Immediate Release

March 4, 2005

(718) 797-3116

By William and Kathleen Laziza

Saturday March 19 at MICRO MUSEUM, 123 Smith Street Brooklyn

12 - 10 PM Interactive Visual Exhibition and Reception

9 PM Video Screening of "Whichever Whichway .... You Send Me"

As a part of the 25^th (Silver) Anniversary Celebration January 7 - December 20

Admission $2 per person

William and Kathleen Laziza, Founders of New York’s unique Micro Museum, will celebrate the 25^th (Silver) Anniversary of its creation with a special presentation on Saturday, March 19 around the current exhibit, SILVER. The couple located to Brooklyn in 1986, and formed the museum in 1995 where, Time Out New York recently wrote "Ever since the Lazizas’ Micro Museum settled in Boerum Hill, it has been beguiling visitors with its interactive video displays, computer games, audio tricks and special effects."

On March 19th beginning at noon viewers can play with several interactive installations such as the Videoscopco and others in the VIP Room, and then at 9 PM watch a live video screening of "Whichever Whichway ... You Send Me" - a poetic performance journey for William and Kathleen Laziza through a medley of storytelling, music, movement, recitation, and projector art. Refreshments served. Admission is $2.00 for interactive exhibit and video screening of the Laziza's performance in the ground floor space until 10 PM

Micro Museum is at 123 Smith Street, bet Dean and Pacific Streets in Brooklyn. Directions By Subway: "F" and "G" to Bergen street - walk the same direction as traffic, less than 2 blocks from station By Car: Travel straight off the Brooklyn Bridge, past Atlantic Ave. Left on Dean and left on Smith street

With SILVER, for the first time the Lazizas have permitted themselves to be the featured artists at their museum. SILVER brings together three of their major artistic interests: interactive, human powered, and repetition. Between their polar opposite approaches towards their personal goals and the fact that they love learning more about their unique relationship, over a dozen playful installations were born. They are the Lumiano, Videoscopo, Light Lines, The Videograph, The Kissing Installation, Spring Fever Collection, Guess Who?, The BIG Chair, The Prepared Victrola, AC/DC Windows, Phone-i-ture + 3d TV, Invalid TV, and the SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION broadcast series now running 21 years in NYC with 11 years in Brooklyn.

From the beginning, William and Kathleen collaborated on a high level; individually they were successful artists. They became partners in art in 1976; traveled around the world in 1979; married in 1980; moved to NYC in 1981; gave birth to Leo in 1983; moved to Smith Street in 1986; birthed Dylan in 1989; formed 501(c)3 organization PAWI in 1993 and Micro Museum in 1995. Since then they've orchestrated Micro Museum as a resource with over 600 affiliate artists every year for presentation or process. Upon reflection of these last 25 years they admit to having an invisible language through art to communicate with, to having had many lucky circumstances take place, and to the truth that collaboration is like "aging .....(in the words of Betty Davis) isn't for sissies"!

William Laziza has developed over 30 visual instruments that create altered images in a real time setting as well as having keep tons of electronics out of the landfill. William's art expresses ingenious function like Phone-i-ture, a love seat where you can telephone the person sitting next to you - or- creating virtual environments for cyber with the latest R & D methods then broadcasting them live around the region and world. 

Kathleen Laziza is a choreographer who worked with Hanya Holm, Alwin Nikolas and Erick Hawkins. She is a dedicated advocate of 21st century artforms that blend the personal with the political to create leading edge art. Her wearable art or interactive sculptures both demonstrate connectivity through her own twisted sense of performance art. She is comfortable creating with unlikely elements like having a Scottish bagpiper rowed through Prospect Park waterways, as she is with art direction and kazari.

Now through April 1 = Videoscopo, & The Kissing Installation

March 19 = "Whichever Whichway.. You Send Me" special performance video screening
April 11 - July 14 = The Big Chair and Spring Fever Collection photo ops

July 10 = POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLOCK PARTY on Smith Street

July 15 = Premiere of "Blabbermouth" and other works from the VIP Room

October 20 - November 1 = The Haunted Maze and Benefit Gala w/ "Pursuit of Happenstance"*

November 2 - December 20 = Prepared Victrola Listening Parties

Space Rental for Children's Dance Classes, Musical Instrument Study in collaboration with Musicians General Store, Theater Workshops, Marital Arts Training, Bellydance Classes, Choreography Rehearsals, Public Presentations of Art/Science/Film/Video, Clown Practices, Photography Sessions and Community Meetings. Orchestrate free summer program for the Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee in Pierrepont Park.

Cable TV program SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION Every 3rd Sat at 2:30 PM on BCAT.

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