[NewMusicEvents] POW! Mini Performance Art Festival

[alyssa lee wilmot]

POW! Mini Performance Art Festival

March 6-8, 2008, 8pm

21 and over

Tickets: $10

Space Gallery 1141 Polk Street San Francisco CA 94109
http://www.spacegallerysf.com/

Further Information: www.myspace.com/samowilmotek

Web: www.myspace.com/samowilmotek

POW! an evening of new interdisciplinary performance art works will take place on Thursday March 6, Friday March 7th, and Saturday March 8th, 2008. Presented by samo-wilmo-tek and gal*in_dog, POW! displays “cutting-edgy” work of performers and artists from the Bay Area, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.  

After producing significant shows throughout the Bay Area, samo-wilmo-tek joined forces with gal*in_dog to create POW!, a grassroots production. The artists in POW! are George Alley and Alyssa Lee, Francesco Gagliardi, gal*in_dog, Violeta Luna and David Molina, M. Mara-Ann, The Plastic Arts Performance Parade, Nora Raggio, Rocket Parlour, Kattt Sammon, WIGBand, and more.

POW! is a festival full of surprises and uncensored performance pieces. samo-wilmo-tek and gal*in_dog present POW! as a response to the ways in which the art scene is managed in the Bay Area and United States. Artists have been forced to follow certain aesthetics in order to have their work presented in a gallery or a festival and obligated to create a specific type of work that follows the fiscal sponsor's agenda. Thus, the sponsor gets to censor the artist. The curators of POW! devised a festival where the artist is encouraged to present work without restrictions.

samo-wilmo-tek was established by Kattt Sammon and Alyssa Lee in 2004 to present the works of artists involved in installation, dance, electronic music, theatre, and video. The samo-wilmo-tek artistic vision includes having a select number of artists to be able to present longer works; choosing a venue with a specific ambience (such as one without a traditional stage); and to create a performance space whose atmosphere and artistic aspects compliment one another, resulting in performances fully absorbed by the audience. All of this creates the samo-wilmo-tek aesthetic vision throughout the evenings of performance they curate and present. gal*in_dog joined samo-wilmo-tek's vision in 2007 after attending a 12 step rehab program for victims of bay area arts organizations (V.B.A.A.O. - Danville, CA). He was in very bad shape but soon his ideas were adopted by the Hillary Clinton campaign as extremely effective political performance art techniques. All of these techniques were
 actually used to produce this festival. samo-wilmo-tek has presented shows at various venues in the Bay Area including performance spaces, houses, and art galleries. gal*in_dog has presented work throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Artists:

George Alley and Alyssa Lee: George Alley and Alyssa Lee hail from Cleveland, Ohio and met at The College of Wooster, Ohio where they started an artistic relationship that has carried throughout the years. Through long distance collaborations Alyssa and George create interdisciplinary dance and performance works. Both artists have shown work in various venues in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New York City, Lithuania, and Spain, including performance spaces, art galleries, multimedia parties, garages, installations, festivals, nightclubs, boats, and gardens. The son of a Lebanese Blues Singer and a Demolition Derbist from Detroit, George Vernon Alley has been making art and studying art makers. He holds a MFA in Choreography from Temple University and a BA in Theatre from the College of Wooster. Alley is the creative director of the AlleyINK dance group, and creator and co-host of the caustic audio-blog/sound installation podcast “I’m Going to Kill You,” one of
 the top-ten listened-to comedy podcasts in North America. Alyssa Lee is a choreographer, dancer, performance artist, and educator, who draws upon a rich variety of movement vocabularies, techniques, art forms, and experiences to create unique art. Alyssa started her dance education at the age of three and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the College of Wooster and an MFA in Dance Choreography and Performance from Mills College in Oakland. Alyssa is the founder and artistic director of group A, a multidisciplinary dance company, and co-founder of samo-wilmo-tek productions.

Francesco Gagliardi: Francesco Gagliardi is a media and performance artist currently based in Toronto and Buffalo, NY. He studied theatre and philosophy in Italy and the UK and has been working internationally in theatre and performance for over 15 years. His first video piece, Short Sentences 1993-2005, based on Gertrude Stein, has been screened internationally and was awarded the Now Magazine Overkill Award at the 2005 Images Festival in Toronto.

gal*in_dog: Guillermo Galindo's artistic work spans a wide spectrum of expression from symphonic composition to the domains of musical and visual computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film music, instrument building, three dimensional installation, live performance, improvisation and sound design. His music has been performed and shown at major festivals and art exhibits throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Galindo’s orchestral works include two symphonies: Ome Acatl, (1997) by the OFUNAM Mexican National University Philharmonic Orchestra and Trade Routes (2005) for orchestra, performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra and chorus. In the field of opera Galindo has written two major works: Califas 2000 with text and performance art by MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gomez Peña; and Decreation/Fight Cherries with libretto by MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson. For many years a member of Pocha Nostra, international performance art
 troupe, and a resident composer for the Unbound Spirit AADP Dance Company (1992 to 2004), Galindo’s most recent work explores the fields of performance art, music and sound archetypes, ritual, live audience interaction, the creation of cyber-totemic sonic objects; and the conception of site specific sonic environments. Guillermo Galindo’s latest performance pieces the relationship between sound and meaning through live performance and the invention and live performance of interactive sonic instruments such as MAIZ (an interactive mechanical device featured in MIT Leonardo Magazine, December 2007. Other pieces include Cruise4ide (2006) premiered at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and TRES, three experiments on cultural genetic engineering and audio-visual archetype. His 3D interactive installation live/en vivo, converts the space into a virtual sanctuary transforming the movements of a colony of ants into live sounds and images through a computerized microscope.

