Still from There is a War. Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken, 2010.

1 presents
Thursday, December 16, 2010
8pm | Billy Wilder Theater

New Skin for

the Old Ceremony
Theo Angell / Peter Coffin
Weston Currie / Brent Green
Alex Da Corte / Christian Holstad
Sylvan Lanken & Lily Lanken
Lucky Dragons / Brett Milspaw
Kelly Sears / Tina Tyrell
1 MUSEUM Curated by Lorca Cohen & Darin Klein
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1 presents
Thursday, December 16, 2010
8pm | Billy Wilder Theater
New Skin for
the Old Ceremony
Curated by Lorca Cohen & Darin Klein
Leonard Cohen’s 1974 album, New Skin for the Old
Ceremony, is re-imagined and interpreted by a stellar group of
select artist filmmakers. 11 newly commissioned works interpret
the album in its entirety through the medium of the moving
picture. Varying in style and technique from song to song, this
program highlights the craft of each artist as they complement
and coalesce with the work of the legendary singer/songwriter.
 
Is This What You Wanted – 4:13
Brent Green was born in 1978 and lives and works in a barn in Cressona,
Pennsylvania. His work has been a regular feature at Sundance, and he has
exhibited and screened work at the Getty Museum and the Hammer Museum in
Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH; Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis, MN; Andrew Edlin Gallery, IFC Center and Museum of Modern Art
in New York; SITE Santa Fe Biennial; Diverse Works, Houston; and Arizona State
University Art Museum. Brent Green is a 2005 Creative Capital grant recipient.
His solo exhibition Perpetual and Furious Refrain was on view at the Berkeley Art
Museum in the summer of 2010.
Chelsea Hotel #2 – 3:06
Combining ordinary store-bought products, unique found objects, and
traditional artist supplies, Alex Da Corte creates sculptures and installations
of uncompromising beauty that address both desire and consumption. His work
proposes an intersection between the very personal trials and tribulations of
each life with the platitudes and sentiment contained by the objects our culture
produces. These objects – plastic Halloween masks, vases, carpet, wood grain
veneer, and all manner of inexpensive knick-knacks – function as a site where we
can share our fears and joy. How he manipulates these objects and appropriates
them for his own ends reveals something about richness, and yet the thinness
and thickness of the communal space these objects represent. His work has been
shown at PS1, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, and Fleisher/Ollman
Gallery, both in Philadelphia. Da Corte earned his BFA in printmaking from the
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and an MFA in sculpture at Yale University.
Lover Lover Lover – 3:19
Weston Currie is a filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He was raised in the
San Fernando Valley and attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He
is the writer and director of several short films, as well as music videos for the
bands Grouper and Cryptacize. His most recent film work includes a series of film
collaborations with musician Liz Harris and a concert film of Björk performing
with Dirty Projectors. Currie is currently directing his first feature film, Congress,
an episodic fantasia about death in a fictional American town. His work has
screened at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Cinefamily Dublab
Labrat Matinee in Los Angeles; and at Lanternhouse in Cumbria, England.
Directed and edited by Weston Currie; Cinematography by Wyatt Garfield; Art Direction by Erin Staub;
Produced by Lincoln Holmes and Mitch Martin; Starring Tom Wood & Sherry Pendarvis.
Field Commander Cohen – 3:59
Born 1968, Theo Angell was raised in a house without a television and received
no formal education. He lives and works in New York City and Portland, Oregon.
His video work has included animation, feature lengths, live mobile video
projections in both urban and rural settings which he lists under the general
heading of “Myth Building”, music videos, portraiture, single and four channel
gallery installations and lately “Video Quilting”, of which “Field Commander
Cohen” is an example.
Why Don’t You Try – 3:50
Born in Anaheim, California, 1972, Christian Holstad lives and works in New
York City. In 1994 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from
the Kansas City Art Institute. Recent solo exhibitions include The World’s Gone
Beautiful at Daniel Reich Gallery, New York; Christian Holstad at Galleria Civica
of Modena, Italy; and American Standard at Victoria Miro Gallery, London (all
2009). Included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, he has also had solo exhibitions
