ACRE TV

Category: Were the Eye Not Sunlike

  • “Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst” Charles Woodman and Christopher Bailey

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    An ecstatic chant greets the rising of the sun.
    Sound and image are juxtaposed and find moments of synchronicity, while remaining parallel and separate.
    Time rushes forward slowly. Narrative is everything and nothing. – CW | CB

    videosavant.org
    music.columbia.edu/~chris

    Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

  • “sin título (abril)” Pablo Marin

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    A layered attempt at daily life: home, clouds, and the river in the background. – PM

    vimeo.com/user2758835

    Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

  • “Greetings to the Ancestors” Ben Russell

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    Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory’s inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand. Equal parts documentary, ethnography and dream cinema, herein is a world whose borders are constantly dematerializing. – BR

    www.dimeshow.com

    Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

  • “Sun Burn (Screen Saver)” Penelope Umbrico

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    Sun Burn (Screen Saver) is comprised of 365 images from my project Suns from Flickr complied into an animation, and then converted into a screensaver. As a screensaver, the implied danger of burning a whole into your screen is, in fact, not a real threat: the longevity of our newer screens is no longer effected by intense of light or form in one place. Current screensavers function purely for entertainment and distraction, and in fact they use more energy than if the computer were allowed to just go to sleep. – PU

    www.penelopeumbrico.net

    Airing as a prologue to the Were the Eye Not Sunlike program, April 1-3, 2015

  • WERE THE EYE NOT SUNLIKE PROGRAM SCHEDULE

    WERE THE EYE NOT SUNLIKE PROGRAM SCHEDULE

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    We are pleased to offer a lamp that turns on and off when you clap, when you clap your eyes. A lamp that lets you see in the dark without disturbing the dark. A lamp producing natural light. A lamp that when you clap turns on and on.

    – Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw

     

    Were the Eye Not Sunlike Program

    PROLOGUE, April 1-3, 2015

    1. Penelope Umbrico, Sun Burn (Screensaver), 05:00, looped

    SUNRISE, April 3-19, 2015

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    1. Dana Carter, Aurora, 00:34
    2. Patrick Andrew Boivin, Stèphane Charpentier and Alyssa Moxley, Pieces of Time We Taped on the Hills, 08:14
    3. Eric Watts, Sunrise Chart, 00:23
    4. Eric Watts, Yukon Radio, 01:01
    5. Cassandra C. Jones, Takeoff, 00:11
    6. Eileen Rae Walsh,The Sky, 00:55
    7. Stephanie Hough, Instant Calm, 06:08
    8. Christopher Bailey and Charles Woodman, Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst, 09:36
    9. Laura Bouza, Eight Women, 29:00
    10. Andrew Payne, Light and Shadows 6, 01:00
    11. Andrew Rosinski, Beads II, 07:21
    12. Karen Y. Chan, Myths, 01:00
    13. Eric Watts, Studio Sunset, 30:34
    14. Pablo Marín, Sin título (abril), 03:34
    15. Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, 28:53
    16. Kate Casanova, Rise and Fall (Beijing), 02:04
    17. Blair Bogin, Galileo and Selfies, 02:01
    18. Chris Rice, So This is What You Do With Your Time Off, 03:07
    19. Silvana D’Mikos, Time Perception, 24:24
    20. Patrick Tarrant, Brokenflo, 10:00
    21. Robert Todd, Within, 05:56
    22. Ilan Gutin, Íslenska, 42:51

    214 min 47 sec (03:38:47), looped

    HIGH NOON, April 19-May 10, 2015

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    1. Dana Carter, Azimuth, 00:29
    2. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (1), 02:03
    3. Ben Russell, Trypps #7 (Badlands), 09:58
    4. Jean-Michel Rolland, Cicadas in the Sun, 06:02
    5. Max Grey, Untitled (white), 02:15
    6. Robert Todd, Short, 04:43
    7. Meredith Lackey, Nature Gaping, 02:49
    8. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (2), 02:32
    9. Patrick Tarrant, The Take-Up, 10:54
    10. Pablo Marín, film, 03:24
    11. Fern Silva, Passage Upon the Plume, 06:35
    12. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (3), 01:45
    13. Tommy Becker, Pulling Down the Sky to Give You the Sun, 01:57
    14. Rebecca Najdowski, Untitled (Sun), 02:33
    15. Karen Y. Chan, Pilgrimage, 04:30
    16. Karl Lind, A Brief Portrait of the Eternal Recurrence, 00:32
    17. Amy Hicks, Luminiferous Aether, 05:50
    18. Elina Malkin & Jónó Mí Ló, Untitled #11 (excerpt), 04:58
    19. Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (4), 02:02
    20. Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Joseph Lights Sarah’s Cigarette With the Sun, 00:40
    21. Tony Balko, Emotional Sundiving, 15:26
    22. Thomas Dexter, Optick I: Blinded, 10:57
    23. Eden Mitsenmacher, A Poem For You, 01:57
    24. John Szczepaniak, A Bao A Qu, 04:22
    25. Aaron Oldenburg, The End Sands, 03:28
    26. Jason Judd, Into the Sun, 03:27
    27. Dana Carter, ZombieBling, 00:26

