Thank you all for a great two and a half years at the 140 Jackson St. space but we are saying so long and moving onto new things at a new space with a new (sort of) name, and change in program.

Louis V E.S.P. is now E.S.P. TV, the namesake of our self produced live taping and broadcast event on cable access television. E.S.P. TV is also the name of a new physical location too, at 141 South 5th St. in Brooklyn NY. A ground floor spot that will act as the headquarters for the E.S.P. TV show and as a place to host a new round of events, performances, screenings, lectures and special projects.

Please direct your attention to the E.S.P. TV site for future information on events, episodes of the E.S.P. TV show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project and more. www.esptvnyc.com

The site is currently active but will also be evolving in the coming months. Stay tuned, and please come visit us at the new place!

June 1:

E.S.P. TV Live Taping at Liminal Space, 8:30-12 pm

95 54th St. Oakland CA

w/ Pod Blotz, Chris Duncan, Uncanny Valey, Collin McKelvey, Marie Losier, Michael Robinson, Tom Dewitt and a selection of films by Oddball Cinema

June 1-2:

E.S.P. LAB, “No Found Route” exhibition at Aggregate Space

801 West Grand Ave. Oakland, CA

Opening Reception, June 1, 6-9pm

June 8:

E.S.P. Live Taping at Queens Nails Projects, 8-11pm

3191 Mission St., San Francisco CA

w/ Stereo Monoxide (Christine and Mauricio Ancalmo), Joshua Churchill and Paul Clipson, Bronze, Margaret Tedesco, Anne Colvin, Jennifer Locke, Michael Damm and videos by QNP Spring Residency Artists…plus more TBA!

Doors at 7pm

JANDEK w/

Rachelle Lalonde, Ian M Colletti, and Valerie Kuehne

For tickets and more information please visit: www.vaudevillepark.org

For more info on ESP TV: www.esptvnyc.com

March 16th, 8pm-4am

Present Company, 29 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn NY 11211

XENO AND OAKLANDER

E.U.C.

3-D Video by KEN JACOBS

“Trans-Trans” by BRADLEY EROS and TIM GERAGHTY

RSVP here

Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn NY

First E.S.P. TV Taping of 2012 at Roulette in Downtown BK.

Curated by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie for Roulette’s Xperimental Love Fest.

GRASSHOPPER
MV CARBON AND C SPENCER YEH
LITTLE WOMEN
AMANDA LONG
TIM GERAGHTY

Hosted by SAM MICKENS

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.

www.vimeo.com/channels/esptv
www.louisvesp.com

Part of Roulette’s 5 night Xperimental Love Fest. For more info and to pre-purchase tickets go to:  http://roulette.org/specialevents/xperimentallovefestival/

Performances by:

VIDRIO

STEVE SUMMERS

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

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

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.

www.aniadiakoff.com

E.S.P. TV #8 from LOUIS V E.S.P. on Vimeo.