Video: Recent and Strange
March 1, 2006 - April 19, 2006
New and recent work by video artists who are not just outstanding in their field—they're way out. Local and U.S. premieres, and many artists in person, enliven evenings devoted to Jordan Biren, eteam, Kevin Jerome Everson, Darrin Martin, Laura Parnes, Jennifer Reeder. Artist Lewis DeSoto makes an appearance with his show-car namesake in tow on March 1.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
7:30 p.m. Hybrid Autos, Part 1
Jordan Biren and Lewis DeSoto in Person. DeSoto's Show Car on Display at the Theater! Biren's new DeSoto Conquest follows artist DeSoto's postcolonial ride into the perverse poetry of a car named after an infamous explorer. With hard-drivin' short works by Kenneth Anger, Bill Daniel, John Knoop, Len Lye, and Robert Nelson.
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
7:30 p.m. Monody in Harmony: Works by Darrin Martin
Darrin Martin in Person. The innovative works of Darrin Martin use video as raw material for the reinvention of social mythologies, from Aviator, which gives performative expression to flying as a psychic state, to his object-related futuro-performance collaborations with Torsten Burns, to a recent visual exploration of acoustic loss, Monograph in Stereo.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
7:30 p.m. Domestic Duet: Works by Jordan Biren and Jennifer Reeder
Jordan Biren and Jennifer Reeder in Person. Biren and Reeder are both uncanny chroniclers of the suburbs as a place of charmed suspension and disquieting quiet. Biren's newest, My Mother's House, is like Thomas Kinkade with a chill factor. Reeder's new high-def noir The Heart & Other Small Shapes observes as the inanimate comes alive. With earlier works by both artists.
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
7:30 p.m. The Paradox of the 10 Acres Square
Eteam is back! Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger return to their parched parcel of property in Nevada (previously seen in 1.1 Acre Flat Screen) only to face a right-of-way dilemma, right away, as a thoroughfare plows through their 660-square-foot square of scrub. Is the solution an overpass, bypass-or impasse? With works by Scott Stark and Jacqueline Goss.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
7:30 p.m. The Immoral Majority: Works by Laura Parnes
Laura Parnes in Person. Parnes has adapted one of the late Kathy Acker's most notorious novels, Blood and Guts in High School, about a punk at war with Reaganism, in a spare style she calls Brechtian MTV. Shown with Hollywood Inferno: Episode One, a Dante-esque descent into the big H.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
7:30 p.m. Hybrid Autos, Part 2: Cinnamon
Using a style best described as theatrical documentary, Kevin Jerome Everson's Cinnamon scopes a young African American woman pro-stock drag racer named Erin, a desk jockey by day but behind the wheel, pure focused reflex.
Curated by Steve Seid.
