Amy Berkowitz - Tender Points - Media Statement 1Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the text explores sexual violence, gendered illness, chronic pain, and patriarchy through the lens of lived experience and pop culture (Twin Peaks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, noise music).
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Music by Paul Ebenkamp
phoriaThis film is an intimate view into the complexity of transgender experiences. It contains black and white portraits of five AFAB (assigned female at birth) trans* people with dysphoria, re: chest. “You can see me- I am real; you can touch me- I have substance; you can speak to me and I will respond- I hear you; and you hear me. So I now call upon you to hear my voice as I tell you the story of my body and my search for a place where I can exist.” -Delphine McFarlane, Unseen Genders
Mirror Stage - Angel Dominguez + Joel Gregory“The mirror stage establishes the ego as fundamentally dependent upon external objects, on an other.” Poets Angel Dominguez + Joel Gregory combine their video work to form a synesthetic/semi-hallucinatory space that seeks to form a site of extended meditation beyond/before the scope of language. By juxtaposing audio/visuals/visions Dominguez and Gregory converge consciousness to present 'Mirror Stage.' An exploration of somatic body load that helps to visualize body environment as portrayed through the glitching of the present. The visuals are an attempt at embodying a sense of Autoscopy, exploring the term (and its concept) from an etymological level: “Autoscopy comes from the ancient Greek αὐτός ("self") and σκοπός ("watcher").” Primitive Autoscopy is an exploration of the relations between self and watcher, when both self and watcher are disembodied.
PDPTIPOPOS #7: Getting all FemmeThese videos document a series of short performances that take place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. In SF's city planning history, developers were required to provide a certain amount of public space to get approval for building plans. Many of these spaces were designed in such a way that, in contradiction to the city's intent, actually discourages public use. We are mischievously visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing acts that we typically only do in the confines of a private space. This is evidence of our journey into the financial district's hidden, awkward places where we create ritual out of enacting the shameful, disgusting, and illegal things we do at home.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne, Anna Platt, Kevin Laird
Video Editor: Emji Spero
PDPTIPOPOS #8: Trying to Look Cool in the MirrorThese videos document a series of short performances that take place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. In SF's city planning history, developers were required to provide a certain amount of public space to get approval for building plans. Many of these spaces were designed in such a way that, in contradiction to the city's intent, actually discourages public use. We are mischievously visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing acts that we typically only do in the confines of a private space. This is evidence of our journey into the financial district's hidden, awkward places where we create ritual out of enacting the shameful, disgusting, and illegal things we do at home.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne, Anna Platt, Kevin Laird, Emji Spero
Video Editor: Emji Spero
PDPTIPOPOS #9: Frantically Changing Clothes Over and OverThese videos document a series of short performances that take place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. In SF's city planning history, developers were required to provide a certain amount of public space to get approval for building plans. Many of these spaces were designed in such a way that, in contradiction to the city's intent, actually discourages public use. We are mischievously visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing acts that we typically only do in the confines of a private space. This is evidence of our journey into the financial district's hidden, awkward places where we create ritual out of enacting the shameful, disgusting, and illegal things we do at home.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne, Anna Platt, Kevin Laird, Emji Spero
Video Editor: Emji Spero
PDPTIPOPOS #6: Learning to do the WobbleThese videos document a series of short performances that take place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. In SF's city planning history, developers were required to provide a certain amount of public space to get approval for building plans. Many of these spaces were designed in such a way that, in contradiction to the city's intent, actually discourages public use. We are mischievously visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing acts that we typically only do in the confines of a private space. This is evidence of our journey into the financial district's hidden, awkward places where we create ritual out of enacting the shameful, disgusting, and illegal things we do at home.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne, Anna Platt
Video Editor: Emji Spero
ONCE IN A LIFETIME | 113/6"113/6" is one of a series of texts written from lyrics to a song featured in a Tourism Authority of Thailand commercial, "Once in a Lifetime." These texts confuse the desire to escape -to- Thailand, as it is produced by tourism, with Thai people’s desire to escape -from- Thailand.
I've been moved by Ronaldo V. Wilson's "Grey" video and his "osmotic" relationship between reading and performance - and Emji Spero's "porousness" between "the individual" and "the movement" - and my mom rooting for Sam Smith in the Grammys - and my desire to sing - and my desire to make dances - and how to reconcile my mom's anti-black racism with her denial of my gender with her fetish for British culture with my experience of Thailand obliterated by white tourism? Thank you for this way in to MOVE the text, a sketch, more of me singing and dancing to come…
I wrote and performed the text "113/6"
I sang a verse from the cheesy "Once in a Lifetime" jingle in my own lullaby arrangement
I choreographed the dance
I edited the sound and video
I recorded a phone conversation I had with my mom while she watched the Grammys (2/8/15)
"there is a place revealed serene yet surreal
land of discovery beauty mystery and dignity
above the clouds and sun two hearts will beat as one
so set your spirit free be what you want to be
just let the sparkling seas wash all your cares away
more than you ever know how to be free"
ONCE IN A LIFETIME | THE ESCAPE ARTIST"THE ESCAPE ARTIST" is one of a series of texts written from lyrics to a song featured in a Tourism Authority of Thailand commercial, "Once in a Lifetime." These texts confuse the desire to escape -to- Thailand, as it is produced by tourism, with Thai people’s desire to escape -from- Thailand.
