Once again, I will don the black garb of the theater tech for this upcoming show. Let me know if you’d like to check it out.
The Desire Project
Do you still desire it once you have it?
Six compelling performers wrestle with the mysterious qualities that define desire. An unsuspecting scientist is seized by the data that he’s painstakingly acquired thanks to Victoria’s Secret. A woman propelled by Klezmer music devours the fruit that’s projected onto her naked, dancing body. Billie Holiday’s spirit manifests itself in the voice of a sixty-five year old poet who writes punk with a wiggle. A man leaps for a ringing telephone with the hope that it’s his girlfriend–it turns out to be her boyfriend. The Desire Project joins together the passion of soap opera, the mayhem of a three ring circus and the unpredictability of stand-up comedy. And then they invite the audience into the mix. One weekend only. Then it’s gone. Take a risk. Join in.
The Desire Project
Directed by Judy Cohen
With Dakota Phoenix, Julie Berlin, Robert Fitch, Edana Contreras, Judy Cohen and Ron Jones
WHEN
May 15 Thursday
May 16 Friday
May 17 Saturday
all shows at 8:00WHERE
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory
1519 Mission Street (between 11th and 12th Street)
San FranciscoWheelchair accessible
TICKETS
$15 General Admission
The curators of Audacity of Desperation asked me to send them a pile of stickers for their LA exhibit in October and November. To take a break from all the book work (and CELLspace volunteering), I tweaked the original sticker’s design. Added a new background (half tone of a sand dune pattern) and switched the images with the text. So I guess it’s “Number 2″ in a series. The next chance I get, I’ll make a new button design for this show. Before that, I need to cut a new stencil that I plan on taking up North for the book tour.
BTW, if you want one of these stickers, send me your snail address and I’ll mail ya one. Donations gladly appreciated to cover any costs, shipping, and handling.
The Audacity of Desperation is an art exhibition, political action, and on-going dialogue. This show confronts, expresses and unravels states of desperation. Artworks by activists, artists, enthusiasts, and very concerned people, are made in editions of 100 with the intention of free distribution to audiences. In this way, these artworks will be activated outside of the exhibition space and in domestic spaces, on bodies, clothes, bags, and in public spaces.
I want to see change happen. The last seven years has been a mess for this country. My father admitted to me that I was right all along about Iraq and Bush’s scheme to finish what his poppa started. The Federal budget is squeezed so California’s budget is a mess. This means that San Francisco’s budget is a mess too. Reagan’s trickle down theory from hell. Sure, times are tough but people are getting by. But as the cost of food, rent, and utilities continue to climb, people are working twice as hard today to make the same amount of money they did in the 1990s.
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A photo is worth 1,000 words. Protesters get arrested while dressed up in Gitmo jumpers and hoods. I saw one SFPD shaking his head in disbelief or disgust over having to stand there for the amazing photo op.
Who is the monster here? The Police State eating off of the Agro-Buisness Fast Food State? The War? The Bush Administration?
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Sorry about the war reference, but I called the raising of my Priorities Campaign’s high striker the “Iwo Jima” moment to concerned onlookers (imagine raising a 22 foot game alone while strangers think it’ll crash and maim). Here goes the Big Tadoo’s crankie Iwo Jima raising. The curtain isn’t tied up because it is about to be strung (see below).
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I recently mentioned that Big Tadoo Puppet Crew’s Jonathan Youtt is in the middle of making two chain-powered crankies for their upcoming in-school tour. At first I thought he had an engine in mind, other than a human crank, but was wrong on that account. I showed the toy mock in an earlier posting, and recently got the call to help/document the set up of the real, steel-poled deal. I didn’t get to stay around for the final set up due to running out of time on the production end, and the curtains couldn’t get set due to a low ceiling in the xtian studio where we set up the devices. But with a bit of troubleshooting, Jonathan and I got them up quickly, with little problems. The velo on the second scroll was welded too high for the crank to connect to via the chain, but Jonathan got Michael Christian to quickly weld the crank to allow it to be adjusted to the scroll’s velo height. All in all, a fun afternoon of crankies goodness.
Here are the dozen or so photos I took during the set up:
All the parts of the two Big Tadoo crankies. Jonathan cut and drilled steel poles for the frames. The hardware for keeping the poles together aren’t shown.
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