[Frameworks] Sunday August 5th - MisALT Presents Black Thorns in the Black Box

[T. Siddle]

The MisALT Screening Series is excited to present Black Thorns in the
Black Box a touring screening of experimental film and video by eleven
contemporary artists whose work resonates with the heavy, dark, and
mystic obscurity of Black Metal music. Originally coinciding with the
Chicago gallery exhibition Black Thorns in the White Cube— previously
on view March 16 through April 14 at Western Exhibitions.
(http://westernexhibitions.com/current/2012/2a_Black_Thorns/), the
program has been screened at the Nightingale in Chicago, FOKL in
Kansas City, Brooklyn's Spectacle Theater, and most recently at the
Hammer Museum in LA.

Based throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating
artists include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast
Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle
(London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
(Brooklyn), Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton,
England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat
(Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati
(Brussels, Belgium), and Michaël Sellam (Paris, France). This
screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three
parts—the underground, the earth, and the heavens—according to the
three branches of Medieval concepts of music—musica mundana, musica
humana, and musica instrumentalis—to explore how Black Metal has
permeated all known spheres of creation.

Curated by Amelia Ishmael & Bryan Wendorf

Amelia Ishmael is an artist whose practice includes critiquing,
historicising, teaching, and curating other artists’ practices. Her
current projects include the traveling art exhibition “Black Thorns in
the White Cube” and co-editing and curating pages for the academic
journal Helvete. She studied studio art and art history at the Kansas
City Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and
has published articles on contemporary art with The WIRE, Art21.com,
ArtSlant Chicago, and Art Papers.

Bryan Wendorf co-founded the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 1994
and remains its Programmer and Artistic Director. He has served on the
board of directors of IFP Chicago and has curated film programs
including Conversations At The Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center
(Chicago), Transmediale (Berlin) and the Revelation Film Festival
(Perth). He studied fine art at Columbia College Chicago, and has
written articles about film, music, comics and popular culture for a
variety of publications including New City, Indiewire, It’s Only A
Move!, and Wormwood Chronicles.

8PM SUNDAY AUGUST 5th
at Artist Television Access
992 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA
$6-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4QH97dP30I