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EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS : 2000 - present
18) COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze / Curated
for The Warehouse Gallery
17) EMBRACING WINTER / Curated for The Warehouse
Gallery
16)
NETWORKED NATURE / Curated by Marisa Olson, Rhizome. Organized by A.
Suparak at The Warehouse Gallery
15) FAUX NATUREL / Curated for The Warehouse Gallery
at Syracuse University + The Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University
14) QUANTUM LEAPS / Curated for Impakt
13) HOW TO BE A CANADIAN / Curated for Eyebeam
Center for Art and Technology
12) LET'S
GET TESTED / Curated
for Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
11)
ELUSIVE QUALITY /
Co-curated for LTTR + Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art with Lauren Cornell
10)
TROUBLE / Co-curated for
La Cinematheque Quebecoise with Brett Kashmere
9)
ADOLESCENT BOYS, AND LIVING ROOMS
/ Curated for Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo
+ Yale University
8) LOOKING
IS BETTER THAN FEELING YOU / Curated for Ladyfest
7) DIRGES AND STURGEONS / Curated for Anthology
Film Archives
6)
THE BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE: Live Musical Performance with Films
/ Co-curated with Braden King
5) BROKEN MUSIC /
Curated for The Knitting Factory
4) KEEP IN TOUCH! / Curated for New York Underground Film Festival 2002
2)
A NEW ROMANTIC T.V. SOUND / Curated for New York
Underground Film Festival 2001
- PS1 stuff
1)
SOME KIND OF LOVING / Curated for Joanie 4 Jackie
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| 18)
COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze Curated by A. Suparak for The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University, NY 2007 |
The artists whose work comprises COME ON seek to present desire
as a polymorphous experience. They reject the use of their nude bodies,
a foundational strategy frequently employed in feminist art since the 1960s.
Instead, they direct our focus to the performance of looking and at the
objects of their gaze. COME ON presents unabashed explorations and unapologetic articulations of female libido. A rock star's virility is deflated through real-life testimonial in a video by Rampleman, male lovers are displayed in exquisite drawings evoking classical painting conventions by Jacobson, and Balcaen employs the trappings of romance in humorous text works and suggestive, ephemeral sculpture. |
Drawing,
video, text-based work, ephemeral sculpture
by: Jo-Anne Balcaen Juliet Jacobson Rachel Rampleman Exhibition accompanied by: - Editioned Please poster by Balcaen - Artists talks by Jacobson, Rampleman - Screenings: Emotional Realism, curated by Emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby; Daughters of Joy!, curated by Amber Goodwyn - Launch for Lickety Split pansexual smut zine - Sweet Nothings reception (with Black Heart stout by local brewery Middle Ages, peach black tea vegan cookies by Roji Tea Lounge) |
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NEW Exhibition
photos - Website + press reviews |
| 17)
EMBRACING WINTER Curated by A. Suparak for The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University, NY 2007 |
As technology advances, our concept of physical comfort becomes increasingly
narrow and artificially mediated. We can program thermostats to the degree,
swim in heated pools in the winter, and ice skate in tropical regions.
We prefer to encounter the seasons as an aesthetic experience, when convenient,
within the self-created myth of a weatherless society. |
Knitted
sculpture, psychedelic video, sly photography, crisp audio work, book,
new works by: |
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Website
+ press reviews - NEW Exhibition photos |
16)
NETWORKED NATURE |
Networked Nature is a group exhibition that inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art. | Installations,
video, sound art by: |
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Website
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15)
FAUX NATUREL |
The group of North American artists presented in Faux Naturel is
young enough to have grown up with a more informed sense about the environment,
with Earth Day pre-printed on calendars and global warming existing as more
than just a theory. These artists explore the territory delineated by the
destruction of the natural world, with all its attendant themes. Entropy,
redemption, apocalypse, the fall from grace, the temptations of commercial
culture, and the relationship between science and magic all emerge as motifs
in this exhibition. In this contaminated atmosphere, artists in cities pine for the untainted innocence of nature, understand mortality more profoundly, and envision a stronger species. |
Sculpture,
video, prints, embroidery, collage, installation, new work by: |
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Website
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| 14)
QUANTUM LEAPS Curated by A. Suparak for Impakt, Netherlands 2006 |
This
inspirational screening and mini-exhibition catalogues heroes, compressing
history, and hallucinating futures. |
Videos,
posters, journals, zines by: Daniel Barrow Philippe Blanchard Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby Celebrate People's History Jim Finn Caroline Koebel Lady Scientist LTTR J. Macdonell Jim Munroe Liz Rosenfeld Seth Price Andy Puls |
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| Utilizing artistic
(re)enactment, telepathetic aesthetics, manual animation, performance and
a grab bag of low-end high technologies, these videos question traditional
representations of (Canadian) identity and gender. Running time: 80 min. How To Be A Canadian is the third and northernmost installment of Eyebeam's NAFTA-inspired Panorama series. |
Informative evening of videos + pocket-sized prizes, with work
by: Jeremy Bailey Daniel Barrow Dorion Berg Shary Boyle, Peaches and Kara Blake Jubal Brown Daniel Cockburn Paige Gratland Brett Kashmere Jake Kennedy Jim Munroe Jon Sasaki Tom Sherman Astria Suparak |
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| 12) LET'S
GET TESTED Curated by A. Suparak for The 50th anniversary of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany 2004 |
Taking
education, biology, architecture and history as starting points, these
artists craft their own novel amusements. Sometimes spontaneous, sometimes
laboriously schemed, sporting low-res Flash animation then slipping into
silky digital video, this set of eclectic work reckons that life should
be savored, wonder is a calculated state of mind, and love will survive...
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Video, film, audio by: Jeff Chapman Gabriel Fowler Miranda July Patrick Martinez JoEllen Martinson + William Scott Rees Jim Munroe Mike Olenick Paper Rad Kon Petrochuk Sandy Plotnikoff Jon Rubin Jon Sasaki Jennifer Schmidt Alex Villar |
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| 11) ELUSIVE QUALITY Curated by Lauren Cornell + Astria Suparak for LTTR, NY + The Liverpool Biennial, UK 2004 |
ELUSIVE QUALITY
champions the realities of failure in relation to fantasies of athletic,
sexual, and political mastery. Together, the works make for a powerful
aesthetic of the undone. Consciously inglorious and imperfect, they reset
the goalposts for success and then win at their own games. The program
proposes: What may be sweeter than success are the thresholds crossed
while making of all sorts of socio-personal mistakes. Elusive Quality is part of EXPLOSION LTTR, a month long exhibition at Art in General and series of events celebrating the third edition of the feminist journal LTTR. The title of the issue is Practice More Failure. |
Work and premieres by: Lynne Chan Mariam Ghani Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe Caroline Koebel Jeremy Laing + Will Munro Math Bass + James Tsang of Marriage Tara Mateik Seth Price Chadwick Rantanen Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson toyshop |
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| TROUBLE:
Hollywood viewed by the avant-garde cinema was created to
accompany the exhibition, Richard
Kerr's Industry / Industrie at La Cinematheque quebecoise. |
Films by: Martin Arnold Linda Christanell Bruce Conner Richard Kerr Lewis Klahr Matthias Müller Peter Tscherkassky Virgil Widrich |
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Program Notes - Review: "Stealing from the Dream Factory: Collage, Montage, Hollywood and the Avant-Garde." - Purchase the catalogue  |
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| 9)
ADOLESCENT BOYS, AND LIVING ROOMS Curated by A. Suparak for Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo + Yale School of Architecture 2002-2003 |
These audios + videos are forcibly lonely and nihilistically sweet.
