https://nickklein.work nickklein Sat, 20 May 2023 19:33:24 +0000 https://nickklein.work en https://nickklein.work/works Sat, 20 May 2023 19:33:24 +0000 nickklein https://nickklein.work/works Select works 2010 -&nbsp; Difference Studies #1 &amp; #2 (The Giving Tree) - 2025 RAINBOW LOOP : Toward A Spectral Method, Daejeon, South Korea<img width="4674" height="3116" width_o="4674" height_o="3116" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8505223ebccc5ae2e66ae8995a9a41b4941b65a326b1700b60379ac5219c2700/DS1-2-KOREA.jpg" data-mid="237730999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8505223ebccc5ae2e66ae8995a9a41b4941b65a326b1700b60379ac5219c2700/DS1-2-KOREA.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “Difference Studies #1 &amp; #2 (The Giving Tree)” is a pairing of sculptures; one trio of cymbals endlessly spinning on top of a platform sitting beside&nbsp; a stack of vinyl records available for the public to take. The work is informed by two disparate texts, Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. Formally the works approximate, through their idiosyncratic dispositions and cultural baggage, the thematic use of repetition as a method to convey narrative. While the work of Deleuze and Silverstein are vastly far in their intention and context, the sculptural work pulls from efforts in the respective texts to process purpose, placement, longing, loss, cyclicality.&nbsp; Artists appearing on the record in order : 1.&nbsp; &nbsp;domingo castillo flores2.&nbsp; oolong radio3.&nbsp; Diego Behncke4.&nbsp; Dominique 5.&nbsp; Public Display 6.&nbsp; AUGUSTĖ VICKUNAITĖ7.&nbsp; &nbsp;Makoto Oshiro8.&nbsp; Adam Campbell9.&nbsp; Hugo Esquinca10. BEAM SPLITTER11. TinTin Patrone12. Jake Muir13. Elizabeth Davis 14. Nick Klein FUTURE UNIFICATION CENTER FOR KUNST BERLIN, GERMANY 2025<img width="2160" height="2514" width_o="2160" height_o="2514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31e500089c4604df4a1673ae783bae86f09349bbc10dab76200da4de6c093085/Fuck.jpg" data-mid="250395418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31e500089c4604df4a1673ae783bae86f09349bbc10dab76200da4de6c093085/Fuck.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; FUTURE UNIFICATION CENTER FOR KUNST&nbsp; is an open, free education project modeled after artist lead pedgogical initiviatives from the last century. The project is an intentionally eclectic smattering of presenters, ideas, workshops, and performances. The first iteration was a five day installment of the project at the Volksbühne Roter Salon featuring lectures by Eldar Tagi and Lena Pozdnyakova, Reece Cox, domingo castillo flores, Denise Lim and Antonia Harke, Lisa Andreani, Nicola Di Croce, Ramona Ponzini, Nicolo Pellarin, and Dominique Saiegh. The project is open to future collaborations and iterations upon contact. Major thank you to Marlene Engel for the space, and Dominique Saiegh for the design implementation.&nbsp; RATHAUS, Cassette Box Set 2024 Total Black, Berlin, GermanyRathaus by Nick Klein <img width="1200" height="1038" width_o="1200" height_o="1038" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f259bf08d8ddaa115813f3f6397cff7759fe11c897ee5a6bb92e98d2ac77381e/0038151411_10.jpg" data-mid="237731124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f259bf08d8ddaa115813f3f6397cff7759fe11c897ee5a6bb92e98d2ac77381e/0038151411_10.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; An hour of recorded material over four cassette tapes and audio files for Berlin’s Total Black label, released for the occassion of the Total Black Christmas festival in Tokyo, Japan which included performances from Angelo Harmsworth, Shredded Nerve,&nbsp; Double Black Diamond, Mayuko Hino/Junko/Ranty Onishi, Incapacitants, and more. Can’t Be A Candle - 2024SARA’S -&nbsp; NADA X The Community, Paris<img width="2001" height="3000" width_o="2001" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b13398a328ab025c4cd5d70da13d699888b3480ea23862eb34fdf9a2c0def8ec/8.jpg" data-mid="227134053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b13398a328ab025c4cd5d70da13d699888b3480ea23862eb34fdf9a2c0def8ec/8.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="1952" width_o="3000" height_o="1952" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/492d5708cbece4625f3cd2eb172b803cae8c67bb5891e5744a8f1e2da998228d/5.jpg" data-mid="227134095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/492d5708cbece4625f3cd2eb172b803cae8c67bb5891e5744a8f1e2da998228d/5.