Thursday, March 24, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (EXHIBITION CATALOG #1)
THE 2008-2010 EXHIBITION CATALOG IS AVAILABLE
FROM BLURB.COM IN SOFT AND HARDCOVER EDITIONS
*CLICK THE LINK ABOVE FOR PURCHASE AND PREVIEW.
FROM BLURB.COM IN SOFT AND HARDCOVER EDITIONS
*CLICK THE LINK ABOVE FOR PURCHASE AND PREVIEW.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Radical Light: That Little Red Dot
Artists' Television Access presents:
Radical Light: That Little Red Dot
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:30 pm
Curated and presented by Dale Hoyt
presented by SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Pacific Film Archive
During its 30+ years of existence, the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres (formerly Performance/Video) department has produced innumerable high-caliber artists and has influenced performance and conceptual art on a global scale. Simultaneously, the department’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art production facilities has contributed to an equally impressive output from myriad film- and video makers. Tonight’s program presents a survey of this important work. While as aggressive and sophisticated as their performance counterpart, the work of these artists displays an equally ingenious and ground-breaking visual language and deals with such varied issues as formalism, feminism, abstract narrative, transgressive sexuality, personal biography and body politics. And, drawn from three decades of activity, the program comprises an historical microcosm of video technology, beginning with industrial and broadcast cameras and behemoth Portapaks through the Hi-8 video revolution, “cuts-only” editing, the Amiga Toaster and Avid systems, up to DV’s utopian technological plateau. Join us for an evening of the early works and rarities of some of the field’s major artists, including Jordan Biren, Nao Bustamante, Monet Clark, Torsten Zenas Burns, Cecilia Dougherty, Didi Dunphy, Dale Hoyt, Andrew Huestis, Tony Labat, Jennifer Locke, Anne McGuire, Guy Overfelt and Emjay Wilson. (Dale Hoyt)
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street / San Francisco, CA
(415) 824-3890 / ata@atasite.org
Radical Light: That Little Red Dot
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:30 pm
Curated and presented by Dale Hoyt
presented by SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Pacific Film Archive
During its 30+ years of existence, the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres (formerly Performance/Video) department has produced innumerable high-caliber artists and has influenced performance and conceptual art on a global scale. Simultaneously, the department’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art production facilities has contributed to an equally impressive output from myriad film- and video makers. Tonight’s program presents a survey of this important work. While as aggressive and sophisticated as their performance counterpart, the work of these artists displays an equally ingenious and ground-breaking visual language and deals with such varied issues as formalism, feminism, abstract narrative, transgressive sexuality, personal biography and body politics. And, drawn from three decades of activity, the program comprises an historical microcosm of video technology, beginning with industrial and broadcast cameras and behemoth Portapaks through the Hi-8 video revolution, “cuts-only” editing, the Amiga Toaster and Avid systems, up to DV’s utopian technological plateau. Join us for an evening of the early works and rarities of some of the field’s major artists, including Jordan Biren, Nao Bustamante, Monet Clark, Torsten Zenas Burns, Cecilia Dougherty, Didi Dunphy, Dale Hoyt, Andrew Huestis, Tony Labat, Jennifer Locke, Anne McGuire, Guy Overfelt and Emjay Wilson. (Dale Hoyt)
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street / San Francisco, CA
(415) 824-3890 / ata@atasite.org
Monday, January 31, 2011
Radical L@TE:Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party
Radical L@TE:
Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party
February 18, 2011; 7:30 p.m.; Gallery B - (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)
Programmed by Steve Seid and Kathy Geritz
Join us for a launch party for the compilation DVD, HalfLifers: The Complete History, the definitive pixel packet of legendary activation artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. For one night only, the HalfLifers will repurpose Thomas Faulders’s BAMscapeas an omnidirectional, construction-colored exploration vehicle, navigating a 360-degree journey into the interior reaches of HalfLifers’s “videonic” backlog of afterlife relationships, rescue rituals, and psychic manifestations. This spatio-temporal hub will sync up with other portable pictographic projections by longtime friends and collaborators of the HalfLifers, including Anne McGuire, Darrin Martin, Jordan Biren, Ursula Brookbank, Christian Burns, and Animal Charm. The celebration will be consummated with an anthro-engineered dough object—by which we mean a sugar-frosted biomemory conduit activated by physical ingestion.
Special thanks to: Julie Chang (Zombie cake-maker)
Join us for a launch party for the compilation DVD, HalfLifers: The Complete History, the definitive pixel packet of legendary activation artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. For one night only, the HalfLifers will repurpose Thomas Faulders’s BAMscapeas an omnidirectional, construction-colored exploration vehicle, navigating a 360-degree journey into the interior reaches of HalfLifers’s “videonic” backlog of afterlife relationships, rescue rituals, and psychic manifestations. This spatio-temporal hub will sync up with other portable pictographic projections by longtime friends and collaborators of the HalfLifers, including Anne McGuire, Darrin Martin, Jordan Biren, Ursula Brookbank, Christian Burns, and Animal Charm. The celebration will be consummated with an anthro-engineered dough object—by which we mean a sugar-frosted biomemory conduit activated by physical ingestion.
