INsideOUT at the Atlantic Center for the Arts

MARK APPLEBAUM, music/composition/performance

Mark Applebaum (b. 1967, Chicago) is Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Stanford University where he received the 2003 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching and served as John Philip Coghlan Fellow.  He received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough.  His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electroacoustic work has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia with notable performances at the Darmstadt Sessions, NIME at IRCAM, the American Composers Orchestra's OrchestraTech, Stockholm New Music, the Bourges Festival, Sonorities in Belfast, SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, Sonic Circuits in Hong Kong, Belgium's TRANSIT Festival, the Essl Museum in Vienna, and the Kennedy Center.

He has received commissions from Betty Freeman, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Fromm Foundation, the Vienna Modern Festival, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, Zeitgeist, MANUFACTURE (Tokyo), the Quiet Music Festival in Cork, Ireland, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Antwerp's Champ D'Action, Festival ADEvantgarde in Munich, the Third Practice Festival, the sfSound Ensemble, the Jerome Foundation, and the American Composers Forum, among others.  Recordings of his music can be heard on the Tzadik, Innova, Capstone, SEAMUS, and Everglade labels.

In 1997 Applebaum received the American Music Center's Stephen Albert Award and an artist residency fellowship at the Villa Montalvo artist colony in Northern California.  He has engaged in numerous intermedia collaborations, including That Brainwave Chick (with neural artist Paras Kaul), Archittetura Redux (with film-maker Iara Lee, Caipirinha Productions), Concerto for Florist and Ensemble (with florist James DelPrince), The Bible without God (with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Aphoristic Fragment (with animator Anna Chupa), Interactive Sound Pavilion (with architect David Perkes), Spring Migration (with choreographer Brittany Brown), and projects with the laptop DJ ensembles Digital Cutup Lounge (Hong Kong) and Tricky OL (Japan).

Since 1990 Applebaum has built electroacoustic instruments--sound-sculptures--out of junk, hardware, and found objects for use as both compositional and improvisational tools.  This research is described at length in his article for New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, volume 4.  The visual aspect of the sound-sculptures is echoed in some of his hand-written scores that incorporate idiosyncratic glyphs and pictographs, and have been displayed in art galleries.  At present he is working on The Metaphysics of Notation, a twelve-panel score for the Stanford University Cantor Arts Center that will be displayed during 2009-2010 and invite weekly realizations by musical interpreters.

Applebaum is also active as a jazz pianist.  He has concertized from Sumatra to the Czech Republic, most recently performing a solo recital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso sponsored by the American Embassy.  At present he performs with his father, Bob Applebaum, in the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo.  At Stanford, Applebaum also serves as the founding director of [sic]--the Stanford Improvisation Collective.  Prior to his current appointment, Applebaum taught at UCSD, Mississippi State University, and Carleton College where he served as Dayton-Hudson Visiting Artist.

 * For more information on Mark Applebaum please visit http://www.markapplebaum.com

CAROLE KIM , live video performance/installation

Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on live video performance and performance-based video installation.  Digital/new media technologies interface with the sensitivity of the improvisational live performer.  The installations explore the illusory architecture of layered video projection in space and real-time video performance. The use of live-feed cameras introduces the human form into this layered landscape, mediating the body while preserving the dynamic edge of the live performer. The performance/installations are multi-sensory immersive environments that often explore a de-centralized viewing space. Kim seeks a generative hybrid of disciplines that collapses boundaries and supports an integrated reciprocal exchange between sound, image, movement, space.

A particular love for live improvisational new music has fostered many sound/image collaborations with musician/composers including Nels Cline, GE Stinson, Jesse Gilbert, Mark Dresser, Vinny Golia, Hahn Rowe, Steve Roden, Joelle Leandre, Carla Bozulich, Alex Cline, and Scott Amendola. She has collaborated with the following dancer/choreographers: Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Michael Sakamoto, Shuriu Lo, Jesske Hume, Liz Hoefner, Hassan Christopher, Christine Pichini and Maya Gingery.  A lineup of visual artists and filmmakers that have contributed to past projects including Astra Price, Maile Colbert, Mirabelle Ang, Rebecca Baron, Beth Bird, Eve Luckring, Adele Horne, Christine Marie, Bo Sul Kim, Ann Kaneko, Lisa Tchakmakian, Pablo Molina, and Alex Lorge.

