SUMMER MIXER - AUG. 5TH
Summer Mixer August 5th Monkey Town Program Line Up
For The Rest Of Your Natural Life Productions presents:
The Absurd, The Dark, The Melodramatic
Summer Video Mixer August 5th 2008 8-10 pm
Free!
Monkey Town HQ
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Seating is limited so make reservations here:
http://monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html
I hope you will join me to see my latest video projects along
with some of my favorite short films by other artists. Screening takes
place in Monkey Town’s 4 wall video projection and dining room.
The line up and times are listed below. Hope you can swing by for
dinner – drinks and some marvelous summer entertainment….....
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Video Menu
Doors Open 7:30 Screening 8 pm
Appetizer:
Erika Yeomans’
Paging Dr. Freud
(4 frame video, 18 mins., 2007)
A montage of archival footage and source materials of
Yeomans’ performance art group Doorika-a quasi art-docudrama.
Featuring Casey Spooner, Marianne Potje, Bobby Conn, Ford Wright,
Magica Bottari among many others. Sources include Bambi, 42nd Street,
Cruel Story of Youth, In The Realm of the Senses, Suddenly Last
Summer, The Bad and the Beautiful among others.
Main Entrees:
Fragments from Death Comes for Britney Spears the Musical!
(Music Video, 8 mins., 2008)
In collaboration with novelist and Mc Sweeney’s contributor Ben Greenman
Featuring Simone Butler, Michael Abbott, Jr,, Ben Greenman, Mot
Filipowski, Juile Strong, Steven Jean Baptiste
Boo! (Horror/Suspense, 4 mins., 2008)
A suspenseful video haiku of horror and gallows humor; where a YOUNG
MAN gets ROPED in by a CAT LADY
Featuring Jenny Bass, Cosmo Pfeil
Michael Medaglia’s Foot Fetish
(2.5 mins, Super 8, 1997)
It’s not just about the feet.
Ry Russo Young’s Marion (6 mins, 2005)
A deconstruction of the Jason Leigh character from Psycho.
William Lamson videos:
Action Videos: 1,3,6,7,8,10
Sublunar Falling
Monument Valley Flight
Crash
Brent Hoff / Wholphin’s Bees
(7mins, Original Wholphin short)
A humorous look at the life of drunk bees.
Jared Larson’s Fifty States
(montage, 3 minutes, Benten )
35mm slides edited to Jared’s father’s memories of his three year road
trip in the late 1970s.
Desserts
Grand Gorge: No God But Me
(Western, 12 mins., 2008)
A darkly humorous look at the western genre; where white men seek
revenge and redemption.
Featuring Michael Abbott, Jr, Mot Filipowski, Cosmo Pfeil, Tom Gorman,
Julie Strong
Christine Giorgio’s The Bitter End (18 mins, 16 mm, 2008)
A Bunuelesque short about a group of friends who set sail for a day
trip only to mysteriously disappear one by one. A film that plays with
the thrill of peril and the evolution of a friendship while adrift at
sea. (SNEAK PEEK)
FISCHERSPOONER at The Mugello Dance Festival 2008!
8/31/08 @ 11pm
MUGELLO DANCE FESTIVAL 2008
AUTODROMO DI MUGELLO
SCARPERIA, FIRENZE
Cost: 25€
OTHER ARTISTS ON THE BILL: Dubfire, Josh Wink, Mauro Picotto, Claudio Coccoluto
This is a LIVE date!
performance installation: FISCHERSPOONER rehearsal
Fischerspooner will be using an exhibition space in the Palais Des Beaux Arts to publicly rehearse and develop their new large-scale performance piece. A schedule will be posted and museumgoers are invited to watch the creation of a work-in-progress.
What happens in the exhibition space will change from day to day: people will round the corner and see dancers writing choreography, musicians arranging parts for a song, technicians experimenting with effects. Other times the entire cast and crew may be simply reviewing footage of their work or arguing the philosophy of what they are doing. Incorporating music from their forthcoming album Entertainment and using inspirations as diverse as the early years of the U.S. space program and Japanese theatre, the unfolding process will be a fetishization of artistic creation in all its spontaneity, mundanity, and immediacy.
The room itself will physically evolve over the course of the three weeks as an installation of inspirations and references are pasted up on walls, wardrobe is hung around the room, and various ephemera collect in this utopic artistic workshop. But within the physical room is the real installation: living, breathing artistic people going through the birthing process of a new work in a public environment.
The exhibition is presently scheduled to take place from June 20, 2008 through July 10, 2008 at the CFA.
exhibition info:
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=8199&
TV spot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrjoiMBOF9U
GET CONFUSED installation premiere in Brussels!
Download the music video exclusively this week on MySpace at www.MySpace.com/fischerspooner
Fischerspooner is pleased to announce the premiere of Get Confused, a multi-channel video installation.
The installation is part of the exhibition “It’s Not Only Rock ‘n’ Roll, Baby!” at The Brussels Centre for Fine Arts.
Curated by Jerome Sans and including other artists; Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Antony, Devendra Banhart, etc.
The show opens on June 20th and runs until September 14th.
(see press release for more details).
In celebration of the premiere, Fischerspooner is posting the single channel edit of Get Confused on their MySpace page!
Come to www.myspace.com/Fischerspooner and check out the video.
Special Thanks:
Jim Drain and Ara Peterson for granting permission to FS to shoot this video in their incredible exhibition, Hypnogoogia.
Suzanne Geiss and Deitch Projects.
Casey performs live at SOS4.8 Festival in Murcia May 2nd!
Casey singing “Emerge” live wearing a construction hat thrown to him from the crowd in Spain May 2nd!
