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When:
06/06/2008 at 01:00 pm
Where:
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th
Omaha Nebraska, 68102
United States
Email Contact:
info@bemiscenter.org
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WHAT: An event series including film, performance, architecture, dance, noise, conversation…
WHO: 30+ artists, musicians, architects, filmmakers and thinkers, traveling from near and afar.
WHEN: June 6 through August 16, 2008
WHERE: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 12th and Leavenworth
HOW MUCH: All events are free and open to all ages, unless otherwise noted.
An exhibition-in-motion that includes film screenings, performances, architectural installations, dance parties, rock shows, picnics, symposia and hybrids of the above, Endless Summer heats up the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts from June 6 through August 16. Based in Gallery 3, the events represent the first major project conceived by recently named curator Hesse McGraw. The series of happenings highlight new adventures in contemporary culture that will energize the gallery and create a social hub for diverse audiences.
In recent decades contemporary art and culture have splintered into remarkably disparate forms. Artists have embraced this freedom to do virtually anything, and many have developed highly specialized practices at the intersections of formerly distinct disciplines. Endless Summer is a frenetic 10-week forum of events and projects that focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration and the value of contradiction.
Behind all the rigor, the series never denies the fact that it’s summer and all we really want to do is have some fun. Make Endless Summer the hub of your social calendar this summer.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
The Betiana and Todd Simon Foundation
SPONSORS:
Min | Day
Upstream Brewing Company
ENDLESS SUMMER SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Through August 16
Min | Day soft cube
Min | Day's architectural installation soft cube functions as a set of devices that soften Gallery 3 and create a flexible and multi-purpose social platform for Endless Summer.
UPCOMING
Monday, July 7 through Monday, July 14
Gallery Talk: Saturday, July 12 | Noon
Zach Rockhill’s AS FOR THE MOTIVE THAT COMPELLED ME…
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker (1979), three men journey into a restricted area known as the Zone in an effort to come into contact with paranormal and powerful forces that, it is rumored, can satisfy their every desire. The three men remain in the central Room of the Zone for seven minutes. New York-based artist Zach Rockhill will, over a seven-day public performance, reenact this scenario by both literally and metaphorically constructing the Room in Gallery 3. By compressing seven days of video into seven minutes, he aims to access and occupy the space of the Zone.
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July 19 & 20 | schedule tba
Midwest Architecture Forum, co-presented with daOMA
What is the potential for progressive architecture in Omaha and why is there so little of it? The Midwest Architecture Forum is a weekend of programming and conversation with the most progressive architects and firms in the Midwest. Participating architects include Jeff Day of Min | Day (NE), Randy Brown (NE), Dan Rockhill of Rockhill and Associates and Studio 804 (KS), Josh Shelton and Dan Maginn of el dorado architects (MO), Paul Mankins of substance architecture (IA), and Jennifer Yoos ofVJAA (MN). The forum will present a remarkable opportunity to learn about the best work being created by Midwestern firms and their unique strategies for creating contemporary architecture in a regional context.
Tour of Okoboji House, designed by Min | Day
Join architect Jeff Day and Bemis Center staff on an excursion to Min | Day’s recently completed Okoboji House in West Okoboji, Iowa. The 3 hour chartered tour will be programmed with a series of films relating to modern and contemporary architecture. Tour price to be announced.
Screening of Martha Rosler’s How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? (1993) 31 minutes
Shot in Firminy-Vert, a Le Corbusier-designed housing project in south-central France, How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? traces the complicated history of the project, explores the way residents live in and with an architectural entity, and chronicles their half-successful efforts to save the complex.
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Monday, July 21 | 9 p.m.
Bandit Teeth, The Dactyls and Dim Light.
Rock from Lawrence, Kansas and Omaha. Bandit Teeth and The Dactyls throw a 7-inch release party. So much fun for everyone.
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Friday, July 25 | 7 p.m.
Stop & Go, curated by Sarah Klein
Stop & Go is a curated program of short form videos that animate magazine cutouts, drawings, everyday objects, and even the body itself. The eclectic collection of works is humorous, poignant, and marvelously inventive. Curated by San Francisco-based artist and former Bemis Center resident Sarah Klein, Stop & Go features twenty-two pieces from artists across the country (San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Miami, and Vermont) and around the world (Croatia, Britain, and Japan).
