The Live to Tape Artist Television Festival: Seven Days of TV Shows, Psychedelic Cartoons, Cable Excess, and Ecstatic Static

Announcing the 2015 Live to Tape Artist Television Festival

Seven Days of TV Shows, Psychedelic Cartoons, Cable Excess, and Ecstatic Static

Links Hall is proud to present Live to Tape Artist Television Festival, a week-long celebration of artist television performances and screenings curated by Jesse Malmed. From May 18th to 24th, the festival will showcase video and performance works by more than sixty artists-spanning four decades-that take television as object, as concept, as antagonist, as material, as form, as inspiration. Works range from Joan Braderman's "stand-up theory" which hilariously and critically imposes herself onto Dynasty to Chris Rice's jarring supersmash of Home Improvement's clunky motion graphic transitions to the cable access in extremis of John Kilduff's Let's Paint TV. Some of the most exciting artists working on the edges of broadcast, video art, comedy and performance are brought together for a week of wild and wonky, televisionary delights, offering a glimpse into the futures and pasts of artist television.

Over the course of the festival, Live to Tape will present a wide variety of performances and screenings organized into eight thematic programs: Aesthletics, The Sitcom Set, Dial-A-Soap, Ecstatic Static, No News, Make Me Psychic, Cable Excess and Sketch Book. Each program consists of video screenings, performances and commissioned talk show hosted by the likes of Seth Vanek; Sean Joseph Patrick Carney; Leslie Rogers; Anthony Romero, Josh Rios and Brandon Alvendia; Marisa Williamson; Mothergirl; and Lori Felker.

DETAILS:

WHAT: LIVE TO TAPE ARTIST TELEVISION FESTIVAL

WHEN: MAY 18-24, 2015

HOW TO BUY TICKETS: Festival Passes: $35 online ($40 at the door), Students: $10.00, General Admission: $12.00. Tickets can be obtained by visiting www.linkshall.org.

FOR MORE INFO : Visit livetotapefestival.tumblr.com by calling Links Hall at
773-281-0824

Also join us on Thursday, April 30th at Cole's Bar for the Live to Tape TV Party!

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Live to Tape Artist Television Festival Schedule

