Live from the Uncanny
An Evening of Performance, Video, Readings and Sound
Gallery 16
501 3rd Street, San Francisco
Friday, February 23 2024 from 7pm - 9pm
Live from the uncanny is an improvisational ensemble featuring members of The Color Organist (Scott Hewicker, Wayne Smith and David Van der Voort). They host an evening of performance, video, readings, and sound inspired by the ideas of The Uncanny, or the subtle horror of the familiar made unfamiliar.
The Uncanny occurs at the veil where our sense of security dissolves into an obscure uncertainty. It pokes holes in the boundaries of what might be understood as the real and reveals subconscious fears of what might actually be happening. It lies in the perpetual detachment felt when the reality of our situation consistently fails to live up to expected promises. Perhaps, we fear realizing these expectations may have become the lies we perpetuate to ignore necessary change.
As in film and in literature, The Uncanny is best examined through the lens of the Surreal. On this evening, The Color Organist will offer a phantasmagoric glimpse through the veil in order to share through voices (bodied and disembodied) our common fears and misgivings, and find a path out of the darkness towards something... less dark.
Participants include: Rebeca Bollinger with Gus Tomizuka and Patricio Coronado, Alice Shaw, Rumi Koshino, Yedda Morrison, Steven Seidenberg, Ebtihal Shedid, Rod Roland, Colter Jacobsen, Pam Martin, Tommi West, and Cliff Hengst.
Gallery 16 exhibition: The Mystery of the Mystery was the backdrop. Slow Oblivion by Scott Hewicker is seen in the background.