MIA screenings + exhibitions

MOMENTS IN TIME
22 NOVEMBER 2013 – 8PM
Joe Duffy – Ada Kobusiewicz – James Mattise
Brenda Miller – Emma Piper-Burket – Karen Vilchis & Ninfa Sánchez
Simon Welch – Zhu Xiaowen

A collection of new experimental documentaries from artists working around the globe.

Danube Treasure (2013) by Polish artist Ada Kobusiewicz, is an experimental-documentary video about the condition of the contemporary world with its focus on waste in Danube river.

James Mattise’s As Best I Can Remember (2013) is a short portrait reflection on the life of Samuel Mattise. Using found audio recordings, the film reflects on 1900s American culture, World War II, and a family dairy business in Jermyn, Pennsylvania.

Cast (2012) by UK artist, Simon Welch meditates on a group of anglers night-fishing on a French beach. Illuminated only by their small headlamps, this relatively ordinary activity takes on an otherworldly aspect, becoming an allegory for contemporary life.

A Tour of the Sulaymaniyah Museum (2012) by Emma Piper-Burket is a silent document of the sparsely filled halls of the museum of antiquities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Terminal Island (2013) by Zhu Xiaowen is a visual and psychological journey inside a recycling company in the port of San Pedro, where the world of material ends and restarts.

Hope of Salvation (2013) by Mexican artists Karen Vilchis & Ninfa Sánchez follows the celebration of a rural religious festival.

In UK artist Joe Duffy’s LANDFILL (2012), space is mapped and land is filled, through the animation of gps data co-ordinates and interconnected narrative excerpts with trashpickers and members of squatter communities in the slums of Jakarta.

Landscape With Two Women (2013) by Brenda Miller considers the language of knitting used in the construction of lace shawls and intarsia socks worked by two expert amateur knitters.

The MIA (Moving Image Art) is a project of video artist Alanna Simone to promote the work of artists who use the moving image. Every 4th Friday at 8PM, the MIA series screens video art, experimental films, performance art, essay films and animation from local and international artists at the Armory Center for the Arts.

MIA presents MOMENTS IN TIME

8PM – Friday, 22 November 2013
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91106

Suggested donation of $5
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LUCID STREAMING
25 OCTOBER 2013 – 8PM

Jean-Guillaume Bastien – David Jacques
Francesca Lolli – Marcantonio Lunardi – Jonathan Monaghan
Marko Schiefelbein – Ellen Wetmore

LUCID STREAMING is a collection of new moving image work exploring political, cultural, historical, and mythological themes through surreal, dream-like imagery from artists in the US, Canada and Europe.

Jonathan Monaghan (US), Rainbow Narcosis. A 3D animation following a headless lamb through a series of otherworldly environments.

Marko Schiefelbein (Germany), I can. You can. A woman speaks directly to camera, a tangled declaration of ideals all phrases scraped from advertisements.

Ellen Wetmore (US), Collective Invention. What would that grand Rene Magritte inverted mermaid painting look like as a performance with a real woman on a real beach and one real, dead smelly fish?

Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy), Default. A man sits at a desk with a phone in an abandoned factory, on hold.

Jean-Guillaume Bastien (Canada), Déjà-vu. A collection of dream-like images, five women share a sense of déjà-vu.

Francesca Lolli (Italy), Abaddon. Explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish Trouble in a disorienting ensemble performance.

David Jacques (UK), The Irlam House Bequest. In the style of a developing documentary, a series of drawings describes a fictitious collective; an anonymous politico-cultural entity.
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MIA presents LUCID STREAMING
8PM – Friday, 25 October 2013
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Suggested donation of $5
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Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91106
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PETER BO RAPPMUND
27 SEPTEMBER 2013 – 8PM

MIA is pleased to present two landscape films from Peter Bo Rappmund, Psychohydrography (2010) and TECTONICS (2012). Visually stunning with intricate, evocative soundtracks, both investigate the footprint of political and cultural constructs on the land itself. A discussion with the artist will follow the screening.

Psychohydrography (2010)
An analysis of the flow of water from mountain to aqueduct, city to sea. Shot at and around the Eastern Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Los Angeles River and Pacific Ocean.

TECTONICS (2012)
A survey of the physical qualities and metaphysical quandaries of the United States-Mexico border. Follows the boundary and its immediate surrounding topography incrementally from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.

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PETER BO RAPPMUND at MIA
8PM – September 27, 2013
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

MAKE MUSIC FESTIVAL
1 JUNE 2013 — 1 to 6PM

MIA will be projecting video for the Armory’s stage during the Make Music Festival on June 1st starting at 1PM. Come on by and say hello!

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MIA at the MAKE MUSIC FESTIVAL
1-6PM – June 1, 2013
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

LIMBIC RESONANCE
26 APRIL 2013 – 8PM
Nadav Assor – Manfred Borsch – Jeffrey Curtis
Anikó Kuikka – Ashley Morgan – Karin Stohart
Karen Sztajnberg – Antoinette Zwirchmayr

MIA presents video art from eight international artists exploring how individuals experience different types of relationships between people and their bodies.

A security guard and a healer perform as themselves in Feelers (Esotropia Conversations II) (2012) by Nadav Assor, their practices of body-therapy and body-search highlighting the similarities and contrasts of their professions.

An investigation of the body reacting to audio stimulus, limbic (2012) by German artist Manfred Borsch will give you the chills.

Transit (2012) by Jeffrey Curtis, is based on the astronomical phenomenon of the same name, it is an exploration of space, distance, and relationships.

