Thursday, November 19, 2009


To be Released: Ice on the High

Contact info: Kim Anno, skimi2@comcast.net (510) 847-4745

Maggie Foster: Maggieleefoster@yahoo.com ; Aida Gamez gogogamez@comcast.net (510) 589-5358

December 3-6

Thursday Dec. 3- 7:30pm Staged Reading of Ginsberg’s HOWL

Friday Dec. 4- 11-5 day viewing; Performances and video 6:30-10pm

Saturday Dec. 5- 11-5 day viewing; evening performance 6:30-10pm

1659-1643 San Pablo Ave. at Virginia

West Berkeley’s Pacific Basin Building presents,

Ice on the High”, a feral art/music event for three nights and two days in the first week of December. Emerging and nationally exhibiting artists and performers will present their work in West Berkeley for three evenings of art performances, projection, installations, music, and a staged reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem, Howl. This event is open to the public for a donation of their choice.

Ice on the High is part of a growing wave of temporal upstart art exhibitions, concerts, and events taking the San Francisco Bay Area by storm. All the artists presented are experimenting with this new context for the first time. The economic downslide has led us to create new spaces for art/music. We consider this an antidote in the face of disaster. Pacific Basin is a mixed-use artists/architects’ building with empty storefronts and this art/music program will fill the space. It is our hope that the arts will bring new possibility to our West Berkeley project.

Thursday Dec. 3 7:30pm

The program will begin Thursday night Dec. 3 with a staged reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem, HOWL at 7:30pm

Kim Anno Directs Readers(artists, writers, photographers) such as Amy Balkin, Leonie Guyer, Jackie Francis, Stephanie Johnson, Lauren Marsden, Alicia Escott, Katherine Sherwood, and Jill Posener among others will read with projected images behind them.

Also:

Ricardo Rivera (Video/performance installation artist) will present a multi-media large scale projection that reacts to the architecture and a dance performance. This is being presented all three nights. It is located on the corner (1659 San Pablo).

Friday Dec. 4, 7pm

Friday night’s concert will be an experimental contemporary music and video project by Luciano Chessa (recently performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) and artist Terry Berlier (recent Exploratorium artist in residence), Also performing Eric Ullman, (Composer/violinist). This will be followed by Josh Churchill’s live sound performance in a raw construction space.

Also, Maggie Foster’s curated Video Program, “Beneath a Passive Surface”will be screened:

This program explores the diverse realm of video and the various ways artists employ it as a process of communication, point of reflection, backdrop for action, and vehicle of abstraction. In "J.M.E. in MySpace: Tropical Feelings", a Comic video essay about grime music and MySpace, Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn show that "beneath the passive surface of the internet, creative energy flows". David Horvitz and Lukas Geronimas try to extend one of Paul McCarthy's installations to include the outside world. In A.K. Burns "Electric in the Cosmic Age", she wrestles fellow Bay Area ex-pat, K8 Hardy in orange spandex with sound by Matt Volla. "In the absence of daylight, we are haunted by ghosts and moths, which pass through walls and create holes in beloved fabrics." Deville Cohen's "The Wall" "explores the possibilities of Paper as a sculptural material, as well as its function as a carrier of a printed image." Joshua Kit Clayton brings awkwardness and insight together through group exercise. And More!!! Artists in the program include:

A.K. Burns Catherine Czacki Joshua Kit Clayton Deville Cohen Maggie Foster David Horvitz and Lukas Geronimas Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn Kamau Patton Marcia Scott

Saturday night 8pm performance sound works by:

Ashley Bellouin

Ben Bracken

Beulah Baker is Lana Voronina

Danishta Rivero

Darwinsbitch

Seth Horvitz/Chuck Johnson

Joshua Clayton

Tina Takemoto presents a live performance: “Looking for Onuma” based on the life of an interned Japanese gay man.

With video works by:

EG Crichton

Elliot Anderson (ucsc, electronic media and video/sculpture)

Pacific Basin Building is open for viewing ongoing works Friday & Saturday 11-5pm

On going media works by:

Liz Walsh (web, video artist &painter)presents an interactive video projection with visual mixing

Marcia Scott(video/filmmaker) will be showing her new video installation, seeing how three video works—two short, South Fork, Yuba River 1&2 and one long, Song of Eurydice—reflect.

Ricardo Rivera(video installation,sculptor) presents a large scale projection visible from the street corner interacting with the architecture and a dance performance.

Maggie Foster (video, performance, sculptor) will be showing new sculpture and video in Studio F

David Coll (ucb composer) will be presenting interactive installation with resonating metal sheets, light bulbs, industrial fan with Heather Gordon’s (poet/visual artist) and Marcia Scott’s projected images.

For further information and press photos:

Skimi2@comcast.net

Maggieleefoster@yahoo.com

gogogamez@comcast.net

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