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Royal NoneSuch Gallery
September 17 - October 9, 2016Info
4231 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 Google Map »
This summer Royal NoneSuch Gallery, with the support of an Alternative Exposure grant, transformed into Royal Production Company. Four Bay Area artists/collaboratives - Bonanza LLC, Amber Cady, Carolyn Janssen and Kate Rhoades - were selected to create new video works using the gallery as a site of production during a three week residency. The videos will premiere at the Roxie Theater on September 16th with screenings at 7pm and 9pm, each followed by a Q&A session moderated by the gallery. Tickets are offered on a sliding scale: http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/royal-production-company-world-premiere/?instance_id=
After the premiere, the videos will be screened at Royal NoneSuch Gallery through October 9th. Program: Bonanza: The Drought Bonanza is an artist collaborative comprised of Conrad Guevara, Lindsay Tully and Lana Williams. Their project, The Drought, is a cli-fi film investigating the effects (real and imagined) of the water crisis. By combining their trademark camp aesthetics with conspiracy theory and climate research, Bonanza’s film blurs the line between fact and fiction. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78W3RJ_BRAQ Amber Cady: Worry & The Animals Amber Cady’s video centers on our deepest worries and fears––rejection, isolation, dependence––the kinds that keep us up at night or preoccupies our attention during the day. Through interviews, workshops, and activities, participants unpacked the challenges, characters, and themes at the core of their anxiety, ultimately transforming their stories into triumphant narratives that lay fear and shame to rest. Carolyn Janssen: Yours Truly, Love, Us In her video, Carolyn Janssen plays mirroring youth group friends performing the ancient ritual of giving and receiving Communion with unsettling ends. Considering issues of intimacy, personal development and consumption, the work unfolds as a self-contained aesthetic system with autobiographical and surreal elements. Kate Rhoades: Required Skimming Kate Rhoades continues her video series of video vignettes illustrating art theoretical and historical texts, with new work based on Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism and Sculpture in the Expanded Field both by Rosalind Krauss, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, The Republic by Plato, and How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism and Freedom and the Cold War by Serge Guilbaut.