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Joe Ahearn
Joe Ahearn, Program Director for Clocktower, is an explorer of the interdependence between lifestyle, community, and art practice, producing countless visual, performing arts, and site-specific productions in historic locations throughout the city. Since 2008 he has been a resident, curator, and key organizer for the Bushwick-based performance and arts collective Silent Barn, a leading voice in the new national network of music spaces. Starting in the summer of 2017, Joe Ahearn is now the co-founder (along with Kunal Gupta) of a new fundraising tool called Friends.
Previously, Ahearn has spent six years as the Managing Director of Showpaper, a non-profit, bi-weekly arts, and music newsprint. Ahearn is a frequent participant on panels and public programs focusing on the "DIY" phenomenon. He is also expert in inter-organizational, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative cultural events based in unusual locations throughout the city. He’s lived in and helped set up collective and independent spaces like Death By Audio, Dead Herring, Secret Project Robot, Market Hotel and many more, as well as working with art organizations on the complete other end of the spectrum, like MoMA, PS1, New Museum, Pioneer Works, Knockdown Center, Roulette, Issue Project Room, and spaces like these all across the United States and the world.
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Friends // Sustainable Crowdfunding for Community Organizations
Clocktower // New York City's original Alternative Art Space
Silent Barn // Collectively-run chaos & art space in Bushwick
Parties // Find me if you can
Programs
Site : Sound, A Sonic Portrait
A sonic portrait of performances, site-specific lectures, and acousting happenings from series Site : Sound.
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IdeasCity Radio
IdeasCity Radio was developed as a platform to exchange, discuss, share, and connect ideas and insights initiated during the IdeasCity fellowships in Detroit, Athens, and Arles.
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IdeasCity Arles: Rem Koolhaas, Countryside
Recorded live from IdeasCity Arles' Public Conference, this episode of IdeasCity Radio features a keynote lecture delivered by prolific architect Rem Koolhaas on the topic of countryside.
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IdeasCity Arles: Friday Night
Arleasean IdesCity Arles fellow Thibault Franc and Carro-based french-native Marc Troulier discuss Arles; the urbanization of the French countryside, and share their experiences as arts activists and organizers within their respective cities of residence.
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IdeasCity Arles: Cared For
IdeasCity Arles fellows Salome Asega, María Elena Ortiz, Rasu Jilani, Natasha Marie Llorens, and others, reflect on their initial impressions of Arles, over a selection of international hip-hop tracks.
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MVT3 (Music Video Time 3)
Clocktower presents MVT3, the third program of the MVT trilogy series highlighting new and innovative music across all genres, celebrating the musicians and directors that create them in a way that is lost in an age of YouTube distribution and smartphone viewing. Screened in a one-night-only set of a dozen "living rooms" equipped with televisions, couches, and coffee tables for you and your gang to commandeer while watching all 32 music video cuts. See full list of music videos below. Both before and after the screening, performances live-score new video work. Click HERE for the Facebook event! Living Room Set Performances: Before - RONiiA with live video by Ginny Benson After- Todd Chandler and Marshall LaCount livescoring a film by Todd Chandler Music Videos: (Director) // (Band) // (Song) Carson Mell // Bobby Bird // Rock N' Roll Carson Mell // Bobby Bird // Album Covers Ian Vañek // Cheeky Blakk // Ride Fah Jay Buim // College ft. Nola Wren // Save The Day Andrew Jeffrey Wright // Dan Deacon // Feel The Lightning Nick Chatfield-Taylor // Dan Friel // Thumper Fletcher Wolfe // emilyn brodsky // Born Again Serban Ionescu // Fantasmes // The Shadow Self Ryan Muir // Fat Tony // BKNY
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AUDITORIUM
AUDITORIUM is an extended evening of site-specific electronic and electroacoustic performances organized by artists/curators Lea Bertucci and Tristan Shepherd. The focal point for this event is a custom 10-channel sound system installed throughout the 50,000 square feet of Knockdown Center. This system will act as the point of departure for multichannel works by innovative sound-based artists Nate Wooley, Sabisha Friedberg, Marina Rosenfeld, Woody Sullender, Phill Niblock, and Katherine Liberovskaya. Bertucci and Shepherd commission new works from the composers, instrumentalists and audio artists to develop works uniquely suited to the site.
