Kraine Theatre in November of 2015. They began performing as a duo in 2016 investigating the rich spectrum of possibilities from the combination of solo dance and solo instrument, which they occasionally augment with tape collage and spoken word. Central themes that have emerged from their dynamic performance history include exploring the intersection of noise and pre-language bodies, emerging and submerging memories that both enrich and threaten systems of meaning-making, and the stretching and condensing of time in the weight of empty space.
https://spark.adobe.com/page/AfK5qKdLiSBv1/

Isabel Umali and Dustin Carlson are artists based in NYC who have collaborated to create: the (un)stages of change (2019) which premiered at the ACE Hotel as part of the Create:Art series; Shakes (2017) that has been performed in NYC and Mexico City as part of FIDCDMX International Contemporary Dance Festival; Hands That Feed (2018) a video composition; and various improvisational pieces performed in NYC.

Isabel Umali is a New York City based dance artist. Isabel has worked with dance companies such as LeeSaar the Company (2012-2014), the Francesca Harper Project (2018), Gallim Dance (2019), et al. creating work, originating roles, and touring nationally and internationally. Isabel performed for Punchdrunk’s internationally acclaimed show, Sleep No More (2015-2019), and has appeared in various commercials and music videos.
As a creator, Isabel has collaborated with musicians and visual artists and her work has been shown in venues such as BRIC, The Shed, The Ace Hotel, and festivals nationally and internationally.
Dustin Carlson has been performing in and around New York City for over a decade. He has performed as a leader, collaborator, and/or sideman throughout North America Mexico and Europe. His band, Air Ceremony released their debut record on Out of Your Head Records in November 2018. In 2019 he was awarded a composer fellowship by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, to compose his duet for violin and cello entitled tensegrities. His collaboration with Isabel Umali, a recording and dance piece entitled Shakes/the Noise of Wings was performed at the FICDMX dance festival in Mexico City in August 2018 and Abrons Art Center in NYC in 2017. F$F, his is long standing collaboration with trumpet player Brad Henkel released Forgotten Cities in June 2018. He was artist in residence at the Opekta Ateliers in Cologne Germany 2015, Attended the Banff Workshop for Creative music 2009,and the School for Improvised Music 2007.

We are STRANGER:
We are travelers.
We’re always new in town.
We never stay in familiar places.
There are three people but there’s one thing. We can’t tell one from the other. One of our feet is shaking. One of us could cast a spell. One of us is playing the saxophone under a bridge into a little box, filling the room with sound. Like a mossy creek, a red mountain plateau in the sun, an icy tundra at dusk. For a moment we are sinking, soaking up what we can down here. You could say up here. We don’t use the word water, we use all the words that water does: carving, seeping, seeking. But now we are bathing a cat in holy water, making a face, taking it out.
We are going mad.
The four of us. Looking for where the water goes.
We’ll all be together when we land.
anacollaborations.com/stranger

JOANNA ZABIELSKA (based in Vienna, Austria) is working on the intersection of art, design and architecture, Zabielska approaches the social and spatial issues of the transformation of the city. Using different media – from inflatable textile installations to cooking performance, she develops participatory, site- specific projects together with the local community. She is currently in charge of an art and design space Die Labile Botschaft (the unstable embassy) in a former supermarket in the heart of Vienna, and working as a freelancer in field of exhibition design for various offices and museums.

Organized by Dustin Carlson, Isabel Umali, and Mara Mayer.