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Cristine Brache


Dates:
Thu Apr 30, 2015 19:00 - Thu Apr 30, 2015

Location:
Philadelphia, United States of America

Aux Performance Space is pleased to host a screening of videos from artist and poet Cristine Brache. We will be premiering her most recent short film ‘Nekama’ a “virtual world, an infectious model of trans-individual identity and proliferates as such, embodied by self-replicating twin sisters in an impossible archipelago of wasted jungle that is massively undergrown by fungi. To enter, one must take on the face of the twin; to play, one must become many.” 'Nekama' is directed by Brache and was made in collaboration with Piotr Bockowski whose philosophical text comprises the narration. ‘Nekama’ uses a video game interface alongside an RPG ethos in navigating a surreal narrative about the dispersion and proliferation of identity within a networked consumer game space. In addition to 'Nekama' we will screen earlier videos from the artist, which call attention to Brache's overarching aesthetic. Brache's video work paired with her collaged imagery, poetry, and websites illustrate her tuned perspective in fetish. Her videos often deal with identity via objectification honed from the sexual parameters of the internet in terms of the representation and commodification of women, and online advertisements. The videos are comparable to mixed media artist Shana Moulton often starring herself or likeness within a surrealist, green screened landscape while Brache engages ideas about the body, gender and sexuality reminiscent to the video work of Pipilotti Rist. Brache's work is unique in her technique that echoes the aesthetic of online consumerist culture, integrating the internet - digital, flash, slick, shiny, plastic, HD.

Please stay after the screening in conversation to discuss the videos in detail. Plenty of chocolate and caramel popcorn for everyone.

Cristine Brache is an artist and poet. Recent exhibitions include her solo show ‘I know the master wasted object’ at Guccivuitton (Miami, FL, USA), ‘All at once, All of the time’ at RMIT Design Hub (Melbourne, AU), and ‘Issue #16 Vital Functions: Preparing Future Sustainable Products & Services’ at Team Titanic (Berlin, DE). Her poetry and artwork has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, E Ratio Postmodern Poetry Journal, 57 Cell, and Bluestockings Magazine. She lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

http://cristinebrache.info/



EVENT

Big Eyes, Small Mouth


Dates:
Sat Feb 08, 2014 20:00 - Sat Feb 08, 2014

Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States of America

Big Eyes, Small Mouth features performance artists Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Rose Luardo, Eileen Doyle, Eric Danger Clark, Genevieve Belleveau & Jake Dibeler with a video interlude from Cristine Brache.

Whether it be a collaborator, avatar, persona, doppelganger or friend each of these performers use a double as a means to express an identity. These modes of identity are expressed using costume, ritual, choreography through tropes found in religion, sex, death, pop music and humor. Experience the performance along with the artists as they act out as partitioners for our human expression. Take in the dark corners of the Aux performance space and perceive the world around you as a splendid hyperreal continuum. Big Eyes, Small Mouth imbues the imagination towards self-discovery further allocating escapism as a means of understanding our true selves. The themes of fantasy and role-play dominate the evening in an effort to tempt the boundaries of performance art; somewhere between theater and real life.

The title for the evening's performances is borrowed from the role-play game, Big Eyes, Small Mouth. BESM is an anime role-play game distributed through White Wolf Publishing. The first edition was released in 1997 by Guardians of Order.

In commemoration of James Dean's birthday, as well as the theme of the evening's performances, Beth Heinly will host Big Eyes, Small Mouth roll-playing as James Dean.

http://andrewjeffreywright.com/
http://roseluardo.blogspot.com/
http://gertiegarbage.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Diapause
http://gorgeoustaps.tumblr.com/
http://jakedibeler.com/
http://cristinebrache.info/



EVENT

Uncanny Visions 4


Dates:
Fri Aug 09, 2013 20:00 - Fri Aug 09, 2013

Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States of America

Featuring video and performance by: Animal Charm, Ann Hirsch, Beth Heinly, Bobby Gonzales, Cristine Brache, Bunny Rogers, Gabby Bess, Grace Miceli, Matt Kalasky, Valie Export, and Shana Moulton.

Uncanny Visions 4 tackles that most persistent and elusive medium "poetry." Specifically, we will feature a range of performance and video artists who function as self-styled "poets" in the most open mic sense of the word, but not. The stage will hold performance artists "performing" poetry as well as poets "performing art." Our video offering offers up a slice of the same with artists seeking poetic escape, confession, and collage all of a certain "pathetic" direct address that we seek, absorb, and cannot wash off in the morning. Join us for a truly sweaty, sincere, smoozy, tearful, hilarious and fun "poetry-in."

This iteration of Uncanny visions combines the vision of two Vox members, with videos curated by Catherine Pancake and performances curated by Beth Heinly. Uncanny Visions is a series combining the lush private darkness of micro-cinema with the visceral charge of live cutting-edge performance art. The series takes inspiration from the concept of the uncanny, hoping to attract an audience who is drawn to the unfamiliar ready to take a few risks and participate in our communal unheimlich. Experimental cinema has a long historical engagement with the uncanny, crisscrossing psychoanalysis, altered states of mind, and visual illusion. Performance art’s obsession with the body and its extension through technology celebrates the flesh becoming art object and the anthropomorphism of the machine. Each Uncanny Vision event will join a program of experimental film with an original conceptual performance from national and internally renowned artists.


EVENT

PRRRSONA


Dates:
Fri Sep 07, 2012 18:00 - Sat Sep 29, 2012

Location:
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
United States of America

prrr·so·na
[prrr-soh-nuh]
noun, plural, prrr·so·nas.
1.
a person on the internet
2.
a person’s perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity; personal image;public role on the internet
3.
(in the psychology of C. G. Jung) the mask or façade presented to satisfy the demands of the situation or the environment and not representing the inner personality of the individual; the public personality ( contrasted with anima). e.g. chat rooms, facebook, twitter, youtube, 4chan, etc.
4.
An art show in September 2012 at little berlin. Ann Hirsch, Bunny Rogers, Liz Rywelski, Petra Cortright; curated by (fangirl) Beth Heinly

PRRRSONA is a video installation that displays an interest in both performance and internet art. In an effort to share an already accessable and free medium, PRRRSONA, promises to contexulize the information set before you in an environment designed for meditation…for free as well. Corresponding with little berlin’s white cube; Ann Hirsch, Bunny Rogers, Liz Rywelski and Petra Cortright create a dialog of ideologies related to female sexuality mirrored from Western culture. The selection of video presents a mere shared common phenomena, youtube.

preview available @ prrrsona.tumblr.com