Are you a student at SAIC? Enroll in Latham Zearfoss’ “Technicolor Electorate” which will culminate in a public exhibition on ACRE TV!
Latham Zearfoss writes:
Hello Citizens!
I’m putting the call out for some thoughtful and dedicated students to enroll in this very special and timely class I am teaching in the fall. The class is structured as a durational, creative, critical engagement with governmental and institutional forms of democratic initiatives, including those in our immediate surroundings. The course load for Technicolor Electorate will be split fairly evenly between collaboratively designed research and exploration, public programming around democratic participation, and creative media projects, culminating in a public exhibition throughACRE TV. The class is listed in the FVNMA department, but I would be thrilled to have students from a diversity of disciplines. Students who are interested, but may not meet the departmental prerequisites should contact me atlathamowen@gmail.comto get a permission number for registration.
Latham Zearfoss is an artist and cultural producer living and working in Chicago. His artwork often centers on reclaiming historical and mythological texts, and revising them to incorporate radical notions of love and sex, possibility and probability. His commitment to art and activism has also manifested in the creation of sporadic, temporary utopias like Pilot TV andChances Dances. Latham graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA in 2011. He has exhibited his work internationally and all over the U.S.
ACRE TV presents a liveperformance, with playwrights, actors, artists, and a studio audience collaboratively producing and broadcasting LIVE television onACRETV.org. An hour and a half of living cinema—like a play in which actors meet in the edit.
Featuring performances by Kelly Lloyd and Jesse Malmed, live music by Ryan Sullivan, acting by Monette McLin and David Lawrence Hamilton, and a new scene written by Calamity West and Nate Whelden. Produced by Kate Bowen, Kera MacKenzie, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney.
This program is FREE with museum admission, and all Tuesdays are free for residents of Illinois.
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA schematic 1. Drawing: Andrew Mausert-Mooney
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA schematic 2. Drawing: Andrew Mausert-Mooney
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA schematic 3. Drawing: Andrew Mausert-Mooney
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 1. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still2. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 3. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 4. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 5. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 6. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 7. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 8. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 9. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 10. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 11. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 12. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, rehearsal still 13. Photo: Kera MacKenzie
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA schematic 4.
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA schematic 5. Drawing: Andrew Mausert-Mooney
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA schematic 6.
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
ACRE TV LIVE at the MCA, production still. Photo: Kate Bowen
“Live cinema, and particularly live cinema sent out over a distance (tele-vision, in other words) is interesting to us in so many ways. There’s the looseness of it. If you fail in live TV, the embarrassment only lasts for a moment, which encourages a kind of experimentation and prolific pace of making that we are both very excited by.”
“Also, there’s something exciting about broadcasting live because you know that viewers are witnessing what you’re doing in separate places at the same time. It creates a concept of a community of viewers in a way that video on demand doesn’t. There’s a political aspect to that live audience, because they are all experiencing and negotiating “now” together, which is why news works so well on television.”
“For The Set Speaks, we invited seven groups of Chicago artists to take over our temporary studio and our stream. We asked them to think about what a real time studio practice/performance can look like in a frame, over distance.”
“Seeing other artists work out what it means to go live in totally different ways has been more powerful than I could’ve imagined.”
“Sometimes it seems like the collaboration is the work itself. Especially when we do live shows. Getting a group of people to sync their clocks in a room together and make something is the best thing in the world, and I think you can really see it in the work when lots of different people’s energy goes in to holding a scene together for a moment. It changes the scale and when you’re a part of it you get to stay constantly surprised by the work you’re making.”
ACRE TV to be included inDocument V, an exhibition at The Luminary in St. Louis, Missouri
Opening Reception: Friday, March 25th from 7 to 10pm Open each week Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 12 to 6pm and Thursday from 11am to 7pm.
On view March 25th – May 20th, 2016
The Luminary 2701 Cherokee Street St. Louis, Missouri 63118
Document V suggests itself as an exhibition, but also perhaps a collectively-formed curricula, public reading group, or durational performance. Regardless of its official form, it is a historical manifestation of an immaterial process we call a publication.