In this second video brochure, I think about my mother's failure to fulfill her desire of studying in England, her fetish for British pop culture, and her intimacy with the television as a means of escape.
I wrote and performed the text "THE ESCAPE ARTIST"
I sang a verse from the cheesy "Once in a Lifetime" jingle in my own lullaby arrangement
I choreographed the dance
I edited the sound and video
I recorded a phone conversation I had with my mom while she watched the Grammys (2/8/15)
"a world of make believe
sharing your smile it has to be relive the stories of ancient glory now and forever the story
never-ending you’ll always remember
among the miracles waiting for you to share
you’ll never be the same again the things you see will change
you always and forever let our two worlds collide
there’s wonders to see"
PDPTIPOPOS #4: Boredly GrindingThese videos document a series of short performances that take place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. In SF's city planning history, developers were required to provide a certain amount of public space to get approval for building plans. Many of these spaces were designed in such a way that, in contradiction to the city's intent, actually discourages public use. We are mischievously visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing acts that we typically only do in the confines of a private space. This is evidence of our journey into the financial district's hidden, awkward places where we create ritual out of enacting the shameful, disgusting, and illegal things we do at home.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne
Video Editor: Emji Spero
PDPTIPOPOS #5: Eating So Many Chocolates While Cheating on the CrosswordThese videos document a series of short performances that take place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. In SF's city planning history, developers were required to provide a certain amount of public space to get approval for building plans. Many of these spaces were designed in such a way that, in contradiction to the city's intent, actually discourages public use. We are mischievously visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing acts that we typically only do in the confines of a private space. This is evidence of our journey into the financial district's hidden, awkward places where we create ritual out of enacting the shameful, disgusting, and illegal things we do at home.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne
Video Editor: Emji Spero
Esoteric Therapy by Timeless, Infinite LightFootage from our Fall 2014 Southwest Tour.
Music by Angelo Harmsworth (http://angeloharmsworth.bandcamp.com/)
What are the limits of the body?“What are the limits of the body?” is a question that Akilah Oliver asked in a poetry workshop during the 2007 Summer Writing Program at Naropa University.
After Akilah's untimely death in early 2011, I returned to my notebook from that summer and rediscovered this question.
During the two years following Akilah’s death, I asked hundreds of people this question. The responses varied. Some were profound and some were profane. Some responses were intensely vulnerable. Sometimes responses were silent.
I took hours and hours of footage, from which this thirteen-minute video emerged. I think of it as an archive of our ephemeral bodies.
www.whatarethelimitsofthebody.com
HR Hegnauer
October 2014
Denver, Colorado
PDPTIPOPOS #1: Fake-Ass Exercise RoutineThis is a performance piece that takes place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. The artists are systematically visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing an act that would usually be done in the confines of a private space.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne
Video Editor: Emji Spero
PDPTIPOPOS #2: Considering BotoxThis is a performance piece that takes place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. The artists are systematically visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing an act that would usually be done in the confines of a private space.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne
Video Editor: Emji Spero
PDPTIPOPOS #3: Clipping ToenailsThis is a performance piece that takes place in the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) of San Francisco, California. The artists are systematically visiting each of the city's 68 POPOS and performing an act that would usually be done in the confines of a private space.
Lead Artist: Judy Bals
Collaborators: Hatherine Jayne
Video Editor: Emji Spero
"Grey" by Ronaldo WilsonYear: 2014
Duration: 7m 26s
Timeless, Infinite Light Info Session (trans-temporal)Now you will learn about us now
geodegeode is a 16mm experimental film that’s technique, form, and content symbiotically studies the act of destruction as a form of release and subsequent healing. The film becomes ritual, utilizing external action to create an internal transformation. The images themselves reveal destruction and letting go as the techniques of bleaching, scratching, and destroying the film’s emulsion reveal this process through the experimentation in form. geode’s intent is to invoke the emotions of trauma that lead to destruction and transmute them into an experience of hope and healing.
Emji Spero at Pioneer Cemetary, Boulder CO
JH Phrydas' Theme
Cat BoxCat Box by Ella Longpre
ellalongpre.tumblr.com
Emerson Whitney - Ghost Box Book TrailerGhost Box is now available! Get it here: timelessinfinitelight.com
Ghost Box is based on the story of Emily. In the fall of 2012, Emily arrived in the parking lot of a vacant big-box store, or "ghost box," near downtown Los Angeles with 45-pound bags of cat food. She converted the otherwise vacant property into an impromptu bird sanctuary, and evaded arrest by the LAPD for months. Emerson Whitney adventures into the weirdness of Emily's story and the strangeness of vacant urban space, writing wildness and ferocity into the strip mall. Ghost Box is gross and wry, gorgeous and feral, a hoarse cry from abandoned city space: "we want to be beautiful too."