Violeta Luna and David Molina: Violeta Luna graduated from the prestigious Centro Universitario de Teatro in Mexico City, where she has performed under the direction of relevant Mexican artists, and toured extensively with her all-women theater company, Grande y Pequeño. Since 1998 she is an associate artist of La Pocha Nostra, an interdisciplinary performance collective under the direction of Guillermo Gomez Peña, based in San Francisco where she makes her home. Violeta has performed and taught workshops in Latinoamerica, Europe and USA. Her current work explores the relationship between theater, performance and community engagement. David Molina been composing, performing scores, and designing sound for theatre, dance, film, installation, performance art, radio, & multimedia productions for the past 12 years. Some Film credits include Barry Gifford's "Ball Lightning", "Prospect" by Octavio Solis, & "The Translation Project" by Niloufar Talebi.  He recently toured Peru
 with Violeta Luna &Argentina with Secos y Mojados, who were invited artists at the Hemispheric Institute's 2007 "Encuentros." Since 2000 he has been sound engineer & resident artist for the Drum Machine Museum, & has performed in many concerts with museum owner Mickey Tachibana. Molina's current bands are Los Veneremos, Ghosts and Strings, & Transient. He also has performed & recorded with Marco Eneidi and George Cremaschi. To hear his music & get more info go to:
www.myspace.com/losveneremos
www.myspace.com/transientelectronics
www.myspace.com/ghostsandstrings

M. Mara-Ann: M. Mara-Ann is a writer, vocalist, and multi-media performer. Her newest staged work Containment Scenario explores the various layers of language engaged to explain the current global environmental crisis and the subsequent human confusion surrounding the acts of naming and un-naming the ineffable. Mara’s book Containment Scenario: DisLoInterMedTextIdentCation: Horse Medicine, from which the performance is adapted, is due in print from O Books in Spring 2008. Other performances include In Between (Screening Excesses: LiveMedia Traces.Tracts.Texts/Mills College 2006), the folding action (Cabinet of Muses/The LAB 2004), Performing Objects: Stationed in the Sub World by Carla Harryman (The LAB 2003). www.medusa.org

The Plastic Arts Performance Parade: Vanessa Porter, Lauren Mace, and Kendra Ware are Los Angeles based performance creators who first collaborated in 2007 to develop “Not a Dinosaur” for the Poor Dog Barks Festival. In combining Vanessa’s background in design and visual art, Lauren’s dance and music experience, and Kendra’s training as an actor, the three feel they have discovered a unique and varied performance practice. They seek to make work that crosses disciplinary boundaries, explores unconventional audience to performer relationships, and embraces the bizarre and unexpected. They are eager to encourage and participate in artistic exchange between Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

Nora Raggio: Nora Raggio researches personal and cultural space, deconstructs and constructs that space, re-creates the results of investigations into a variety of formats: web-based work, video, performance, painting, photo, and installations that come in huge, portable or mini dimensions. Her work is almost always collaborative, be it in association with a group of individuals or with sponsoring organizations, including SFMOMA, group A, MACLA, Media Lab Madrid, Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nora was born in the U.S.: her family is from Argentina. She graduated in 2005 with an MFA from SJSU with an emphasis in digital and installation arts.

Rocket Parlour: Lorin Edwin Parker (b. 1877) and Sarah Seelig (b. 1885) are Rocket Parlour, a theatrical-musical-historical duo with a love for electronic noise and the mythology of the American West. Parker is a maverick inventor (creating many of Rocket Parlour’s unique instruments) and telegraph operator. Sarah Seelig is a concert pianist and occasional mule driver on the trail between Mojave and Harmony Borax Works. Together they have performed at the BENT Festival at the Velaslavasay Panorama, Il Corral, and the California Institute of the Arts. More info available in your local library or Western union telegraph office.

Kattt Sammon: Kattt Sammon uses combinations of voice, text, electronic music and theater to create performance pieces. Some of the common themes in her work are contemplative and temporary states of mind, internal dialogue and character revealed through relationships. Her works include solo performance, as well as, collaborations with artist Kenneth Atchley and Peggy DeCoursey. She is also co-founder and active member of samo-wilmo-tek productions (since 2004) presenting the work of experimental artists involved in various performance genres. Kattt has performed at venues in the Bay Area, New York, & Germany.

WIGBand: WIGband was created by Johanna Poethig and Barbara Golden in 1985. WIGband uses a mélange of multi media (installation, film, video, song, slides, props) to get their "trashy feminist" point across. Seriously silly and tasteless Wigband is known for its in your face satire of life's everyday imposed conformities and across the globe obscene politics. Barbara "Bambi" Golden, a fabulous 66, a much married ex housewife from Montreal who has produced everything from a music/recipe book to experimental performance and radio. Johanna "Silver" Poethig is an internationally known muralist, visual and public artist whose work critiques and satirizes our consumer colonialist society. ".... if you are looking for some fun with a bite to it presented by some serious artists who don't take themselves too seriously, then check them out.." - Linda Erlich SF Bay Guardian.






http://www.groupAdance.com
       
---------------------------------
Looking for last minute shopping deals?  Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20080217/595081f0/attachment.html