Thursday, November 12, 2015, 8:00 pm, $10
An evening of sound & film performance with:Zachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish College of The Arts, The Microscores Project, the Beam Foundation, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players among others. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartet was awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has subsequently been performed at the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration, the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin Germany and in Seattle Wa, as part of the 2nd Annual Town Hall New Music Marathon featuring violist Eyvind Kang. Zachary has performed in numerous festivals across the United States, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pionering Drone Metal band Earth during their 2015 European tour. In 2008, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery’s Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the The American Music Center and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Zachary releases music on the labels Sige, Cassauna, Confront (UK), The Tapeworm and Touch (UK). Novembre Magazine (DE), ITCH (ZA), Walrus Press and the New York Miniature Ensemble have published his writings and scores. Zachary has been an artist in resident at the Espy Foundation, Djerassi and the Headlands Center for The Arts. http://www.
byronwestbrook.com/ Keith Evans is an artist and activist that has been working and performing in the Bay Area for 25 years. Collaboration and co-creation has been a core element of his artistic practice having co-founded the experimental cinematic trio silt in 1989 as well as participating in many duos, groups and ensembles including Chresmologues and Thingamajigs Performance Group. He creates artwork in a cross-media array; Using language, graphics, book arts, installation, kinetic sculpture, dance, film, video and sound, primarily for performance or with an expanded idea of performativity. The histories of imaginative devices for altering consciousness find their way into his performances. Concerned with the ephemeral and interpretive, the continuums of perception and materiality, drawing attention to our connection with the earth, his artworks are translation systems, fascination devices, extra-cinematic experiences that reveal the phenomenon and the idea of cinema as an ecology and system, one that is unfixed and accreting, neither nostalgic nor utopian. His work has been presented in galleries, museums and cinema organizations all over the world. He lives in Bolinas with his wife and 6 year old son. http://www.23five.org/archives/keithevans.html Chris Duncan is an interdisciplinary artist that employs the use of color, repetition, and reflections, along with a wide variety of materials to ponder ideas such as perception and balance, in both conceptual and physical forms. Often in flux between the overwhelming and the minimal, rooted in simple application methods, Chris chooses accessible means of making in hopes to make broader connections beyond the typical art viewer. With accessibility in mind, Chris has also been publishing books, zines and releasing records for over a decade. Under the moniker Hot and Cold, Chris co-published a seven year long, 10 issue series of hand-built art books including well over 100 artists. Under the current moniker Land and Sea, he has teamed up with his partner, Maria Otero, to release monographs and records of artists they believe in. Beyond constructing paintings, drawings, installations with string, and publishing he has also ventured into experimental sound making and people gathering. As THE SUN, under the same premise of his more traditional forms of art-making, Duncan creates sonic happenings that, by design, dismantle the idea of audience and performer, and offer a space for anyone willing, to contribute and participate. Duncan has performed, exhibited, or is the collection of institutions such as Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis. http://christopherrobinduncan.virb. com/ John Davis is a Northern California musician and filmmaker. Expanding the relationship between moving image and sound with live performance and studio-based works, his artwork elicits sensory response through familiar and unexpected uses of traditional media. Utilizing both original and found-footage, John’s films and videos incorporate personal, nostalgic, cultural and ecstatic themes to create unique single-channel artworks. His music has been released on the Root Strata, Digitalis, Students of Decay, Bimodal Press and Peasant Magik labels in the US, while his single-channel work has exhibited widely, notably at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Cinematheque, The Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, South By Southwest in Austin, The Antimatter Media Art Festival in Vancouver, Festival Images Contre Nature in France, The Optica Festival in Spain, Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marseilles, The Milan Film Festival, The Swedenborg Film Festival in London, The Alchemy Film And Moving Image Festival in Scotland, Transmediale in Berlin, Impakt in the Netherlands and Videoex in Zurich. http://www.noiseforlight.com Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. 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. His work has screened around the world in festivals and at sound & film events such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival and the Cinémathèque Française. Clipson recently presented the feature-length sound/16mm collaboration HYPNOSIS DISPLAY with Liz Harris (Grouper) in Athens, Greece. http://www.withinmirrors.org/