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Michelle
Handelman
The
Adventures of LuckyM: AIM
April 12-20
Opening Friday, April 12, 6-8 PM: Launch Party w/dj7hz
Gallery Hours: Saturday, April 13 & Wednesday-Saturday, April
17-20, 1-6 PM
Free during gallery hours
The
Live Shoot-Out
Performance: Thursday, April 18, 8 PM
$5-$8 sliding scale admission
The Adventures of Lucky: AIM, is a week-long performance
by New York artist Michelle Handelman using Nikki de Saint Phalle's
1960's shooting performances as a launch pad for a hi-tech interpretation
of action painting and the branding of contemporary art. Examining
issues of violence, power and pure abstraction through the post-feminist
interface of a Super Action Anti-hero, Handelman will perform and
train in the space on a daily basis using paintball guns as her
artistic weapon of choice, transforming acts of violence into acts
of creation. Taking the practice of art-making into a military regime
scenario featuring the "artist-in-training," gallery hours
will be broken up into work-outs, target practice, and free-form
shooting. Handelman will use the entire gallery as her canvas throughout
the week, building a layered abstract environment where the viscous
quality of the soy-based paint allows the paintings to exist in
a state of constant change. Midi sensors throughout the space will
trigger sounds and images allowing meaning to accrue with the catharsis
of air-powered rifles. Time-lapse video of the previous days shooting
will be projected daily along with remote transmission images coming
from a camera mounted on the barrel of the gun. Simulated violence
and spectacle are poised in a precarious balance between absurd
entertainment and serious political reflection.
The
Live Shoot-0ut: This performance event will explode
with a night of participatory shooting -where the tools of creation
are placed in the hands of culture-makers and artists from the San
Francisco art world. Shooters will include: Laura Brun, Artistic
Director, The LAB, Catharine Clark, gallerist, Catharine
Clark Gallery; Deirdre DeFranceaux, artist; Desiree
Holmann, artist; John R. Killacky, Executive Director,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Tony Labat, artist; Malka
Lehmann, artist; Renny Pritikin, Chief Curator, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts; Larry Thomas, V.P. and Dean of
Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute, and others TBA.
Michelle Handelman is a visual artist working in performance, video
and digital media. In 1999 Handelman moved to New York from San Francisco
and had her first one-person show at the Cristinerose Gallery (Feb.
2000). Her work has also been included in group shows at the Jack
Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery and Exit Art. Her experimental video work
has shown internationally including the Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris;
The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and the American Film Institute
and her feature documentary BloodSisters, winner of 1999 Bravo
Award, played at over 50 film festivals. She has composed music for
Jon Moritsugu's ITVS production, Terminal USA and performed
in the Lynn Hershman-Leeson productions, Twists in the Cord
and Virtual Love for ZDF and Arte Television. Handelman's fiction
and critical writing appears in Inappropriate Behaviour (Serpents
Tail, London), Apocalypse Culture (Feral House Press, Los Angeles)
and several publications including Filmmaker Magazine, Release
Print and Indiewire. Handelman is currently working on
a collaboration with Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky for the show
Test Pattern, curated by Monique Meloche Projects. She has
taught at The San Francisco Art Institute; The California College
of Arts and Crafts and currently teaches at The New School University,
New York. |
