THE TRIANGLE PROJECT

Artist Exchange & Collaboration Experiments.

The main intention of The Triangle Project is to create relationships, collaborations, interaction, exchange, awareness and new perspectives between creatures all over the universe. However most of the time between Copenhagen, Istanbul and New York.
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3/26/2014

THE TRIANGLE PROJECT NEW YORK CREW


Dilara Erbay is the Jamie Oliver of Turkey and is on a worldwide crusade to spread the word about new ways of understanding food from a her very specific point of taste and view. During her academic years she travelled all around Turkey, the Middle East, Asia and Europe where she was introduced to different culinary cultures and new different flavours. 


She graduated from her political sciences studies with a thesis on “The Role of Non-Government Organizations in Turkish Political Life, and the Bergama Event” and soon thereafter went to Columbia in South America to explore their culinary culture as a chef. After that she was an apprentice at Robert DeNiro's Tribecca Grill and went back to Istanbul with a huge bag of magic tricks. 


After running several successful restaurants in Istanbul, she moved to New York with her above husband and son, where she is spreading her love for food and extraordinary culinary experiences. Dilara has been part of The Triangle Project since the very beginning in 2007 and was also part of Part 2 in Copenhagen 2008.


The wonderful above video was made at one of Dilara's restaurants in Istanbul 


Jesper Hyuk Larsen A.K.A. hYUK is a autodidactic Danish artist working mainly with drawings, paintings, art installations and photography. hYUK works in a minimalistic style with observations and criticism of social and political conditions.


He exhibits his work (example above) in various galleries in the Copenhagen underground art scene and joined The Triangle Project Part 9 in connection to The Velvet State interaction at Roskilde Festival 2013. He was also part of the Part 10 in Istanbul and will in Part 11 particpate showing his work, doing live action painting and documenting the different interactions and events as part of the Triangle Project Crew.


Anne Gade Bjerrum, who was a "Lady in Red" at Part 9 at Roskilde Festival above, is the Project Manager for the Climate Actvist Group Mr. Green and has a degree in Performance Design from Roskilde University. She has collaborated with the project associated to The Triangle Project called "CO2 Green Drive" since 2010 and is currently an active part of the management team of The Triangle Project.

George W Bush from Firoozeh Bazrafkan on Vimeo.

Firoozeh Bazrafkan is a Danish Irianian born artist who grew up fighting off The Law of Jante with a clenched fist. Her work is online the most seen art in Denmark 2014, not by the art world, but the main stream audience who usually would not even look at or be interested in art. A recent realtime web reality show about her, broke one of the largest Danish Newspapers LIVE screening website, due to viewer storm. Her Islam critical art has been embraced by the Danish Rightwing population, who follows her every move online on various social media platforms. She has a huge follwing of Danish men, who often comments on the shape and size of parts of her body. She is often threatened by individuals who have been so provoked by her work, that they find a need to hurt her. She puts her neck out, but luckily she is a fierce woman who can stand her ground, a concept that is part of the performce aspect of her work. Firoozeh's defence of her work actually being art, is as big a part of the process in her work, as the work itself.


In connection to the panel debate at Gershwin Hotel, she will show one of her recent videos that was made in connection to the Reality Show performance, where she also produced several videos LIVE in realtime.
More on Firoozeh Bazrafkan on her site HERE

UPDATE: Firoozeh was not able to join the project in New York due to her previous art and how it has been received in Denmark by the judicial system.


Triangle artist Claus Ankersen have often been likened to beat poet Allen Ginsberg and Hunter S. Thompson. With this exclusive screening of a filmed life performance, the r/evolution hits northamerican soil.
The poem TOXIC TUESDAYS is about the challenge and the difficulty of keeping up hope and maintaining the spirit of healthy revolt and rebellion in todays world. Claus Ankersen have performed this piece in Denmark, Estonia, Finland - and last year also, in Ukraine. In a small way, the artist likes to think that his poetry helped make a difference there.


The above video is from The Triangle Project in New York 2008 at Gershwin Hotel, filmed by Shaky Jones.

The version of TOXIC TUESDAYS to be shown at TBA Brooklyn and Gershwin Hotel this time around, is filmed by Anders Højrup. Welcome to the r/evolution. A curious detail: When performing the poem live at a poetry festival in the Estonian city of Tartu last year, after the show Claus Ankersen was approached by a man introducing himself as university lecturer, but with the appearance of a 20 dollar mobster. He said: If you performed that poem in Russia, you would be arrested for communist propagada and put to jail. The artist naturally refused to acknowledge that the man was affilliated to any university on this planet. Toxic Tuesdays is now under translation into Russian. 



