March 13, 2003
@ the Laurelhurst Theater and Project Room 1 (Portland, Or.)
Since the summer of 2002, we have been working on the nuts and bolts of our new platform, The Connection Project . The project goal is to facilitate dialogue and interaction between arts group world wide, and inform the public of new means for art to be supported and initiated. The International Arts Group Exposition is our first public step into realizing this goal.
Over the past several years, dozens of arts group have come into existence and met the need to serve as models for new and innovative arts platforms. Similar in practice, ethics, and culture to grassroots DIY organizations, arts groups have circumvented the stopgaps of their mainstream counterparts and, subsequently, created a vibrant and successful alternative to museums and galleries. They are the public's most accessible outlet for contemporary thought and practice in the arts.
There are innovative ideas all around us. There are things to look at and talk about every minute of our daily life. Arts groups, as a rule, help point them out. They do not function as collectors; they exist in the day-to-day. Arts groups, by their community-minded and participatory nature, create more beneficial platforms for the public to interact with. They expose contemporary art and art thought not just to the people who happen to walk into museums, but the people who walk down the street outside of the museum.
With this in mind we've posed these questions:
How can we create a dialogue between these groups that can enable true change for the better? What if the general public, especially in America, could start to view art work and art thought as an essential part of their daily lives? As a way to navigate through their life more easily? In this age of globalization, of unprecedented alienation yet unparalleled communication, these are valid and pressing questions.
On March 13, at the Laurelhurst Theater in Portland, Oregon, Red76 arts group will present, "I've got an answer/I've got an anthem", I.A.E. 2003 (International Arts Group Exposition). The first project in Red76 arts group's new platform "The Connection Project".
The Laurelhurst Theter contains four different screening rooms. The program for the evening at the Laurelhurst follows:
THEATER ONE
Theater One will contain visual works by several different arts groups. These works will be projected on a video loop that runs roughly one and one-half hours; the loop will run three times during the evening, allowing you several opportunities to catch the work by the groups. Each group's work will be preceded by a brief intermission, followed by the name of the group as well as a bit of information about them. The groups represented in this theater are listed in order of appearance on the video loop:
Beige (New York state)
Ausgang (Chicago, Illinois)
Eveleigh & Evans (London, England)
Konstakuten (Stockholm, Sweden)
love and devotion (Stockholm, Sweden)
Basekamp (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
N55 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
New Beginnings (Stockholm, Sweden)
THEATER TWO
Schedule subject to change:
8:30 pm
NINE (NYC, NY)
NINE will be showing a video.
8:45 pm
Red76 (Portland, OR)
Click Track , a 12 minute digital video by Sam Gould , features dozens of single portraits of people dancing in the street while listening to the beat of a metronome on a pair of headphones. Each time the film is screened, a new musical group accompanies the portraits of the dancers and the beat of the metronome from the video.
9:00 pm
Red76 (Portland, OR)
Red76 hosts artist Harrel Fletcher . Harrell will give a presentation on Miranda July and his web-based project: Learning to Love You More .
9:30 pm
Jefferson Presents... (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
The members of Jefferson Presents... will be on hand to screen a 16mm film work created and curated by themselves.
10:15 pm
Temporary Services (Chicago, Illinois)
Brett Bloom , of Temporary Services , will be on hand to give a presentation on the group's history and practices.
10:45 pm
Red76 (Portland, OR)
Red76 hosts Zak Margolis , who will screen his new Flash animated film, The Moustache . Zak will provide a live musical soundtrack for the work.
11:00 pm
Red76 (Portland, OR)
Red76's Sam Gould will display his slide show, Smoke and Mirrors . The forty-five minute slideshow presents the last five years of Sam's photographs. The band Cherry Blossoms will accompany the slide show.
THEATER THREE
Schedule subject to change:
8:30 pm
Peripheral Produce (Portland, OR)
Peripheral Produce will screen a collection of video works.
9:30 pm
Collective Jyrk (Portland, Oregon)
Collective Jyrk will host the Olympia, Washington, group Growing . The group will score recent video work.
10:00 pm
NYC Surveillance Camera Players (NYC, NY)
Bill Brown , the leading member of the NYC-based group, the Surveillance Camera Players , will give a presentation on the group's practice and history. Bill will also screen the group's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 , and lead a question-and-answer period.
10:45 pm
Paperrad (East Hampton, Massachusetts)
Paperrad has provided their half-hour flash-animation/video collage work, CableVision .
11:15 pm
free103point9 (NYC, NY)
free103point9 will screen their work, Of the Bridge . The work is a mix of video of the Williamsburgh Bridge and music composed of found sound from around the bridge.
THEATER FOUR
Schedule subject to change:
8:30 pm
Red76 (Portland, OR)
Red76 hosts Sean Clair , who will be giving a presentation, Utica , about his hometown.
8:45 pm
Alphabet Dress (Portland, OR)
Alphabet Dress will give a presentation on the group's history and practices.
9:00 pm
Red76 (Portland, OR)
Red76 hosts artist Harrel Fletcher . Harrell will give a presentation on Miranda July and his web-based project: Learning to Love You More .
9:30 pm
Instant Coffee (Toronto, Canada)
Instant Coffee will provide a slideshow.
10:00 pm
Collective Jyrk (Portland, Oregon)
Collective Jyrk will host a performance by Troy Might and Chris M.W.H.W.W. .
10:15 pm
Collective Jyrk (Portland, Oregon)
Collective Jyrk founding member Gabriel Mindel Saloman will present 1999: A Year In Mind Control and the Escalation of Male Paranoia . Gabriel, also a member of D. Yellow Swans, lived in Oakland, CA, in 1999. His lecture follows cultural and geo-political currents to illuminate the frightening connections between Brittany Spears, Kosovo, Woodstock '99, and the Pentagon.
10:45 pm
Jane Palmer / Marianne Fairbanks (Chicago, Illinois)
The art duo Jane Palmer and Marianne Fairbanks will be in attendance to give a presentation on their work together.
11:15 pm
Charm Bracelet (Portland, Oregon)
Brad Adkins and Christopher Buckingham , the curators of the arts group Charm Bracelet , will give a presentation on the group's history and practices.
THEATER LOBBY
Audio Relay by Temporary Services (Chicago, Illinois) will be on display in the theater lobby. Audio Relay broadcasts audio art on a radio bandwidth that can be picked up within a two-mile radius. A radio in the lobby will be tuned into the frequency, and small portable radios will be installed in the vicinity of the theater, broadcasting the project. Leaflets will be on hand informing you of the frequency Audio Relay will be playing on, so you can listen at home or in your car.
THEATER BATHROOMS
Lucky Pierre (Chicago, Illinois) will have an audio installation installed in both the men and women's restrooms.
BOX OFFICE/OUTSIDE THEATER
Next Question will have an audio installation installed outside the theater near the box office for your listening pleasure.
In addition to the evening at the Laurelhurst ,Project Room One is hosting additional work at it's location. More information on this will be posted by the end of the week.
