[NewMusicEvents] SL Morse at The Lab Thursday 10/2

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

The Lab presents:
Code-Switchers
Performance evening: Thursday, October 2nd
Featuring the work of Mark Edwards, Aygul Idiyatullina, and Sarah Lockhart.
Doors at 8:15 PM, Performances begin at 8:30 PM.
$5 - $15 sliding scale admission


This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street at Capp, San Francisco


SL Morse - No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
Masterminded by drummer/conceptual artist, Sarah Lockhart, SL Morse
translates literary works into music via morse code, resulting in a
performance focused on both interpreting the literary text and creating
aesthetically interesting music. "No Exit" features Lockhart on drums with
Aurora Josephson (voice) and Suki O'Kane (pitched percussion), and contends
with the play's premise of three individuals condemned to hell, to be
eternally emotionally tortured by the others, as well as the thematic
elements of rejection and the unquenchable desire for revenge.

Preceding SL Morse's performance:

Pieces of Nine is an original play directed by Mark Edwards and written by
Dylan Latimer. A journey into and back from the spirit world, it is a
multi-lingual human/machine-translated performance, making use of the
internet as a stage. The piece confronts the network as the new location of
human emotion and being. Mark Edwards is a musician, artist, media nerd, and
art worker, living in San Francisco. His recent work has been featured at
Lobot, The LAB, Headlands Center for the Arts and SFMOMA (in collaboration
with Jeff Ray), and numerous performance venues in the Bay Area and abroad.
Dylan Latimer is a writer living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

My Egaugnal by Aygul Idiyatullina
This experimental video investigates a longing to find balance between three
languages that the artist uses in everyday life: Tatar, Russian, and
English. Like three separate worlds, these languages are associated with
different people, emotions, and state of mind. My Egaugnal explores the
personal and emotional relationships Idiyatullina has to each language, and
how the artist's identity is shaped through those connections.



This event is programmed in conjunction with the Code-Switchers exhibition
juried by Steve Dye and Stephanie Syjuco. For more information on the full
exhibition, please visit www.thelab.org.