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June 13 - 18--This is a big week for Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc.!
- Out The Window: about/by/in Los Angeles—June 13-19 on LA Metro Buses
- Help us win the Artist Bailout—Saturday, June 18, 5-8pm, Atwater Crossing in LA’s Atwater Village
1. Out The Window: about/by/in Los Angeles—June 13-19 on LA Metro Buses
Millions of riders on LA Metro's buses will be treated to a short version of our road trip video, made in collaboration with Elana Mann: Powering the 22nd Century.
View the short version here: http://www.vimeo.com/24142993
View the original version here: http://www.vimeo.com/15548571
For schedules, bus tours, and more info, please visit: http://out-the-window.org
Also, check this article about the show in the LA Weekly: http://www.laweekly.com/2011-06-02/art-books/out-the-window-brings-art-to-l-a-buses/
2. Artist Bailout—Saturday, June 18, 5-8pm, Atwater Crossing in LA’s Atwater Village
Your vote will help EEC Inc. win a micro-grant!
Enjoy a public meal designed to solicit community-driven financial support and democratically fund new work by emerging artists.
Date & Time: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Price: $10 (includes dinner and a ballot) or $5 (ballot) only
Location: Atwater Crossing: 3191 Casitas Avenue, room 165 (Corner of Casitas and Minneapolis) Los Angeles, CA 90039
We will be presenting our next big project, ReRender:
A microcosm of the struggle for tolerance in Arizona, Prescott is charged with divisiveness.
Working closely with the Peace and Justice Center of Prescott College, EEC Inc. will entice former Smoki tribe people—aging white figures of the local establishment who for 70 years publically performed bastardized versions of Hopi ceremonies—to remove their tattoos.
They will have the opportunity to replace them with tattoos designed through a series of meetings with area native people, anarchist collectives, immigrant rights activists, and other progressive voices.
With removal by a local gang tattoo removal service, replacement by reputed tattoo artists, the transformation will have a full-circle healing effect for the community.
An Artist Bailout grant will go towards funding meetings with the progressive voices of northwestern Arizona, creating a compendium of images and slogans, doing further research into the history and people of the Smoki, paying for grant applications to federal and state anti-gang programs (which will subsidize the tattoo removal and application phase).
For more information, visit: http://artistbailoutrenegadebountyexchange.blogspot.com
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Eternal Telethon: Infinity + 24
Live webcast performances
Watch online at www.EternalTelethon.Com as we try to raise funds to start an artist retirement home.
Saturday, November 20th through Sunday Nov. 21st
noon to noon
EEC Inc. will introduce their latest performance, REDIVIDER, webcast LIVE at the Eternal Telethon, Saturday, Nov. 20. around 2:30pm.
REDIVIDER will reduce all arguments to their negating polar opposites with frenzied theremin.
Tune in at 2:30pm Saturday, or watch in person at Machine Project, 1200 North Alvarado St., Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Driven by What’s Inside
An Outdoor Performance and Cinema Event at Side Street Projects
Driven by What’s Inside
October 2, 2010, 7-9pm
Side Street Projects
730 N Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
FREE and open to the public
About the Performance and Screenings:
Inspired by 10-day-long traffic jams in China, devastating oil spills in the gulf, the “end” of the Iraq war, and fatal off-road races in the Mojave desert, Driven by What’s Inside is an outdoor performance and cinema event that reconsiders the role of the automobile in contemporary society.
The evening brings together recent performance and video work by Vera Brunner-Sung, Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. in collaboration with Elana Mann, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Alexa Gerrity, Joseph Imhauser, Noah Klersfeld, Julie Lequin, Benjamin Love, Susan Mogul, and Carlin Wing.
These artworks undermine the banality and brutality of the automobile by any means possible whether through psychedelic road-tripping, FM radio talk-shows, or love songs. Artist Elana Mann presents Driven by What’s Inside as a way to deepen explorations in her own work related to cars, driving, and war. This event is the second in a new series for Mann, in which she will be attempting to redress her grandfather’s involvement in the Manhattan Project by creating a “peace bomb” with other artists. Drive-in, walk-in, cycle-in, but bring a blanket, folding chair or seatbelt, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
About the Artists:
Vera Brunner-Sung, Hard Stares & Broken Mirrors, 2007, digital video, 6 min.
Inspired by a road trip taken by two friends through the Mojave Desert into Sequoia National Forest, this video essay draws from personal photographs and popular cinema to transform travelogue into a critical reflection on the Western genre.
Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. in collaboration with Elana Mann have made a groundbreaking inquiry into the nature of our society's core institution: the automobile. What energy flows go into and out of our cars? What raw materials from which global conflict zones create and power them? What happens to mental energy while waiting in traffic? Do our cars love us as much as we love them? Can a car become a vegetarian? Can a car dream? EEC Inc.’s Steven L. Anderson and Tom McKenzie will lead collaborative performance and meditation drawn from the investigation they undertook called The Last Petroleum Road Trip. A brief Public Service Announcement will follow.
Diana-Sofia Estrada, L.A. Killed My Truck, 2008, 10:00 min., two channel video. This video is a documentary about the trials and tribulations of a woman’s beloved vehicle breaking down in various locations around Los Angeles. Using looped commercial footage, long single shot documentation of the vehicle's receipts and bills, and interviews with various individuals, L.A. Killed My Truck focuses on the actual and imagined power one has in owning, driving, and losing a truck.
Alexa Gerrity, Untitled (March), 2007, 37 sec. Through a lens of female subjectivity Gerrity mines constructed narratives and imagined realities. The artist is drawn to the alienating quality of the suburban California landscape, in the fantasy of escape and westward expansion. In her pieces she explores the formidable tension between an individual’s desire to control and confine nature versus the desire to ‘return to nature’. In Untitled (March) Gerrity references this tension by juxtaposing the natural environment with a haphazard use of the sci-fi genre and Hollywood filming conventions.
Joseph Imhauser, First United States Postal Service Airmail Pickup, Sedalia, Missouri May 18, 1938, 2009, 2 min., 8mm transferred to DV, Silent. First United States Postal Service... is a collection of 8mm reels found in the artist’s great-grandfathers attic. He was a photojournalist at the local newspaper for 40 years and documented many historic events. Imhauser sent this digitized footage to the USPS Archives as well as the Sedalia, MO City Archives for their records, but this event was denied authentication from both spaces due to lack of supporting documentation.
Noah Klersfeld, vehicles traveling in two directions behind a chain-link fence, 2009, 3:36 min. Noah Klersfeld is exploring the material qualities of time, through video, for the creation of new spatial forms.. In vehicles traveling in two directions behind a chain-link fence, the diamond shapes of a chain-link fence are used to temporally reorganize the pattern of lights, shapes and colors of passing vehicles on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. The video was filmed as a single shot divided into 583 individual videos, each corresponding to an individual diamond of the chain-link fence.
Julie Lequin, Car Talk, 2008, HD VIDEO, 8:00 min., Knitting together excerpts from the NPR show of the same name and Lequin’s own fabricated responses, Car Talk presents a fictional conversation between Lequin and the two radio icons discussing her linguistic troubles, her Québécoise identity and life as an artist.
Benjamin Love, Bring it on home to me, 2010, 36:01 min. (2:48 min. excerpt) was a performance executed over the course of a two month period, in which the artist memorized the album “The Best of Sam Cooke” while driving around doing errands. During this two month period of memorization the only music the artist listened to while driving his vehicle was the chosen album. The artist is now able to match Sam Cooke’s nuanced vocal styling.
Susan Mogul, Driving Men, 2008, 68 min., (5 min. prologue is presented in the program from this feature length film). “Driving Men fluidly stitches questions about the shifting constructs of woman and man, identity and truth, into a poignant love story.” - ARTFORUM ”…rather than merely being a diary, Driving Men is finally about the challenge of crafting a life.” - LA WEEKLY. Susan Mogul’s feature length Driving Men premiered in Switzerland at “Visions du Reel” and has played on the international film festival circuit for two years.
Carlin Wing, Traffic Patterns (v.II), 2010, 6min., is a reworking of one of Wing's early videos. Shot in 2006, the earlier version was a structured set of observations of the patterns of planes blinking past her bedroom window, of TV's pulsing in a neighbor's house, and of car lights flashing across her ceiling. The new version, made for Driven By What's Inside, dives back into the many nights of footage shot in 2006. Traffic Patterns (v.II) undoes the strict structure of the earlier piece, in favor of creating a space for reflection on the ebbs and flows and blocks and bursts of transportation that pattern our lives and our communities.
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Driven by What’s Inside is made possible through generous support from Side Street Projects and Dan Greaney.
Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. in collaboration with Elana Mann also wish to thank their generous supporters who donated to The Last Petroleum Road Trip.
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If you’d like more information about Driven by What’s Inside or would like to schedule an interview, please contact Elana Mann at (971) 409-8205 or elanamann@gmail.com.
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Blogjammin'
Big thanks to Leora Lutz's profile of EEC Inc.! Check out the article here:
Blog Revisted: Ecstatic Energy does Mojave Desert
and here:
Movement 365: Ecstatic Energy confounds the notion of (business in) art
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