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Tetraphonics
Since the 1970s, quadraphonic sound has been discarded by the commercial audio world, only to be adopted by experimental composers and sound artists. Almost fifty years later, as we find ourselves in a state of technological saturation, what does it mean to continue the use of quad? Presented in collaboration with Lea Bertucci at Pioneer Works, sound artists explore four varying approaches to quadraphonic sound and its mesmeric effects in performance and 4-channel video work, centered around a specially designed quadraphonic cello. WARNING: There will be strobe lights at the last performance at 10:20PM RSVP: HERE
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Ursula Scherrer, afloat
The artist Ursula Scherrer presents an extended form installation event for one night only featuring a near-holographic, animated, multiple projection video environment and a live soundtrack performed by percussionist Brian Chase (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs) and bassist Kato Hideki (of the Tokyo and New York noise scenes). The event is a steady-state, durational, evolution of time, space, light, and sound and visitors are invited to attend any portion of the four-hour event: linger, come and go, or absorb it all. Suggested donation $8-15. Ursula Scherrer is a Swiss artist living in New York City. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries and museums internationally. Her aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text and mixed media. The poetic quality of Scherrer's video work is one of moving paintings, drawing the viewer into the images. She transforms spaces and landscapes into serene, abstract portraits of rhythm, color and light - inner landscapes in the outside world where the images have less to do with what we see than with the feeling they leave
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Anxious Spaces: Performance Festival 2015
Live performances by Aurora Halal, Lucas Abela, and Prince Rama, who use video, sculpture, and sound artwork in site-specific installations at Knockdown Center as a point of departure for their exploratory performances.
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Primal Screams
A raucous night of underground bands with strong female forces, featuring Screaming Females, Guardian Alien, and Priests, hosted in the AMC Empire 25 movie theater right in the heart of Times Square.
Each defiant performance of howling, shredding, and polyrhythmic drumming is accompanied by the premiere of an eye-popping experimental video work, glowing on the theater’s monumental screen. Click HERE to check out the Primal Screams Video. Zine Fair + DJ Set: 7PM The evening kicks off with a zine fair in the lobby of the theater, organized by Paper Jam, a twice-annual small press, mini-comic, zine spread held at the Silent Barn in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Plus, a live set by DJ Cassie Ramone (of Vivian Girls). Show: 8PM Videos
Focus On Puerto Rico
Clocktower has partnered with Mana Miami to produce a residency program for Puerto Rican diaspora artists, and/or artists presently living and working in Puerto Rico.
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The Ashcan Orchestra
The performances of the Orchestra's residency opera project, "Apollo's Accidental Answer" took place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, September 12, 13, and 14, 2012.
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Screaming Females Live at Primal Screams
A live concert recording of the New Brunswick band Screaming Females, playing an epic roster of songs filled with wild vocals and shrieking guitar solos, in a movie theater in Times Square for the multimedia event Primal Screams on March 15, 2016. The show spanned the group's whole musical career (including tunes from their 2015 album, Rose Mountain), and was accompanied by a video animation by Faye Orlove projected on the theater's massive screen. Primal Screams was a raucous night of underground bands with strong female forces, featuring Screaming Females, Guardian Alien, and Priests, hosted in the AMC Empire 25 movie theater, in collaboration with Times Square Arts. Each defiant performance of howling, shredding, and polyrhythmic drumming was accompanied by the premiere of an experimental video work, glowing on the theater’s monumental screen.
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Interference AV at AMC Times Square
Times Square Arts and Clocktower take over AMC Empire 25 for three nights of free live music and video art projection. Musical performances by Jlin, Lightning Bolt, and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
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Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst II
Clocktower presents the second annual group exhibition Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst, featuring a selection of artists whose work incorporates dynamic and time-based elements, ranging from robotic interactivity to performance events to social intervention. Knockdown Center's cathedral-like complex, with its breathtaking expanse, mysterious sub-chambers, surprise annexes, and hidden pockets is a dream environment for site-specific and installation art. Taken together, the architecture and the artworks transform the space into a surreal bazaar of curiosities for the adventurous. Anxious Spaces exhibits and installations by Will Ryman, Molly Lowe, Tim Bruniges, Aurora Halal, Lucas Abela, Prince Rama, Audra Wolowiec, and Ben Mortimer are on view at Knockdown Center through July 26, 2015 Saturdays and Sundays, from 2 to 6pm. Or by appointment. More on the installations:
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MANIA : Yatta Zoker
YATTA is a Sierra-Leonean American digipoet and performer who remixes shamanic sounds with their jazz vocals to create music to lie down in.
