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Name: Alexis Bhagat
Country: United States
Bio: BORN: New York City, USA / 17 June 1974
EDUCATION: B.A. Liberal Arts / May 1997
Concentrations in Visual Art and Ecological Design
Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
SELECT ART PROJECTS
The Memory Editor Oct 2007 – Apr 2008
Sound design for Sukesh Arora's dramatic adaptation of “The Memory Editor” by Rana Dasgupta
Everybody Says the Same Bullshit in All Lands and Through All Ages
Nov 2005 and Nov 2006
A study in accord and babble. Performed live with four voices during White Noise, White Box Gallery, NYC. Nov 2005.
Installation version, for four recordings, at Khoj Workshop, New Delhi, Nov 2006.
“Lectures” Jun 2003 - ongoing
Lecture #1: Regarding Sound as Art - SAT, Montreal, QC; Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA;
WGDR, Plainfield, VT: Jul 2003 (Sponsored in Montreal by the Culture of Cities Project at McGill University. )
Lecture #2: The Possiblity of Life without the Sun - WPBR, Version Fest 04, Chicago: Apr 2004
A Brief Lecture on Author/ity - The Iowa Review Online: Sep 2005
Bandshell Ghost / Sous les Paves, La Radio! May 2004
Public intevention in Tompkins Square Park. Part of PsychoGeoConflux 04. Produced with Tianna Kennedy.
Columbus Circle Aug 2000 – Jul 2001
Art research on Operation Prison Gap's bus depot at Columbus Circle. Produced Columbus Circle:Friday Night -
Installation at Thinking about Prisons Conference, SUNY-Cortland: Jul 2001 as well as articles and photo collages.
The Vehicle for Conversation Jan - Nov 2000
Two week intervention on the streets of Troy, NY. Made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts.)
Recordings produced two sound collages: Noise and Solace (installation for four stereo players) and
I used to walk all the way from Pleasantdale... (“lecture” for two stereo players).
...Pleasantdale... - Headphone gallery, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany: Aug 2001
- as Lecture at Critical Resistance Conference, Columbia University, NYC: Mar 2001
- Webcast and artist talk, on NYC-indymedia[audio]:, Mar 2001
Whitman Death Songs Jul 2002
Sound installation at Albany Institute of History and Art. Hudson-Mohawk Regional Exhibition.
Included in headphone exhibition at Pulse Field. Georgia State University, Atlanta: Dec 2002
The Influence of Dada Amongst Colonized Peoples Spr 1995 - May 1997
Weekly, live sound collage performance, arranged from world music as well as found and original recordings,
broadcast on WGDR, 91.5, Plainfield, Vermont.
ATM Poetry Opens Jul - Aug 1994
A weekly series of poetry readings held in appropriated ATM bank lobbies throughout lower Manhattan.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS/TALKS
ROUNDTABLE: Anarchist Art? Editor of discussion with Josh MacPhee, Alexis Bhagat, Erika Biddle, Dara Greenwald,
Benj Gerdes, Cindy Milstein, Nato Thompson, et al. Perpsectives on Anarchist Theory, Spring 2008 (Forthcoming)
BOOK: Sound Generation. Edited with Gregory Gangemi, (Forthcoming from Autonomedia)
INTERVIEW: O+A (English/Korean) Journal Bol, Seoul: Nov 2007
CATALOG TEXT: Re: O+A (English/German) Sam Auinger and Friends Catalog. Open Culture House, Linz: Nov 2007
BOOK: An Atlas of Radical Cartography. Edited with Lize Mogel. Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press: 2007
TALK: A Conversation on Cinema for the Ear. Khoj International Artists Community, New Delhi: Nov 2007
WORKSHOP: A Conversation on Words and Revolution. Goddard College, Plainfield, VT: Oct 2006
TALK: Sound Art in New York. Khoj International Artists Community, New Delhi: Jan 2006
TALK: Transmission Art (with Sophea Lerner.) Sarai/CSDS, New Delhi, India: Jan 2006
WORKSHOP: Contemporary Radio Art. (Roundtable) KIASMA. Helsinki, Finland: Apr 2005 (Part of Particle/Wave
sound/transmission art workshop, organized by Sophea Lerner, Sibelius Academy, Center for Music and Technology.)
