An hour long special taped at Mutual Dreaming’s “New Dance City” party (organized by Aurora Halal) at 285 Kent over Halloween weekend.
Performances by:
VIDRIO
DJs Meridian 7, Ron Morelli and Traxx
See it and past episodes at the E.S.P. TV Vimeo channel here: vimeo.com/channels/esptv
E.S.P. TV #10
FURTHER REDUCTIONS
HOUSE PLANTS
MARTHA COLBURN
KENNETH CURWOOD
SCOTT KIERNAN
Taped in front of a live audience at The Schoolhouse, BK, NY
2011; Aired Nov 13, 2011 on MNN (Ch. 67 Time Warner) in NYC
ESP TV #9
ERICA MAGREY
YOU.
AMY LOCKHART
ANIA DIAKOFF
CLARA KIM
“Taped in front of a live studio audience” at The Schoolhouse, Brooklyn NY
Aired on MNN in NYC on Nov 22, 2011 at 10pm
When the nuclear reactors exploded at Fukushima on March 12, 2011 the world went into apocalyptic shock. A program system failure that would devour a generation and forever change a civilization.
The truth is, the nuclear plant explosions should have come as no surprise – a fated consequence of industrial design, technological advancement, and natural disaster. In Kurosawa’s 1990 film Dreams, he depicts a haunting foreshadowing of Fukushima through the sequence Mt. Fuji in Red. A power plant near Mount Fuji has begun to melt down sending plumes of color-coded smoke into the sky. Crowds of people run manically through the streets and into the ocean knowing that the radiation from the toxic clouds will eventually kill them.
It is Death by Design. Pre-programmed cell suicide. Every cell responds to a signal. When the signal is death, the cell boils then shrinks into a condensed mass to be swallowed by a neighboring cell. The process is neat so the organism can survive continuous cell death without injury or trauma. The Game of Life in action.
History looms heavy for Japan. The water is poisoned and the land is barren. The illusion has shattered. These formations bring movement and paralysis but never death. Cells change but can never disappear.
On the wall, images drift between the moment of explosion and collapse. When the cell knows its fate, and flowers to the surface of the skin. Pastel hues of ink fade into cotton candy dreamscapes. Fabric is worn and bundled. A kimono is strapped to the floor. It is the wake of a failed technological era. A de-evolution of cultural innovations. But the process remains. And each infinitesimal entropic mishap carries us through from heartache into bliss.
Text by Katerina Llanes
Ania Diakoff is an artist and designer living and working in Los Angeles. Her work takes an open approach to art and design practice, often crossing and collapsing contexts and mediums. She has degrees from the School of Visual Arts in New York and CalArts in Los Angeles.
E.S.P. TV #8 from LOUIS V E.S.P. on Vimeo.
A Group Show
and Story by Rachel Mason
Sept 30 – Oct 24 , open by appointment, email info@louisvesp.com
Opening Reception: Sept 30, 8 – 11 pm
Dan Asher / John Baldessari / Michael G. Bauer / Michael Bilsborough / Nancy deHoll / Jen Denike / Tim Dowse / Ellie Ga / Laleh Khorramian / Jason Lazarus / Mamiko Otsubo / Samuel White
Opening Night Performances:
Thank You Rosekind, Doom Trumpet, No Sky God, Mark Golamco
With special episode of E.S.P. TV featuring videos as seen in the show. Airing on MNN Manhattan Cable Access TV, date tba.
(Photograph by Jason Lazarus)
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Part I
She was a lion sitting on her dad’s shoulders. They formed a totem of two heads, one large, one small as they walked down the street. Powerful with her lion-painted face, she stuck her tongue out at a man passing by. He tripped on the side of his foot and then fell to the ground.
The girl’s father didn’t realize that his daughter scared the man, causing him to fall. The man already had a fear of children. The girl’s father also didn’t realize that had he reached his hand out to help, the man wouldn’t now have two permanent rods conjoined in his hip bone, and wouldn’t have lapsed into a permanent hallucinatory state from which he’d never recover.
Organs in the snow.
Were they his or did they belong to someone else? Maybe they were donated with good intentions by a victim of a motorcycle accident but were then discovered to be diseased, so they were thrown out.
Organs aren’t supposed to be discarded like this. They’re supposed to be contained in red biohazard boxes. How unceremonious. Why is this fragment of a person lying here, just wasting in the snow?
Full story here: http://www.rachelannmason.com/shows/organs_in_the_snow.htm
FURTHER REDUCTIONS
YOU.
REGAL DEGAL
AMI DANG
ERICA MAGREY
w/ animations selected by Casey Jane Ellison (Aboveground Animation):
Hugo Arcier / Cody Critchloe / Kathleen Daniel / Bruno Dicolla / Ryan Doherty and Chris Letson / Barry Doupe / Ryan Hale / Casey Jane Ellison / Lauren Gregory / Clara Kim / Amy Lockhart / Lale Westvind
ww/ additional video by Ania Diakoff and Louis V E.S.P.
Hosted by Mary Boom and Coco.
E.S.P. TV is taped “in front of a live studio audience” with live green-screening and video manipulation. The entire night is sent to a VHS deck and the tape is cut down into 28 min episodes and sent to Manhattan Neighborhood Network for airing on cable access TV. E.S.P. TV is produced by Louis V E.S.P. gallery (Scott Kiernan and Ethan Miller).
www.vimeo.com/channels/esptv
www.louisvesp.com
More stills from E.S.P. TV 8-10 here
ESP TV #8 airs 10/18 at 10PM in Manhattan on Ch. 67 Time Warner, 85 RCN, MNN4. Shows posted after airing at http://vimeo.com/channels/esptv
Our friends at Silvershed have graciously agreed to host a screening party for the E.S.P. TV footage created during last weekend’s (Mis)Adventures in Manipulation performances at Millennium Film Workshop.
Come enjoy Silvershed’s gorgeous rooftop and watch the newest E.S.P. TV featuring recorded performances by
Rowan
Future Archaeology
Twistycat
Maria Chavez
MV Carbon
as recorded, melted and mixed by E.S.P. TV live to VHS last weekend.
DJ sets by Kellie Morgan and Scott Kiernan (Louis V E.S.P.) before and after screening.
Original performances curated by Victoria Keddie for INDEX Festival
