Roger Beebe (Gainesville, FL)
The Strip Mall Trilogy
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Friday, October 15 screening event at the SciFi Underground Screening Room
Is this in three “parts” or actually a three-channel piece?
The Strip Mall Trilogy (Super-8 on mini-DV, running time 9 min.) is a series of three city
symphonies that attempt to liberate color, sound, and form from the sprawling consumerist
landscape of postmodern America. Part 1, "Green Means Go," presents fragments of color over
a musique concrete soundtrack composed of sounds recorded at the strip mall. Part 2, "The
Abecedaire," wrestles (and later plays) with alphabetic form extracted and abstracted from the
signs of commerce of which they are normally a part. Part 3, "X-formations," tries to argue that
there is, in fact, beauty after strip malls.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/
Building a Nation (Las Vegas, NV, San Francisco, CA and Bogota, Columbia)
Let’s Build A Nation (CAC the Nation)
September 29-Octobter 28 at the Contemporary Art Center
Building a Nation collective declares Contemporary Arts Center a sovereign nation from
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September 29 -Octobter 28 , 2010, establishing its national identity, national symbols and
history. To foster CAC nation’s economy, the collective re-invents the gallery as hotel casino – its
“theme” inspired by cultures of nations least visited by tourists. Let’s Build A Nation explores the
concept of a nation as a temporal imagined community corresponding to its immediate locale. It
also addresses issues specific to Las Vegas particularly its’ themed hotel environments
simulating cultures of other nations.
Composed of Sara Eliassen (San Francisco), Carlos Castro (Bogota) and Jevijoe Vitug (Las
Vegas), Building a Nation collective is a think tank engaging in concept development using
diverse methods and strategies to investigate notions on nation-building and cultural hybridity.
Website (their or CAC page on their show)
Diane Bush (Las Vegas, NV)
SMEAR and LOATHING
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Saturday, October 16 interactive performance, time/location TBD, check back for update
SMEAR and LOATHING confronts political leadership in Nevada. Members of the public are
invited to an interactive performance to “smear” (with diluted bleach) photos of known state and
local politicians and their puppets who have disgraced themselves through poor governance and
poor example. Through this act, the artist invites Las Vegas citizens to exercise their right to free-
speech.
http://www.dianebush.net/
The Bridge Club
Emily Ward Bivens (Knoxville, TN), Christine Owen (Warren, CT), Annie Strader (Huntsville, TX),
Julie Wils (Gunnison, CO)
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Saturday, October 16 performance, time/location TBD, check back for update
The Bridge Club is a visual and performance art collective creating interdisciplinary installations,
videos, live performances and digital media works which are site and context specific.
Performances and installations have taken place in both traditional and nontraditional venues,
incorporating and responding to sites such as a hotel room, a city bus, an abandoned store front
and a laundromat, in addition to the traditional gallery space.
http://thebridgeclub.net/
Patrick Cadenhead (Richmond, VA)
Diane Dwyer (Brooklyn, NY)
Can I Get You Anything Else?”
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Saturday, October 16 interactive performance, time/location TBD, check back for update
Most interaction between strangers revolves around commerce --- the exchange of money for
goods and services. We follow understood directions and rules that guide our behavior, yet within
limited parameters, moments of intimacy might occur. Can I Get You Anything Else? is an
interactive performance exploring the prescribed interactions of strangers using the language of a
waitress taking an order.
Website?
Laura Smith Fillmore (Gardernville, NV)
Mother Of All Bombs
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Written while looking through a surrealist lens as an activist artist living on the Washoe Indian
reservation, Smith Fillmore’s zine "The Mother Of All Bombs, Hairy-Chested Hubris and the
Goddess Nemesis, Queen of Blowback" will be available at the Atomic Testing Museum in a
limited edition. The zine is a working script for a performance - the culmination of three years of
research (and counting) on the artists' response to the birth of atomic technologies.
Website?
Ger Ger
Berlin, Germany
Liz Hickok (city?)
Las Vegas in Jell-O
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Friday, October 15 screening event at the SciFi Underground Screening Room
Description of Las Vegas in Jell-O (digital video, running time xx)
Artist’s website
Danielle Kelly (Las Vegas, NV)
Title of work
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Saturday, October 16 performance at the Downtown Cocktail Room time TBD
Description
Artist’s website
Jeanne Jo (New York, NY)
Russian Roulette in the Desert
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Friday, October 15 screening event at the SciFi Underground Screening Room
Russian Roulette in the Desert (digital video, running time xx) documents a reoccurring
performance by New York-based artist Jeanne Jo, who has roots in Reno, Nevada. For each
incarnation, the artist takes a revolver into the Nevada desert and plays Russian roulette until the
gun fires at her target, a porcelain doll.