Hannah Kezema at Pioneer Cemetary, Boulder CO
The Curving Roamsfrom the chapbook "I'm Free I'm Alive I'm Alive I'm Living I'm Alive I'm Alive I'm Living I'm Free" by Cynthia Spencer
River Cop
TEX by Beau Rice (Book Trailer)TEX
by Beau Rice
Published by Penny-Ante Editions
Release Date: 11/18/2014
http://penny-ante.net/title/tex/
In the twenty-first century, relationships have been transformed in unprecedented ways. Technology has birthed a paradoxical space between isolation and connectivity, profoundly expanding the possibilities for how and with whom we create intimacy.
An experiment between the epistolary and the ectype, Tex is a performance act in print. Featuring walk-ons by various interlocutors, this mnemonic outpour examines the potentiality of relationships in the digital age. Metonymic displacements, grammatical violations and verbal spillage form this rowdy non-narrative documenting one LA artist’s sexual exploits, an evolving attachment to Texas-based former fling, Matt G, and the determination and opportunism involved with the continually forthcoming publication of this, his first book.
"Red" by Ronaldo WilsonDuration: 6m 32s
Year: 2014
Emji Spero reads from TOO BIG TO FAILEmji Spero reads prose poems from TOO BIG TO FAIL at the Speakeasy, a venue in North Oakland.
They tied everyone up together with yarn. It took awhile to untangle ourselves.
Timeless, Infinite Light, 2012
"Blue" by Ronaldo WIlson2014 Artist-in-Residence for the Center for Art and Thought
Duration: 4m 45s
Cheena Marie Lo ...but it's sunny in Oakland MediapoemCheena Marie Lo worked in the admissions department at a university in Oakland, CA. Cheena composed this poem using text from the cover letters they received.
'It's night in San Francisco but it's Sunny in Oakland' is an anthology of East Bay poets by Timeless, Infinite Light. Check it out here: timelessinfinitelight.com/collections/all/products/it-s-night-in-san-francisco-but-it-s-sunny-in-oakland
Audio editing by Judy Bals
"Pink" by Ronaldo Wilson2014 Artist-in-Residence for the Center for Art and Thought
Duration: 5m 47s
Instructions for HOW TO WASTE A PACK OF CIGARETTESA found language poem/animation by Emji Spero.
The text for this poem was overheard at 851 HAIGHT ST during a reading of emails to/from LORIAN LONG.
The audio was sampled from 'A Man' by CORINNEY & THE DREAMIES, as well as from telephone recordings.
for more info on 851:
http://851thesquat.tumblr.com/
"White" by Ronaldo Wilson2014 Artist-in-Residence for the Center for Art and Thought
Duration: 7m 12s
Nico Peck - It's night in San Francisco but it's sunny in OaklandWe ran into Nico Peck on BART and asked them to read their piece in 'It's night in San Francisco but it's sunny in Oakland.' In this video, you can re-live that weird but familiar moment when some guy on BART changes his pants in the seat next to you.
'It's night in San Francisco but it's Sunny in Oakland' is an anthology of East Bay poets by Timeless, Infinite Light. Check it out here: http://timelessinfinitelight.com/collections/all/products/it-s-night-in-san-francisco-but-it-s-sunny-in-oakland
FITNESS FRENZYa high impact cardio workout! don't try this at home!
starring: sam chaplin, ben hersey, ella longpre
thanks to: halie theoharides
for dan cashman
"Brown" by Ronaldo Wilson2014 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Art and Thought
Duration: 6m 10s
Olive Blackburn - 'Communism is up there and we are down here...." Book TrailerWoah cool Timeless, Infinite Light just released a poetry chapbook by Olive Blackburn! The book is called "Communism is up there and we are down here but it is happening now" And holy smokes! It's so good! So strange! So real! So funny! So wild! So everything! Here is a description of the book:
"Communism is better than communists. Blackburn writes of the necessary demand for partisanship and its uncomfortable relation to aesthetic norms. Her negative humor refuses to tip easily into despair, however close to the edge it approaches. Here is "communist ecstasy for recovering defeatists." If you swap the word feminism, it's still true and different. It's the same." -
BUY A COPY ON THE INTERNET HERE: https://squareup.com/market/timeless-infinite-light/communism-is-up-there-and-we-are-down-here-but-it-is-happening-now.
PROTAGONIST: Jennifer Williams
ANTAGONISTS: Judy Bals & Justin Carder
FLOATING HEAD OF A YOUTHFUL JEFF GOLDBLUM: Otis Pig
AUDIO: Evan Hashi
FILM CREW: Emji Spero, Otis Pig, Zoe Rosenblum
MUSIC: Fears, Mega Bog
"Green" by Ronaldo Wilson2014 Artist-in-Resident for the Center for Art and Thought
Duration: 6m 30s
Zoe Tuck - Terror Matrix Book TrailerZoe Tuck's new chapbook, Terror Matrix, is available now, here: http://timelessinfinitelight.com
Video by Erika Staiti, created using found footage, generated by googling excerpts from Terror Matrix.
Litmus - A CollaborationAngel Dominguez and JH Phrydas reading a collaborative project entitled LITMUS at the Bombay Gin release party, Friday, January 25th, 2013.
