We welcome your participation in our Beyond Baroque events.
Here's info on our NEW FILM series followed by more events info.
Thank you,
Gerry Fialka pfsuzy@aol.com 310-306-7330,
http://www.laughtears.com/ and http://www.venicewake.org/
Fialka bio: http://www.laughtears.com/bio.html
at Beyond Baroque http://beyondbaroque.org/ 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291, 310-822-3006,
FILMS AT BEYOND BAROQUE- (aka 7 DUDLEY CINEMA)
Starting June 2, 2011, we will be showing films every (usually) First Thursday (some exceptions) at Beyond Baroque at 7pm, free admission
Thurs, June 2. IN BLOOM - 7pm Celebrate James Joyce's Bloomsday with rare film clips and live readings from The Marshall McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club http://www.venicewake.org/ who prioritize effects before causes. The gap is where the action is. Mash up resonating intervals with magical parallelisms. As McLuhan is music of the future, Joyce's doubleness in Ulysses bridges the ancient and modern worlds by a continuous parallel of the interface between myth and realism, order and anarchy. "Joyce uses the pun as a way of seeing the paradoxical exuberance of being through language. - McLuhan. Percept plunder for the recent future. Also join us for Gerry Fialka’s presentation on James Joyce and Experimental Film http://www.laughtears.com/wakedreamawake.html at http://www.joyceconference2011.com/
Thurs, July 7. SEVEN DEADLY SAMPLER FILMS - experimental films to political activist cinema to lit, art, music, poetry flix to avant garde documentaries, this series provokes new questions and features fiery discussions. (titles TBA)
Thurs, Aug 4. SEVEN DEADLY SAMPLER FILMS TOO - experimental films to political activist cinema to lit, art, poetry, music flix to avant garde documentaries, this series provokes new questions and features fiery discussions. (titles TBA)
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Join us every Third Wednesday for MOM - Mediations on Media discussion group, 7-10pm, free (McLuhan Or Marx, Metaphors On Methods, Massage Or Medium, etc) http://www.venicewake.org/Events/current.html
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at Beyond Baroque http://beyondbaroque.org/ 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291, 310-822-3006,
SAT, April 9. 7:30pm. BUNUEL & BEEFHEART: B&B SOFTWARE - Music-Film-Poetry Fusioneer Gerry Fialka's last sigh is "I've gotta beef in my heart." Imagine the meta-mystery when the where's and how's of these two Dadas, Luis Bunuel and Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) meet in this vibrANT interactive workshop with live recitations from Beefheart's lyrics and Bunuel's nonpareil autobiography My Last Sigh, and ultra-rare film clips. Study the evolution of environments shaped by their technologies (film, music, books, paintings) and the hidden effects. With special guests & Reverend Dan of MusicforNimrods.net. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
FRIDAY, June 3, 7:30pm. HAWBUCKIN' HOBOS - Why was dressing up like hobos for Halloween so popular for baby boomers? Cultural anthropologist Fialka explores America's affection for free spirit and the open road. Utilizing rare audio and film clips, Fialka arouses insight into music experimenter/hobo Harry Partch and folk singer/labor & peace activist Utah Phillips, who said "Anarchy is making rules for yourself, not others." Ride the rails and taste the Mulligan stew of the genuine tramp troubadour Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock. "My hobohemia is the place to be" - Lorenz Hart. What is the difference between a bum and a hobo? Beyond Baroquer Richard Modiano was told by Allen Ginsberg that one past Halloween Allen and Bob Dylan dressed up like hobos and went trick or treating with Bob's kids. With special guests & Reverend Dan of MusicforNimrods.net. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
SAT, July 16, 7:30pm. THE LIT SHOW is a celebration of song and literature starring LA's Diva Deluxe SUZY WILLIAMS & Brad Kay, who perform songs based on words by Kurt Vonnegut, Edna St Vincent Millay, J.D. Salinger, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Rudyard Kipling and more. Dorothy Parker wrote a song that Billie Holiday sang. Tennessee Williams wrote a song that Marlon Brando sang as a rambling troubadour in The Fugitive Kind. Lonely House was written by Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes. Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg wrote Pull My Daisy with David Amram. You've read the book, now hear the song. Admission: $15.
