Selected Works / Programs
Alpert refers to Programs as making an improvisational system or visual project that is a companion for performers/ composers. She describes her Works as multifaceted projects with visual elements that can be rendered into physical ephemera, moments that occur in time, as well as digital artifacts. The evolution of Kim Alpert’s art practice has collected tools for building isolated constructions as well as solo exhibitions to large theatrical and festival programs. Alpert’s work fuses digital processing with analog synthesis, custom content, found footage, and historical archives.
From left // mulatu astatke, Garfield park conservatory // Bill mackay, hideout chicago // Haley Fhor, wordless music // rob mazurek & emmitt kelly, co-prosperity sphere
SCAN LINES
Kim Alpert - visuals
Jasmine Mendoza - movement
Cristal Sabbagh - movement
Paul Giallorenzo - synths, electronics
Anton Hatwich - bass
Scan Lines is a collaboration between movement, sound, and video inspired by transformational visions of energy leaving the body and returning to the universe. The mix of organic and electronic sound, combined with the same combination visually - thought the mix of human movement and video feedback and synthesis, evokes the duality of the spiritual landscape. From embodiment to disembodied revelation each incarnation of the performance is singular in nature.
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performance photos from elastic arts
FLESH & BONE
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constellation chicago
npr jazz night in america
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symphony center - chicago
le petit faucheux - france
mike reed’s flesh & bone
Greg Ward - alto saxophone
Tim Haldeman - tenor saxophone
Jason Roebke - bass
Mike Reed - drums
Ben Lamar Gay - cornet
Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Marvin Tate - words
kim alpert - visuals
Three channel improvisational analog and digital video system with custom content for Mike Reed’s project exploring an incident experience being caught in middle of a neo-Nazi rally in the Czech Republic while on tour. Reed examines this harrowing experience, the background of it and engages around otherness, art, race, politics, and the challenges of being pushed into a place of discomfort.
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symphony center - chicago
ANTELOPER x ALPERT
anteloper
jaimie branch - trumpet, electronics
jason nazary - drums, electronics
Ongoing collaborations on improvised performances, music videos, and installations.
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jaimie branch solo vortex
B&W photos from roulette nyc
STANDARD DEFINITION
Created by kim alpert
EXHIBITION & WEEKLY SALON
CHICAGO ART DEPARTMENT
MATT LUX COMMUNICATION ARTS
LIMITED EDITION VHS
The exhibition at Chicago Art Department featured large silk chiffon digital prints of high resolution photography of waveforms. These fluid prints of a still moment of a moving signal provided a physical element to companion the fourteen new video works that debuted in this collection. Several of these looping video moments became part of an album length video companion to the album Matthew Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet from Astral Spirits Records. This collection of works expanded from a residency at Signal Culture in New York.
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Stills from standard definition collection
photos from weekly salaon performances
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kim alpert at signal culture, NY
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the wing / knoll lobby chicago - curated by johalla projects
silk print editions prepared for buddy shop
jasmine mendoza, taos new mexico
Limited silk prints available at the Chicago Cultural Center inside the Buddy Shop
INSTIGATION
Created by Marie Casimir & Steve Marquette
biannual interdisciplinary improvisation festival celebrating the relationship between
New orleans & Chicago
Active member of the Instigation Orchestra, participating in festivals creating live visuals, environments, and digital media.
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DKV + joe mcphee - new orleans 2019
contemporary art center - new orleans 2017
Art Garage - new orleans 2019
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toy story, festival stream via ess.org 2020
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contemporary art center - new orleans 2017
STAMMER
Ken Vandermark’s momentum 5
Kim Alpert – visuals
Tim Barnes – percussion
Katinka Kleijn – cello
Damon Locks – samples/electonics
Nick Macri – basses
Lou Mallozzi – recordings/electronics
Claire Rousay – percussion
Ken Vandermark – reeds
Mars Williams – saxophones/little instruments
Ken Vandermark’s Momentum 5: Stammer Triptych is a performance in three parts. It builds upon itself with each pass which is represented visually though generating analog signals with text used in the work and adding in elements of feedback as it moves from one set to the next.
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program release video stills
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Stills from video program
IN THESE TIMES
This unique multimedia performance of Makaya McCraven's In These Times was originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, with support provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The World Premiere took place at Walker Art Center's McGuire Theater on October 18, 2019.
Makaya McCraven - drums
Jeremiah Hunt - bass
Brandee Younger - harp
Jeff Parker - guitar
Greg Spero - piano
Marquis Hill - trumpet
Greg Ward - sax
Macie Stewart - violin
Lia Kohl - cello
Kim Alpert - Visual Design, Mix, Direction
Mary Roland Myers - Assistant Director
Michael Handler - Camera Operator
Video sources include The National Archives, FBI Black Lives Matter Surveillance, Southern Educational Films, Encyclopedia Britannica, Westinghouse, and the McCraven Family Archive.
ABOVE
Rehearsal, Walker Art Center 2019
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Symphony HALL Chicago 2020
Stills from Walker Art Center shows
BROKEBACK
Douglas McCombs - bass
James Elkington - pedal steel
Areif Sless-Kitain - drums
Shot at autumn in south western Michigan, this concert program combined location movement exercises with sprawling landscape shots to weave a story of isolation, resistance, and perseverance.
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video program stills
RE: EDIT
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Re:Edit, Alpert remixed the focal three channel installation Shave. The new work has a sonic treatment by Claire Rousay.
For the 2008 exhibition of Re:Edit, custom built video monitors were fabricated for a limited edition physical digital series.
