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| Spark: Episodes: Season Two |
LET'S TALK POLITICS -- January 7 & 9
From stage to street, Spark goes behind-the-scenes with artists who aren't afraid to talk politics.
• Hip Hop Provocateur Michael Franti
Activist Michael Franti takes on corporate America, the criminal justice system, and the cause of disadvantaged peoples everywhere to the tune of a funky, soul-driven hip hop beat. Spark is along for the ride as he and his band Spearhead record their latest music video -- on the sly and on the cheap.
• Berkeley Rep's Continental Divide
Continental Divide, a two-play cycle by David Edgar, focuses on a fictional gubernatorial campaign and explores the revolutionary fervor that took hold of both the Right and the Left during the turbulent 1960s. From first meeting to opening night, Spark is there for the backstage drama, as Edgar and director Tony Taccone finalize the script against the backdrop of California's real life gubernatorial drama.
• Billboard Liberation Front
Since 1977, the renegade artists and copywriters of the Billboard Liberation Front have been conducting guerilla attacks on corporate signage, using wit and rubber cement to paper over advertising hype with their own subversive messages. Spark tags along on one of their undercover midnight missions.
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES -- January 14 & 16
Creating art for public places has its own special challenges and rewards. In this episode of Spark, artists of different disciplines transcend the limitations of site and budget to realize their artistic visions.
• Jo Kreiter's How to Be a Citizen
Choreographer and dancer Jo Kreiter mixes art and politics in a site-specific work about the history of protest on San Francisco's Market Street. Her concept for an aerial work high above the street is eventually grounded; but Jo persists, overcoming a series of seemingly impossible obstacles to complete the piece.
• Herb Parker's Caracol at Villa Montalvo
Renowned landscape artist Herb Parker works with local artists and volunteers, using sod, rammed earth, and steel to create a whimsical work of land art entitled Caracol (snail). The work was commissioned by the Montalvo Association to mark the inauguration of a new phase of growth in its world-renowned artist-in-residency program.
• Precita Eyes at Alemany Farmers' Market
A team of muralists from Precita Eyes transforms white washed stalls at the Alemany Farmer's Market in San Francisco, covering them with colorful murals that celebrate the farmers and their bounty. Lead by artist Susan Cervantes, Precita Eyes is one of only three community mural centers in the US -- a hub for mural art activities since 1979.
TELLING STORIES -- January 21 & 23
Since the dawn of history, artists have been telling stories through words, pictures, and music. In this episode of Spark, we meet artists who are continuing the tradition, fusing ancient and contemporary techniques and content.
• Larry Reed's Dangerous Flowers
For the past thirty years, Larry Reed has dedicated himself to the study and practice of the ancient Balinese art of shadow puppetry. He has become a master of this traditional storytelling form, using it to tell tales from many different cultures, and adapting it for contemporary audiences with the addition of modern multi-media technology. Spark is there as he debuts his latest work, a traditional Balinese tale called Dangerous Flowers.
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a modern day griot (African storyteller) who tells his original stories through a combination of acting, spoken word, movement and rap. A four-time national Poetry Slam winner, Bamuthi got his start on Broadway at the age of 9. Spark follows along as he develops his first full-length solo theatrical work, Word Becomes Flesh, a meditation on his new role as a single father.
• Fire in Heaven
Asian storytellers Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu collaborate with Cherokee storyteller Gayle Ross in a performance of Fire In Heaven: An Evening of Cherokee and Pacific Ghost Stories. Set to jazz koto music played by June Kuramoto, the work combines the oral traditions and mythical archetypes of many ancient cultures to create a fresh and contemporary performance style.
THE FINE ART OF COLLECTING -- January 28 & 30
Spark shows that collecting can be an art form unto itself, as we meet collectors who have turned a casual interest into a lifelong passion.
• Mail Art Collector John Held, Jr.
