EL MUNDO or Why Was There A Classical Music Concert At An East Harlem Super Discount Store Two Weeks Before Its Eviction Date? RAINER GANAHL + SASKIA SASSEN IN CONVERSATION / MODERATED BY KAI MATSUMIYA WHITE COLUMNS SATURDAY / JUNE 21 / 7PM
see recording here --- the actual discussion starts at about 7 minutes into the talk - since we screened a part of it -
more on EL MUNDO Show at Kai Matsumiya, New York VIDEO : See a 7 min excerpt (original 55 min) text WRITTEN BY RG photographs - 20 editon 1 / 6 75 X 100 CM / 29.5 X 39.3 inches EL MUNDO - A CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT AT EL MUNDO, FORMER EAGLE THEATER, SPANISH HARLEM, NYC the actual concert held in January 23, 2013, the coldest day of the year so far with the support of Matthew Higgs from White Columns, New York and Haunted Houses Projects, Spanish Harlem, New York. Thanks the everybody who came and the current and former Juilliard muscians, Rachel Koblyakov, Siyi, jeff, Ok-Cha Lim, and Ken Okiiishi. Thanks also to El Mundo . All Brands, a discount retailer to be evicted the following week of the concert. Their lease went up by several times. (Siji and Jeff don't want to appear in internet search machines)
TWO SCREEN PUBJECTION, VIDEO 55 MIN first presentation: Villa Merkel, Essllingen /Stuttgart, Triennale, Group show by Andreas Baur. His support made the publication possible. second presentaton: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (Cabinet der Angst - Group show by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Catherine Hug camera: RG, Gerhard Frommel, and others. See a 7 min excerpt (original 55 min)
A PUBLICATION - MOUSSE Publishing, MILAN with the total support of Andreas Baur, Villa Merkel and some financial engagement by Kunsthalle Wien as well as White Columns and Haunted Houses Projects, New York. design: RG and Dominik Krauß
PHOTOGRAPHS two sets of photographs taken by me and others including Nick Mauss, Friedhelm Brill, Anna Oberle-Brill and others. 20 images of the place without the audience - see here individual images taken with the audience - see a selection below photographs - 20 editon 1 / 6
thanks to everybody involved: in particlar all the musicians ( Ok-Ja Lim, Siyi Fang, Rachel Koblyakov,, Jay Dref, and Ken Okiishi )- Rachel Koblyakov, for the program, el mundo, white columns, Matthew Higgs, Ari Taub (16mm camera), Gerhard Frommel (video Camera 1), Marshal Garbus (sound) - additional photographic help by Nick Mauss and Friedhlem Brlll.
the musicians are arriving... seeing the former theater the first time - jay, siyin, rachel, ken
Thanks to all the wonderful muscians, to El Mundo - All brand name, and Matthew Higgs, and White Columns. music files will be coming soon.
Partial history of the place:
1914 1926 / 1927 before that I was already some kind of theater - may be a so- calle storefront theater or a nickel odeon (entry one nickle, 5 cent) 1981 1992 1997 current owner is there for over 10 years. the next club owner (I made an interview with the curernt owner) is paying 25 000 dollar rent a month. I cannot understand how they wanna make that money - this is teh amount he told me on video. more about the place - The buildling, when it was still the EAGLE THEATER early 1980s - as found in NYC tax files - there it is listed as built in 1926. more images
from the new york times: Another Cosmopolitan Colony Has Planted Itself in Eastern Harlem ...
THERE WAS A HIGH RISE TRAIN THROUGHOUT ALL THIRD AVENUE (THE WAY IT EXISTS STILL IN QUEESN AND BROOKLYN) CALLED THE "EL".. FINITO IN 1955 http://thehistorybox.com/ny_city/italian_harlem_cruisin_50s_no_2_nycity.htm
--- el mundo is gone
VIDEO : See a 7 min excerpt (original 55 min) text WRITTEN BY RG
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