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Site : Sound at Knockdown Center
Site : Sound is a series of intimate site-specific lectures, sonic-spatial interventions, and performances, which took place across New York, from April 23 to June 25, 2017.
Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor, Do The Devo
As part of the Clocktower’s music video production program, Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor paired up with Brooklyn-based band Unstoppable Death Machines to produce an animated music video for their single, “Do The Devo.” Taking a live performance, filmed in the main gallery of the Tribeca space in 2012, as its’ starting point, Chatfield-Taylor transformed his project space into an animation studio, complete with a custom-built light table for large drawing sessions, and inspirational ephemera from both his and the bands’ lives. Throughout the duration of the residency, groups of friends and illustrators were invited into the workspace to converse and collaborate on the process of hand-drawing every one of the thousands of individual frames, culminating in a massively chaotic and beautiful distillation of his entire community’s creative efforts.
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IdeasCity Arles: Naturally
A discussion about urban ecology in Arles, Detroit, Bogota, Perth, and more. Fellows Felipe Guerra and David Ayala-Alfonso lead-in with a selection of their favorite champeta tracks.
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IdeasCity Athens: Hanging with IdeasCity at Pioneer Works
On December 9, 2016, fellows from various IdeasCity residencies came to the Clocktower radio studio to share their experiences living and making art in New York City, Detroit, and Athens, Greece and how their time at IdeasCity has impacted their lives since.
Focus On Puerto Rico at Miami Art Week
Clocktower is pleased to announce our event showcase at Miami Art Week 2017-- an extension of our Focus On Puerto Rico, Fall program.
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Knockdown Center : Ashcan Orchestra
Performing live at Knockdown Center for Site : Sound's culminating showcase, Ashcan Orchestra delivered a spellcasting performance featuring a sound-responsive light show, bells, operatic vocals, and more.
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IdeasCity Radio MegaMix : Detroit
This mix features a selection of highlights from IC_Radio's Detroit fellowship.
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IdeasCity Radio MegaMix : Arles
This mix features a selection of highlights from IC_Radio's Arles fellowship.
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IdeasCity Arles: And, We're Off!
Vere van Gool, Associate Director of IdeasCity, Ladi'sasha Jones, Project Manager for IdeasCity, and Clocktower's Program Director Joe Ahearn convene in the Clocktower station to discuss plans for IdeasCity Arles.
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Zoe Friedman & Peals, Time is a Milk Bowl , curator
Zeljkovision Tarot Parlor , curator
Yoga For Two, curator
Weekend, The Band , host
Video Program, Come Home, curator
Turner Williams Jr., host
Transmissions, Long Tones in A and E, curator
Transmissions , curator
Times Square Arts: Gamelatron Bunga Kota, curator
Thu Tran & Christopher Duffy, Thanksgiving Deux, Dinnervisuals, curator
The Spookfish, Recorded Live, host
The Now Age, curator
The New Dreamz: The Idea, curator
The New Dreamz, curator
The Music Box, New Orleans, host
The Leonard Cohen of Sandwiches, host
The Innernet, host
The Gamelatron Jalan Jiwo: Opening Reception, curator
The Gamelatron Jalan Jiwo, curator
The Babies, curator
Thanksgiving Deux, Dinnervisuals, curator
Taraka Larson, The Now Age, host
Tara Jane O'Neil Performs, curator
Tara Jane O'Neil Live, host
Taco Truck Torta, host
Tabor Robak's SHOWPAPER, host
SXSW 2011: Sun Araw, Prince Rama, and Weedeater, host
SXSW 2011: Quiet Hooves, Ryan Schreiber (Pitchfork), Pictureplane, Lord Scrummage, host
