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Artists’ Television airs on accessf Saturday nights at 10pm, Cable Channel 29 in San Francisco. ATV is one of the longest running cable access shows in the country and is comprised of video and film screened at, created at, or found lying around Artists’ Television Access.

December’s Program:

12/2
gang of four – urgh! its a music war
pump- sinisa kukic
rock robot, its edumutainment – carl diehl
duke ellington, an rko jamboree #7 : post mortem crush 4 – day v jones

12/9
nina hagen: punk, my way – rockpalast
myth # 7 – sahar mazaffar
scene from my twentieth century – ildiko enyedi
spectro – ilona berger
big maybelle, jazz on a summer day : post mortem crush 5 – day v jones

12/16
ruth brown, mama he treats your daughter mean
thoughts on film – film dog
record making with duke
total information awareness – carl diehl
mia zapata, gits scene from hype : post mortem crush 6 – day v
jones

12/23
divinyls – rock and roll tonight
consenting adults – neil ira needleman
fuck the future – carl diehl
anita o’day, jazz on a summer’s day : post mortem crush 7 – day v jones

12/29
capitalism cures the flu – carl diehl
bump past – paul clipson
the touch – vanessa woods
thelonious monk, piano solos from straight no chaser : post mortem
crush 8 – day v jones

More about ATV: http://www.atasite.org/atv/

Folk Saint will consist of Rebecca physically embodying a
saint/folk hero that will endure martyr like trials, some tragic
others humorous, within several video performances. This two
channel video installation will be displayed in the ATA storefront
window. Rebecca is also creating prayer card that viewers can take
at the reception or by request.

“The potential for empathy can only be achieved within a combination of elements that are on one hand highly familiar and on the other completely foreign. Within that space of familiarity and of the unknown a tension is created wherein a viewer is pulled into the space… The creation of Folk Saint is an attempt at combining the traditional trials of Christian saints with the vernacular folk stories and culture of humor and loss that imbues Iraqi folk tales from the last century.” – Rebecca Frediani

Rebecca takes on a large subject, but rather then try to completely
explain religion and the cultures that are produced from belief,
she focuses on weaving the personal with the communal and the
political. Rebecca’s videos take Christian and Iraqi symbolism and
enter them into a different place: her home and her contemporary
urban/suburban life, transforming two familiars into a wholly
surreal experience that forces the viewer to imagine other
scenarios to life as we know it.

This Exhibition is part of a series, curated by Dana Hemenway,
exploring the artist’s presence, physical & otherwise in
contemporary video & installation art.

Heavens is a collection of photographs of domes and ceilings from cathedrals, train stations and other public buildings in Europe and North America. In these, the photographer explores different depictions of the great celestial map that guides the traveler through his journey on earth, as manifested in architecture through the ages. Each image tells of a different time and a different space, from the structures of antiquity such as the Alhambra in Granada to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul to the buildings of the modern day, as are Potsdamer Platz Bahnhof in Berlin to the Grand Central Sation in New York. The viewer finds in these a representation of the heavens, or his place in the universe, disappearing in the new modern aesthetic of the public realm.