Micro Museum Opening Performance with the Videograph

For Immediate Release

October 1, 1999 and update May 15
For press information contact:
Eba Twyford (718) 369-0605

The Micro Museum Exhibit
December 10 - 17, 1999
123 Smith Street Downtown Brooklyn

The Micro Museum's exhibit by inter-disciplinary artists William and Kathleen Laziza was called "A high tech fun house" by the NY Times last season. Now the Laziza's will premiere new video installations and interactive sculptures on December 10 - 17. The Micro Museum is open to the general public for one week in 1999 and later open daily by appointment from January 10 - June 30, 2000.

The Micro Museum Exhibit premieres videodance He Said, She Said by the Laziza Electrique Dance Co. highlighting eleven modern dancers and music of emerging metal band Candiria. General admission tickets are $5 with two special events offered on December 10 - "Meet the Artists" reception from 5 - 7 PM (no admission but reservations required). Following the reception is a virtual performance with jazz improv quintet Ghosts of the Canal and premiere of William Laziza's Videograph in concert. Performance tickets are $10. The Micro Museum is located in downtown Brooklyn at 123 Smith Street between Dean and Pacific Streets. It is easily accessible to the "F" and "G" train to Bergen St or "A", "C", "E", "R", "N", "2" & "3" trains to Boro Hall. Call (718) 797-3116 for reservations.

Live Performances June 17 at 8 PM (Tickets are $10)
Performances are December 10 at 8 PM (Tickets are $10)
Ghosts of the Canal is named for the Gowanus Canal area of Brooklyn, the infamous "Lavender Lake", a mysterious cesspool harboring live cholera and kindred souls. The jazz improv quintet introduces artists: Michael MacIvor (bass), Tommy Cirillo (percussion), Kenneth Schalk (keyboard), Reginald Just (percussion) and John LaMacchia (guitar). William Laziza will debut The Videograph, an optical instrument for videoart and a projection device, The Green Lantern, in a 40 minute visual program. The virtual performance piece with video installation is called Eye in a Needle with artistic direction by Kathleen Laziza.

Guided Tours and BIG Chair Interviews (Tickets are $5)
Dec. 11 from 5 - 8 PM, Dec. 12- 15 from 3 - 6 PM and Dec. 16 -17 from 5 - 8 PM
The exhibition premieres videodance He Said, She Said - a two channel video installation based on non-verbal communication and a demonstration of The Videograph. Visitors will also see Phone-i-ture, an interactive love seat; 3d TV, an interactive light box with sound activated antenna; Weighing In, a talking chair that announces your weight in kilograms; BIG Chair Interviews, an eight foot chair to climb and answer questions about your ambitions, plus other optical instruments.

AC/DC Window - Free to the public everyday beginning December 10
A solar powered kinetic sculpture in the 2nd floor window is best viewed between Dean and Pacific Streets during sunny afternoons or for nighttime exhibit approximately 1 hour after dark.

About the Artists:
William and Kathleen Laziza have collaborated since the late 1970's when they joined forces to make inter-disciplinary art that uses both vintage and innovative technologies with performance art. Dubbed "industrial strength artists" by NY Newsday, they also produce the Spontaneous Combustion series on public access television, which specializes in eclectic arts and has been running on Brooklyn Community Access Television since 1994.

The Laziza Electrique Dance Company features: Gabe Bobek, Samantha Twyford, Diana L. Allen, Suzanne Mendez, Raymundo Costa, Mandi Neuberger, Meritxell Farre, Shizu Homma, Jonette Ford, Frances Goritsas and Donny Cheung.

Candiria with Carley Coma (vocals), John LaMacchia (guitar), Michael MacIvor (bass), Eric Matthews (guitar), and Kenneth Schalk (percussion) are returning from a Midwest USA tour where they debuted their newly released CD, Process of Self Development by MIA Records. Candiria received praise from the NY Times and Rolling Stone Magazine in 1999.

Ghosts of the Canal is an ensemble that was created to explore improvisational experimental jazz and musical feedback. The group includes Michael MacIvor (bass), Tommy Cirillo (percussion), Kenneth Schalk (keyboard), Reginald Just (percussion) and John LaMacchia (guitar).

Promote Art Works, Inc. (PAWI) is the 501(c)3 sponsor for The Micro Museum Exhibit and all it's components. We want to acknowledge that our programs are made possible, in part, by public funds by the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs through Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and NYC Council Member Kenneth Fisher. PAWI receives funding from a "Community Assets" grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts with the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation.

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