SXSW 2011: Nick Purdy of Paste Magazine, Hunx & His Punx, Jeff The Brotherhood, host
SXSW 2011: Japanther, Sweet Bulbs, No Age, host
SXSW 2011: Enchanted Forest, John Vanderslice, King Tuff, host
SXSW 2011: Black Congress, Parts & Labor, host
SXSW 2011: Ava Luna, Folly House, Hermit Thurshes, and Unstoppable Death Machine, host
Sumi Ink Club, curator
Streamcast, Concert & Open Studios: Weekend , curator
So Percussion, It Is Time, host
So Percussion, curator
Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, VnessWolfCHild & Terence Caulkins: Crystal Cavern, host
Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Crystal Cavern, curator
September Open House, Open Studios, curator
Second Sundays: June 2015 Mixtape, host
Second Sundays: James Mercer, Bradley Pitts, Lulu Miller, Redu NYC, host
Second Sundays: Artist Interviews, December 2014, host
Sandy Stories: Artists in a Storm, host
Ron Regé's SHOWPAPER, host
Richard Nonas, Because Everything, producer
Reception: Nomi Ruiz, Borough Gypsy , curator
Reception: Byron Westbrook: Interval/Habitat, curator
RAFT: The Stranger, host
RAFT as the Stranger, curator
Rachel Mason: The Lives of Hamilton Fish , curator
Prince Rama: Never Forever and Astral Projects, curator
Playing Hooky: Hurricanes of Love, curator
Playing Hooky: DJ Dog Dick, curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Zeb, The Spy from Cairo, curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Noveller , curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Ned Rothenberg, curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Ikue Mori , curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Helado Negro, curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Frankie Cosmos , curator
Playing Hooky 2015: Ben Seretan, curator
Playing Hooky, host
Phone Tag, Live, host
Peter Edwards: Casperelectronics, host
Pesto Manifesto, host
Performance & Open Studios: MV Carbon, Ganjatronics, curator
People Get Ready , curator
People Get Ready, curator
People Get Ready, host
Peals, Time is a Milk Bowl, producer
Peals & Romantic States, host
Pat Spadine & the Ashcan Orchestra, host
Paradise II: Dream Driver , curator
Paintings and Other Indulgences: Jeffrey Deitch, Walter Robinson, and Alanna Heiss, host
Open House, Open Studios 24 January, curator
Open House, Open Studios 13 August , curator
Open House Open Studios, 27 March 2012, curator
Open House Open Studios 7 August 2012, curator
November Open House, Open Studios , curator
Nomi Ruiz, Borough Gypsy, curator
Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor, host
Neon Marshmallow: C. Spencer Yeh and Zarzutzki, host
NEON MARSHMALLOW: Audible Silence, curator
NEON MARSHMALLOW: Audible Silence, curator
MVT3: Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Jay Buim, and Joe Ahearn, host
MVT 2, curator
MV Carbon, Beyond the Dimensional Slope, curator
Muck Performance, curator
Muck Interview, host
Muck, curator
Moral Kombat: Taraka and Nimai Larson vs. G Lucas Crane , curator
Moral Kombat: Pete Nolan vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat: Matt Mondanile vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat: Darren "Driphouse" Ho vs. G Lucas Crane , curator
Moral Kombat: Darren "Driphouse" Ho vs. G Lucas Crane , curator
Moral Kombat: Darren "Driphouse" Ho vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat: Daniel Carter vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat: Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat: C Spencer Yeh vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat : Casper Electronics vs. G Lucas Crane, host
Moral Kombat, artist
Moms & Monterrey, host
Mikkel Hess & the Hess Is More Ministry of Integration, curator
Melissa F. Clarke, curator
Maya Hayuk reception & Uumans performance, curator
Maya Hayuk , curator
Maximillian Lawrence , curator
Maria Chavez Performance: Improvised Spaces, curator
Maria Chavez Performance: Improvised Spaces, curator
Maria Chavez & Daniel Neumann: Improvised Resonance Compositions # 2-6, host
Lucky Dragons & David Behrman/Ben Vida, curator