ACRE TV Poster Archive, Photo: The Luminary
Document V expands past the gallery to include commissioned public performances, web-based interventions, site-specific readings and immaterial actions. Participating artists and projects include: ACRE TV; Colin Alexander; Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez); Mike Calway-Fagen; Steven Cottingham; Paul Drueke; Nihaal Faizal; Good Weather (Haynes Riley presenting Matthew Kerkhof); Sam Gould/Red 76; Gelare Khosgozaran; Jonathan Hanahan; Michael Powell; Museum of Capitalism; Ryder Richards; Signal Fire; Ryan Thayer; Transversal Projects; Christine Wong-Yap; Caroline Woolard and Lika Volkova and others. Additionally, a commemorative book and exhibition catalog will follow later in the year.
ACRE TV Poster Archive, Photo: The Luminary
Selected from the site’s contributors and archives, these artists test the boundaries of art and other fields – not only to define, defend and expand that space, but to develop, improve, and bring those methodologies back to the public sphere – to make a public, perhaps, in its accumulation. These works serve both as evidence, or documents, of larger maps of relations, and as models of common activities, habits and procedures that aim to sustain themselves, at least temporarily.
ACRE TV Poster Archive, Photo: The Luminary
We presume that attitudes do in fact become form, both symbolic and concrete. We present these documents as an extension of ideas outward among unpredictable publics. We propose to gather in our complexity and articulate a collectivity. We invite you to join us.
ACRE TV Archive presented with Transversal Projects. Eke Name from The Set Speaks pictured. Photo: The Luminary
ACRE TV Archive presented with Transversal Projects. Eke Name from The Set Speaks pictured. Photo: The Luminary
ACRE TV program featuring works made for/on/by ACRETV.org:
Blair Bogin, YYYYMMDD, 00:47 Excerpt from week-long LIVE broadcast as part of The Set Speaks, 2016
Megan Schvaneveldt, Untitled, 4:54 Aired as part of Please Stand By, 2014
Joseph Herring & Amy Ruddick, Toadstool, 30:00 LIVE show as part of Psychedelicatessen, 2014
Andrew Mausert-Mooney, West, 1:00 Aired as part of Please Stand By, 2014
Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney & Jesse Malmed, Eke Name, 1:15:00 Excerpt from week-long LIVE broadcast as part of The Set Speaks, 2016
Stephanie Graham & Maya Mackrandilal, Rituals of Decolonization (after Bhanu), 4:46 Excerpt from week-long LIVE broadcast (#NewGlobalMatriarchy) as part of The Set Speaks, 2016
Kyle Schlie, Corporate Orientation: J.T. Baker Chemical Company, 2:00 Aired as part of Please Stand By, 2014
Chaz Evans, CA-PAN (Episode 1), 1:00:00 Aired as part of These Streams, 2014
Adela Goldbard, the strangest gathering since the destruction of the Tower of Babel, 2:34 Excerpt from week-long LIVE broadcast as part of The Set Speaks, 2016
Thad Kellstadt, Liquid Lunch, 30:00 LIVE show as part of Psychedelicatessen, 2014
Cameron Gibson, Standby, 1:09 Aired as part of Please Stand By, 2014
Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Notes for a Vivisection, 9:48 Excerpt from LIVE show for P.3+, 2015
Josh Duensing & Eric Watts, Is This Real?, (Trailer), 00:48 Aired as part of ACRE TV’s Independent Programming, 2014
Anna Ialeggio, Mark McCloughan, Ellen Nielsen, & Leslie Rogers, An Entirely Platonic Fission into Doubter’s Lace or Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!, 13:05 Excerpt from LIVE show as part of Psychedelicatessen, 2014
Jon Chambers, Charity Coleman, Jesse Malmed, Marianna Milhorat, & Michael Rae, Teen Agents, 41:00 Excerpt from week-long broadcast as part of Automatabahn, 2014
Brendan Meara, Screen Test, 1:00 Aired as part of Please Stand By, 2014
Amanda Gutiérrez, Video Dérive (drift), 1:00:00 The guide for a collective drift as part of Direct Object/Direct Action, 2015
Kyle Schlie, Lifelong Longing, 00:58 Aired as part of Tele-novela, 2015
James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Public Hearing in Progress, 30:00 Excerpt from 106-hour VHS tape broadcast as part of Direct Object/Direct Action, 2015
Danny Volk, Made-Up w/ Danny Volk, (Trailer), 00:32 Aired as part of ACRE TV’s Independent Programming, 2014
Open TV with Cqqchifruit, Natalie Mercedes, Molly Hewitt & Ariel Zetina, TRQPiTECA LIVE, 12:56 Excerpt from week-long LIVE broadcast (#OpenTVMarathon) as part of The Set Speaks, 2016
Kera MacKenzie, Eve of Destruction, 1:00 Aired as part of Please Stand By, 2014
Chaz Evans & Maureen Ryan, Unending Credits (Lifestyle), 10:00 Excerpt from week-long broadcast as part of Automatabahn, 2014
TRT: 6:33:17
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Temporary Art Review is an online publication founded in 2011 by Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally as a platform for art criticism focusing on alternative spaces and critical exchange among disparate art communities. This exhibition marks the publication’s five year anniversary and will be followed by a book and exhibition catalog.
