Artists Space

Abasement #80

Concert
September 22, 2025, 7pm

Performances by Tom Carter/Laura Ortman/Greg Fox, Shelley Hirsch/Hans Tammen/Ken Filiano, Lee Ranaldo/Leila Bordreuil/Leah Singer, and Patrick Holmes/Tcheser Holmes/Ken Filiano. DJ Creamo Coyl. Visuals by Scott Kiernan. Projections by Bradley Eros.

Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of turqoise, beige, pink and red paper. Small pieces of yellow paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of turqoise, beige, pink and red paper. Small pieces of yellow paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.]

A performer plays the upright bass on stage. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in orange and blue light.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the upright bass on stage. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in orange and blue light.]
A performer plays a clarinet on stage, bathed in blue and pink light.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a clarinet on stage, bathed in blue and pink light.]
Two performers play side by side on stage. One performer plays the drums and the other a standing bass. The performers are bathed in colorful lights, created by a live video projection of the performance.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers play side by side on stage. One performer plays the drums and the other a standing bass. The performers are bathed in colorful lights, created by a live video projection of the performance.]
A performer plays the cello on stage.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the cello on stage.]
A performer plays a stringed instrument with a bow. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a stringed instrument with a bow. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.]
Two performers are on stage, the performer on the left side plays a guitar, and the performer on the right plays a cello. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers are on stage, the performer on the left side plays a guitar, and the performer on the right plays a cello. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.]
A performer plays a stringed instrument on stage. The performer and stage are bathed in pink and blue light.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a stringed instrument on stage. The performer and stage are bathed in pink and blue light.]
A band of three performers plays on stage. From left to right, the performers play: a guitar, drums, and a violin. The room and stage are bathed in blue, pink, and orange light created by a live video projection of the performance.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A band of three performers plays on stage. From left to right, the performers play: a guitar, drums, and a violin. The room and stage are bathed in blue, pink, and orange light created by a live video projection of the performance.]
A performer plays the drums on stage. The stage and the wall behind it are bathed in blue, pink, and orange light.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the drums on stage. The stage and the wall behind it are bathed in blue, pink, and orange light.]
A performer plays the violin on stage. The stage and the wall behind it are bathed in orange light.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the violin on stage. The stage and the wall behind it are bathed in orange light.]
A person bathed in pink light bends over a table with equipment controlling projection visuals.
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A person bathed in pink light bends over a table with equipment controlling projection visuals.]

In his solo work, and as co-founder of pioneering acid-folk iconoclasts Charalambides, Tom Carter conjures intricate improvised guitar psychedelia from strands of melody, fuzz, and charged atmospheric space. His solo career spans two-and-a-half decades of performances and recordings, including collaborations with fellow travelers like Joe McPhee, Loren Connors, Susan Alcorn, Thurston Moore, and Martha Colburn (among many others).

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates sonic sculptures using over- rosining and magnetic amplification of her violin which she has played for 45 years. She has performed at venues such as Artists Space, Brooklyn Museum, MASS MoCA, Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, CBGB’s and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ortman will have her Carnegie Hall premiere with the Kronos Quartet in April 2026.

Greg Fox is a drummer and multidisciplinary artist from nyc.

Born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn, vocal artist, performer, composer, storyteller and interdisciplinary artist Shelley Hirsch has been pushing boundaries with her unique vocal art and performance work, drawing on her life experiences, her memory, her vivid imagination for decades.

Ken Filiano is a bassist, composer, improviser, and teacher who performs around the world, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination.

Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear.

Musician, visual artist, and writer, Lee Ranaldo co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981, and has been active in New York City’s downtown community and internationally as composer, performer and producer, since that time; also exhibiting visual art and publishing several small-press books of journals, poetry and writings on music. He records for Mute Records. Lives and works in New York City.

Leila Bordreuil is a cellist, composer, improviser and sound artist based in Brooklyn. Her musical language borrows concepts from harsh noise, free-jazz, contemporary-classical and other experimental traditions but adheres to no single genre. Driven by a fierce interest in pure sound and inherent texture, Leila challenges conventional cello practice through original extended techniques and extreme amplification methods. Her compositions explore psychoacoustic happenings and sound-spatialization through multichannel and site-specific pieces. Her musical collaborations are numerous and diverse, and current collaborators include Laurel Halo, Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements), Tamio Shiraishi (Fushitutsa), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor), and Kali Malone.

Patrick Holmes hails from Austin, TX and has called New York City his home for over 20 years. Holmes honed his clarinet techniques through frequent collaborative improvisation within NY’s downtown scene, and via studies with Sabir Mateen, Connie Crothers, Andriy Milavsky, among others. He has played with Jon Gibson, Ryan Sawyer, Daniel Carter, Jaimie Branch, Fay Victor, Bob Bert, James Brandon Lewis, Che Chen, the Utter Nots, and many others.

Tcheser Holmes, a drummer from NY who grew up submerged in Brooklyn's "Afro-centric" culture. Here he was introduced to an abundance of music (Rock, House, Hip-Hop etc). At an early age Tcheser played djembe with African Drum ensembles; this is where he was introduced to the drum-set and concepts pertaining to jazz. After studying at the New England Conservatory, Tcheser moved back to New York and remains a fixture in the jazz community. Currently, Tcheser (still is playing locally) and mainly tours with the wildly free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements (which includes Moor Mother). Other acts include Jamie Branch C’est Trio, appearances with the Sun RA Orchestra, Terri Lynn Carrington, Marshall Allen, Nicole Mitchell, Isaiah Collier, Alabaster Deplume, Joy Guidry, Dick Griffin and various other musical groupings.

Creamo Coyl is Erick Bradshaw, host of Spin Age Blasters on WFMU. Bradshaw is a writer and musician. His musical projects include Cyanide Tooth, Blank Account, Maximum Ernst and Rogue Chromosome. His writing appears in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Maggot Brain, Brooklyn Rail and on his Substack, Anonymous Cave. Bradshaw is working on a book about New York City underground culture called We're Not Crazy (please inquire!).

Scott Kiernan is an artist living and working in New York City. In his video, photo and installation works, electronically synthesized and photographic elements interact to address their own materiality and means of distribution. He is particularly interested in how meaning shifts through stages of translation via technology, speech and syntax. He was founder and co-director of Louis V E.S.P., an artist-run gallery and performance space in Brooklyn, NY (2010- 2012) and now of E.S.P. TV (2011-present), a nomadic television studio that explores the televisual as a medium for broadcast collaborations. This project also formed UNIT 11, a transmission-based residency program operating from a former TV news van turned mobile electronic studio. Kiernan also directs Various/Artists, a project producing audio/visual releases by artists working across diverse media. He has exhibited and performed internationally in venues such as Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Whitney Museum of American Art, PERFORMA, Harvard Art Museums, P.S.122, Anthology Film Archives, Mixed Greens, Ballroom Marfa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Center for International Contemporary Art in Rome.

Bradley Eros, as always, (since the very beginning of Abasement (.001), 79+ months, or sessions, ago) will project their "hand-made" analog slides, and/or film ~ all night long! *** "eau de cinema", 'musique plastique', "philosophical jaywalker", "Eros C'est L'amour!"

Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015. This month Abasement celebrates ten years of events.