Translation of Sightseeing, Feb. 5 at Heaven Gallery

[Eric Leonardson <eleon@ripco.com>]

Dear Friends,

I am happy to announce "Translation of Sightseeing," a live video and 
sound performance by two Japanese "tourists," Yuko Nexus6 Kitamura and 
Mariko Tajiri, that explores the inevitable gaps, delusions, gaga 
thoughts, postcards, and stereotypes experienced by travelers in foreign 
places.

9:00 p.m., Saturday, February 5
Heaven Gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Tel: 773-342-4597
Web: www.heavengallery.com <http://www.heavengallery.com>
Admission: $6


Yuko Nexus6 is a prolific and internationally recognized sound artist 
who embraces both hi-tech (laptop) and lo-tech (cassette) sound-making 
methods. Her compelling mixtures of field recordings, electronic music, 
and spoken text range from cinematic and sublime, to mischievous and 
childlike. She has been the subject of numerous interviews and 
citations, most recently in David Toop's historical survey of electronic 
music, Haunted Weather. Her third solo album, Journal de Tokyo (Sonore 
Records) <http://www.sonore.com/record_label/index.htm> received an 
Honorable Mention for Digital Musics in the 2003 Prix Ars Electronica.

Mariko Tajiri is a visual artist specializing in installation and video 
art. A recipient of a Philip Morris Art Award in 2000 and 2004, Mariko 
lives in Kobe and has shown widely in Japan and Europe.

Translation of Sightseeing is one stop in Yuko's and Mariko's North 
American <http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/%7Enexus6/LiveInformation.html> 
tour. Vocal artist extraordinaire, Carol Genetti 
<http://www.stasisfield.com/artists/carolgenetti.html> and I will open.

Further information is available on my "what's new" 
<http://pages.ripco.net/%7Eeleon/whatsnew.html> page and Heaven Gallery 
<http://www.heavengallery.com/>.

I hope you'll be able to attend.

Best regards,
Eric

-- 
Eric Leonardson 
"sound thinking" http://pages.ripco.net/~eleon/
"what's new" http://pages.ripco.net/~eleon/whatsnew.html