By Way of Today is an expanded soap opera produced by Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie. Equal parts genre study, fan fiction and mundane sci-fi, it is a series like many and unlike none. Episodes “air” irregularly and in various forms such as video, script, rehearsal, live broadcast, commercial, installation and animation.
twinskin performance at Links Hall, 2016. Image by Heather Halbert.
“I have been probing language, making toys and playing with my friends. Over the course of this week I will continue to do just as we please. Please join me for language explorations with collaborator Jory Drew, new work from collaborative music-based mystery twinskin and a live-broadcast class from Rashi of Woman Untamed.” -AR
SCHEDULE:
MONDAY, March 14
Photo installation (Assembled 5-6 pm)
TUESDAY, March 15
Word Games w/ Jory Drew (6 pm – TBD)
WEDNESDAY, March 16
Word Games w/ Jory Drew (6 pm – TBD)
THURSDAY, March 17
Day Work by twinskin (9 am – 11 am)
FRIDAY, March 18
Rashida Khanbey (Rashi) of WomanUntamed – live streamed morning class (10 am – 11 am)
SATURDAY, March 19
Word Games w/ Jory Drew (6 pm – TBD)
SUNDAY, March 20
Night Work by twinskin (8 pm – TBD)
Looping video works when not live:
Hiba Ali Postcolonial Language Segment2: Commercial, 2013-2015, 1:30 hibaali.info
NIC Kay body hack, 2015 soft + cunt, 2016 4:11 nic-kay.com
Amina Ross If Today Never Gives Up In Me, 2015, 1:54 Loop A Bridge, [A Black,] A Barrel, A Back, 2015, 6:24 Loop Raw Footage #2, 2013, 00:44 Loop White Rat, 2013, 00:56 Loop aminaross.com
Amina Ross is an undisciplined artist fascinated with the abstraction and manipulation of visual and written language. As of late these interests have led to an exploration of PLAY as both a site of inquiry and a critical mode of making. Amina’s practice consists of image-making, writing, performance, and installation strategies.
Jory Drew is an artist whose practice relates the conjunction of thought and vision, as they relate meaning, to pattern and repetition. Drew abstractions work to outline this confusion, of image over meaning or use over function, with the playful nature style.
twinskin is a collaborative project by Joelle Mercedes and Amina Ross. “Twin skin” colloquially refers to the contours left behind after the birth of twins. Amina and Joelle would like to tuck away in this skin-sheath for a bit, there is sanctuary in this site of the underbelly. twinskin’s love of text, color, material and sound articulate a longing, a strangeness, a place between the skin one shows the world and the body that one inhabits.
Rashida KhanBey (Rashi) is creator of Woman Untamed, a sensual dance fitness class created to help people feel strong, sexy and sensually alive in their bodies.
The Goddesses are back, and they’re not happy. They find themselves in a world that has forgotten the radical abundance of women, forgotten our fierce, warrior insides. They’re back, ready to fuck shit up, to take pride in the limitations of their human form—eager for sex, money, decadence, violence, love, community, and power. They will raze the earth with the righteous fire of their anger and build a new one from the ruins: a culture of abundance, radical justice, and balance.
