Beating.Blinking for Bass Drums & Breaths May 12, 2007

Performance and Media Show Featuring Works by

Susan Braig's "Pink Robbin: The Best Medicine"
Along with musicians Joe Berardi, Emily Hay, Arthur Jarvinen and Kira Vollman, satirizes the human/grug exegesis through the chemotherapy process.

Chris Fitzpatrick's "Sounding Hospital"
A subtle ambient evocation of the sonic environment of the hospital through the little sounds of technology and human interface that either comfort or disturb.

Broooke Keesling's "Boobie Girl"
This award-winning animated film explores Ms Keesling's own experiences under the knife for breast reduction surgery. One of the true a nimated pleasures of the last decade.

Tran T. Kim-Trang's "The Palpable Invisibility of Life"
Completed in 2006, Ms Trang's experimental video visualizes the unseen threads between mother and child across four generations. ...a work of subtle urgency confronting the interface of maternity and medicine.
The League of Imaginary Scientists' "Meta-physical"
League doctors offer viewers physicals for an assortment of ailments. Imaginary scientists will concoct meta-tagged prescriptions for their to-be-patented verbal narcotics; an informative case study of the drug trials promises to educate and entertain.

Adam Overton's interactive performance
Heartbeats, blinks, human touch sensitivity are brought to sonic realization in an interactive performance by one of Los Angeles' most challenging emerging sonic artists.

Marcella Pabros-Clark's "Healing Mars"
Ms Clark's performance explores the often conflicting interface between medicine, faith and personal strength in a piece based on her own medical journey.

Reginald Vinluan's "Afterbirth"
A tragic children's center fire in Manilla leads to an extraordinary interface between midwifery and forensic pathology in this visually rich, often disturbing animated work by one of the most prmisising of our emerging young experimental animators

Funded in part by grants from the Ellingsen Family Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance

Official Website: http://newtownarts.org/shows/07_medicalarts/index.html