Taylan Yilmaz is a Turkish artist, filmmaker and DJ currently living in New York. He Graduated from the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul at the Department of Painting in 2005. After his studies he ran nightclubs and DJ'd in Istanbul's club scene, before going into the Turkish army. Once his service was done, he moved to New York to follow his dreams as an artist and filmmaker along with his DJ'ing in the ultimate spot on earth for such activities.


Above DJ Taylan on the Wheels of Steel. For more info and to see some of Taylan's art and films please go to his website HERE. Taylan will play at TBA Brooklyn on April 17th.


Mehmet “Memo” Erkaya is the Turkish co-owner of TBA Brooklyn and collaborator in bringing the "What is Going on in Turkey?" event to his place. More about TBA Brooklyn HERE



As mentioned in a previous post, the Danish singer and performed FRANKA is also part of the crew in New York. She studied at The Danish Music Conservatory and when in her role as FRANKA goes all out hanging her heart on her sleeve. She will perform on April 15th, 17th, 18th and 19th.


Fore more on FRANKA written in a previous post go HERE

Bess Greenberg, who have also been part of The Triangle Project several times before, will be part of the plans for Part 11 at TBA Brooklyn on April 17th. Bess is an artist/producer/curator and the founding Director of 25CPW and Red Roots Gallery. Before that, she lived in Copenhagen working as a proffessional basketball player.

25CPW Gallery was the host for a exhibition in connection to The Triangle Project Part 8 called "Empire State of Mind" in connection the New York Photo Festival, while Bess was in Copenhagen at the same time exhibiting at the Coipenhagen Photo Festival with her own work.

Bess obtaining her MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard College photography program in New York City. She was a 2007 Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, awarded  with a New York Times photography internship in 2009 and joined the Advisory Council in Photojournalism for the Alexia Foundation in 2012.



Lately Bess has turned her focus on music and have started the duo The Falconers. In connection to her involvement with Part 11, she wil play her music in collaboration with her partner Jimmyjohn McCabe.


Turkish DJ Berk Dogan will play Deep House at TBA Brooklyn on April 17th. He is also the Label Manager of  Deep House Proposal, an enterprise that organically evolved from a Istanbul club night to a well-received podcast and then eventually an ambitious label focusing on the deeper side of the house music spectrum. 


Another Turkish DJ for the evening is MEMOS (Serhan Aydemir) who first began collecting cassette tapes in the late ’80s. Over the years, he channeled all his energy toward this passion, constantly discovering new music styles. By the mid-90s, he became a radio host in his hometown of Istanbul before launching his own show on the premier electronic/indie station Dinamo.fm.


Today, the Brooklyn-based DJ/producer continues to share weekly mixes with fans and listeners on Dinamo by day and manning the decks at some of NYC’s most popular venues, including his residency at Nublu, owned by exceptional Ilhan Ersahin. He does likes to play Anatolian Psychedelic Cosmic Funk and this can not be denied.  



Michael James (to the left) - Legendary New York club promoter who is part of the EPIC Crew that among other things did nights at The Tunnel & Limelight in the 90's. In connection to Part 11, he has helped out in coordinating the two events on the 19th of April at The Griffin & Sankeys NYC


Host and moderator of the panel debate on April 17th at TBA Brooklyn called "WHAT IS GOING ON IN TURKEY?" Ahmet Bugdayci, is an editor and colomnist of weekly Turkish paper Posta212, New York. He used to work in social reseach companies in and at several economy magazines in Turkey. He has been writing about the Gezi Movement since the spring/summer of 2013 and his articles and facebook updates are read by young newly politically awakened Turks all over the world. He was part of coordinating The Triangle Project Part 1 in Istanbul 2007, is married to above mentioned chef Dilara Erbay and his work can be read, and if needed google translated, on Posta2012.com HERE


Kamau Patton - more HERE


Estrella Nova Martinez - has been part of The Triangle Project since 2008 and is a DJ, Artist, Dancer and spreader of good energy on dancefloors all over Brooklyn.




Brendon Stuart - in above photo he was preparing to put together his pyramid tent in connection to Part 9 at Roskilde Festival 2013. In connection to Part 11, he will install the Pyramid Tent and show his "99%" film.


Daniel Pinchbeck - More in THIS post


Nicolette Ramirez - More HERE


Noah Fischer - More HERE


Gabriel Don  is a multidisciplinary artist or Renaissance woman who works in a variety of mediums.More about Gabriel HERE


The Moderator of the panel debate on April 18th at Gershwin Hotel will be hosted by Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen,  a professor in the History of Art Department, and chair of the Master of Arts program in Art Market: Principles and Practices at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. More info HERE.



Jacob Kirkegaard - More HERE


The New York Artist John Lohse and Energy Raiser Mislim Ruci are part of the New York angle of the Triangle, and have collaborated in making Part 11, and many other things happen.


The Danish artist Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen, who is the facilitator and initiator of The Triangle Project.



