Afterglow NY

October 8th and 9th Doors: 7pm Screening: 8pm

The two nights feature different content. Both screenings are around 80 minutes.

Thursday October 8: Katelyn Reeves Skip Arnold Alison Peery Antone Konst and John Martin Zachary Drucker and Van Barnes Vinny DeGhoulie Mariah Garnett Andrew Hutton and Cory Hanson John Sturgeon Jacolby Satterwhite Theo Darst Taralyn Thomas Michael Demps Brian Bress Peggy Ahwesh Lillian Schwartz Trulee Grace Hall Tala Madani

Friday October 9: Camila Romero Phil Davis Anna Joy Springer Shana Moulton, 2010 Michael Bell-Smith Kinkey Dolores w/Audrey Wollen Craig Roose Mike Smith Tameka Norris Patrick Woody Harry Dodge Blake Brent Keith Ballard Yung Jake Barbara Hammer Aimee Goguen Bennet Perez Michael Bell-Smith Cara Elizabeth

Harry Dodge and Aimee Goguen take Afterglow, an annual Los Angeles summer video event, to Blood Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. This fourth iteration of our underground summer video series brings together a churning, charming array of established and emerging video artists for a two-night event.

Over the past few years, Afterglow Summer Series has assembled an odd new canon and constructed an idiosyncratic historical lineage for contemporary video art. One of the series aims has been to investigate corporeality-pressurized-by-digitization, and/or transgression-pressurized-by-irony; another has been to provide viewers and makers with a good time.

Some of the questions that attend our curatorial process include: How can or does humor—including more taboo sorts of humor—parry the grief or anxiety that can attend sustained efforts to confront the brutalities accompanying late capitalism? What are we grieving, and what is the relationship of celebratory, ecstatic making to our struggle, our mourning? What, if anything, characterizes the contemporary use of materiality, the body, and performance in video art, now that the context for this materiality has significantly changed, i.e. now that so much of our sociality is conducted online? What thruline can be drawn between some of the more irreverent, audacious video art of past eras, and work being made today? What are the various energies that flow between power, empowerment, pleasure, precarity, vulgarity, and laughter? How might we recast the whole idea of antagonism as something homeopathic, a kind of toxic corpus, a substance or cloud that we swallow, eat, incorporate?

In address of these questions, Afterglow showcases wild, lewd, and sometimes sorrowful work. Our 2015 NYC event offers two more approximately 80 minute evening programs of work that ranges from the soulful, thrumming, and meditative to the disreputable, catty, ecstatically shame-riddled, and wolfen. The oldest was made in 1957 and the newest were just finished last week.

Each of our events has been crowded, thoughtful, funny, friendly and mind-rearranging. We hold these events at DIY spaces because we want to create a video viewing environment that is loungy, secret and dark. Our hopes are manifold: to cultivate community, to make hilarious historical links, to remind young artists who broke this ground they’re exploring, to surprise and refresh video viewers, and to provide a space to sit back and watch a bunch of videos that might otherwise be difficult to view and view comfortably.

Please come join us for this two-night explosion.

- Harry Dodge