2009 | Live Performance: LUCKY DRAGONS

Wednesday 23 Sept. 2009, 6-8pm
Performance begins at 7pm

CRISP presents the Lucky Dragons – an experimental music group consisting of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara.

The band are noted for their unusual sound, described as having the ability to make “everyday sounds become alluringly other“.  Performances include live music, video projection, and sounds created in collaboration with the audience. WRONG SPECTRUM is a participatory performance with Luke Fischbeck in which sounds are made by interfering with electrical fields.

Selected past performances include Walker Art Center, Minneapolis/MN, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston/MA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles/CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/CA, REDCAT, Los Angeles/CA, Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington/DC, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia/PA, PS1, New York/NY, Centre Pompidou, Paris/France, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Germany.

Lucky Dragons will perform in the Calling Out Of Context Festival at the ICA London in November 2009.

LUCKY DRAGONS

EDUCATION
Luke Fischbeck
2008 The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles CA
2003-2005 Brown University, MA, Music (program in Multimedia and Electronic
Music Experiments)
1996-2000 Harvard University, BA, Visual and Environmental Studies

Sarah Rara (Anderson)
2009-2011 USC Roski School of Fine Arts, MFA
2009 The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles CA
2004-2006 Brown University BA, Comparative Literature / Visual Art
2002-2004 Rhode Island School of Design, Photography
2001-2002 University of Virginia

SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2009 CRISP, London, UK
2009 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
2009 Gallery De La Raza, San Francisco CA
2009 Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
2009 The Stone, New York NY
2009 Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles CA
2009 Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston MA
2009 Club Transmediale, Berlin Germany
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 The Smell, Los Angeles CA
2008 Machine Project Field Guide, LACMA, Los Angeles CA
2008 This Is Not Art, Newcastle Australia
2008 Open Frame, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Australia
2008 TRAMA festival, Serralves Museum, Porto Portugal
2008 Skid Row History Museum, Box Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2008 New Original Works, REDCAT, Los Angeles CA
2008 The Cinema Effect, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
2008 Copy Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2008 Beppu Project, Beppu Japan
2008 Aichi Childrens’ Center, Nagoya Japan
2008 RAW, Reed University
2008 Austin Childrens’ Museum, Austin TX
2007, 2008 Triplebase Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005, 2008 Machine Project, Los Angeles CA
2007 Summer of Love, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
2007 Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini, Italy
2007 Denali Education Center, Denali AK
2007 International Gallery for Contemporary Art, Anchorage AK
2007 A Very Anxious Feeling, John Connelly Presents, New York NY
2007 Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, San Francisco CA
2007 MADE festival, Umeå, Sweden
2007 La Terra Trema, Cherbourg, France
2007 Locally Localized Gravity, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA
2007 The Kitchen, New York NY
2007 Il Corral, Los Angeles CA
2005, 2007 Cinders Gallery, New York NY
2004, 2007 TBA, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR
2006 Infamous Carousel, Centre Pompidou, Paris France
2006 Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht Netherlands
2006 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2006 PS1, New York NY
2006 La Générale, Paris France
2006 New Works for Solo Dancer / Choreographers, Gloucester New Arts,
Gloucester MA
2004, 2006 BSR radio, Providence RI
2006 Galleri Loyal, Stockholm Sweden
2006 Spanien Gallery, Aarhus Denmark
2004, 2006 Radio Centraal, Antwerp Belgium
2004, 2006 Escho, Copenhagen Denmark
2004, 2006 Space 1026, Philadelphia PA
2005 Bloody Sonsy Moss, Taichung Taiwan
2005 La Superette, Exit Art, New York NY
2005 Gallery 1412, Seattle WA
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
2005 NWEAMO festival (New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization)
Portland OR & San Diego CA
2005 Visiones Sonoras festival, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Make A Baby, May-N-Kevin 4ever, Providence RI
2004 De Avonden, VPRO, Amsterdam Netherlands
2004 Menagerie De Verre, Paris France
2004 Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2004 Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2004 Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA
2004 Version festival, Chicago IL
2003 The Bakery, Providence RI
2003 Listening in the Sound Kitchen, Princeton University, Princeton NJ
2002 Frequentzen:HZ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Germany

