Little Berlin presents one and two and 

July 10-25 2009

Opening reception July 10th 6-10pm


          One and two and is a collection of installation-based work of various mediums including video, light, sound and sculpture. Six artists express the current pace of life with art that is 4-dimensional, meaning it involves the spacial dimensions width, height and depth plus the dimension of time. The exhibit offers a hyper-real experience that reflects the buzz of the technological advancements, interactivity and versatility of our time. 
         Dan Murphy has created a simulation of a dance party complete with controls that can be customized by each viewer.  Masha Badinter and Jenna Wilchinsky have fused together old and new ways of listening to music within a listening booth. Jimm Scannel has calculated a formula based on spinning disks and office tacks that are carefully plotted and calibrated to move and change in coordination with light and time, expressing the synchronicity of our lives. 
Ben Contois will be intercepting sounds and frequencies with pressure-sensitive microphones in the gallery and re-using them in an improvised performance that will elapse throughout the entire evening. He will be using a large array of instruments, microphones, mixing boards and amplifiers. Jim Garvey's 3-dimensional compositions, essentially clusters of otherwise banal materials from everyday life, take the form of chandeliers, trees, sound cages and more. His works will be peppered throughout  the interior and  exterior spaces of the gallery; some interacting with one another through sound imaging; and others with the human hand, as kinetic sculptures.
          Although each artist is working within their own previous practices and artistic principles, they have worked together to make this exhibition a complete experience. It is meant to operate as a whole occurrence of many parts. Each installation created is its own 3-dimensional environment for the viewer to experience, but it is the continual series of synchronous occurrences that will make the entirety of the exhibit come alive the night of the opening.



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little berlin
an undefined exhibition space

119 West Montgomery
Philadelphia PA, 19122

free and open to the public
Saturdays 12-5pm
or by appointment
(610) 308 0579

www.littleberlin.org