May 24, 2012
Artist Development
The San Francisco Film Society will present a new KinoTek program Adriane Colburn: Ways, Points and Means, a curated selection of work by fine artist Adriane Colburn, June 22-July 7, 1:00-7:00 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays at Superfrog Gallery in the New People building (1746 Post Street). The Film Society will host an opening night reception in honor of Colburn, Friday, June 22, 7:00 pm.
Colburn is an artist who uses cut paper, video and still imagery to clarify how people overlay their imaginary relationship to the world over real places. Her recent work consists of large-scale installations that investigate the complex relationships between human infrastructure, technology and the natural world. These works, derived from scientific data, images and video collected through research and scientific expeditions, look at how mapping is used to investigate fragile and inaccessible ecosystems along the edges of the Earth’s last vestiges of wilderness. With Ways, Points and Means, Colburn draws on her recent experiences at sea, mining footage she collected while on an ice breaker on the Arctic Ocean and while at sea in the Amazon Plume off the coast of French Guyana. The works in the exhibition specifically focus on the sea as a persistently foreign body, an overlooked wilderness that one attempts to comprehend through technologies, optics and cartography. The primary tension in the show is between the sea as imaginary vs. real space, with special attention paid to it as an emergent fiction. By using an array of approaches to represent its vastness, Colburn presents a poetics of the ocean while asking us to recognize the inherent and threatened beauty of our shared environment.
For complete program information visit sffs.org/Exhibition/KinoTek.
“Adriane Colburn presents the poetics of our shared environments in beautiful and wondrous installations,” said SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara. “Her recent focus shares in a lineage ranging from Dutch seascape painters to photographers like Stieglitz, Sugimoto and Sekula with the environmental advocacy of a Mike Davis thrown in.”
KinoTek is a programming stream presenting nontraditional, cross-platform and emergent media. Throughout 2011 and 2012 the Film Society will present eight KinoTek programs, each featuring the work of an artist or practice that challenges the boundaries of screen-based art. Previous programs in the series have featured interactive installation designer Karolina Sobecka, Brooklyn-based writer/performer Erin Markey, pioneering software artist Marius Watz and American multimedia artist Laurel Nakadate. KinoTek is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
For interviews contact hhart@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Through May 24: Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle and Le Rayon Vert (Summer)
Opening May 25: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Opening June 1: Hide Away
June 2 only: An Evening of Wholphin Love
Eight consecutive Saturdays June 2-July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Opening June 8: The Wages of Fear
Opening June 15: The Woman in the Fifth
June 21: Master Class: The Politics of the Cutting Room Floor
Opening June 22: Found Memories
Opening June 29: Corpo Celeste Alice Rohrwacher’s assured first feature mixes neo-realism with a touch of Buñuelian satire.
Opening July 6: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Back by popular demand, the handsome, persuasive documentary about the so-called grandmother of performance art which sold out every SFIFF 2012 show.
August 24: Master Class: Les Blank on Documentary
TBA: KinoTek: Brent Green, sculpture and animation