
From Across the Pond and Underneath the Algae
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Campbell Works and G George are delighted to present film and video works for From Across the Pond and Underneath the Algae, at Blam Projects, Los Angeles on the 21st August 2016
Hot August Nights Schedule
First Weekend 8/12-14 LA/NY
Friday 8/12
Ephemeral LA: Films from the Echo Park Film Center Famiglia
Curated by Eve-Lauryn LaFountain
Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Giizis Mooka’am (Sun/Moon Rise) The Smudge Series
Alee Peoples, Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies
Mike Stoltz, With Pluses and Minuses
Jeepneys (Anna Luisa Petrisko), MABUHAY KA
Bridget Batch, Chiquita Canyon Landfill
Rick Bahto Compositions No. 2
Paolo Davanzo, Avanti Popolo
Lisa Marr, Intolerance
Saturday 8/13
Underlining the Horizon
David Colosi, Performance/reading/music Way Out West (Brooklyn, NY)
David Hughes, Reading from the latest book, BBQ Pavilion (Los Angeles)
Andrew Hahn, Poetry reading (Los Angeles)
Sunday 8/14
Jet Lag – postponed
Local Expeditions with Nancy Blaine, Local Expeditions Bikes the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn
Michael Isenberg, Commuter Threads #1, Time-Lapse of NYC Subways and LA Buses
Lena Wolek, “Harvesting Cross Countries”, Video
Joe Wolek, “Where People who Build Bombs Used to Live” Image Presentation
Brian Moss, “Looking” LA-NY Image Presentation
Second Weekend 8/19-21 Open
Friday 8/19
The Unknown Origin of Delusion
Horacio Cadzco (Night of Videos programming from Mexico City artist)
VLADIMIR MAISLIN (Mexico) The appropriation of massive media images comes up to subvert their sense in a critique way.
Non-Stop Vacation An inspiring web found
ARTEMIO NARRO (Mexico) Corny dark
Sexonwheelzz A tricky
Anonimo
Apoohcalyze Now An acid shortcut that explores the tragedy of war through the sad poetry founded on the human nature of Winnie Pooh.
The Lost Island A cooperative short film made by local kids in a Mexican beach.
PAOLA CABRERA & DONOVAN SORIANO (Peru & Mexico) Painting artists
Land of Tropical Splendor Shortcut about one of the lasts Macho Bananas´ storage in Mexico City.
MARIA JOSÉ ALÓS (Mexico) Her videos inquiry into the construction of (self) identity, gender issues, and the process of rewriting/reimagining personal memories; fragmentary audiovisual structures that rely on a linear narrative.
XXX Found footage short film piece conceived through the articulation of appropriated and recycled film fragments to
The History of Sadness A compilation of sad scenes remaking a narrative structure about human drama.
Tomber en Amour A portrait of the ascent and descent of a structure and of the abolition of adjectives and verbs of the enunciation.
Aurora An overwhelming epilogue for a little princess.
Eau de toilette Not long time ago somebody dreamed she dreamed about Freddy.
WENDY LEÓN (Mexico) Her work deals with the abstract idea of self in context with her nearest reality.
A Body Portrait about the senses of the body.
ALÊ SOUTO (Brasil) The artist looks to free the idea of human existence
Suitcase to walk the world and capture constellations An action to communicate by mirror reflections between a little island and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Rio de Janeiro.
Surfaces to reflect star´s dust and clear light How to collect stars to take them inside the museum.
DECOURCY ROBIN (France) Shortcuts made out from the documentation of dance, performance and body interventions on urban and countryside landscapes.
Near West – Trek Danse A nonsense hike in the woods.
Chirologia Watch a hand go ahead. Take the Andean landscape as
Harpia Portrait of an unreachable lady.
JOSÉ ANTONIO CORDERO (Mexico) Independent Actor and Filmmaker
En la Condesa One of the greatest underground video hits of the Mexican Queer
MARTIN DORDONI IUSO (Argentina) Writer and storyteller.
The house that was never at home Technically, the most simple but funniest shortcut animation about a guy that was in love with his house.
MARCO
A sign on the road said: Take us to Madre Marco Schmitt woke up this morning and got himself a line of speed. He is on a crazy Madre road trip. He is driving to reach Madre.
