Join us for a gallery reception event to celebrate the Intermissions and Light Work Grants exhibitions.
Barry Anderson will give a lecture beginning at 6:00pm, and the event
will feature a live video and music premiere of a collaboration between
Anderson and local composer Andrew Waggoner.
**Make sure to check out today's Post-Standard (9/24, CNY section) for a great article about Intermissions with a lot of quotes from Barry Anderson! |
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Gallery Reception: Tuesday, September 29, 5-8pm
 Light
Work invites you to a very special gallery reception event, featuring a
lecture by Barry Anderson, as well as a live premiere of a video/music
collaboration between the artist and local composer Andrew Waggoner.
The lecture is sponsored by Syracuse University's 2009 Syracuse
Symposium, themed "Light."
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Music and Video Collaboration Premiere
 In conjunction with the gallery reception and lecture for Intermissions,
the innovative art exhibition and related programs featuring the video
and photographic art of Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, Light Work
will premiere a musical/video collaboration, titled Genome of the Soul, between Anderson and local composer Andrew Waggoner at the event.
Waggoner
has composed a unique piece of music in collaboration with Anderson,
who then created the accompanying visual components. As part of the
gallery reception and lecture on Tuesday, September 29, Waggoner's
group, the Open End Ensemble (Nurit Pacht, violin; Andrew Waggoner,
violin; Tawnya Popoff, viola; and Caroline Stinson, cello), will
perform the music composition live with the video. This will be the
first performance of the piece, and will be a premiere that should not
be missed.
According to Waggoner, "The music for Genome of the Soul
grew both out of chats with Barry Anderson about his work; our work;
the nature of work itself; and out of getting to know his work
directly, which I liked immediately and have grown now to love. It is
deep, strange, funny, and beautiful ... Sometimes seen as clouds,
sometimes as the inner reaches of a Mandelbrot set, the environments
Barry creates are vast and enveloping; moving through them is like a
stroll through the collective unconscious, like a plunge into the
cultural DNA; it is this quality that gave rise to the title Genome of the Soul."
He adds, "The music echoes much of what happens in an Anderson piece,
without trying directly to imitate or create an exact match. Long, slow
patterns - a different one for each instrument - converge in a series
of chords that feel to me deeply expressive without being
personal."
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Light Work Grants Exhibition
 Also on view at Light Work is the Light Work Grants
exhibition, featuring work by Karen Brummund, Laura A. Guth, and
Stephen Shaner. This exhibition will be celebrated at
the September 29 reception as well. As part of the event, Brummund
(pictured right) will create an installation on the front of the
Robert B. Menschel Media Center (which houses Light Work and Community
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FREE Copy of Barry Anderson Contact Sheet 
Make sure to stop by the reception to pick up a FREE copy of Contact Sheet 153, featuring the work of Barry Anderson and information about the Intermissions project. Complimentary copies of the catalogue are made possible by the Central New York Community Foundation.
Contact Sheet recently received a 2009 Award of Excellence from the American Graphic Design Awards for the redesign of Contact Sheet by Joe Quinn.
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Light Work
316 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13244
315.443.1300 p
315.443.9516 f
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About Us
Light
Work's mission is to provide direct support through exhibitions, artist
residencies, projects, and publications to emerging and
under-recognized visual artists working in photography and related
digital and electronic media.
Light
Work is dedicated to the support of the creation of new work and the
promotion of photography as a medium. The state-of-the-art darkrooms
and digital facilities are designed to make it easy for artists to
produce museum-quality work. All services are geared toward the needs
of artists.
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