SOLO SHOWS
2009 Elevator Music, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs NY
2008 Sumi Ink Club Exhibition, SiteLA, Los Angeles CA
2008 How Not to Be Seen (With Hanna Rose Shell), Machine Project, Los
Angeles CA
2008 Tableau Ya Mind, Hope Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2008 4X1, Krets Gallery, Mälmo Sweden
2007 Floating Booga, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles CA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2009 Scores, Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA
2009 Emergence, Golden Parachutes, Berlin Germany
2009 Volume, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA
2009 In Real Time, Capricious, Brooklyn NY
2009 \/1R7U4L1|\|$4|\|17′/, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009 Stage II, The Project, New York NY
2008 It’s Easy to Find, ASDF, Elizaville NY
2008 For a Brief Time Only at a Location Near You, ASDF, Brooklyn NY
2008 Black and White, Space 15twenty, Los Angeles CA
2008 Universal Blobhand, Stumptown, Portland OR
2008 The Joyful Bewilderment, Nog Gallery, London England
2008 Return to Sender Krets Gallery, Mälmo Sweden
2008 Ivy/Nagishokudo, Tokyo Japan
2008 Shiroto No Ran, Tokyo Japan
2008 Whitney Biennial, New York NY
2008 Chimera Frontiera, Junc Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2008 Starting WIth Blade, Triplebase Gallery, San Francisco CA
2007 Is That All There is to Fire?, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles CA
2007 Sprezzatura Maze, +44141 Gallery, Glasgow Scotland
2007 Exposition de dessins réalisés en commun, Galerie de la Miroiterie Paris,
France
2007 Swerve Festival, Los Angeles CA
2007 FM Ferry Experiment, New York NY
2007 Noufaux Riche, Para-Site, Hong Kong HK
2007 Works on Paper and Wood, Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007 Thunder Eyes, Grass Hut Corp., Portland OR
2007 Escupido de la Panza de la Bestia, Apetite, Buenos Aires ARG
2006 This Talk We Have, This Talk We Have Had, This Talk We Have/Have
Had, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2006 Sumi Tapestry, List Art Center, Providence RI
2006 Drawn-N-Stuff, Gallery 354, Warren RI
2006 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Newport Art Museum, Newport RI
2005 Making Things Public, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie),
Karlsruhe Germany
2004, 2005 Pixilerations festival, Providence RI
2001, 2005 Boston Cyberarts festival, Boston MA
2004 You’re Warm, List Art Center, Providence RI
2004 Ovegaden Sound Art festival, Copenhagen Denmark
2003 Dome Baby, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia PA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009 Open Power (vinyl record)(Teenage Teardrops)
2009 Future Human / Human Future (artist’s book, edition of 200)(Glaciers of Nice)
2009 Vrais Noms / True Names (vinyl record)(Atelier Ciseaux)
2009 Take Turns (vinyl record)(Wildfire Wildfire)
2008 New Video Works (DVD)(Post Present Medium)
2008 Sumi Cinema 1 / Woven Waves (artist’s book, open edition)(Triple
Canopy)
2008 Sumi Ink Club Collaborative Mural (catalogue)(Glaciers of Nice)
2008 Show Them to Me in the Sunlight (artist’s book, edition of 200)(Glaciers of
Nice)
2008 Greyscale Gardens (artist’s book, edition of 200)(Glacers of Nice)
2008 A Wikipedia Reader (artist’s book, edition of 100)(ASDF)
2008 Sumi Workbook (artist’s book, edition of 100)(Glaciers of Nice)
2008 Dream Island Laughing Language (vinyl record)(Upset The Rhythm,
London, UK / Marriage Publishing, Portland, OR)
2008 Speak Your Own Language (artist’s book and vinyl record, ed. of 500)
2008 Totally 4: Dream Island (artist’s book, ed. of 1000)(Glaciers of Nice)
2007 Floral Cypher (artist’s book, edition of 200)(Glaciers of NIce)
2007 Veneer (journal)(Marriage Publishing)
2007 Showpaper (poster)
2007 Totally 1-3 (artist’s book, ed. of 100)(Glaciers of Nice)
2007 Decapitron (artist’s book, ed. of 60)(Shobo Shobo)
2007 Fables (DVD, collaboration with Adam Schecter)(David Castillo
Gallery, Miami, Florida)
2007 Secondhand (DVD, collaboration with Hanna Shell and Vanessa
Bertozzi)
2007 Bleach on Bleach (12″ ed. of 300) (Hawks and Sparrows)
2007 Very (7″ picture disc, collaboration with David Horvitz, ed. of 300)
(Caff/Flick, Dublin, Ireland)
2006 Heart Stopping/Drums of Passion by Glaciers (cassette, ed. of 100)
(Glaciers of Nice)
2006 Rare Youth (compilation cd)
2006 Mini Dream Island (Marriage Records)
2006 Widows (Marriage Records/States Rights Records)
2006 Future Feelings (cassette split with Sweet Potatoes) (Undereducated)
2006 DVD Friends (DVD + screen print, ed. of 200) (Hawks and Sparrows)
2005 Locomotion in Water (DVD + multichannel installation, collaboration with
Hanna Shell)
2005 A Sewing Circle (States Rights Records)
2005 One of Twenty Bees (7″ lathe cut record, ed. of 20) (Twenty Bees)
2005 Drawings and Sounds Kids can Easily Recognize (compilation cd + book)
(Ultra Eczema, Anwerp, Belgium)
2004 Mysterious Worldz (compilation cd) (Free Matter for the Blind)
2004 Live on Radio Centraal (Ultra Eczema, Antwerp, Belgium)
2004 Faults (cd-r, ed. of 300) (Hawks and Sparrows)
2004 Norteñas (Pregnancy Series)
2004 Shh…! (8″ lathe cut record, ed. of 100) (555 recordings)
2003 Hawks And Sparrows (cd-r, ed. of 100) (Hawks and Sparrows)
2002 Dark Falcon (555 recordings)
2002 Boys (7″ record, ed. of 500) (english muffin/miy paliuk)
2000 F_uxus (7″ record, ed. of 300) (english muffin)

