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  • FREQUENCY SPECTRUMS/Works with sound & film

     
    JOHN DAVIS AND PAUL CLIPSON
    TASHI WADA AND MADISON BROOKSHIRE
    BEN BRACKEN AND JOHN DAVIS
     
    Passage: a new work in sound and light for two projectors by Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada.
     
    Madison Brookshire is a Los Angeles-based artist whose interdisciplinary work investigates modes of perception and qualities of time. He has exhibited his work widely, including a residency at theHammer Museum, solo exhibitions at Parker Jones in Culver City and Presents Gallery in Brooklyn, performances at the wulf., The Lab, Betalevel and Artists’ Television Access as well as screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Migrating Forms, Los Angeles Filmforum and REDCAT. He received his BA in cinema and philosophy from Binghamton University and his MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
     
    Tashi Wada is a composer and performer based in San Francisco. His recent work focuses on sound perception as a basis for direct experiences of hearing. Wada has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
     
    Benjamin Bracken & John Davis present transient vibrations revealed through sound and film. Ben Bracken Is a musician and artist living in Oakland, CA exploring possibilities of echo-relocation in sound-based art. John Davis is a filmmaker and musician utilizing hand processed film and electronic music. Recent music to live film collaborations include filmmakers Lawrence Jordan, Paul Clipson and Kerry Laitala.
     
    Paul Clipson screens new films shot recently in Berlin, Zagreb, Lisbon and Geneva to dronescapes by sound artist John Davis. Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations.

  • OpenScreening

    ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area.Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact Katy at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

  • Right window Gallery: Melissa Wyman: Backwards Beasts (opening)

    Melissa Wyman’s Backwards Beasts is the marrying of two participatory projects that explore the awkward and symbiotic nature of interpersonal relationships. Collaborating with intimate partners, total strangers, and her 14 month old daughter, she utilizes wrestling and backwards gestures to seek out the transition (and oscillation) between forced and fluid moments: when ‘foreign’ or strange actions appear ‘natural’ and vice versa.

    Melissa Wyman (b. 1976 on an intentional community called The Farm) is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates interpersonal exchanges and hybrid notions of belonging. Her work is often participatory and incorporates performance, video, installation, drawing, painting, the occasional object and Social Practice based projects. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, a Post Graduate Diploma in Art and Art Theory from Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand and a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After years of intercontinental time splitting, she now resides fulltime in Northern California. Her publications include a book called Fight Therapy: A Discussion about Agency, Art and the Reverse Triangle Choke and various other writings on wrestling and cross-cultural interaction.  

    At Right Window, artist Jason Hanasik has turned November into a running series of individual shows under the general title of You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine.

    You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine is a series of week long solo exhibitions. Noticing the generative nature of the intergenerational  relationships in his own life, Hanasik tasked each invited artist to create a week long solo show with the stipulation that the artists collaborate with someone significantly older or significantly younger than they are. The result is a captivating series of projects which eloquently build on top of each other to collectively explore the themes of isolation, miscommunication, and expectations.