'BedArt'-Gay Bash in South Beach!

"BEDART," Centerpiece Party at Hotel Nash! 
 Unlike any party you have been to lately!
 Produced by Miami Beach Cinematheque   
   
Featuring the filmed or performance works of Florida artists Juan
Carlos Zaldivar, Octavio Campos, Scott Turner Schofield, Micheal Alén,
Wendy Babcox, Dinorah Jesús Rodriguez, Rhonda Mitrani, Kelly Boehmer and
Rachel Hoffman, Shawn Cheatham, Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Yoko Nogami, and Elliot and Tiffany.   

Something NEW for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival!
   
Ever fantasized about roaming a hotel's rooms filled with cool art,
wild and kinky goings on, and even having a chance to interact and join
the fun? Well, here is your fantasy come true.  The first floor of Hotel
Nash has been transformed into a tour through multi-media artists'
work, where you will be guided by MBC down the darkened hallways and
through the private quarters, all inspired by the dream-world of BEDS!
Imagine!(keep some of that to yourself, please.)

From posing nude for your very own piece of the art (starring YOU,)
to discovering things you might not know about, enjoy an evening of
experimental video and performance, a different work in every room, with
some turned into underwater aquariums, and another with a terrace where
you walk "into" the film!
    
Then join Mark's Restaurant, Absolut, Perrier, and DJ Jody
McDonald in the Hotel Nash Courtyard!  
   
The BEDART Party is an inclusion of experimental video and
performance art in the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It is produced and curated by Dana Keith, Director of the Miami Beach Cinematheque, the art cinema on South Beach where you don't just watch films, you experience them (512 Española Way.) The Cinematheque also features "Shelley
Novak's Hollywood," and "TLA On The Edge" in celebration of MGLFF's Tribute to TLA Releasing. For more info and tickets on the sidebar events visit
http://www.MBCINEMA.com.
   
  BEDART is WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2006  9:30pm-midnight
  $10 at the door, $35 including Centerpiece Film with ADVANCED TICKETS
  at www.mglff.com/2006/centerpiece 
  1120 Collins Avenue, following the MGLFF Centerpiece Film at Regal
Cinemas. Please take a cab for most convenient entry, but valet is
available at $15. Continue the fun and SPEND THE NIGHT! Hotel Nash has
special rates available throughout the festival. 
  Visit www.hotelnash.com  for reservations.
  
  
  MAP for the ARTISTS:
  
  1. In the Lobby:
  wet (dream) by DIMITRY SAÏD CHAMY (2002 Video installation. 3.08 loop
with sound. dimensions variable.)
  Water dances on three pillows resting in a blue chamber. Wet (dream)
marks his personal passage from grief to healing (making art again) and
memorializes his late partner Paul W. Larsen, lost to cancer in 2001. He
loved the water. He wrote custom algorithms to pulse and flicker the
video streams, otherwise, the footage is raw.
  
  DIMITRY SAÏD CHAMY is a graphic designer, teacher, and artist who
works with video, computational media, and installation. Born and raised
in Haïti, he grew up on construction sites surrounded by artists,
writers, and teachers. Chamy's work has been exhibited in Connecticut and
Florida, including special presentations during ArtBasel/Miami Beach, the
Bass Museum of Art, and in numerous galleries and alternative spaces.
He has taught design, typography, and new media at Yale, the University
of Connecticut, and at RISD, and he currently lectures at UM.
  
  2. At The Bottom Of The Duplex, Room 117:
  Palingenisis by JUAN CARLOS ZALDIVAR
  (video projection on water, white pigment, resin barrel and drop
making vessel, dimensions variable.) The transmigration of the soul. From
the Greek PALIN (beginning) and GENISIS (birth); a rebirth.
  
  JUAN CARLOS ZALDIVAR, Visual Artist completed both his BFA and MFA in
film studies at New York University's Film School where he also has
taught.  He is a Sundance Film Institute Fellow. Mr. Zaldivar creates
films, video and sound installations as well as curates film work
internationally. He is the co-founder and programming director of The Florida
Room Documnetary Film Festival. For further information and upcoming
shows, please visit www.phonographfilms.com    
  
  3. On the Terrace of The Duplex:
   (with Bar #1 by Absolut, Perrier, and Mark's)
  Oh, you pretty things by MICHAEL ALÉN (miniDV-DVD 14:00) Oh, you
pretty things is an vérité sketch set to a revealing soundtrack. The
scattered pieces were organized to unravel an interpretive tale about
disconnection and yielding in relationships. It was shot between '04 -'05 in
Manhattan and Brooklyn as I repeatedly edited drafts and returned to New
York from Miami to fill in the story. The result is a naturally
captured skew of perception.
  MICHAEL ALÉN is a Miami native, and an independent artist working in
film and music. As half of editing duo Juno Alén, he has collaborated
on a variety of projects for upcoming pop diva Muffy Nixon to legendary
Latina pop singer, Lissete. OYPT is his first short film.
  
