"Visual Mischief" at The Front Gallery

Elléphant

presents

Visual Mischief

A program of video and film from the near and far-out.

The Front, an artist-run gallery space in New Orleans, hosts "VISUAL MISCHIEF," a program of experimental videos and short films by artists from the U.S. and Europe. The works are eclectic and diverse, from conceptual visual exercises to digitally mediated performance narratives.

Highlights include Erika Yeomans’ video on the 70’s Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, Kahlil Joseph’s music video for Shabazz Palace, and Nicolas Jenkins’ short on Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV.

May 8th: Reception at 6 pm. Screening at 8 pm, Program I May 11th: Reception at 7 pm. Screening at 8 pm, Program II

The Front

4100 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans


PROGRAM I

May 8th Reception 6 pm | Screening 8 pm – Running Time 60 Minutes - Loop

AMBER BOARDMAN (NEW YORK), Animations from the Inside Series

ERIKA YEOMANS (NEW YORK), Bunny Boy, Hardhead Flair

NICOLAS JENKINS (NEW YORK), New York Story

KAHLIL JOSEPH (LOS ANGELES), Belhaven Meridian

JEREMIAH CLANCY (NEW YORK), Feelings & Opinions

DANIEL STEDMAN & ARON EPSTEIN (NEW YORK), The Moth & the Firefly

VIRGINIE YASSEF & JULIEN PRÉVIEUX (PARIS), L’Arbre

ANDREA STANISLAV (MINNEAPOLIS), Blow Away

WILLIAM LAMSON (NEW YORK), Actions, Intervention & Fall

JENNET THOMAS (LONDON), Double Dummy, The Truth and The Pleasure


PROGRAM II

May 11th, Reception 7 pm Screening 8 pm Running Time 70 minutes

ERIKA YEOMANS – 3 EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVES

Paging Dr. Freud (2007, multi-frame video, 18 minutes)

In Search of Bas Jan’s Miraculous (1997, Mixed Media, B&W/Color, 39 minutes)

A conceptual documentary about the real-life misadventures of the 1970's Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, the video is part faux documentary, part Hollywood technicolor biopic (with stolen bits of films from classics such as Lust for Life and The Sound of Music, among many others). The
project was featured on NPR's This American Life.

Chubby Buddy ("The Last Castrato") (2003, Super 8, color, 13 minutes)

Originally conceived as a live sound project as part of a sound series at AC Project Room in New York, April 2001. It was later re-imagined as a short “super 8 home movie.” A narrative is based on the memories of Frances Howard, a man who gave up a career and marriage in order to act upon some peculiar impulses.