From: Kenneth White (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 21:01:19 PDT
> PORTLAND FILM + VIDEO ARTISTS COLLECTIVE
> 004: NEW PROJECTIONS + INSTALLATIONS
>
> OPENING RECEPTION
> FRIDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER, 5 PM
>
> SPACE GALLERY
> 538 CONGRESS STREET
> PORTLAND, MAINE
> www.space538.org
>
> The Portland Film + Video Artists Collective presents new
> multimedia installations by Collective members at SPACE Gallery,
> 538 Congress St., Portland, Maine, on view September 5 – 27, 2007.
> Opening Reception is First Friday, September 7 at 5pm. Free public
> artist talks and performances will be held on Thursday, 20
> September at 7pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm.
>
> Artists include Sydney and Keith Fitzgerald, Ling-Wen Tsai,
> Stefanie Loeb, Betsy Nelson, Peter Shellenberger, Kenneth White,
> and Deborah Wing-Sproul. Their works utilize film and video in
> combination with painting, performance, fabric, and large-format
> photography, to expand our understanding of moving images.
>
> Sydney and Keith Fitzgerald present an experimental Super 8 tour
> around Mackworth Island in “Yslaneyd.” Ling-Wen Tsai, in
> collaboration with composer Nathan Kolosko, present “Water & Wind:
> Water Bugs,” a new video in their on-going exploration of invisible
> elemental energies. Stefanie Loeb’s “Cotton and Silk” uses film and
> cloth garments to address the materials’ transformation over time.
> Using Super 8 projection, painting, and performance, Betsy Nelson
> addresses the currently fashionable convergence of feminism and
> domesticity in “Domestic Fowl: Birds Kept for their Eggs and
> Flesh.” The flammability of celluloid film is the focus of Peter
> Shellenberger’s “Fool Render Dust,” a projection of the B – Monster
> Movie War of the Colossal Beast, continuously looped until the
> film’s disintegration. “Directions of Encounter” by Kenneth White
> explores the pliability of time and place in quintessential Maine
> Coast imagery using video projection on to large-format transparent
> DURAclear prints from Super 8. Deborah Wing-Sproul presents her new
> performance-based video “Tidal Culture, Part II: Newfoundland,
> Latitude 49.42N / Longitude 54.45W,” the latest work in her on-
> going address of impermanence in environmental and cultural
> conditions.
>
> The Portland Film + Video Artists Collective (PFVAC) formed in July
> 2006. It is committed to the advancement of film and video as
> personal, experimental art forms in Greater Portland. Celebration
> and preservation of creative freedom is paramount in all its
> actions. This is the Collective’s fourth event: the previous three
> were held at Zero Station, Portland, Maine, and included “Premiere
> Showcase” (October 2006), “Peter Gruner Shellenberger
> Retrospective” (March 2007), and the “Portland – Syracuse One Take
> Super 8 Event” with visiting artist Brett Kashmere (April 2007).
>
> Kenneth White, PFVAC Director: email suppressed / (207) 233 –
> 4674
> Nathaniel May, SPACE Gallery Executive Director: email suppressed /
> (207) 828 – 5600
> www.space538.org
>
>
> Kenneth White
> www.kennethwhiteprojects.com
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