Anti-Oxidant

Bushwick Open Studios / Anti-Oxidant this weekend!

2009-06-05T11:34:00.000-07:00

It's finally here, Bushwick Open Studios weekend! Time to celebrate all of the hard work and amazing art created in our lovely hood. For this weekend only Anti-Oxidant BK will do a two day screening in the Den at Northeast Kingdom. Video art all day long this Saturday and Sunday only. So stop in the Kingdom for a little refreshing break and chill with some fantastic work from your local Bushwick video artists!

The Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff
Corner of Troutman and Wycoff
Bushwick, BK!

LINDSAY BENEDICT
Through film, performance, and various media Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. In her work, affect and raw emotion are often deployed to disrupt and destabilize any simple reading of human connections. A wide ranging temporality, from more deliberate and slowly conceived films and sewn texts to the more immediately gestural drawings allow a dense layering of material and narrative to unravel and intertwine simultaneously.

JULIE HANUS

CHRISTINA MEDINA
youwereinmydreamslastnightbaby.com
Armed with a ten-year-old's imagination, I am dreamer by nature and prefer to wonder what the world would be like upside down. My motivation is derived from an examination of my own childhood memories, longings, aspirations, and beliefs. I would like to wake the dormant dreams we left behind with our dolls and toy cars. Teetering between a need for financial security and living a life of adventurous exploration of my heart’s desires, I remain a believer in truth, beauty, but most importantly LOVE.

JAKE SELVIDIO
selvidio.com
I have been making short, documentary-style videos for five years. They have become a collective autobiography that encompasses my friends, family and past relationships. I studied photography and video at Pratt Institute, where I received my MFA.

HYLA SKOPITZ
skopitz.com
Hyla Skopitz grew up with a giant papier maché hot dog on the mantle and a rubber bat hanging from the chandelier. She naturally developed an eye for detail and ironic juxtapositions. As a teenager, she began documenting the endless shelves and cubbyholes filled with miscellaneous screws and bolts, coils of wires covered in cobwebs, and arcane gadgets in various states of disrepair that her grandfather, a child of the depression, had collected in secret basement rooms. Her photographs and videos continue to investigate familial relics, nostalgia, and sentimentality. They oscillate between diaristic and documentary, emotional and objective, the present and memory. She received her masters of fine arts at ICP-Bard. She currently works in the MET Museum Photo Studio and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her most recent photographs are featured in the next "Abe’s Penny" (Volume 1.4, June).

LAUREN SILBERMAN
Laurendarling.com
Lauren Silberman received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Bard College and currently resides in Brooklyn. She is a visiting scholar at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and is the recipient of awards from PDN. She has performed at Location One and Deitch Projects, as well as in the several underground events and venues that have provided inspiration for her work. She is a founder of the performance group Fakework and she utilizes photography, video, performance, and objects in her work.

JOY WHALEN
Joywhalen.blogspot.com
Receiving her BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2005 and MFA from Pratt Institute in 2007, Joy’s practice involves a combination of drawing, performance and video. Much of this work involves environmental depictions of a nether land, which fluctuates in a space caught within the tensions of a preceding and ensuing state of change, where industrial overthrow and urbanization are challenged by resilience of the natural world.

Anti-Oxidant BK tonight! Wed 5/20

2009-05-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

Anti-Oxidant BK

Wednesday / May 20 / 10pm / Free

the Den @ Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff Ave
Bushwick, Brooklyn

Jefferson stop on the L train

Tonight's theme is "You the Narrator." Come out tonight to view works from Angela S. Beallor, Rebecca (Marks) Leopold, Christina Medina, Jake Selvidio, and Hyla Skopitz.

REBECCA (MARKS) LEOPOLD
rebeccaleopold.com
In Addition / 2008
Layering image, text and sound, In Addition is an exploration of the simple truth that the word “you” houses multiple definitions throughout a day or over a lifetime. Just as we do away with obsolete machines, we too lose those individuals, ideas, places and identities we once defined in relation to our lives. This work is an example of the artist’s ongoing practice of documenting isolated domestic performances in order to elucidate the ways in which technology influences and has the capacity to reveal our own psychic spaces. Throughout her work, the act of writing is consistently juxtaposed with various self-reflexive camera techniques and constructed technical errors, making reference to the current speed of communication while focusing on the entropic and corporeal aspects of every day life.

