Wednesday, September 23, 2009

CLOSING PARTY this Friday!

CLOSING PARTY Contemplating Her Infinite Disguise -- Masako Miki and Chris Russell
Friday, September 25 7-10pm
(Gallery also open for normal hours noon-6)
with THE SAREES (members of Hannah & Mariah Dancing, Whysp, The Sunshine Rains, God's Eye, Skygreen Leopards...)
http://www.myspace.com/thesarees

AND, fluxus performance by music*yoga

"My choices consist in choosing what questions to ask"
~John Cage

interview•yoga

Open the folding table and place the objects on it.
Wear the battery powered amp using the belt clip.
Use the microphone for interviews.
Wind up and start the metronome at a very slow rate.
Set the timer to 20 minutes, or whatever overall length is desired.
Ring the bell to start a "round".
Throw the three dice.

(http://www.musicyoga.org)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

au voir!


CLOSING PARTY for Contemplating Her Infinite Design

Masako Miki and Chris Russell

Friday, September 25 7-10pm

Gallery Extraña || 2912 Telegraph Avenue || Berkeley 94705

music + fluxus performance + art discounts!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Masako, Chris and Aimee on Art in the Afternoon with Gregory Scharpen on KALX

01 Art talk KALX Miki & Russell by galleryextrana

Artist Interview on KALX Berkeley Radio with artists Masako Miki and Chris Russell and Gallery Extraña curator/gallery director Aimee Friberg. 30 minutes. Recorded live on September 3, 2009.

we HEART film + live music

and Cinematheque!
check out this mash up of post punk group Savage Republic to José Antonio Sistiaga's hand painted film. /// see you there.



“Basque abstract artist José Antonio Sistiaga painted directly onto film with homemade inks to create this silent 1970 feature. But Sistiaga’s strangely titled work… is different from the films of Stan Brakhage, who didn’t come to film from painting and had his own rhythm. […] [I]ts combination of color and 35-millimeter ‘scope (with about half an hour in black and white) yields the kind of spectacle one associates with musicals and [science fiction] epics.” -- Jonathan Rosenbaum

A hand-painted masterpiece of the 1970s; a legendary band of the 1980s. Sistiaga’s rarely-screened ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren is a work of uncompromising beauty that absolutely deserves a wider appreciation. Savage Republic, one of the unrecognized godfathers of post-rock, formed roughly three decades ago in the midst of the Los Angeles punk rock scene and abruptly disbanded in 1989. In recent years, they’ve reformed and their unique sound (akin to a Middle Eastern surf band backed by the rhythm section from Joy Division) is as compelling and inexorable as ever. For San Francisco Cinematheque’s season opener, Savage Republic -- original members Ethan Port and Thom Fuhrmann joined by Alan Waddington and Kerry Dowling -- performs a newly commissioned score to Sistiaga’s prodigious work, presented in a stunning 35mm print from Paris. (Jonathan Marlow)

more info here:
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/#/calendar/200909200/