On the evening of Saturday, December 5th, guests begin pouring into Greenpoint Gallery for Mirrors and Smoke, a celebratory dual release event for two Brooklyn-based artist collectives: Experimental Bitch Presents (EBP) and 2F Collective.
It includes work by the Beehive Design Collective, an experimental U.S. design group, and the Dutch book designer Irma Boom.
This new work was jointly written by members of Sleeping Giant, a collective of experimental young composers.
This performance technique has been termed "Buddha Boxing" and is the primary technique featured on FM3's upcoming remix album, to be released this November, which combines an impressive collective of experimental and alternative Chinese musicians including B6, Sulumi, Li Jianhong, Wan Xiaoli, Dou Wei, and Top Floor Circus, among others.
She has also spent time with the Moscow Scratch Orchestra, an experimental collective that makes music based on the English composer Cornelius Cardew's theories of improvisation.
"Dashanzi used to be a place we wanted to be a part of," says Hu Ge, a member of the Woza collective of young, experimental media artists.
But like so many utopian societies, this experimental collective based here in the bucolic hills of Litchfield County has struggled to live up to its ideals.
Back then he was part of Big Tail Elephant Group, a funky collective of Chinese experimental artists working in performance, video and installation -- art forms banned in China at the time.
Judson Now, Danspace Project's series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first concerts by the experimental collective Judson Dance Theater, ended in December.