Rebecca (Marks) Leopold was born in a suburb, found time in the country and now lives and works in New York City & Philadelphia. A double graduate of Bard College she received her MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies in 2008. She has exhibited work in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey as well as others. Most of her time is spent crafting pixels into seconds and sentences.

ANGELA S. BEALLOR
angelabeallor.com
Conversation / 2007
The documentary filmmaker is invested in this family’s life but always at an insurmountable distance. She speaks to her friend of her concern and ambivalence. The friend who listens in return expresses interest and concern. In the end, she is not sure what to do with this information. Michael Bernard-Donals writes, “Testimonial narratives do not disclose history; instead they disclose— where the narrative most clearly shows the seams— the effect of events on witnesses.” The subtitles of the video capture not only the words as they are said but too the pauses, hesitations, and silences.

Angela Beallor has a BS in photo-illustration from Kent State University and an MFA in advanced photography from Bard-ICP. Her work often involves appropriated images and objects, photography, video, and writing. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn

CHRISTINA MEDINA
youwereinmydreamslastnightbaby.com
Daydreams / 2007
It began as a childhood daydream. Then one sticky summer’s night I woke up and I realized it came true. These are the explorations of my own private surrealistic Cult of Domesticity. No makeup, no shoes, in the kitchen, a stove, a spoon, and Pace Picante Sauce.

Armed with a ten-year-old's imagination, I am dreamer by nature and prefer to wonder what the world would be like upside down. My motivation is derived from an examination of my own childhood memories, longings, aspirations, and beliefs. I would like to wake the dormant dreams we left behind with our dolls and toy cars. Teetering between a need for financial security and living a life of adventurous exploration of my heart’s desires, I remain a believer in truth, beauty, but most importantly LOVE.

JAKE SELVIDIO
selvidio.com
Poppy & Grandma / 2008
After nearly forty years of marriage, my grandfather, Poppy, left my grandmother to be with his long-time girlfriend. Sixteen years later, and just a week after Poppy's girlfriend's passing, I interviewed each of my grandparents separately and asked them to recount their stories of meeting each other, falling in love, and eventually going their separate ways.

I have been making short, documentary-style videos for five years. They have become a collective autobiography that encompasses my friends, family and past relationships. I studied photography and video at Pratt Institute, where I received my MFA.

HYLA SKOPITZ
skopitz.com
Bima / 2008
I spent a week with my grandmother. I sat with her on the porch every morning drinking burnt coffee and watching the birds who live in the Asian maple tree. Half blind, she listens to them sing and tells me the same stories all over again. I feel very close to her, in synch. “The tree is dying because there are too many of them,” she says. She goes inside with a sigh; the lawn is littered with saltines. I eavesdrop through the screen, she is talking to ghosts again.

Untitled (Pancakes) / 2007
The process of making pancakes, a futile attempt to relive a childhood memory that is imbued with nostalgia and sentimentality, translates into a sincere gesture as it oscillates between hilarity and sadness. Part document and part performance, the camera itself shifts between objective distance and subjective presence and explores the solitude of the artistic process and the way one negotiates the past and often tries to hold onto or pay tribute to that which has been lost.

While You Were Out / 2007
I like to think of him coming across these words, jotting them down. Leaving it for me absent-mindely. Yet, this is an artifact, the star of my archive in fact. Is it possible to create something which conveys a complete emotional state, daily life filtered through loss, without suffering from sentimentality?

