What is the origin of the Earth? Was it a Big Bang or are we sitting on top of a giant turtle shell on top of other turtle shells? Spaceship Earth is a multi media performance piece designed and filmed for ACRE TV’s Project (Jumbletron) in Pensacola, Florida. Spaceship Earth is a journey in the process not a destination.
ACRE TV Online atACRETV.org November 8 – December 31, 2018 Live Performances: November 8, 2018, 8:30-9:30 pm CST
CUBED: Luminous University of West Florida Museum Plaza Pensacola, Florida Festival Dates: November 8-11, 2018 Live Performances: November 8, 2018, 8:30-9:30 pm CST
JumbleTron is a two-part video show crafted for public, large-scale screens in Pensacola, Florida (as a part of theCUBED: Luminous Festival, November 8-11), that features a roster of some of the most dynamic artists that ACRE TV has been itching to collaborate with sinceour last big group showin December 2016. JumbleTron will also broadcast online at ACRETV.org from November 8th to December 31st.
Part one —JUMBLE— features 12 video works by Sara Condo, Zachary Epcar, Mark Kent, Mark McCloughan, Lydia Moyer, Amina Ross, Sheida Soleimani, Darryl Terrell, Lili White and Danielle Zorbas, reformatted for an 18’x12’x12’ LCD prism: A dazzling, buzzing, and spectacular program that spins, skins, and surveys themes of human/animal/environmental cohabitation. We’ve worked with the artists to re-format their pieces for the unusual aspect ratio and gargantuan scale and will stream both the original works and the reformatted versions on ACRE TV throughout November and December, during the day.
Still from Lili White, THE HOUSE OF WATER: #3 SPROUT
Part two —TRON— is four collections of video works reformatted for 8’x8’ projections: Full of human bodies and breath, this part moves slower, dances in the ways and waves, finding limits in human scale. Carl Elsaesser and Sandy Williams IV are each showing durational series that add up to more than a day and a half of video, exploring time and persistence. Danny Giles and Richard Haley have imaged the human body, or something like it, standing tall against external forces of nature and surveillance. These works will play on ACRE TV throughout November and December during nighttime hours.
Additionally, join us on November 8th from 8:30-9:30 pm (CST) for JumbleTron LIVEfrom the CUBED: Luminous stage, featuring new work by Jen Clay and Jan and Dave.
JumbleTron was curated by Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney (video artists and co-directors of ACRE TV) and Joseph Herring (House Pencil Green, video and performance artist and frequent collaborator with ACRE TV).
Still from Carl Elsaesser, Smudged Head, 2018
CUBED Luminousis a four day and night outdoor digital art festival that will take place at the University of West Florida Historic Trust Museum Plaza in downtown Pensacola, Florida on the closing weekend of Foo Foo Fest, November 8 through November 11, 2018. CUBED Luminous is a partnership with the University West Florida Historic Trust, the UWF Pensacola Museum of Art and ACRE TV.
CUBED was created by Evan Levin and Ashton Howard in 2017.
Curators of CUBED Luminous: CUBED GULF COAST, UWF Historic Trust, UWF Pensacola Museum of Art, Joseph Herring, Kera MacKenzie, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney.
Technical Designer/Director: Ryan O’Keeley (O’Keeley Media)
Still from Lydia Moyer, Comet Song, 2015
JumbleTron SCHEDULE IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA FOR CUBED LUMINOUS FESTIVAL :
A relational exercise, experiment & performance exploring intimacy, power and loving relationships through consensual play.
Featuring people who love themselves and each other…
A. Raheim White & Sojourner Zenobia
Ruby T. & Ashina
Leah Ball & Selma Hudson
Sky Cubacub & Jake Vogds
Jordan Rome & Cecilia Loba
Elena Tejada-Herrera
Yel & A. Alena
& more!
Within these remote webcam performances queer configurations of people who love and respect one another play with embodying power and vulnerability through timed bouts of tickling and open discussion.
Participants receive an invitation from the artist, opt-in via email and receive a list of prompts and instructions. These folks then pick a cozy spot, set up their webcams and press record.
Tune in to ACRETV.org on Saturday, September 22nd 7p – 10p in conjunction with the opening of Amina Ross’ solo exhibition Daisy Chain at Prairie.
Episodes will air on loop every Sunday from 2:22pm – 2:22am central time September 23 – October 28, 2018, the duration of the exhibition.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, September 22 7p – 10p central time Sojourner & A. Raheim
Sunday September 23 2:22p – 2:22a central time Selma & Leah
Sunday, September 30 2:22p – 2:22a central time Sky & Jake
Sunday, October 7 2:22p – 2:22a central time Jordan & Cecilia
Sunday, October 14 2:22p – 2:22a central time Ruby & Ashina
Sunday, October 21 2:22p – 2:22a central time Yel & A. Alena
Saturday, August 18th, 3-5:30pm Hosted by The 48203 Dance Show 333 Midland St., Highland Park, MI
Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, co-directors of ACRE TV will facilitate a three hour (with breaks!) workshop in which all participants will learn about and make LIVE and LIVE-TO-TAPE TV! All ages and experience levels are welcome, no equipment is required, though if you have a laptop or camera please bring it. In this workshop we will:
Look at some examples of live artist-made television, especially dance shows!
