The Digital Path to Analog Love

click above to see a glimpse, or click here to see it fullscreen

the evening will consist of :

01 - general mingling, milling about.
02 - a beginning of some sort;
03 - a faint drum, a silhouette
04 - a woman and a dove, projected and cut.
05 - someone bing killed, someone waking up.
06 - a conclusion of some sort
07 - a brief pause, confusion
08 - a screen that fades,
09 - noise, some call it music, loudness,
10 - a new beginning, of some sort, dancing
11 - wine + cheese
12 - a conclusion of some sort, an afterparty

the devil is in on the details, and hopes to see you there.

click here for directions to Aferro

for the press release,

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:

1938
August 11 + 18th, 2007
Gallery Aferro -73 Market Street | Newark NJ 07102

1938 is a site-specific installation instigated by Sebastian Patane Masuelli with musical collective American Watercolor Movement. 1938 is also an original film created by Masuelli and filmmaker Michelle Mumoli. Jersey City-based American Watercolor Movement, consisting of Tom Barrett, Joe Centeno, Jason Cieradkowski, John Fesken, Mark Townsend and Brian Wilson, will be giving two live performances of “The Mustacio Suite,” a musical score to the film with lyrics based loosely on the Spanish Civil war. During each performance, Masuelli will play VJ, creating a new narrative for one night only. Artists contributing to the set include John Fesken, Jesse Wright, Pete Tuomey
Jr, and Seth Godwin. The recruitment and involvement of an extended community of artists and musicians for the project constitutes a semi-ironic reference to underground resistance, not unlike Thelonious Monk’s 1968 Underground album.

Sebastian Patane Masuelli is an Argentinean-born installation artist currently in residence at Gallery Aferro. His work has been seen recently in The S Files at El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY and La
Argentina Pinta Bien at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also the founder of the Fease art collective, which took over abandoned storefronts with performance and exhibitions.

A recent reviewer wrote of American Watercolor Movement: “It’s hard to imagine this amalgam of junkyard technology, unabashed artiness, multiculturalism, and high theory coming from anywhere else” (but New Jersey.) Their songs have been described as “confusing, sleazy, foggy, threatening, decayed; usually sexy, sometimes dangerous, always alluring.”

Motivated by a self-described affinity for lost causes, Masuelli has assembled a ragged army of volunteers to create a strangely seamless alternate world within Gallery Aferro’s Newark space. A ghostly aura of idealism and artistic production past hangs over the entire undertaking. One such ghost might be the cinematographer for 1973’s The Spirit of the Beehive, an acclaimed but obscure film about
post-war Spain. During production, the cinematographer went blind. This press release is respectfully dedicated to him. Please join us this August,1938.

—
Emma Wilcox
Curator\Co-Founder
Gallery Aferro
73 Market Street
Newark, NJ 07102
www.aferro.org

PRESS COVERAGE:

announcements
“Assembling the extended “family” of musicians and artists for this project has been analogous to recruiting an underground resistance,” Dan Bischoff in the Star Ledger

also in the Daily Newarker

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