[Frameworks] MONO NO AWARE VI - FULL PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

Wed Nov 14 15:20:42 CST 2012

 Frameworkers, 
 Greetings from Brooklyn, New York. 
 I wanted to pass along the full program for the 6th annual MONO NO AWARE exhibition, December 7th and 8th 2012.
 We're all very excited to have an incredible line-up with artists/filmmakers from all over the world. 
 Mark your calendars.  The event is 2 days long this year, roughly 2.5 hours each night with an after party. 
 The event is FREE to attend. Feel free to pass along this information to friends and colleagues. 
 I hope to see you there.
 Best,
 Steve Cossman

FRIDAY NIGHT DOORS AT 
7 PM – INTRODUCTION & SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 8 PM 

INSTALLATIONS 

IV PHASES 

16 MM MULTI-PROJECTION INSTALLATION / FILM LOOPS WITH TWO-WAY
MIRROR & OPTICAL SOUND ENVIRONMENT 

ROBERT HOWSARE (KANSAS CITY, KANSAS)

IV
Phases
explores chance operations and interventions upon film through the use of
multiple projectors and film loops.  The hand-printed imagery references
the structure and systems of the celluloid frame.  When played through
optical sound projectors, the printed mark on the 16mm film creates it’s own
soundtrack, determined by the pattern and opacity of the ink. 
Conceptually, IV Phases presents the seemingly infinite possibilities that exist
from a finite system, as film loops of varying lengths are continually falling
in and out of sync creating continuously shifting imagery.  When viewed
from the back, the two-way mirror acts as a screen for the layered projection,
while simultaneously becoming a projector/reflector that deconstructs the
layers upon the opposite wall.  The apparatus is now implicated in it’s
own projection creating a volleying between material and process.  The
projection allows an opportunity for further possibilities of chance operation
through audience interaction.

Organizer

Robert
Howsare works with non-traditional matrices and processes to explore the
anomalies that occur within systems.  He received his BFA in 2008 from the
Kansas City Art Institute and graduated with an MFA from Ohio University this
past spring.  Robert Howsare is a 2012-2013 Charlotte Street Foundation
Urban Culture Project Studio Resident.

SELECTED
SCENES WOVEN FROM STAR WARS IV A NEW HOPE AND STAR WARS V THE EMPIRE STRIKES
BACK 

SUPER 8 MM FILM WITH PROJECTED LIGHT / BACK LIT INSTALLATION 

MARY STARK (MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM)

‘SELECTED SCENES’ is a hanging tapestry hand-made from Super 8mm
celluloid film and lit by un-spooled projectors.  Mary has come to understand the tactile objects she creates
as 'edits' and sees a reel of film as a spool of thread.

Organizer

Mary is studying a practice-led PhD investigating how the shared
language of textile construction and film editing might create new narratives
in sculptural and photographic forms. 
She recently gained an MA in Photography with Distinction at the
Manchester School of Art.  Before
postgraduate study she gained a degree in Embroidery, taught video production
and project managed professional short films and documentaries. Mary is
currently a Lecturer on the Textiles in Practice programme at the Manchester
School of Art.

EXPANSION CONTRACTION

16 MM SINGLE PROJECTION / FILM LOOP 

MIRO HOFFMANN (ALLSTON, MASSACHUSETTS)

EXPANSION
CONTRACTION consists of a 16 mm film loop taking an untraditional path. The
film travels on a set of rollers, up the wall, across the ceiling, and feeds
back into the projector. The celluloid becomes a line drawn through space, and
exposes the moving image flashing past the light of the projector. The single
projection installation is a one-minute loop of layered patterns of flashing
color that warps the flattening of space.

Organizer

Miro
Hoffmann is a practicing artist living in Boston, Massachusetts, and a current
candidate for a BFA at School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts
University in spring of 2013. 

“Before
college I was predominantly a painter, and have slowly moved my interests in
painting (light, color, space, form, depth, perspective) towards a merging of
16mm film with painting, sculpture, and light to form moving
painting/sculptural film loops.”

BIKE-CYCLE

ZOETROPE / PEDAL POWERED INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

JODIE MACK (WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, NEW HAMPSHIRE)

A pedal-powered zoetrope culled together from an
exercise bike of experimental animation legend Cecile Starr, a piece
from a discarded animation stand, an old bike wheel, and single light
source - re-calls a pre-cinematic miracle: the magic of motion.

Organizer 

Jodie
Mack is an independent moving-image practitioner who received her MFA in film,
video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007
and currently teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal
techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of
cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning.
Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Anthology
Film Archives, Images Festival, Los Angeles Filmforum, Onion City Film
Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, and the Robert
Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked as a curator and administrator with
Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film
and Video Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and
Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite
micro-cinema, The Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council
media arts fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's
Helen Hill Award.

PERFORMANCES

MEASURES

SUPER 8 MM MULTI-PROJECTION & COLORED GELS / TOY
INSTRUMENTS AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

TARA NELSON (MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS)

Measures explores the synesthetic
relationship between sound, image, motion and color.  Four super 8
projectors are each gelled with a primary color: red, green, yellow and
blue.  Before the performance begins, members of the audience are given a
toy instruments, and asked to «play a corresponding color.

Organizer

Tara
Merenda Nelson is a Boston-based filmmaker, curator and installation artist
whose work focuses on human perception and its correlation to the mechanism of
projected celluloid cinema. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums
basements and backyards in Europe, Austrailia and North America, including the
Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Tara holds an MFA in Film/Video from
the Massachusetts College of Art, and she is currently a lecturer at the Park
School of Communications at Ithaca College.  Tara presented her cinematic
installation, Catharsis, at the Mono No Aware IV (2010), and she is thrilled to be
invited to participate again this year.  She and her husband, filmmaker
Gordon Nelson, will be exhibiting their Super 8 and 16mm films and sound
performance work at Anthology Film Archives on December 14th, 2012. 

JE NE SAIS PLUS (WHAT IS THIS FEELING)

16 MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE / LIVE FILM LOOP EDIT AND
SOUND MIX

KRISTIN REEVES (MUNCIE, INDIANA)

An
obstacle course between the heart and the doctor’s office leads to [DESTINY.]
Playing her tower of nine projectors to the timing of a prerecorded soundtrack
that pivots around international versions of “You Don’t Own Me,” Kristin Reeves
meditates on the materiality of the body and the struggle to achieve personal
sovereignty within its bounds. Built on 27, 10-second 16mm film loops
constructed from reshot found footage and direct laser-animation techniques.

Organizer

Kristin
Reeves investigates the poetic [mis]translations between physical and virtual
bodies. She has been contributing to performances in Chicago, IL since 2004
including the Tony Fitzpatrick American Trilogy at the Steppenwolf Theater as
well as showing solo works across the US. Currently she can be found in Muncie,
IN where she is an Assistant Professor of art. Kristin holds a MFA in Art &
Technology from the University of Florida where she was the Operations Manger
for the Florida Experimental Film Festival (FLEX.)

WATERSHED / SURFACE PATTERNS

16 MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE / LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE 

MIKE BONELLO / JOHN COLPITTS AKA MAN FOREVER (PITTSBURGH,
PENNSYLVANIA & NEW YORK, NEW YORK)

Watershed/Surface
Patterns is the result of several years' experimentation with a 3-pass color
process, done in camera with color reversal film.  This hyper-colored multi-film projection features the
Cowanshannock Creek, the Youghiogheny River on "Over the Falls Day,"
and the Atlantic Ocean in Far Rockaway. 
Surface Patterns is a piece of music by Man Forever from the album
Pansophical Cataract (Thrill Jockey Records, 2012).  Bonello performed as a member of Man Forever earlier this
year, when in the process of learning this song he was told to visualize the
surface of water as it goes over, or is just about to go over, a waterfall.

Mike
Bonello is a filmmaker and musician from Pittsburgh, PA. He has exhibited films
at the Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, and at a rock&roll house party in Murphreesboro,
TN. Most of his film work has been oriented toward multi-projector film-loop events,
either as installations or with an improvisational projection-performance
approach, in conjunction with a live musical performance or a dance party. He's
been an active musician for over 20 years, and has worked and taught at
Pittsburgh Filmmakers since 1996.

Man
Forever is the brainchild of Kid Millions, who with his band, Oneida, has
collaborated with Bonello on film/video events and music projects for the last
15 years. 

