Friday, November 12, 2010 - 9:00 PM
The Sense Ritual
Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal
Judith Butler reads from several texts while Charles Atlas, with three camera signals, mixes and processes Butler through filters in real time, re-projecting the image back onto both the philosopher and onto the ever-changing spatial arrangements choreographed by the Mika Tajima and the New Humans.
Meet the People deals with issues of desire, complicity and identity in the age of mass media, as 14 “characters” talk about their lives, desires and dreams. “Silver wittily questions the very idea of the authentic--ultimately, she implies, ‘personal truth’ is a momentary and collaborative invention, a Triborough Bridge between actor, author-director and audience--on TV and on the street.”
—Anne Hoy, Speechless (New York: International Center of Photography, 1989)
This video, an excerpt of a longer piece of a photo-video blog (fourlegsgood.blogspot.com) documenting the everyday whereabouts of the artist, uses a low-res recording device with its own intrinsic limits to document locations and travels, both ordinary and exotic, that become the environments of intellectual discourse--landscapes literally written over with texts from books being read during the time of the documentary moment.
C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) is a movement-based video piece which uses an original choreographed language as an incision into and explosion out of in-between moments and spaces in both natural and human-made landscapes.
Vaseline is a late-night house tour transformed into the spacial exploration of a converted cave, warping through time to reflecting on various works of the avant garde, high Modernism and the Beat movement. We slip through historic highlights where collective creative actions and artistic sharing turn into movements and representations of a moment. The title is taken from an anecdote in Genet’s biography where the police confiscate his personal lubricant. Performers: Max Pitegoff, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. Camera: Melanie Brun.
Case 133. Psychosexual Metamorphosis is a condition recorded in Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, a taxonomy of sexual aberrations first published in 1886.
No description by request of the artist.
Anne Iobst of DANCENOISE and video artist Dale Hoyt--playing Jerry Lewis--enact the primal scene of Narcissus and Echo while Charles Atlas, with three camera signals, mixes and processes them through filters in real time, re-projecting the image back onto the players and onto the ever-changing spatial arrangements choreographed by the Mika Tajima and the New Humans.
The Sense Ritual
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Twilight, the philosopher’s hour.
The fiction of a people, a civilization.
A third space where text and landscape meet in the mind
Becoming language becoming movement becoming time-space,
Into poly-organismal consciousness,
A psycho-sexual metamorphosis,
Back into twilight—in the cave, mirroring back—
The sense ritual finds non-sense.
Guest-curated by Joshua Thorson. TRT: 73 min
Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal
Excerpt from Judith Butler Lecture (Live Video Mix at SFMOMA)
Charles Atlas in collaboration with Mika Tajima / New Humans
2009, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min.Judith Butler reads from several texts while Charles Atlas, with three camera signals, mixes and processes Butler through filters in real time, re-projecting the image back onto both the philosopher and onto the ever-changing spatial arrangements choreographed by the Mika Tajima and the New Humans.
Meet the People
Shelly Silver
1986, USA, video, color, sound, 17 min.Meet the People deals with issues of desire, complicity and identity in the age of mass media, as 14 “characters” talk about their lives, desires and dreams. “Silver wittily questions the very idea of the authentic--ultimately, she implies, ‘personal truth’ is a momentary and collaborative invention, a Triborough Bridge between actor, author-director and audience--on TV and on the street.”
—Anne Hoy, Speechless (New York: International Center of Photography, 1989)
The Third Space (Excerpt)
Cecilia Dougherty
2010, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.This video, an excerpt of a longer piece of a photo-video blog (fourlegsgood.blogspot.com) documenting the everyday whereabouts of the artist, uses a low-res recording device with its own intrinsic limits to document locations and travels, both ordinary and exotic, that become the environments of intellectual discourse--landscapes literally written over with texts from books being read during the time of the documentary moment.
C.L.U.E. [Purple/Yellow] [excerpt from 13-channel video work]
Robbinschilds + A.L. Steiner with AJ Blandford and Kinski
2007, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min.C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) is a movement-based video piece which uses an original choreographed language as an incision into and explosion out of in-between moments and spaces in both natural and human-made landscapes.
Vaseline
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
2010, France, color, sound, 14 min. World PremiereVaseline is a late-night house tour transformed into the spacial exploration of a converted cave, warping through time to reflecting on various works of the avant garde, high Modernism and the Beat movement. We slip through historic highlights where collective creative actions and artistic sharing turn into movements and representations of a moment. The title is taken from an anecdote in Genet’s biography where the police confiscate his personal lubricant. Performers: Max Pitegoff, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. Camera: Melanie Brun.
Case 133. Psychosexual Metamorphosis
Tara Mateik
2008, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.Case 133. Psychosexual Metamorphosis is a condition recorded in Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, a taxonomy of sexual aberrations first published in 1886.
Untitled
Glen Fogel
2009, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. World PremiereNo description by request of the artist.
Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal
Excerpt from "Narcissus and Echo" featuring Anne Iobst and Dale Hoyt (Live Video Mix at SFMOMA)
Charles Atlas in collaboration with Mika Tajima / New Humans
2009, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min.Anne Iobst of DANCENOISE and video artist Dale Hoyt--playing Jerry Lewis--enact the primal scene of Narcissus and Echo while Charles Atlas, with three camera signals, mixes and processes them through filters in real time, re-projecting the image back onto the players and onto the ever-changing spatial arrangements choreographed by the Mika Tajima and the New Humans.