POW!POW!POW! press release

hi artists -

here is our official POW!POW!POW! press release attached as a word doc and intext. please use this communique when distributing information about POW!3. please spread the word locos + locas! tickets are already selling fast - we had to expand to another venue (ATA, next door to viracocha) for the opening night!

thanks! -the POW!POW!POW! curators

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POW!POW!POW! ACTION ART FESTIVAL 2010

ACTION ART LIVE ART PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION VIDEO ARTE SIN CENSURA NO BUDGET NO LIMITS RAW ART READY TO GO ACTION ART

For Immediate Release:

DATES: October 14-17, 2010

Thursday & Saturday: Performance Installations

Friday & Sunday: Raw Staged Performances

TIME: 8 PM

PLACE: Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street San Francisco CA – Look for the Dragon Door!

ADDITIONAL VENUE (THURSDAY NIGHT ONLY): Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street San Francisco CA

CURATED/PRODUCED by: gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo, Alyssa Lee, and Guillermo Gómez Peña.

FESTIVAL SITE: http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival

$12 in advance - $15 at door

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125903

Just in time for the next credit crunch and as the main cultural institutions

of the country, in panic, join forces with the corporate media to save their culo, POW!POW! POW! arrives once again to the scene as uncompromising and independent as ever.

Appealing to a primal desire of free expression without limits, POW!POW! POW! is, today, one of the few remaining uncensored performance festivals in the US.

As major art institutions continue to play it safe and impose their political agendas on the artists, POW! POW! POW! declares, once and for all, total freedom of expression with no limits and no strings attached.

Now an internationally renowned festival, this third edition of the original POW! will bring together an array of local and international multigenerational action artists more willing to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

Designed and run by artists, this year’s festival was irreverently curated by co-founders Alyssa Lee, gal*in_dog aka Guillermo Galindo and Guillermo Gómez Peña.

Contact powsf@yahoo.com for high resolution photos.

PERFORMERS:

Allison Wyper (San Francisco/Los Angeles)

Alyssa Lee & George Alley (San Francisco and Philadelphia)

Bernie Roddy (Oklahoma)

Casey Droege & Christine Choi (Pittsburgh and San Francisco)

David Lakein (Berlin/Chicago)

Eijane Janet Lin & Miao Jiaxin (Chicago)

Erika Olsen Hannes (San Francisco)

Frank Moore (San Francisco)

gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo (Mexico/San Francisco)

Ginger Murray (San Francisco)

Guillermo Gómez Peña (Mexico/San Francisco)

Havia Dara Sokolova (San Francisco)

Jake Myers (Chicago)

John Zibell (New York/San Francisco)

Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos (San Francisco)

Keith Hennessy (San Francisco)

Kimberly Bainum (San Francisco)

Lauren Barri Holstein (London)

Leslie Baker (Montreal, QC)

Liz ess (San Francisco)

Loren R Robertson & Brittney Fosbrook (San Francisco)

Luke Homitsky (Pittsburgh)

Lula Chapman (San Francisco)

Michael Barrett (San Francisco)

Michael Namkung (San Francisco)

Pancho López (Mexico)

Philip Huang (San Francisco)

Philip T. Nails & Elisabeth Millican (Los Angeles)

Praba Pilar (Colombia)

Rae Langes (Chicago)

Rebecca Cunningham (Australia)

Sheryl-Ann Simpson (New York)

Theo Knox (San Francisco)

Toma (Los Angeles)

WIGband: Barbara Golden and Johanna Poethig (San Francisco)

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POW!POW!POW! ACTION art festival
http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
http://www.youtube.com/POWACTIONart
san francisco, CA
october 14-17 2010
co-founded/produced/curated by: guillermo galindo AKA gal*in_dog + alyssa lee
guest curator: guillermo gomez peña
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