Lucky Dragons, host
Lily Padula's SHOWPAPER, host
Lary 7, A Tip of the Hat, curator
Kría Brekkan, curator
Kazue Kobata on Performance, host
Judith Supine Reception with Ed Schrader's Music Beat , curator
Judith Supine , curator
John Supko & Bill Seaman: s_traits, with Wet Ink Ensemble , curator
John Orth, Holopaw, host
John Mejias, I'm Wurried +, host
John Mejias, I'm Wurried, curator
Joe & Ginny's Jam Sandwich, host
Jesse Hlebo, Habit Towards Obedience, host
Jay Buim , curator
Javelin, The Interview, host
Javelin Cowboy Music, host
James Mercer, Landfill, curator
In Your Defense, curator
IdeasCity New York, host
IdeasCity Detroit: Data, Science, and the City, host
IdeasCity Athens: The Boy, host
IdeasCity Athens: Negros Tou Moria & Black Athena: Music as Identity, host
Honey Locust Tree Relocation, curator
Holiday Giveaway Party, curator
Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Stranger Visions, curator
Habit Towards Obedience, curator
Guardian Alien in Times Square, host
Grandwizzard Theodore Live, producer
Gamelatron Bunga Kota Opening Reception, curator
G. Lucas Crane, curator
Frieze: Downtown Night, curator
Focus On Puerto Rico : Daniel Bejar , producer
Flock House Living System Pods, curator
Fat Tony, curator
Ebe Oke , curator
Dustin Wong, curator
Dustin Wong, host
DroneScape, curator
Dream Driver: Video Paradise, Julian Bozeman & Javier Morales, curator
Dispatches from SXSW 2011: Preview, host
Diamond Terrifier, host
David Horvitz: Fifty-Five Honey Locust Trees, curator
Dana Dart-McLean & Lauren O’Conner's SHOWPAPER, host
Dan Friel, Live, host
Dan Friel, Ghost Town, host
Dan Friel & So So Glos, host
Dan Friel, curator
Crystal Stokowski, Shark's Tooth, host
Crystal Stokowski Reception and Concert, curator
Crystal Stokowski, curator
Crystal Cavern Opening Reception, curator
Crystal Cavern - Closing, curator
Cross-Cuts Opening Reception , curator
Cross-Cuts, curator
Concert & Open Studios: Hess Is More (& More), curator
Closing Celebration for Shoplifter's Nervescape with Hess is More and Listening Center, curator
Clocktower People & Project Updates 2014, host
Christopher Garrett's SHOWPAPER, host
Chris Kontos DJ Set , host
Chelpa Ferro , host
Casperelectronics, curator
Carly Ptak, Idea Machine Reception, curator
Carly Ptak, Idea Machine, curator
Carly Ptak, curator
Canyon of Burning Water, curator
Cammisa Buerhaus, Chroma Color Organ, host
Calder Foundation: My Life in 19 Minutes, Ava Luna & Headless Horseman, host
Byron Westbrook: Interval/Habitat, curator
Borden Capalino, Ballyjamesduff, curator
Ben Vida, Bird Show, curator
Ben Vida Performance, curator
Bacon, Egg & Cheese, host
Babyharvester, Opening Reception, curator
Babyharvester, curator
Babycalzones Pizza Potluck #23, curator
Ava Luna, host
Ashcan Orchestra Performance, host
Apollo's Accidental Answer , curator
Anxious Spaces: Zero to Infinity , host
Anxious Spaces: Raul de Nieves , producer
Anxious Spaces: Performance Festival, curator
Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst , curator
Anxious Spaces: Desi Santiago, Mummy Procession , producer
Anxious Spaces 2015: On View , curator
Anxious Spaces 2015 Closing Party , curator
Amy Yao's SHOWPAPER, host
After Hours: Cabin Fever, An Alpine Fantasy, curator
After Hours, The Drums , curator
After Hours, Sky Lines , curator
After Hours, Room Mate Grace Hotel, curator
After Hours, Nomi Ruiz at BB Kings!, curator
After Hours, Ebe Oke , curator
After Hours, Corporeal-Symphonics, curator
After Hours, Bouquet , curator
After Hours, An Evening at the Lambs Club , curator
aclu benefit, host
Above The Law: So Percussion, curator
Above The Law: So Percussion, curator
Above the Law: Kids Puttin' on the Ritz, curator
Above the Law: Fat Tony, curator
Above the Law: Fat Tony, curator
Above the Law: Fat Tony, host
Above the Law: Dustin Wong, curator
Above the Law: Dustin Wong, curator
Above the Law: Dan Friel, curator
Above the Law: Dan Friel, curator
Above the Law, curator
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