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Machine Project: Platinum Collection – Live by Special Request
Date & Time
September 19 – January 3
Location
Tang Museum
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Presenting… Machine Project: Platinum Collection – Live by Special Request, at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY, this fall from September 19th – January 3rd.

Like a time-travelling clone experiment gone awry, Machine Project director Mark Allen is transporting back to his alma matter Skidmore College, for Machine’s very first not-a-retrospective. Along for the journey are some of our favorite artists, equipped with the know-how, enterprise, moxie, and grit, to present Machine Project in full force to the dear community of Saratoga Springs. In store are a stand-off between an op-art painting and a Borsch-Belt comedian, musical spring water taste-tests, a tent on the rooftop, poetry in elevators, a new owl costume, and more.

And now for your viewing pleasure, Mark Allen in a zentai suit (suit by Mark Allen and Gray Wielebinski)
All Events Workshops Projects Other
Workshop
September 19, 1pm
Seeing Beyond Speech
with Krystal Krunch
Free and open to the public, reservations required, space is limited. Call 518-580-8080
@ Tang Museum

Krystal Krunch (a.k.a. Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka) is a duo of artist intuitives who see and respond to energy in the body, the psyche, architectural spaces, and artworks. They are dedicated to using intuitive reading to help people come in contact with their highest and best potential. At 1:00 pm they lead Seeing Beyond Speech, a workshop to teach participants how to give and receive an intuitive reading. At 3:30 pm Krystal Krunch will move into the Affinity Atlas exhibition in the Tang’s Wachenheim Gallery, and along with workshop participants, will “read” individual artworks and the exhibition as a whole.
Performance
September 19, 3pm
“Reading” Affinity Atlas
with Krystal Krunch
Free, open to the public
@ Tang Museum

Krystal Krunch (a.k.a. Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka) is a duo of artist intuitives who see and respond to energy in the body, the psyche, architectural spaces, and artworks. They are dedicated to using intuitive reading to help people come in contact with their highest and best potential. At 1:00 pm they lead Seeing Beyond Speech, a workshop to teach participants how to give and receive an intuitive reading. At 3:30 pm Krystal Krunch will move into the Affinity Atlas exhibition in the Tang’s Wachenheim Gallery, and along with workshop participants, will “read” individual artworks and the exhibition as a whole.
Performance
September 26, 7:30pm
September 27, 1:30pm
Mr. Akita
Cliff Hengst (directed by Asher Hartman)
Free and open to the public, limited seating
@ Tang Museum

Starring artist, comedian, and performer Cliff Hengst and Sunburn, a painting by Emily Joyce, and written and directed by Asher Hartman,Mr. Akita is a one man play in which a Borscht Belt comedian and an op-art painting go to “head to façade” in a reminiscence of love, sex, art, failure and the sublime.
Performance
October 1, 8pm
A Readers Chorus
with Haruko Tanaka
Free and open to the public, limited seating
@ Tang Museum

Haruko Tanaka is a member of the Los Angeles Reader’s Chorus which was founded in 2014 in order to explore texts meant for performative group reading. In addition to bringing several L.A. Reader’s Chorus pieces to be practiced and performed, Haruko will be leading workshops to facilitate the creation of new material written by students at Skidmore College and the Saratoga Springs community at large, and holding rehearsals to practice these new pieces. Writers and group readers wanted! Everything will culminate in an intimate Readers Chorus recital on October 1.
Performance
October 17, 7pm
Themed Nomad No Plastic Form
with Kamau Patton
Free and open to the public, limited seating
@ Tang Museum

Themed Nomad No Plastic Form is a sound performance for voice and electronics which explores themes of language, machine communication and sonic augmentation.
Performance
October 22, 7:30pm
ReVerberancias
with Carmina Escobar
Free and open to the public, limited seating
@ Tang Museum

Carmina Escobar is an experimental vocal and sound artist whose piece ReVerberancias will use the resonance of the space, the performers/ audience voices, different array of microphones and digital/analog feedback to explore the physical experience of resonance and reverberation of sound through the body.
Performance
TBD
Massagem Sonora
with Carmina Escobar
Free and open to the public, first come, first served
@ Tang Museum

Massagem Sonora is an experiment in intimacy, personal space, and bodily resonance in which a relationship is established that allows the participant to be improvised on via voice and facial resonators applied to their body to discover their own unique resonant geographies.
Performance
October 20 – October23, 12pm – 5pm
October 24, 2pm
EVERYTHING
with Dawn Kasper
Free and open to the public
@ Tang Museum

Open rehearsal/performances Oct. 20 – 23, 12 – 5pm
Final Performance on Saturday, October 24 at 2:00pm

Dawn Kasper’s EVERYTHING involves using sound, props and movement to expose the process of creating and rehearsing for a performance work. She will be developing a piece in the Machine Project exhibition from October 20 – 24th, culminating into a final performance at 2 pm on the 24th.
Performance
November 7, 2pm
Music for Mineral Springs: A Tasting of Local Spring Waters with Musical Accompaniment
with Chris Kallmyer with Adam Tinkle and the “Community Engagement, Education, and the Arts” Class
Free and open to the public, limited seating
@ Tang Museum

A concert of sensory pairings of water with sound. Students from Skidmore College will work with Chris Kallmyer to create a multi-movement work that examines regional springs through music, light, and water. It will be casual, richly sonic, and a bit wet.
Performance
November 12, 7:30pm
November 13, 7:30pm
deepdeepbodygl!tter
with Hana Van Der Kolk
Free and open to the public, limited seating
@ Tang Museum

Open rehearsal on Thursday November 12 at 7:30 pm
Performance on Friday, November 13 at 7:30pm

deepdeepbodygl!tter is a collaboratively created performance for the Tang Museum featuring a diverse cast student performers. It is a celebration, a party, a mess, and an embodiment of questions of intimacy, borders, difference/otherness, sexuality, and collectivity. The performance will include an auto-ethnographic component, writing, scores, video, that will allow the audience to peek into the intensive process the group underwent for the creation of the work.