New Sound, Light, and Sculptural Installations by Amy Balkin, Brandon LaBelle and Tony Meredith

Exhibition: Friday, November 17 - Saturday, December 16, 2000
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 2-7 PM (free admission)
Opening Reception: Friday, November 17, 6-9 PM (free admission)

Sound Salon events curated by Randy Nordschow:
Wednesday, December 6:
James Goode and guests:
Dylan Bolles
Loren Chasse
Walter Funk
Matt Ingalls
Jai-Young Kim
Tom Nunn
Eric Glick Reimann
John Shiurba
Tom Yoder

Wednesday December 13:
Wet Gate and Blectum From Blechdom, 9 PM ($5-$10 sliding scale)

All events take place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, SF

the gallery will be closed November 23-25 for Thanksgiving

The LAB is pleased to present new sound, light and sculptural installations by San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin and Los Angeles-based artists Brandon LaBelle and Tony Meredith in a gallery exhibition opening Friday, November 17 and running through Saturday, December 16, 2000. The opening reception will take place from 6 to 9 PM on Friday, November 17, with gallery hours Wednesdays through Saturdays from 2 to 7 PM.

In conjunction with the exhibition, LAB music curator Randy Nordschow will present a sound salon on Wednesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 13 at 9 PM. Composer and electronic instrument builder James Goode and guests present Foment in the Brailles of Zoopsia, a sensory obstacle course designed to influence spontaneous sound making, on December 6. Wet Gate and Blectum from Blechdom offer an Extracted Celluloid-Sound Byte Circus on December 13. Admission each evening is $5 to $10 sliding scale.

Exhibition runs Thursday, October 26 - Saturday, November 11, 2000
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 2-7 PM (free admission)
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 26, 6-9 PM (free admission)

There there; Performance by Margaret Tedesco with Charles Kremenak and Owen O'Toole
Friday, October 27; 9 PM ($7-$10 sliding scale)

Moving Target Series:
Thursday, November 2 featuring Jacob Hartman, Tony Labat, Hans Winkler + Mal Sharpe
Friday, November 3 featuring James Bewley, Peter Conheim, Fred Frith + Garth Powell; 9 PM ($7-$10 sliding scale)

Closing Performances by Margaret Tedesco, Charles Kremenak, Owen O'Toole, Zoey Kroll + Mark Boswell
Saturday, November 11; 9 PM ($7-$10 sliding scale)

All events take place at The LAB
2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Franciso

The LAB is pleased to present there there, the continuation of an ongoing series of performance and installation works begun in 1997 by Margaret Tedesco. In her gallery installation, Tedesco prepares with the danger of losing track. What is circulating (between site and object, viewer and observed)? Rooms are occupied more and more and less and less - by attentions and inattentions, thresholds, open-ended situations, forgotten uses and pre-occupations. Tedesco will be intermittently present engaging in activities during gallery hours. The installation will incorporate recorded texts by poet Susan Gevirtz. Friday, October 27, Tedesco will be joined by Charles Kremenak, "sonic cartographer and vibratory cultural paleontologist," and Owen O'Toole, sound artist, filmmaker, and member of the "all projector ensemble" Wet Gate, for an evening of performance beginning at 9 PM.

On Thursday, November 2, and Friday, November 3, The Moving Target Series, Tedesco's ongoing, roving presentation of performance, music, film, and movement visits The LAB for two separate evenings of shows. During the past two years, the series, co-curated by David Cook, has traveled to such diverse venues as 848 Community Space, The Luggage Store, 111 Minna Street, and New Langton Arts.

Thursday night's show features performance artist Jacob Hartman; Sf Art Institute New Genres professor Tony Labat in collaboration with gregarious Bavarian conceptual artist Hans Winkler; and Mal Sharpe, infamous man-on-the-street interviewer and master of the put-on.

Friday night the series welcomes performance artist James Bewley; Peter Conheim (of Negativland and Wet Gate); guitarist Fred Frith; and percussionist-composer Garth Powell.

On Saturday, November 11 at 9 PM, Tedesco closes out her run at the Lab joined again by Charles Kremenak and Owen O'Toole plus artists Zoey Kroll and Mark Boswell. Kroll, an interdisciplinary artist who has performed and created installations at venues in the Bay Area and France, premiers her new performance work PULL.

$5-$10 sliding scale

An evening of very quiet sounds curated by Kathy Kennedy. Multimedia artists Jim Haynes and Loren Chasse will amplify rust and manipulate electronics and turntables to create a veil of textural details over delicate drones. Sound artist Aaron Thieme will present Urban Cycles, a self-running, immersive 6-projector sound and visual installation documenting the changing face of San Francisco. Composer/performer Kathy Kennedy will present Cell Phone Ballet, a sonic choreography for 20 singers and cell phones.

