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POW! POW! ACTION Art festival 2009

2nd annual mini performance art festival

Produced and curated by Alyssa Lee and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo

Featuring performance and installations by artists from around the world

October 15-18, 2009
The Climate Theater – 285 9th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
8pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
$12 in advance, $15 at door – 4-day festival pass $40

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/77223

(SAN FRANCISCO – October 15-18, 2009) – POW! POW! ACTION Art festival 2009 is a 4 evening festival of new ACTION art works that will take place on Thursday October 15th, Friday October 16th, Saturday October 17th, and Sunday October 18th. Co-curated and produced by Alyssa Lee of group A and gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo, POW! POW! displays “cutting-edgy” work of performers and artists from the Bay Area, New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Canada, and Germany.

” The ultimate artists response to the economic melt down…A tax payer/GOP friendly festival. Not one penny of tax money ever used to produce it”. –POW! POW! Translation = ” Real freedom of expression. No strings attached.”
One of the few uncensored festivals in the US, POW! POW! is presented as a response to the ways in which the art scene is managed in the Bay Area and the United States and to the bailout of “too big to fail” arts organizations. Artists have been forced to follow certain aesthetics in order to have their work presented in a gallery or a festival and obligated to create a specific type of work that follows the fiscal sponsor’s agenda. Thus, the sponsor gets either to censor the artist or to adapt the art to fit the organization’s specific agenda. The curators of POW! POW! devised a festival where the artist is encouraged to present work without restrictions.
The previous year’s festival, POW! 2008 mini performance art festival was a huge success, generating excitement for performance art and for uncensored expression from artists. This year’s POW! POW! has quadrupled in size and will be even more shocking!
Among many outrageous artists, POW! POW! 2009 will feature daring and controversial performers such as Frank Moore, Keith Hennessey, Michael Namkung, and many others. The content of these shameless pieces are all over the map, ranging from works about volcanic eruptions, underwater explorations of performative hygiene, photographs of souls, wearable art pieces, first dates, electro-mechanical soft sculptures, absurdist hip hop performances, art critiques, interactive video installations, Japanese-American Internment camps, and the ironic and sometimes brutal ideals we teach our children that we consider acceptable.

POW! POW! Program Information
THURSDAY NIGHT
Alyssa Lee + gal*in_dog

Anna Martine Whitehead

Artist (Jeremiah Barber)
Greg Crane
Joshua Kit Clayton
Kagel Kater + Hairspray (The Pony)
Kingsley September Irons
Michael Namkung
Nora Raggio
Shawn Feeney

FRIDAY NIGHT
Corner Liquor Store
Frank Moore
gal*in_dog
Green Hemoglobin
Greg Crane
Nora Raggio
Tina Takemoto

SATURDAY NIGHT – PERFORMANCE INSTALLATIONS
Bo Choi (Fiber Artist)
Erika Hannes
Gina Clark
Greg Crane
Keith Hennessey/ Zero Performance
Marita Bullman
Nicole Zvarick
Nora Raggio
Rebecca Anne Wilson
Sheryl Anne Simpson (I + an audience)
your name here

SUNDAY NIGHT
Alyssa Lee and George Alley
Greg Crane
Holly Furgason
J. Robert Reed
Maria Legault
MOM
Nora Raggio
Sheryl-Ann Simpson
Suki Tawdry

For more information visit www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival +/or find us on facebook!

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POW! POW! ACTION art festival
san francisco, CA
october 15-18, 2009
curated by: guillermo galindo AKA gal*in_dog + alyssa lee
www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
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