Artist’s website
Kerry Laitala (San Francisco, CA)
Glitter Gulch
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Friday, October 15 venue tbd
A three-channel video and sound installation, Glitter Gulch (format/running time) presents 3-D
imagery of neon (Chromadepth glasses provided ) and calls attention to the beauty and horror of
built space and consumer culture.
kerrylaitala.net
Taylor McVay & Jordan Tynes (Jamaica Plain, NY and Boston, MA)
McVay+Tines Wedding
Saturday, October 16 time/location tbd check back for updates
Need a description of piece
Website(s)
Hillebrand Magsamen (Houston, TX)
Accumulation
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Friday, October 15 screening event at the SciFi Underground Screening Room
(format, running time)Need a description of piece
Website(s)
Douglas Moffatt (Montreal, Quebec)
Nicola Morton (city, Australia)
Remote Viewing
October 14-16 at the The Beat Coffeehouse (business hours)
Video intervention, etc description
Artist’s website
Joe Nanashe (Brooklyn, NY)
3xladyx3
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Friday, October 15 , Insurgo Theatre, time
The video installation 3xladyx3 (digital video, running time 4 min, 4 sec loop) is an exploration of
spectacle and mass devotion, celebrity and the cult of personality, the constructed intimacy
between performer and the individual, time and it’s impact on performer and performance.
Joe Nanashe (Brooklyn, NY)
Internet Alphabet
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Friday, October 15 screening event at the SciFi Underground Screening Room
Xxx digital video, running time
http://www.joenanashe.com/
Laura Napier (Bronx, NY)
project for a Street Corner: Fremont Street
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Saturday, October 16 time/location tbd check back for update
Visibly organized crowds are always seen at certain places in cities. Revealing a staged quality
found in real life, this experimental performance explores how simple actions can expose
reflexive behavior in public space, while heightening our awareness of crowds and of the polite
space we allow for strangers.
http://www.lauranapier.com/
Minou Norouzi (London, UK)
u never asked to be my mountain
Second video tite
Appropriating its title from the Tim Buckley's song, 'u never asked to be my mountain' is a series
of static portraits of a black Saab 900 placed in every day documentary scenes.
A low-tech exercise in visual trickery serves as a playful reminder that it may only take a very
minor shift in perception for all things insurmountable to suddenly appear very small.
Artist’s website
Cindy Rehm & Launa Bacon (Los Angeles, CA)
Title
Date/time/location
Need a description of piece
Website(s)
Zach Rockhill (Brooklyn ,NY)
Title
Date/time/location
Need a description of piece Brooklyn-based artist Zach Rockhill imposes a new perspective and
color system on an empty Las Vegas house inspired by Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz . The imposition will be an assertion of force through painting, cutting, demolition,
reconstruction, and so on, culminating in a high definition video documentation of the imposition
unfolding.
Website(s)
Sensorium Lab
Jean-Rene Leblanc, Craig Fahner and Neal Moignard (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Open Field
October 14- November tk the Atomic Testing Museum
Sensorium Lab is a cross-disciplinary research group focusing on research that develops
systems of interaction that encourage kinesthetic perception and interpretation. Their installation
Open Field will generate audio and visuals based on analog phenomena related to the
electromagnetic spectrum, body capacitance and the resonant properties of matter. Participants
are invited to experience these phenomena by interacting with the space around the installation.
website
Heather Sparks (San Francisco, CA)
Within My Nature
October 14- November tk the Atomic Testing Museum
Within My Nature is a video projection of kaleidoscopic landscapes comprised of digitally
rendered images of scanned skin and hair; an inorganic and organic construction.
Website
Scott Stark
Austin, TX
Artist’s website
Test Market
Ernest Hemmings and Francine Gordon (Las Vegas, NV)
Schadenfreude
Thursday, October 14 at the Aruba
Schadenfreude is a broken soundscape that devolves into a stage performance that melds men,
machine, time and space. It is dark, humorous and furiously absurd that will push the boundaries
of artistic integrity and the buttons of the audience.
Artist’s website
Kristina Wong (Los Angeles, CA)
Going Green the Wrong Way
Thursday, October 14 at the Aruba
“Carless: The Wong Sans Wheels Chronicles” is a new multimedia solo play written and
performed by Kristina Wong. This new work details the artist’s two years (and counting) of living
in Los Angeles without a car after a well-intentioned effort to “go green” (driving a car that ran on
vegetable oil blew up in her face on the 405 Freeway.) Carless is focused around the urban
landscape of Los Angeles—a city that like Las Vegas is characterized for its sprawling roads and
freeways that make navigation without a car close to impossible.
website