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If you're in the mood for some kinky film history as well as some new video you might want to check out frequent Stretcher contributor Dale Hoyt introduce Island of Lost Souls (as part of BAM's Geno(sis)) at PFA. A sneak preview of Hoyt's new work Don't Be Cruel will be an opening short. The screening is Thursday, Sept. 4th at 7:30PM at Pacific Film Archives.
Deformities, mutilations, and genetic oddities warmed up the small crowd gathered to hear Philip Ross and Laura Splan talk at Camerawork last night. The gallery's current exhibition, photographs of the Mutter Museum's collection of medical curiosities, includes work by Rosamond Purcell, William Wegman, and Joel-Peter Witkin. By and large, the photographers are upstaged by their subject matter. The only way a skeleton of conjoined twins wouldn't be riveting would be if you couldn't see it. Splan's work also has its macabre moments � such as a scarf knit of surgical tubing, running bright red with its wearer's blood � although she gives herself more room to maneuver conceptually than the photographers. In this company, Ross's work, which emphasizes growing things, seemed practically sunny and uplifting, two qualities I'll bet he thought it would never be accused of. The evening as a whole was a great bit of programming by Camerawork. You have through September 6 to see the show, at 1246 Folsom in San Francisco.
If you are enjoying the unusually balmy evening weather in SF and are in the lower Haight, stroll past Manolo Garcia Gallery where you can still catch Karla Milosevich's animated video loops in the storefront window. They're mellow, kalaidescopic, & psychedelically minimal. On view 24 hours - through Sept 5.
Turn hate into something better. From the prospectus:
You still have a few days left to catch MISSION:CONTROL, an installation that caps Southern Exposure's eight week Mission Voices summer youth program. Working with local artists and performers, the students use imagery of a space/aircraft control room to examine issues close to their lives. More info here. Check it out.
Tony Treadway's tony wall installation incorporating Fast Caps and Libby Black's cool blue paper BMW scooter with paper Louis Vuitton hatbox are fast glance standouts in a hot summer group show. "Makeshift World" at Stephen Wirtz Gallery also features lots of other great work for longer contemplation by Lara Allen & Frank Haines, James Bewley, Sarah Cain, Anne Collier, Robert Gutierrez, Amanda Hughen, Bob Linder, Gordon McNee, Julio Cesar Morales, Aaron Noble, Geof Oppenheimer, Eamon Ore-giron, Amy Rathbone, Shane Aslan Selzer, Kathryn Van Dyke, Justin Walsh, Megan Wilson. Curated by Julie Casemore; through August 23.
Last night Headlands Art Center presented a high energy "work in progress" talk by residents Gail Wight and her psychologist collaborator, Lucia Jacobs. Both have worked with animals; Wight has made installations such as one in which she "drew" with slime by luring slime mold in different directions with oatmeal flakes. Jacobs is interested in the evolution of the hippocampus (the part of the brain that processes short-term memory and spatial maps), which she has studied in gray squirrels, Merriam's kangaroo rats, and mice. Wight and Jacobs spent the first two weeks of their residency identifying a local animal to join their team. After a tragic incident in which captive ladybugs drowned in their water dish, they turned to crickets (which subsist on bright blue "solid water" gel to avoid further drownings.) Their residency runs through October; we are looking forward to the results.
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