  4. At The Top Of The Duplex, Room 217:
Blind Trust by JUAN CARLOS ZALDIVAR (Interactive Polaroid exhibit)
  "Blind Trust" seeks to propagate small circles of trust. The project
is an on-going, interactive Polaroid exhibit, where visitors are asked
to pose nude. Its goal is to create a safe environment that would allow
individuals to trust the artist… 
      
  5. In Room 116:
  sleep Talking: gender dreams 1 by SCOTT TURNER SCHOFIELD
  (formally Kt Kilborn) (interactive performance with projection)
  A queer boy dreaming her way home finds gender in the bed and sex on
his skin.
  Other participating artists: Pedro Portal, Michael Alén, Heather
Maloney, Vivian Marthell, and inkub8
  
  SCOTT TURNER SCHOFIELD (formerly Kt Kilborn) is a Southerner in
constant transition. Schofield began his performance art career working as a
research assistant to Holly Hughes and Carmelita Tropicana at the WOW
Café in 2000. His performance, storytelling and interactive lectures
ease and enliven conversation with audiences working through the confusing
social maze of complex identities and intersecting oppressions. 
www.undergroundtransit.com 

   
  6. In Room 115:
  Dialogue in Space (2005, 16mm Film-Digital Video Loop, 01:32)
  The aesthetic and personal relationship between two Miami artists is
negotiated within the space of the video frame. Produced in
collaboration with visual artist Michelle Wienberg.
  you are the product of a sex tabú (2006, 16mm/Video Loop, 02:05) A
look at the manipulation of consumerism through sex, and at the
manipulation of sex through consumerism.
  By DINORAH de JESÚS RODRIGUEZ
  
  DINORAH de JESUS RODRIGUEZ is a film/video artist working with
projected imagery since the 1970's. Juxtaposing hand-crafted 16mm film with digital video, installation, sound and performance elements, her collage
pieces have been exhibited internationally in film festivals, museums,
galleries, TV, and street projections.  Known for her numerous
interdisciplinary collaborations, she has received numerous awards,
commissions, grants and residencies.
  
  7. In Room 102:
  Passport Please by RHONDA MITRANI (DVD loop with objects 15:00)
  A girl attempts to create a homey-familial place in a wide open and
empty space using objects that we generally use in our daily routine.
Instead of achieving what the viewer waits for, (someone to arrive, or
something to happen) she is literally stuck in the mundane routine of
"preparation." The place the girl is trying to reach is the very place
where this installation rests: the bed. To some, the bed is the heart of
the home and while they are touching each other, they could not be more
far apart.
  
   RHONDA MITRANI  BFA graduate of the University of Michigan, Rhonda
went on to study film at Middlesex University in England and NYU's Tisch
School of the Arts. Rhonda began exploring video art while working as a
filmmaker in film and television.  Her first art installation made its
debut at the Marina Kessler Gallery in Wynwood using gerber daisies and
old type writers on a conveyer belt.  Rhonda was invited to collaborate
on SFAC's Complement exhibition, and Omni Art 2005 during Art Basel,
where she presented two installations called Mammals are Humans Too!
  
  8. In Room 114:
  BLUE revisited by OCTAVIO CAMPOS
  (dancetheater adaptation performance art w/soundtrack)
  A challenging and exhilarating interpretation based on imagery and
sensorial associations, Octavio Campos, dance theater artist, will create
an interactive adaptation to accompany the final film of British
filmmaker Derek Jarman.

   OCTAVIO CAMPOS is a freelance, dance theater artist, choreographer
and teacher that has been interfacing performance with Dance, Theater,
Music, Community Arts, Video, Circus, and the digital Visual Arts for the
past 15 years. Born in Miami his artistic roots are in classical music,
composition and modern dance. He holds a BFA from The State University
of New York at Purchase for choreography and performance and was a
scholarship student at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary dance.
  
  9. In Room 103:
  pilloporno by SHAWN CHEATHAM (2006 Video Loop, 03:40)
  This video attempts to identify constructed tropes of sexuality
through the physical action of a young man on a bed, alone. By replacing a
crucial element of the semiotic language found in the discourse of
contemporary porn videos, the entire structure of meaning slowly dissolves.
   
  SHAWN CHEATHAM is currently a second-year MFA student at the
University of South Florida, Tampa. His work focuses primarily on using video
images as a heuretic tool in order to critique discourses such as Cinema
and Television, to examine how these discourses institute and control
"knowledge," and to identify himself as an active participant within the
spheres of this knowledge.
  
