The Stan Brakhage Symposium
The Fifth Annual Brakhage Symposium
March 14 and 15, 2009
10:00 a.m. — 9:00 p.m.
University of Colorado at Boulder
ATLAS building
We will be screening:
DAY ONE - SATURDAY 3PM
AFTERLIFERS: WALKING & TALKING - 22:00/2007
ACTIONS IN ACTION - 10:30 / 1999
Steve Seid, curator of the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, California brings "A Cavalcade of Eccentricity" on Saturday, March 14th:
"If one desired to subvert cultural homogeny, eccentric behavior might be a practice worth pursuing. An exuberance of tics, gestures exaggerated, a histrionic of historic proportion, these characteristics can account for a performative presence that resists uniformity while shedding expectation. The works in this cavalcade of the unconventional represent a brand of artist-bound performance that promotes the peculiar, thrives on half-digested narrative, and places the artist, or, at least, a proxy, in a delirious universe of manic materiality. The settings for these performances brim with objects and surfaces that acquire uncanny meaning as the artists move about in frantic exhortation. These are not performances linked to the seventies when artists demanded great attentiveness to the minutiae of the everyday. Rather, here, the artist's presence is just the starting point for an artful journey of sly incantation, physical verve, and pop criticality. This pageant of the peculiar patches together ten antic artists who unravel the mysteries around us as they themselves unravel." — Steve Seid
