| Date & Time: | Saturday, November 7, 2009
- Saturday, December 26, 2009
6:00 PM |
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t r a n s p o r t : the alchemy of machine into awareness
Show runs November 2nd through December 26th
Opening Event November 7th, 6 – 9pm, with live experimental music by Scribe.
FLOAT, Floatation Center – Art Gallery
1091 Calcot Place, Unit # 116 (located in a store front loft of the historic cotton mill studios)
Oakland, CA 94606
www.thefloatcenter.com
In this project, a car dies to give life to awareness, from one transformative vow:I will never again own a fossil fuel burning vehicle.
Witness the t r a n s f o r m a t i o n : a public interactive awareness process, a chance to make art with a usually untouchable machine.
Witness the d e c o n s t r u c t i o n : a live sculptural process, with each unhinged piece unearthing new questions in participants.
Exhibit Closing Event: Holiday Buy-pass... Anti-Christmas Party & Closing Celebration Saturday December 19th, 6-9pm, with live "scratch guitar" by The Genie.
Film trailer from the project's first weeks at: www.youtube.com/watch
t r a n s p o r t invites you to a new kind of alchemy.
machines can transport our bodies.
awareness can transport our lives
into new ways of being—
usually these remain separate...
or we ride around busily avoiding the one by the other.
And invite in yourself the alchemy of awareness, where there was once only machine.
Inspired inside the floatation tanks—with their own ability to transport us—this project will now come alive right next to them. See a powerful film of mechanical and self-deconstruction. Sit down inside car-part-artwork sculpted into an experiential living room. Bring your hands to kinesthetic pieces, offered for your own reconstruction. And follow our evocative wall of visual artwork welded with introspective writing. All inviting a new space to open up in you, to t r a n s p o r t your own life...
About the artists:
Drake Logan founded apostrophe' productions as a vehicle for interdisciplinary art and awareness process projects designed to raise public empathy around issues of social justice and self-expression, ranging from fossil fuel consumption to transgender visibility. When not facilitating interactive art, she still paints on canvas or the street. Logan is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at The Wright Institute. apostrophe@resist.ca
Julia Robertson is an artist and activist interested in promoting social change through interactive video and art projects. She created a non-profit production company, Pinch Me Films, with the mission to create and distribute educational videos for youth. Robertson is currently working on her MFA in Social Practices at The California College of the Arts. www.pinchmefilms.org
About The Genie
The Genie is an avant-garde guitarist, performer, and musical pioneer best known to audiences for his 'scratch guitar' shows, a unique performance involving live looping, slide guitar, beatboxing, unconventional syncopation, and various original techniques which he has crafted. Hear music and see videos at www.myspace.com/thegenie
About FLOAT
www.thefloatcenter.com
FLOAT is an urban art spa that offers new, public exhibits of local artists monthly to stimulate and challenge your senses. FLOAT is the only floatation center & art gallery in the San Francisco Bay Area. Floatation therapy is a unique and powerful tool that allows you to shut out the world, and drift into the deepest possible level of physical and mental relaxation.
FLOAT, Floatation Center – Art Gallery 1091 Calcot Place, Unit # 116 (located in a store front loft of the historic cotton mill studios) Oakland, CA 94606
Show runs November 2nd through December 26th
Opening Event November 7th, 6 – 9pm, with live experimental music by Scribe.
FLOAT, Floatation Center – Art Gallery
1091 Calcot Place, Unit # 116 (located in a store front loft of the historic cotton mill studios)
Oakland, CA 94606
www.thefloatcenter.com
In this project, a car dies to give life to awareness, from one transformative vow:I will never again own a fossil fuel burning vehicle.
Witness the t r a n s f o r m a t i o n : a public interactive awareness process, a chance to make art with a usually untouchable machine.
Witness the d e c o n s t r u c t i o n : a live sculptural process, with each unhinged piece unearthing new questions in participants.
Exhibit Closing Event: Holiday Buy-pass... Anti-Christmas Party & Closing Celebration Saturday December 19th, 6-9pm, with live "scratch guitar" by The Genie.
Film trailer from the project's first weeks at: www.youtube.com/watch
t r a n s p o r t invites you to a new kind of alchemy.
machines can transport our bodies.
awareness can transport our lives
into new ways of being—
usually these remain separate...
or we ride around busily avoiding the one by the other.
And invite in yourself the alchemy of awareness, where there was once only machine.
Inspired inside the floatation tanks—with their own ability to transport us—this project will now come alive right next to them. See a powerful film of mechanical and self-deconstruction. Sit down inside car-part-artwork sculpted into an experiential living room. Bring your hands to kinesthetic pieces, offered for your own reconstruction. And follow our evocative wall of visual artwork welded with introspective writing. All inviting a new space to open up in you, to t r a n s p o r t your own life...
About the artists:
Drake Logan founded apostrophe' productions as a vehicle for interdisciplinary art and awareness process projects designed to raise public empathy around issues of social justice and self-expression, ranging from fossil fuel consumption to transgender visibility. When not facilitating interactive art, she still paints on canvas or the street. Logan is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at The Wright Institute. apostrophe@resist.ca
Julia Robertson is an artist and activist interested in promoting social change through interactive video and art projects. She created a non-profit production company, Pinch Me Films, with the mission to create and distribute educational videos for youth. Robertson is currently working on her MFA in Social Practices at The California College of the Arts. www.pinchmefilms.org
About The Genie
The Genie is an avant-garde guitarist, performer, and musical pioneer best known to audiences for his 'scratch guitar' shows, a unique performance involving live looping, slide guitar, beatboxing, unconventional syncopation, and various original techniques which he has crafted. Hear music and see videos at www.myspace.com/thegenie
About FLOAT
www.thefloatcenter.com
FLOAT is an urban art spa that offers new, public exhibits of local artists monthly to stimulate and challenge your senses. FLOAT is the only floatation center & art gallery in the San Francisco Bay Area. Floatation therapy is a unique and powerful tool that allows you to shut out the world, and drift into the deepest possible level of physical and mental relaxation.
FLOAT, Floatation Center – Art Gallery 1091 Calcot Place, Unit # 116 (located in a store front loft of the historic cotton mill studios) Oakland, CA 94606
