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Garden of Life

Tameiki no Odori

Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan lead an evening of poly-vocal poetics, neo-benshi film narration, and mangled imagery.

Visiting the Bay Area live for one night only, the latter-day vaudeville team of Gordon and Sullivan will present their most recent poetry, performance and video work showcased last month (fresh!) at The Whitney Museum and Dixon Place in New York. Gordon and Sullivan are founding members of the notorious and irreverent Flarf Collective. They have been committed. To hilarious and unsettling entertainment. Throughout this millenium. Together, they authored the non-fiction e-pistolary techno-romantic novel Swoon.

Local poet-provocateur Erika Staiti will perform her live film renarration of a short scene from “Woman Under the Influence,” which premiered last month in the Los Angeles underground venue, Machine Project.

New York visual artist, montagist and poet Brandon Downing will premiere several disturbingly funny new video collages.

Nada is the author of Folly, V. Imp., Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker Than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?,  and foreign bodie.

Gary’s books include PPL in a Depot,  How to Proceed in the Arts, and Dead Man, as well as several comic books comprising his Elsewhere series.

6pm-8pm: live radio broadcast of “Voices of Native Nations” on kpoo radio, 89.5fm including Ohlone Leaders and their Organizations “Voices of San Francisco’s First Peoples”. Mary Jean Robertson, will host Ann Marie Sayers, Tribal Chair Person (Costanoan/Ohlone), Corina Guild, founder of Ohlone Shell Mound Peace Walk.
8pm-930: Screening of Ruth Morgan’s photo portraits of Ohlone elders and Ben Wood’s film projection for Coit Tower, and clips from Catherine Herrera’s “Witness the Healing.

De Montréal presents the work of several emerging video artists currently based in Montreal.  The pieces, in production, challenge the constraint of time and place set up by the nature of creation.  And the finished work, viewed, documents a place saturated in a rich culture influenced by theatrics, politics, and comedy. Here video is used as a tool for provocation and play as a means to describe the situational and observational influences that shape the history of video in Montreal.