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4434c81c2c07a0e35729f4f4d58eb1ed36ed9675b658ab76d46d32dd90cdedbd/2.jpg" data-mid="227134099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4434c81c2c07a0e35729f4f4d58eb1ed36ed9675b658ab76d46d32dd90cdedbd/2.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; “Can’t Be A Candle is comprised of photographic prints, paintings, photocopies, and audio pulled from Klein’s work focusing on “ecstatic obligatory production.” Whether in the isolation of a hermetic studio practice or the social engagement of a global touring regimen, Klein focuses on blending and obscuring disciplines to coalesce new formal outcomes, seeding a productive antagonism throughout his wide-ranging creative output. &nbsp; &nbsp; On Sunday, October 20, SARA’S will be present Can’t Be A Candle: Action One, a performance to accompany Klein’s solo presentation. Since 2008, Klein’s work has been rooted in the elementally creative acts of performing sound and sound-adjacent gestures. Over time, his interest in blending disciplines have allowed the edges of this practice to soften and encompass a wider range of performance contexts—which he explores in staged settings of varying scale and intimacy: theaters, basements, museums, clubs.” BONE SETTING 2024 Skaņu Mežs, Riga <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a91eeeb535b9530a26e245f09a3b9a0ba4dec4527b3638bf222d4dcded73c2c/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-7-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="227133961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a91eeeb535b9530a26e245f09a3b9a0ba4dec4527b3638bf222d4dcded73c2c/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-7-copy-2.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/180658337d43b032e7248cd878619da74951f1016db2241e715d15b14e63a50f/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-6-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="227133962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/180658337d43b032e7248cd878619da74951f1016db2241e715d15b14e63a50f/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-6-copy-2.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cab1ac2ed48519e47645355f0d5dc8262f9d90034fb7265e7146e2173f50bfc/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-5-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="227133963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cab1ac2ed48519e47645355f0d5dc8262f9d90034fb7265e7146e2173f50bfc/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-5-copy-2.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec5431b5ce564a67370ab86e7669305a6991006517595b1b5548d284e667ff6c/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-4-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="227133964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec5431b5ce564a67370ab86e7669305a6991006517595b1b5548d284e667ff6c/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-4-copy-2.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f99fb0f76a4e50c3e5f8a9d41878d2799f4908012309e47e412daa83092c0442/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="227133965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f99fb0f76a4e50c3e5f8a9d41878d2799f4908012309e47e412daa83092c0442/SkanuMezs_04.10.2024-copy-2.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; “Bone Setting” is an auditory sculptural installation developed for Skaņu Mežs festival 2024 within the sound art project tekhnē, supported by the EU program Creative Europe. All audio is derived from localized areas throughout the city of Riga as a basis for spatial and formal abstraction in sonic and environmental re-implementation. During the exhibition, processed field recordings taken during the festival residency are reconstituted in a generative manner, stretching time, place, and tonality and collaging spatial contexts into new realms of sonic experience. Further, tools of performance production are utilized as materiality for the staging&nbsp; of the installation itself. Filmed and Edited : Bohdan Kuspys. Technical Assistance : Diego Behncke Thank you to Skanu Mežs and Tekhne residency team. IMPOLITE 2024 Sonic Amateurs Club, Basel <img width="1080" height="1257" width_o="1080" height_o="1257" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b06dc44ce2b7746baae7fc245385b237cb9a102a062e32243af0002dfc31caf/Impolite-Web.png" data-mid="248408559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b06dc44ce2b7746baae7fc245385b237cb9a102a062e32243af0002dfc31caf/Impolite-Web.png" /> How