A Place To Bury Strangers Added to The Maze

TROUBLE Presents: You Are Here (AKA The Maze) Installation & Performance Festival 2009 Open NOW

Participating artists include: TROUBLE (Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris) // A Place To Bury Strangers *** Just Added ! *** // Calvin Johnson // Screaming Females // Mick Barr // Up Died Sound // Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities // Alexis Gideon // Ty Segal // Regattas // Nine 11 Thesaurus // Sam Mickens // Dome Theater // Mike Pride // Extra Life // Pygmy Shrews // John Fell Ryan // The Coathangers // Desolation Wilderness // Random Cutting // Excepter // Symbol // Zs // Arrington Dionyso // Dan Friel // Mega Calderos // Chuck Bettis // Pterodactyl // Normal Love // Vaz // Make A Rising // Clan of the Cave Bear // Electroputas // High Red Center // The Sian Alice Group // The Present // Loud Objects // Grooms // Symbol // Shooting Spires // Crash Diet Crew // Videohippos

You Are Here (The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio from September 10 - October 2, 2009. Emphasizing the sprawling and interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the maze offers a peak inside NYC's diy art/music scene. A meditation on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end as his or hers. Participating artists in the 3-week festival include Calvin Johnson, A Place To Bury Strangers (*** Just Added! ***), Screaming Females, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, Zs, Excepter, Mick Barr, The Coathangers, The Present, Loud Objects, Grooms, Shooting Spires, Extra Life, Mike Pride, Dan Friel, Pterodactyl, Nine 11 Thesaurus, and many many others.

The following performance schedule should be used only as a loose guide. You Are Here subverts prefab expectations for both audiences and performers - there is no prescribed order, start time or end time, duration, location of performance, relation of audience to performers, and so on. All of the participating artists have been asked to create something site-specific since the performances will, in fact, take place within the maze. Audiences will be asked only to expect something unusual.

Maze Schedule:

Saturday 9.12.09
Extra Life
Lichens
Pygmy Shrews
Up Died Sound
SETH (jeff and lala from excepter)
Interdependence Project
+Delicious Beverages

Sunday 9.13.09
The Present
Opsvik & Jennings
Rich Johnson
Blast Off!
+Delicious Beverages

Monday 9.14.09
Calvin Johnson
Arrington Dionyso
Desolation Wildnerness
Regattas
City Center

Tuesday 9.15.09
Loud Objects
Twisty Cat
Random Cutting
Mega Calderos
Aftermath

Wednesday 9.16.09
White Suns
Chaos Magic
Little Big
Buckets of Bile
Bird Music

Thursday 9.17.09
Grooms
Videohippos
Starring
PC Worship
Anamanaguchi
Dome Theater

Friday 9.18.09
Ty Segal
The Mantles
The Holy Experiment
BJ Rubin
Worlddancearound
Dome Theater
+Delicious Beverages

Saturday 9.19.09
High Red Center
Alexis Gideon
Make A Rising
Shelly Short
Ribbons
+Delicious Beverages

Sunday 9.20.09
Vaz
Clan of the Cave Bear
Necking
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk
+Delicious Beverages

Monday 9.21.09
Sam Mickens/Mike Pride Duo
Jantar
Nsumi
tbd

Tuesday 9.22.09
Drummer's Corpse
Hunter Gatherer
Aaron Seigel
Meredith Arena

Wednesday 9.23.09
Shooting Spires
Legs
Grafitti Monsters
Crime Novels
Lord Easy

Thursday 9.24.09
Sam Hillmer/ Arrington Dionsyo Duo
Charlie Looker
Daniel Carter Quartet
Total Bolsheviks

Friday 9.25.09
Electroputas
Regattas
Chuck Bettis / Mario Diaz de Leon
BJ Rubin
Dome Theater
+Delicious Beverages

Saturday 9.26.09
Screaming Females
The Sleepy Doug Shaw
Hannah Marcus / Tianna Kennedy
Cheap Ventilators
The Weird Fantasy Band
+Delicious Beverages

Sunday 9.27.09
Symbol
Laurel Halo
The Slowest Runner in the World
Post Abortion Stress

Monday 9.28.09
Telecult Powers
Syn. Toffs
Bassoon
Alterazioni Video Collective

Tuesday 9.29.09
The Coathangers
Nervehunt (Justin from Teeth Mountain / Ryan from Wavves)
Xray Eyeballs
Swimmingcitiesoceanofblood

Wednesday 9.30.09
Nymph
Emma Kupa (of Standard Fare)
Ava Luna

Thursday 10.1.09
Crash Diet Crew
Cntrl Top
Hotchacha
Islands Eyelids
Deborah Karp/ Meredith Arena

Friday 10.2.09
Zs
Excepter
Mick Barr
Noveller
BJ Rubin
Dome Theater
+Delicious Beverages

You Are Here was first presented by Trouble at Chashama's Visual Arts Space in Midtown Manhattan. This year’s maze returns to Brooklyn and is a real for us by us type of affair. You Are Here is a festival drawn from within the scene, not the work of corporate sponsored parties wishing to develop markets. No one gets free shoes or gift bags full of stuff and the festival doesn’t push any specific beverage or brand. This festival also won't fly people in from all over and make a big super-festival. You Are Here is a local affair, mostly local bands will play, and many of them have personal and ongoing relationships with each other and with Trouble. You Are Here is about Brooklyn and about the diy scene in New York in general. It’s about activism and about relationships and about immediacy and not least about a community that, perhaps in spite of the internet, still exists on a local level.

“Whether you are a big deal or a small deal, there is always some type of deal going on” - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/youareheremaze