The Bridge Club

The Bridge Club’s in-production performance & mobile installation project, ‘The Trailer,’ will be featured on the Creative Capital organization’s ‘On Our Radar’ website through August 31, 2012. ‘On Our Radar’ is a searchable database featuring all projects that made it to the final rounds in last year’s Creative Capital Visual Arts & Film/Video grants. We were honored to make it to the fourth and final round in last year’s grant application process, and are grateful for this fantastic organization’s ongoing support of artists and their work. Take a look! http://creative-capital.org/onourradar

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/

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, 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!

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