  10. In Junior Suite 106:
  The Project: laugh/cry By YOKO NOGAMI
  (2006/ performance with DVD monitors, pillows)
  The Project: laugh/cry is an investigation into the Japanese strong
attraction to melodrama in most art forms, while the people are
encouraged to repress emotion at all cost. Laughing and crying are emotions
which are especially repressed--meant to be a private--shameful activity
for public view. The audience will experience a degree of uneasiness,
depending on their own cultural background. The interest lies in the
viewer's experience of these emotions in reaction to the video performance.
  
  YOKO NOGAMI was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.  She received her
BFA from Boston University and her MFA from University of South Florida
in 2006.  She apprenticed with Mexican American muralist Judith F. Baca,
and assisted in the World Wall and Guadalupe Mural Project in 1989-90.
Her works have been shown internationally. She has branched out as a
conceptually based interdisciplinary artist, engaging in video,
installation and performance, driven by her research in cultural identity/
displacement and gender issues.
  
  11. In room 111:
  Tip Toe Through The Tulips by WENDY BABCOX (DVD loop)
  This work is a one channel video projection. The imagery vacillates
between a plunge into the center of a tulip and a pair of pursed lips.
The layering of images reflects a layering of narrative elements as in
the manner of a dream. The petals rub up against one another to reflect
the activity of the lips. This work is silent and therefore all
utterances go unheard. The tulip offers a reference to the body, potential and energy but is layered with a degree of tension.
  
   WENDY BABCOX is a British artist who received her MFA from the
University of Florida. Her work deals largely with the visual politics of
Florida's tourist attractions. Her work has been exhibited both
nationally and internationally. Her work in photography and video has traveled to exhibitions in Russia, New Zealand, Peru, Columbia, Bethlehem and Mexico among other places. She recently completed her first public artwork for the Lights on Tampa public art program that opened in January 2006.
  
  12. In Junior Suite 107:
  Venus In Faux Furs by KELLY BOEHMER and RACHEL HOFFMAN
  (2006 Performance, Softsculpture, Quicktime to Video on TV, 04:00)
  Kelly Boehmer uses seductive materials such as metallic fabric and
luxurious fur. Color and texture are essential to the work. In a very
interesting way, the softness of the body relates to the textures of the
soft sculpture.  
  Rachel Hoffman's work is consistently of, about, or even sometimes
physically connected to the vulnerable object and machine that is her
body. Nevertheless, she strives to illustrate the interpenetration of the
physical and mental.
   
  KELLY BOEHMER received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of
Art. She will be receiving her MFA from the University of South Florida in
the Spring 2006. After studying abroad in Paris and Venice she
exhibited her soft sculptures at a two-person show in National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She currently teaches drawing at the University of
South Florida.
  RACHEL HOFFMAN lives and works in Tampa, Florida. In 2004 she
achieved her MFA in studio art from the University of South Florida. Rachel
teaches courses in Drawing, Color Theory, and Principles of Design at the
Art Institute of Tampa, and works as a freelance Make-up Artist with
M.A.C. Cosmetics. She has exhibited at Gallery International in
Baltimore, Maryland, Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas, and at Edge Zones Art Space Miami, Florida.
  
  13. Viewable from the exterior into Rooms 109, 110:
  Sins Of Seduction (shadow performance behind BEDsheets)
  Featuring ELLIOT and TIFFANY
  Elliot and Tiffany are film buff fans of Kenneth Anger, but their
real life consists of performing in hotel rooms behind bedsheets for Gay
and Lesbian Film Festivals in the name of cinema art. They have friends,
due to their talents at seduction. YOU can be a friend too, if you're
Bad, or Good.  
  
  ELLIOT THOMPSON is a guy who goes North to South every other week. He has an amazing collection of various uniforms and fun stuff. Ask him if
you want a private tour of his toys and belts. 
  TIFFANY (aka HENRY) is an amazing drag artist who has several gigs
around town and volunteered her talents for this one. She had her hair
done specially for this occasion. And she is Fierce.
  
  14. In The Leather Fetish Hallway: Friends of Elliot and Tiffany.
   
  15. Viewable from the exterior into Rooms 109, 110, 111:
  Taking Breath by WENDY BABCOX (2006 Rear Projection Video Loop)
  In Florida we often express our regional identity through this
  relationship to water. It is a relationship imbued with pleasure and yet not
  without tension.
   
  DJ: Jody McDonald
  Bar #2 by Absolut, Perrier, and Mark's South Beach
  Hors d'oeuvres by Mark's South Beach 

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