Displacement is the perfect marriage of a program and a project. The program, AWOL: Art Without Limits is about creating new forums for discussion on art through site specific installations, happenings and non-traditional exhibition spaces. The project, Displacement, is a conversation based on the art of displaced cinema. Both the program and project value the importance and effect of space, and both challenge traditional expectations of what an exhibition site can and should be. This project, a collaboration between GOCA and TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, will be presented on the top floor of the Kiowa & Nevada parking garage in downtown Colorado Springs. Lectures will be offered to further explore the discourse of expanded (or displaced) cinema, aural experimentation, spectatorship, the recontectualization of found-footage, and parkour (the art of movement).

Displacement: Cinema Out of Site is collaboration and presentation of film works by contemporary Argentine and North American avant-gardists to encourage an intercontinental dialogue between artists. These artists, writers and curators are presenting moving image and sound creations on the concrete structure of a public parking garage. To understand the presentation and its relationship to parkour we must understand displacement. Rachel Cole, a participating artist, wrote “Place isn’t lost, it is rather “displaced,” undone, emptied of meaning of itself, a location without linear measurement.” Displaced is not misplaced. The cinema and this program are not lost; instead they have been stripped of popular expectations for what they should be. Many would say art should be in a gallery and film in a theater. This project uses an existing space, urban architecture, to redefine the viewer’s experience of the work presented.

A series of three lectures featuring filmmakers, artists and curators accompany this one-night-only film presentation. Each lecture pairs two speakers each with keen insight into the philosophies and techniques explored through the films.

AUG. 7 CITY HALL Council Chambers (107 N. Nevada Ave.)
Christopher May and Jimmy Gable will discuss the notion of displacementand displaced cinema and the history and philosophy of parkour.

Displacement occurs when the Id wants to do something of which the Super ego does not permit. The Ego thus finds some other way of releasing the psychic energy of the Id. Phobias may also use displacement as a mechanism for releasing energy that is caused in other ways. See also: Fantasy, Projection, Expanded Cinema, Curatorial Daydreaming, Surrealism.

Parkour is a discipline, non-competitive in nature, with the focus on the ability to move over, below, around, through, or anything to get by an obstacle as quickly and as efficiently as possible, as if in pursuit, usually in an urban environment. It’s about having the control and the know-how to create movement through an environment efficiently.

AUG. 8 GAY & LESBIAN FUND FOR COLORADO (315 E. Costilla)
Pablo Marin and Gregg Savage will discuss found footage and people as instruments.

Found-footage, the practice of recontectualization of someone else’s audiovisual materials, has certainly come a long way since its almost uncertain beginnings in the twentieth century. In perfect symbiosis with the groundbreaking concept of ready-mades in the field of art, this tradition surpassed practically every film frontier, from documentary to fiction, to find its true place within the avant-garde, where its nature is constantly redefined by both conceptual and technological possibilities.

Making music from the sounds of traceurs in the field, Gregg will talk about the experience of creating the music and sound worlds for the event Displacement: Cinema Out of Site. He will explore why it is essential for techology and tradition to find a happy medium in creating art, why randomness and chaos are essential to creativity, and how the philosophy and inspiration of Parkour can be utilized in making music.

AUG. 9 GAY & LESBIAN FUND FOR COLORADO (315 E. Costilla)
Dan Mancini and Rachel Cole will discuss the Tetris Effect and on-site distraction.

As a recurring practice parkour takes root in the mind. An apposite analogy is the Tetris Effect, wherein after extended bouts of Tetris, people consistently report seeing the entire world, buildings and cars, as tetrominoic pieces to be fit together. Similarly, through the proclivity of parkour, walls and railings that traditionally herd people around become open ended, a canvas on which to apply new physical rules. This phenomenon exemplifies the neroplasticity of the human brain, by which parkour literally amends a tracer’s perception of physical spaces, and even abstract ideas.

Parkour and experimental film share the quality of continual disturbance: the land, the background, the scene, the figures enveloped in it are transiently in the frenzy of the un-locatable, fleeting present. Displacement asks us to locate ourselves and thus be physical, embodied, carnally un-whole as much as starkly self-conscious.

PARTICIPANTS
Christopher May is the founder and primary curator behind TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition. In addition to his work with TIE, May has curated and presented a decade of film programs for museums, film societies and colleges including the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Austrian Film Museum, MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, ICA-Boston, Cinemateca Uruguaya, and San Francisco Cinematheque. His (Super-8 & 16mm) film work currently explores the sensually visceral qualities of cinema and their topographical relationships with sub-cultural landscapes.

