Sunday, October 12th, 2008
at the CRANE ARTS COMMUNITY SPACE

located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St. (two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring
VANESSA PLACE (Writer, Los Angeles)
STAN MIR (Poet, Philadelphia)
& WHEN WE'RE OLDER performing INVISIBLE (Music/Dance Improvisation, Baltimore/Philly)
(When We're Older is NICOLE BINDLER and ANDREW HAYLECK)

NICOLE BINDLER, choreographer, improviser, bodyworker and educator has choreographed over fifteen original dance works and has performed over 100 improvised dances in cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina and In Berlin and Tokyo. In August 2004, her solo Places I've Never/Been was performed in Quito, Ecuador by dancer, Stephanie Sherman. Bindler has performed in The High Zero Festival, TheTransmodern Age Festival, The Shawinigan Street Theater Festival, The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the D.C. Improvisation Festival, the Performance Mix Festival and the nEW Festival. She have collaborated with dozens of other dance artists, musicians and visual artists. Bindler recently completed a dance for the camera, Rosemary, That's for Remembrance, with collaborator, Loren Groenendaal. She is a member of the Spontaneous Performing Artists Network, Mascher Dance Cooperative, and directs the 20 member company: "Amnesiac Music and Dance," formerly the Philadelphia New Dance and Music Ensemble, which was featured in the Sept 2006 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Her work has been supported by Philadelphia Dance Projects and Dance Advance and she curates the StudioSeries at Studio 34 in Philadelphia. www.nicolebindler.com.

ANDREW HAYLECK lives on the west side in Baltimore, MD. His work explores intensive and patient listening. He makes field recordings that concentrate on specific phenomena, such as ice, the internal sound of bridges or the underwater sounds of the Chesapeake Bay. As an instrumentalist he often works with resonance, transductance and unstable systems, usually using bowed metal (gong/saw/scrap metal) and a computer. Recordings include Two Gong/Wire Pieces (EHSE), The Disappearing Floor (Recorded) and Various Recordings Involving Ice (HERESEE).

STAN MIR was raised in Rochester, NY. Flight Patterns, a chapbook, will be published by JR Vansant later this fall. A section of that work may be read in GutCult #8 along with an essay about Araki Yasusada, indecision, and satire. He has also published poetry and essays in Fascicle, Fence, The Poker, Word For/Word, and Verse. Currently, he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

VANESSA PLACE is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press), a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), and the forthcoming Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse), in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman. She is a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly; other work has appeared in other publications, including Western Humanities Review, Northwest Review, Insert Fold Magazine,Greetings #10, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Bookforum. Her collaboration with artist and performer Lamya Regragui will debut at Cent Quatre in Paris/Los Angeles in 2009, and she is collaborating with conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film Murderous Square Dance at the Spiral Jetty. Place is a co-founder of Les Figures Press, described by critic Terry Castle as "an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort."