Sundown Salon #27: WHERE

DATE: May 21st, 2006, 2:00 - 8:00pm
ORGANIZED WITH: Amy Adler
FEATURING: MFA artists of University of San Diego California Seth Augustine, Author and Punisher, Derek Lomas, Julia Dzwonkoski & Kye Potter, Sharon Levy, Deanna Erdmann, Nina Waisman, Alan Calpe, Dante Harper, Drawing Club, Kate Hoffman, Steven Rubin, Iana Quesnell, Kate Wall, Zerek Kempf, Jocelyn Jacobs, Tibora Bea Girczyc-Blum & Ed Porter, Melanie Badalato & Camilo Ontiveros, Joe Winter, Mobile Toy Theater, Stephen Remington, Robert Twomey, Kelly Pendergrast, Evelyn Donnelly, Caleb Waldorf, Eamon Ore-Giron & friends, Tristan Shone

where ('hwer, 'hwar, 'wer) : an adverb used to ask a question about the place somebody or
something is in, at, coming from, or going to
1. adv used to indicate the place in which something is located or happens
2. adv used to ask questions about the purpose or goal of something
3. adv in any situation in which
4. n used to refer to an unspecified place or event (usually in the plural)

This three-venue event, entitled Where: begins in Tijuana at Luis Velasquez where artists will complete residencies in the months of March, April and May 2006. The residencies will conclude with a closing reception on May 13. The show will then travel to Sundown Salon in Los Angeles for a one-day event on Sunday May 21. The Salon will include performances and on-site installations and projects. Where: will conclude in San Francisco at Queen Nails Annex in the month of July 2006.

Proposals were accepted based on their inventive response to an initial text which included the following ...

"The goal is to design a homogenous space in which a beginning, middle and end converge to form a show that addresses temporality and the construction of experience through anticipation and memory".

INSTALLATIONS

1 / Seth Augustine / Pump iron, get ripped, turn tragedy into triumph

2 / Derek Lomas / A video network to capture social butterflies

3 / Julia Dzwonkoski & Kye Potter / New Years Eve 2005

4 / Sharon Levy / Hideout

5 / Deanna Erdmann / Faux finish bathroom installation aka fabian sings the blues

6 / Nina Waisman / Running up and down the stairs with Fritz

8 / Alan Calpe / Camera obscura/porthole video9 / Dante Harper / A twenty minute video of a dog on a walk

13 / Drawing Club / WHERE: location drawings

14 / Kate Hoffman / From my lips to yours

15 / Steven Rubin / Short video of canine massage therapist treating a dog

16 / Iana Quesnell / Layout of the Land

17 / Kate Wall / The Summer Before I Left New York

20 / Zerek Kempf / "You may be putting too much pressure on the dome" --Fritz Haeg

22 / Jocelyn Jacobs / Becoming-Christ

23 Tibora Bea Girczyc-Blum & Ed Porter / A fountain made from statues purchased at Mercado Hildalgo in Tijuana

24 / Mélanie Badalato & Camilo Ontiveros / Exchange/Alteration performance at the Magical Sewing / Machine station

27 / Joe Winter / An iceberg adrift in tropical waters: sound installation

PERFORMANCES

19 / Mobile Toy Theater (ongoing) / A re-presentation/deconstruction of Barbie's Princess of Japan, from the Yonsei Hapa perspective (4th generation half-japanese American) embodied in a packaged, performative human doll

26 Stephen Remington (ongoing) / Inflatable organic installation + Over the course of the weekend nine pre-selected homosexual couples will wander into the shaded perimeters of each space with the intent of having an intimate encounter

25 / 3:00 / Robert Twomey / Riflery demonstration

18 / 3:30, 7:00 / Kelly Pendergrast / around in the dome: a game with many red ropes

10 / 4:30 - 5:30 / Evelyn Donnelly / Catacomb cave installation with musical and dance performances / Moriah Evans - dance / Guy Obrect Duo (with Guy Obrecht - lead vocals & guitar Chris Tonelli -vocals & guitar and guest viola Charlie Wilmoth) spooky folk songs / Chris Tonelli (vocal performance) - other link

21 / 6:00 - 6:30 / Caleb Waldorf / “Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts.” -Friedrich Nietzsche - other link

11 / 6:30 - 7:00 / Los Cremators (Eamon Ore-Giron and friends) / Sound performance

12 / 7:00 - 7:30 / Author and Punisher (Tristan Shone-dual throttle sound) / whoSINcontrol: leading us into temptation...a dual throttle sound - other link