Monday, May 18, 7 pm - AESTHLETICS
	Sports remains America's favourite sport pastime. We're here to watch games, to watch our affiliations, to watch the unending machinations of humans in intractable situations, trying to be the best and bounce within and against a series of rules. Sure, games are a metaphor but so's everything. Featured Artists: Monica Panzarino - Monica Panzarino Sings The Star-Spangled Banner Dara Birnbaum - Pop-Pop Video: General Hospital/Olympic Women Speed Skate Josh Weissbach - Football Films Presents TVTV - TVTV Goes to the Super Bowl Christine Lucy Latimer - Mosaic Seth Vanek - Talk Show Chris Collins - Post-Show Wrap-Up Click here to purchase tickets.
Tuesday, May 19, 7 pm - THE SITCOM SET
	The couch, the laughtrack, the wacky neighbor-the sitcom set is a familiar place. And we, its public, are a set all our own-ready to guffaw and to indulge even the dopiest situations, predictable stunt casting and what-a-misunderstandings because we need the eggs, because it's sublime to see a couch from the couch. This program's for the jokesters, the one-liner fanatics, the crouched potatoes. Featured Artists: Ilene Segalove - More TV Stories Marc Couroux - We Know What You're Looking For-A Situationist Comedy Sherry Millner - Unruly Fan/Unruly Star Chris Rice - 8 Seasons (Excerpt) Ann Magnuson and Tom Rubnitz - Made for TV LJ Frezza - Nothing Eric Watts and Josh Duensing - Is This Real? (Performance) Sean Joseph Patrick Carney - Talk Show Click here to purchase tickets.
Wednesday, May 20, 7 pm - DIAL-A-SOAP
	Generally hospitable, filled with lifelong longings, betrayals and doubled crosses, the soap opera is high drama, five times a week, all melodrama and dirty deeds. Featured Artists: Emily Bernstein and Julia Calabrese - Cosmic Serpent Michael Robinson - The Dark, Krystle Brian L. Frye - Andy Warhol's Schrafft's Commercial [remake] Joan Braderman - Joan Does Dynasty Kyle Schlie - Trailer #4 (Ned Charles) for J.T.B.C.C.'s "Lifelong Longing" Anne McGuire - All Smiles and Sadness Blair Bogin - A Child's Voice Screaming My Name (Performance) Leslie Rogers - Talk Show Click here to purchase tickets.
Thursday May 21, 7 pm - ECSTATIC STATIC
	Static, glitches, signals lost and reconstituted. This one is for the heads-gorgeous, scary moments of rapturous rupture for bathing brains and adventurous eyes. Featured Artists: Josh Rios, Brandon Alvendia and Anthony Romero - Talk Show Tyrone Davies - Cathode Loop 1 Jennifer Juniper Stratford - Radioactive Dreams Philippe Blanchard and Peter Rahul - Chroma Crypt Vaudeo Signal - SNObound Alejandro T. Acierto - Cavities (Performance) Caitlin Denny and Nicole Ginelli - Ambient Exploitation : IV : Holes Eric Watts - LCD Vaudeo Motion - Performance Experimental Half Hour - Live Telecast from Los Angeles Click here to purchase tickets.
Friday, May 22, 7 pm - NO NEWS
	NEWS is supposed to come from the four cardinal directions. The constituents ring in, the weather is reported with real live rain, the whole thing starts and ends with names. All you have to do is act naturally. Camera 1, Camera 2, Camera 1, Camera 2, Camera 3, Camera 3, the world arrives in starts and stanzas. Every house is filled with representatives. Featured Artists: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney - Performance Tyrone Davies - At the Commercial Break She Started Screaming Videofreex - Video Games Videofreex - Taping of Video Games (excerpt) Ximena Cuevas - Tombola Jesse McLean - Somewhere Only We Know Damian Lebiedzinski - Snowball Diatribe Lori Felker - Broken New Shehrezad Maher - Dimensions of a Fish Andrew Filippone Jr. - 'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett Chris Little - Life During Wartime is a song by the Talking Heads Marisa Williamson - Talk Show Click here to purchase tickets.
Saturday, May 23, 1 pm - MAKE ME PSYCHIC
	Drop your mind, pop your jaw and let your senses do the talking. An all-ages screening of psychedelic cartoons; a Saturday morning panoply of sensorial delights; a cereal bar to benefit S.A.C.K. (Supporting Artists with Children or Kids). If you are or were a child, get ready to get heady with visionary surrealities. Through the haze of memory we can pretend the cartoons were ever this good. Julie Potratz performs live psychedelic cartoon while Lillie Carr? and Alexander Stewart of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation bring a program of wild and wooly works by Sally Cruikshank, Kathy Rose, Trixy Sweetvittles, and Amy Lockhart. Featured Artists: Make Me Psychic - psychedelic cartoons curated by Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation (Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carr?) Cereal Bar to benefit S.A.C.K. (Supporting Artists with Children or Kids) Julie Potratz - Performance Click here to purchase tickets.
Saturday, May 23, 7 pm - CABLE EXCESS
	Citizen media, bench-warming televangelists, alderpeople and alternaperople, broadcasts of the underheard-cable access and its dedicated amateur practitioners speak to the utopian potentials of television. Borrowing Brakhage's insistence that it is "love" from which "amateur" arises, both as words and as modes of becoming, the denizens of the cable access spectrum bring a sense of restless possibility to the box. Since its advent, this new media has attracted artists for both its constraints and its liberty. The artist's studio gets an audience. Television is what's on, so be on it. Featured Artists: Michael Smith - It Starts at Home Christine Lucy Latimer - Program Description George Kuchar - Hefner's Heifers ESP TV in Chicago Mothergirl - Talk Show Click here to purchase tickets.
Sunday, May 24, 7 pm - SKETCH BOOK
	People love a big ending. Tonight we learn if Live to Tape existed in a snow globe or was just a dream or if everyone finds their ending. Tonight is almost an anagram for nothing, but it'll be so much more. We've enlisted Lori Felker, she of Broken New, This Is My Show and It Doesn't Matter artist television fame, to host her final talk show. It was a brief run, but as the clip reel attests, we laughed, we cried, we grew. Why, even tonight, we celebrated the television painter, the mark-makers hidden amidst the pixels and signals. Drawn like a mirror to itself, art is made between the scanlines. It's all too much, this sweet sadness of parting. Featured Artists: Scott Wolniak - The Buddy Cycles Steve Wetzel - Sethio Jennifer Juniper Stratford - Painting Electrons John Kilduff - Let's Paint TV Guy Richards Smit - Grossmalerman Pilot Danny Volk - Made Up with Danny Volk Jaime Davidovich - Portrait of the Best Artist Wynne Greenwood, K8 Hardy - New Report Artist Unknown Kelly Lloyd - Man Artists on Television (Performance) Tom Friel - Performance Lori Felker - Talk Show Click here to purchase tickets.