$5-$10 sliding scale

An evening of short performances by artists reconsidering the idea of an action and its relationship to performance art. The evening becomes pure performance, separating it from a form of theater or premeditated script reliant on rehearsal, which lends the potential for challenge, spontaneity, intuition and epiphany. Featured artists include: Mark Boswell,

Rachel Cook, Francis Fitzpatrick, Sharone Glass, Bridget Irish, Mads Lynnerup, Eugene Marsh, Emily-Jane Maynor, Rebecca Millerand, Chris Sollars, Brian Storts, and Kathryn Williamson.

Friday-Sunday, October 13^th, 14^th & 15^th, 8 PM
$7-$15 sliding scale admission

Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Co./La Pocha Nostra present a preview of things to come: CALIFAS: 2050 is a work-in-progress, Gómez-Peña's brand-new and wildly imaginative bilingual Chicano opera dealing with the epic immigrant experience in contemporary California and the United States. Destined to be a highly transgressive and experimental work, CALIFAS will reach into and beyond traditional operatic conventions to create a fusion of performance art, new music and techno-Chicano aesthetics.

This performance of an excerpt of the work-in-progress will be presented in the tradition of an oratorio or stylized mass. Borrowing from Balinese staging, the performance will be designed for the audience to sit on the floor while the opera is performed around them. Musicians and conductor will be on view, as well as performers on display as mythic and poetic hybrids of our modern day culture.

Wax Museum is the space of performance without the performer. The complex world of Nao Bustamante unfolds over the course of three weekends. A multimedia gallery installation including documents, residue, spin-offs, books and videos tracks the progression of this seminal performance artist. Bustamante will perform and curate programming in conjunction with the exhibition. Using the body as a source of narrative, Bustamante's performances act as a fulcrum for the subconscious, taking the spectator on a bizarre journey, shattering stereotypes by embodying them. During the last decade, Bustamante has placed herself squarely at the center of the local and international performance communities. Her work has been presented in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico and throughout the United States.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-7 PM
Opening Reception: Friday, September 15, 6-9 PM
Admisison: Free
Location: The LAB, 2948 16th Street at Capp
Information: 415.864.8855

La Cuca Cosmica!
(Off-site event)
Saturday, September 16^th, 3:30 PM
El Rio

$7 admission

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day on the back patio of El Rio with La Cuca Cosmica! Witness Bustamante don full drag as she pulls out her post-punk-ranchera-rock-y-roller, Mia Culpa! Bustamante and her band, Las Cucas, host this end of summer celebration, which also features Rock en Espanol by Mito, freaky electronica by Pepito, experimental trip hop by Elitria and Kali, and DJ So Much Soul.

(the death of) America, the beautiful
solo performance by Nao Bustamante
Friday & Saturday, September 22^nd & 23^rd, 9 PM

$7-$10 sliding scale admission

Don't miss the last two live performances of the work that took Bustamante all over the globe! America, the beautiful is a body-narrative that was developed and widely presented during the mid-1990s as an improvisational work-in-progress. The piece begins with Bustamante literally setting the stage. Through the rituals of feminine transformation, using clear packing tape and haphazard make-up, a distorted reality of beauty is created with all of its Eros and defeat.

Performance Remnants
Wednesday September 27^th, 9 PM
Featured Performers: Nao Bustamante, Eduardo Cure & Scott MacLeod
&
Thursday, September 28^th, 9 PM
Featured Performers: Elia Arce, Cliff Hengst & Robert Linder

$7-$10 sliding scale admission

In recent years Bustamante has played a prominent role as a curator of art events in the Bay Area. This evening showcases some of the most relevant and fresh performance artists in California. Follow the performers around The LAB's gallery as they create and deposit performance remnants to remain on view until the closing of the exhibition.

Closing Par-tay with -N- HEAT
Saturday, September 30^th, 6-8 PM

Admission by donation

Mingle and observe the evolution of Bustamante’s Wax Museum installation. Check out the debut of Bustamante’s new band -N- HEAT, a collaboration between Bustamante, Mads Lynnerup and Eamon Ore-Giron.

The LAB is proud to present the world premiere of PAWS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, an original rock opera written by Ellis from the San Francisco band Natural Fonzie. PAWS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE follows the tale of a lonely dog drifting through outer space who receives a telepathic message from an unfamiliar blue planet. Temperatures on Earth begin to rise mysteriously, causing a mythical race of beings from the snow to start melting. Three kids take a walk in the park and become embroiled in a desperate struggle to save the world from an enemy no one expected. PAWS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE features performances by members of some of San Francisco's finest bands including: Natural Fonzie, Knittles, The Chantigs, Sunless Day, Thunder Suite, Horsethief Jack and the Hugs, The Immigrants, Fantasy, Handmaiden America, Mouthful, and The Clap Band.

Admisison: $7-$10 sliding scale

Minnette Lehmann: Amazing
June 16 to july 15, 2000

Exhibition runs Friday, April 28-Saturday, May 27, 2000
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5 PM
Opening Reception: Friday, April 28, 6-9 PM
Free admission.