On our fourth and final week, closing out the theme of EXTRAVAGANT ACTS, we have part two of Robert Ashley’s 1984 television opera ‘Perfect Lives’: ‘The Supermarket (Famous People)’
“The desert is the cocktail of the earth / if you know what I mean”
MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Zachary Epcar
This week, continuing the theme of EXTRAVAGANT ACTS, we have George Landow / Owen Land’s 1976 film ‘New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops’
“THIS IS A FILM ABOUT YOU.”
Check it out here!
MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Zachary Epcar
This week, continuing the theme of EXTRAVAGANT ACTS, we have 1983’s ‘Turtle Dreams’ by Meredith Monk & Ping Chong.
“‘Turtle Dreams’ was created in the period when I was thinking about the artist as an antenna of society. The pieces were more about stating the ‘problem’ as I saw it, even if it was presented in a very oblique manner – seeing the occurrence and reflecting those energies in the piece. In a sense, more an apocalyptic vision.” – Meredith Monk.
See the film here!
MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Zachary Epcar
The theme of this month is EXTRAVAGANT ACTS: four moving image works full of excesses of all kinds; vivid visuals; heightened gestures; performances outrageous and unwieldy; the delirious, the deviant, the utterly irrepressible.
To begin, Valie Export’s 1986 piece ‘Ein perfektes Paar oder die Unzucht wechselt ihre Haut (The Perfect Pair, or Indecency Sheds Its Skin)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk4UnawQxao
“Your eyes are the most beautiful blue ad space. Your cheek could promote Mercedes. Your neck could be a logo for styled technology. Your lips could be dollar bridges to dream islands.”