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Festa L’Animale / Mandible Marks + Andrew Benson and Joshua Churchill / Through Sparkling Fields, BiPost an Event »

Southern Exposure

June 11 - June 11, 2010

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3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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These performances bring together artists who employ their bodies as a point of departure. Festa L'Animale is Portland based artist Jane Paik, a musician and dancer whose main venue has been punk clubs across the country with musician Geoff Soule. Paik has fronted several bands and dabbles with instruments mostly in the confines of her bedroom. At Southern Exposure, Paik presents Mandible Marks an exploration in the interweaving of music and dance, not as separate entities, but together and through the same performer, herself. Paik and Soule layer vocals, guitar, drum kit and dance to engage the audience to consider a dancer beyond movement and a musician beyond sound. Electronic-media artist Andrew Benson combines forces with sound and light artist Joshua Churchill to create an immersive, site-specific audiovisual performance. The dark, rumbling analog drones and noise of Churchill's guitar-driven sound creates a deep counterpoint to Benson's bright and exquisitely complex digital video performance in which Benson turns the camera on himself to create visual feedback and movement for his work. The two artists present a swirling mass of sound and light that will surround and engulf the space, blurring the lines between sound, vision, and vibration. This performance is part of EXTENDED PLAY, a series of new, weekly live art performances and workshops. A related workshop by Andrew Benson, Inside the Vortex: Feedback Systems, Experimentation, and Noise, will take place at Southern Exposure on Saturday, June 12, 2010. $8 - $15 sliding scale, FREE for SoEx members