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Category: Were the Eye Not Sunlike

  • SATELLITES at The Franklin

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    Still from Eileen Rae Walsh, The Sky, digital video, 0:55.

    With a shared interest in how the cosmos and the scientific fields of physics and cosmology continue to inspire artistic production, Steven L. Bridges and Third Object join forces to create SATELLITES. This one-night event celebrates two recent exhibitions in Chicago dealing with the cultural import of the cosmos: Cosmosis, at the Hyde Park Art Center, and Were the Eye Not Sunlike, at Fernwey Gallery and on ACRE TV. Further extending the reach of these two distinct yet interrelated exhibitions, a program of performances and curated videos will take place throughout the evening, as well as an ACRE TV watching party featuring work from the video stream of Were the Eye Not Sunlike. The evening’s itinerary will be marked by different artistic strategies of exploring how the cosmos acts as a screen onto which the many desires, fears, and wonders of humanity are projected.

    PERFORMANCES
    Erin Washington, A [person] can’t just sit around (2014)
    Rachael Foster, Outposts, Satellites, and Orphan Planets (2012)
    Danny Giles and travis (of the band ONO)

    + Pseudonaut refreshments by Sarah & Joseph Belknap
    + Print works by New Catalogue

    VIDEO
    Blair Bogin, Galileo and Selfies, 02:01
    John Szczepaniak, A Bao A Qu, 04:22
    Pablo Marín, film, 03:24
    Laura Mackin, Dean Sunsets, All of Them (1952-2006), 01:31
    Tommy Becker, Pulling Down the Sky to Give You the Sun, 01:57
    ••• Screening at 6:30 and 8:30pm

    Cassandra C. Jones, Takeoff, 01:11
    Eeva Siivonen, Star, Light, Nothing, 01:42
    Robert Todd, Short, 04:43
    Eden Mitsenmacher, A Poem For You, 01:57
    Eileen Rae Walsh, The Sky, 00:55
    Andrew Rosinski, A Beach, 02:17
    Dana Carter, ZombieBling, 00:26
    ••• Screening at 7:30 and 9:30pm

    + ACRE TV Stream

    SATELLITES
    Saturday, May 23, 2015
    6 – 10 pm
    The Franklin
    3522 W. Franklin Blvd.

  • “Sun of Venice” Jae Pas

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    Sun of Venice is a seven second video loop, that shows the reflection of the setting sun in the glass pane of the Vaporetto stop Giardini in Venice, Italy, with view on the Lido. It was filmed during the Venice Biennale in 2011. – JP

    www.jaepas.de

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “Eventide” Cassandra C. Jones

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    Eventide (2004) is a Snap-Motion Re-Animation of the sunset, an icon in snapshot photography. It is a collection of 1,391 found photographs that are placed in succession to reveal a story about innate aesthetics and one grand universal tie that binds us. – CCJ

    cassandracjones.com

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “sun song” Sam Hoolihan

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    Sun Song grew out of a daily ritual I developed years ago of sitting on the shorelines of city lakes around Minneapolis, filling my last rolls of Kodachrome and Ektachrome Super 8 film with the dying light at sunset. For me, the four projections mimic four melodies on a four track cassette recording. Sun Song is an opening for introspection and meditation, a moment to sit with the light at the end of the day. – SH

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    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “Untitled (together)” Max Grey

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    New Hampshire, Summer 2014

    https://vimeo.com/maxgrey

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “Windsor Roll” Fern Silva

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    www.fernsilva.com

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “The Day of Two Noons” Mike Gibisser

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    An experimental essay regarding alterations in the progression of time. Space shrinks by collapsing the duration it takes for a body to traverse it—or a mind. A railroad redesigns the temporal system of a nation. A man photographs a horse. A woman hallucinates the past.

    Weaving together portraiture, travelogue, and landscape The Day of Two Noons uses shifts in space, subject, and historical circumstance to investigate standardized time as a process experiential normalization. Exploring the context in which a cultural experience of time is developed, an outline is formed of experiences that do and do not fit within such a standard. The film attempts a diagnostic on the nervous system of a country. – M.G.

    mikegibisser.com

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “Dean sunsets, all of them (1952-2006)” Laura Mackin

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    A distant relative gave me a collection of home movies, shot from 1946–2006 by a man named Dean. By persistently recording 60 years of his everyday experiences, Dean captured his own life cycle. From 8mm film to DV, Dean filmed 24 sunsets. Displayed simultaneously—tiled, like a surveillance monitor—at normal speed, 24 tiles of sunset footage begin playing. As the footage runs out, the screen flickers to black, tile by tile. – LM

    lauramackin.com

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “a beach” Andrew Rosinski

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    An old dusty beta-max tape, with unknown origins. – AR

    andrewrosinski.com

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015 

  • “wake” eric stewart

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    Before the existence of electric lights, photography was know as “heliography” (writing with the sun) and the first camera-less photograms were called sun-prints. Unlike the photography, the photogram does not record the object in a photo-realistic sense, but instead creates a representation of the space surrounding an object. The photogram is a shadow which charts the distance between things.

    When my father died, there was never a chance to see his body after life had left it. This film was made by placing his ashes directly on 35mm film in a dark room and moving the film a frame at a time. Wake is a dirge in celluloid. It is a celebration of my fathers life, a meditation on his body and a visual record of mourning. – ES

    e.l.j.stewart@gmail.com

    Airing throughout the Sunset program, May 10-31, 2015