Take turns doing a multicam edit of footage from The 48203 Dance Show!
Set up a multi-cam livestream and practice live switching!
Broadcast our finished edits live on ACRETV.org!
Bring lunch! We’ll provide snacks!
The 48203 Dance Show is an installation inspired by the under-recognized archive and legacy of The New Dance Show, through spatial workshops and a culminating dance showcase for youth and community members of Highland Park, Michigan and surrounding Detroit neighborhoods, our goal is to reflect and hold spaces where community members can amplify their voice and see themselves reflected within the history of the neighborhood and city they live in. ACRE TV will be collaborating with William Marcellus Armstrong and The 48203 Dance Show to facilitate this TV making workshop.
Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney are Chicago-based interdisciplinary artists working primarily in film, video, live broadcast, and installation. They maintain individual and collaborative practices and together founded ACRE TV. Their projects together have explored transmission; seams in the scenery; liveness, simultaneity and typologies of time; and the possibility and politics of making new images.
Friday, April 6 from 8-11 pm Suggested donation $7-10
A televisual and multimodal fundraiser for the Nightingale Cinema. Join us irl or url or both for a cavalcade of performances and videos teasing out meaning and monies. Digging into the form and fun, this function features raffles, give-aways, ample opportunities to give to the endlessly vital microcinema right at the beating beautiful heart of Chicago screen culture. Bring your big bucks and best buds as MCs Hammer, Escher and Donald guide you through contemporary and historical tele-works, open the space for this place and goof for good.
Hosted by Katy Albert, Kate Bowen, Patrick Friel, Diana Rose Harper, Nellie Kluz, David Langkamp, Christy LeMaster, Mike Lopez, Jesse Malmed, Jimmy Schaus, and Seth Vanek!
Musical stylings by Sara Condo and Eddy Crouse!
Film and video works by Nina Barnett, Blair Bogin, Mary Helena Clark, Kevin Jerome Everson, Cameron Gibson & Kyle Schlie, Thad Kellstadt, Jodie Mack, Steve Reinke, Amina Ross, Mike Stoltz & Alee Peoples, and more!
This screening is part of NIGHTINGALE 10!, the tenth anniversary of the legendary Chicago microcinema. Check out all of the events happening as part of the celebrationhere.
“Constructed as a loosely woven spiraling death odyssey of the night, LNZ’s body moves through different forms of digital imagery until finally being uploaded to the internet to live forever. Formally, its a 60 minute selfie.
A coming of age story in a technological communications revolution where love gets uploaded, digitally dislocated, unseen, and lost bit by bit into an asynchronous internet landscape.
In one way its like a love text, and in another its like a technological breakup, but all compressed into a mp3 format.“
The Republic is a narrative with precedents set more by the philosophical thought experiments of Plato, More and other imagineers of Utopias than by drama or film. While there are characters and these characters have emotions and drives, and while there are funny and sad moments, the real preoccupation—the final overall image, in my opinion—is how a society is structured, and how that structure changes to accommodate new parts.
The society in question is comprised of old men who embody the values of liberalism to an almost perverse degree. These “citizens” (as they refer to themselves), are Beings with an unyielding drive for that situation which most of us claim to want: FREEDOM. Their freedom, affected by time and nature like creases in a piece of driftwood, is reduced simply to freedom from intrusion by another body. For this tiny kernel of space, they have developed an entire system of habits, bureaucracy, and reams and reams of self-documentation.
And it is from this basic atomic condition that the entire plot and dialogue of The Republic has been generated. It’s my hope that it will be viewed (understood) in this way. It is a piece of particulate idealist philosophy that does not need to to be enjoyed like a story, or even an experimental film for that matter. Also, it should be viewed in a pitch black room with a glass of diluted ruby red wine.
—Robin Schavoir, writer
A NOTE ON FORM AND EXPERIENCE
Approaching The Republic is probably a matter of perspective. First, deciding whether it is a movie, a reading of an impossible-to-produce screenplay, an amalgam of audiovisual experiments, or whether any of this matters. It’s been designed to be as easily streamed on a mobile device as projected widescreen in a cinema. It is the closest we could conceive of an ideal form that still satisfies certain appetites.
From a technical perspective, it’s been directed as a camera-less movie which equalizes perspectives. Each of the performers were recorded separately and edited together. The sound effects are electroacoustical stand-ins rather than field recordings, and the final piece has been mixed in mono using automatic mixing algorithms developed by Eugene Wasserman.
When playing The Republic, it’s recommend to refer to the “playbill” (cast list and synopses), like being at an opera. Also, an illustrated screenplay is available hereto supplement the experience of a movie that doesn’t quite exist.
Airing December 8 – 15, 2017 as part ofOutside Jokes
In Circulation is a dizzying portrait of Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood, a book widely acknowledged for its insights into technology’s impact on cinema, attempting to broaden and liberate the medium from tradition, conventions, and standardization. Currently the book is out of print. However, the text has been made available by its author for free online. Eschewing profit for proliferation of ideas, this emblematic gesture extends the author’s philosophy beyond cinema into other realms of digital media and distribution prevalent today. In Circulation celebrates the remediation of Youngblood’s text, combining digital scans and readers’ descriptions of this out-of-print book to construct an alluring simulacrum.
