Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

Friday, April 17, 2009

Art vs. Crime: How the Mission's artists are helping neighbors feel safe after episodes of lethal violence



This history was filmed by Cassidy and appeared at SANFRANCISCO I AM
Discussions of the dichotomous nature of the Mission approach tedium, with shootings in front of valet stands, or the whole delicate flower thing creating enough dramatic tension to launch a thousand newspaper columns.The organizers of the Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) aren't content to just wring their hands: they're doing what they can to boost the Mission's thriving arts community while acknowledging its more challenging sides with their bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event night.Connecting visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers and poets, MAPP weaves together storefronts, warehouses, studios and homes to form an art walk that seems to turn into a huge multi-block party. Homeowners lay down stages in their living rooms, scraggly artists gussy up and serve hors d'oeuvres.The night of Saturday April 4, MAPP held its bi-monthly multidisciplinary, intercultural event night. Connecting visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers and poets,


Thank you, Cassidy!

Friday, January 04, 2008

BÏTCH, Welcome to America!

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BÏTCH, Welcome to America!


Woman, immigrants, latinos... many groups at many times carry the
weight of the system on their shoulders. The are promised rewards (for them, or perhaps their children) as long as they conform. What is the promise? Assimilation, acceptance and wealth.

This video-installation explores the mundane horror of a human being reduced to an "animal" through behavioral conditioning. There has been a lot of (in our opinion, not enough) resistance to it. Just as the current fashion holds that everything is "information", or the older philosophic fashion of "utility", Skinner's behaviorist regime only works if you throw away much of what makes us human.

Artists' Television Access (ATA
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890
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Friday, January 11, 2007. 7:00 PM Free

Window Installation of YTAELENA LOPEZ & CARLOS BUENO

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

BITCH: métodos científicos de control social



¿Cómo entrenar a una perra según el método Pavlov?




(Performance de Ytaelena López y Carlos Bueno)

Viernes 14 de diciembre
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890
ata@atasite.org

P.D.: Para los que no puedan asistir, se colocará el video del performance en este sitio durante el mes de enero.