[alliedbulk] ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENTS PETER CRAMER AND JACK WATERS WITH MARC ARTHUR

[Allied Productions, Inc.]

Continuing their exploration on Empire

  PETER CRAMER AND JACK WATERS
in a program that includes work in collaboration with MARC ARTHUR

PRESENT
NEW VIDEO WORKS AND NYC PREMIERES
.

Thursday June 18   @  7:30pm


Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10009
Theater Information:
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
(212) 505-5181
$9 General Admission
$8 Essential Cinema (Free for members)


$7 Students, Seniors & Children (12 & under)
$6 AFA Members




The PROGRAM, titled "Looking East" examines western perspectives on  
the power of the East in context to gender, sexuality, and queerness.
  
“LIVE WIRE/REMOTE”

Premiere 11:56
Six months after the attack on the World Trade Center and the  
Pentagon, articles in the London Times, the New York Times, New  
Yorker Magazine, and the London Times heralded the return of  
"pedophilic" practices among the Afghani military elite.
This is a document of a multi media enquiry at Remote Lounge, a video  
club on the Bowery equipped with video terminals for the purpose of  
singles dating.  The delivery is a “theatrical intervention” that  
challenges notions of journalistic objectivity and authenticity.    
The ‘reporters’ question the differences between these alleged  
"perversions" and the ancient Greek practice of pederasty, a  
tradition that informs social class relations between youth and  
experience and the hierarchy of gender in Western culture.

  “THE EDUCATION OF ABOU BEN ADHEM”

Premiere 16:24
Showing ways in which cultures  clash by positioning the figure of an  
impressionable imaginary  nationalist at the stages of development  
when he is torn between his love of classical homo-erotic poetry, and  
the need to defend his heritage against the very western influences  
that are his material resources  for said defense. The title is taken  
from a Victorian poem whose surface reading implies the advocating of  
Christian conversion.

“OCCUPY MY ASS, NOT IRAQ”

2006  7:01
Directed by Jack Waters with Peter Cramer
Videography by Peter Cramer
With Dom Pirates and Ares Fortuna
Narrated by Veronica Powers
Premiered 2006 at the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival in  
the compilation “Fucking Different New York” .

Gazing at militarism and aggressive impulse through the blurred lens  
of gender association.  An immigrant is lured into an induction as  
the recruiter’s subconscious back story is revealed in voiceover.


"UNDETECTABLE IN BERLIN"
Actions from the Berlin.Temps residency April-May 2008
28:03
Theatrical premiere. Previously shown on Manhattan Neighborhood  
Network  Public Access TV
Culled from the actions of an artist residency in Berlin, we  
developed character and narrative elements through improvisational  
activities based on the themes concepts and structures for the opus  
“Pestilence” that we initiated earlier in residency at the Emily  
Harvey Foundation,  Venice in November 2006 . The sub-theme of the  
Berlin occupation was “Undetectable”: an infection whose presence  
is assumed, but whose physical detection is untraceable by scientific  
means.

Using the format of the  ‘theatrical intervention’ from our  
balcony overlooking the cafés in the gentrified section of  
Prinzlauerberg on Szredski Strasse - the street of the Berlin.Temps  
spac - we addressed the public with our themes, engaging willing, and  
sometimes unwitting strangers by inviting them into our domaine.  
Using the space as a multi platform for art making and dialogue, we  
engaged with local cultural workers and social practitioners, many of  
whom we met on this trip -- as well as with our Berlin-based friends  
and colleagues from previous relationships. Among the groups we  
connected and collaborated with were the organizing artists of the  
Berlin.Temps project, the public gardeners of Rosa Rose, the squatter  
community of Berlin, students from the UdK, and the neighbors and  
patrons of the bars and cafes in the vicinity.

The apartment functioned as a home base that allowed us to showcase  
our work, giving visitors a background into our past work, research,  
and current objectives. There we hosted social activities; field  
trips, food and drink, lounging, and video screenings in on-going  
improvisational and structured creative activities transcending  
presentational formats in their sensory and sensual intimacy.



Jack Waters is a filmmaker, writer, media artist, choreographer, and  
performer. Peter Cramer is an artivist, filmmaker, performer, and  
curator. Their 25-year collaboration is currently represented in the  
development of a multi-media opus-in-progress titled PESTILENCE, a  
concept initiated in residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation in  
Venice, Italy. They are co-founders of LE PETIT VERSAILLES, an  
Operation Green Thumb garden on the Lower East Side that presents  
screenings, music, performance, visual art exhibitions, and new  
media.  Cramer and Waters are custodians of ABC NO RIO’s extensive  
archives under the auspices of Allied Productions, Inc., the artist- 
run organization they co-founded in 1983.  Marc Arthur is an emerging  
playwright, artist, and performer. His recent directorial credits  
include “BareBack StarFu*ker” @ Petit Versailles in NYC, and  
“The Key" for the exhibition “I am Kurious Orange  @ David  
Cunningham Projects, San Francisco.
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