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[prak-sis] Contemporary Art Association presents
ELEVATE exhibition of video, performance and visual art
Saturday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m.-2 a.m.
1513 N. Western Ave., Chicago
773.489.9096
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Suggested donation$5 online
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[prak-sis] Contemporary Art Association offers a feast for the eyes and ears with the multimedia art exhibition
ELEVATE on Saturday, Sept. 19, featuring outdoor video projection, performance art, video and visual art installations,
live painting and DJ sets, by an international array of artists, organized around an expansive interpretation
of the theme of ELEVATION.
[prak-sis] aims to create energetic art presentations that are entertaining and fun. Founded in January 2009,
[prak-sis] is a dynamic art experience, migrating to diverse locations across the cityscape.
[prak-sis] brings contemporary art to non-gallery spaces, transforming building spaces rendered
vacant due to a downturn in the market, obsolesce, or neglect into art galleries.
Schedule:
7:00-2:00 Indoor visual art and video installations (1st floor and basement)
8:00-9:00 Outdoor short video program
9:00-9:30 Live outdoor performance by Davy Bisaro and Lee Blalock
9:30-10:30 Outdoor screening: Man and His Erections
10:00-2:00 Indoor DJ sets and live painting (basement)
10:30-11:30 Outdoor short video program (second screening)
Outdoor Video:
Man and His Erections by Rujanee Mahakanjana, 62 min.
Artist site: http://www.rujaneeinspace.com
Trailer/still image: http://www.rujaneeinspace.com/man_and_erections.htmlIn Man and His Erections, Bangkok native, artist, filmmaker and Illinois Institute of Art professor Mahakanjana confrontsthe sexuality of architecture through documentary and narrative. The film explores the interconnection between inside and outside, physiological and psychological, self and environmental/cultural influence, conscious and subconscious, factual and fictitious.
Homesick Blues by Junko Kajino & Ed M. Koziarski, 15 min.
Artist site: http://www.homesickblues.com
View project: http://tenganrei.com/homesickblues.mov
Still image: http://tenganrei.com/sing2light.jpg
Kajino and Koziarski, the Japanese/American wife/husband filmmaking team behind the feature film The First Breath of Tengan Rei, present this story of a girl spending her final day in Osaka before running away to America to sing the blues. Starring Japanese pop singer Zoey. Music by Shun Kikuta of Koko Taylor’s Blue Machine.
Okinawa Postcard by Stephen Combs, 3 min., world premiere
Still image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9530342@N06/3898483493/
A travelogue of paradise glimpsed through watery eyes. Combs, cinematographer of The First Breath of Tengan Rei, made this meditative travelogue while on location on the South Pacific island.
I'm the Only One Here (That Really Knows What's Happening) by Stephen Combs, 3 min.
Still image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9530342@N06/3898493465/
An elderly man wakes up and travels through 80 years of his life between the walk from his bedroom to his first cup of coffee.
Elevations by Galina Sevchenko, 3 min., world premiere
Artist site: http://www.psymbolic.com/unlock.html?key=/artists/galina_shevchenko
Still image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9530342@N06/3898415565/
Shevchenko, a Moscow-born animator and video artist, interprets elevation as a philosophical entity through this playful animation.
Unwearable functional garments II: for three princesses by Heejo Kim, 5 min.
View project: http://vimeo.com/4813468
Kim presents this single channel 3D animation portraying redesigned and reconstructed garments for The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and Cinderella. Each garment is expanding and contracting, inhaling and exhaling, floating and emitting. Kim remeditates the sorrow and serenity of these fairy tales by manipulating imagination.
Sleepwalking by Munkyung Chung, 4 min.
Spring Snow by Eun Jeong Baek, 2 min.
Video installations:
Reflection by Keelie Marie Stitt, infinite loop
Artist site: http://www.wrinkledmountains.com
“I reflect upon my life, the choices I make throughout the day. I ask myself how can I improve, be a better person? I selected the people in this video for the meaning they have constructed in my life, the ways in which they have challenged and taught me in some way. Each individual selected their environment as a vehicle for personal meaning as reflected in their written compositions. The final piece is a woven continuum of personality, meaning, time and places in space. Now is the time to pause and reflect.”
Vertigo by John Kannenberg, 5 min.
Artist site: http://www.johnkannenberg.com
View project: http://www.vimeo.com/1882258
Shifting strata of digitally abstracted architectural renderings create a sense of deep space and falling from a great height. Based in Ann Arbor, Kannenberg is a sonic and visual artist who curates the online space for contemporary sonic and visual art http://stasisfield.com.