do politicized cultural economies and dialogues manifest in our artistic material and formalist realities ? How do we define the braided utilities of sharing, spatial dynamism, and collaboration? Where do our preconceived ideas and entitlements become conceptual blind spots and, conversely, when do they become strengths? How does authorship and duration service art on a micro and macro scale, and what economies and markets prosper from these conditions? Impolite is a workshop course taking place over a period of a week. Each day the class will create an exhibition within the classroom with objects they bring in the morning. Later, they collectively document the daily exhibition by the end of each day. As each day concludes, the class participants reflect on the outcomes of the daily exhibitions and think through documentation as an ongoing challenge to confront with sonic and installation practices. Additionally, as reflection and critique throughout the day is worked through, we collectively come to refine the narrative thematic for the following day. Do not bring materials that are too precious to you, they will function to antagonize the other objects. Participants are encouraged and required to bring ready-made sculptures, amplification systems, televisions, lumber, tape, paper, garbage, animals, humans, books, fabrics, instruments, food, and whatever they feel can express their artistic agendas thoroughly. PL Night, 2023-2024 Volksbühne Berlin <img width="1106" height="1568" width_o="1106" height_o="1568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c026bd72f67d8752be942b7ac6cb62d9f6513336b34c7b19afd81e9c0c81784/Volksbuhne-flyer.jpeg" data-mid="203774418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c026bd72f67d8752be942b7ac6cb62d9f6513336b34c7b19afd81e9c0c81784/Volksbuhne-flyer.jpeg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; A special block of PL Night programming in collaboration with Hugo Esquinca for the Volksbühne, Roter Salon in Berlin. Having began in 2023, the series continues with supplemental funding by MusikFonds DE. Untitled Theatre Work 1 2023 Volksbühne Berlin &nbsp; &nbsp; Theatre work conceived for implementation with Dr.Kathleen Klein and Elizabeth Davis.&nbsp; CONCEPTUALIZATION / STAGE DESIGN / AUDIO : NICK KLEIN CHOREOGRAPHY AND MOVEMENT : DR. KATHLEEN KLEIN VIDEO WORK : ELIZABETH DAVIS FILMING AND EDITING : HYUNGJOON KIM FILMING ASSISTANCE : SUNKYU LEE STAGE MANAGER : DOMINGO CASTILLO A UDIO MASTERING : PHIL MAIER TYPOGRAPHY IMPLEMENTATION : DOMINIQUE SAIEGH Special thanks to Marlene Engel for continued support. Hell Is Other People/ Radio 2023 Grove Berlin<img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a23237c8251029eb0cb23ee09682ebeba01a90f9c075da58f7b5f7a138affc1f/hell-is-other-people-1.jpeg" data-mid="197295036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a23237c8251029eb0cb23ee09682ebeba01a90f9c075da58f7b5f7a138affc1f/hell-is-other-people-1.jpeg" /><img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd6aad69cbed8a9f4ae69b64d3276401e994f7278d99d87da31467f0524f9d32/hell-is-other-people-2.jpeg" data-mid="197295332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd6aad69cbed8a9f4ae69b64d3276401e994f7278d99d87da31467f0524f9d32/hell-is-other-people-2.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/974646fb1e714548fa8dcefd98483d2397a7bf19fb02ec8cf090867cf4243d9d/hell-is-other-people-4.jpeg" data-mid="197295242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/974646fb1e714548fa8dcefd98483d2397a7bf19fb02ec8cf090867cf4243d9d/hell-is-other-people-4.jpeg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; Hell is Other People/Radio takes its name from a line in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit (1944), in which the three main characters find that hell is indeed an inescapable room with other people. Ironically, however, hell becomes a reflection on the self – it is the revelation of oneself in other people that proves most unbearable. Yet, what Klein posits is neither so negative nor so definitive: Klein’s suggested discomfort ironizes his own fluidity between a studio practice intent on the production of 2D works, primarily on paper, and a more social(ized) sound practice. If Klein’s work operates as a reflection of his relationship to various social, political, economic, and artistic contexts, the discontent that drives his near-constant, multi-medial production stems from within.