Dec
12
10:30 PM22:30

ON ZOOM: RE/Search Anniversary Round Table Talk

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RE/Search Publications 40th anniversary roundtables! Co-hosted with Concordia University and Pro Arts Gallery and Commons

{Rebroadcasting on Pro Arts Gallery Official Youtube date TBD}

December 12th, 2020
5pm PST / 8PM EST
Free/ Donations Accepted

RE/Search Publications 40th anniversary roundtables! Co-hosted with Concordia University and Pro Arts Gallery and Commons
The Photography of RE/Search roundtable conversation features highlights from V. Vale’ s vast personal archive of over 100,000 photographs he’s taken over the years. Following J.G. Ballard’s thought of “If it wasn’t recorded, it didn’t happen,” he documented the then-nascent punk rock scene in the Bay Area, capturing informal portraits, candid images; and stunning live shots from the earliest gigs at Mabuhay Gardens since 1977.
Curated with Marian Wallace, The Photography of RE/Search previews the upcoming RE/Search 40th Anniversary exhibition at Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS opening in 2021.

Kathy Acker, J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lydia Lunch, The Ramones, Andy Warhol, V. Vale photographed them all. Not that he planned it this way, “It’s not intellectual taking a picture. You do it and you don’t know why–you just wanted to. Is that art?” he chuckles, “Only history can judge.”
“I had a roommate who had almost all of the RE/Search books, and I would read them...”
–– Nick Cave, musician, writer and composer

“Probably the only surviving original Punk publisher who never stopped is V. Vale, who started Search & Destroy magazine in 1977; then RE/Search magazine in 1980. Viva Vale!”
–– Nancy Peters, co-owner of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

“One of the first people on the scene, as far as the punk rock fanzine, and really pursuing that kind of information was V. Vale. Very rarely you get a chance to meet a true intellectual, a real cerebral person. No matter how much V. Vale finds out, his curiosity is quenchless. He is unable to stop pursuing new information. He is ceaselessly fascinated by everything.”
–– Henry Rollins, musician, actor, author, speaker and presenter

“I remember seeing the RE/Search books, Modern Primitives and Pranks! They weren’t like any books I’d ever seeing before. They had a handmade look to them, sort of a do-it-yourself underground look, and such an uncensored quality. This is a really fascinating collection, Underground Living, it’s almost like a tarot deck of the powers of San Francisco.”
–– Rudy Rucker, Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of Software and Wetware

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Dec
6
12:00 PM12:00

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY Artist Talk: Zoom Webinar

A conversation with artists Ann McCoy, Darrin Martin, Edgar Fabián Frías and a live performance by Linda Montano, for INVOCATION DEMOCRACY A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition

Presented by Pro Arts Commons & moderated by INVOCATION DEMOCRACY's curator eco-feminist artist & mystic Monet Clark, our panelists will discuss the role of the mystic & the subconscious in their artmaking practices & their physical lives, plus the interplay between climate justice, misogyny, Indigenous culture, human & animal rights, mysticism & our democracy.

ANN McCOY is a New York based sculptor, painter, art critic, & editor at large at the Brooklyn Rail, who's worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung’s heir apparent for 25 years; studied alchemy since the early '70s in Zurich & at the Vatican Library; has taught since the 1980s & the past 10 at Yale; & is engaged in ongoing research & writing about women artists exploring spirituality & the unconscious.


LINDA MONTANO is a seminal performance, video & 'life as art' artist exploring personal & spiritual discipline, the 7 Hindu Chakras, personal transformation & altered consciousness. She is critical in the development of video art by, for & about women. Her recent Dorsky Museum show in NY, The Art-Life Hospital allowed her to practice the processes involved in her own death.


DARRIN MARTIN is an artist & Associate Professor at UCD. Through video, sculpture & multi-channel installation, he engages the overlaps of personal & collective memories, & influenced by his own hearing loss, the synesthetic qualities of perception as ways to examine the limits of certainty. In collaborative speculative fictions he has explored paranormal phenomenon, supernatural beings, animal spirit séance/past life regression & more.


EDGAR FABIÁN FRÍAS is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixárika) multi-disciplinary artist & psychotherapist working in photography, video, sound, sculpture, GIFs spells, performance & community organizing, with BA degrees in Psychology & Studio Art, & an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling emphasizing Interpersonal Neurobiology & Somatic Psychotherapy & is a 2022 MFA candidate in Art Practice at UCB.

Time: Dec 6, 2020 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qxGThXu1QNqQLB-Ry5oXqw?fbclid=IwAR1egHUh455LIbu5pzOnRQS9VjwB51X4mBnC4ecykeJYedpciNg7vrOk00s

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Nov
15
12:00 PM12:00

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY Artist Talk: Zoom Webinar

A conversation with artists Edgar Heap of Birds, Penny Slinger, Jennifer Locke and John DiLeva Halpern for our virtual exhibition INVOCATION DEMOCRACY

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Pictured from INVOCATION DEMOCRACY: Mariee Sioux, music video "Black Snakes"; Penny Slinger, Heavy Lifting-2; John DiLeva Halpern, video still For George Floyd, the Martyr —A Meditation Pause From the Sacred Grounds of Minneapolis; Jennifer Locke, video still Spells III (Tree, Candle, Levitation, Moonstone); Edgar Heap of Birds, Proud, Brave, Brutal.


