MAY 6th – 24th, 2009
@ galleryHOMELAND
2505 SE 11th, inside the Ford Building
(corner of 11th and Division)
The PDX Fest Video Installation Exhibit
BUM EQUIPMENT
curated by CARTUNE XPREZ
OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Wednesday May 6th from 7PM – 12AM with performances starting at 9PM
VIEWING HOURS: May 7th – 24th from 12PM – 6PM, Thursday through Monday
For this year’s PDX Fest, Peter Burr conjured a Cartune Xprez installation showcase featuring work by over 20 artists from around the world. Presented in 3 parts, BUM EQUIPMENT offers a heavy dose of the video-world unraveled. In Part 1: LOOPS, local design firm VON TUNDRA refigures dozens of monitors for 15 artists’ endless visions trapped in tubes. Part 2: GAMES features an expanded arcade with side-by-side interactive video adventures. Part 3: BIG TOPS builds a home for opening night performances with tents, strobes, clouds, and rainbows. Abandon your senses and follow these peculiar visions as we deconstruct the mystery beneath our pop culture subconscious.
SELECTED PIECES INCLUDE:
Debris
TM Sisters - Miami, FL
An interactive video game in which your stomping foot propels a flying girl to annihilate trash propelled by gale-force winds.
Mumblehop
Mumbleboy, Karl Ackerman, E*Rock - Portland, OR + New York, NY
Using the form and interface of a simple arcade game, players advance through various levels of vibrant color and childlike characters.
Church of the Natural World
Deelay Ceelay (Chris Lael Larson + Delaney Kelly) - Portland, OR
It’s about pitching a tent, an inside portal to the outside. A double-drum set opening night performance charging the atmosphere for a 2-week world.
Logistics of Burning
Luke Forsyth + K Syms - Portland, OR
Psychedelajawea presents a multimedia performance that investigates dualities within extreme relationships.
Experiments Involving the Descent of Light Particles, Part 4
Adam Keller - Portland, OR
Light particles continuously trickling down thousands of swirling tendrils that engulf the viewer in colorful light. Slow the heart rate, deepen the breath, calm the mind.
To Hold a Future Body So Close to One’s Own
Evan Meaney - Iowa City, IA
27 video portraits in which the files’ base-encoding are made viscerally apparent. In these pieces of digital video, the expressions provide visual insight into the file’s origination; akin to counting the rings on a tree’s trunk to see how and when it began.
PMS + RSI
Shana Moulton - New York, NY
A series of vignettes that exchange themes of the medicine woman and the medicalized female body.
Backwardstimes
Seth Scriver - Toronto, ON
A looping spotted owl accompanied by free jazz saxophone by Brodie West.
Mountain
Sabine Gruffat - Madison, WI
Multiple sources of feedback-generated computer animations mixed with images and sounds from electronic oscillators via an analog video switcher.
Springfield Eternal
Philippe Blanchard - Toronto, ON
Bart Simpson grows old and young again and again.
Rockford
Marc Couroux - Montreal, QC
Material from the popular 1970’s television show The Rockford Files, that takes place in Los Angeles, is subtly manipulated so as to induce gradual semiotic slippage.
Perpetual Motion
Emanuele Kabu - Belluno, Italy
Produce, consume, die: a movement that goes on forever.
Sword Slinger
Adrian Freeman - Minneapolis, MN
A darkly clad sorceress fulfills ritual demands by summoning a weapon of power and imbuing it with might.
Mom and Babe on a Rocking Chair
Lief Hall – Vancouver, BC
An abstracted 3D portrait of a mother and her child accompanying acapella voice recordings sung by the artist.
Homing
Stephen Slappe - Portland, OR
Google Street View + every home the artist has had since birth.
AND MUCH MORE!