&nbsp; &nbsp; In turn, the visitor is encouraged to move between and cognitively merge this multitude of inputs and outputs. Meant to be viewed en masse, the overabundance of stimuli in Klein’s 2D work appears akin to the enveloping nature of sound. The viewer is prone to awe in the Biblical sense—meaning is made through simultaneous combination and rejection, unable to take it in all at once. At times gently, at times forcefully; at times sincerely, and at times ironically, Klein makes clear: rapture has no preference of mode, only effect.&nbsp; &nbsp; Hell is Other People/Radio’s sound element will exist (at varying intervals) throughout the duration of the exhibition, streamed online. Klein, along with the gallery, will organise programming, weaving together the communities within which the artist and gallery live and work. In this instance, meaning is itself articulated by other people: guests join to share their work, ideas, and secrets, giving credence to Klein’s practice that at every turn invokes the potential for collaboration. Yet, as Klein serves as the locomotive for this group production, the essence of the show is brought full-circle: the desire to create repeatedly, without end, reveals a wholly internal impulse. Bring The Flowers To The Theatre, 2023 SARA’S New York <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed7b221a9c57dcc8697cd9eee446b47cb85908a5d1873f93b106b24849ef53c0/DUST19-copy.jpg" data-mid="179396807" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed7b221a9c57dcc8697cd9eee446b47cb85908a5d1873f93b106b24849ef53c0/DUST19-copy.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac225278d93d8e1c9d5ed6d2cab6570b8ee3a1d79c111e315335f10d49864343/DUST3-copy.jpg" data-mid="179396564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac225278d93d8e1c9d5ed6d2cab6570b8ee3a1d79c111e315335f10d49864343/DUST3-copy.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c22490402e666a5130382d384d75c0ed8772cac5e1f134f0c58216b80f215d8/DUST11-copy.jpg" data-mid="179396595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c22490402e666a5130382d384d75c0ed8772cac5e1f134f0c58216b80f215d8/DUST11-copy.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2526e2f10da65fc04002e5502e25d5311e5d2ff0a30fab0e11d41ef67c99988/DUST20-copy.jpg" data-mid="179396751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2526e2f10da65fc04002e5502e25d5311e5d2ff0a30fab0e11d41ef67c99988/DUST20-copy.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84b408144c3c931411f0d40431b64d8852ccd1b4bdd298e77d93e64bb4c9c61e/DUST6-copy.jpg" data-mid="179396586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84b408144c3c931411f0d40431b64d8852ccd1b4bdd298e77d93e64bb4c9c61e/DUST6-copy.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; “Bring The Flowers to the Theatre” is an exhibition that roots itself as a site of production and exchange, with Nick Klein negotiating roles as maker, organizer, and collaborator. Centered around a stage-as-sculpture, the gallery operates as an invitational space for performance, lectures, radio, and collaborations. Conceptually orbiting around aurality as an access point and a grounding thematic of ecstatic potential, Klein’s stage is a catalyst for a generative flow of indeterminate variables of communal making. While the stage operates as an impetus, billboards act as an index of remnants, providing a non-linear chronology of the five-week collaborative excursion. See Archive Live at DUST, 2023Performance, SARA’S New York &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Improvisation on modular synthesizer for New York City based streaming platform Dust as a part of their weekly inclusion in “Bring The Flowers To The Theatre” at SARA’S. Slippin Out C90, 2022 Enmossed, North Carolina Slippin Out by Nick Klein&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;After nearly a decade of building his sonic practice between numerous releases on labels such as L.I.E.S., Viewlexx, Alter, and iDEAL, and curating his own eclectic imprint Psychic Liberation, Nick Klein delivers a long-form masterwork via 𝑺𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏 𝑶𝒖𝒕. Some previously-released tracks hinted at Klein's interest in the durational aspects of performance and listening, but after nearly three years of recording, 