​We challenged ourselves to make a show focusing on our songs for a gig at Cornelia Street Cafe. It went better than expected and now we plan to record the songs soon! 

BORN FOR NOTHING is an interdisciplinary live art event structured as an investigation into methods of survival. Loosely inspired by themes in Knut Hamsun’s novel HUNGER and humanity’s current relationship to water—which experts predict could soon engulf us—Lydian Junction plays with the mundane and the extreme. With a quirky, metaphorical point-of-view, they explore the value (and dangers) of adhering to routine, ecstatic embodiment of the ephemeral, and the struggle (and joys) of attempting to survive as a solitary individual in solidarity with a group. BORN FOR NOTHING asks: do a person’s minute actions lead to monumental changes for a civilization, or are we just born for nothing?

More info here: http://www.watermillcenter.org/events/lydian-junction-born-for-nothing/

We're not into fundraising. But if we think of it as FUN-raising, then it takes on a whole new life. 
Our Hatchfund Campaign has officially launched!  Check it out and donate today! 
We have to raise the first 5K by October 15!  

https://www.hatchfund.org/project/born_for_nothing

We kicked off summer with a working retreat at a friend's lakehouse! 

Now you are invited to our OPEN REHEARSAL...
Wednesday, June 18
2-3pm in  New Georges' The Room 
520 Eighth Ave, 3rd floor
rsvp to Sarah

Karla and Sarah took the train out to Watermill to do a little more research in preparation for our residency there later this fall. We know we're going to love it there....

On March 8 and 9 we performed at the (UN)Fair Art Show, right down the block from The Armory, surrounded by wonderful art. Thanks to our friend Jon Morris at the Windmill Factory!

We performed UNTITLED #5, a site-specific durational experiment as part of our research into BORN FOR NOTHING, incorporating material created over the past three years and material created in the moment.

http://theunfairartshow.com/

Sarah spent 4.5 weeks of February/March at the Akumal International Artist Restidency in Mexico. Her two goals were to build out the structure for Lydian Junction's BORN FOR NOTHING and execute the second (research-based) iteration of 36.5.

Scroll down on the 36.5 page to see photos and a time-lapse video, and check out the blog that tracked her discoveries along the way...

Fitz provided us with the online version so you can see the article as it was published in the magazine here!

Chris and Sarah took a trip to Robert Wilson's Watermill Center at the beginning of the month to begin thinking about our residency in 2014. We were blown away by the space and the staff was amazing! This picture is of Chris walking through "The Knee" which is the center of the building, separating the work space from the living space. The natural sundial light that shines into the room and moves throughout the course of the day begs for performance. We're excited about the library and the way the property is said to change with the seasons. We hope to do a few more research trips before we land there next October...

Here's an audio/video preview of our 26-page spread on SATAN IN DRAG (Lydian Junction's performance installation based on Dages' academic investigation of the Lilith myth) - about to come out in CHANCE Magazine!  We're honored to have our work featured alongside some of the most incredible artists and designers working in performance today. Subscribe and learn more: http://chance-magazine.com/ - use the code "lydian" for a 20% discount off the hard-copy magazine.

Lydian Junction's BORN FOR NOTHING
research and experiments in performance creation
October 15-30, 2013

open to the public to watch and participate in our creation process:  Sunday, October 20:  2-4pm, Tuesday, October 22:  4-6pm, and Wednesday, October 30:  7-9pm

@chashama
443 West 127th Street, New York, NY

BORN FOR NOTHING is Lydian Junction’s newest experiment in creation, stemming from two seemingly disparate source materials/ideas: Knut Hamsun’s novel, HUNGER, in which a writer starves himself in pursuit of his work and New York City’s current relationship to sea-water which threatens to engulf us all. The goal: to investigate different means of survival and the contemporary connection between art and suffering/sacrifice in late global capitalism. Looking at these ideas with a personal lens and metaphorical point of view, the artists of Lydian Junction are exploring: how an individual encounters a city, NYC as the Wild West, the need for instruction and guidance in our daily lives, the value of adhering to routine versus rebelling against routine, negotiation of space, struggles that come with attempting to survive as a solitary individual versus in solidarity with a group, what happens to the body when we’re really hungry, and on the micro/macro level: how a person’s minute everyday actions can lead to monumental moments of change for an entire civilization. Guest artist: Alexis Steeves.

THE FURNITURE SONG and other site-specific pop-up performances + video created for New Georges BIG benefit party at the Henoch family townhouse where Do Ho Suh has kept his New York studio since he moved from Korea.

Oliver and Dages made a grand entrance on a motorcycle!  Karla made some video art with a gorgeous red  mid-century chair, and Chris wrote music to go with lyrics written by New Georges' Producing Artistic Director Susan Bernfield. Susan and Sarah sang the song, accompanied by Rachel Peters.

Sarah was in Maine at an artist residency to experiment with ideas for Lydian Junction's large-scale multidisciplinary project, BORN FOR NOTHING....
and as part of her investigation into the act of survival, she made a 12 hour, 48 minute durational performance in the tidal bay. Read all about it here.

UPDATE: 36.5 has been selected by six different curators for online exhibitions through CurateNYC!

We've been selected to do a 3-week residency at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in 2014!  This is great news for BORN FOR NOTHING - our new project that we plan to fully develop over the course of two years.

SATAN IN DRAG is a performance installation based on Dages' academic study of the Lilith myth.  We made this work over the course of a New Georges residency in June, 2013. 

Guest artists: Anna Kiraly, Ebony White; amazing assistants: Katie Cacouris, Lio Sigerson, Tegan Ritz MacDuffie, Asia Joy Gagnon.

Photos of this work will soon be featured in CHANCE, a new printed photography magazine that documents the art of design for live performance.