The following review is by Gabriel Solorio:
“You say you want to try, for several days perhaps.
Perhaps for several weeks.
Perhaps even for your whole life.
Try what? She asks.
Loving, your answer.”
(The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras)
Inspired by Marguerite Duras’s novel 'The Malady of Death', artists Willia Drew and Carlos Zamora have created a beautiful and deceptively sensual short film that addresses subjects that will indeed resonate with and confront the viewer. 'A Kind of Ache' is simultaneously an exploration of the yearning for love through sexual contact and an interrogation of both conventional ideas of who ought to be intimate with each other and established sex roles. As a whole, the piece is a tribute to romanticism and a critique of simple traditionalism. The film’s rich colors along with its polite settings and softcore porn-esque quality provide a particular sensuousness that make delving into the critical and intellectual aspects of the work that much more compelling and what are found in those parts cleverly surprising.
['A Kind of Ache' is a new video piece by Carlos Zamora & Willia Drew. Teaser music by Martina Topley Bird, 'A Kind of Ache' Music by Surachai. Performances by Pete Borboa, Maurice Harris, Ceri Z., Cindy Conde, Chris Zeischegg & Prince Willia. Full running time is 11 minutes. ©2008. The piece will debut at the Lust 4 Lace show on Valentines day.]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
A Kind of Ache - Teaser
Friday, February 1, 2008
Lust 4 Lace Promo 2008
The show is curated by David Burns & Margie Schnibbe (aka Vena Virago), which means it should be transgressive, smart, colorful, sexy & fun!! My collaborator, Carlos Zamora and I will be featuring a brand new video piece created especially for the show. The sound design is by Surachai. It promises to be pretty freaking hot! More info on the piece and a teaser to come! For now check out the press release...
A night of delightful debauchery with explicit, naked, juicy, tasty, slippery, slimy, crunchy, gooey, sexy,voyeuristic, fetishistic live action animated narrative squishy hand-made video, live art and musical performance (DJ sets by John Tejada, Henry Self and Robert Crouch), and kinky crafts with JP Craft Captain sponsored by Babeland.
LUST 4 LACE
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Doors open 8pm
Tickets $10; call 323.957.1777 or go to http://www.welcometolace.org
LACE'S INFAMOUS VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY IS BACK to kick off our 30th anniversary in style!
Featuring brand new and rarely seen explicit videos and performances from Southern California artists including: Buck Angel, Skip Arnold, Jordan Biren, Squeaky Blonde, David Burns, Peter Caine, Franco Castilla, Mark B. Chamness , Charong Chow, Jennifer Cohen, Geoff Cordner, Michael Dee, Dino Dinco, Willia Drew , Zachary Drucker, Martin Durazo, Micol Hebron, Tyler Hubby, Bryan Jackson, Kadet Kuhne, Darin Klein, Lauren Lavitt, Matt Lipps, Selene Luna, Ming-Yuen s. Ma, Eon McKai, Julie Orser, Julianna (JP) Parr, KathrynE Layne Paxton, Barry Pett, Eva Posey, Dustin Robertson, Margie Schnibbe, Mark Cosmo Segurson, Thairin Smothers, Vena Virago, Austin Young, Carlos Zamora, and more.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions celebrates the grand tradition of VALENTINE's day from years past with, good friends, random lovers, and strangers.
Friday, January 25, 2008
my first hardcore
It's official. trash audio & sub-stance, have a blogger geek crush.
Surachai found my blog the first week it was up and has on-goingly pursued an intelligent & supportive discourse with me. He lives in Chicago where he makes beautiful electronic driven music and hardcore/grind/metal stuff... despite the abysmal cold.
Currently, Surachai is finishing a brief tour in Los Angeles. We arranged to meet at an intimate venue he was playing in Echo Park called pehrspace.
It was my first hardcore show. I arrived just as he was about to begin, and we greeted each other with a hug, which he says was the worst thing to do before having to scream violently into a micraphone. Ha Ha. Kindly, he advised me to pick up some squishy ear plugs from the guy at the door to protect my fragile ear drums. I shoved em in my ear holes and sat right behind a speaker. I couldn't hear all the juicy nuances that i know are in his music, but I got a feel for the hard core. For screaming, and noise, and nobs, and dials, and people with interesting facial hair, standing groin-to-speaker, staring slack jawed at the creator of such insanity as he growled and undressed, like a teenager after a long day of school. It was kinda hot.
We met up a few days later for a delicious vegetarian meal at Paru's.
Surachai is gonna work on the sound for a new video piece that my friend and I are producing for the Lust4Lace show at LACE in February. That is, if he has time...