archive 1999 James Stark's Punk '77 Book Signing Party 12/14/99 James Stark's photographs were published in New York Rocker, Slash, Search & Destroy and other publications, and his posters for the band Crime are highly-prized collectors' items. Radical Epiphanies: A Series of Interdisciplinary Temporal Dislocations Bee Show 12/3/99 to 12/4/99 In Bee Show, Masaoka will play the bees' vibrating wings processed and mixed by Masaoka with composer/mixer/programmer Scot Gresham-Landcaster, as well as projections of live and found video footage of bees. Radical Epiphanies: A Series of Interdisciplinary Temporal Dislocations Randy Nordshow & Tarrl Morley Transitoire 11/20/99 Composer/performer Randy Nordschow premieres Transitoire, a new interdisciplinary work constructed around a small moment of the Earth's rotation cycle. Colloborating video artist Tarrl Morley has created a visual cantus firmus by leaving his video camera untouched while filming the moon slowly passing through its field of vision. Radical Epiphanies: A Series of Interdisciplinary Temporal Dislocations Rika Ohara & The Nuclear Family Shelter 8 11/20/99 Rika Ohara returns to The LAB with her now-virtual performance company The Nuclear Family for the world premiere of Shelter 8, an interdisciplinary millennial dream. As the media supplants myth in both forming an expressing our collective consciousness, nuclear annihilation has become a modern Judgement Day defined by the very absence of a decisive event. Radical Epiphanies: A Series of Interdisciplinary Temporal Dislocations NEMO & The Body of Light 11/18/99 Experience the dream-time of NEMO as he engages viewers in a sympathetic vibration with The Body of Light. Radical Epiphanies: A Series of Interdisciplinary Temporal Dislocations Enie Macy & the 10 Step Program 11/5/99 to 11/13/99 Fri/Sat, Nov. 5, 6, 12 and 13 Enie Macy & the 10 Step Program is an interdisciplinary sci-fi epic incorporating dance, theatrical elements, live video, original music and animatronics. Enie Macy features a myriad of slightly perverse characters, each a portal to revelations concerning our time, culture, and approach to intimacy. A Consisterly Conspiracy CAMP BINGO 10/5/99 Tuesday, October 5, 8 PM $10-$25 sliding scale donation The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence lend their inimitable style to bingo, that most catholic of all fundraisers. Wacky prizes, libations, bingo snax, live entertainment and appearances by special celebrity guest bingo callers add to the festivities. Proceeds benefit The LAB and The Sisters' charitable activities. A Consisterly Conspiracy Changing the Face of Activism: 20 Years of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. 9/23/99 to 10/8/99 A retrospective exhibition of art and memorabilia documenting the twenty year history of San Francisco's legendary Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A dynamic and unique force in The City, The Sisters bridge art and activism with an outrageous and divine sense of community spirit. Similar/Same 8/20/99 to 9/18/99 Rebeca Bollinger's work synthesizes existing digital materials into new forms and explores ways in which information machines and systems can be exploited to produce residual, left-over information. In Similar/Same, that residue becomes the work.   Sub-Techs: The New Post-Digital Sculpture an exhibition curated by Charles Gute and presented at The LAB from April 3 to May 2, 1998. [return to current year archive]