Depicting three stages of romantic relationships, <3 (2012) from Finnish artist Anikó Kuikka, strips the sweetness out of romance.

Using two florescent light bulbs, Ashley Morgan conveys the breakdown of a relationship in Stars Have Their Moment (2012).

Working with an actor and the familiar gesture of a kiss in White Horse (2012), Karin Stohart examines the construction and implications of romantic fantasy.

Based on Daniel J. Siegel’s notion that what we remember are not the feelings associated with an intense experience, but the narrative created while undergoing it, Karen Sztajnberg documents a cast of people remembering of a moment of sexual inadequacy in The Narrative of Inadequacy (2012).

An evocative landscape film, no title (2012) by Austrian artist, Antoinette Zwirchmayr, is a dreamlike meditation on the body.

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MIA presents LIMBIC RESONANCE
8PM – April 26, 2013
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

ATTENTIONAL SHIFT
22 March 2013 — 8PM
Rocky Horton – Stephanie Hough – Marco Mendeni
Jessica Miller – Zach Nader – Charmaine Ortiz
Mikey Peterson – Rembrandt Quiballo – Tahir Ün

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MIA presents video art from nine artists working with repetition, manipulation and found footage on March 22nd. These artworks each focus the audience’s attention through selective editing and image manipulation in order to reveal secondary meanings behind the initial surface impression.
THE GAME (2013) from Turkish artist Tahir Ün, interweaves footage taken in the town of Mardin on the Syrian border with footage from the conflict taking place just over that boundary.

Blowout (2012) from Arizona based Rembrandt Quiballo, features video of explosions uploaded by American soldiers during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Chicago based Mikey Peterson gives us Anas Nebula (2012), a stylized one-shot video where a collision dramatically alters the space, displacing the viewer and revealing that patterns made by the human mind are not always what they seem.

From North Carolina based Charmaine Ortiz, Search: “How to Draw a Woman”, Male Perspectives from YouTube Result Pages 1-50 (2012) is compiled from videos by male authors who describe the techniques and attributes necessary to draw a woman while simultaneously revealing their own expectations, prejudices, fears and desires in their instructions as well as visually in their drawings created from memory.

In edited car commercials with the cars, people and text digitally removed, Brooklyn based Zach Nader reveals the spectacular landscapes and our expectations in optional features shown (2012)

At once humourous and poignant, Brooklyn based Jessica Miller consults with psychic mediums in a search for critcal advice from dead artists in The Medium (2012).

Italian artist Marco Mendeni hacks videogames. In FOV01 (2012) he reveals only the digital landscapes that form the backdrop during normal play.

In I Don’t Wanna Talk About It (2012), Irish artist Stephanie Hough removed all of the dialoge from an infomercial, revealing the actors’ unconsious actions and behaviors.

Tennessee based Rocky Horton, gives us a wry take on pop stars and award shows with all the songs God is responsible for according to Grammy Awards acceptance speeches 1971-2012 (2012).

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MIA presents ATTENTIONAL SHIFT
8PM – March 22, 2013
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

SAME OCEAN
22 February 2013 – 8PM

Bilsu Hacar – Seth Indigo Carnes
Johannes Gierlinger – Laura Kraning
Marcantonio Lunardi – Diran Lyons
Angelo Picozzi – Carlie Trosclair

MIA is pleased to present SAME OCEAN, a selection of experimental films and video art projects working with historical material. From the dark magik underlying the Jet Propulsion Labratory in the hills above Pasadena to the 45 individual seconds the atom bomb took to detonate over the city of Hiroshima, the machinations of the recent presidential election to the mire of Berlusconi’s Italy, these artworks are recontexturalizing individual moments we collectively recognize with new perspectives and comparisons.
Keep My Pic Sister (2012), from Turkish artist Bilsu Hacar is a short performance documentation that uses a paper cutout of a black burqa.
NYC based Seth Indigo Carnes focuses on 1920s avant-garde cinema, where objects and bodies fracture and dissolve into and through each other. Total Disintigration (2010) is a live cinematic generation working with videos as paint in a palette.
Broken Time (2011) from Austrian artist Johannes Gierlinger riffs on the cut up films of the Beats mixing dismembered pieces of footage with text and manipulated celluloid.
Laura Kraning‘s Devil’s Gate (2011) depicts the physical and mythological terrain of Devil’s Gate Dam, located at the nexus of Pasadena’s historical relationship with technology and the occult, through an examination of Jack Parsons’ writings.
Trilogy of Decadence (2011-2012) by Marcantonio Lunardi evokes the omnipresence of Silvio Berlusconi in the last two decades of Italy’s history and the tension of waiting for a change followed by the 21 days that transformed the political system and sealed his downfall.
In the remix video 99 Problems (2012) by Diran Lyons, Barack Obama raps a modified version of Jay Z’s song by the same name. The revised lyrics cover subjects ranging from Occupy Wall Street, escalating energy costs, bank bailouts, “Fast and Furious,” Obama’s birth certificate, and the use of predator drones.
Scottish artist Angelo Picozzi found a roll of 15 photographs which, upon inspection, contained three photographs taken in Hiroshima, Japan sometime shortly after the atomic bom was dropped over the city. 00:00:45:00 (2007) takes its temporal duration from the time it took “Little Boy” to explode over the city after its release from “Engola Gay.”
An abandoned interior is given a new skin in Carlie Trosclair‘s Kowalsky Intervention (2012) re-structuring and re-imagining our understanding of the physical space.

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MIA presents SAME OCEAN
8PM – February 22, 2013
The Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103