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Posted June 30 2012 19:06

The Artist as Storyteller

  • Location:The Compound Gallery, 1167 65th Street, Oakland, California, 94608, US
Featuring: Pamela Matsuda-Dunn, Matthew Pugh, Alison Tharp, John Watson, and Michelle Wilson.
Curated by Alison O.K. Frost.
The Artist as Storyteller opens July 21 2012. This group show presents the artist as storyteller, and includes multi-panel pieces that work sequentially to create a narrative. Ordering pictures and words to ...

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Posted June 30 2012 18:18

make it happen

  • Location:SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
the 181 is Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes

3 months at SPACE for this imperfect approximation of the universe as a whole.

We have the sailboat, a volunteer squadron serenade of Vespas, a gilded E, a heliographic translation of Borges's Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, and ...

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Posted June 30 2012 17:55

In Our Nature: Crystal Morey Closing Tea and Artist's Talk

  • Location:The Compound Gallery, 1167 65th Street, Oakland, California, 94608, US
Crystal Morey explores the impact and stresses mankind has imposed on animal life and our natural world and pays particular attention to species that have been endangered or have become extinct due to urban development, industrial agriculture, over-hunting and loss of habitat, and examine how these changes may affect human ...

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Posted June 30 2012 17:10

NA - Further Thoughts

It’s been months since Bruce Sterling delivered his endnote talk at SXSW, and there have been furious conversations about The New Aesthetic. If we take the replies by Watz et al on the Thecreatorsproject blog as an indication, there is a bit of dismissal of the idea from my ...

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Posted June 30 2012 15:46

I-NODE – PLANETARY COLLEGIUM OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES

  • Location:Planetary Collegium I-Node Greece,
Syncretic strategies towards art, science, technology, and consciousness research.

The I-Node of Planetary Collegium of Plymouth University, located at Ionion Center for the Arts & Culture (ICAC) on the island of Cephalonia, Greece, invites applications for PhD candidates to be enrolled in 2012-2013 Academic year.
The Planetary Collegium is an ...

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Posted June 30 2012 08:37

New podcast: VARIATIONS #7. The composer, by Jon Leidecker , on the history of sound aproppiationism

New podcast: VARIATIONS #7. The composer, by Jon Leidecker

Led by Jon Leidecker, VARIATIONS reconstructs the history of sound appropriationism by looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and commercial media, and the convergence of all these trends today.

Link: http://bit.ly/MGcw1s
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Posted June 29 2012 16:48

Youtube XXXtrava-GANZA

  • Location:Heather's , 506 E. 13th St., New York, New York, 10009, US
Various Artists, Youtube XXXtrava-GANZA

Curated by Tova Carlin

Heather's
506 East 13th Street
10PM

A YouTube slam. Dueling teams try to outdo each other as they scour YouTube in search of the "gayest" videos they can find, covering such YouTube genres as: gay music videos, obliquely gay videos, and funniest ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:44

Fred Halsted: Body of Work (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Eastern Bloc, 505 East 6th Street #1, New York, New York, 10009, US
Fred Halsted: Body of Work

Sex Garage, LA Plays Itself, A Night at Halsted's, El Paso Wrecking Corp. (actor) Three Day Pass (actor), Pieces of Eight (actor)

1972 - 1982, 16mm on video and video.
Curated by Bradford Nordeen

Eastern Bloc
10PM – 4AM

Fred Halsted's film works offer a dark alternative ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:38

Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Le Petit Versailles, 346 E. Houston St., New York, New York, 10009, US
1986, 16mm on video, color, sound
Curated by Paul Dallas

Le Petit Versailles
7:30PM

This seminal queer work—a hybrid of performance and film, documentary and fiction, portrait and evocation—is an exuberant and fascinating fantasy tour through London's 1980s post-punk queer underground with avant-garde choreographer Michael Clark as ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:34

Cheryl Dunye: She Don't Fade (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Flamingo Club (former site) , 219 2nd Avenue, New York, New York, 10003, US
1991, video, B&W, sound
Curated by Jamillah James

Flamingo Club (former site)
219 2nd Avenue
2PM - 6PM

Cheryl Dunye is a contemporary of Tom Kalin and Sadie Benning. The three heralded a "New Queer Wave" of cinema in the early 90s. This frank documentary-style discussion of sexuality and sociality is ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:29

Shirley Clarke: Portrait of Jason (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Blvd/Lenox Ave, New York, New York, 10027, US
1967, 16mm film on DVD, B&W, sound
Curated by Paul Dallas

Maysles Cinema
7:30PM

"This is my chance to really feel myself, and say: 'I'm the bitch'…." These are Jason's first words in Clarke's searing documentary portrait, one of the most fascinating and problematic films of the 60s ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:24

Derek Jarman: Blue (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, New York, 10012, US
1993, 35mm film transferred to video, color, sound
Curated by David Everitt Howe

Judson Memorial Church
8PM

Blue was filmmaker Derek Jarman's final feature before dying of AIDS complications in 1994. It consists solely of a wide projection of the color blue with voiceover narration by John Quentin, Tilda Swinton ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:18

Deanna Erdmann: Colt (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:XL Cabaret and Lounge , 510 West 42nd St. , New York, New York, 10036, US
2011, Digital video, color, sound
Curated by Bradford Nordeen

Colt rearticulates the frisson of pornographic sexual exchanges, generating a caustic tactile convulsion that questions the confines of the body and its representation. Erdmann interlaces, or "weaves," as she describes, numerous porn films from the early 80s into a spastic ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:14

Peggy Ahwesh: The Color of Love (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:The Out NYC, 510 West 42nd St. , New York, New York, 10036, US
1994, 16mm film on DVD, color, silent
Curated by Abbe Schriber

The Out NYC
8 PM

In The Color of Love, a found, discarded amateur porn film of two women and one man (who appears unconscious) forms the basis for Peggy Ahwesh's experimentation with cinematic gaze, sexuality, and mortality. In ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:08

William E. Jones: Tearoom (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Julius', 159 W. 10th St., New York, New York, 10014, US
1962/2007, 16mm transferred to video, color, silent
Curated by Bradford Noreen

Julius'
4PM - 4AM, continuous loop

Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men ...

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Posted June 29 2012 16:02

Mike Kuchar: Splatter Movie (Dirty Looks: On Location)

  • Location:Nowhere, 322 E. 14th St., New York, New York, 10003, US
2011, video, color
Curated by Karl McCool

Nowhere
4PM - 4AM, continuous loop

"Sex, sleaze, drugs, blood, and much, much more!" This is how Mike Kuchar describes his Splatter Movie. Kuchar queers horror movie tropes in this over-the-top, lurid melodrama, set in a dungeon and featuring assorted S/M and ...

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