𝑺𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏 𝑶𝒖𝒕 fully conceptualizes those proclivities.Traversing diverse timbres and structures over 90 minutes across four tracks, Klein draws upon his cross-disciplinary experience in the totemic physicality of sculpture and installation. Beginning with intense waves of modulating oscillators, creating a vista of ghostly interferences and superpositions, Klein seamlessly transitions to a looping vocal, ascending the listener to higher planes - pure mana for the ears. Side B opens with a more muted excursion, excavating somber glassy canyons before ending with concrete-esque tape manipulations, and finally, several minutes of silence.Klein also delves deeply into the personal, dedicating the album to "all the friends lost caught up slippin out." A direct line is drawn between the despair of late-stage capitalism and the allure of "slippin out", especially for those most susceptible. As loss impacts his patchwork of networks and community, Klein reflects on who is left to share with. 𝑺𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏 𝑶𝒖𝒕 is the documentation of that study. “BURN/DODGE” Nick Klein + Zach Hart, 2022 Markisches Museum Berlin &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;“Burn/Dodge” is an 8 channel audio work resulting from a collaboration between artists Zach Hart and Nick Klein. Utilizing the Markisches Museum photo archive, the pair reference photographic works that center the artists lived and projected experiences as Americans in Germany. Photographic documentation of austere mass gatherings (right-wing political rallies, opera houses, sporting events) were root mappings for the rhizomatic process-based development within “Burn/Dodge”. The trajectory of approaching the photography, spatial intervention at the site of the photos, further archival and topical research, and end sonic outcome forms a non-linear tracing of the artists meditation inside of their chosen geography. “Burn/Dodge” opens with a field recording of the former “Sportspalast”, the site of a document of a rally for Ardenauer. The striking aesthetic severity of the photograph with it’s banners sits in contrast to it’s open concrete park setting of today. The field recording documents the artists walking around the environment playing male choir music, a favorite of Ardenauer, as well as the playback of music from the band Kraftwerk’s mid-career catalog. Male choir and cathedral music is the thematic of the next chapter, with different deconstructed audio extrapolations collaged referencing resynthesized field recordings from a cathedral. On the third chapter, a stoic prose assessing the way photography and archival contexts abstract the way aesthetic information is processed. In the concluding fourth movement, dissociation and anxiety takes hold to round out a study on being somewhere you never thought you would be. Parasocial Relations, 2022 Emerson Dorsch, Miami &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Perpetual loop for one speaker powered by consumer grade personal amplification system of beating oscillation. FROM THE EXHIBITION :This is the time. And this is the record of the time PT3. Emerson Dorsch is pleased to announce, This is the time. And this is the record of the time PT3, a group exhibition curated by Carlos Rigau with works by Jessica Gispert, Nick Klein, Seung-Min Lee, T. Eliott Mansa, Karen Rifas, Irgin Sena, Matt Taber and Andy Van Dinh. The exhibition will be on view from July 8th – August 20th, 2022. The exhibition’s title cites Laurie Anderson’s 1982 song “From the Air,” which channels and distills a widely felt intuition that disaster is at hand. Itself, a pun on the expression conveying zeitgeist; the song expresses symptoms of and reasons for this intuition. There seemed to be, at the time, a loss of personal control over one’s own fate, much less the world’s. The speed and quantity of technology were faster than any one person could keep up with. While news of global crises just as quickly spread and, similarly, piled up. Country Music Party, 2022 Universität der Kunst, Berlin &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Country Music Party is the first iteration in a series of stage sculptures wherein the stage structure is utilized for a participatory activity. With this work, the loose thematic parameters. centered around American Country Music, utilize karaoke to illustrate the narratives within the cultural content.