The Sky Taped Together by Michael Sirianni, 7 min.
Still image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9530342@N06/3898416007/
The Sky Taped Together explores the cycle of environmental and cinematic appropriation of the West. Composed of images digitally transferred from a VHS recording of Cinerama’s How the West Was Won, remnants of each technological generation come together to give the once-fragmented sky a chance to stage its own, aggressive act of re-appropriation.
Beneath the Silt by Gary Pennock, 7 min.
Artist site: http://transmittance.org
View project/still image: http://www.transmittance.org/extrusion.html
Beneath the Silt is a macroscopic abstract digital video that conveys narrative through its form. Based upon a quest to cure one's own lung cancer, the protagonist traverses a surreal cityscape and a body of water to find the antidote.
Extrusion by Gary Pennock, 5 min.
View project/still image: http://transmittance.org/extrusionthree.html
Extrusion (2009) is a digital video that draws most heavily upon a plausible Renaissance way of thinking that determined if something resembled another, they in certain terms are the same. Traffic seen through the microscope is seeking to tease out a transformation through current notions of anthropomorphism. Embedding the known behavior of a microscope with the representation begets a, possibly simple, paradox of two simultaneous viewpoints.lt;br />
Green Revolution by Jung A. Woo, 5 min.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9530342@N06/3899396072/
“Green revolution originated in the 1940s. Industrialized agriculture spread throughout the world from the U.S., expecting to overcome hunger and improve life, but it produced more side effects in the U.S. and other countries. On another level this is also known as green-washing. It actually led to more hunger in Africa. I wanted to illustrate this historical irony by painting green over dead plants.”
Live Performance:
Performance by Davy Bisaro and Lee Blalock
Shelly Johnson aka Ruin
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=512399549&ref=ts#/profile.php?id=512399549&v=info&viewas=1349703619&ref=ts
DJs:
DJ Ruin
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=512399549&ref=ts#/profile.php?id=512399549&v=info&viewas=1349703619&ref=ts
Equation
http://www.facebook.com/andyeq#/andyeq?v=info&viewas=1349703619
DJ JyC
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1390890019&ref=ts
Visual Artists:
Susannah Papish
Susannah Papish is a Chicago-based artist whose work has been exhibited at Contemporary Art Workshop, Gallery 400, , Everybody Paints and Paul WHO?, curated by Larry Lee. Solo and two-person exhibitions include The Beverly Arts Center, and Skestos Gabriele Gallery. Recipient of Community Arts Assistance Program grants 2005-2007 and finalist, Beverly Library, Public Art Commission. Additional gallery representation: Skestos Gabriele Gallery.
Terry Dixon
Terry Dixon is an interdisciplinary artist born in Washington, DC. Terry has composes new art perspectives by integrating art and technology through various visual techniques including painting, photography, computer art, video, and electronic music. In the mid 90s, he completed the MFA program in Art & Technology at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Darren Oberto 2009
“Prosaic depictions of daily life that emanate with sublime sensations are powerful tools. Setting up a narrative that creates visual tension and circumscribes our culture are the main points of interest in my work. Whether the end result is a capricious landscape or an indulgent juggernaut SUV encrusted in jewel-like glitter, my intention is to first seduce with initial examination.”
Mi-yeon Kwon-Sound Waves 09
Mi-yeon Kwon is a Korean artist residing in Chicago and co-executive director of the nonprofit [prak-sis] caa. The objective of [prak-sis] is to organize and curate itinerant public art shows in vacant commercial spaces for emerging artists. As an artist, Mi-yeon practices her research in interactive art forms through [prak-sis] art events and has always been interested in art forms expressing diverse cultural interactions.
Kiwon Choi
Kiwon Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1980. Since her education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 through the BFA program Focused on Painting and Drawing she has practiced Live Painting at various bars and clubs in Chicago. Kiwon is co-director of [prak-sis].
Bill Sosin
Bill has displayed his work at Lee Weitzman Gallery, Ysla Battrell Fine Art, and Chicago Art Source in Chicago, and Clic Gallery in NYC. His collections are located at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The presses of his recent work are Color For Collectors of Fine Photography Magazine, Publishers of B&W Magazine, CA, Excellence Awards in current issue #4, International Lucie Awards 2009 Official Selections, and Photography Masters Cup Honors Photographer, London.
Tse Xiao Guang
Born in Guangzhou, China in 1982. Immigrated to United States with family at the age of 11. With fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese, attended the University of Missouri from 2001-2006 emphasizing drawing and photography. Currently lives and works in Chicago.
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