MMC28 09212017 / Untitled (Just Kidding)
with Jesse Malmed
Join us at Cave Gallery (in the Russel Industrial Center) for a evening of films by Jesse Malmed.
Jesse Malmed presents a suite of videos and performances, including new works made specifically for tonight. Malmed's moving image works channel and channel surf the intersects of conceptual comedy, dizzying illogics, the poetic plu-future and sustainable sourcing, animating the cinema space with live gestures. Tonight's sights include: a sitcommune, an actorless play, the permeability of the screen and new letters.Jesse Malmed is an artist and curator, working in video, performance, text, occasional objects and their gaps and overlaps. He has performed, screened and exhibited at museums, microcinemas, film festivals, galleries, bars and barns, including recent solo presentations at Roots and Culture, the Chicago Cultural Center, D Gallery, Syntax Season, Cinema Contra, Microlights, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Echo Park Film Center, Lease Agreement and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center. His platformist and curatorial projects include the Live to Tape Artist Television Festival, programming at the Nightingale Cinema, the mobile exhibition space and artist bumper sticker project Trunk Show (with Raven Falquez Munsell), programming through ACRE TV and the recently inaugurated Western Pole. A native of Santa Fe, Jesse earned his BA at Bard College and his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was named a "2014 Breakout Artist" by Newcity and has attended residencies at ACRE, Ox-Bow, Summer Forum, the Chicago Cultural Center and Links Hall.
Program
HOW TO HAVE YOUR / OWN TELEVISION SHOW! / (YOU ALREADY DO), 2016, 13:01, digital video
An unreliable narrator details how to deliver people in the age of surveillance from within and without, a how-to for lateral minds, a hippie family sitcommune set to a bootleg of Peter Hutton's Florence, a drearily rousing theme song as gps-to-mp3 directions out to the country. With Henry Thomas, Vic Mizzy and Peter Hutton.
THERE, 2016, 1:00, digital video Still.
WREADING, 2012, 18:16, digital video
Reading as writing. A romp through meaning-making and diffuse divination. The clouds hold secrets. Tuli Kupferberg is not the beluga, but the beluga sings human. Charles Bernstein. The world is a word is a world. Cloud covers.
SELF-TITLED (Rough Cut),2015-17, 7:00, digital video
"The final structural film. Finally!" -David Manning, Saugatuck Sentinel
GOTH MOVIE, 2013, 2:36, color, sound, Super-8 on video
Starring (in order of appearance): Govind, Veda, Nananancy, Gayatri, Ali, Chloe Sound: Chemutoi Ketienya & Kipsigis Girls Goth breakfast, flying lanterns, alien landscapes, mirrors and seeings. Séance Nonfiction.
THIMBLERIG, 2012, 11:00, digital video
Body swaps, time manifest and made literal, multiverse tears, two minds to a body, dream babies, singtalk, represented realities.
CONQUE, 2013, 8:47, digital video + flashlight
Sixteen—at least—ideas and images in search of a trajectory. The voice you hear is your own, interrupted and ruptured, while a little real-life actualizing is all they need. Frank Stella, Phreak Headroom, Robert Creeley, Quixotic Tivoli, the demography of the Sitcom Set, Pizza Burger Covers and and. My favorite parts are when the permeability of the screen is made clear: when the diegesis becomes our world and when cinema's prosthetic memory becomes a site for immortality. For Jonah Adels.
DO VOICES, 2013, 15:05, digital video Choirs, choirs, Robin Williams, the contemporary folk art ensemble of youtube, George Mason University’s English Accent Archive, Shamuel Beckett and others come together for a We Are The World / We Arendt -style movie/concert/concert movie. Highly recommended for those already there, those on their way. Topics include: where you’re from and how you sound, the imaginative space of the bootleg, the morass of language, the virtuosity of a radio on scan and typing in stereo.
Co-presented by Mothlight Microcinema and CAVE; special thanks to Kylie Lockwood.