Special thanks to: Julie Chang (Zombie cake-maker)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #2) "CRYSTALINE"
CRYSTALINE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH 6-10PM / 2011 / FREESPECIAL THANKS TO: KARI GATZKE, ALEXIS FEDORJACZENKO, CHRIS NELSON AND DENIS LUZURIAGA
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT (CRYSTALINE),
NUMBER 2 IN OUR VARIABLE MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES.
AN ANNUAL WINTERIZED EVENT FEATURING ESTABLISHED LOCAL AND NATIONAL ARTISTS EXPERIMENTING WITH MANY DIVERSE GENRES INCLUDING: FOOD RESEARCH, SONIC HYBRIDS, VIDEO ART AND LIVE PERFORMANCE ACTIVATIONS. FUELED BY GLOGG AND FUSED WITH INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS OF SCULPTURAL ICE SHAPES THE ARTISTS AND PUBLIC WILL INTERACT AND SHARE EXPERIENCES IN A DIGITALLY FROZEN PROJECT SPACE.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
ALEXIS FEDORJACZENKO
THE PAPER QUEEN (DEAR HOLYOKE) / PERFORMANCE / 2010
DAVID HOLUB
TALKERS AND NON-TALKERS: A DISCUSSION / PERFORMANCE / 2010
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN + MITCH GOODMAN
FREQUENCY / VIDEO LOOP / 1992
DAVID SLATIS
INSIDE THE DRILL / VIDEO LOOP / 2010
ANTHONY DISCENZA
THE THINGS / VIDEO LOOP / 2010
VIROCODE
EVOLVING MOISTURE / VIDEO LOOP / 2010
ABORTUS FEVER(CHRIS BLAIR)
HANGING GUITARS / INTERACTIVE NOISE PERFORMANCE / 2010
SYNTHHUMPERS (JIM SUPANICK + JOSHUA SOLONDZ)
DIGITAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE / VIDEO PROJECTION / 2010
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Post-Conceptual Performance: Video, 1977 to 1997 @ LACE (LOS ANGELES, CA) & PFA (BERKELEY,CA)
Sunday, January 23, 2011- 5:30 p.m - Total running time: c. 80 mins
Jordan Biren, Tony Labat, Anne McGuire and HalfLifers in Person
(LACE - Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, January 20, 2011- 9:00 p.m - Total running time: c. 80 mins
By the mid-seventies, the concept of the artist’s body as medium had evolved from arid performance to effusive provocation. Tony Labat emerged in 1977 with the remarkable series Solo Flight in which the artist’s identity is given sudden form through subtle ethnic gestures. With pithy performances like Laurie Sings Iggy and the Madonna Series, Leslie Singer took on the celebrity industry with an economy of parodic impersonation and food flinging. In These Are the Rules, Doug Hall enacted an authoritarian pose to deflate the power vested in political symbols. Where Cecilia Dougherty dismisses the patrimony of past mentors with her remake of Howard Fried’s Fuck You, Purdue, Jordan Biren reinstates The Body as a nervous engine of desire. Finally, Anne McGuire’s tortured evocation of psychic disarray, I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong, gives way to the frantic activation of domestic space in the HalfLifers’s highly caloric Actions in Action.
Solo Flight (Tony Labat, 1977, excerpts, 20 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). Laurie Sings Iggy (Leslie Singer, 1987, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). Fuck You, Purdue (Cecilia Dougherty, 1987, 12 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). These Are the Rules (Doug Hall, 1983, 4:39 mins, Color, Video, From EAI). My Life as a Godard Film by Whitney Houston (Leslie Singer, 1988, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). The Body (Jordan Biren, 1990, 15 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). The Madonna Series: 1-5 (Leslie Singer, 1987, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong (Anne McGuire, 1997, 11 mins, B&W, Video, From the artist). Actions in Action (HalfLifers, 1997, 10 mins, Color, Video, From the artist).—Steve Seid
(LACE - Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, January 20, 2011- 9:00 p.m - Total running time: c. 80 mins
By the mid-seventies, the concept of the artist’s body as medium had evolved from arid performance to effusive provocation. Tony Labat emerged in 1977 with the remarkable series Solo Flight in which the artist’s identity is given sudden form through subtle ethnic gestures. With pithy performances like Laurie Sings Iggy and the Madonna Series, Leslie Singer took on the celebrity industry with an economy of parodic impersonation and food flinging. In These Are the Rules, Doug Hall enacted an authoritarian pose to deflate the power vested in political symbols. Where Cecilia Dougherty dismisses the patrimony of past mentors with her remake of Howard Fried’s Fuck You, Purdue, Jordan Biren reinstates The Body as a nervous engine of desire. Finally, Anne McGuire’s tortured evocation of psychic disarray, I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong, gives way to the frantic activation of domestic space in the HalfLifers’s highly caloric Actions in Action.
Solo Flight (Tony Labat, 1977, excerpts, 20 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). Laurie Sings Iggy (Leslie Singer, 1987, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). Fuck You, Purdue (Cecilia Dougherty, 1987, 12 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). These Are the Rules (Doug Hall, 1983, 4:39 mins, Color, Video, From EAI). My Life as a Godard Film by Whitney Houston (Leslie Singer, 1988, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). The Body (Jordan Biren, 1990, 15 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). The Madonna Series: 1-5 (Leslie Singer, 1987, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong (Anne McGuire, 1997, 11 mins, B&W, Video, From the artist). Actions in Action (HalfLifers, 1997, 10 mins, Color, Video, From the artist).—Steve Seid
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