Presented by Pro Arts Commons, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY, A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition, features 27 artists from across the nation responding to this challenging time for our country. Moderated by the show's curator Monet Clark, this discussion will revolve around the motivations behind these artist's works in the show, the liminality of artistic practice, art as cultural activation, and the interplay between a healthy democracy, climate justice, human and animal rights, and mysticism.

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s9OlSNxgSOGgvDWMvoYiUg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Thanks and hope to see you,

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ON ZOOM: La Milpa en Tiempos de Pandemia, (La Milpa in Pandemic Times)
Oct
30
4:00 PM16:00

ON ZOOM: La Milpa en Tiempos de Pandemia, (La Milpa in Pandemic Times)

 
 
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La Milpa en Tiempos de Pandemia (La Milpa in Pandemic Times) live from Oakland and Oaxaca is a Techno-Tamaladas Webinar/Dialogo we’ll share on Friday, October 30, 4pm - 5pm Pacific Standard Time, hosted by Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS.

Praba Pilar and project collaborators Charlotte Sáenz and Ben Simmons will share updates on the Techno-Tamaladas and our cultivating and harvesting of a community milpa in 2020. In this webinar, we will be asking: How can ancestral Indigenous Technologies of Life, such as the integrated traditional milpa (aka three sisters of corn, beans, and squash), help us build greater resilience in these pandemic times? How can these knowledges and practices build and nourish urban communities, transcending the increasing divisions and isolation exacerbated by COVID-19 and other climate crises? What lessons do we carry from previous epidemics, such as the AIDS crisis? What learnings can we carry with us as we prepare for the mounting challenges ahead?

REGISTRATION

We will be hosting this webinar on Zoom, to make it as accessible as we can. You can join us via computer and webcam/microphone, or via telephone. Please click the registration button below, fill out the form with your name, email address, and any questions, and we will send you the Zoom link closer to October 30th. Gracias!

TO REGISTER: https://www.prabapilar.com/events/milpa-webinar


This webinar has received support from the Community Rapid Response Fund of Headlands Center for the Arts.

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Oct
30
to Jan 20
Exhibitions

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY: a Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition

Mariee Sioux, “Black Snakes” music video; Karen Finley, Vote Like Your Life Depends On It; Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dreamocracy In America; Linda Montano, Passing Through (version 1); April Bey, You About To Lose Yo Job ‘Cause You Are Detaining Me, For…

Mariee Sioux, “Black Snakes” music video; Karen Finley, Vote Like Your Life Depends On It; Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dreamocracy In America; Linda Montano, Passing Through (version 1); April Bey, You About To Lose Yo Job ‘Cause You Are Detaining Me, For Nothing; Merritt Johnson, DIY: NoDAPL; Penny Slinger, Heavy Lifting-2; Charles Schneider director, music video for “Animals Eat The Sky” written and performed by Christine Shields.

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY a Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition
Presented by Pro Arts Commons, Curated by Monet Clark
October 30, 2020 - January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day


This exhibition is accessed through multiple 3D virtual galleries which will be embedded into the Pro Arts website, making it available to audiences globally.

Art provides us with a liminal space wherein momentary suspensions from our patterned thoughts and identities can be experienced, allowing for us to align with new states of awareness. Art can reveal cultural biases and their impacts, function as a catalyst for change, and it builds culture. As we nationally and globally navigate through this time of political, social, environmental and health crises the voice of the artist is needed now more than ever. With a nod to Holistic Theory and Intersectional Feminism or what I like to refer to as Holistic Intersectionality, and through the synergy of the sum of its parts, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides a virtual space to reflect on and envision the preservation and repair of our democracy. Joining together performance artists, video artists, recording artists, painters, and interdisciplinary artists from across the nation, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides an interstice for grief, a necessary step for action, and suggests that all of our intentions, actions and our votes matter, especially during this time of transitioning power structures.

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY proposes that a healthy democracy protects not only all of the people within its borders, but also the land within its boundaries, through policies which promote proper land stewardship and management, which includes protections of animals with respect to local and global ecosystems. It maintains that healthy regional democracies engage in practices which contribute healthfully to the global climate both socially, politically and environmentally. It explores the links between Climate Change and misogyny, empire, white supremacy and cultural biases that are dismissive of indigenous perspectives globally, the mystic, the intuitive, the feminine, and the sentience of animals and nature. INVOCATION DEMOCRACY contemplates the impacts of all of these on our ailing democracy, and just what it may take to transform it. — Monet Clark, curator

Featuring works by: April Bey, Karen Finley, Edgar Fabián Frías, Frightwig and Timothy Crandle, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, John Dileva Halpern, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jamil Hellu, Dale Hoyt, Merritt Johnson, Minnette Lehmann, Sang Chi Liu, Jennifer Locke, Darrin Martin, Ann McCoy, Lady Monster, Linda Montano, Shalo P, Charles Schneider, Christine Shields, John Sims, Mariee Sioux, Penny Slinger, Emily Harris and Dano Wall, Liz Walsh, West Facing Shadows / Lydia Greer and Caryl Kientz, Monet Clark

https://proartscommons.org/invocationdemocracy

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Oct
10
to Oct 30

EXHIBITION: Landless not Voiceless

  • Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Who: Cardboard & Concrete Unhoused Artists Collective and Guests Artists

Why: Poor and unhoused people are facing evictions in the midst of a global pandemic, a nationwide housing crisis and rent strikes, which further jeopardize the livelihood, stability, and future of the most vulnerable. We hope our unity, and leadership encourages the People--whether housed or unhoused, facing evictions in the San Francisco Bay Area to stand up, work together and organize.

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