Hyla Skopitz grew up with a giant papier maché hot dog on the mantle and a rubber bat hanging from the chandelier. She naturally developed an eye for detail and ironic juxtapositions. As a teenager, she began documenting the endless shelves and cubbyholes filled with miscellaneous screws
and bolts, coils of wires covered in cobwebs, and arcane gadgets in various states of disrepair that her grandfather, a child of the depression, had collected in secret basement rooms. Her photographs and videos continue to investigate familial relics, nostalgia, and sentimentality. They oscillate between diaristic and documentary, emotional and objective, the present and memory. She received her masters of fine arts at ICP-Bard. She currently works in the MET Museum Photo Studio and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her most recent photographs are featured in the next "Abe’s Penny" (Volume 1.4, June).

YOU + ART + BUSHWICK = Anti-Oxidant BK!

2009-04-13T18:57:00.000-07:00

Anti-oxidant BK
This Wednesday, April 15th /
10pm / the DEN @ Northeast
Kingdom / free :)

18 Wycoff, Bushwick, BK
Please arrive early as seating is limited

Anti-Oxidant BK will screen for one night only, a introspective mix of video works from local artists Lindsay Bennedict, Lauren Carbone, Joelle Howald, Jamie Lund, Christina Medina, Nathan Shafer, Lauren Silberman, Joy Whalen and Cecelia Zuniga.

This month's theme: Is it possible to recount history by means of memories that might possibly have been reconstructed in the mind?

Memory, perception, imagination, personal history and story telling:
We live in a world of close contact acted out through various means of communication and interrealted sharing of moments. Our experiences are not solely our own as we share events with those in our community. Do we incidentally embellish these memoirs based on an idealized collective perception and alter their existence as we tuck them away in our memory banks? What happens we when attempt to recall these memories and how accurate is our recollection?

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LAUREN CARBONE
laurencarbone.com
Hard Modeling, / 2006 / 2:00
Rosalind Krauss once told me in her essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” that no form, natural or person made, deserves less criticism (constructive or otherwise). Criticism is at the heart of our dreams, at the base of our bases. All things become possible when we barrow our neighbor’s critical eye and give it back just as we found it.        

The Wild, / 2009 / 1:00
Imagine the Art World without white, male artists. Don’t wish it. Just imagine.  

Born in La Jolla, CA, multimedia artist Lauren Carbone has been a competitive figure skater, a sorority sister, an Art instructor, an NFL cheerleader, a wood shop technician, and a personal assistant to the director of Trade at the New York Mercantile Exchange. It is this eclectic background that draws Carbone to personal narratives, universal experiences, and the art of storytelling. She earned her M.F.A. in Sculpture and New Media at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, and also studied at the Rome campus. She holds a B.A. in Art Studio from the University of California, Davis. Recent group exhibitions include Juried Show at Collision Machine, Brooklyn NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Workin' it Out, The Laundromat, Brooklyn NY, Jillian Baba, Jillian Baba Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Success, The Barber Shop Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Carbone lives and works from Envirolution headquarters in Reno, NV and the Lower East Side. She dreams of one day designing and producing her own lingerie line from recycled clothing.

JAMIE LUND
jamieklund.com
Arriving For a Crowd / 2008 / 2:47
The piece that I submit pertains to a cultural memory, in this case a memory of celebrity. The idea of celebrity is reconstructed in the mind of everyone over time. Currently, I believe that celebrity fits into an expectation of visual cues. In this video I fulfilled that expectation by renting a tinted Escalade, creating an anticipation by parking in front of the crowd at Fashion Week, dressing to the nines and walking through the paparazzi. I repeated this within the same hour to see their reaction again and in turn testing their memory of me and the idea of celebrity.

I received my MFA in photography from Bard College last year.
When not working, I'm always on the look out for the perfect bratwurst - yet to be found.

NATHAN SHAFER
nathanshafer.org
Domestic Blend / 2008 / 2:23
Domestic Blend is a performative action taken from Chuck Palahniuk's novel Diary, where an art student's project about feminine domesticity is described as a young lady pouring wet concrete into a blender and letting the blender go until the motor blew out.

Born Provo, UT. Raised in Anchorage, AK. Finished MFA at Rutgers.
Part of the project I have been working on with the Novel Pieces was the idea of artwork that only exists in our minds (when fictional artworks are described in novels) and the disconnect that happens when we attempt to recreate those fictional projects. Most projects end up feeling like bad screen adaptations that never really live up to the stories in the book. When we read a description of an artwork, we automatically recreate it in our mind's, where reality and fantasy can build together.