11 PM – ??? 
DANCE PARTY & EXTENDED VIEWING PERIOD.

SPECIAL DJ T.B.A. 

SATURDAY NIGHT DOORS AT 
7 PM – INTRODUCTION AND SCREENINGS BEGINS AT 8 PM 

INSTALLATION 

GANZFELD TEST

16 MM MULTI-PROJECTION INSTALLATION / INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE 

AMANDA LONG (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)

Ganzfeld
Test is an immersive color space experience for one or two

spectators
at a time. Color fields and flicker films fill a cinema

that
covers the viewer's upper body, surrounding the head completely with light. A
ganzfeld is a uniform visual field - akin to standing in a blizzard that
obscures the horizon - where the sky and the land become one and the viewer's
sense of depth is lost. This installation utilizes a 360-degree infinite film
loop environment of pulsating color fields to create a similar disorienting
effect.

Organizer

Amanda
Long is a sculptor investigating light, color, perception and human behavior.
Her work has been exhibited at Bring to Light Nuit Blanche NYC, the Dumbo Arts
Festival, the Mattress Factory Museum, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
She received a MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 and a BFA in
Sculpture and Extended Media
from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. Her kinetic video sculpture,
Lighter and Lighter, was the recipient of the University Film and Video
Association's Carole Fielding Grant 2010. Presently Amanda lives and works in
Long Island City, NY.

PERFORMANCES

CEMENTAGE

SUPER 8 MM + 16 MM PROJECTION PERFORMANCE / LIVE
LIGHT-AS-SOUND PERFORMANCE 

MASHA MITKOV (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)

Cemented
technology, the figure connected to the floor attempts to play a mangled VHS
into the mix. Transforming objects beyond function, this piece explores how to
un-build concrete, ground up: from black and white images to the motion they
stir.  Though the films are mute,
the things on which they project absorb light & digest into sound.

Organizer 

Masha
Mitkov was born in Odessa, Ukraine shortly before the collapse of the Soviet
Union, after which her family found asylum in Portland, Oregon. While studying
for a BA in Mathematics at Bard College, she fell in love with 16mm film and
analog motion picture techniques. While her mathematical practice could be used
to program roaming digital projector robots, she prefers the spiral of
successive still frames. 

WHERE’S THE CHILD?

SUPER 8 MM MULTI-PROJECTIONS + 35 MM SLIDE PROJECTIONS / LIVE
THEATER, DANCE, AND VOODOO

JOEY HUERTAS AKA JANE PUBLIC AND SUZANA STANKOVIC (NEW YORK,
NEW YORK)

WHERE'S
THE CHILD is a performance that will reveal the trauma involved in high
conflict divorce and parental alienation tactics.  Live voodoo and false allegations will be used to visually
demonstrate how parents and children can be systematically used as weapons of
destruction against one another, despite any loving relationship history
surrounding the original family composition.

Organizers

Joey
Huertas aka Jane Public is an experimental film and performance artist who works in
line with the direct, observational and reconstruction movements of documentary
work. His creative works take many forms, including interpretation stories
arranged by peculiar/imagined biographies for fictitious persons. Critics have
cited his work as representing a new kind of social activism using transgressive
biographies. The artist is also a clinical social worker who integrates the
healing process into art. 

Suzana
Stankovic is
a modern dancer, choreographer and performance artist based in New York. She is
classically trained in ballet and is an avant-garde performance artist who has
collaborated with various international dance schools, films and has
choreographed many of her original works. She does not just "move"
her body, she "speaks" with her body.

FRANCESCA WOODMAN’S AUNTS 

16 MM SINGLE PROJECTION / LIVE VOICE-OVER WITH TWO MEGAPHONES 

ELINA BROTHERUS (HELSINKI, FINLAND)

Two
photographers are working to make a self-portrait with a large-format view
camera. They pay homage to Francesca Woodman, who for her age could be their
niece.

