Ellen Berkenblit ‘Lines Roar’ Screening | Live Score by Zeena Parkins
The Drawing Center will present a screening of Ellen Berkenblit’s first film Lines Roar (2018) with a live score by Zeena Parkins.
Ellen Berkenblit’s first film Lines Roar (2018), currently on view at The Drawing Center, presents a look into her process. Concentrating on the explosive nature of Berkenblit’s line, the film features familiar motifs from her paintings and drawings: a long-nosed female, a tiger, a stiletto. Lines Roar intermingles autobiographical footage taken by Berkenblit in both her home and studio. Also interlaced throughout the film are photographs of Berkenblit’s family and images taken by her father, who was an amateur photographer and chemist. The result is a film that combines Berkenblit’s life with her work, an intimate look at what drives the artist’s practice.
Watch the Lines Roar trailer here.
Electro-acoustic composer/performer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and pioneer of contemporary harp performance, Zeena Parkins re-imagines both the acoustic harp and an evolution of her original electric ones, through the use of expanded playing techniques, preparations, and custom designed processing. Within a shifting constellation of improvised/composed/gesture/touch/ space/sound/noise/music, Parkins is engaged in translations of sonicity within environments: architectural/emotional/topographical/social.
Parkins has received commissions from Whitney Museum, Tate Modern, Sharjah Art Foundation, NeXtWorks Ensemble, Either/Or Ensemble/Ensemble Son, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Sudwestrundfunk, Eclipse Quartet, Bang on a Can Spit Orchestra, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Awards include three Bessies for her groundbreaking work with dance, the Doris Duke Artist Award, DAAD Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund grants NYFA Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist-in-Residence, Herb Alpert/Ucross Prize.
Parkins is currently Distinguished Visiting Artist at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Where: The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St. (Grand-Broome Sts.)
212-219-2166 Price: $5
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The Drawing Center will present a screening of Ellen Berkenblit’s first film Lines Roar (2018) with a live score by Zeena Parkins.
Ellen Berkenblit’s first film Lines Roar (2018), currently on view at The Drawing Center, presents a look into her process. Concentrating on the explosive nature of Berkenblit’s line, the film features familiar motifs from her paintings and drawings: a long-nosed female, a tiger, a stiletto. Lines Roar intermingles autobiographical footage taken by Berkenblit in both her home and studio. Also interlaced throughout the film are photographs of Berkenblit’s family and images taken by her father, who was an amateur photographer and chemist. The result is a film that combines Berkenblit’s life with her work, an intimate look at what drives the artist’s practice.
Watch the Lines Roar trailer here.
Electro-acoustic composer/performer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and pioneer of contemporary harp performance, Zeena Parkins re-imagines both the acoustic harp and an evolution of her original electric ones, through the use of expanded playing techniques, preparations, and custom designed processing. Within a shifting constellation of improvised/composed/gesture/touch/ space/sound/noise/music, Parkins is engaged in translations of sonicity within environments: architectural/emotional/topographical/social.
Parkins has received commissions from Whitney Museum, Tate Modern, Sharjah Art Foundation, NeXtWorks Ensemble, Either/Or Ensemble/Ensemble Son, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Sudwestrundfunk, Eclipse Quartet, Bang on a Can Spit Orchestra, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Awards include three Bessies for her groundbreaking work with dance, the Doris Duke Artist Award, DAAD Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund grants NYFA Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist-in-Residence, Herb Alpert/Ucross Prize.
Parkins is currently Distinguished Visiting Artist at Mills College in Oakland, California.