Scott Kiernan
Since 2006
Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

BIO
Scott Kiernan is an artist and curator who lives and works in New York City. He was a founder and director of Louis V E.S.P., a not-for-profit gallery and performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2010-2012) and co-founder/director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic curatorial platform for performance/video which takes the form of a live television show.

He has exhibited work internationally in venues such as New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NurtureArt, PS122 , Mixed Greens (NYC), Southern Exposure and Baer Ridgway Projects (San Francisco) Centro Internazionale Per L’Arte Contemporanea (Rome), KT&G Sangsangmadang (Seoul) and the Third Guangzhou Tiennial (China) amongst others. Scott received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007.

www.scottkiernan.com
www.esptvnyc.com
www.louisvesp.com
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EVENT

E.S.P. 14-15 Live Taping w/ Xeno and Oaklander, Ken Jacobs, EUC, Bradley Eros + Tim Geraghty, and Roberto Lange


Dates:
Fri Mar 16, 2012 20:00 - Sat Mar 17, 2012

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

E.S.P. TV live taping of Episodes 14-15 w/:
XENO AND OAKLANDER
EUC
KEN JACOBS in 3D
BRADLEY EROS and TIM GERAGHTY
ROBERTO LANGE

w/ your hosts Bradford Nordeen as Mary Boom and Hayley Blatte as Coco

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E.S.P. TV is a showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance produced w/ Louis V E.S.P. for Manhattan Neighborhood Network television.

Tapings are in front of an audience with live green-screening and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing.

Past artists on E.S.P. TV include: Mazing Vids, Innergaze, MV Carbon, C Spencer Yeh, Shana Moulton, Further Reductions, Regal Degal, Martha Colburn, Forma, YOU., Rachel Mason, Erica Magrey, Kate Gilmore, Amanda Long and many more. Shows have been taped in various locales including The Schoolhouse, 285 Kent and Roulette in Brooklyn, Millennium Film Workshop in NYC as a part of INDEX Festival and recently at General Public in Berlin.

http://www.esptvnyc.com
http://www.louisvesp.com
http://www.present-co.com

--$7 suggested donation


EVENT

Deric Carner:


Dates:
Fri Dec 10, 2010 00:00 - Mon Nov 29, 2010

Location:
United States of America

Deric Carner "Range Rover

Dec 10 -17
Opening Reception: Dec 10, 7-11PM


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Louis V E.S.P. is pleased to present “Range Rover” an exhibition of new posters by Deric Carner. Using cut-and-paste collage, digital manipulation and commercial printing, Carner creates large posters which inter-cut images of feral children, Kate Bush, urban revolt and privileged consumerism. As these narratives overlap and contradict, Carner confounds the given narratives of these charged visual icons, engineering a space of friction and fantasy. Carner prints these posters in open editions accompanied by a work-in-progress catalog.

Deric Carner an artist and publication designer interested in a spectral forms and speculative narratives. Carner has exhibited at Romer Young Gallery (2008, 2010), Centre Pompidou (2010), Artists Space (2009), Geisai Miami (2008), Witte de With Rotterdam (2006), CAC Vilnius (2005), and Kunstverein Malkasten Duesseldorf (2005). His work has been featured in publications by Revolver Books (Frankfurt, 2005-2006); ZYZZYVA (SF, Fall 2008); SUM Magazine (Copenhagen, Spring 2008); and is included in the KIOSK archive at the Kunstbibliothek Berlin (2009).


For more information on this and other exhibitions please visit http://www.louisvesp.com

LOUIS V E.S.P.
140 Jackson St #4D
Brooklyn NY 11211
732.552.7199
www.louisvesp.com

Directions: L to Graham or G to Lorimer/Metropolitan


EVENT

Jonathon Keats: Pornography for God...and Pornography for Plants


Dates:
Fri Nov 12, 2010 00:00 - Wed Oct 27, 2010

[size=40][b]Jonathon Keats[/size]
[size=40]Pornography for God...and Pornography for Plants[/b][/size]

[img]http://www.louisvesp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/godporn-small.jpg[/img]

[b]Nov 12 - 23
Opening Reception: Nov 12 from 07:00 PM to 10:00 PM[/b]

[b]PORNOGRAPHY FOR GOD SEXES UP BROOKLYN[/b]
[b]All-New Production By Critically Acclaimed Houseplant Pornographer Jonathon Keats Premieres on November 12th… Louis V E.S.P. Lands Exclusive 2-Week Engagement… Filmmaker to Attend Opening Night Gala…[/b]

Nearly fourteen billion years after the Big Bang, next month an American pornographer will screen intimate scenes from the conception of the cosmos in order to stimulate God to conceive new universes. Establishing a direct link from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland to an alternative arts space in Brooklyn, Jonathon Keats will attempt to arouse God with high-energy particle interactions not seen since the universe burst into existence.

