The Krowsworker's Festival / Dale Hoyt's FARM World Premiere

THE KROWSWORKER'S FESTIVAL / DALE HOYT'S FARM WORLD PREMIERE

FEATURING: Liz Walsh, Janet Norris, Laurence Elias, Hillary Maslon, Rik Ritchey, Jeff King, Gina Werfel, Hearne Pardee, Lili White, Lorna Stevens, Milly West, Maggie Preston, Nicole Shaffer, Amelia Williams, Alan Clark, Rebecca Najdowski, Robert Beier, Torsten Zenas Burns, Darrin Martin, Shalo P, Farley Gwazda, Indira Morre, Juan Carlos Quintana, Carlo Ricafort, Sonya Rapoport, Paloma Modupe, Laura Zuspan, Dale Pendell, Daniel Konhauser, Anne Lesley Selcer, Jonathan Mindes, Kit Young, Margo Majewska, Eddy Falconer, Kim Miskowicz, Carol Selter, Jason Engelund, Jeff Rosier, Carolyn Radlo, Alanna Simone, Tim Graveson, Christina McPhee, Minoosh Zomorodinia, Leslie Zablan, Lauren Ari, Ron Weil, Kathy King, Kally Williams, Barbara Kyne, Laura Pendell, Monet Clark

Join us for the premiere of FARM, a 3D experimental melodrama and abstract narrative that uses multiple story lines, fractured editing, and pulsating color fields to tell the story of a fictional urban farm co-operative in a withering decadent San Francisco. Written and directed by Dale Hoyt and produced and engineered by David Lawrence it may be the first video art project in RealD Cinema 3D. The work comments on loss, family disfunction, merciless progress, and mortality. Shot with the generous cooperation of The Free Farm and the Alemany Farms, this tragicomedy invokes gentrification as a symbol for the greater fatalistic existential crises that face the world and every personal soul. Featuring a score by Chrome, Annette Peacock, Cameron Ember, and Lian Amber and featuring Cliff Hengst, Winston Tong, Helios Creed, Annie Sprinkle, Monet Clark, Róisín Isner, and the final screen appearance of the legendary Arturo Galster.

Presented as an installation with timed entry to each screening.

OPENING: January 1, 2016, 3-7 pm
CLOSING: January 10, 2016 2-4 pm 
PERFORMANCE BY PALOMA MODUPE: Friday, January 8th, 8pm
OTHER HOURS: Saturday, Jan 2 1-5; Friday January 8th, 4-8; Saturday, Jan 9, 1-5.

FROM THE DESK OF SHALO P :
KROWSWORK Fest is a marvel of the new, bold, and bombastic. Plus Paloma Modupe dances an ode in the key of VALLEY.

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2015 RESIDENTS
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OVERTURE

OVERTURE

The three rooms were filled with this year's marvelous 2015 residencies (of which we haunt the misty month of October with V A L L E Y) offering up a taste of what's to come.  It is simply a pleasure to sink into a place of this level, with its evolving ethos and personal mythology ascending to complement the determination of its wild art intentions. Also visible is the work of the amazing artist Torsten Zenas Burns (video projections on the right, second and fifth images down), whose forthcoming collaboration with video / installation artist Darrin Martin is set to sizzle poor ole' August.

KROWSWORK, unlike standard galleries, which usually run in stodgy clockwork, isn't locked in step to the template bestowed unto us by "the industry".This venue does not run on perennial fear, nor marketable imitations of the run of the mill, but on imagination and visionary insight.

KROWSWORK

480 23rd Street - side entrance

Oakland California 94612 

510-229-7035

info@krowswork.com

Saturdays 1-5 & First Friday 5-9

 otherwise by appointment

p.s.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Duane Deterville, whose fascinating "Afriscape Cartography: Sight, Sound, Space and Ritual" left me in enlightened awe. It also granted a few sharp knots to my gut in viewing the meticulously detailed depictions of slaves bound in preparation for The Middle Passage, inserted into mysterious drawings depicting symbols of The New World Order.