at venues including Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Galleria Massimo
deCarlo, Milan; Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland; and Kunstverein, Hamburg.
There Is a War – 2:59
Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken were born in 1977 and 1979, respectively, in
Montréal, Québec and spent their youth in Alexandria, Ontario. They grew up in
an artistic family: their mother, Anna, is one half of singing duo Kate & Anna
McGarrigle, and their father, Dane Lanken, is a published author. In 2006, Lily
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal.
Sylvan is a self-taught videographer and editor. In 2009 they produced an 8-part
series of 3-minute video segments about a fictional band called the mittenstrings.
And, like Pinocchio, they have now become a real band. They are also co-organizers
of M60, Montreal’s annual 60 second film festival, now in its 3rd year.
Filmed by Sylvan Lanken and Lily Lanken; Editied by Sylvan Lanken; Cutouts by Lily Lanken.
A Singer Must Die – 3:17
“Lucky Dragons” means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged
or shared or suggested or imagined pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah
Rara, and/or any sometimes collaborators who claim the name. Lucky Dragons
have presented interactive performances and installations in a wide variety
of contexts, including LACMA, MOCA, REDCAT and The Smell in Los Angeles;
Smithsonian’s Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; the
Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), The
Kitchen and PS1 in New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Frankfurt’s
Schirn Kunsthalle; ICA London; ICA Philadelphia; and the Centre national d’art
et de culture Georges Pompidou in Paris. Lucky Dragons’ sister projects include
Sumi Ink Club, a weekly collaborative drawing society, and Glaciers of Nice, a
small press and internet community.
I Tried to Leave You – 2:40
Kelly Sears is an animator and filmmaker living in Houston, TX. She is a
2009-2011 fellow at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
She received a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and a Master of Fine
Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been shown at
LACMA, the Hammer Museum and REDCAT in Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Anthology Film
Archives in New York; Sundance Film Festival, American Film Institute Festival
and in galleries and film festivals internationally. She often is found at thrift
stores and flea markets hunting down images for animations. 
Who by Fire – 2:33
Brett Milspaw was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1979 and lives and works in
New York City. In recent years his interest has turned to film, and he has directed
several music videos for artists such as Sahra Motalebi and Fanal (Kai Althoff).
Take This Longing – 4:06
Peter Coffin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1972 and lives and works in
New York City. Coffin’s interdisciplinary practice explores conceptual point of
view and is motivated by the desire to connect with the kind of understanding
that invites new perspective and engenders further inquiry. His artwork often
integrates an informal objectivity with the subjective to generate a dynamic
between the two. Peter Coffin’s art is exhibited in museums and galleries
internationally, most recently at Manhattan’s City Hall Park with the Public
art Fund; the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry and Palais de Tokyo Museum,
Paris; the Barbican Gallery, London; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; CCA Wattis
Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Centre d’art contemporain,
Fribourg, Switzerland; le Confort Moderne, Poitier, France; and the Horticultural
Society of New York. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Museo
D’Arte Contemporanea di Roma; Saatchi Gallery and Tate Britain, London; Museo
de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zurich; and international biennials in Berlin, Liverpool, Belgrade and Moscow.
Peter Coffin is represented by Herald Street, London; Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris;
and Galleria Fonti, Naples.
Leaving Green Sleeves – 2:38
Tina Tyrell graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine,
Wallpaper, L’Uomo Vogue, teenVOGUE, The New York Times, Art Forum, Flash Art, Spin,
Nylon, Interview, Details, Dazed&Confused, Architectural Digest Germany, V, and
The New Yorker, among others. She also teaches photography at Parsons, the New
School for Design. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she currently lives and works in
New York City.
Starring Ashley Bouder, principal dancer, New York City Ballet