If you have a low tech body-based or time-based performance piece that is risky, outrageous, provoking and/or adventurous we are looking for YOU!…it just has to be pinche good!
POW!POW!POW!, the 3rd annual ACTION art festival in San Francisco is searching for fresh and original “cutting-edgy” action art works for 2010.
Are you willing to take more risks in your performances? Is there any performance/action art piece you always wanted to do, but couldn’t, because it didn’t fit into your funding organization’s agenda? Did you limit your artistic vision because you thought it might “offend” your PC grandmother or someone else? If so, your prayers have been answered! POW! POW! POW! 3rd annual ACTION art festival opens a free expression space for ANY kind of performance art!
About the festival:
The only festival of its type, POW! POW! POW! encourages and supports performance artists to do…whatever they want! Unlike other funded festivals, POW! POW! POW! is a grass roots open-ended festival run by artists and for artists themselves. Triple POW! believes in radical and FREE expression and experimentation with no particular aesthetic, moral, political or social limitations. Since we are not funded, there are “no strings attached.”
The co- founders/curators/directors/producers of the festival are:
gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo
Alyssa Lee (of group A)
Guest curator:
Guillermo Gomez Peña
In the spring of 2008 the first POW! mini-performance art festival was a huge success. We received press in the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other local publications. In 2009 POW! POW! sold out every night (the audience tripled from 2008) and received press from local publications. The 2010 version promises to take the festival to a new level of national and international recognition.
Selected works will be performed at a well-known performance venue (TBA) in San Francisco, California during our 3rd Annual ACTION art festival on October14th-17th, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/POWACTIONart
http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
What we ARE looking for:
-Artists willing to speak up and talk back and who are not afraid to express themselves freely
-Low tech or no tech, original, out of the box, risky, outrageous, provoking, adventurous, creative action work based on action and the human body… your imagination is the limit. (The curatorial criteria is originality not “quality”!)
You may submit:
- Continuous installations (preferably interactive), no more than 4 hours in length
- 20 minute or less live performance pieces
- Video action art pieces
What POW!POW!POW! DOES NOT want to view:
Anything that looks like conventional theater, dance, choreography, music or media work. If this is what you make, there are already hundreds of venues and festivals you can submit your work to.
For questions please contact powsf@yahoo.com or visit www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
For the full application visit http://www.groupadance.com/POW!.htm
To apply, follow 3 easy steps below!
1) Online Application – found at http://www.groupadance.com/POW!.htm
2) DVD or VHS sample – snail mail
3) $20 Application fee – snail mail
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http://www.groupAdance.com
http://www.youtube.comgroupAdance
http://www.myspace.com/groupAdance
http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
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photo by officerfishdumplings. !
]]>The next show will see Common Eider King Eider, Raccoons, Das Blut, Hiss & Hum, and Marigold Crowns, throwing down some patient neo-class-noise.
March 18th, 2010 - Amnesia - 853 valencia @ 20th, SF
facebook event page : http://bit.ly/9FCQgG
Electricwest - ‘Detach’ - March 2010
Electricwest is Patrick Benolkin, a diverse and prolific producer from Boise, Idaho. With a tip to the sounds of Warp records and Ghostly International, Electricwest creates soulful and crystal-sharp experimental electronic gems. In 2006, Electricwest made some Overlap-related waves by winning a Creative Commons (CC) remix contest of Christopher Willits’ track “Colors Shifting” which was featured by Ghostly International and CC. Since then Benolkin has surfed an explosion of activity, releasing six albums via his Electricwest and Eluder monikers. “Detach” is Electicwest’s newest and most concise statement to date.
Tom Hall - “Past Present, Below” - April 2010
“Past Present, Below” is the accumulation of 2 years of experimentation, bringing together a vast array of instrumentation (drums, guitar, piano, organ, virbraphone, chinese gongs and harmonia) and field recordings (Australia, Kyoto temples, German rivers, Tasmanian forests). Hall ties these varied sources together with a unique blend of studio practices ranging from Max / Ableton Live processing, analog effects pedals and a unique process of replaying and re-recording compositions back into environments in which they originated. This album is Tom Hall’s most developed and beautiful work to date, exclusive to Overlap.
This year Overlap will be sponsoring and promoting more events created by others. We want to help bring people together around new and expansive work with sound and light.
The School of Cymatics has officially opened it’s doors with it’s first virtual classroom lesson “Cymatics 101″ going live today. The school already has 67 members and the doors are currently still open for free admission.
http://cymatica.com/2010/02/28/school-of-cymatics-officially-opens/
Here is a sample of his piece “CUBE”.