ARTIST PUB: Tactical Sound #3. Re:Radio (part 1), editor, designer. Iincludes essays, interviews and documentation
from Jonathan Jay, Tetsuo Kogawa, Alejandro de Acosta, Takahiro Noguchi, Derek
Holzer, Reboot FM et al. Archived at Open Source/Open Ear: www.osoe.net
INTERVIEW: O+A. Zapp Urbanism. Jul 2004
TALK: The Protest Genre after N30. Bluestockings Books, NYC: Oct 2004.
Critical discussion of riot and protest sounds in phonographic imagination and practice, contrasting the ecstacy of
representated riot to the engagement with protest in the Protest Remix genre which has emerged since N30. Works
presented included Tch’kung, New Earth; Ultra-Red, A16.2 and R.A.D.I.C.A.L.
SYMPOSIARCH: The Combustible Symposium. OfficeOps. Jan 2004
Discussion of contemporary sound art practices, with participants in Aspects of Jupiter.
INTERVIEW: Hildegard Westerkamp, in Sarai Reader_03: Shaping Technologies. CSDS, New Delhi, 2003
INTERVIEW: Grey Filastine of Infernal Noise Brigade, in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #2: February 2003
(Online Feb 03. Print May 03)
TALK: Sound Art and The Street. A discussion of critical approaches to urban space in contemporary sound art and
music, and presentation of work by Hildegard Westerkamp, Ultra-Red Audio Collective and The Infernal Noise
Brigade. 11th International Symposium of Electronic Art, Nagoya Japan: October 2002
ESSAY: “Venus de Bayview”. Sandbox. Spring 2002. A critical account of New York’s prisons, through the lens of the
Knox Martin’s Venus, a public painting on the surface of the Bayview Correctional Facility.
BOOK REVIEW: “Selling the Lower East Side”, Christopher Mele. Social Anarchism: Summer 2001
ESSAY: “Social Transit.” An examination of Operation Prison Gap as a transit system, and its implications for
urbanism. Loudpaper: Fall 2001.
REVIEWED: Featured in Richard Pandisio’s “Ones To Watch,” re: ATM poetry opens. Interview: Nov 1994
SELECT CURATORIAL
A Conference of Coordinologists. Co-Organized with Don Byrd and Jondi Keane. Produced in cooperation with
Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Architectural Body Research Foundation.
Bioscleave House – East Hampton, New York. Apr 2008
AUDIENCE, Co-curated with Dylan Gaulthier and Lauren Rosati, in association with Pooja Sood/KHOJ.
PVR-Saket Cinema. New Delhi, Mar 2008 (Location TBC)
An Atlas of Radical Cartography, Co-curated with Lize Mogel. Publication and traveling exhibition.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles; Gallery 400, Chicago; Storefront for Art and
Architecture, NYC; ThINC, Syracuse; et al..
The Voice of Authority and the Soundscape of Unfettered Being.
Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Sep 2005
Aspects of Jupiter A two-night festival of sound art. Co-curated with Gregory Gangemi, Galen Joseph-Hunter, Jason
Quarles of Chronoplastics. Co-produced with Tianna Kennedy, Ben Meyers and Tom Roe. Made possible with the
support of Phill Niblock.
Experimental Intermedia and OfficeOps, New York City, Jan 2004
AFFILIATIONS:
Institute for Anarchist Studies, Board of Directors, since 2002 (www.anarchiststudies.org )
New York Chapter, American Society for Acoustic Ecology, member, since 2004 (www.nysae.org )
Free103point9, Transmission Artist, since 2005 (www.free103point9.org)
Gallery 1: http://www.nadalex.net/