LINDSAY BENEDICT
http://studio.berkeley.edu/atclab/lectures/audio.htm
turn back (home)
Super 8 and digital stills / 2006 / 4:30
This work was conceived during a time when pushing into an unknown future was more vital than turning back to a past that was not available or only imagined. Through documentation of a loved one, I was able to realize my alienation through her physical surroundings.

Through film, performance, and various media Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. In her work, affect and raw emotion are often deployed to disrupt and destabilize any simple reading of human connections. A wide ranging temporality, from more deliberate and slowly conceived films and sewn texts to the more immediately gestural drawings allow a dense layering of material and narrative to unravel and intertwine simultaneously.

Her work is on view in Chelsea right now (until April 18th!!) at Bose Pacia in a group show entitled 'On Certainty.'

JOELLE HOWARD
joellehowald.com
Tortured Head / 2008 / 3:00
While in school I felt a certain kinship to the subjects in Theodore Gericault's painted studies of torture victims. I wanted to highlight the temporary madness that an artist inclined toward participatory art might feel in a Conservatory for Painting.

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Had a brief stint as a hopeful child, traveled a bit here, there and here again. Fell boundlessly in love with most things, was horribly crushed by just a few and now I spend the days caring for and feeding the local flora and fauna and making art.

CHRISTINA MEDINA
christinamedina.com
For My Muse / 2007 / 3:00 (looped twice)
This is the moment when you suddenly relate to the adults in your family and realize that what you thought was perfect was actually full of flaws and beautiful.

With a ten-year-old's imagination, I am dreamer by nature and prefer to wonder what the world would be like upside down. My motivation is derived from an examination of my own childhood desires, aspirations and beliefs. I would like to wake the dormant dreams we left behind with our dolls and toy cars. Teetering between a need for financial security and living a life of adventurous exploration of my heart’s desires, I remain a beliver in truth, beauty and most importantly LOVE.

you + dreams + love = !!!!!!

CECELIA ZUNIGA
saracecelia.com/ver2.0
Seeing Red / 2009 / 1:34
Contrary to the belief that this video is about menstruation and fertility, it’s actually about anger as a visual metaphors.

Cecelia is originally from the Land of enchantment, growing up in Albuquerque, Guadalajara and Kansas City. She recently transplanted to Brooklyn, to continue growing up and to attend the M.A. Gallatin program at NYU.

JOY WHALEN
joywhalen.blogspot.com
All the Bravery We Have in All the World / 2009 / 3:44
In a small cardboard box a not so small lady can fit, or at least try to. Is it worth it? Sure it is. The box is comforting, warm, one can make a cozy world within: but it takes significant bravery to realize there is more, to try and extend beyond the spaces where we are told to reside.

Receiving her BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2005 and MFA from Pratt Institute in 2007, Joy’s practice involves a combination of drawing, performance and video. Much of this work involves environmental depictions of a nether land, which fluctuates in a space caught within the tensions of a preceding and ensuing state of change, where industrial overthrow and urbanization are challenged by resilience of the natural world.

LAUREN SILBERMAN
laurendarling.com
Fancy / 2009 / 4:28

Lauren Silberman received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Bard College and currently resides in Brooklyn. She is a visiting scholar at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and is the recipient of awards from PDN. She has performed at Location One and Deitch Projects, as well as in the several underground events and venues that have provided inspiration for her work. She is a founder of the performance group Fakework and she utilizes photography, video, performance, and objects in her work.

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Anti-Oxidant BK is a video salon hosted and curated by Bushwick artist, Christina Medina, me, held monthly in the Den at Northeast Kingdom located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Anti-Oxidant was created with artistic freedom of expression in mind without the pressure of creating something 'sellable.' Upon arriving in New York nearly two years ago, I, forget this third person thing, felt a need to share and explore the varied concepts of art, music, and performance. Anti-Oxidant BK was born out of a rebellion to the commercial art that prevails in much of the city. This is not a negative jab at the conventional art world, for as artists we would love to get paid to make art and give up the day/night jobs. With the mainstream so must exist a thriving experimental colorful world free to express itself.

