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A.M.180 & ADD TV present: Time Out of Joint Manipulated time in film and video Friday, January 19th 2007, 7:30 pm A.M.180 gallery (club Utopia), Belehradska 45, 120 00 Prague 2 [http://archive.org] [>http://creativecommons.org] The phrase that makes such a resonant title for this ADD TV show has several themes crossing in the background. The original phrase comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet ("The time is out of joint; O cursed spite!/That ever I was born to set it right!" [I.V.211-2]). Then it has become a title of a book by P.K. Dick, classic sci-fi book in which the principal character Ragle Gumm believes that he lives in the year 1959 in a quiet American suburb. His unusual occupation consists of repeatedly winning the cash prize in a local newspaper competition, "Where will the little green man be next?" Gumm eventually learns that the idyllic neighborhood he lives in is a construct designed to protect him from the terrible fact that he lives on a then-future Earth (c. 1998) that is embroiled in a colonial war of independence with the Moon. Amazingly, Gumm is the only consistently accurate method for predicting where nuclear strikes will be aimed at, and his newspaper puzzle solving skills have saved untold thousands of lives over the years through enabling antimissile deflection. Time out of joint is also a fitting description of editing methods in time-based media. Question of time accompanies cinema and later video since the very beginning. Manipulation with video footage, film strip or material media of sound such as tape are all methods of manipulating time axis. In film editing is a means of constructing a fictional linear time of narration of small fragments of "real" times of single takes. Film in fact is a remix, as DJ Spooky says and quotes a story of how the "cut" was discovered by Georges Méliés by an accident in 1896 when a simple jamming of the cammera caused the film to look like it is a transformation of an omnibus into a funeral hearse and back again. "...a simple opening and closing of the lens had placed the viewer in several places and times simultaneously." (DJ Spooky, Rhythm Science, 2004). Realisation what happens with the time itself in the media has lead to a number of experiments in both film and video. In this edition of ADD TV you won't see any of the classical ones, since this is a DIY production and we cannot afford to pay royalties. This edition of ADD TV is composed entirely of films and videos dealing with time manipulations such as compressions and expansions downloaded at http://archive.org. All authors of these materials have published them with copyright enabling free performance and distribution under certain conditions. What can you look forward to? Stand-up physicist talking about time in quantum mechanics, remix video "We Edit Life" by Vicki Benett of People Like Us project, lecture on the "Amen Break", cornerstone of the breakbeat music, some footage of clouds and sunsets, educational film on scientific film techniques, SM version of Britney Spears, blow-up dummy and who knows what else... |
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______ ADD TV ADD TV is a title of regular screenings at the Utopia club/A.M.180 Gallery where works of varying quality and quantity will be shown. ADD TV is not only a screening but a linear time-based gallery, space for performance or other experiments connected with video or film media. My selection will be aimed at local and international artists. Occasionally I will also show works important for the history of the media; touring curated collections of small festivals and other projects; no copyright, open source or found footage movies. ADD TV will also provide exchange and communication between local artists and the world on a DIY scale. The screenings will take place every other (non – gallery opening) friday at 8 pm. Length of one projection will be one to two hours. Limited number of seats: 30, admission 000 CZK. > ADD stands for attention deficit disorder, disorder that affects 5 - 8 per cent of adolescent population in the post-industrial world. About 4 - 5 percent of population retains the disorder into adalthood, most prominently among actors, comedians and artists. A direct association between ADD and creativity has been observed. According to unofficial source up to 50 per cent of art school students suffers some form of ADD. [ADD] Open call for artists and curators: Join the network! ADD TV offers space / time for artists and curators. Individual (especially) local artists are encouraged to participate by donating their work that will be shown whenever a collection of sufficient length is assembled. Curators local and worldwide are welcome to submit project showing work of one, or a group of artists, aimed at a common theme or subject. The collection DVD should be compiled by the curator, technical assistance may be provided upon request. For open dialogic networks! yours addj radim_radim radim.radim@gmail.com 6. 1. 2006 THE BLOWOUT MINDMANGLER SHOW 20. 1. 2006 THE UNSEEN FORCES SHOW 3. 2. 2006 THE CATALEPTIC SHOW 17. 2. 2006 THE PATHOLOGICAL RETHORIC SHOW 3. 3. 2006 THE RETRO SHOW #1 17. 3. 2006 DAS CLICK'N'CUT'N'EDELWEIß SHOW 31. 3. 2006 THE MDX 1062 SHOW 14. 4. 2006 THE MUSORQUES DORGORTORL SHOW 28. 4. 2006 THE MULTIPLACE SHOW curated segments by Zuzana Stefkova, Jiri Ptacek, Tamara Moyzes screening will take place ast part of Multiplace festival 12. 5. 2006 slovak punk video curated by Radovan Èerevka and Mário Chromý 26. 5. 2006 screening curated by Guma Guar 9. 6. 2006 (THIS IS NOT) BY BRAKHAGE 23. 6. 2006 VIDEOBOXING |