    137 min 52 sec (02:17:52), looped

    SUNSET, May 10-31, 2015 

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    1. Dana Carter, Arrhythmia, 00:33
    2. Robert Todd, LoveSong, 05:57
    3. Mike Gibisser, Day of Two Noons, 70:01
    4. Laura Bouza, Naomi and Irving, 04:00
    5. Laura Mackin, Dean Sunsets, All of Them (1952-2006), 01:31
    6. Eric Stewart, Wake, 07:51
    7. Sara Condo, Sunset Over the Wonder Valley (For Barbara), 10:50
    8. Takahiro Suzuki, That Which Moves the Sun and Stars, 08:32
    9. Eeva Siivonen, Star, Light, Nothing, 01:42
    10. Andrew Rosinski, A Beach, 02:17
    11. Eileen Rae Walsh, Paradise, 02:01
    12. Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Untitled (Wishes, Lies and Dreams), 09:48
    13. Jeremiah Jones, Gallows (High Noon), 11:28
    14. Collin Bradford, Accelerating the Sunset (by riding a bicycle away from the sun as fast as I can), 38:13
    15. Eric Watts, 9th Ave Sunset, 06:06
    16. Christine Lucy Latimer, The Pool, 04:13
    17. Max Grey, Untitled (together), 02:54
    18. Sam Hoolihan, Sun Song, 05:01
    19. Fern Silva, Windsor Roll, 03:03
    20. Christine Lucy Latimer, nationtime, 01:40
    21. Alexei Dmitriev, Hermeneutics, 03:15
    22. Penelope Umbrico, Neverending Sunset (Second Life), 12:27
    23. Ying Liu, Ham Over Rice, 03:39
    24. Cassandra C. Jones, Eventide, 05:06
    25. Mathew-Robin Nye and Marc Wieser, In a Flash, 13:24
    26. Jae Pas, Sun of Venice, 04:59
    27. Chris Rice, Tommy Sky, 02:09
    28. Collin Bradford, Eclipsing the Sun, 14:00
    29. Chris Little, Capt. Jack Sparrow and Ernest Miller Hemingway, 01:01
    30. Robert Ladislas Derr, Sun Sunset Set, 20:19

    280 mins  (04:40:06), looped

     

    For more information regarding Were the Eye Not Sunlike‘s gallery component, please visit fernwey.com.

    Were the Eye Not Sunlike is curated by Third Object, a curatorial collective based in Chicago. thirdobject.net

  • Were the Eye Not Sunlike

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    Collin Bradford, Eclipsing the Sun, 2014. Video stills.

    ACRE TV is pleased to present:

    Were the Eye Not Sunlike

    Curated by Third Object

    ACRE TV
    Online at ACRETV.org
    April 1-May 31, 2015

    Fernwey Gallery
    916 N Damen Ave
    April 3-April 26, 2015

    Opening reception: April 3, 6-9pm, Fernwey Gallery

    Inspired by the long dark winters of Chicago, this exhibition focuses on the Sun at a time when it is missed the most, moments before springtime. As an object that is both illuminating and unseeable, the experience of the Sun is dominated by metaphor and myth. Were the Eye Not Sunlike channels the mythologization of the Sun and our relationship to its immeasurable power.

    Beginning on April 1, a three-part video program will unfold on the artist-made livestreaming platform ACRE TV. The program begins with Sunrise and its thematic associations of stillness, ritual and intimacy. Reflecting the course of the earth-bound day, the following program, High Noon, tracks the warmth and optical energy of a bright, full sky. Sunset, the final chapter, evokes impending darkness, melancholy, loss and reflection.

    Sunrise: April 1 – April 19 | High Noon: April 19 – May 10 | Sunset: May 10 – May 31

    Meanwhile, from April 3 – April 26, Fernwey Gallery presents the physical iteration of Were the Eye Not Sunlike with work in photography, sculpture and installation. Featuring Lauren Edwards, Assaf Evron and Danny Giles, the exhibition proposes its own strain of the solar metaphor, imagining the Sun as an object of theater and a distant dictator in the sky. The exhibition includes a printed publication designed by Mia Nolting with essays by Third Object and Danny Floyd.

    PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

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    Christopher Bailey & Charles Woodman, Tony Balko, Tommy Becker, Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Blair Bogin, Patrick Andrew Boivin & Stèphane Charpentier & Alyssa Moxley, Laura Bouza, Collin Bradford, Dana Carter, Kate Casanova, Karen Y. Chan, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Sara Condo, Silvana D’Mikos, Thomas Dexter, Alexei Dmitriev, Mike Gibisser, Max Grey, Ilan Gutin, Amy Hicks, Sam Hoolihan, Stephanie Hough, Cassandra C. Jones, Jeremiah Jones, Jason Judd, Meredith Lackey, Robert Ladislas Derr, Christine Lucy Latimer, Karl Lind, Chris Little, Ying Liu, Laura Mackin, Elina Malkin & Jónó Mí Ló, Pablo Marín, Eden Mitsenmacher, Rebecca Najdowski, Matthew-Robin Nye & Marc Wieser, Aaron Oldenburg, Jae Pas, Andrew Payne, Chris Rice, Jean-Michel Rolland, Andrew Rosinski, Ben Russell, Eeva Siivonen, Fern Silva, Rachael Starbuck, Eric Stewart, Takahiro Suzuki, John Szczepaniak, Patrick Tarrant, Robert Todd, Penelope Umbrico, Eileen Rae Walsh, Eric Watts, Yehoshua

    FERNWEY GALLERY

    Lauren Edwards, Assaf Evron, Danny Floyd, Danny Giles, Mia Nolting

    Full ACRE TV program information HERE