The event on April 18th is hosted by Neke Carson above, who have inspired to the conceptual thinking to The Triangle Project and have been involved with the project since 2008.


The above image of Anton Perich standing next to his painting of Ataturk in Istanbul 2005, was part of The Triangle Project, before it became The Triangle Project. 

3/24/2014

THE NEW YORK LAUNCH OF SA_EVE - SOUND ART FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES ASSOCIATION


SA_EVA - Sound Art for Electric Vehicles Association was launched in Copenhagen on April 5th 2013 at Dome of Visions. On April 18th 2014, the New York launch of SA_EVA will take place at Gershwin Hotel, presented by Neke Carson and hosted by the American Artist Kamau Amu Patton. The Danish Artist Jacob Kirkegaard, who was also part of Part 1 of The Triangle Project in Istanbul 2007 in connection to the Istanbul Biennial, will hold an artist talk about his sound art work. In New York, he was recently shown at MoMA in connection to their first Sound Art Exhibition called "Soundings".


Kamau Amu Patton (above) is an American interdisciplinary artist based in New York. His work issues from an ongoing involvement with the generative intersection of sound, light and electronics. 



The image title of above work from 2012 is, "Light Module 1". The dimensions are 24"x12"x26" The materials are: plexiglass, metal, fluorescent light. electronics (solar panels, light to frequency converter, midi interface).













The module consists of a series of photovoltaic cells that absorb the radiation from a fluorescent tube and emit photoelectrons. 



This signal is processed with a computer to modulate the frequencies of the photoelectric emissions thus, converting the light into sound. Listen to the sound in above Soundcloud file.

Go and see more of Kamau's work HERE




The sources of Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard's works derive from unaudible or unheard acoustic
phenomena. With sensors and recording methods the material is unfolded into compositions, sound works or visual, spatial installations. Kirkegaard has explored sonic environments such as subterranean geyser vibrations, empty rooms in Chernobyl, a rotating TV tower, Arctic hydrosonic calving claciers and even tones generated by the human inner ear itself.



The above video is from the project "PIVOT" and is created from video and sound recordings from one of Berlin’s most important landmarks: the tv tower (Fernsehturm) at Alexanderplatz, in the heart of the city.
More information on the project HERE


Jacob Kirkegaard listens behind the immediate and challenges our perception of ourselves and the world around us.

Recording the sound of the spinning Berlin TV tower (http://fonik.dk/works/looptower.html)
Based in Berlin, Germany, Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne.
Since 1995, he has presented his works at galleries, museums, venues & conferences throughout
the world, i.e. MoMA in New York, LOUISIANA in Denmark, KW in Berlin, The Menil Collection
and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston and at the Aichi Triennale Japan.

Go to Jacob's webiste HERE

April 18th - 20pm
Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street

More info HERE

3/17/2014

INTENTIONAL ART LAUNCH AND PANEL AT GERSHWIN HOTEL PRESENTED BY NEKE CARSON



Nicollette Ramirez (above) will be in the panel following the launch of Intentional Art and is a curator, art dealer, writer, performer, producer and events organizer with over ten years of experience being an arts advocate, promoting artists and their work in various media, including visual arts, performance, music, film and literature. Ms. Ramirez’s projects have often combined artists from diverse backgrounds working in several different media in new and unfamiliar locations. She has also written creatively and journalistically for print and online publications as well as for gallery and museum catalogs.


Daniel Pinchbeck (born 15 June 1966) is an American author living in New York's East Village. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

He is a co-founder of Evolver, a lifestyle community platform that publishes Reality Sandwich, an online magazine centered around spirituality, philosophy and activism.  

He has written for many publications, including EsquireThe New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1994 he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of "Thirty Under Thirty" destined to change our culture through his work with Open City. He has been a regular columnist for a number of magazines, including Dazed & Confused. (Wikipedia)



The text presenting the first draft of Intentional Art is written by Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud (b. 1981).
She is a Danish/Swiss researcher of cultural history, currently based in Reykjavík and have studied Art History and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Her PhD thesis is about crypto-colonial elements in Icelandic nation building and the importance of landscape imagery. She is affiliated with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow with the research project Geographies of Crisis: Post-Industrial Landscapes in the North Atlantic as a part of a larger joint research project. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the Edda Center of Excellence at Háskóli Íslands (Reykjavík, Iceland).


The Moderator of the panel debate will be Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen,  a professor in the History of Art Department, and chair of the Master of Arts program in Art Market: Principles and Practices at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Before FIT she taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan College, and Stern College, Yeshiva University. In 2006 she co-taught a seminar on Biblical Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, and in 2007 and 2008 she was guest lecturer at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. 

