The Privacy of Performance Project by Erin Hanke

As an active as a chamber musician in New York City, Erin Hanke performs regularly with the Bach Vespers ensemble at Holy Trinity Church and with Waits Trio. Ms. Hanke has studied with Ketil Haugsand, and has served as assistant to Dr. Gwendolyn Toth, artistic director of ARTEK, and was recently appointed concert manager and administrator of Music Before 1800, New York City's longest running early music series. She studied organ performance with Dr. John Chappell Stowe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Making her practice sessions public, Erin Hanke is exploring the privacy of performance with her Express+Local piece. Not to be confused with concert performance, this project examines the sensitive moments of practice for the performer when seen through a public scope.

http://www.youtube.com/user/qcartcenter#p/a

Two more postcards

02.07.11
Evangelist shouts
in my ear on the subway.
“Stop shouting!” I shout.
XO, Ellis

02.08.11
For real?
Or are you just warning it’ll snow
to have something to say?
XO, Ellis

Press

Hi Everyone...

A few links to press coverage of Express+Local:

Greenpoint Star
Queens Tribune
New York Daily News

Thank you to everyone who participated and was interviewed.

-TARA

Ellis' Postcards (as of 02.09.11)

NO DATE
From Manhattan to Queens with Love!
Waist-high snowbank
festooned with somebody’s
shoe collection.

Best wishes, Tara, to you,
to my fellow artists-in-
residence, and to everyone
at Queens College Art Center!  XO, Ellis Avery

01.29.11
Post Office-
I think of Laurie Anderson
“Neither snow nor rain...”
XO, Ellis

01.30.11
Night, WALK sheds less light
then DON’T WALK. This is bad,
if you’re mincing through slush.
XO, ELLIS
Hi Queens! (Sorry)

02.01.11
Crampons would help
on a day like this. A friend
brings a gift of firewood.
XO, Ellis

02.02.11
Dreamed a baby
held a toy rabbit, which wore
tiny 3-D glasses.
XO, Ellis

02.03.11
A month ago,
the sun hit my wall at 8:40.
Now? 8:15.
XO, Ellis

02.06.11
A half-melted snowman:
stern, hieratic,
like an eroding stone saint.
XO, Ellis

Studio Configuration: Public/Private