She has exhibited and performed widely in the US and abroad. Recent venues include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, REDCAT/Disney Hall, the Getty Center, Springwave Festival/LIG Performing Arts Hall (Seoul, Korea), Trampoline: Platform for New Media Art (Nottingham, England), the Stanford Jazz Festival, Engine 27 (New York), Arizona State University-West Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance Program (Phoenix, AZ), the Knitting Factory (LA), ArtSonje Center (Seoul, Korea) plus numerous festivals and performance series.  Kim will be a featured artist in the August issue of Abitare/CHINA.  Eyebeam Atelier in New York commissioned a piece on the web and the performance/installation REVERSE HOUSE KIT was featured in the DVD publication ASPECT vol2: New Media Artists of the West Coast.

 * For more information on Carole Kim please visit http://www.carolekim.com.

Associate Artists selected to work with Carole Kim include Jacob Cooper, New Haven, CT: Sandra De Berduccy, Cochabamba, Bolivia; Chad Eby, Tallhassee, FL; Toby K. Lee, Thessaloniki, Greece; Christopher O'Leary, Los Angeles, CA; Tara Rynders, Denver, CO; Claudia Salamanca, Berkeley, CA; and Megan England Ward, Charlottesville, VA.

HEATHER WOODBURY, playwriting/performance

Heather Woodbury is an award-winning performer and writer known for her ground-breaking "performance novels"- expansive, multi-character works which combine the immediacy of performance art with a novel's length and scope.  Her 10-hour, 100-character solo performance, "What Ever: An American Odyssey in Eight Acts" (published by Faber/Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) was hailed as a "Whitmanesque vision of America" [Chicago Sun-Times] and cited by the NY Times as '"a masterwork of the solo form."

The critically acclaimed epic (8-part) performance began as an underground serial in the back of an East Village bar and went on to tour the U.S and Europe - from Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago to London's Royal Festival Hall. It was later adapted as a radio play hosted by Ira Glass. Woodbury has received multiple awards, grants and fellowships for her subsequent works.

Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks (published by Semiotexte/MIT Press) was developed in a series of solo performances as playwright-in residence at the Public Theatre with a 2001 Playwriting Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. The premiere production of this 6-act, multi-generational saga, featuring a multi-racial cast, won a 2007 OBIE (Off-Broadway Award for excellence) for ensemble performance. In 2006 she was awarded the Spalding Gray Award honoring writer/performers who are "fearless innovators."

Her current solo work, The Last Days of Desmond 'Nani' Reese: A Stripper's History of the World, was commissioned for development by The City of Los Angeles, which awarded her a C.O.L.A. - 2007 Performing Artist's Fellowship.

Heather developed her style of solo performance and writing in New York City's East Village during the early 80s performance art scene. During this time, she wrote a dozen solo pieces, two plays, and one screenplay, refining a method of generating material via last-minute writing and semi-improvised solo performance. She is currently touring Last Days and starting work on a new "multi-medium" novel - for publication, performance, and web-cast.

 * For more information on Heather Woodbury please visit http://www.heatherwoodbury.com

Associate Artists selected to work with Heather Woodbury include Sheila Bishop, Gainesville, FL; Elizabeth Doud, Miami Beach, FL;  Brian Feldman, Orlando, FL; Ann Hirsch, Syracuse, NY; Caroline Johnson, Houston, TX; Lauren Weedman, Santa Monica, CA; Dawn Weleski, Pittsburgh, PA; Gordon Winiemko, Longbeach, CA; and Kristina Wong, Los Angeles, CA.