Anti-Oxidant BK tonight!

2009-02-11T08:43:00.000-08:00

Hello lovelies!

So I'm seriously sick but the show must go on!

Please join me tonight in my antibiotic/drugged up state for a night of videos and experimental films.

Same time (10pm) same place (the Den at Northeast Kingdom - 18 Wycoff, Bushwick, BK).

See you tonight!

:D Christina

Anti-Oxidant Video Salon

2009-01-11T17:41:00.000-08:00

THIS MONDAY NIGHT
JANUARY 12 @ 10 PM

ARRIVE EARLY--SEATING IS LIMITED

The Den at Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff Ave., Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Free :)

Anti-Oxidant BK is pleased to present music video works from Fritz Donnelly, Drew and the Medicinal Pen, Matthew Dunehoo, A/D, Ryan Power, Worm Carnevale, and Greg Eggbeen.

Come EARLY for dinner and drinks!

Then head downstairs to the Den for a music video version of the salon followed by a special acoustic performance from Drew and The Medicinal Pen.

Fritz Donnelly

Fritz Donnelly is a "film guerilla auteur" (Black Book Magazine). His films expound "Financial Advice" and squirm through "Awkward Social Situations." He started on public access with a weekly "To the Hills" show. He sold 3,000 DVDs of his first compilation of shorts on the streets of New York. He has been featured on cable TV, shown in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, at Anthology Film Archives, and text-messaged into outdoor cinemas. With Christina Ewald he runs hichristina.com a space for self-expression. His films about hustlers, dreamers, and people like you and me are at tothehills.com. Fritz also speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Drew and the Medicinal Pen
http://www.myspace.com/drewandthemedicinalpen
Drew is a day-dreamer and late-sleeper. He is a doodler and entrepreneur. He also makes music, lots of music: cigarette-butts-in-Chinese-food, insomniac, vodka-breathe, bedroom-pop music. Late at night, he draws graffiti of dead TV's. He is scrappy and young, and moved to NYC from Philadelphia. He currently resides in Bed-Stuy where he plays shows regularly and survives on a diet of tuna and spaghetti.

Matthew Dunehoo
Matthew is from Kansas City, where he graduated from high school with love for music and theater. He studied journalism at the University of Kansas, and toured the country with rock and roll bands. Matthew moved to New York, New Year’s 2007 and put together a band called Baby Teardrops which just kind of broke up, but he’s going to press on, by George.

A/D
http://www.myspace.com/activistsdictators

Ryan Power
www.myspace.com/ryanajjdpower

Worm Carnevale
http://www.wormc.com/portfolio.php
Photographer, filmmaker, and artist, Worm Carnevale, is highly regarded for his breathtaking and eye catching photographs, films, and works of art. Worm specializes in fashion, beauty, fine art, and advertising photography. His photography is best known for its extreme use of color and overly exaggerated and dream-like themes, while his films are considered to be underground cinematic pieces of art.

Greg Eggbeen
Greg is a Midwestern transplant who kept busy booking films and DIY bands in Iowa City before moving to New York to take a job on a documentary. He is currently an assistant editor for VBS.TV and is doing his next music video for the NYC band International Shades. His goal is to synthesize his love for film and music into one big sloppy Joe of deliciousness.

ANTI-OXIDANT MIX TAPE SALON

2008-12-30T10:17:00.000-08:00

SEEKING VIDEO SUBMISSIONS FOR UPCOMING SHOWS!

January's salon is all about music. I like to refer to it my little mix-tape version of video art.

So if you have music videos, interviews, and/or music performances then please send them my way.

