Category Archives: performance

Community Action Center

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Community Action Center (trailer), by A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns from Steiner on Vimeo.

Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by queer artists A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner. It incorporates “the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by 1970’s porn-romance-liberation films which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes and the body politic of a particular time and place. Community Action Center is a unique contemporary womyn-centric composition that serves as both an ode and a hole-filler.” The film was recently screened at Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, (2012), “Modern Mondays”, MoMA NY, (2012) and TATE Modern, London, UK, (2011).
Read more about Community Action Center.

Related Links

A.K. Burns’ website
A.K. Burns at Callicoon Fine Arts
A.L. Steiner’s profile at Saatchi Gallery

TERAPHIM

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Press release

TERAPHIM: An Installation by Jewlia Eisenberg with Charming Hostess
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
December 6-20

Jewlia Eisenberg’s installation, TERAPHIM, has transformed the third floor of Meridian Gallery into a place of multimedia installation, ritual, and music performance. Join us at Teraphim in a space rich with new artifacts, ancient text, film, idols, music, exploratory praxis (hepatoscopy, belomancy), interaction and contemplation.

Teraphim are house-gods: mysterious figures used for home spirit practice in the ancient Near East. They may be the earthly manifestation of deified ancestors, or a physical representative of gods on earth. They are objects of power, consulted primarily for divining the future, but also to establish authority within a family. They are used by heavy hitters like Rachel and Mikhal in the Hebrew Bible.

The constellation of thought around teraphim embraces fun, fear and fascination. From this fascination, the installation Teraphim was born: a cosmopolitan spirit space, ancient and modern, dynamic and peaceful, playful and thoughtful, where there is room for variety both in divine expression and human participation.

Eisenberg will be in the space for conversation, divination and consternation December 13 and December 20 from 12pm to 5pm, and performing with her group Charming Hostess at 8pm. Come on by!

Thursday, December 6
Jewlia at Teraphim: 12PM-5PM
Artist Talk: 1PM
Charming Hostess and I-Tal-Ya: 8PM

Thursday, December 13
Jewlia at Teraphim: 12PM-5PM
Text Study: 1PM
Charming Hostess and Jeremiah Lockwood: 8PM

Thursday, December 20
Jewlia at Teraphim: 12PM-5PM
Text Study: 1PM
Charming Hostess and Kugelplex: 8PM

( M E R I D I A N G A L L E R Y )
535 Powell Street San Francisco CA 94108
415 398 7229
Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm and during concerts
jewlia@charminghostess.com
www.charminghostess.com

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room – Emily Roysdon

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Artist talk by Emily Roysdon, published by BMW Tate Live in May 2012

Queer feminist artist Emily Roysdon (USA) was selected as one of the artists to make a performance for the first series of performances at BMW Tate Live’s new performance room. She created a queer feminist performance together with a large group of volunteers for live streaming at BMW Tate Live. All the people who took part in this art project are self identified feminists or queer people.
BMW Tate Live is a cooperation between BMW (the car company) and the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London. Both are looking for new possibilities to reach a new audience online.

The video below concists of the performance (app. 12 min) and a talk after the performance in which Emily Roysdon talks about the process of creating the performance and mass correography, and answers questions from the viewers.


The video performance by Emily Roysdon is also awailable for online viewing at BMW Tate Live.

Related Link
Emily Roysdon’s online portfolio

Dog Betty by Birgitta Hosea

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Dog Betty tries to make new friends in the park, video by Birgitta Hosea, 2007

The Dog Betty movies were created by Birgitta Hosea (UK) as an experiment in being a human cartoon while artist-in-residence in the Lethaby Gallery, summer 2007. Birgitta has published an artist statement about the Dog Betty art project.

In the mean streets of London, Dog Betty risks her life…

Dog Betty Trafics, video by Birgitta Hosea, 2007

Dog Betty was having a hard life until she discovered ecstatic inspiration…

The Ecstasy of Saint Dog Betty, video by Birgitta Hosea, 2007

Related Link
Birgitta Hosea’s website

UCSC Professor Elizabeth Stephens

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UCSC Professor Elizabeth Stephens – videointerview published by DobroFilms, May 2012.

UCSC Art Professor and former Chair of the Art Department, UC David PhD Candidate, wife to Annie Sprinkle, performance artist, sculptor, Elizabeth Stephens talked with Nada Miljkovic for KZSC’s Artist on Art about her work as an eco-activist and SexEcology, and events – among others her and Annie’s Eco Sexual Bed Peace performance at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in May 2012.

The video was recorded in Elizabeth Stephens’ and Annie Sprinkle’s installation The Temple of Love at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Related Link
Elisabeth Stephens’ website