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THE FILMS OF YOKO ONO
MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN LIVE PERFORMANCE

Celebrate Media City Film Festival’s Opening Night in Detroit with a screening of films by legendary artist Yoko Ono. The program will include selected work from the Fluxfilm catalogue, and Ono’s pioneering films Fly and Freedom (1971).

The evening will also include a series of live performances by legendary artist and composer Malcolm Goldstein, including a tribute to Rosa Parks along with compositions written for Goldstein by Ornette Coleman.

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THE FILMS OF YOKO ONO

Eyeblink (Fluxfilm 9), 3 min, 1966
Match (Fluxfilm 14), 5 min, 1966
Four (Fluxfilm 16), 6 min, 1966
Fly, 24 min, 1971
Freedom, 1 min, 1971
Apotheosis, 19 min, 1970

Yoko Ono (Tokyo, Japan 1933). Studies at Gakushūin University (Tokyo), and Sarah Lawrence College (New York). Multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist, also known for her work in performance art. 20+ films since 1966; screenings and exhibitions including major solo shows at MoMA and the Whitney Museum (New York), Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and countless other venues internationally. Recipient of Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award (2012), Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement (2009), MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts (2003), Oskar Kokoschka Prize (2012), Honorary Doctorate of Law, Liverpool University (2001), and Honorary Degree of Fine Arts, Bard College (2002). Lives in New York, NY.

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MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN LIVE PERFORMANCE

My feet is tired but my soul is rested (Dedicated to Rosa Parks)
Soundings for solo violin
Trinity (Composed by Ornette Coleman for Goldstein)

Malcolm Goldstein (Brooklyn NY, 1936). Studies at Columbia University with Otto Luening. Co-founder of the Tone Roads Ensemble with James Tenney and Philip Corner in 1963. His compositions have been performed at the Judson Dance Theatre and Whitney Museum (New York), Sound Culture (Tokyo), Pro Musica Nova (Bremen), Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (Witten), etc. Guggenheim Fellow (1968), Artists Foundation Fellowship (1988), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award (1990), Prix Acustica International (1994). Subject of the film Espace Ouvert – Portrait of Malcolm Goldstein by Thierry Collins (2007). Past collaborators include Allison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, and many others. One of the leading violin innovators of the 20th century. Lives in Montréal, Quebec.