Author: Ariel Zaccheo

Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed is the ATA Window Gallery’s annual month of installed performance. Each November we open the space to a wide range of live performers. Past years have included performance art, modern dance, Butoh, art games, endurance pieces, sound art, live painting, ritual practice, projector performance, public intervention, radical burlesque, durational poetry, and more…

Almost Public/Semi-Exposed

Schedule:

Saturday, November 2 @5-7PM: Crystal Vielula

Friday, November 8 @3-10PM: “No Better Job”, Chi Chi Castillo & Semaj Peltier

Saturday, November 9 @6PM: “An Apology to My Mother”, T Shell

Sunday, November 10 @12-5PM: “THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT”, Hannah Beck

Wednesday, November 13 @6PM: “Snow Globe”, Jennifer Locke

Friday, November 15 @12PM – November 16 @12PM (gathering @ 4:45PM-6:30PM): “Völva Saga/Silenced”, Monet Clark

Monday, November 18: “drowning in the desert”, Gabriella Contreras and Nicole Casado

Saturday, November 23 @12PM-12AM: “All the Nothing”, Raegan Truax

Wednesday, November 27 @6PM: “Stinky Knits: A Feminist History, Fabricated, Unabridged”, Stella Fontinella

Friday, November 29 @12PM-9PM: “FS17ATA2019”, Claire Bain & Alfred Hernandez

Sunday, December 1 @6:30-9:30PM: “Hello Again?”, Jenell Del Cid

July 09 – August 06, 2019

May we be closer to our true nature as our identity is unknown to you, stranger. May you feel me as part of yourself as my gender, my ego and my history is not projected upon me by your gaze, but the core of my spirit is felt in your spine, your skin, your cells. 

For the duration of this month, you can experience Anonymous Intimacy. A moving body is inside the ATA display case, listening and engaging with you, leaving an imprint or memory of this experience on opaque paper. Each dancer paints their body against the glass so you might feel each pulse and breath as their movement articulates their intimate expression.

Once each performance is complete, the dancer will layer their painting on top of the one that came before at the back of the showroom. The paper’s transparency allows you to see layers of dancer’s experiences behind the fresh print as it dries.

Project design: Angela Newsham

http://angelanewsham.com

Bio:

Queer artist, born and raised in Hawaii and current San Francisco resident. Through wildlife rehabilitation and data research, Angela studied the instinctual nature and spherical understanding of space and time that birds of prey live by. She explores how our human bodies may have inhibitions to clear expression and what storiesm emerge from those spaces through performance art. She has trained extensively in Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Sonja Riket and in Butoh with Vangeline, Yumiko Yoshioka, Diego Pinon, Natsu Nakajima, Atsushi Takenouch and Hiroko Komiya.

Opening Reception: June 11th, 6:30-9PM

Anonymous Bosch is an installation exploring the connection and duality between genesis and annihilation. This is part of my reimagining of Bosch and multiple visions of another time, another reality. 

The work from this show comes from the detritus of: 
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch 
Science fiction (Octavia Butler, Roadside Picnic, Annihilation)
Hildegard’s visions in 1141 Germany 
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake 
Saint Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland
1960s UFO stories
Egyptomania 
Urban dogman legends
The snakes of the Ozarks (Black Rats, Cottonmouths, Copperheads)
Country songs (Doug Kershaw, Merle Haggard, Tom T Hall)
The London fire of 1666
The Dyatlov Pass incident