The Clocktower's Performance Gallery. Courtesy: AIR, Art International Radio and the Clocktower Gallery, 2010
The Clocktower's Performance Gallery. Courtesy: AIR, Art International Radio and the Clocktower Gallery, 2010
Clocktower Exhibits & Events

AIR's Clocktower Gallery was founded by alternative spaces movement pioneer Alanna Heiss in 1972. After closing as a gallery space in 2001, the Clocktower Gallery reinaugurated its exhibition programming in 2009 under the auspices of the newly founded AIR. Clocktower Exhibits is home to interviews with and performances by its exhibitions' participating artists and curators.

For more Clocktower history, listen to The Clocktower Oral History Project, in which such figures as Vito Acconci, Bill Beirne, Colette, Jeffrey Deitch, Mary Heilmann, Jene Highstein, Ann Magnuson, Richard Nonas and Joel Shapiro reflect upon their experiences with this unique New York space. Organized by artist Nancy Hwang for the Fall 2009 AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence exhibition at apexart. .

Originally aired Monday, May 21st, 2012

The Moonlighter Presents lecture series stops by the Clocktower with three speakers: Ned Beauman speaks about his fascination with kings with short-lived reigns; R.H. Lossin discusses the preservation of literature; and Jonah Corne explores deadpan.


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Hosted by Joe Ahearn
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

The Stranger returns! On April 3, 2012 Pat Noecker aka RAFT took the form of his Stranger character from the Canyon Candy film and filled the exhibition of the same name with a piece of music that echoed the installation's transformative power.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

Listen to a set by electronic musician Maxx Klaxon performed live at DJ Shakey's Warper Party event at the Clocktower Gallery on Jan. 12, 2012. Born Max Clarke, this musician brought hyperactive 1980s Miami-inspired electro-pop to downtown Manhattan.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, March 19th, 2012

A set by Radio Wonderland for the Warper event at the Clocktower on January 12, 2012. Also known as Joshua Fried, this one-man dance party uses random objects and live FM radio to make hyperactive electronic melodies out of commercial noises.


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Hosted by Joe Ahearn
Originally aired Monday, March 12th, 2012

A multimedia dissection of contemporary conceptions of time in the context of music and its relationship to symbology, particularly in the transference from metaphor to kitsch, from the creators of Prince Rama, plus a panel hosted by Jon Kessler.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, March 12th, 2012

A set by the Tsunami Bass Experience performed live at the Warper Party at the Clocktower event on Jan. 12, 2012, designed to enlighten humans and enhance reality in the form of interactive Bass Culture guaranteed to wobble your booty.


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Originally aired Monday, February 27th, 2012

A live set by the Brazlilian chorinho band, Regional de NY recorded during the Clocktower Gallery's Samba na Casa do Gato celebration for Valentine's Day 2012, an evening of food, music and love hosted by journalist/organizer Thiago Carrapatoso.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, February 27th, 2012

A set by the electronic musician Banginclude--a devotee and activist in the Controllerism movement of alternative devices for manipulating audio and a DJ Shakey associate--performed live at the Warper Party at the Clocktower event on Jan. 12, 2012.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, February 20th, 2012

A set played by No Use For Humans for a Warper event at the Clocktower, January 2012. NUFH is a project of drummer Steve Honoshowsky who has experimented with a wild and creative variety of percussion and drum setups, both acoustic and electronic.


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Hosted by Alanna Heiss
Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

Guitarist/composer Elliott Sharp in a solo for guitars and electronics at the Clocktower Gallery on Jan. 24, 2012 as part of the Canyon Candy exhibition performance series. Sharp created a new soundtrack for a classic sci-fi flick by Ray Harryhausen.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

Matt Inconiglios aka DJ ATOM was one of 24 artists who performed at the Clocktower Gallery as part of DJ Shakey's Warper Party project and marathon performance on Jan. 12, 2012. Hear his mixes of music, sounds and dialogue, steeped in dance beat.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, January 30th, 2012

DJ Shakey organized and then performed as one of 24 artists at the Clocktower Gallery as part of her Warper Party project and multi-media performance event on Jan. 12, 2012. This is her set, featuring her unique audio controllers and fabulous sounds.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, January 30th, 2012

Mezzo-soprano avant-genre artist Carolyn “Honeychild" Coleman was one of 24 artists who performed at the Clocktower Gallery as part of DJ Shakey's Warper Party project and marathon performance on Jan. 12, 2012. Kate Bush meets Sarah Vaughn.


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Hosted by Joe Ahearn
Originally aired Monday, January 2nd, 2012

The musicians created this mix of vinyl and sadly forgotten magic music of the old west in collection of tracks from Legends Of The West, Montana Slim, Slim Whitman, Johnny Cash and others as the radio component of their Canyon Candy exhibit here.


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Hosted by Joe Ahearn
Originally aired Monday, December 19th, 2011

Diamond Terrifier (the solo manifestation of saxophonist Sam Hillmer of the band ZS) builds drones into textures and roaring torrents of processed sound and audio artifacts in the echoey tower of our upper gallery on a pretty Decemebr day in 2011


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