We’re talking to Miguel about doing an exclusive piece for Overlap. Yes.
The Internet Archive is building an Internet library offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Much of this store of human knowledge is available for creative reuse. The Internet Archive Salon hosted by Gray Area Foundation For The Arts will discuss the resources available at the Internet Archive, how artists and creative people can access and contribute to the Archive, and our Open Library and BookServer projects.
http://www.gaffta.org/2010/02/24/internet-archive-salon-at-gray-area-foundation-for-the-arts/
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We’re very happy to have him as a part of the team.
Welcome Luke !
After much deliberation, Luke and I are putting the final touches on the next wave of Overlap releases.
This spring a new cycle begins, and we’ll be bringing more beautiful experimental music to all of you.
As always, thanks so much for the continued support of Overlap and the art experiment you are all a part of.
Presented in association with the SF Cinematheque, The Illuminated Corridor and Overlap.org :
Apparent Motion - The Art of Live Image Projection
Feb 20th and 21st 2010
Victoria Theatre
2961 16th st.
SF, CA
members: $5 / non-members: $10
advance tickets - here
2-Day Pass: members: $15 / non-members: $35
2-Day Pass - here
Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder [New York City, USA] with Adam Sonderberg, sound (headliner)
CinePimps (Alfonso Alvarez & Keith Arnold) [Berkeley, USA]
Abject Leader (Sally Golding & Joel Stern) [Brisbane, Australia]
Apparent Motion celebrates the art of live image projection—the cinematic exhibition apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Working with modified or distressed film projectors as if they were musical instruments or with live manipulation (even mutilation) of projected film (or even directly with the exalted beam of light itself), the artists presented over this weekend fuse image and sound into profound site-specific (yet cinematic) experiences—dazzling light works suggesting a paradoxically concrete form of sound/image synesthesia. From afar we welcome Abject Leader (Sally Golding & Joel Stern); Sandra Gibson and Luis Recorder with local sound artist Adam Sonderberg; Karl Lemieux and Hyena Hive; and Bruce McClure, who will each present multiple works in the company of artists CinePimps (Alfonzo Alvarez & Keith Arnold); Kerry Laitala and Michael Proft; Paul Clipson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma; and Keith Evans. Collectively, this coterie of laudable lens-crafters will present a series of one-of-a-kind works assured to activate the exhibition space with bristling energy. It will be a weekend guaranteed to traverse the erotically sublime, confoundingly absurd, materially metaphorical and sensorial assaultive. Clearly, something for everyone is this mercurial menagerie. (Steve Polta) .
In 2010 you can expect new work by Electricwest, Tom Hall, Groopies, Flossin, and Matmos/Willits/Boyce. !
More info, music, and videos soooon.
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my new album went live yesterday and I want to share a tune with you, I play all the instruments, guitar & drums. if you care to know more :
http://www.pearsonconstantino.com
hear more :
http://shop.pearsonconstantino
http://myspace.com/pearsonconstantino
I live in new york but would love to work with all of you.
thanks
pearson
]]>Please come out to support. This is an amazingly talented family from Haiti that needs our help. Donations at the door will go to Djenane, Jeff, and Fofo’s immediate family and will make an instantaneous impact upon their lives.
The event will be at :
KUNST-STOFF arts
929 Market Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA
Djenane St.Juste
Fofo
Jeff Pierre
Christopher Willits
+ more
This pieces were constructed from improvisations that were later edited and reamped. Experiments for WAV guitar. Unavoidably there are derailings, explotions, clouds of dust and bandits. We all want to be the no-name cowboy.
The sound is reconfigurated and transfigurated showing it’s plastic nature. The digital representation creates new mediums and ways. Freedom in manipulation is the key of mutation.
simulacro: construcción y ensamble, guitarras materiales y espirituales, amplificadores y procesos.
minimal thrash, drone metal
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this will be a special edition of the opiate series, as the building will be having an open studios night(!!!!) there are several amazing art galleries at 2111 mission, and you can get yer culture on. also, our good friend kelley porter will be doing some painting for your perusal. come
one, come all(!!!)saturday january 23rd
opiate
ambient. experimental. downtempo.*heath fedder (pan-zen, portland…)
*scott arford (7hz…)
*dJynnx (nommo ogo, katabatik…)
*666gangstaZ (5lowershop…)live painting by kelley porter…
with your resident dJs:
*bloodysnowman
*david 8
*heartwormat twinspace, 2111 mission between 17th and 18th streets.
7 dollar donation at the door.
shoes optional(!!!!!)
]]>From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. Again more than 3,000 submissions in 2009 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica’s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts.
The aim of the competition is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.