“To a deity, the Big Bang is very sexy,” explains Mr. Keats. “The Big Bang is divine coitus. And with the LHC, we can now simulate it at least as accurately as a porn star can fake an orgasm.”

Renowned for making porn for houseplants by filming honeybees, Mr. Keats was inspired to become God’s pornographer after noting the Creator’s eons of celibacy. “I felt sorry for God,” he confesses. “Monotheism must be lonely.”

Yet it was only after he read about the capabilities of the Large Hadron Collider - popularly known as the Big Bang machine - and found out that the new $6 billion apparatus was merely being used for physics, that he figured out a way to bring God some joy. “The LHC has recently begun smashing together protons at energy levels as high as seven trillion electron volts,” he says. “We now have the technology to titillate God with quarks and gluons, and maybe even the Higgs boson.”

Situated in the not-for-profit gallery Louis V E.S.P., Mr. Keats’ porn theater will present a live feed of graphic data from the LHC for an exclusive two-week run beginning on November 12th. For optimal viewing, the pornographer and artist has developed a special screen. “We’re showing the porn on a votive alter,” says Mr. Keats. “In terms of communicating with God, that’s a technology that dates back millennia, and has never been surpassed by the Vatican or anyone else.” With the addition of incense and candles, “it becomes sort of a divine porn palace,” adds Louis V E.S.P. co-director Scott Kiernan.

[img]http://www.louisvesp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/botanica-small.jpg[/img]

Louis V E.S.P. will also host Mr. Keats’ pornography for plants, featuring explicit acts of pollination, which will be projected onto the foliage of local flora brought in from the Williamsburg neighborhood where the arts space is located. Both screening areas will also be open to humans during select hours, though Mr. Keats has requested that people respect the privacy of the primary audiences, especially God.

“Some New Yorkers may consider God-porn to be frivolous entertainment,” says Mr. Keats, “but I believe that this erotica may have cosmic importance. Our world is coming apart, both locally and at the universal scale, where dark energy is accelerating the expansion of space. Now may be our final chance to excite God to procreate again, conceiving new universes with alternate ends.”


[i]
Acclaimed as “a poet of ideas” by the New Yorker, Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher and artist based in the United States and Italy. Recently he screened pornography for plants at the Armand Hammer Museum. He has also choreographed ballet for honeybees at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, exhibited extraterrestrial art at the Judah Magnes Museum, and attempted to genetically engineer God in collaboration with scientists at the University of California. His projects have been documented by PBS, NPR, and the BBC World Service, garnering favorable attention in periodicals ranging from The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle, to Nature and New Scientist, to Flash Art and ArtUS. Additionally, Keats serves as the art critic for San Francisco Magazine and as a columnist for Wired Magazine. He’s the author of two novels and an American Library Association award-winning collection of stories published by Random House, as well as a book about the co-evolution of language and science, “Virtual Words”, published by Oxford University Press this month. Since graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1994, he has been a visiting artist at California and Montana State Universities, and a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as the recipient of Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships. He is represented by Modernism Gallery in San Francisco. He can be contacted at jonathon\_keats@yahoo.com[/i]

[i]New Yorker article on Keats:
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/03/15/100315ta\_talk\_gopnik[/url][/i]

[i]Reuters on Pornography for Plants:
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0720247820070907?pageNumber=1[/url][/i]

[i]For more info on this and other exhibitions please visit [url]www.louisvesp.com[/url][/i][b][/b]

LOUIS V E.S.P.
140 Jackson St. #4D
Brooklyn NY 11211
732.552.7199
[url]www.louisvesp.com[/url]
info@louisvesp.com


EVENT

"32,000 Light Brigade, FistFighting, or How I Came Back to"


Dates:
Fri Oct 22, 2010 00:00 - Wed Oct 13, 2010

32,000 Light Brigade, FistFighting, or How I Came Back to

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New Work by Rebecca Gaffney, featuring performances by Enoch: A.L.N.

Show runs: October 22-November 4
Opening Reception Friday, October 22 7-11


"Experiments in teleportation/transnegotiation, mountaineers and l---t rotations strikingly shining and sh-t"...High Mirror-Video Church

Opening performances by Enoch : A.L.N. : Rebecca Gaffney, Michael Mahalchick, Jon Williams, Jon Winfield Nicholson, Chris Anderson, Todd Pendu

Bring sunglasses. If you forget, we’ve got you covered.

