Thursday, December 18, 2014, 8:00 pm, $10
ATA presents an evening of Audio/Visual performances with:
AUDIO
ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE (LA, NOT NOT FUN)
MARIA HORN / KALI MALONE (STOCKHOLM, OMA333)
SKY MADDEN (SF, TRI WORKS)
VISUAL
JOHN DAVIS (SF)
PAUL CLIPSON (SF)
John Davis is a California-based visual artist and musician. His current work builds on the transcendental qualities of experimental film, while expanding the relationship between moving image and sound through live performance, collaboration, experimentation and improvisation. John’s performance work typically involves collaborations with other media artists, where he alternates as both musician and filmmaker. He has recently collaborated with filmmakers Lawrence Jordan, Craig Baldwin, Paul Clipson and Kerry Laitala, among others. John’s film and video work has exhibited recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The San Francisco Cinematheque, Transmediale, Impakt and Videoex in Zurich. John’s music has been released on the Root Strata, Digitalis, Student’s of Decay, and Peasant Magik labels in the US. John also collaborates with Collin McKelvey for the project “IN/S”.
Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, the Cinematheque Franciase, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance.