[Frameworks] This week [March 5 - 13, 2011] in avant garde cinema

[Jonathan Walley]

Hello everyone,

This didn't make the Weekly Listing - in connection with the annual  
Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in New Orleans this  
week, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder will be performing at Zeitgeist  
Arts Center. Detailed info below.

Best,

Jonathan Walley (Department of Cinema, Denison University)

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Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans

http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/

Friday, March 11 @ 7:00 p.m.

SANDRA GIBSON + LUIS RECODER: SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

PROJECTING PROJECTION  (Part II)

This special off-site event brings to New Orleans the multiple- 
projector performance work of Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder. The  
duo’s collaborative screening will be hosted by Zeitgeist Multi- 
disciplinary Arts Center, a 24 year-old local institution that remains  
one of the premiere alternative arts centers in the South. In keeping  
with their aesthetic, which is playfully abstract yet materially  
specific, Gibson and Recoder’s performance will explore a distinctly  
filmic interplay of light and shadow. As one enthusiast has noted,  
Gibson and Recoder make live work for those who “love cinema – film  
emulsion and its delicacy; projectors and their clackety noise; even  
the idea of cinema and its 24 still frames magically transformed into  
motion” (Holly Willis, kcet.org). Building complex processes out of  
seemingly elemental components, the filmmakers ask viewers to  
experience not only the nuances of projected light, but also what they  
call “the soft and fragile emulsion of time.” (Federico Windhausen)

The performance at Zeitgeist expands upon their presentation at the  
Society For Cinema and Media Studies 2011 Conference here in New  
Orleans, “Projecting Projection (Part I)” on Thursday’s panel  
“Projection, Performance, Experimental Film: Recent Developments,” and  
their appearance has been made possible by generous funding assistance  
from the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group and the  
SCMS 2011 program committee.

Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder are internationally acclaimed artists  
whose work primarily addresses the medium and idea of the cinema.   
Their installations and performances unfold the rich paradoxes of  
projected light that shuttle between materiality and immateriality,  
presence and absence, the visible and the invisible.  Gibson and  
Recoder have exhibited at museums and festivals such as the Whitney  
Museum of American Art (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Redcat (CA), Sundance  
Film Festival (UT), Institute of Contemporary Art (London), TATE  
Modern (London), International Film Festival Rotterdam (The  
Netherlands).  Gibson and Recoder live and work in NYC. $10 / $9. / $8

1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

New Orleans, LA 70113

504 352-1150

rene at zeitgeistinc.net