The Bridge Club

Performance for The Wassaic Project, August 6 2011

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The Bridge Club will perform a new work, titled Applied Geometry, as part of The Wassaic Project‘s annual Summer Festival on Saturday, August 6th 2011, between 5 – 7pm.

The Wassaic Project Summer Festival is a free annual multi-disciplinary celebration of art, music, and community in the hamlet of Wassaic, NY. The 2011 Festival will feature over 100 artists, 23 bands, poetry readings, dance performances, film screenings, and much more. August 5th-7th, 2011. Art Reception in Maxon Mills, Saturday 5pm-7pm. For more information: http://www.wassaicproject.org/summer-festival/overview-info/

Performance for ‘Dwell,’ Contemporary Artists Center, Troy, NY, August 5 2011

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The Bridge Club will be creating a site-specific live performance and residual installation work, titled Oculus, on the grounds of the Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside in Troy, New York, as part of the CAC’s upcoming Dwell outdoor commissioned artworks series. The Bridge Club’s work will be located on the lawn below the rose window in the CAC’s main administration building, the former Woodside Presbyterian Church, with the live performance taking place on Friday, August 5th, 2011 from approximately 7 – 8pm.

From the series’ curators, Michael Oatman & Leah Rico: “Dwell seeks to blur the boundary between sculpture and the built environment. The Contemporary Artists Center, Woodside will [present] a wide-range of related and minimally tangential [works] including but not at all limited to themes as diverse as politics of housing, formal aesthetics, architecture, sustainability and ‘shelters’ for site specific performative happenings.”

‘Natural Resources’ at Lawndale Art Center, January 28-March 12 2011

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Natural Resources, a new performance and installation work by The Bridge Club, will be on view at Lawndale Art Center in Houston Texas from January 28-March 12, with a one-night live performance during the opening reception on Friday, January 28.

About Natural Resources
Natural Resources investigates conflicting human relationships with and within the natural world through the use of two ‘natural’ substances: milk and petroleum oil. Oppositional in color and perception, these two substances are loaded with multiple metaphoric meanings and expectations (i.e., ‘mother’s milk’, ‘black gold’). Harvested or extracted from our natural surroundings for human sustenance and consumption, both offer metaphors for political or politicized human interactions with the natural world as relate to the natural and built environment, human and family relations, agriculture and animal husbandry, food and other resource production, biology and sexuality, ecology, and resource depletion.

During a one-night live performance the four members of The Bridge Club, costumed as clinical, domestic or scientific ‘resource workers,’ engage in a processing of materials and objects from everyday human life. Objects processed either in oil or in milk are carefully codified and methodically layered into large glass jars, evoking the preserved sustenance found in a pantry or the preserved posterity found in a science lab’s specimens. The mundane trappings of daily life are thus subjected to natural forces resulting in the potential for transformation, preservation or destruction.

Look for images to be posted to the ‘works’ area of this site following the performance, or please come by if you’re in the Houston area!

Off the Strip New Genres Festival, Las Vegas, October 2010

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The Bridge Club will participate in the Off the Strip New Genres Festival in Las Vegas, NV, presented by the Contemporary Arts Center and taking place October 14-16. The Bridge Club’s live performance, titled Music Box, will take place on Saturday, October 16th at 6:00pm. see the event website for more information

About the Bridge Club’s performance:

Music Box, a live performance work by The Bridge Club collaborative, will address the spectacle, allure and possibility that characterize Las Vegas in the popular imagination. By nature, spectacle promises a glamorous or exciting departure from our ordinary lives, and Las Vegas– through its marketing and myth– promises the spectacular. Unlike its promise, encounters with spectacle can make the banal seem alluring, whether at the end of a short departure from one’s ordinary life, or as a more elusive change of lifestyle and value.

In the banal, or anti-spectacle, conflicts of hope, expectation, desire and comfort are made apparent. Incorporating live action, objects and sound, Music Box will begin at Don’t Tell Mama, a classic Las Vegas piano bar, before leading viewers on a tour in search of an elusive mundane reality.

About the Off the Strip Festival:

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is pleased to present “Off The Strip 2010” a three-day new-genres festival October 14-16, 2010 that offers an alternative to the highly formulated entertainment and spectacle of the Strip. Artists from the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe have been selected to present work in Las Vegas in a format that invites the community to experience contemporary art and dialogue with participating local and international artists about their work.

