PATHBREAKER : FILLMORE PLACE
by JEREMY D. SLATER/TAMARA YADAO
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th 1-6PM


FILLMORE PLACE (between Driggs and Roebling Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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This performance will use the transposition of urban field recordings, historical text and passages from Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn" to
encourage viewer dérive at Fillmore Place, an historical district in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

“May 13, 2009 - The Landmark Preservation Commission voted unanimously yesterday to make Fillmore Place in Williamsburg an historic district. The one-block street holds
29 mid-19th-century rowhouses, including Henry Miller's boyhood home, which will now be protected from any major alterations. The LPC's chairman told the Brooklyn
Paper they were “Constructed for working class-tenants, the architecture of the buildings in this district has more in common with fashionable middle- and upper-class single-family
rowhouses than the tenements that were typically built to house them. The district is an evocative reminder of this period in Brooklyn’s history.” Last year there was a machete attack
on the block, but hopefully this designation will shine a positive light on what Miller himself once called “the most enchanting street I have ever seen in all my life." -gothamist.com

Henry Miller was a resident at the corner of Fillmore Place and Driggs Avenue for many years. For our performance, the corner of Driggs Avenue and Fillmore Place
will serve as the "sound base" for the performance where two wireless FM transmitters will be sending signals to eight FM radios placed along the sidewalk of Fillmore Place.
The transmission will consist of real-time audio mixes of recognizable urban symbols and sounds from the immediate environment processed in real-time by Jeremy D. Slater
and spoken word cut-ups transmitted via wireless microphone and processed by Tamara Yadao. While moving throughout the historical vicinity of Fillmore Place, Tamara Yadao will
wear a wireless microphone and recite historical text about Fillmore Place cut-up with passages from Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn".

Improvisational movement, reading and processing of text from Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn" by Tamara Yadao and improvised live sampling, field recording, and processing
by Jeremy D. Slater. (Please see diagram and map for exact locations and movement mappings of performance).

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

JEREMY D. SLATER is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. He uses his laptop computer to create
a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create processed drones with tabletop guitar,
objects, and ambient noise. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening
and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. http://www.jeremyslater.net

TAMARA YADAO is a multimedia performance artist who uses mediated forms of audiovisual technology to address
representation. She translates recorded expressions of the moving body while investigating ambiguous space and the physical
impact of otherness. Among others, her work has been screened/performed at the Brooklyn Museum,
Dixon Place,the Kitchen, Knitting Factory NY and Symphony Space. http://www.tamarayadao.com