Pablo Marín was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Besides teaching and writing on avant-garde film (laregioncentral.blogspot.com) he’s a film/video curator and filmmaker. His films were premiered at several TIE festivals and tour programs and shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, Starting from Scratch (Netherlands), Pleasure Dome (Canada), Avanto Festival (Finland), no.w.here (England), amongst others. In 2009 he was invited as visiting artist to FAC’s Found-footage Workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Gregg Savage is a composer of guitar and computer music who enjoys challenging perceptions of harmony and dissonance. He brings his background in avant-garde sound art, film composing, and underground dance music to fuse together compositions from non-traditional sound objects. He has a BM from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where he studied guitar and music synthesis. His music was recently featured in the 3 panel film project Film (Parkour) in the Masterpieces of New American Avant-Garde Cinema program at the Austrian Film Museum. He lives in Colorado.

Rachel Cole is a fiction writer who grew up in Denver and the Appalachians. She received a BA in English with a minor in Continental Philosophy from the University of Denver and is currently enrolled in the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. She is particularly fascinated by corporeal philosophy, 20th century to present studies in linguistics, the politics of territory, and trauma in contemporary art. Her interest in experimental film is the instability of images, the event of spectacle, and the intimacy of beauty which ignites the sensuality of binaries as much as the crisis of boundaries. A curated text project is forthcoming from zingmagazine #22.

Jesse Kennedy is a writer and filmmaker. He currently works exclusively in Super 8, a format in keeping with his interest in what poet Eileen Myles has termed “pathetic technologies:” seemingly simple, neglected, and/or antiquated technologies (from conversation to VHS), through which one may, nonetheless, still explore the limits of the possible. He has a BA in Writing and Literature from Naropa University, in Boulder, CO. His poetry has appeared in Bombay Gin. His films have been previously exhibited by TIE. He currently lives in El Rito, New Mexico.

Art is part of the human spirit. As we evolve, art will continue to define us. If we don’t adapt we won’t survive. New ideas, aesthetics and partnerships will assure our survival.

We—FutureSelf, the Gallery of Contemporary Art and THEATREWORKS—are going to prove it to you.

Enter Flaunt: Evolution. On September 12, 2009, artists and community organizations are going to put on the show of their lives – under the Colorado Avenue Bridge. You’ve seen the event before. Flaunt is in its third year, but you’ve never seen it like this. With new partners, new energy, and the knowledge that only the fittest will survive, this is evolution.

Artists participating in the one-night-only exhibition will create works that emphasize life, growth and sustainability. The ideas and projects they present here will encourage evolution in our community, in our ideologies and in our arts organizations.

It’s important, but it’s also really fun.

This is a celebration of visual and performing arts in Colorado Springs. And, though we hate to boast, if anyone knows how to throw a party – it’s us. FLAUNT: Evolution is the next Big Bang.

Tickets on sale now

The WHITE PARTY: Clothed Entertainment in a Bare Naked Environment.
June 27, 7-10 P.M. at the Gallery of Contemporary Art.

GOCA is bidding farewell to the white walls of the UCCS gallery for a time, and venturing forth into the real world of Colorado Springs with our new public art-rage program, AWOL—Art Without Limits.

In celebration of this historic moment, we cordially invite you to join us for a colorful evening of music, food and spirits when we’ll offer a fond goodbye to what was, and a hearty hello for what will be.  BUY TICKETS ONLINE.

Wear your finest white apparel so you can sufficiently blend in with our beautiful, blank, white walls.

TICKETS (buy early, buy often)
ONLINE: $35
AT THE DOOR: $40

This event is the kick-off party / fundraiser for AWOL. Everything you give will go directly toward AWOL events, exhibitions and programs. We can’t do this without you.

White Party Images

* CLOSES JUNE 28,2009 *

Paul Slocum, New Media Gallery
Curated by Petra Sertic

Paul Slocum’s video You’re Not My Father is comprised of several reenactments of a short scene from the American television show Full House (1987–1995). Slocum recruited amateur participants through ads posted on Internet message boards and Craigslist and provided instructions on how to reshoot the scene with special attention to dialog and gestures. A musician as well as a visual artist, he creates an ominous effect in the video using sound loops, based on the scene’s original music. The work explores issues of defiance against authority, as presented by the characters, D.J. and Joey, and their different impersonators.

Anthony Goicolea, Photography Gallery
Curated by Cydney Payton

Related features the recent work of first-generation Cuban American Anthony Goicolea. Noted for his fantastic photographic narratives where he often acts out provocative charades and exploits, Goicolea now turns to inventing a conceptual family album. The exhibition is comprised of drawings and photographs that resemble portraiture from the mid-1800s, when the innovation of the tintype process transported image-making from the hand of the artist to the camera.