Organizer

Elina
Brotherus (b. 1972 Helsinki, Finland), works in photography, video and
film.  Her current work is centered on the relation of the human figure
and landscape, and on the gaze of an artist on his/her model. Among her recent
solo exhibitions feature Bloomberg SPACE, London ; The Wapping Project -
Bankside, London ; gb agency, Paris (2010) and The National Art Center, Tokyo
(2008). Recent group exhibitions include Lianzhou Photography Festival, China ;
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2012) ; MAXXI, Rome ; ARTER, Istanbul
(2010) ; Brooklyn Museum (2007) ; Biennale of Sydney (2006).  She was awarded the Finnish State Prize
for Photography in 2008, the French Prix Niépce in 2005, and the Scandinavian
Carnegie Art Award’s Young Artist’s Stipendium in 2003. She was shortlisted for
the Ars Fennica Prize 2007 and for the Citibank Photography Prize (now Deutsche
Börse Photography Prize) in 2002.

Brotherus
has published four monographs: Artist and her Model (Le Caillou bleu,
Brussels 2012), Études d'après modèle, danseurs (Les éditions Textuel,
Paris 2007), The New Painting (Next Level, London 2005), Decisive Days (Kustannus Pohjoinen,
Oulu 2002).

B-90 NOIR 

16 MM SINGLE PROJECTION / LIVE MIX OF RADIO WAVES  

JOHN RODGERS-SZCZEPPANIAK (BINGHAMPTON, NEW YORK)

B-90
NOIR is inspired by Hiroshi Teshigarhara’s The Woman in the Dunes, a film about
confinement and escape. B-90 NIOR attempts to turn away from film as a document
of an event by producing a field of unscripted encounters. Here is a visual and
sonic provocation, an invitation, into the liminal, the always transitional.

Organizer

Johnny
Rodgers is a graduate student in upstate NY studying cultural anthropology and
cinema.

THE BIRDS OF CHERNOBYL

16 MM DUAL-PROJECTION / LIVE MIX OF CASSETE RECORDINGS, FIELD
RECORDINGS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC AMPLIFACATION OF PROJECTOR MOTOR.  

MARGARET RORISON (BALTIMORE, MARYLAND)

THE BIRDS OF CHERNOBYL is an ode to Harry Bennett, the artist’s
93-year-old grandfather. Harry made a living as a painter for Gothic and
Romance novels in the 60s & 70s and is now living with dementia. He spent
much of his life as a solitary man, committing himself to walking,
philosophizing and creating. This piece incorporates their shared love for
reflection amid landscape.  The 16mm
footage was shot during a residency in The Ozarks. The audio accompaniment of
this piece incorporates recordings of Harry Bennett, field recordings of
oilrigs and fishing wire in a Louisiana bayou, and live amplification of the
projector’s motor using both contact microphones and electromagnetic pick-ups.

Organizer 

Margaret Rorison is an artist working and living in Baltimore,
Maryland. She works in variety of mediums including, 16mm film, video,
photography and sound. Her work develops from extensive walks through
rural and urban landscapes, combining moving images, field recordings and text.
She is interested in the live dialogue between music and film and often
projects her films accompanying sound artists. She holds an MFA from The
Maryland Institute College of Art and is the co-founder of an experimental film
series, Sight Unseen and is also a member of The Red Room Collective.

WILL O’ THE WISP 

SUPER 8 MM + 16 MM MULTI-PROJECTION / LIVE
ENSEMBLE DANCE PERFORMANCE, VOCALS, AND PROPS   

KATIE
FLEMING & SEAN HANLEY AS HOLUS BOLUS, CHARLIE ADAMS, LESLIE GUYTON, RACHEL
GARIS, MATT BOVEE, SARA DOBRINICH, KEVIN JONES, LAURA MURPHY, ANGEL ORTIZ,
BENJAMIN ROBERT, CARRIE WALSH & SAMANTHA OWENS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK)

WILL
O’ THE WISP is a multi-disciplinary performance devised by Holus Bolus to
explore the relationship between home and self-identity and is based on
research into the events surrounding the slow destruction of a small town in
Pennsylvania.  Centralia, PA was an active anthracite coal mining
community until the 1960s when an abandoned coal deposit caught fire. In the
following decades the government and community struggled to
decide Centralia’s future.  It was eventually evacuated due to the
toxic gasses expelled by the subterranean fire, wafting from the very same
hills on which the town was founded.  In creating ‘Will o’ the Wisp’,
Holus Bolus desires to provide audiences with an immersive transcendence
through the integration of film with potent ensemble dance and vocal
performances.