Michaelsen earned her PhD from the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, specializing in modern art. Her dissertation, Archipenko, The Early Work, 1908-1920, was published by Garland Publishing, New York, in the Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts series. She is author of many articles and catalogue essays, and was guest curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC of Archipenko, A Centennial Tribute; and of Andor Weininger, From Bauhaus to Conceptual Art at the Kunsteverein, Düsseldorf, an exhibition that traveled to various venues in Europe, and the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York.

At Columbia University she was awarded a four-year Graduate Faculties Fellowship, and she has been the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Michaelsen conducted radio interviews in French with New York art world personalities for L’Art Aujourd’hui, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada; worked as art gallery administrator, represented artists, and served as art consultant for private and corporate clients. She is a member of the National Advisory Council, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; the Board of Directors of (contemporary music) Ensemble Sospeso, New York; and ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the arts.



Noah Fischer is an artist and activist based in New York. His sculptures and performances are activated by the rhetoric, symbols, and currencies that condition one’s public identity as participant in a culture or economy. After attending Columbia University, Fischer (MFA 2004) moved to the Netherlands on a Fulbright, initiating a collaboration with the Berlin-based theatre group andcompany&Co and touring with performances which playfully explore economic ideology. His sculptural exhibitions such as Rhetoric Machine (2006, Oliver Kamm Gallery NYC) and Electrical Forest (2009) and Pop Ark (2008, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels) explore the official rhetoric of 20th Century technological and political progress. 





Following the crash of 2008, Fischer exited from the private art market.  In 2011, he collaborated with the Aaron Burr Society on a performance series called Summer of Change speaking out about economic injustice in public performances on Wall Street months before the Occupy Movement was initiated in New York.  Since September 2011, Fischer merged his practice with the Occupy Movement, initiating action groups Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums. Fischer participated in the 7th Berlin Biennial as a member of Occupy Museums and in “Truth is Concrete” at the Steirischer Herbst,  Graz 2012.  Currently Fischer is developing a “market action” called Debtfair (debtfair.org) and engages in a new series of videos. He is also involved in a new international stage of Occupy Museums called Winter Holiday Camp 

More about Noah's work HERE




Sisters Hope operate in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and pedagogy. They are working proactively toward manifesting a more sensuous and poetic educational system.
A storm rages outside, but behind sturdy walls, the sisters are doing important experiments: while the old world is falling apart, they investigate what values to base the new world on. A long time ago, the sisters became aware that something would happen to the world they knew, and so they formed a school – Sisters Hope. Since then, they have inspired youths from the entire nation, nourished the ground and planted special seeds. The time has ripened. It is ripe. It is time for the birth of Sisters Academy, the unity of inspirations, the reaping of visions – A place open to fresh and fleshy ideas. A place where the dream you just dreamed is as important as the breath you take. A place where the ambience touches your soul as the light fades. A place where memories of the past is turned into hope for the future…
Sisters Hope was founded in 2007 by Anna Lawaetz and Gry Worre Hallberg. In the fictitious universe they personify Coco and Coca Pebber – the twin sisters and the headmistresses of the school Sisters Hope.

More about Sisters Hope HERE




Gabriel Don is a multidisciplinary artist or Renaissance woman who works in a variety of mediums.
She received her MFA in creative writing at The New School, where she worked as the chapbook and reading series coordinator. Her work has appeared in 
The Brooklyn Rail, Great Weather for Media's anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and LightA MinorWesterly and is forthcoming in Mascara Literary Review and The Legendary. She has appeared in visual poems such as Woman Without Umbrella and Unbound. She started several reading-soiree series, is editorial staff at LIT and participates in live art events around New YorkGabriel Don is also available on Amazon as a Bookdress who has performed in various literary, art and public spaces including the MET.





The Danish artist Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen who is the facilitator of The Triangle Project and Founder of CO2 Green Drive, will join the panel and talk about how the above mentioned projects fits in under the framework of Intentional Art. More about Jacob's work HERE

The evening will be hosted by 
Neke Carson
Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
Friday April 18th 2014

More about the event HERE

3/12/2014

FRANKA - TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK IN NEW YORK


The Triangle Project is happy to be able to present FRANKA (above in Red) as part of Part 11 in New York. 

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Above FRANKA's latest video

FRANKA is a brilliant new talent who is 50% from where whales are slaghtered by the tons and 50% from where Giraffe's are shot in the head, chopped up in front of children and thrown to the Lions. Some might say that her songs have some Blood, Sweat and Tears, and if this comes from her growing up under the above circumstances is unclear. What is clear, is that we have a brand new Danish Star on our hands and we look forward to how she will kill it in New York.






The current plans for FRANKA's performances in New York are at Toshi's Livingroom on April 15th, at TBA Brooklyn on April 17th, Gershwin Hotel on April 18th and at Sankeys NYC April 19th.

For FRANKA's Facebook page go HERE

Read a lovely little story about FRANKA HERE