Shark’s Ink, Paper Works Gallery
Curated by Cydney Payton

This group exhibition features 82 prints by ten artists who have created works on paper with Master Printer Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Colorado. The collection on view represents a survey of his studio since its inception in the mid-seventies. Shark has produced lithographs, monoprints, and woodcuts by renowned artists, largely from the US. The exhibition’s curator, Cydney Payton, has chosen to present artists who have worked with Shark for many years, engaging in a collaborative process that has resulted in works that are technically and visually innovative. The approach employed at Shark’s studio is unique to the creative process, as the artist and the printer work side-by-side to manifest beautiful works.

GOCA @ UCCS & I.D.E.A. @ COLORADO COLLEGE

Theme: Economic Creativity
Installation: Beginning, Thursday, June 18 at 5 PM
Reception: Friday, June 19, 5 PM at the FAC Modern (in the Plaza of the Rockies), 121 S. Tejon.

The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS and IDEA @ Colorado College are excited to announce the second presentation 1440 Minutes, a joint public program supporting Colorado contemporary artists. 1440 Minutes is a twenty-four hour art installation and exhibition event, curated around the theme of “Economic Creativity.” Great innovations arise in times of crisis; these innovations drive future economic and cultural growth. Economic Creativity presents artists who examine how, during this time of great change, we can – and should – use or re-use elements of our personal, cultural, and material past to re-envision a healthy, sustainable future. Featured artists: atomic elroy & zelda bubbles, Phillip Faulkner, David Fodel and Melanie Grimes & Jocelyn Nevel.

Special thanks to the Fine Arts Center for generously allowing UCCS and CC to use the FAC Modern for this project. Installations will begin at 5 PM on Thursday, June 18 and must be completed by 5 PM on Friday, June 19, 2009 (the public is welcomed and encouraged to stop in on Friday and watch the installation).

The reception will be held on Friday, June 19, 2009, 5-8 p.m. COPPeR (The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region), Bristol and Nosh are kindly sponsoring the evening’s festivities.

Three cash prizes of $500 will be awarded by a panel of jurors.

The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS, FutureSelf and THEATREWORKS are excited to announce the third presentation Flaunt, a joint public program supporting arts organizations in Colorado Springs. The event will be held under the Colorado Avenue bridge.

The theme for this year’s event is Evolution. Flaunt is challenging artists to create works that emphasize life, growth and sustainability. From theme to materials, artists should explore economic / cultural / material relationships to vitality, adaptation, rehabilitation, survival and growth. Artists interested in submitting a project should indicate which of the following options is most appropriate for their work.

Formal Program
An hour-long, high-energy, fast-paced production of primarily video and performance art
or
Event Environment
Video/installation/conceptual/2D/3D art to create an immersive, thematically-relevant environment for the event

Submissions from individual artists and collectives are now being taken to participate in the program. Participation is open to regional artists. Transportation and lodging costs will be the responsibility of the artist(s). Submissions must be complete and received by the deadline in order to be considered. Artists will be responsible for installation, de-installation, and all associated labor and costs. Installation begins at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 11 and must be completed by 3 PM on Saturday, Sept. 12.

Application and review process: Proposals will be reviewed by GOCA, FutureSelf and THEATREWORKS staff. A panel of jurors will award three cash prizes totaling $3000.

Please submit the following via email or postal mail by Friday, June 26, 2009. Those selected for inclusion will be notified by Monday, July 17, 2009.
• Project Proposal Description, 500 words maximum
• Resume/CV, artist biography and statement.
• Up to 5 digital images (jpg format only, up to 3 MB if emailing)
• Please save files as follows: firstnamelastname1.jpg
• Include a numbered image list with title, medium, and dimensions, corresponding to the numbers in the file names.
• Up to one video if applicable.

Send all materials to:
Gallery of Contemporary Art
ATTN: Caitlin Green
1420 Austin Bluffs Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Email submissions to: cgreen@uccs.edu
Questions: 719-255-3504

Throughout the students’ college experiences they honed their skills to arrive at the pinnacle of their undergraduate education. The seniors have chosen their strongest works for exhibition and have worked as a curatorial team to present them to the on and off campus communities.

The opening reception is free and open to the public. Parking restrictions will be lifted for Lots 1 & 3 only for the opening reception on Friday, May 1 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm.

GOCA @ UCCS & I.D.E.A. @ COLORADO COLLEGE

Theme: Economic Creativity
Installation: Beginning, Thursday, June 18 at 5 PM
Reception: Friday, June 19, 5 PM

The Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS and IDEA @ Colorado College are excited to announce the second presentation 1440 Minutes, a joint public program supporting Colorado contemporary artists. 1440 Minutes is a twenty-four hour art installation and exhibition event, curated around the theme of “Economic Creativity”. Great innovations arise in times of crisis; these innovations drive future economic and cultural growth. Economic Creativity invites artists to examine how, during this time of great change, we can – and should – use or re-use elements of our personal, cultural, and material past to re-envision a healthy, sustainable future.

