This month Monkey Town features Live Video artists as well as 4-screen installations.
Bob Stein (founder of Voyager and the Criterion Collection) and Monkey Town have curated 4 nights of experimental
video work including artists from San Francisco, London, Berlin, Pittsburgh, and NYC.
This is our first program featuring Video as Live Performance. A combination of the live performances on
four screens and the intimacy of the space made for a wild and entirely new visual environment.

Friday, April 16th
David LARCHER
Torsten Z.BURNS + Darrin MARTIN
MOSTRA [Gabriela MONroy Caspar STRAcke] 


7:30 pm or 10pm, $10.
reservations highly recommended:
do so, by sending an e-mail to: MonkeyTownHQ@aol.com
including:
1. your name
2. total number of seats
3. the night you wish to attend
4. 7:30pm or 10pm seating
for further information go to http://www.monkeytownhq.com/
or call 718 384-1369
Monkey Town is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
at 222 Leonard St (btw Powers & Grand)
near the 2nd stop on the L Train (the Lorimer stop)

also the following day at Monkey Town:

Saturday the 17th, 7:30 pm and 10pm
Devan Simunovich, Nika Offenbach, Chris Douglas, Benton-C Bainbridge
Marie Losier, Bryan Frye (short tapes)

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ICH TANK , David Larcher, 25 min. (Durchblick Version 2001, edited for four screens 2004)
Ich Tank is a Fish Tank built out of heavy Lacanian material.
"Hence the German title which refers to das ich, the ego, thus I, conceived of as an
aquarium one gazes, glances, looks, views (blick) through. In the english rendering it refers homophonically to the
eye and is intended to draw the attention to the latter's formative role in the constitution of the notion of self.
The glassy stare reflecting the containing transparency of a fisch vision through its aquarium/bowl.
The fisheye (ich/I) which converts the rectangle of the frame into a circle in the process of seeing more. The word
ichtian, pertaining in English to fish, the I CH ing, etc, emphasised something I didn't know. The wall seemed to act
like a psychic fish tank. Wherever I went I was seeing isch, everything was ichthyoid. Eventually I got myself an ich....
This then is the origin of the tape, it centers around interpretations of the ichtian act based on a series of happy and
sometimes exhausting misreadings." (D.L.)
http://www.khm.de/~davidl

LEARING STALLS: I AM TODAY'S LESSON PLAN, video, 11 min, 2003, four screen version
Torsten Zenas Burns + Darrin Martin
Weird science: spoon-bending, psychic surgery, object formation, image synthesis.
"A proxy educational system exploring manifestation building, placebo articulations and
Etheric-charged therapies. Inservices curated in this recall session include:
Proxypack1: rear-engineering protocols, integrated guidance councilor. "
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~body.banks/NEW.html

MOSTRA (Gabriela MOnroy + Caspar STRAcke) live video, approx. 20 min.
"mapping and connecting: NY/DF/B"
A vector is a line of fixed length but not of fixed position. A vector
might be the potential to connect one thing to another, a particular
relation, but with no specified coordinates.
Space shifts, contracts and collapses in this piece, while
images and maps of Manhattan, México City and Berlin blend into each other.
The image sequences were customized to fit Monkeytown's four wall screen formation.
The set includes 360° panorama shoots, satellite pictures, aerial views, cityscapes
and surveillance images. The set is performed like a ping-pong match - arguments,
bouncing back and forth, a video-dialogue about issues on security, national borders,
surveillance and urban living conditions.
http://www.m-o-s-t-r-a.com