Gallery to present Displacement: Cinema Out of Site

The Gallery of Contemporary Art is will present Displacement: Cinema Out of Site as its first project under a new line of programming, AWOL: Art Without Limits.

AWOL is about creating new forums for discussion on art through site-specific installations, happenings and non-traditional exhibition spaces. The project, Displacement, is a conversation based on the art of displaced cinema. Both the program and project value the importance and effect of space, and both challenge traditional expectations of what an exhibition site can and should be.

This project, a collaboration between GOCA and TIE (The International Experimental Cinema Exposition), and the City of Colorado of Springs, will be presented on the top floor of the Kiowa & Nevada parking garage in downtown Colorado Springs from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Aug. 7.

Lectures will be offered to further explore the discourse of expanded (or displaced) cinema, experimentation, spectatorship, the re-contextualization of found-footage, and parkour (the art of movement).
 
Displacement: Cinema Out of Site is collaboration and presentation of film works by contemporary Argentine and North American avant-garde artists to encourage an intercontinental dialogue between artists. These artists, writers and curators are presenting moving image and sound creations on the concrete structure of a public parking garage.

To aid in the understanding of parkour and displacement, Rachel Cole, a participating artist, wrote:

"Place isn't lost, it is rather ‘displaced,’ undone, emptied of meaning of itself, a location without linear measurement. Displaced is not misplaced. The cinema and this program are not lost; instead they have been stripped of popular expectations for what they should be. Many would say art should be in a gallery and film in a theater. This project uses an existing space, urban architecture, to redefine the viewer’s experience of the work presented. ”
 
The films and music of Displacement will be presented on the top floor of the Kiowa / Nevada parking garage. Visitors are welcome and encouraged to park in the garage. Cost is $1 for the evening. Refreshments will be served, however no alcohol is permitted. There is a $5 suggested donation for the event and related lectures. Donations received will be used to pay honorariums to each participant. All events are open to the public. The films will begin after sunset for approximately 90 minutes.

A series of three lectures featuring filmmakers, artists and curators accompany this one-night-only film presentation. Each lecture pairs two speakers each with keen insight into the philosophies and techniques explored through the films.
 
Lectures begin at 7 pm, with a reception beginning at 6:30. Speaker biographies are available at www.galleryuccs.org

Aug. 7 City Hall Council Chambers (107 N. Nevada Ave.)
Christopher May and Jimmy Gable will discuss the notion of displacement and displaced cinema and the history and philosophy of parkour.
 
Aug. 8 Gay and Lesbian Fund f for Colorado (315 E. Costilla)
Pablo Marin and Gregg Savage will discuss found footage and people as instruments.
 
Aug. 9 Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado (315 E. Costilla)
Dan Mancini and Rachel Cole will discuss the Tetris effect and on-site distraction. The Tetris effect, named after the video game Tetris, occurs when an activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams

For more information, visit http://www.galleryuccs.org/

--Caitlin Green

Lectures begin at 7 pm, with a reception beginning at 6:30. Speaker biographies are available at www.galleryuccs.org

Aug. 7 City Hall Council Chambers
(107 N. Nevada Ave.)
Christopher May and Jimmy Gable will discuss the notion of displacement and displaced cinema and the history and philosophy of parkour.
 
Aug. 8 Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado
(315 E. Costilla)
Pablo Marin and Gregg Savage will discuss found footage and people as instruments.
 
Aug. 9 Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado
(315 E. Costilla)
Dan Mancini and Rachel Cole will discuss the Tetris effect and on-site distraction. The Tetris effect, named after the video game Tetris, occurs when an activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams

For more information, visit http://www.galleryuccs.org/