October 2nd
around 7:15 pm
@ NANA FEST ’26, the North American New Art Festival 2026 – Oct 1st-4th
FEED Media Art Center, 1307 State Street, Erie, PA 16501
tickets.eriereader.com/events/nana-fest-26-north-american-new-art-festival-2026-10-1-2026-234358
Katherine Liberovskaya remembers Phill Niblock on the day of his birthday with their first collaboration “Painting the Painting”
– “Painting the Painting”, 2003, 15’30”, SD, color, stereo
video: Katherine Liberovskaya
music: Phill Niblock “Hurdy Hurry” from Touch Works for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice, 2000 Touch # TO:49
This piece was made for the Montreal action/abstract painter Graham Cantieni for a special event in honor of his retirement from the function of Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Quebec in Three Rivers where he had taught since the ’80s. With the help of a miniature surveillance camera, approximately the size of a lipstick stick, which was fastened to the hand of the artist while he painted, the video presents the point of view of the paint-brush during Cantieni’s creative process. Brush stroke after brush stroke, the painting emerges in all its texture and physicality, abstract and palpable, to the minimal drone music of Phill Niblock asked to participate by Cantieni himself.