For #NewGlobalMatriarchy, Stephanie Graham and Maya Mackrandilal will present a series of performances and events that imagine radical black femme futures. The two will perform as ancient goddesses who have become incarnated in contemporary US-hegemonic culture, a world of reality television, instagram celebrity, and hyper-sexualization. By inhabiting the visual language and logic of consumerism and voyeurship, the goddesses infiltrate imperialism on its home turf, imbuing the mundane and familiar with moments of radical imagination. What does it mean to be a strong woman with friends in a culture that can only imagine female sexual competition for the ever-elusive “good man”? How can we construct narratives that sabotage a culture that devalues black life, the labor of women, and commodifies queer desire? Is it possible to seduce the oppressor into relinquishing his power?
Graham and Mackrandilal will be joined by collaborators from a wide range of Chicago creative communities, including FEMelanin, a women of color identified theatre collective, and a reprisal of AudioGraham, a one-night music video festival. Programming will also include an international assortment of artists, poets, and collectives submitting work via video and participating in discussions via online video-chat services.
the strangest gathering since the destruction of the Tower of Babel
Adela Goldbard 2016
Films, photographs, maps, drawings, building and cooking will transform the studio into a set where late XIX century collides with contemporary Chicago. The project was prompted by the book “The Devil in the White City” and will stage archival research and ethnographic explorations of Jackson Park. This work will dig into the immanent exoticism and colonialism of a show of spectacle such as the World’s Columbian Fair of 1893 and into the influence that private institutions like the University of Chicago (est. 1890) can have in the (mis)configuration of a community.
Between Monday the 22nd and Sunday the 28th, the#OpenTVCommunitywill be live on camera developing new ideas, choreographing and rehearsing dance routines, shooting and editing video projects, and more.
The#OpenTVMarathonwill feature the artists from the Open TV Community: Fatimah Asghar with Jamila Woods, Darling Shear, Eli McKinnon, Honey Pot Performance, King is a Fink, Shea Couleé, Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch, Mlondolozi Zondi, LADY/WATCH, and TRQPiTECA.
SCHEDULE:
MONDAY, February 22
11:30 am: Fatimah Asghar in conversation with Jamila Woods about web series, poetry and politics 5:00 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal 6:00 pm: Elijah McKinnon for Two Queens in a Kitchen
8:00 am: Film shoot for Triggers, by Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch and Mlondi Zondi 5:00 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal 8:00 pm: LADY/WATCH — Tien Tran and Kieran Kredell — choreography
SATURDAY, February 27
2:00 pm: Open TV Screening at Mana! 7:00 pm: LADY/WATCH — Tien Tran and Kieran Kredell — choreography 10:00 pm: TRQPITECA LIVE withCqqchifruitand Natalie Mercedes (La Spacer)
SUNDAY, February 28
12:00 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal 4:00 pm: Film shoot for Triggers, by Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch and Mlondi Zondi
OPEN TV is a Chicago-based web platform for television by queer, trans and cis-women and artists of color, currently a research project by Aymar Jean Christian, assistant professor of communication at Northwestern University.
“Monday is work, Tuesday is laundry, Wednesday is sleep, you pee, shave your goatee and reel through, eyes rolling east to west. The seven-day week originates from early civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia attempting to make sense of nature by studying the sky. This knowledge of expert star-gazers resulted in the titles of classical planets as symbolic totems of time. But now that the glare of astral forces has been replaced by the glow of our screens, what does a seven day week mean?
From Monday, February 15th – Sunday February 21st, I ask anyone in Chicago or beyond to call in, stop by or post online their list of things to do that day. From short concise checklists to detailed stories, I will document this information within the physical space of the set (through improved performance & installation) creating a live timetable of various peoples day and therefore treating the four walls as a collective, zoomed in, square block in a calendar page.
Each participants shared, daily undertakings will be an important component for re-creating or preserving a mythology. Moon, Monday, Lunes, Mars, Martes, Mardi, Mercury, Miércoles, together we will realize the contemporary language, patterns or pacing of each day, what it can characterize, denote or emote.
Tune in, call in, stop in, write in to keep time on a cosmic clock of storytelling, performance, legendary quests and visiting guest as we digest the meanings, muse-ings and markings mingled into our modern calendar.” -BB