Participating Artists:

Roger Beebe
The Bridge Club
Building A Nation
Diane Bush
Patrick Cadenhead
Diane Dwyer
Laura Smith Fillmore
Liz Hickok
Jeanne Jo
Danielle Kelly
Jennie Klein
Kerry Laitala
Taylor McVay & Jordan Tynes
Hillebrand Magsamen
Douglas Moffat
Nicole Morton
Joe Nanashe
Laura Napier
Minou Norouzi
Zach Rockhill
Sensorium Lab
Sister
Scott Stark
Heather Sparks
Test Market
Performance by UNLV Students
Kristina Wong

Upcoming exhibits

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The Bridge Club has the following events & exhibits scheduled for late 2010 & early 2011. We hope you can join us at one of these locations:

Off the Strip
October 14-17, 2010
The Bridge Club has been invited to create a new work for the upcoming Off the Strip, a four day performance and new genres festival held in Las Vegas, NV, organized by Contemporary Arts Center.

Natural Resources, January 21- February 26, 2011
The Bridge Club will create a new work as a solo exhibit titled Natural Resources for the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX in January. The work will incorporate video, installation, & live performance.

Shell, March 3-25, 2011
The Bridge Club will create a new work as a solo exhibit titled Shell for 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL in March. Shell will incorporate a fabricated installation and performance room within the gallery, layering video, objects and live performance.

Check this website following each event for images!

Low Lives 2, live online April 30

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The Bridge Club is excited to be participating in Low Lives 2, curated by the fabulous Jorge Rojas. Now in its second year, Low Lives 2 is a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at numerous venues throughout the U.S

Artists include:
Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Hector Canonge, Alexis Caputo, Vienne Chan, Osvaldo Cibils, Gabrielle Civil, Marcus Civin, Chris Coy, The Bridge Club, Francesca Fini, Linda Ford, Lynne Heller, Anni Holm, Gigi Otalvaro- Hormillosa AKA Devil Bunny, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Michelle Isava, Tina La Porta, Elizabeth Leister, Luke Munn, Olek, Wanda Ortiz, Jacklyn Soo, Michael Smith, Sam Trubridge with Rob Appierdo & Stuart Foster, Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera, Marcus Vinicius, Martin Zet, Agni Zotis

Venues:

El Museo del Barrio:
1230 5th Avenue, NYC
8:00pm – 11:00pm

Galería de la Raza:
2857 24th Street, SF
5:00pm – 8:00pm

Diaspora Vibe Gallery:
3938 North Miami Avenue, Miami
8:00pm – 11:00pm

The Temporary Space:
1320 Nance St., Houston
7:00pm – 10:00pm

Obsidian Arts:
3501 Chicago Avenue South,
Minneapolis
7:00pm – 10:00pm

Terminal:
Trahern Building, APSU,
Clarksville, TN
7:00pm – 10:00pm

Co-Lab:
613 Allen St., Austin
7:00pm – 10:00pm

Studio 304:
304 Boerum St., Brooklyn
8:00pm – 11:00pm

Online: www.ustream.tv/channel/low-lives-2

Visual Artists Network/ National Performance Network

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:43:31 +0000

The Bridge Club has been invited to create a work for the National Performance Network’s 2009 Annual Meeting, to be held December 10-14 in Knoxville, TN.

This work, to be created during a NPN Visual Artists Network Exhibition Residency, will be a multi-part hotel room installation, video projection, and live performance. Images and more info will be posted here following the event– or, we’ll see you in Knoxville!

1708 Gallery, July- August 2009

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The Observation Room, an installation, performance, and video work by The Bridge Club collaborative will be on view at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA from July 17- August 15, 2009.

Come by if you’re in Richmond, or watch for images to be posted here following the exhibit opening.

River City Biennale, May 15- June 20 2008

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:26:14 +0000

The Bridge Club will create a multi-part, multi-site installation and performative video work in Wichita, KS for the 2008 River City Biennale, curated by Stacy Switzer of Kansas City’s Grand Arts. Images of the work will be posted here following the May 15 event opening, or look for the work in Wichita between May 15 and June 20.

LABOR [ETHEREAL], a web exhibition

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:23:28 +0000

The Bridge Club’s video, Shift Work, is featured in a current web-based exhibit titled Labor [Ethereal]. From the exhibit’s curator, “This collection of art works, featuring work by several artists, primarily acknowledges the notion of learning through repetitive action.”
The exhibit can be viewed online at www.laborexhibition.com