Quiet Lightning presents Call and Response: Kim Anno and Pamela Z
A South Africa Event on 2016-05-09 20:00:00
Call and Response: a specialist in any field gives a presentationof any kindin their area of expertise, followed by an informal Q&A and an improv response by some of the Bay Areas finest creative musicians.This show features painter, photographer, and film/video artist Kim Anno and her adaptation-in-progress of Dante's Purgatorio, which she is secularizing. "Dante was moving in that direction but kept to the Christianity for many reasons," Anno says. "My aim is to remove that entirely and see what there is left."Responding to Anno's presentation is composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z! Two awe-inspiring creatives who actively bridge the worlds of art and science/tech, and two excellent chances that you will find yourself saying I haven't seen anything like that before. One night only.Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video artist whose work has been collected and exhibited by museums nationally and internationally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno has had exhibitions and screenings at the 14th Annual New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea, Kala Art Institute,Berkeley, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg, the Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa in the Dont Panic Exhibition, Flux Projects, Atlanta, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, 6 channel video installation, Windows Project, Atlanta, Sky Dive Gallery, Houston, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, Seeline Gallery in Los Angeles, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, Sue Scott Gallery, NY, Site Santa Fe Biennale: One Night Stand in New Mexico, the Kings Art Center, California Retrospective, the Varnosi Museum in Hungary, DC Dusseldorf International Expo (Germany), Pulse, Miami, and the Berkeley Art Museum, the Denison University Museum, and Noel Art Museum. Annos work was recently acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Crocker Art Museum. Recipient of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Purchase Award and the Eureka Foundations Fleishhaker Fellowship, Anno has been a professor at the California College of the Arts since 1996. She was recently awarded a fellowship by the Zellerbach Foundation and the Open Circle Foundation in 2012-13 as well as a Sustainable Arts residency at Kala Art Institute in support of her new interdisciplinary work. In Fall 2014 Anno was a recipient of a Berkeley Film Foundation Award and published her second artists book with the poet Anne Carson. Her photographs have been published in Harpers Magazine, Sierra Magazine,and Viz Journal from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Annos work has been collected by SFMOMA, Berkeley Art Museum, Honolulu Academy of Fine Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Crocker Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Columbia University Library, University of Texas, Austin, Getty Research Institute, Goethe Institute, among others. For more information visit www.kimanno.com.Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she creates solo works combining experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can Allstars. Her large-scale multi-media works have been presented at venues including Theater Artaud and ODC in San Francisco, and The Kitchen in New York, and her media works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (NY) , the Dizesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert Art Museum (IL). Her multi-media opera Wunderkabinetinspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (co-composed with Matthew Brubeck)has been presented at The LAB Gallery (San Francisco), REDCAT (Disney Hall, Los Angeles), and Open Ears Festival, Toronto. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, the Creative Capital Fund, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, The MAP Fund, the ASCAP Music Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit www.pamelaz.com.
at The Lost Church
65 Capp Street
San Francisco, United States
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