LOWAVE : RESISTANCE(S)

LOWAVE : RESISTANCE(S)

Festival des Cinemas de Paris 12/10/06

The Resistance(s) program to be held during the Festival des Cinema Differents in Paris was inspired by a DVD of the same name presenting films and videos by artists from North Africa and the Middle East. The Resistance(s) DVD was published by Lowave in April 2006.

The Resistance(s) program at the Festival des Cinema Differents also includes films by American artists who are also resisting through their art.

Work Included in the Program:

Transit- Taysir Batniji (Palestine) 2004
Dieu Me Pardonne- Mounir Fatmi (Morocco/France) 2001-2004
Untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends- Jayce Salloum (Lebanon/Canada) 2003
Allah Akbar- Usama Alshaibi (Iraq/USA) 2003
1991 Next Hundred Years- Abu Ali (Spain) 1991-2004
W- Michael Betancourt (USA) 2005
Short/Cuts- Brandon Bauer (USA) 2006

Calling Forth Certain Experiences…

I will have some work on the large projection screen as well as in a DVD kiosk in the Calling Forth Certain Experiences Exhibition at MIAD.

Excerpt from Mary Louise Schumacher's Art City Blog:

The "Calling Forth Certain Experiences" exhibit, which just opened, features time-based artworks that feature aspects of video, animation, performance, installation, music, photography and experimental film.

A reception will be held at MIAD, 273 E. Erie St., on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. Information: www.miad.edu or(414) 276-7889. Gallery hours are Tues. to Fri. from 10 to 5 p.m.

For more information about the exhibition, see Dorota Biczel-Nelson's recent interview with curator Jamal Currie on Susceptible to Images

Video by MATA Community Media (2006), a Rovetto/Sanvic Production

Contemporary Works on Paper

Brandon Bauer, Vince Como, Thomas Maguire
Contemporary Works on Paper
September 1 through October 1, 2006

An exhibition of contemporary works on paper by Brandon Bauer (Milwaukee), Vince Como (Chicago/NY) and Thomas Maguire (Milwaukee) at the Barrow & Juarez gallery in Milwaukee, WI

If They Come For You In The Morning

(all text and photos excerpted from the Visual Resistance website)

The show:

Thursday, July 27 & Friday, July 28, 2006, 5-10pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, Lower East Side, NYC
Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan
Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com

Over 100 artists participated in the show, including some of the most respected and prolific street artists working today, including the Barnstormers’ David Ellis, Banksy, Swoon, Borf, Chris Stain, Arofish, Kelly Burns, GoreB, Josh MacPhee, and MOMO, as well as veterans of the landmark political comics journal World War 3 Illustrated, including Eric Drooker, Seth Tobocman, Peter Kuper, Nicole Schulman, and Christopher Cardinale, as well as dozens of other participating artists.

All proceeds from the show benefited the legal fund of local environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan, then facing life plus 335 years in prison on federal charges of arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. Daniel was arrested during Operation Backfire, a multi-state sweep of environmental activists who have now been charged with virtually every unsolved earth and animal liberation case in the Northwest.

Participating artists:

Arofish * Icky A. * Arrielle * Banksy * The Barnstormers * Brandon Bauer * The Beehive Collective * Thomas Blanchard * V Blanco * Victoria Booth * Borf * Dianne Bowen * Scott Boylston * Breakfast * Kelly Burns * JN Cantor * Christopher Cardinale * Celso * Etta Cetera * Angela Coppola * Alison Corrie * Aya Dan * DarkClouds * Blackjack Davey * Eric Drooker * Eelus * Elbow Toe * David Ellis * Endless Love Crew * Erok * Benjamin Ferguson * Karen Fiorito * Flower Face Killah * Julia Garder * GoreB * Lynn Hassan * Eric Hauser * Art Hazelwood * Cody Hudson * Infinity * Influenza * Ryan Inzana * Mark Jenkins * Tim Keating * Klutch * Andalusia Knoll * Peter Kuper * Nicolas Lampert * James Leonard * David Lester * Merry Mack * Josh MacPhee * Magmo the Destroyer * Colin Matthes * Keith McHenry * Dennis McNett * Saiya Miller * Douglas Minkler * Claude Moller * MOMO * Nik Moore * Ricardo Levins Morales * Shannon Muegge * Math-You Namie * Brandon Neubauer * Barry Newman * Laura Parker * Roger Peet * Peripheral Media Projects * Bill Pierce * Kevin Pyle * RB827 * Ally Reeves * Leon Reid (aka Darius Jones) * Aaron Resen * Asante Riverwind * Cristy Road * Andrew Rodman * Melina Rodrigo * Eliot Rosewater * Erik Ruin * Jennifer Salerno * Fabio Sassi * Nicole Schulman * Tod Seelie * Erin Siegal * Andy Singer * Jetta Sky * Dustin Spagnola * Chris Stain * Meredith Stern * Mitja Stragapede * Judith Supine * Swoon * The 62 * Seth Tobocman * Edwin Vazquez * vegankid * Kristine Virsis * Colin White * Pete Yahnke

Paper Politics in Portland

(all text taken from the Visual Resistance post)

Paper Politics makes its next stop in Portland. Over 175 political prints by artists from around the world. The work will be on display May 3rd-June 16th, 2006 at the Food For Thought Gallery at the Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR. Opening event will be May 11th, 7-11 PM.

Counter-Recruitment Guide

I have some artwork in the new NYC Counter-Recruitment guide put out by The Friends of William Blake. Here is the post from Visual Resistance:

Counter-Recruitment in NYC

The Friends of William Blake, a working group of artists and activists who first put out the “The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention” a 33-by-22-inch full-color fold-up map of New York that listed more than 600 points of information- including the locations of RNC events, protest sites, bathrooms, and legal pointers have just released a guide to counter-recruitment in NYC.

The New Yorkers’ Guide to Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs and it’s associated website is full of practical information and may be freely used, copied, and distributed under the creative commons license. Locations where the guide may be
picked up in New York are listed on the website, and a full PDF version may also be downloaded through the site.

If you’d like to be involved in distribution of the guide, or would like to reserve a bulk order of the guide for your organization, e-mail crguide@gmail.com.

Cut & Paint: free stencil designs

(re-posted from the Visual Resistance site)

Josh MacPhee’s excellent stencil template zine Cut & Paint has finally gone digital, thanks to John Emerson of Social Design Notes. Click over to CutAndPaint.org and you’ll find over 40 different free stencil templates with great imagery and radical politics.

Contributors include many of the unsung heroes of street art. Often working anonymously and undocumented, eople like Roger Peet, Shaun Slifer, Erok A., Colin Matthes, Erik Ruin, Andalusia, Ally Reeves, Claude Moller, Etta Cetera, Brandon Bauer, and the rest are creating some of the best work out there and reinventing the tropes and techniques of radical art.

Check it all out here. Download the templates, print, cut, and spray. Borrow images and alter them for your needs, location, and message. Thanks to Josh and John for making this great work available.