Please write me for more information or email your url link to:

antioxidantbk@gmail.com

Or mail your DVD submissions to:

Anti-Oxidant BK
476 Jefferson St., #313
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Cheers!
Christina Medina

2008-11-05T17:09:00.000-08:00

Anti-Oxidant Video Salon
Wednesday, November 12 @ 10 PM

ARRIVE EARLY--SEATING IS LIMITED

The Lounge at Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff Ave., Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Free :)

Anti-Oxidant BK is pleased to present video works from Lauren Carbone, Fritz Donnelly, Miss Alyssa Taylor Wendt, Lindsay Benedict, and Ann Oren.

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Lauren Carbone

Born in La Jolla, CA, multimedia artist Lauren Carbone has been a competitive figure skater, a sorority sister, an Art instructor, an NFL cheerleader, a wood shop technician, and a personal assistant to the director of Trade at the New York Mercantile Exchange. It is this eclectic background that draws Carbone to personal narratives, universal experiences, and the art of storytelling. She earned her M.F.A. in Sculpture and New Media at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, and also studied at the Rome campus. She holds a B.A. in Art Studio from the University of California, Davis. Recent group exhibitions include Juried Show at Collision Machine, Brooklyn NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Workin' it Out, The Laundromat, Brooklyn NY, Jillian Baba, Jillian Baba Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Success, The Barber Shop Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Carbone lives and works from Envirolution headquarters in Reno, NV and the Lower East Side. She dreams of one day designing and producing her own lingerie line from recycled clothing.

Fritz Donnelly

Fritz Donnelly is a "film guerilla auteur" (Black Book Magazine). His films expound "Financial Advice" and squirm through "Awkward Social Situations." He started on public access with a weekly "To the Hills" show. He sold 3,000 DVDs of his first compilation of shorts on the streets of New York. He has been featured on cable TV, shown in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, at Anthology Film Archives, and text-messaged into outdoor cinemas. With Christina Ewald he runs hichristina.com a space for self-expression. His films about hustlers, dreamers, and people like you and me are at tothehills.com. Fritz also speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Miss Alyssa Taylor Wendt

A.T. Wendt was born to latent beatniks in 1969 in New York City and saw spirits in her childhood. She has been putting her will into the world ever since and has performed on record, in films, on stages and as art. After nomadic formative years in Phoenix and San Francisco and New York, Miss Wendt has returned to the fold to earn her MFA from Bard College. Currently residing and working in Brooklyn, she concocts installations and multimedia pieces that speak about convergent energies using film, large format staged photography, sculpture, videos and performances. She enjoys fraternal memorabilia, tap dancing, bees and believers.

Lindsay Benedict

Working in film, sound, performance, sewn text and photographic essay, Lindsay Benedict collects the unheard, silenced voice. Her work, often emotionally raw, resists a traditional narrative and sometimes is presented as a fragment or gesture. She spent the last 7 years in Oakland before moving to New York to attend the Whitney Independent Studio program. Her films have screened at New Langton Arts and the Pacific Film Archive in the Bay Area. She got her MFA degree from UC Berkeley in 2007. Here now a year, Lindsay lives in Bushwick.

Ann Oren

Ann Oren is a filmmaker and video installation artist. Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, she received her BFA in film and her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts In New York. Film festivals include: "Festival du Cinema de Paris", Paris, France, "The New York independent international film & video festival" New York, "The Pink Cow" Tokyo, Japan, "Chashama Film Festival" New York. Exhibitions include "Freewaves" The Hammer Museum, LA, "View From Here" PS122 Gallery, New York and "Come out & play" APEXART, New York. Oren is a grant recipient from The Visual Arts Fund, The School of Visual Arts, The Jerome Foundation and the National Board of Reviews New York. Oren is currently developing several video installations for a play "IN SECURITY", to be presented at 3LD in New York City during April/May of 2009. Please visit www.annoren.com

ANTI-OXIDANT BK 2NITE!

2008-10-08T12:11:00.000-07:00

ANTI-OXIDANT BK
TONIGHT 10 PM FREE
ARRIVE EARLY--SEATING IS LIMITED
The Lounge at Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff Ave., Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
718.386.3864

ANTI-OXIDANT BK IS PLEASE TO PRESENT VIDEO AND FILM WORKS FROM SHANNA MAURIZI, LINDSAY BENEDICT, SEYHAN MUSAOGLU & JESS RAMSAY

Come early for dinner and drinks. The food is amazing and the staff is fantastic! Then head downstairs to the Lounge for an evening of video art and experimental film.