&nbsp; Given this activity occured in Berlin, the cultural juxtaposition was prescient. However, as the evening progressed and the narrative tropes inherent to the genre became clear (discontent with work, heartbreak, impossible love, etc), participants felt compelled to include their own coloquial versions of the music. This created a unique exchange amongst various folk musics of the participants in the project.&nbsp;Also included were performances by Glyn Maier and Patrick Gallagher, on tour in Europe for the first time, from the United States. HERRENSAUNA X PSYCHIC LIBERATION, 2022 RSO, Berlin <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40458a4db355a4342cfc8d7a44be2467990b703372bde73e6d7318ea1a0a2dd1/NK_W2.jpg" data-mid="179468124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40458a4db355a4342cfc8d7a44be2467990b703372bde73e6d7318ea1a0a2dd1/NK_W2.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Berlin party collective Herrensauna invited Psychic Liberation to collaborate on curating a night of club music. PL NIGHT #2 , 2022 Seendosi, Seoul <img width="1800" height="3304" width_o="1800" height_o="3304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e6df800024ee31cedf79f24d534c17883c7d0b2991c99af7e177c6f527ed9b8/NK_W1.jpg" data-mid="179468071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e6df800024ee31cedf79f24d534c17883c7d0b2991c99af7e177c6f527ed9b8/NK_W1.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; An evening of performances with PL artists and cohorts at Seoul’s Seendosi bar. The first PL event in Seoul, and my first performance in the city. Performance, 2022 Waiting Room, Meinblau, Berlin &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Closing performance for "Waiting Room" exhibition at Mainblau, curated by Jiin Jeong and Mauro Ventura. Performance amongst installation remnants of a performance Mauro Ventura and Kiani Del Valle, and sculptures by Meltem Rukiye Calisir. The exhibition ‘Waiting Room’ takes as its starting point the Buddhist notion of patience, a state merging the past and future into the present moment and triggering awareness. This deeper consciousness is reflected on both digitally and organically, with the question how can that which is unknown affect that which is now? Dekmantel Podcast Series, 2022Amsterdam &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On invitation to participate in the Dekmantel podcast series, I put together a layered mix of abstractions from the Psychic Liberation catalog, attempting to reorient the listening givens within that context. BT/SC/ECDER/S2D, 2022 Universität der Kunst, Berlin &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;“BT/SC/ECDER/S2D” is a prototype for a process based sculptural installation utilizing sound, archive materials, and print edition. Over the course of my life I have collected ephemera in various forms of media and clothing relating to subcultural music experiences. Some of the items collected are related to experiencing something obligatorily sentimental through memorabilia , and some are cataloged to form a library mapping a taste I have developed. Recently looking through a pile of t-shirts, I found two older and tactilely remarkable shirts. One shirt was a gift from an older friend in Seattle, an item from the 1980’s Industrial group Sleep Chamber (Boston, Massachusetts) . The other I had bought off the street in New York City as a very small child, a tour shirt from the 1990’s American grindcore band Brutal Truth. Plague Process 1, 2021 Den Haag &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In assessing the way “..the world, humans, and life will have changed” I look back to moments before the imposition of the hyperobject of the global pandemic. It is through this reflective perspective I can qualify and quantify the impact of the pandemic and form a working artistic narrative of inquiry. The installation here operates from two “thought islands”, with one island of media pulling from my personal relationship to the topicality and the other island of media taking on broader commentary to the content. The installation sits on display in the red light district of Den Haag, Netherlands. One thought island utilizes footage of an audience captured at a performance I filmed in Paris on hi8 video the evening before the pandemic lockdown occurred in Europe, presented on a mounted freestanding flat screen television