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POW! POW! Action Art festival 2009
2nd annual mini performance art festival
Produced and curated by Alyssa Lee and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo
Featuring performance and installations by artists from around the world
October 15-18, 2009
The Climate Theater – 285 9th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
8pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
$12 in advance, $15 at door - 4-day festival pass $30
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/77223
(SAN FRANCISCO – October 15-18, 2009) – POW! POW! ACTION Art festival 2009 is a 4 evening festival of new ACTION art works that will take place on Thursday October 15th, Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, and Sunday October 18th. Co-curated and produced by Alyssa Lee of group A and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo, POW! POW! displays “cutting-edgy” work of performers and artists from the Bay Area, New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Canada, and Germany.
" The ultimate artists response to the economic melt down…A tax payer/GOP friendly festival. No one penny of tax money ever used to produce it". –POW! POW!
Translation = " Real freedom of expression. No strings attached."
One of the few uncensored festivals in the US, POW! POW! is presented as a response to the ways in which the art scene is managed in the Bay Area and the United States and to the bailout of “too big to fail” arts organizations. Artists have been forced to follow certain aesthetics in order to have their work presented in a gallery or a festival and obligated to create a specific type of work that follows the fiscal sponsor's agenda. Thus, the sponsor gets either to censor the artist or to adapt the art to fit the organization’s specific agenda. The curators of POW! POW! devised a festival where the artist is encouraged to present work without restrictions.
The previous year’s festival, POW! 2008 mini performance art festival was a huge success, generating excitement for performance art and for uncensored expression from artists. This year’s POW! POW! has quadrupled in size and will be even more shocking!
Among many outrageous artists, POW! POW! 2009 will feature daring and controversial performers such as Frank Moore, Keith Hennessey, Michael Namkung, and many others. The content of these shameless pieces are all over the map, ranging from works about volcanic eruptions, underwater explorations of performative hygiene, photographs of souls, wearable art pieces, first dates, electro-mechanical soft sculptures, absurdist hip hop performances, art critiques, interactive video installations, Japanese-American Internment camps, and the ironic and sometimes brutal ideals we teach our children that we consider acceptable.
For more information visit www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
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POW! POW! PROGRAM INFORMATION
Alyssa Lee + gal*in_dog
Artist
Greg Crane
Joshua Kit Clayton
Kagel Kater + Hairspray (The Pony)
Kingsley September Irons
Michael Namkung
Nora Raggio
Shawn Feeney
FRIDAY NIGHT
Frank Moore
gal*in_dog
Green Hemoglobin
Greg Crane
Nora Raggio
Tina Takemoto
SATURDAY NIGHT – PERFORMANCE INSTALLATIONS
Bo Choi (Fiber Artist)
Corner Liquor Store
Erika Hannes
Gina Clark
Greg Crane
Keith Hennessey/ Zero Performance
Marita Bullman
Michele Beck
Nicole Zvarick
Nora Raggio
Rebecca Anne Wilson
Sheryl Anne Simpson (I + an audience)
your name here
SUNDAY NIGHT
Alyssa Lee and George Alley
Greg Crane
Holly Furgason
J. Robert Reed
Maria Legault
MOM
Nora Raggio
Sheryl-Ann Simpson
Suki Tawdry
MISSION STATEMENT
POW! was founded by Kattt Atchley (formerly Kattt Sammon), Alyssa Lee, and gal*in_dog to promote action art. The first POW! was held in March 2008 in San Francisco. The festival was formerly called POW! mini performance art festival, but over time it became clear that what this festival aims to do is to produce and present ACTION art, so the curators/directors changed the name of the festival to POW! ACTION art festival. Each year the curators will add a POW! to the name, hopefully making the 10th POW! ACTION art festival read as POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! ACTION art festival. Or, POW! to the 10th power ACTION art festival.
The POW! POW! festival is not only original in its aesthetics but also in its grass roots community organized model, which is very different from the top down model that has been applied to the arts through Art Organizations over the last 20 years. POW! POW! Is a viable alternative to other conventional performance art festivals and venues. POW! POW! is an invitation to play and experiment new and controversial ideas in front of an audience. The festival is a long time project that creates a community establishing partnerships between artists who believe their performance art doesn’t belong to any pre-established categories.
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