Laura Parnes, Still of Jonestown from Blood and Guts in High School, 2004/06
Little Berlin presents an exhibition of work that refers to the condition of not meeting the desired objective of a big idea.
Curated by Maria Dumlao
Opening reception
Saturday, October 1, 2011, 6-10p
Chris Forsyth
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib
Elaine Kaufmann
Ken Montgomery
Kristen Neville Taylor
Laura Parnes
Marissa Perel and Oliverio Rodriquez
Fabio Roberti
Fritz Welch
*The opening reception includes performances:
Never meant to change the world (Cocksucker Blues) by Chris Forsyth
The Big Idea Lamination Ritual with Egnekn, The Minister of Lamination and Andrea, The Enchantress of Bioluminosity
Untitled (Surrender) by Marissa Perel and Oliverio Rodriquez
and Fritz Welch’s installation “was it something someone said? no, it was something in my head…”culminates with a monolog
The show runs from October 1 until October 29, 2011
Gallery hours are Saturdays from 12-5PM.
Chris Forsyth performs Never meant to change the world (Cocksucker Blues), an audio commentary/accompaniment to the ultimate document of the vacancy of the hippiedom, Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues.
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib’s 1967 is equal parts film essay, performance, live teleconference and animated text, during which Veronique (the Mao-‐adoring protagonist of Godard’s film La Chinoise) heads to Montreal with the intent to disrupt Expo’67 is some unspecified manner and winds up witnessing an experimental film that simultaneously depicts past, present and future revolutions (from her vantage point circa ’67).
Veronique narrates this string of events, shifting between polemic and meditations on the nature of cinema and filmmaking.
Elaine Kaufmann’s Your Mother Country Appeals to You explores how contemporary advertising articulates a utopian vision as a means to further an agenda of profit and corporate power. This project combines the imagery of Soviet posters with the text of contemporary advertising, juxtaposing text and image to expose the emptiness of flowery corporate promises.
Ken Montgomery a.k.a. Egnekn, The Minister of Lamination performs Laminating Ritual which celebrates the transformation of the mundane into the realms of OFFICIALDOM, of ordinary into extraordinary. Lamination is completely participatory and accessible to everyone.
Kristen Neville Taylor examines human attempts to replicate nature, specifically qualities of earth for space, inspired by the 1972 film Solaris.
Aphorisms, poetry and etc. is about the contention between science and mysticism and the challenge for technology to influence our sense perception.
Laura Parnes’ Blood and Guts in High School re-‐imagines punk-‐feminist icon Kathy Acker’s book of the same title. Each video-‐chapter presents a typical scene in the life of Janie bracketed by U.S. news events from the time period in which the book was written. As the viewer looks back at pivotal historical events (Jonestown Massacre, Moral Majority, Three Mile Island, etc.) connections are drawn in relation to our current political situation.
Mutually generated texts on the limitations of the body and the failures of intimacy, identity and death are the basis of Untitled (Surrender), where Marissa Perel and Oliverio Rodriguez enforce constraints on one another that elicit performative submission.
Fabio Roberti’s A Litany of Failure is a selection of archived shows of his weekly radio broadcast Strength Through Failure with Fabio in WFMU. The broadcast is preserved and played through an 8-‐track player.
Fritz Welch has created a sculptural installation that approaches the issue of failure in creative practice as well as in life. He questions the validity of failure through an analysis of childhood experience and its relationship to making and showing art.
On the night of the opening the piece, “was it something someone said? no, it was something in my head…“, will be occupied by an actor who will deliver a monologue.
credit: halloweenishere.com/hauntedhouse.html
UPDATE: due to weather, we will only be accepting artwork tomorrow – Sunday, October 30th 12-6pmish.
Open call for artists to make work for a one night exhibition, Haunted House. Bear in mind that the lights will be off for this. Guidelines are as follows: you must supply your own materials for installation; i.e. projection, you must BYOB. This is going to be a haunted house, we are celebrating Halloween, we want you to scare us and embrace the darkness. You are responsible for installing your work.
Performance is highly encouraged as long as it does not risk the lives of visitors.
Drop off your work Saturday, October 29th from 5-8pm or Sunday, October 30th 12-5pm. Haunted House opens at 8pm.
For the month of September each little berlin member invited artists who have studio space within the Viking Mill to install their work. This exhibit sights the fortune to have these artists at our door step.
Through the act of invitation we welcome three new members to little berlin: Angela McQuillan, Jean Suivan and Marissa Georgiou.
VIKING MAKERS
Alana Bograd
Ally Crow
Becket Flannery
Emily Kane
Emily Royer
Jay Hardman
Lauren Westenhiser
Reese Juel
Sarah Pater
Scott Bickmore
Opens Saturday, September 10th 4-11pm in correlation with the Miss Rock Away Armada parade.
Parade begins at little berlin’s Fairgrounds at 5pm and proceeds to Fluxspace.
More info here.
Exhibition runs through September 24th
Photos available: here.