Back in the 1960s, mail art was considered a disposable and democratic art form on the far fringes of conceptual art. It was precisely that throw-away aesthetic that appealed to pioneering collector John Held, who saved every scrap of mail art he received, day after day, for almost thirty years. Spark spends the day with Held as he continues to build his collection, one stamp at a time.
• Art Patron and Collector Steven Oliver
Thirty years ago, building contractor Steven Oliver thought he couldn't care less about contemporary art. Today he's one of the country's most active and ambitious private collectors, having assembled a formidable collection that includes 17 original works by major artists commissioned for his ranch in Sonoma County. Spark follows Steve on an insider's tour of his collection.
• Bonnie Grossman's Collections of Folk, Tramp, and Self-Taught Art
What began as a collection of vintage kitchen utensils is now an abiding obsession for collector Bonnie Grossman. Spark takes a tour of her home-turned-gallery, where every nook and cranny is now filled with her various collections.
FRONTIERS OF DANCE -- February 4 & 6
Spark explores the frontiers of the dance world with some of the Bay Area's most innovative choreographers and performers.
• Butoh artist Ledoh
The Bay Area has become a flourishing center for butoh, a modern dance of darkness that originated in post-war Japan. Spark goes into rehearsals with veteran butoh dancer Ledoh, as he uses this contemporary Japanese form to explore the ancient, agrarian roots of his Ka-Ren ancestry in Burma.
• AXIS Dance Company's Dust
AXIS Dance Company has a long history of delivering performances that stun and delight, combining the work of dancers with and without physical disabilities. This season marks the world premiere of a new work by well-known choreographer Victoria Marks called Dust. Spark is backstage throughout the process, from first tentative improvisation to opening night.
• The Art of Poi
At the Crucible, an industrial arts center in Oakland, dance teacher Belva Stone instructs her students in the art of poi, an ancient fire dance first practiced by the Maori tribe of New Zealand. Swinging fiery balls on cords, students struggle to overcome their fears and spin fire.
THE GREY EMINENCES - February 11 & 13
Spark visits with several of the Bay Area's most influential artists, grey eminences who have been working in their art form for decades and are continuing to teach and work long past retirement age.
• New Music Pioneer Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros is known internationally as a composer, accordionist, teacher and pioneer in electronic and improvisational music. A long time member of the faculty at the Mills College Contemporary Music Center, she also helped establish the San Francisco Tape Music Center, the first electronic music studio in the Western United States.
• Trailblazing Conceptual Artist David Ireland
"You can't make art by making art" has been a guiding principle in the work of David Ireland, one of California's most important and critically acclaimed artists working in the challenging arena of conceptual and installation art. The Oakland Museum of California has long been planning a major retrospective of his 30-year career; and Spark is there as curators work with Ireland to create an innovative exhibit that functions both as comprehensive survey... and original work of art.
FROM LIFE -- February 18 & 20
Who says figurative art is dead? Spark checks in with three artists who continue to find inspiration in the human face and form.
• Ceramicist Viola Frey
Over many decades, veteran ceramicist Viola Frey has created hundreds of colossal, larger-than-life figures that have become the favorites of many collectors. Now in her seventies and wheelchair-bound, she continues to work, creating her monumental works with the help of a mechanized lift and
devoted assistants. Spark visits her studio to watch her at work.
• Photographer Olivier Laude
Iconoclastic photographer Olivier Laude has spent most of his career producing commercial and documentary work. But now he's trying his hand at a series of art photographs, in which his friends and acquaintances are cast as characters in elaborately conceived tableaux that spoof ethnographic portraits. Spark follows along as Laude creates an elaborate diorama of an ice-fishing Eskimo - on the San Francisco Bay salt flats.
• Pasta Portraitist Jason Mecier
Using an unholy mix of beans, noodles, yarn, and other craft items, Jason Mecier creates mosaic portraits of friends and celebs that are shockingly realistic and endlessly entertaining. Spark takes a peek at the methods behind his madness.
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