in split screen. The discrepancy in experience firmly grounds the disparity in relational activities pre and post-pandemic precautionary measures. The second “thought-island” is the table displayed modular synthesizer, amplified by a discarded home surround sound system. The synthesizer is processing and deconstructing in real time sourced texts from the essay “Social Contagion : Microbiological Class War in China” (chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/). The essay outlines the direct correlation of developmental expansion into nature through the objectives of contemporary late-stage capitalism to the introduction of previously dormant viruses to the masses due to environment erasure. Documentation and Video Editing assistance : RJM VanDerHeyden Performance, 2021 Future Intel, Den Haag &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Den Haag streaming platform Future Intel invites Nick Klein for a live performance on the channel. ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY, 2020 IDEAL, Gothenburg ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY by NICK KLEIN&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;"Actor-Network Theory" is the final record Nick Klein made as a resident of New York City. Recorded in 2018, it weaves a disparate sonic narrative of dissociative opiated sleeping-bag retreats, and anxiety fueled drum loops. "Actor-Network Theory" is right before the beginning of the second act. Music for sleeping in a cold basement with a short blanket, coughing up a cigarette at Pier 94 in February, or lamenting the fickle nature of one's own metabolism. Staring up and out to a curved glass ceiling from an unremarkable angle, is it possible to dip your toes in the acrid water of your own terminal beach? It really isn't all so morose, but it's good to remember to check the breaks and tread of the tires. No Shortage Of Rope LP, 2020 Alter, London No Shortage Of Rope by Nick Klein&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;What happens when you arrive to a party and everyone is leaving as you are walking in? If a bass drum booms in the woods but no one is around to hear it, does it even boom at all? Can you build a mansion with playing cards?Nick Klein returns to ALTER with the cryptically biographical ‘No Shortage of Rope’, his third release for the label and significantly, potentially his first full length album. Consisting of 7 tracks, ‘No Shortage of Rope’ is a consolidated collection of recordings Klein made after leaving his long-term base of NYC to become a full-time resident of Den Haag, Netherlands. Using some newfound free time post-move, Klein wanted to approach his working process in the studio a little differently to create something long form, something that felt more like an album as opposed to being built with the club music paradigm as a given. Describing his time in the studio, Klein says it was “the most hermetic studio endeavour I have ever undertaken”. It certainly seems that Klein harnessed this period of productivity to make the most of what his music could offer as ‘No Shortage of Rope’ is the man in his most pointedly pure form. Been Home For Months, Mix, 2020 E-Flux Bar Laika, New York Tracklist:Arvo Part - Sarah Was 90 Years OldSCANT - Debilitate (B SIDE)Strangulated Beatoffs - It's A Vile, Vile, Vile, Vile WorldMeredith Monk - Do You BeOren Ambarchi - GenePansonic - Hapatusdie Reihe - 106 Kerri Chandler ChordsChris Fratesi - UntitledJoachim Nordwall - Control And EnergyMinoru Sato - AsunaLDSN - 2LDSN - 4Balloon Monument - MARCH TAPE SIDE BBen Richards - Sky Diver Thank you Sanna Swedan Performance, 2020 Seanaps Festival, Leipzig &nbsp;Performance for Leipzig’s Seanaps Festival. B2B Performance with Cienfuegos, 2019 Boiler Room, New York &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Dual performance set with Cienfuegos for Boiler Room’s streaming from Lost Soul Enterprise’s “Fourth World” party. Performance, 2018 Thee Eldridge, Rhode Island &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Video from closing half of a live performance taken by Matt Underwood at Adam Morowski’s shuttered warehouse home/venue Thee Eldrige in Providence, Rhode Island. Dance accompaniment courtesy of Tomas Bennett. Alvariño Klein Design Production Systems Team, 2014 Goodwork Gallery, New York <img width="3888" height="2592" width_o="3888" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36237c15e5e886dadbd1d534e0df8d2a79f3d6a1adbc87878221741cb59549ae/NK_6.jpg" data-mid="179399086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36237c15e5e886dadbd1d534e0df8d2a79f3d6a1adbc87878221741cb59549ae/NK_6.