avaacc
(audio-visual-abstract-association-cognition-collective)
Saturday October 29 at 7-10 p.m.
Gulf Coast Museum of Art
12211 Walsingham Road
Largo, Florida 33778
A Halloween event: organized by "Les Fauves", the Gulf Coast Museum's Young Members Group
Saturday October, 29 7-10 p.m. The event is FREE for Les Fauves members or 5$ for guests
- Sound Installation by John Russell
- Video work by Kurt Piazza
- Live music by Red Room Cinema
- Costume Prizes
- "Rocky Horror Picture Show" props and character costumes encouraged
Friday August 19 from 7 - 11 pm
Ybor Studios
1517 E. 5th Avenue
Ybor City, FL 33605
This group exhibition explores a variety of media from 5 emerging contemporary artists, who engage in a visual syntax informed by improvisation, architectonics, and the sub-conscious.
The 5 artists showing are : Samuel Bintz, Teresa Danak, Kurt Piazza, John Russell, and Elena Vee.
Also, at the reception hear Chaotic Formula Orkestra and Lush Progess and enjoy a cash donation bar.
by appointment : august 20-26
Friday August 19 from 7 - 11 pm
Ybor Studios
1517 E. 5th Avenue
Ybor City, FL 33605
(a multi-media installation realised by Kurt Piazza, John Russell, and Elena Vee taking place the night of the "5 on 5" reception)
Continuing the narrative of The Panopticon of the Psychological Mind, the Diva (played by Elena Vee), resolves her dilemma of rendering the perfect mathematical diagram of a tree by anathematizing her hubris, which caused her entrapment within the cold-storage facility. She attempts to escape the imprisonment of the panopticon by constructing the perfect tree, which the Diva asembles from freshly cut timbers. Whilst she is engaged in erecting this simulacrum, she is visited by the seraph of imprudence, disguised in the visage of a parakeet. He promises the Diva liberation from the panopticon by transforming her into his likeness and tempting her with an image of the outside world, projected onto a 1970's era video monitor.
Saturday July 16 at 8pm
Ybor Studios
1517 E. 5th Avenue
Ybor City, FL 33605
The project is a multi-media installation that takes place within the confines of an abandoned walk-in cold storage facility. Exploiting the notions of both public and private space, the viewer is privy to the actions taking place behind the glass doors that look out onto the exhibition area. The model within the cold-storage facility undergoes a series of wardrobe/physical permutations, as well as experiencing psychological transfiguration. These both occur under the gaze of the public audience, which looks on from behind the glass doors. Situated on the exterior of the cold-storage facility, a vintage 1970's era still video camera captures the action occurring within the installation. This image is then transmitted to a video monitor placed within the private confines of the unisex lavatory. The cold-storage facility, the monitor, and the psychological mind of the model represent a 3-layer metaphor for the restricted "box" of each one of these elements. Furthermore, the cold-storage unit acts as the host to the organism of the body, which serves as the physical output peripheral, while the monitor translates what is in the mind.
