Bay Window
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Bay Window

Ulysses Jenkins 
1991, 85 min, color, sound

Description

Bay Window is the complete documentation of an experimental event produced by Jenkins while an artist-in-residence at The Exploratorium in San Francisco in 1990. Transmitted live via videophone at multiple venues throughout California and Canada, the event centered the societal oppression faced by indigenous communities and their shared fight for ecological justice and self-determination. Beginning at the Exploratorium, the broadcast switches to programs at the Electronic Cafe, Santa Monica, CA; Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Baker Lake, Hudson Bay; and the Headlands Center for the Arts-Haida Project at Fort Baker, Sausalito, CA, presenting an array of ritual performances, poetry readings, music, live sand painting, and documentary photographs. The program is punctuated with the sounds of live transmission as Jenkins and his technicians troubleshoot, send, and display the received content in real-time.

Created during artist-in-residency at The Exploratorium in the fall of 1990. Technical support: Larry Shaw, Michael Woody, Nick Bertoni, Jason Reinier, Video-Catherine De Santis/AIR-Director: Pam Winfrey

Linkages: Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA; Electronic Cafe, Santa Monica, CA; Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Baker Lake, Nunavut, Hudson Bay; Headlands Center for the Arts-Haida Project at Fort Baker, Sausalito, CA