SHANNA MAURIZI

Shanna Maurizi has been making experimental films and installations that explore site and landscape since 1990. Her films have been screened at Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, CitySpace, Documental Film Series, Rotterdam Kunsthal, and reviewed by Manohla Dargis at the LA Weekly. Most recently she has been included in the program for Video in the Built Environment in London, The Archive Project at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, and the Tank and Ocularis in New York. Currently she lives and works in Brooklyn making films, photographs, and myriad ambitious underfunded projects. www.perpetualartmachine.com

LINDSAY BENEDICT

Working in film, sound, performance, sewn text and photographic essay, Lindsay Benedict collects the unheard, silenced voice. Her work, often emotionally raw, resists a traditional narrative and sometimes is presented as a fragment or gesture. She spent the last 7 years in Oakland before moving to New York to attend the Whitney Independent Studio program. Her films have screened at New Langton Arts and the Pacific Film Archive in the Bay Area. She got her MFA degree from UC Berkeley in 2007. Here now a year, Lindsay lives in Bushwick.

She does not have a website because she tries to limit her internet presence, but her subjectively edited collection of lectures can be found on her 'Lectures With Lindsay' website: http://studio.berkeley.edu/atclab/lectures/audio.htm

CHRISTOPHER CONRY

Christopher Conry was born in Brooklyn and raised in Burlington, Vermont. After a lifelong interest in drawing, painting, photography, film, and theatre, he decided to go to art school to pursue his passions. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Film and Video Production from Emerson College's School of Visual and Media Arts in Boston, MA. Christopher is a Development Associate at Raw Media, a Manhattan based production company – developing concepts and producing documentaries, television shows, and online media. Christopher also exhibits his photographs, drawings, and collages in galleries in New York and New England. Interests include: bridge, croquet, ennui, and brittle cocktail chatter. He will be survived by no children. christopher.conry@gmail.com, christopher@rawmedianet.com, www.facebook.com/christopher.conry

SEYHAN MUSAOGLU & JESS RAMSAY

Seyhan Musaoglu and Jess Ramsay are visual artists living and working in Brooklyn, New York. They are part of a collaborative project, MeKaniKdolls in which they utilize spaces to create interactive visuals and soundscapes in multimedia performances. They continuously use their Super 8, 8mm, and 16mm experimental films, with industrial sounds of their poetics in the multi-media performances. www.myspace.com/mekanikdolls

Video Art+Experimental Film+YOU=Anti-Oxidant

2008-09-10T11:21:00.000-07:00

Come out to the the Bush for a night of video art and experimental film.

The Lounge at Northeast Kingdom
18 Wycoff Ave
Bushwick, Brooklyn
10pm
FREE

Seating is limited so arrive early for dinner.

See you there!

:D Christina

SEEKING VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

2008-08-16T12:15:00.000-07:00

Seeking video submissions for an ongoing monthly video salon held in the Lounge at Northeast Kingdom.

The subject matter is entirely open. The only requirement is that videos remain under 10 minutes and are submitted individually in DVD format, i.e. please create a separate DVD for each video entry.

This is a monthly residency at The Kingdom so therefore I've set no specific deadlines at the moment. However, I encourage you to submit your work as early as possible so it may be incorporated into the appropriate show.

Please mail all submissions to:

Anti-Oxidant BK
476 Jefferson St., #313
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Attn: Christina Medina

Questions? Need to connect? Want to be on the mailing list?

Email: AntiOxidantBK@gmail.com
Phone: 646.436.6231

I look forward to receiving your submissions.

:D
Cheers!
Christina

THANK YOU!