Submissions from individual artists and collectives are now being taken to participate in the exhibition. Selected projects, which may include 2D, 3D, video, performance, installation, or conceptual pieces, will be exhibited in the FAC Modern. Artists will be responsible for installation, de-installation, and all associated labor and costs. Artworks must be able to be fully installed in under 24 hours. Installations will begin at 5 PM on Thursday, June 18 and must be completed by 5 PM on Friday, June 19, 2009. The reception will be held on Friday, June 19, 2009, 5-8 p.m.

Three cash prizes of $500 will be awarded by a panel of jurors.

Application and review process:
Proposals will be reviewed by curators of GOCA, and I.D.E.A. @ Colorado College, Caitlin Green and Jessica Hunter Larsen.
Rules: Participation is open to regional artists; any transportation and lodging costs will be the responsibility of the artist(s). Submissions must be complete and received by the deadline in order to be considered.
Please submit the following via email or postal mail by Friday, April 10, 2009. Those selected for inclusion will be notified by Monday, April 20, 2009.
• Project Proposal Description, 500 words maximum
• Resume/CV, artist biography and statement.
• Up to 5 digital images (jpeg format, up to 3 MB size if emailing)
• Please save files as follows: firstnamelastname1.jpg
• Include a numbered image list with title, medium, and dimensions, corresponding to the numbers in the file names.
• Up to one video if applicable.

Send all materials to:
I.D.E.A. @ Colorado College
ATTN: Jessica Hunter Larsen
14 E Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO. 80903
Email submissions to: jessica.larsen@coloradocollege.edu
Jessica Hunter Larsen 719-227-8263 or Caitlin Green 719-255-3504

Click HERE to download.

The exhibit is free and runs Jan. 31 – March 28. An Opening Celebration is planned in conjunction with the First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 6 from 5-8 p.m. The artist will be in attendance.

Creating the mythical city “Hometown” within the galleries, Elroy uses video, installation and performance art to convey the complicated existence of an avant-garde artist in an all-American town. Highlights include an installation of the red spring Colorado Springs is named for, faux travelogues of tourist sites, parodies of local personalities in art, politics and religion, and a series of videos depicting Elroy’s take on the city.

Elroy describes his art as time-based media and says he “manipulates electrons and calls it art.”

“I like video because so much of the ‘art’ happens in the editing. Shooting is like sketching and the edit is where you get to paint.”

Go to the FAC Modern’s page for the full article:
http://www.csfineartscenter.org/AtomicElroy.asp

Join us Friday, February 27, from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. for the opening reception of Teach Me Show Me, a biennial show highlighting the work of UCCS Visual and Performing Arts (VaPA) faculty.

The opening reception is free and open to the public. Parking restrictions will be lifted for Lots 1 & 3 only for the opening reception.

Join us Friday, May 1, 2009 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.for the opening reception of The Lights Are On: Artgasm – the annual Visual and Performing Arts exhibition highlighting work from 2009 graduating seniors. The exhibition is planned and executed from start to finish by the visual art students as part of their professional development course and is the culmination and sampling of work from 19 students working in sculpture, drawing, painting, digital media, video, and photography. This is the third senior art exhibition held at UCCS and it is a tradition that will continue annually.

The opening reception is free and open to the public. Parking restrictions will be lifted for Lots 1 & 3 only for the opening reception.

Teach Me Show Me pairs student curators in the gallery management program with faculty members and gallery staff for hands on curatorial experience and professional development.

The exhibition will run from February 27 though April 11, 2009, and will have an opening reception on Friday, February 27, 2009 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Parking restrictions will be lifted for Lots 1 & 3 only for the opening reception.

Featured faculty artists
Matt Barton . Valerie Brodar . Louis Cicotello . Carol Dass . Corey Drieth . Lin Fife . Pauline Foss . Hellen Eberhardie-Dunn . Julia Lathrop . Carol Myers . Claire Rau . Betty Ross . Murray Ross . Mariya Zvonkovich . Dean Hadlock . Olivia Lundberg . Erik Schubert

The artist’s statements are available for download here in a PDF.

Teach Me Show Me Images

Installation View

Installation View

Matt Barton

Valerie Brodar

Louis Cicotello

Carol Dass

Corey Drieth

Hellen Eberhardie-Dunn

Lin Fife

Pauline Foss

Dean Hadlock

Carolyn Intemann

Julia Lathrop (Hoerner)

Olivia Lundberg

Carol Mordecai Myers

Claire Rau

Betty Ross

Murry Ross

Eric Schubert

Mariya Zvonkovich