SAT, Sept 24. 7:30pm. RED POET (2010, 60m) Filmmaker Matthew Furey’s Red Poet paints a soulful picture of San Francisco’s own Jack Hirschman and brings to the silver screen the singular life of a troubadour for modern times. A modest Bronx childhood leads to a shooting star career in academia. Short-lived teaching posts at Dartmouth and UCLA give way to an all but homeless life as a North Beach hipster of the street. Through it all Hirschman perseveres, publishing 45 books of poetry and making Poet Laureate of his beloved city in 2006. Red Poet is a life story lived on its own terms: "This is not a film of a Poet! Whether you know Jack Hirschman as the last Beat, US Mensch #1, the most unflagging political poet on the planet...after seeing Red Poet you will have a new friend, a new source of inspiration and just possibly a renewed belief that maybe species homo sapiens ain’t so bad after all!” - Bob Holman. No one turned away due to lack of funds. Also LIVE readings of radical political poetry hosted by Gerry Fialka and Richard Modiano.
Sat, Oct 22, 7:30pm. BEYOND GESAMTKUNSTWERK - The German composer Richard Wagner first used the term "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("the total artwork") in his 1849 essay "Art & Revolution." Paramedia Artist Gerry Fialka joins with local filmmakers (John Cannizzaro & Mark X Farina), poets, musicians, dancers & Reverend Dan of MusicforNimrods.net to reinvent this multi-media, intermedia and transmedia extravaganza, aka "Gesamtkunstwerk". The one-of-a-kind interactive immersion teaches the history and future of live cinema. Expand "centers without margins" in an interdisciplinary collaboration of film, video, dialogue, theater and music. By reinventing the influences of Melies, Vertov, Warhol, Marker, James Joyce and more, participants transform the boundaries between art and science. All crew, no passengers! Explore circling the square and the mysteries of art. With anticipatory mindfulness, this multimedia synthesis shows how artists work much faster than theories evolve. Get educated as entertainingly as possible and discover what comes after the Internet. Entertrainment? "Will it be an event about a fake original or original fake?" - Peter Greenaway. They become what they behold.
From Buñuel's live narration to Stan VanDerBeek's exemplary multi-media Movie-Drome to Gene Youngblood's Synaesthetic Cinema to Ann Arbor Film Festival's Pat Olesko's interactions with her filmic self, the combo of film and the physical body has been transformative. Carolee Schneemann, Sun Ra and PXL THIS's King Kukulele have used their bodies as projection screens. Fialka surveys the historical context of pioneers Jack Smith and Alan Kaprow, who dissolved boundaries between film, art and life.
Cultural Revolutionary Gerry Fialka and participants' fun otherness probes the creative process and interrelations between experimenters and audience. The mash-ups and transformations of cinema with new media, video, computers, and performance art are deeply examined and demonstrated.
Explore the creative process by retooling McLuhan's percept: "May I suggest art in the electronic age is not a form of self-expression, but a kind of research and probing. It is not a private need of expression that motivates the artist, but the need of involvement in the total audience. This is humanism in reverse, art in the electric age is the experience, not of the individual, but of a collectivity." No one turned away due to lack of funds.
2011 ARCHIVE-
SAT, Feb 5, 2-4 for panel discussion - No one turned away due to lack of funds, $7 admission
4-7pm Opening for PHOTO SHOW in Gallery, free admission
POETRY OF VENICE PHOTOGRAPHY - Paramedia ecologist Gerry Fialka hosts a panel discussion of award-winning Venice photographers, who explore landscapes of the human psyche and push pictorial representation beyond! Examine the trance-inducing transforming power of cameras in our community by way of McLuhan. With Dave Healey http://www.davidhealeyphotography.com/ (Time Magazine, NY & LA Times), Alfred Benjamin (Holocaust survivor who shot Hitler in his teens http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/00JFeb), Leland Auslender (also shot experimental films of Venice West Cafe over 4 decades ago) and Kristy Campbell http://www.kristycampbell.com/ and more. INCLUDES PHOTO SHOW in GALLERY .