Xterminating Badges The conflict between freedom and security underlies Marco Schmitt’s film. Schmitt’s template was Luis Buñuel’s surreal masterpiece El ángel
Independent Independence Documentation of a
PETER LORENZ (Germany) Photographer
Zapzarap A compilation of photos,
Saturday 8/20
Settlers + Nomads: 269 MILES
Performance, screening and presentations from artists with ties to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Andreana Donahue, Sunshine and Shadow: A Year in Alaska, slide talk performance
Video Screening:
Lauren Adkins, Someday
Audrey Barcio, The New You Who Got Here Before (AND NOW WE MUST FORGET)
Catherine Borg, Self-Tending
Mark Brandvik, VOLUME CONTROL
Yasmina Chavez, Warm Bodies
Stephen Hendee, White Drone
Brent Holmes, The Yellow Rose of Texas
Wendy Kveck,
Javier Sanchez, Charro: Good Company
David Sanchez Burr, Oscillations:36 37 02 N 114 20 41 W
Mikayla Whitmore, Rancho
Danielle Kelly, Storytime: Day Tripper, performance
The Kellies (Elyse Reardon-Jung & Ichiro Irie)
Music of some sort from this dynamic new duo…
Immediately after Settlers+Nomads (Starting at 8:00 PM)
Sunday 8/21
From Across the Pond and Underneath the Algae
Video Screenings and Performance Documentations from Britain (with a couple of American made videos thrown in at the end).
Campbell Works, curated by Kate Tindle/’G George’ from London
Anna Pickles Harvey, Breath (2016)
Peter Martin, We take our Holidays in Spain (2015) Neil Taylor, HOST (2009)
Liadain Evans, Bad Packing (2015)
Harriet Murray, Anomaly Island (2011)
All over the place
DG14 Collective
Three years in one studio (DG14) have brought four artists together: Two Brits, one Pole and a Russian all graduating from Art School. The unstable atmosphere in Britain mirrors the insecure future of these graduates. Our Collective faces disruption- how do we continue to develop our work and discussion across changing
This body of work reflects desires to return home, mixed with the frustration of having to leave and the impact it has on our collective.
The ramifications of Brexit and the rising disillusionment in current politics feel like a step backwards, resulting in a unifying sense of futility present in all the works selected
Artists and Work
Ekaterina Luzgina
Where does sculpture go when you cannot take it home? 2016
ekaterinaluzgina.wixsite.com/sculpture
Elizabeth Prentis
Lift Mate (Jelly) 2016
“No Boris, you can’t use your water cannon.” (Myatt’s Court Estate, Brixton) 2016
elizabethprentisart.wordpress.com
Janek Nixon
Convallaria Majalis 2016 Błędów Desert
janeknixon.com
Mickey McShane
What a load of Pollocks 2016
“Please don’t feed the birds” (Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster) 2016
mikemcshane.co.uk
Joe Wolek, Texas Rush Hour Video
Shelby Roberts, 12/22/90 Video
Jet Lag
Local Expeditions with Nancy Blaine, Local Expeditions Bikes the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn
Michael Isenberg, Commuter Threads #1, Time-Lapse of NYC Subways and LA Buses
Lena Wolek, “Harvesting Cross Countries”, Video
Joe Wolek, “Where People who Build Bombs Used to Live” Image Presentation
Brian Moss, “Looking” LA-NY Image Presentation
Third Weekend 8/25-28 Travel/Vacation
Thursday 8/25 Rod Baer, The best event anywhere, ever.
A brief slate of short stories, other words and enhancements featuring gratuitous live sex, extreme violence, excessive indulgence, mayhem, gift giveaways, cute kittens, open buffets of food, illegal drugs, kegs of alcohol, social aggrandizing, misdirection and false advertising. First read in Los Angeles, written over a span of decades, sifting through the froth of inconsequence, this is a preview sampling of narratives previously kept unreleased.
Friday 8/26
The Shirt Off My Back
Artists Brett Van Ort, Stephanie Sabo and Julia Paull discuss different aspects of water pollution as experienced through current
Saturday 8/27
People’s Lives
Screening Night curated by Andrew Freeman featuring: Billy Woodberry, Marseille Après La Guerre Anaal Shah
Sunday 8/28
Vacation Slide Shows and Home Movies
Nonurbia, image and video presentation of a two year trek through South America Joe Wolek, Image Presentation from various places in the world highlighting Appalachia, Mexico, China, Cuba, Cambodia and Vietnam Claudio Cambon, Image presentation from Bangladesh Shelby Roberts, Image Presentation of Oklahoma Loftur Erikson, Image Presentation of Tourist in Iceland and Greenland Sandra Mann, Holla Die WaldfeeHolla Die Waldfee – pictorial audio video, Germany Shoshi Kanokohata, Japanese music and noise
Closing Night