EAI at Migrating Forms


	RAYMOND PETTIBON: SIR DRONE EAI Screening @ Migrating Forms Festival Please join EAI for a special screening of Raymond Pettibon's feature-length video Sir Drone at Migrating Forms.
			Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:15 pm Migrating Forms at Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 migratingforms.org Admission $ 10.00
	EAI is proud to present Raymond Pettibon's Sir Drone (1989, 55:37 min), featuring Mike Kelley, at Migrating Forms. Shot in two days, with dialogue read off cue cards, Sir Drone is part of a series of feature-length, low-tech video narratives that Pettibon made in the late 1980s. Known for his distinctive pen and ink drawings, Pettibon turned his attention to video in 1988, producing a body of work focused on West Coast American radical subjects of the 1960s and 1970s: the Manson family, the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the S.L.A., the Weather Underground, and the beginnings of the American punk movement. Pettibon was close to the West Coast punk bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Shot on home-video equipment, his deadpan narrative dramas feature an ensemble of luminaries from L.A.'s post-punk underground. In Sir Drone, Mike Kelley and musician Mike Watt (of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen) play two teenage punks trying to start a band in the 1970s. Kelley's portrayal of a wiry adolescent yearning for fame and legitimacy is both comical and heartbreaking. He and Watt struggle to create the right image for themselves and their band, debating bands' names, the distinctions of punk and hippie music, and strategies to avoid being "rinky dink." Writing about Sir Drone, Mike Kelley stated, "Despite their crudeness, Raymond's tapes are strangely moving: he is a brilliant script writer." Sir Drone will be accompanied by two lo-fi works involving teenagers and music by Cory Arcangel: Insectiside (1992-03, 7:29 min) and Message my Brother Justin Left Me on my Cell from the Slayer Concert Last Week (2004, 2:27 min). For more information about Raymond Pettibon's work, please click here. __________________________________ Raymond Pettibon was born in 1957 in Tucson, Arizona. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1991 he received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award, and in 2010 was awarded the Oscar Kokoschka Prize. Pettibon's work has been shown at the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in exhibitions at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf; Louisiana Museum, Humlebael, Denmark; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. One-person exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work is represented in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. __________________________________ About Migrating Forms An annual, ten-day festival dedicated to new film and video, Migrating Forms developed from the New York Underground Film Festival (NYUFF), which ended in April 2008. Led by the former directors and programmers of NYUFF, Migrating Forms continues the tradition of presenting a program culled from a broad spectrum of moving image practices each Spring at New York's historic Anthology Film Archives. www.migratingforms.org __________________________________ About EAI Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the world's leading nonprofit resources for video art. A pioneering advocate for media art and artists, EAI fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution, and preservation of video art and digital art. EAI's core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 3,500 new and historical media works by artists. EAI's activities include viewing access, educational services, extensive online resources, and public programs such as artists' talks, exhibitions and panels. The Online Catalogue is a comprehensive resource on the artists and works in the EAI collection, and also features extensive materials on exhibiting, collecting and preserving media art: www.eai.org Visit *Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive, an exhibition of 20 moving-image works at Dia:Beacon, organized on the occasion of EAI's 40th Anniversary. www.eai.org/pressreleases/09_11_circa1971_pr.html* __________________________________ Electronic Arts Intermix 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 t (212) 337-0680 f (212) 337-0679 info@eai.org EAI on Facebook EAI on Twitter