This, here is the have to having been t/here: a series of site-gags, working lines and chasing spotlights. A bill (or, for those whose approach is more formal, a william) stuffed to its gills with genius jokesters and jesturers, as concerned with the aha! in each haha! as gaps between gasps. Comedy is serious business, like writing “shibboleth” in camouflage ink or whispering savory somethings to a street sign. We’ll check back in early 2018, but early reports are that the works here killed, that they literally destroyed the place.
Abject-oriented in its hauntology, Outside Jokes gathers together works by two dozen artists that take site-dn-ess as integral to the read of any art, any joke, any interaction, and mucks and musses it. What are the rhythms of pithy patter in a language you don’t speak? Is there any such thing as a thing about nothing, Springfeld? What is two drink minimalism?
Outside Jokes takes and makes place on the grounds around and back room of DEMO Project and onACRETV.org.
Participating artists include Kelly Lloyd, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Campbell, Oli Watt, Neal Vandenbergh, Joshua Albers, Selina Trepp, Lauren Anderson, Jeffrey Austin, Misael Soto, Tegan Brace, Alex Schmidt, Kyle Schlie, Allison Lacher, Alex Bradley Cohen, Julie Potratz, Eric Fleischauer, Ellen Nielsen, Jeff Robinson, Stephanie Graham, Dan Miller, Lauren Taylor, Gabe Holcombe, Maire and Mia, Thad Kellstadt, Victoria Martinez and emcee Jesse Malmed.
Sign on / Sign offis a live streaming event of artist made “television” taking place at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany on June 30, 2017 and on ACRETV.org. The 24 hour “television network” will combine live performance, with remote broadcast and pre-recorded moving image content. Sign on / Sign off will re-interpret the images of our collective identities through the lens of conventional media, using the structures of a full commercial broadcasting day as a platform for creative production and exchange.
The event will stream live from sunrise (5:22 am) on June 30 to (5:22 am) on July 1 (Central European Time). Sign on / Sign off is made possible by the Merz Akademie and with support from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Airing on ACRETV.org June 29-30, 2017, 10:22 pm-10:22 pm CDT
Organized by Maura Jasper and David Quigley Directed by Maura Jasper Featured Artists David Buob (Berlin) Nicholas Hoffman (Frankfurt) Melissa Livermore (FRANCE) Steve Mathewson (AUSTRIA) Tintin Patrone (Hamburg) Francisca Villela (Berlin)
Music Michael Paukner (Stuttgart) Dolphins (Leipzig) Mark Perretta (USA) Laylay (Stuttgart) William Stamenkovic, Marko Mrdja & Maria Rose (Stuttgart)
Filmmakers Filipe Afonso (PORTUGAL) Sverre Aune (Berlin) Neno Belchev (BULGARIA) Michael Betancourt (USA) Catron Booker (USA, MEXICO) Ellen Broadhurst (AUSTRALIA) Christian Noelle Charles (UK) Biswajit Das (INDIA) Alexei Dmitriev (RUSSIA) Carl Elsaesser (USA) Tobias Elsner (Stuttgart) Michael Fleming (NETHERLANDS) Lisa Förste (Stuttgart) Florian Fusco (AUSTRIA) Diane Haefner (Berlin) Karissa Hahn (USA) Alex Hovet (USA) Maura Jasper (USA) Lana Z Kaplan (USA) Kent Lambert (USA) Sarah Lassiter (USA) Laylay (Stuttgart) Carly Mandel (USA) Peter Miller (AUSTRIA) Eden Mitsenmacher and Rebecca Tritschler (NETHERLANDS) Lydia Moyer (USA) Jason Moyes (UK) Lexi Musselman (USA) Rick Niebe (ITALY) Manuel Onetti (SPAIN) Ann Oren (USA) Eric Pillmayer (Stuttgart) Stuart Pound (UK) David Quigley (AUSTRIA) Brian Ratigan (USA) Joe Saphire (USA) Carl Spartz (USA) Pawel Szostak (AUSTRIA) Melissa Tvetan (USA) David Weimar (Stuttgart) Dina Yanni (AUSTRIA) Live Programs and Performances by Marius Alsleben (Stuttgart) Maj-Britt Designer, (Stuttgart) Lucca Donalies (Stuttgart) Alvaro Garcia (Stuttgart) Nikolaos Goutzeris (Stuttgart) Jonas Heinisch (Stuttgart) Julius Kleinbach (Stuttgart) Dylan Linde (Stuttgart) Caroline Meyer-Jürshof (Stuttgart) Melis Süngü (Stuttgart) Arian Sanati (Stuttgart) Janina Schindler (Stuttgart) Lorenz Adrian Schmider (Stuttgart) Delia Steinbach (Stuttgart) Vladislav Sycev (Stuttgart) Maximilian Tolksdorf (Stuttgart)
