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California Fo' Sho: capturing sights, sounds, and malaise at Artists' Television Access
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While I tend to like the idea of Sonic Youth more than actually listening to their music (I know, I know, perhaps I should educate myself) I do respect the layered, deconstructed, and dizzying concept of their sound. Therefore I was intrigued by The San Francisco Bay Guardian's likening of Sonic Youth's album, Evol, as the quintessential musical conjuration of "malice and malaise-dipped...post-hippie California." California, with its famed artifice and vapidity, is a breeding ground artists and writers inspired by the empty signifiers and irony of the landscape and it's subsequent effect on its inhabitants. However, the SF bay guardian observed that new artists have not given the subject much treatment and cited the work in Artists' Television Access' show California Fo' Sho as a notable exploration of the subject.
Tonight's screenings will feature a video work by Aaron Rietz entitled, As Above, So Below.
From ATA:
A psychedelic audiovisual journey into a mindscape known as "California", this piece traverses the city, the desert, the coast, and the synaptic highways that connect them, treating them all equally as sites of revelation and discovery. The primary theme is the relationship of landscape to consciousness, or, physical to mental, exterior to interior. Starring birds, turbines, a giant alien boulder, city lights, and mother ocean.
http://aaronrietz.blogspot.com/
...psychadelic, potentially apathetic, and cursorily related to critical theory? I'm in!
There will also be a collection of music videos by Bob Thayer and a live performance by indie quartet Grand Live.
TONIGHT! (Friday 1/10) @ 8 PM. Artists' Television Access (my new favorite art place) 992 Valencia St.
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