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Collaboration with Miguel Alvariño on fourty something paintings for a corporate office park in Miami under the working title “Alvariño Klein Design Production Systems Team”. Before shipping off to Miami, they were exhibited at Goodwork Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. PL, 2013- New York City, Den Haag, Berlin, ??? <img width="1284" height="550" width_o="1284" height_o="550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5cb608b368064381f47d6c0d6a9fb23c0430e3a0275327f4a1b57743e879fcc/NK_W4.jpg" data-mid="179468712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5cb608b368064381f47d6c0d6a9fb23c0430e3a0275327f4a1b57743e879fcc/NK_W4.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, Pain Liberation, Partially Listenable) is a multi faceted project operating as a vessel to produce media editions (tape, compact disc, and vinyl formats) and events. Started in 2013 with Miguel Alvariño (until 2019) as a record store in a shipping container in New York City, the label has produced over 100 releaseds as of 2023, collaborating with other labels like Enmossed and gallery spaces like SARA’S, as well as producing events in different countries around the world.&nbsp; Country Music Paintings, 2011 Studio, Miami <img width="1242" height="807" width_o="1242" height_o="807" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4ca424243cfc9efa2b419e32933260bb905c2c178f1aa84bb86407e76aff042/NK_7.jpg" data-mid="179399087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4ca424243cfc9efa2b419e32933260bb905c2c178f1aa84bb86407e76aff042/NK_7.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A series of paintings wherein I ruminated on the interconnectivity between my family class history, construction materiality, and the country music my paternal side of the family historically favored and shared with me. O Mio Babbino Caro / Toomus MerehMereh Nor Good, 2010 Miami <img width="2816" height="2112" width_o="2816" height_o="2112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34969c4346c51d7f9bec59491417a41b6fbca0b8395ab2c912e79022ec5d2629/NK_1.jpg" data-mid="179399080" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34969c4346c51d7f9bec59491417a41b6fbca0b8395ab2c912e79022ec5d2629/NK_1.jpg" /><img width="2816" height="2112" width_o="2816" height_o="2112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/817de1482d8f142089ed0d4bc0a02575882f9fb8115142b1cd88e8aba60bc075/NK_2.jpg" data-mid="179399081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/817de1482d8f142089ed0d4bc0a02575882f9fb8115142b1cd88e8aba60bc075/NK_2.jpg" /><img width="2816" height="2112" width_o="2816" height_o="2112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ddaa4fd8663dac2d7096d513bf65fd695b2552b8c508b38eb726dec3cf3fd5e/NK_3.jpg" data-mid="179399083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ddaa4fd8663dac2d7096d513bf65fd695b2552b8c508b38eb726dec3cf3fd5e/NK_3.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Durational performance work for two performers engaging in repetitious actions over the score of two songs. Amidst the two performances was a large wall work installation of collected materials from print ephemera that was a mainstay in my material workings from this time period. Much of the content was a collection of circumstancial found or meticulously archived materials from Florida, Ohio, and New York City. Martyr Totem, 2010 Miami <img width="1242" height="1549" width_o="1242" height_o="1549" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afc812c75018404cac9e3de907ccc368cdb21e456ca90da06b408b978ae5d05b/NK_5.jpg" data-mid="179399085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afc812c75018404cac9e3de907ccc368cdb21e456ca90da06b408b978ae5d05b/NK_5.jpg" />Sculpture, inherited archival Yukio Mishima print media. 1800-411-PAIN, 2010 Miami <img width="1600" height="2117" width_o="1600" height_o="2117" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3744c87ce7a68c0c8f83fe971c78eba64d043c211cecf282107074639cf618a4/NK_4.jpg" data-mid="179399084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3744c87ce7a68c0c8f83fe971c78eba64d043c211cecf282107074639cf618a4/NK_4.jpg" />Work on paper, drawing and collage.