2008-08-16T08:45:00.000-07:00

Just want to give a huge THANKS to everyone that attended the first ever Anti-Oxidant video salon at Northeast Kingdom. It was a fantastic turnout and I had a blast. Also a HUGE HUGE THANK YOU THANK YOU to all of the artists that submitted their work. I've received nothing but positive feedback regarding the show and am eagerly anticipating the next salon in September.

Remember this is a monthly residency. Shows are always free and everyone is welcome to attend. One suggestion is to arrive early, have a fantastic dinner, maybe get a drink before heading downstairs, then relax and enjoy the show. I'm always up feedback; so if you have ideas, comments, want to be added to the mailing list, or would like to get involved-shoot me an email.

AntiOxidantBK@gmail.com

:-)

Artists Selected!!!!

2008-07-31T11:13:00.000-07:00

Anti-Oxidant Video Salon will exhibit for one night only, a fresh mix of video works from local artists Blair Dowd, Drew and the Medicinal Pen, Ianthe Jackson, Christina Medina, Helena Petersen, Lauren Silberman, Alexa Hoyer, Kevin Vale, and Unisex Youth Helmet.

The pace of our city may appear fast and chaotic to some; however, if we take a moment to absorb it, analyze it, and find our place in it, something magical occurs. We begin to see the music that surrounds our world and the movement that is toe tapping it's way into our life's breath. It is here that we begin to find our place in this vast metropolis we call home. Each video artist adds their own definition of this rhythm to a broad collective while their individual styles appear in a harmonious contrast. The artists' individual expressions range from surrealistic dreamworlds to full on music video, while each piece shares the conceptual undertones of movement through music is its most broad sense.

Anti-Oxidant is a video salon hosted and curated by local video artist, Christina Medina; held monthly in the Lounge at Northeast Kingdom located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Anti-Oxidant was created with artistic freedom of expression in mind without the pressure of creating something 'sellable'. Upon arriving in New York a year ago, Christina felt a need to question the the boundaries of visual art, music, and performance. Anti-Oxidant was born out of a rebellion to the commercial art world that prevails in much of the city. This is not a negative jab at the commercial art world, for as artists we would love to get paid to make art and give up the day/night jobs; with the mainstream so must exist a thriving experimental colorful world free to express itself.

Thank you!

2008-07-22T14:46:00.000-07:00

Hey there!

Just want to send a huge thank you to everyone that submitted work! I'm so excited for the big night and also each show to follow. Please keep your submissions and questions coming as there will be a monthly show in the Lounge at Northeast Kingdom. Also keep in mind the launch of the DVDzine in October. It will be a great night! More info to come soon!

xxoo Christina
antioxidantBK@gmail.com

p.s. I'm attaching a super fantastic photo I found. Just thought I would share!

Wednesday, August 6th: Anti-Oxidant Begins 10PM

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Who: Me, You, Us, and Them

What: Anti-Oxidant Video Salon

Where: The Lounge at Northeast Kingdom, 18 Wycoff Ave., Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

When: Wednesday, August 6th at 10pm

Why: Because you still believe art can change the world.

Exit Jefferson Street off the L train. Walk 1 block East to the intersection of Troutman and Wycoff. Northeast Kingdom is on the corner.

See you there!

antioxidantBK@gmail.com

Seeking Video Submissions

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Anti-Oxidant: Music and Art from Bushwick, BK

Seeking video submissions for a monthly video salon at Northeast Kingdom.

DETAILS FOR AUGUST 6TH VIDEO SALON SUBMISSIONS:

This month's subject is movement through music in any sense or interpretation.

This may be communicated via video artwork, through video interviews with local artists, writers, musicians, or recorded performances.

Please keep the video under 10 minutes, format as a DVD, include the title, your name, and contact info (email and phone number). Also, be sure to include a statement with a little bit of info about yourself as well as the concept behind the work.

DEADLINE FOR VIDEO SALON SUBMISSIONS:

MONDAY, JULY 21st 9PM.

Please mail to:

Anti-Oxidant

Attn: Christina Medina

476 Jefferson St., #313

Brooklyn, NY 11237

Email me at AntioxidantBK@gmail with any questions or if you would like to drop off your submission.