Tracey Emin, I Felt You And I Knew You Loved Me, Liverpool Cathedral, UK

Gerder Steiner and Jörg Lenzliner, Falling Garden, San Staë Church, Venice

Gerder Steiner and Jörg Lenzliner, Falling Garden, San Staë Church on the Canale Grande, 50th Biennial of Venice, 2003.

Viimeinen Ehtollinen (Last Supper) at Turku Cathedral

Francine Leclerq, Mise en [s]cène (Last Supper), Turku Cathedral 2011

Leigh Davis in Saint Paul the Apostle, New York

everything that ought to have remained

11 March 2011 - 11 April 2011

"In cooperation with the Church of St. Paul the Apostle and the Openings program, everything that ought to have remained, is a temporary installation built in a vacant altar space in the Church. An assemblage of framed images and objects, the installation is based on my project The Brothers, a series of photographs documenting the recent expulsion of the aged members of a Roman Catholic religious order from their home on the grounds of a former military hospital in New Mexico.

The images in The Brothers series explore the men’s relationship to their physical surroundings, the rituals they adhere to, and the spiritual community they foster both among themselves and in tenuous connection with the outside world. In everything that ought to have remained, I will employ the location—the Church—and the time of year—Lent—to invite the public to reflect on the Brother’s experience of faith while pondering questions of their own. How do our physical surroundings structure our practice of faith? Is material well-being compatible with religious life? Do sacrifice and loss bring us closer to God?

Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Corner of Columbus Ave + West 60th Street
New York, NY 10019

http://www.stpaultheapostle.org/
http://openingsny.com/?page_id=704

Blake Carrington - Visual/Acoustic Installation and Performance of Gothic Cathedral Scans

Cathedral Scan translates the architectural plans of Gothic cathedrals into open-ended musical scores. Through a custom Max/MSP/Jitter patch, laptop and MIDI controllers, the plans are sonified in a real-time performance of image and sound. Rich organ-like harmonics and unique rhythmic signatures emerge from each graphic icon in a live scanning process.

Groups of scanners filling the sonic spectrum may act in synch, forming a single harmonically-dense rhythm, or they may scan the plans at different speeds, resulting in complex polyrhythms. Each plan is treated as a modular score, with a distinct rhythm and timbre of its own. Also, by varying the speed and intensity of each scanning group, drone-like sounds may emerge based on the “resonant frequency” of the black and white plan.

Visually, the scanning reveals the graphic structure. Smoke-like wisps appear and fade away as the scanners make each pass, suggesting a metaphor between architecture and ghost-like palimpsest. An empty white field surrounds each plan, placing them in a minimal landscape that is both flat and expansive.
Performances 2009-2011:
CATHEDRAL SCAN CD RELEASE CONCERT, Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, NYC
ELEKTRA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL, Usine C, Montreal Québec
BEYOND/IN WESTERN NY BIANNUAL, Hallwall’s Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo NY
RENCONTRE, Rustines Lab, Montreal Québec
CATHEDRAL SCAN v.2, Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse NY 

Angela Glajcar

Curalium I (Raum, zweiteilig), 2011 Glasfaser Stahlkonstruktion, 250 x 150 x 700 cm

 AD ID TEMPORIS, Sint-Anna-ten-Drieënkerk, Antwerp. 2010

Terforation (Raum), 2009, Sankt Peter Kunst Station, Köln

Contemporary Sacred Architecture

Günter Hermann Architekten, St. Martini-Kirche Stadthagen, Hattingen, Germany, 2001

Neckar-Odenwald Kreis, Flurkapelle Bödigheim, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2009

Susanne Gross KSG Architekten, Ökumenisches Kirchenzentrum Maria Magdalena, Freiburg-Rieselfeld, Germany, 1999 (interior)

Susanne Gross KSG Architekten, Ökumenisches Kirchenzentrum Maria Magdalena, Freiburg-Rieselfeld, Germany, 1999

Dürig Rämi Architekten, Church in Gränichen Suhr, Germany, 2001 

Königs Architekten, Pfarrzentrum St. Franziskus, Burgweinting bei Regensburg, Germany, 2001 (interior)

Königs Architekten, Pfarrzentrum St. Franziskus, Burgweinting bei Regensburg, Germany, 2001

Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten, Kirche der Dornbuschgemeinde, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1962

Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten, Kirche der Dornbuschgemeinde, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1962

Architektin Ursula Stücheli / smarch, Neuapostolische Kirche, Zuchwil, Solothum, Germany, 2002 (entrance)

Architektin Ursula Stücheli / smarch, Neuapostolische Kirche, Zuchwil, Solothum, Germany, 2002

Architektin Ursula Stücheli / smarch, Neuapostolische Kirche, Zuchwil, Solothum, Germany, 2002

Architektin Ursula Stücheli / smarch, Neuapostolische Kirche, Zuchwil, Solothum, Germany, 2002

Michael Gaisser, Kirche im Grünen, Filderstadt-Bonlanden, Germany, 2007

Gruen Associates, West Lake Open Door Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, 2009

Karl Probst Architects, Interfaith Meeting Centre, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2009

Karl Frey Dietenhofen, St Boniface Church, Ansbach, Germany, 2009

Christian Boltanski, La semaine sainte, Saint-Eustache, Paris, 1994

Contemporary Art in St. Andrä, Graz, Austria

Hermann Glettler - Mahl in der Kirche, 2003 Aktion: gemeinsames Essen

Manfred Erjautz - ”A short break in time,” gewölbte plexiglasscheiben, geschmiedete gitter, 2008

Lois Weinberger, Oh Mein Gott, digital print on glass, 2009

Ronald Kodritsch - who's next, fenster im altarraum, farbe auf glas 2009

Fedo Ertl - Mr. Bader, Installation: Telefoninterview mit Videoaufzeichnung 1985/2000

Katharina Heinrich - O.T. Pfarrkirche St. Andrä, Installation eines Geflechtes in permanenter Erweiterung, 1999-2000

Peter Manhal - Kreuz an Kreuz, installation: leinwand als fastentuch mit projektion, 2000

Markus Wilfling - 'i' (Gummi geschliffen), 2000