Category: HIGHLIGHTS

Tele-novela Watching Party

Jaime Davidovich, The Pope Show. Image courtesy of Henrique Faria Fine Arts.

Tele-novela Watching Party
October 25, 2-4 pm
UIC Space at Mana Contemporary (5th floor)
2233 S Throop St

Please join us for a watching party of selections from our current streaming program Tele-novela, including works by Jaime Davidovich, Jon Cates, LJ Frezza, Nicole Ginelli, Kevin B Lee, Kirsten Leenaars, Jillian Mayer, Rosa Menkman, Brenna Murphy, Martin Murphy, Karthik Pandian, Michael Robinson, Megan Rooney, Kyle Schlie, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Bryan Zanisnik and more!

Artists and curator will be in attendance! Join us for a discussion and refreshments following the screening.

Curated by Robyn Farrell

October 23, 2015
“Dream House” Sara Ludy

Dream House

Sara Ludy
2014

Dream House is a virtual architecture inspired by lucid dreams and sacred spaces.

saraludy.com

Airing October 24 – 30, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

October 13, 2015
“Tacit:Blue” Rosa Menkman

Tacit:Blue

Rosa Menkman
02:00
2015
Single channel video released as part of the institutions of Resolution Discuputes [iRD]
hardware used: nova drone by Casper Electronics w/ custom patching

# X
# ∑ X ∑

Between a masonic pigpen and DCT
Dear DCT
You may call me an archaic old quiff
But I still believe that nothing has more aura than the invisible
So here I am, nostalgic for the secrecy and non-seeing
With my biggest fear my expiration date: when they would understand my alliances,
and my cycle over groom waters
becomes encyclopaedic
You, my dear DCT are not nice to me
Why do you mock my quest for radical freedom?
Dear Masonic Pigpen
it is a hard question: how not to be visible.
Does it mean not to reflect
or not to emit a signal?
It seems to you it just means that
She cannot own the signs.
No cypher, encryption or any form of secrecy is permanent
As the once radical enigma fell through a dumb ìhelloî
We are all bound to become informed materials
Products of semiotic de/territorialization
Progressively enriched by information.
I celebrate obfuscation
Inside a liminal space build on RLE and err
The conditions becoming readable to the OCR are flippant
[[But]]
You do not need to be a decommissioned Ourobouros
Because every time a new way of seeing is constructed,
A new prehistory will be generated —
And then we are in freespace again

rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

Airing October 13 – 15, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

October 13, 2015
“skymapper” Brenna Murphy

skymapper

Brenna Murphy
Sound by Brenna on Sunbox synth built by Birch Cooper

bmruernpnhay.com

Airing October 9 – 12, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 23, 2015
“LA Dreamer” Martin Murphy

LA Dreamer

Martin Murphy
Single channel video and audio
01:38
2011
Courtesy of artist and Aspect/Ratio

The video poses as a sort of commercial. It has the ingredients of popular media, bright lighting, and a familiar product, but I see it more as a reexamination of the image’s desire. Dreamer might be what the product wants; not to be consumed, but to bathe in the media influences.

martinqm.com

Airing October 5 – 8, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 23, 2015
“Boldly Going” LJ Frezza

Boldly Going

LJ Frezza

“Ignoring Star Fleet’s Prime Directive that there can be no interference with the “development of alien life and culture,” Captain James T. Kirk becomes entangled in conflicts spawned by his own interventionist policies.”

ljfrezza.com

Airing October 1 – 4, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 23, 2015
“Lifelong Longing” Kyle Schlie

Lifelong Longing

Kyle Schlie

Lifelong Longing is set in the fictitious Midwestern town of Lincolnville, home of the Global Chemical Company. The core families are the Charles, the Seymours, and the Mumbreys. The multi-layered storylines involve relationships, intrigue, side-shows, adventure, food, and business.

Lifelong Longing is a production of the Globe Al Chemical Company. Kyle Schlie is the executive producer.

With satisfaction always just out of reach, longing is lifelong.

kyleschlie.com

Airing September 27 – 30, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 23, 2015
“The Dark, Krystle” Michael Robinson

The Dark, Krystle

Michael Robinson
2013
09:34

The cabin is on fire! Krystle can’t stop crying, Alexis won’t stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.

“The Dark, Krystle brilliantly re-purposes the artificiality of stock gesture, allowing viewers to see its hollowness and to feel it recharging with new emotional power. Equal parts archival fashion show and feminist morality play, Robinson’s montage rekindles the unfinished business of identity, consumption, and excess in 1980s pop culture.” - Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago 2014

Airing September 23 – 26, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 23, 2015
“We Know We Are Just Pixels” Laure Prouvost

We Know We Are Just Pixels

Laure Prouvost
2014
2 screen HD video
04:00
courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels

Attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects, this video work finds Laure Prouvost’s images forming a conversation amongst themselves. Discussing their existence and vulnerabilities, in relation to the viewer looking at them, the images want to be more than just pixels; they want to explore and exist outside of the machine upon which they are being played. Comments and moving images are juxtaposed; they come and go in a dazzling rhythm. As often in Prouvost’s films, the speed of images and text challenges the limits of perception, for it seems almost impossible for the human eye to catch every piece of visual information in the film. Eventually, the viewer becomes used to the rhythm and finally gives the images the attention they ‘deserve’.

Airing September 19 – 21, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 1, 2015
“Maria TV” Rodrigo Valenzuela

Maria TV

Rodrigo Valenzuela
2014
HD Video
17:15

“Maria TV, interweaves documentation of the everyday activities of Latinas that work as domestic workers with reenactments of their jobs as portrayed in soap operas and movies. I direct reenactments of their roles as they are portrayed on TV interwoven with clips of various telenovelas to create an hybridized narrative. The all-women cast perform for the camera both as the ‘seen on TV’ characters, and as themselves – representing their own stories, their own lives. Playing out like a dress rehearsal of sorts, in combining these materials a slippery space is opened up – one that sits ambiguously between action and enactment, or ‘real life’ and fiction. In doing so, my aim is to evidence and critique the blind-spots in media representation, and at the same time address an under-represented group’s socioeconomic struggles in an engaging and intimate yet playful way.” -RV

rodrigovalenzuela.com

Airing September 4 – 6, 2015
& during Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS, October 31, 2015

As part of Tele-novela

September 1, 2015