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Jennifer Walshe / Lary 7’s “owl Movie” at Lightbox Film Center
Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on April 29, 2019
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Tue, June 18, 2019
7:00 pm
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Please join Ars Nova Workshop and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania for Dreamweapons, a series of performances celebrating the multivalent influences of Tony Conrad. Conrad was a central figure in numerous experimental film, music, and performance communities from the early 1960s until his death in 2016. These events are presented in conjunction with ICA’s presentation of Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, the first large-scale museum survey devoted entirely to the artist.
A frequent collaborator with Tony Conrad in Ma La Pert, Jennifer Walshe’s formidable presence looms large in the contemporary classical world. Her compositions and operas have been performed by ensembles, quartets, and symphony orchestras both in her native Ireland and around the world. As a vocalist with a vast array of extended techniques at her disposal, Walshe regularly performs in both solo and group settings. Her vocal compositions have been performed at numerous festivals, including All Tomorrow’s Parties, Cut & Splice, and Experimental Intermedia....