BIOS_FEAR: Self Expression Night
Humankind shares the narrative of ‘the End’ across centuries and millenniums, cultures and creeds. As the spiritual morphs into the internalized space of the virtual, our society seems stupefied by a fear of what is to come. It is no longer important to meditate on the nature of the apocalypse as an event of the future; it is a process whose mechanics are in full view for all those who care to look. Unable to deny the consumptiv...e and exploitive role that we have been born into as westerners, as Americans, we consume the momentary without the tangible ability to question or access its consequences. Without agency to effect the path which humanity continually determines and reinforces for itself, how do individuals express? What are the personal and social realities that descend from a world without hope of physical redemption?
Join us for a night of experiences where there is no message from the 'other side' but an opportunity for subjecting the current state of living to rigorous examination and transformation.
__________Bios_Fear is an extension of Bay Area 51's "Self Expression Night" which is a recurring open platform for experimental performance engagement in San Francisco. With Bios_Fear we are asking participants to more specifically engage in a dialogue about the "current state" of the world and how this relates to personal exploration of inner and outer realities. This brings up questions about the existential nature of the "current state" and it's objective and subjective qualities. It is this amorphous terrain that we are attempting to address through the self expressive potential of performance art. We are inviting artists from outside of San Francisco to engage in this open forum to experiment and engage with a new audience.____________
PERFORMANCES BY:
Eamonn Fox
Renée van Trier
Frankie Martin
Nathan Bockelman
Frankie America & Me
Jonah Susskind
Brel Froebe
Eric Svedas
Trenton Willey
Bourgeois Hygiene
Chris Baker
Paul Pescador (LA Only)
LOS ANGELES
March 17th 7 PM
The HiLite
533 S. Los Angeles St., 6th Fl
SAN FRANCISCO
March 18th 7 PM
Bay Area 51
1667 Jerrold Ave.
studio & project space
EARLY MORNING OPERA presents the west coast premier of A SUICIDE BOMBING BY INVITATION ONLY — a live event that defies genre and expectation — from June 16 -18 in downtown Los Angeles. Commissioned by the Whitney Museum, the piece debuted there during the 2010 Biennial. BOMBING is a satirically heartfelt exploration of the iconic fear of our moment, refracted through the lenses of celebrity, protest, advertising, the art market, and memorialization. In the tradition of Dr. Strangelove, BOMBING leverages humor to unearth the absurd and the terrifying in our collective paranoia.