Aeneas Wilder’s Ministry of Truth (2002)
A rare tour of Wilder’s outsized architecture of stacked boxes on Bemis Center’s fifth floor. Ministry of Truth was not intended as a permanent installation, but has miraculously survived six years since his residency. Two of Wilder’s videos are included in Stop & Go.
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Friday, August 1 | Time TBA
Arthouse: Bemis Artists Talk Film: Encounters at the End of the World
Admission $8, $6 for students and seniors, $4 for Film Streams and Bemis Center members
Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater, 14th & Webster
A continuing collaboration with Film Streams, Arthouse is an ongoing conversation series about the relationship between contemporary art and film featuring post-screening reactions and input of Bemis Center artists as moderated by curator Hesse McGraw.
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Thursday, August 7 | 7 p.m.
First Thursday ArtTalk: Janelle Iglesias and Whoop Dee Doo
Join Bemis Center resident Janelle Iglesias and visiting artists Whoop Dee Doo as they discuss their work.
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Satuday, August 9 | 2 – 5 p.m.
Whoop Dee Doo
Whoop Dee Doo will produce and film a kid-friendly faux public access television show featuring performances accompanied by active audience participation. Part Japanese game show, part HEE HAW and part high school talent show, Whoop Dee Doo presents a dizzying array of performers from throughout the Omaha community and engages audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Throughout the week preceding filming, Kansas City-based artists Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche will create sets in collaboration with community participants. On August 9, Whoop Dee Doo invites the public to experience performances by many special guests. Whoop Dee Doo is actively seeking volunteers and performers from throughout Omaha to produce this event. Please contactwhoopdeedookansascity@gmail.com if you are interested in participating. Whoop Dee Doo is an ongoing project made possible with support from the Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City.
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Sunday, August 10 through Saturday, August 16 | schedule tba
Cinema Zero
Cinema Zero is a site-specific video, music and performance series curated by New York-based artistAmy Granat, a 2008 Whitney Biennial participant. Performances have recently been staged at The Kitchen and the New Museum in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Ullens Center in Beijing. Additional collaborators will be announced at a later date.
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Check back often additional events added throughout the series.
PAST EVENTS
Friday, June 6 | 7 p.m.
Jean-Pierre Klotz: New Objects as Viewed Through the Tube
University of Paris psychoanalyst Jean-Pierre Klotz discusses America's seminal export — television programming. How is the "shock of the new" revealed in images and objects that come to suggest a new wave of modernism?
POSTPONED :: Monday, June 9 | 6 – 9 p.m.
Screening of Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion (1982-84) 50 minutes
Graham’s highly influential text/video collage develops a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Did the Shakers’ ecstatic trance dancing presage the psychic and sexual abandon of rock music?
 The Bus
John Benson, a former member of A Minor Forest, converted a 40-foot Oakland Police Department command bus into a veggie oil-fueled rock venue. The Bus pulls up and bands and an audience pile on! Benson and some dozen co-conspirators will present the performance "Living Hell" and project films on The Bus's side and then the music starts. Who knows where in Omaha the bus will end up? Bands to be announced.
Thursday, June 12 | 6:30 p.m.
 Arthouse: Bemis Artists Talk Film: Au hasard Balthazar
Admission $8, $6 for students and seniors, $4 for Film Streams and Bemis Center members
Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater, 14th & Webster
A new collaboration with Film Streams, Arthouse is an ongoing conversation series about the relationship between contemporary art and film featuring post-screening reactions and input of Bemis Center artists as moderated by curator Hesse McGraw. Robert Bresson's spiritually transcendent masterpiece Au hasard Balthazar (1966) follows the parallel lives of a donkey, Balthazar, and the young woman who first cared for him as a child.
Thursday, July 3 | 7 p.m.
First Thursday ArtTalk: Andrea Loefke, Adam Frelin & Maggie Tobin
Visiting artist Maggie Tobin joins current residents Adam Frelin and Andrea Loefke in Vellum, Video and Variety the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts’ First Thursday ArtTalk.
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