Performance Grant
2021 Summer Grantees
Eve Sussman | Simon Lee | Algis Kizys
Eve Sussman | Simon Lee | Algis Kizys
Artists
The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2021 Summer Performance Grant to Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, Algis Kizys for their project radioOradio, a multidisciplinary radioplay performed with visual improvisation that will be staged in a variety of venues– from theater spaces to warehouses and unused storefronts. The piece combines traditions of theatre and radioplay with improvisational VJ editing. As radioOradio is voiced by actors in the theatre, the performance is edited on-the-fly by the three directors streaming images to a screen viewed by a live audience. By incorporating the traditions of radioplay with live VJ mixing, a free flowing dramatic process gives rise to improvisations that change with every performance.
Eve Sussman works with film, video, installation and live performance, including dance. Her projects often experiment with narrative, improvised scripting, live editing and channelling. Her channeled dance piece Madison Color Theory was an experiment in color, geometric minimalism and channelled movement. Sussman’s work has been shown in institutions and festivals internationally, including exhibitions at The Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum in New York, The Louisiana Museum in Denmark, The National Gallery in London, Leeum Museum in Seoul, Korea, and Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. Festivals include: BAM–Next Wave Festival, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, and the Moscow International Film Festival. Her live-editing algorithmic movie whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Sussman’s work has been supported by NYSCA, NYFA, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and Creative Capital among others.
Together with Simon Lee, Sussman co-founded the Wallabout Oyster Theatre a micro-theatre run out of their studio in Brooklyn. Their project, No food No money No jewels, was commissioned by the Experimental Media and Performing Art Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. CollusionNoCollusion, a film and live performance was created at the Lombard Apartment, as part of a CEC-ArtsLink Residency in St Petersburg, Russia. Sussman and Lee are also acting as producers for Jack & Leigh Ruby, two reformed criminals, who make art and films based on their previous career as successful con artists.
Simon Lee works with still and motion pictures, installation and performance. His work is “a powerful metaphor for the random flow of history and a low tech formal tour de force” (Holland Cotter, NYT). He has created exhibitions and installations internationally, including: the Brooklyn Museum; The Berkshire Museum; Roebling Hall - NYC; the Moscow International Film Festival; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; Poznan Biennale, Poland; Tinguely Museum, Switzerland; Espace Paul Ricard, France; Whitney Museum, USA.
Algis Kizys is a sound artist/composer/musician/director. His music projects included Swans, Foetus, Pigface, Glenn Branca, Alex Hacke and with Danielle DiPicciotto, Of Cabbages And Kings, Lydia Lunch/Teenage Jesus and the Jerks/WIlling Victim/Retrovirus, Lary7 Trio (w/ Lary7 + Michael Evans), and current improvisational projects include The Hallicrafters (a shortwave radio duet using live shortwave signals and test equipment to create affected real time environments), The Triangles (an ambient comedy/broadcast installation trio), and NeVAh (w/ Norman Westberg + Vinny Signorelli). His film work includes Gus Van Sant, David Jacobson, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler. For stage he has directed O'Neill's Hughie and Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, of which he filmed a version which is currently in post production.