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 Guest Lecturer, Oberlin College
2009 Guest Lecturer, University of California Los Angeles
2009 Guest Lecturer, University of California Santa Barbara
2009 Guest Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
2008 Guest Lecturer, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Guest Lecturer, Portland State University
2008 Guest Lecturer, IAMAS, Ogaki Japan
2008 Panelist, Creativity Now Conference, Cooper Union
2008 Guest Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art
2008 Consultant, Scitor Corporation
2006-2009 Archivist, Getty Research Institute
2007-2009 Online Editor, Veneer Magazine
2007 Guest Lecturer, Nova Project, Seattle WA
2006 Co-Founder/Co-Curator, Stairwell Gallery/Glaciers Of Nice, Providence RI
2006 Mentor/Curriculum Design, AS220 Media Labs, Providence RI
2006 Guest lecturer, Ecole Estienne, Paris, France
2006 Guest Lecturer, Brown University, Providence RI
2006 Guest lecturer, DIEM (danish institute for electroacoustic music), Aarhus,
Denmark
2006 Instructor, Sound + Image, Emerson College, Boston MA
2005 Teaching Fellow, Computer Music, Brown University, Providence RI
2005 Teaching Fellow, Foundations of Time-Based Media, Brown University,
Providence RI
2004-2005 Teaching Fellow, Sound for the Moving Image, Brown University,
Providence RI
2004 Mentor, The Met School, Providence, RI

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2009 Harvestworks New Works Residency
2009 ASDF one-dollar grant
2006 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in New Genres
2003 Fuji Films Grant for Photography
2000 George Peabody Gardner Fellowship