Organizers

Holus
Bolus is a collective dedicated to devising environments that lead an audience
beyond the passive experience of sight and sound. (CONCEPT, DIRECTION, FILM)

Katie
Fleming is a theatre artist and founder of the collective Holus
Bolus.  Her work has spanned traditional and experimental theater as well
as film and events. For the past several  years she worked on the build
and run of Punchdrunk's "Sleep No More" and is currently assistant
directing Mikhael Garver of The New Ensemble.  She studied devised theatre
internationally holds a BA in Technical Theatre and Dramaturgy from Emerson
College.  (CONCEPT AND DIRECTION)

Sean
Hanley is filmmaker and member of Holus Bolus pursuing experiments in the
documentary genre.  His work has screened in various film festivals across
the United States and Canada, including the Athens Film + Video Festival (Ohio)
and the Black Maria Film & Video Festival.  For the past two years,
he's been a staff member for the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.  He holds a
BFA in Film Production from Emerson College. (FILM)

Charlie Adams
is a British singer, vocal coach, teaching artist and harpist from
London.  She attended the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, founded
by Sir Paul McCartney.  During her time at the institute, she joined Sense
of Sound, a professional choir that works throughout the UK and Europe, in
which had the opportunity to collaborate with an array of artists and
musicians, including: Brian Eno, Ringo Starr, Damon Albarn, Russel Watson and
Imogen Heap.  In 2010 she co-founded MultiVOX, a community arts and vocal
training organization based in the Northwest of England. In February
2012, Charlie relocated to NYC where she coordinates and directs ‘The
Britpop Choir’ and is in the process of developing an American branch of MultiVOX.
(VOCAL COMPOSITION)

Movement
Workshop Group, co-founded by Leslie Guyton, creates distinct dance
theatre pieces that not only provide an evening of entertainment but also
provoke thought and lift the audience to a higher more inspired psychic state. 
They hold classes in Brooklyn and have received many grants
and residencies as a NY based company of five years.   Rachel
Garis, choreographer and founder of Jacob Garis Dance Theater, is a multidisciplinary
artist and performer based in New York City. She has danced
internationally in Ponderosa Tanzland Festival (GE) and project, 100
Dancers in Copenhagen with Live Art Installations.  Movement Workshop has
been awarded the APAP CEF grant to attend the International Tanzmesse, the
Planet Connections Theater Festivity Artists grant, The Filed;s Field Artist
residency and has presented work as part of La MaMa Moves (Manhattan).  The ensemble includes: Matt Bovee, Sara
Dobrinich, Kevin Jones, Laura Murphy, Angel Ortiz, Benjamin Robert, Carrie
Walsh, & Samantha Owens. (ENSEMBLE MOVEMENT)

11 PM – ??? 
DANCE PARTY & EXTENDED VIEWING PERIOD

JAHILIYYA
FIELDS 

 SYNTHESIZERS, DRUM MACHINE, AND VOX /
LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE 

 MATTHEW MORANDI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK)  

Jahiliyya
Fields performs a live set including tracks from this year’s release UNICURSAL
HEXAGRAM (L.I.E.S.) 

“L.I.E.S.
boldly go where most other House labels wouldn't dare, presenting an excellent
LP of cosmic synth music with religious overtones conceived by Matt Morandi aka
Jahiliyya Fields. It's one of the label's most substantial releases to date,
and not only by length. The music itself is of a wholly more gratifying calibre
than their usual - albeit excellent and unconventional - dancefloor releases,
drawing upon a wealth of exploratory synth music and symbology from Islam and
Thelema to set the mind off on more spiritual, intellectually nourishing
forays. From a Terry Riley-like ascension/immersion 'Servant Garden', 'Ocean
Mom' melts into therapeutic new age drone and noise washes, while bass rhythms
creep into the equation with the throbbing arpeggios of 'Air On Earth', and the
oscillating flux of 'Water Breaker'. A soundtrack to Steve Cossman's 'White
Cabbage' returns us skyward with ecstatic propulsion, and the conclusive
'AAAAA' kneads and weaves tangy synth discord and frothing pulses into a starry
hammock”      

-
boomkat (Manchester, UK) 

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