warhol series
introduction
Funded and commissioned by the Krakow and New York Goethe Institutes, Unsound’s Warhol Series explores the possibilities of giving a fresh context to Warhol’s films and ideas via innovative music and VJ work. This series refers to Warhol’s own extensive use of pre-existing material to create something new, as well as the 60s multimedia event The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which used Warhol’s film work as moving wallpaper projected onto a wall and musicians from The Velvet Underground.
The Warhol Series will debut at Krakow’s Unsound in October 2008, then travel to New York in a similar form in 2009.
Warhol Series 1 - EMPIRE
18.10.08 // 20:06 // Galicia Jewish Museum
An 8 hour show, screened and performed at the time Warhol begun shooting “Empire”, his static shot of the Empire State Building throughout a single night.
GroupshowJan Jelinek
Andrew Pekler
Hanno Leichtmann
Tickets: Free
Warhol Series 2 - BLOWJOB
19.10.08 // 20:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
Stefan Nemeth (Radian, Lokai) recently released "Film", mapping a sonic terrain of acoustic and programmed instruments. He is joined by Steven Hess (Pan American) and Martin Siewert (Trapist) to perform a parallel concert made of electronics, percussion and guitar for Warhol’s classic film.
Németh / Hess / SiewertTickets: 15 zl
Warhol Series 3 - KISS
20.10.08 // 20:00 // Kino Pod Baranami
Warhol’s film Kiss will be screened with a live soundtrack by nsi. - Non Standard Institute - made up of Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric, Chica and the Folder) and Tobias Freund (Pink Elln, Sieg Uber Die Sonne). Loderbauer plays live piano, Freund uses electronics to process the sound.
nsi.Tickets: 15 zl
Warhol Series 4 - Amos Poe's Empire II
21.10.08 // 16:00 // Kino 18
Empire II has been called a “tone-poem meditation on the city of our dreams”; in it, legendary No Wave filmmaker Amos Poe remakes Warhol’s original film into what looks like a three-hour music video with New York City as the star. The whole film was shot over a year from a window of Poe’s West Village apartment.
Amos PoeTickets: Free
Warhol Series 5 - Lillevan's SCREEN TESTS REVISITED
24.10.08 // 00:00 // Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha
Warhol’s original Screen Tests involved hundreds of portrait films of those visiting his New York Factory. For Screen Tests Revisited Lillevan will film Unsound audiences according to similar aesthetic rules. The results will be remixed live, with Thomas Melchior and Bruno Pronsato performing. Commissioned by Krakow & New York Goethe Institutes.
Visuals: Lillevan
Tickets: Part of FACTORY
Selected events
21.10 // Kino 18 // Krakow
Workshop 1 - Music Journalism Workshop with Philip Sherburne
25.10 // Pauza // Krakow
Last.FM DJ Team - Set 2