Weds-Thurs August 3 & 4, 8:30PM
Sliding Scale $10-20
CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR
Reception at Recess/SF
Performances Curated by Tyler Eash,
presented by RAW (resident artist workshop), a residency program from SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts
Artists:
Todd McQuade
Peter Kalisch
Nathalie Brilliant
Tyler Eash
Mechanism is a presentation of original works that depict the:
body as object
body as tool
body as machine
body as literature
body as self
body as memoir
body as vessel
body as performance
bo...
Weds-Thurs August 3 & 4, 8:30PM
Sliding Scale $10-20
CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR
Reception at Recess/SF
Performances Curated by Tyler Eash,
presented by RAW (resident artist workshop), a residency program from SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts
Artists:
Todd McQuade
Peter Kalisch
Nathalie Brilliant
Tyler Eash
Mechanism is a presentation of original works that depict the:
body as object
body as tool
body as machine
body as literature
body as self
body as memoir
body as vessel
body as performance
body as mechanism
Body Oriented Devices - Todd McQuade
Todd McQuade's body oriented devices perform a kinetic function. Each device is paired with a speaker. Each speaker amplifies a pre-recorded spoken text. The text offers a subjective response to the objective principles of a device. The text represents subjective investments such as a series of questions, a set of desires, or a litany of confessions about a user’s experience of the device. Each device and speaker are arranged spatially to allow the content of each device to communicate with the other. With this composition, the motion of a device and the movement of language with the attendant meaning collides to produce duets of signification.
Todd McQuade is a Los Angeles based artists whose practice extends strategies of performance to bodies of material. Todd earned a degree in art History from UCLA in 2003, a study which informed his practice as a professional dancer in the Trisha Brown Dance Company (2004-2009), Sasha Waltz & Guests (2009-2015), and Gerard & Kelly (2005-2015) among others. He is currently researching how architecture, interior and furniture design account for and construct a corporeality. Todd McQuade is currently conducting this research in his MFA at UCLA.
Denial - Peter Kalisch
Denial consists of the refusal to accept the past or present reality. It is most commonly employed to protect the host from their own negative traits. It protects those from the repeated memories of the negative actions of another or it avoids the recognition of their own guilt for past actions, thoughts, or feelings. It is a self-defense mechanism employed by aspects of the subconscious mind in an attempt to protect emotional and psychological well-being. The artists has become witness to the use of the mechanism of denial as a way that has become self-defeating. In order to break this pattern, drastic measures must be taken in order to invoke catharsis. In this performance the artist will attempt to catalyze emotional healing through fear, pain, and vulnerability.
Peter Kalisch is a visual artist living in Los Angeles, California. His work is self-described as the relationship between color and horror. Similarly, themes including (but not limited to) loneliness, masochistic narcissism, entitlement, substance abuse, pain as pleasure, the viewer’s impact on the performer, and the impact of technology on the primal human being arise in his practice. Kalisch’s main mediums are the human body, video projections, light, and sound installation. He is currently finishing his BFA in Sculpture / New Genres at Otis College of Art and Design.
Vessel Versus - Tyler Eash w/ Nathalie Brilliant
Vessel versus explores the conflicting relationships between formalism and content, reality and profundity, and the object and body. It reverses methods of display and presentation between performance and exhibition, refocusing our gaze on the “presence” of objects and the “form” of the body. The work presents both objects and bodies as vessels that are to be filled with narrative, prose, and content. It employs the contextual art realm as a way of imbuing neutral objects with value, poeticism, and reverence. Vessel Versus is the performance of an exhibition. It is a presentation of idealistic art thinking. It is an act of pointing and an assessment of the value of an act or object in relation to the human experience.
Vessel versus is created in collaboration with artist Nathalie Brilliant
Tyler Eash is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, performance, and architecture. Eash aims to unify these mediums by investigating the interstitial happenings between body, object, and space. Eash is interested in further defining the classifications of performance and art in relation to reality, the banal, and the pedestrian by studying the role reverence and profundity play within art making. Tyler Eash is the founding curator of #* Collective and curator of the Ridge Space. Tyler Eash studied at UC Davis . Eash was born in Marysville Ca, and lives/works in San Francisco.
Nathalie Brilliant received her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BA in psychology from Wesleyan University. Nathalie works in various mediums such as painting, installation, photography, video, sound and performance art dependent on concept.
Her performance art pieces consider the notion of presence in context with site-specifity. She views her performance art pieces as, "living things," to postulate the body as an art form, in relation to sculpture or a painting, and utilize the body to create sculptural body pieces that live for durations in varying spaces.
She has done performances at Kadist Art Foundation, Southern Exposure, YBCA, Adobe Backroom gallery, and a video was accepted and presented as part of the Berkeley Student Film Festival. Nathalie currently lives and works between Mammoth Lakes and San Francisco, California.