They'll pin you down and slowly drip spit on you, whether you're practicing
crossovers on a suburban driveway or pile-drivers in a backyard wrestling
ring. I've got the moves if you've got the skills (together we could make
a great team). |
Video, audio work by: Messieurs Delmotte Harrell Fletcher Jess Hilliard Miranda July Jon Leone Jennifer Reeder Jon Rubin Jesse Sugarmann + Mike Long Alex Villar |
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| With an irreverence for punk rockers, adults like parents and
politicians, non-adults like breasts and babies, and people we generally
approve of such as artists and scientists, these works reveal that posers
are sometimes better than the real thing. We're all staging our rebellions,
even against ourselves, and wind up aloof but completely aware of how
we look. |
Video, audio by: Dara Greenwald Jacqueline Goss Colleen Hennessey Kathy High Miranda July Eliete Mejorado KJ Mohr + Kelly Hayes Shannon Plumb Jenny Stark Kirsten Stoltmann Jennifer Sullivan Ann Weathersby Karen Yasinsky |
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| YACHT: Young Artists Challenge High Technology (for a Total eclipse
of the heart). These new videos from America and Europe have tying threads
of: the use of high (?) technology or the idea of "future" in a lo fi
way, dopplegang/replication, instant nostalgia as the residue of planned
obsolescence, states of limbo. High and low (fidelity and culture). |
Videos, music by: Animal Charm Pierre Yves Clouin Lawrence Elbert Jacqueline Goss Miranda July Bjørn Melhus Seth Price |
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Notes / Booklet (Inside, Outside) |
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| 6)
THE BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE: Film screening and live performance tour Curated by Astria Suparak + Braden King 2001-2004 |
Featuring
a revolving line-up of musicians (from DIRTY THREE, SOULED AMERICAN, CAT
POWER, SMOG, LOFTY PILLARS, CALIFONE, FREAKWATER, PINETOP SEVEN, many
others), the Ensemble improvises to an international, stellar program
of new short films. |
Films,
videos by: Braden King + Laura Moya Grant Gee Jem Cohen Naomi Uman Christopher Wilcha Peter Hutton Gustav Deutsch Stephanie Barber Phil Solomon Julie Murray Gerard Holthius Barbara Meter Guy Sherwin Seth Price Garine Torossian Chris Petit Anita Thacher Paula Froehle more |
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| Musical
instruments are destroyed and technology is applied in peculiar ways.
These de- compositions are made for video by both contemporary and historical
figures, with a nod to Jimi Hendrix and the Fluxus movement. |
Videos
by: Sonic Youth Christian Marclay Steina Vasulka Voice Crack Barry Schwartz |
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| 4) KEEP IN TOUCH! Curated by Astria Suparak with Lauren Cornell for The New York Underground Film Festival 2002 |
Have
you ever danced at home alone, in front of a mirror? Have you ever continued a kiss that you were bored of? Or thought about having a kid, out of the sheer curiosity with what it would look like? These works are brazenly aware of their own representation, those fake gestures symbolizing love, and the self-proclaimed identity of Art. On the other hand, this is a Science Fair. We're interested in breeding and practicing our (dance) moves until perfection is reached, and by golly you're either with us or against us. Young people, always forward! |
Videos,
film, audio by: |
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LADIES AND BOYS AND TOUCHING: Selections
from recent programs Curated by A. Suparak for Video Mundi at The Chicago Cultural Center |
Selections from 3 programs curated by Suparak in the
last year: "Looking is better than feeling
you" (created for non-academic, non-artworld girls at Ladyfest), "Adolescent
boys, and Living rooms" (for Yale School of Architecture and for non-English
speaking audiences at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo) and "Keep In Touch!" (for
The New York Underground Film Festival). |
Lots. |
Video
art, experimental film, and an audio composition with an art-school edge,
reinventions of 1960's body/performance art and 1980's New Wave aloofness. |
Video, film, audio work by: Stephanie
Barber |
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tape explores sexuality from its formulation in childhood, through adolescence
and into adulthood, referencing psychoanalytic theory as easily as pop
culture. Or: Performance (anxiety), awkwardness, and ambivalence. |
Includes
film, video by: |
- Purchase at the STORE - Movie clips. photos - Press - Program Notes (from the latest version of live screenings. Line-up changes at every show.) - Stills, Poster  |
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