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DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Artists' Television Access, Arthur Magazine, and 
 Saturnalia\n\n*with artists Ira Cohen and Andrew Wilson in 
 attendance*\n\nAlternatives of Alternatives introduces film and video works 
 that focus on "alternative" lifestyles or subcultures (new age gnostics, 
 new media-art zealots, cryptozoologists, revolutionary theatre collectives) 
 with critical eyes and ears, presented in an "alternative" cinematic 
 structure. One purpose of the screening is to investigate the way 
 "alternative" forces arrange and define themselves in our world, another is 
 to present works in which form meets content in a synthesis beyond the 
 industry standard for documentary.\n\nPARADISE NOW: The Living Theatre in 
 Amerika  (1969) a film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal 
 Mutant\n\nIn 1968 The Living Theatre, led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, 
 triumphantly returned to America from years of self-imposed exile in Europe 
 with their theatrical breakthrough Paradise Now. The play introduces the 
 practice of collective creation, dissolving the boundaries of human 
 interactions and forging a harmony between the actors and audience. Of this 
 process, Julian Beck writes, "Collective creation is the secret weapon of 
 the people.. This play is a voyage from the many to the one and from the 
 one to the many. It's a spiritual voyage and a political voyage, a voyage 
 for the actors and the spectators. The play is a vertical ascent toward 
 permanent revolution, leading to revolutionary action here and now.  The 
 revolution of which the play speaks is the beautiful, non-violent, 
 anarchist revolution.  The purpose of the play is to lead to a state of 
 being in which non-violent revolutionary action is possible."\n\nThe result 
 of this shared voyage is the spontaneous creation of a temporary anarchist 
 collective- free from the enslavements of war, violence, the State, money 
 and the self.\n\n FOLK / TAX (2007) a video by Andrew Wilson - 32 
 min.\n\nThe purpose of this video was to engage in the creative production 
 of a map in order to understand and then expose the ways in which certain 
 New Age Gnostic entrepreneurial forces arrange themselves in our world. The 
 classificatory system produced for this semiotic regime is esoteric in its 
 nature, as the classifications arose from the gradual analysis of the 
 content. Concepts are organized to call attention to specific information, 
 while the work also serves to blur the conventional distinction between a 
 folk taxonomy and a scientific/academic taxonomy.\n\nBlobsquatch: In the 
 Expanded Field (2007) a video by Carl Diehl - 11 min. 30 
 sec.\n\nCryptozoology, a field known for its inquiries into unknown 
 creatures like the Bigfoot and Lock Ness Monster, constitutes a challenge 
 to exclusive hierarchies of knowledge and established scientific authority 
 by presenting alternative theories and new taxonomic models. While many 
 Bigfoot aficionados have dismissed Blobsquatches (photos too blurry to be 
 discernible as Sasquatches) as impediments to serious cryptozoological 
 research, this densely packed document speculates on another understanding 
 of the blobsquatch. Under the panopticonfident gaze of a Google-crazed 
 world, the Blobsquatch personifies noise, is a provocative counter-sight to 
 the over-exposed Sasquatch, and simultaneously challenges and perpetuates 
 alternative thought processes.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/24/18455776.php
SUMMARY:Alternatives of Alternatives
LOCATION:Artists' Television Access\n992 Valencia Street * San Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/24/18455776.php
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