Several performances and events will take place in neighboring locales during the run of this show, culminating with a final jam at Secret Project Robot in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY

Rebecca Gaffney is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in video, sculpture, and improvised music. She is obsessed with out of phase strobelight, aerial views, reflections and amplifying the ephemeral qualities of light and sound waves. Enoch A.L.N. is her project with Michael Mahalchick, Jon WIlliams, and a rotating cast of chums. Rebecca and Enoch has performed at and curated work for CANADA Gallery and at BronxArtSpace in NYC and St. Cecilia’s Convent and Monkeytown (R.I.P.) in Brooklyn. Upcoming exhibitions for Rebecca/Enoch include shows with Art Fag City’s "Sound of Art", Pendu Gallery and Secret Project Robot.

For more info on this and other exhibitions please visit www.louisvesp.com

LOUIS V E.S.P.
140 Jackson St #4D
Brooklyn NY 11211
732.552.7199
info@louisvesp.com
www.louisvesp.com


EVENT

Raw Stock PART TWO: No Wave Films from Downtown NYC, 1976-1984


Dates:
Fri Oct 08, 2010 00:00 - Tue Oct 05, 2010

Raw Stock PART TWO: No Wave Films from Downtown NYC, 1976-1984

Curated by: Vanessa Roworth, Sabine Rogers & Celine Danhier, director of the documentary “Blank City”

7-11 PM
Screening starts promptly at 8
Q and A with: James Nares, Michael Holman, and Robin Crutchfield at intermission and following films


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The second in two nights of selected screenings from New York’s own explosive yet fleeting era of filmmaking known as “No Wave” Cinema associated with filmmakers such as Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, James Nares, Becky Johnston, Vivienne Dick, Beth B & Scott B, and more. Rising from the ashes of a bankrupt and destitute 1970’s Manhattan, and reacting to the modernist aesthetic of 1960’s avant-garde film, No Wave filmmakers threw out the rules and embraced their own brand of vanguard moviemaking. Inspired by the films of Warhol, Jack Smith, John Waters and The French New Wave many of the films combined elements of documentary and loose narrative structure with stark, at times confrontational imagery. Much like the No Wave music of the period from which the movement garnered its label, these filmmakers freed themselves of the constraints of formal training and pillaged the nascent East Village arts scene for co-conspirators in the likes of Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Richard Hell, Vincent Gallo, Steve Buscemi, Nan Goldin, Cookie Mueller and many others. With wildly varying styles, they shared the common mindset of fast and cheap, and were catalyzed by collaboration. Equipment could be begged, borrowed or stolen, your friends could be your actors and the city, abandoned and free to roam, could be your set.

Short films by James Nares 26 mins

Selected shorts from artist, painter, filmmaker and one time Contortions guitarist James Nares. Nares has been a fixture on the NY art scene since his move here in the mid 70s and his signature brushstroke paintings can be found in esteemed collections around the world and at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. Films will include “Pendulum”, “Steel Rod”, “Block”, and “Waiting for the Wind.” For more information on James Nares please visit
www.jamesnares.com.

Short films by Michael Holman 23 mins

Selected shorts from filmmaker and musician Michael Holman. Holman’s musical career includes such bands as The Tubes and Gray which he formed in 1979 with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Also an early Hip Hop journalist and impresario, Holman hosted the first televised Hip Hop music program Graffiti Rock in 1984. Films will include “Stilwend”, “Pesceador” a tribute to Jean- Michel Basquiat, “Catch a Beat”, “Dream Crush” and more. All with original scores composed by Holman and his band Gray.

Short films by Robin Crutchfield (1980) 17 mins

Selected shorts from musician, filmmaker, and writer Robin Crutchfield. Crutchfield was an original member of DNA, playing keyboards in the band, before he departed to concentrate on his own project, Dark Day. Films will include, “Dead Dog Floating”, “Fire In The Ashes” a bookburning torched by Tuxedomoon’s Steve Brown in searing color, “Young Laundry” featuring Eric Mitchell, Diego Cortez, Lydia Lunch, Bradley Field and Gordon Stevenson of Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, “Dark Day in Amsterdam”, and “General Accident” featuring Dark Day with Kathy Acker and Adele Bertei. For more information on Robin Crutchfield please visit robincrutchfield.com.

“Guérillère Talks” directed by Vivienne Dick (1978) 24 mins

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Comprising seven rolls of unedited Super-8 film, the film is a series of portraits of women, all of whom are associated with the No Wave music and art scene. The film features a punk playing pinball, Beate Nilsen, Ikue Mori, Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Anya Philips. The filmmaker’s presence is felt through the expressive camera movements which contribute an energy and intensity to this exploration into notions of identity, as performers perform themselves. More of Vivienne Dick’s work can be seen at upcoming screenings at Artists Space
in late October curated by Light Industry.

Plus guest DJs playing New York Punk and No Wave...

LOUIS V E.S.P.
140 Jackson St. #4D
Brooklyn, NY 11211
732.552.7199

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