Third Root presents
Landscapes and Portraits
video art installation by Isaac Ontiveros
with live sound art by Danishta Rivero and Ken Lyon
Saturday April 10th, 2010
Oakland, CA
8:00pm
Flux 53 Theater (Foothill & 53rd)
5306 Foothill Blvd. Oakland, California 94601
In Isaac Ontiveros’s premiere video installation, “Landscapes and Portraits”, he presents his work created over the past 5 years. Ontiveros’ pieces struggle with the very idea of a single portrait or landscape, to push against the way we are taught to allow them to exist as sedentary, and singular when in fact they are sometimes concrete, linear, sometimes abstract, fractured, sometimes lilting, frightening, and at times romanticized. Isaac’s video pieces articulate the multiple ways we can and do engage with the historical and current imagery surrounding us. These pieces think both broadly and intimately about the people and environments that we live in, the landscapes and portraits of our childhood, of land and our relationship to land, of our work and workplaces, of our loved ones and those we’ve lost, of cultural memory and expression, of political struggle. Ontiveros utilizes both current and historical footage (found pieces as well as original video) as a way to think about the blossomings and locomotives of history, the memories of others that have been entrusted to us, and to illustrate the struggle to capture these moving landscapes and portraits in the multiple ways they live in and move through our own imaginations.
The show will finish with a performance segment, “Tres Fábricas”, featuring live sound art composed specifically for three of Isaac’s video works. This section will feature accompanying work of musicians and sound artists Danishta Rivero and Ken Lyon.
What:
Third Root presents
Landscapes and Portraits
video art installation by Isaac Ontiveros
with live sound art by Danishta Rivero and Ken Lyon
Where:
Flux 53 Theater (Foothill & 53rd)
5306 Foothill Blvd. Oakland, California 94601
When
April 10, 2010 8pm-11pm
Tickets
$5-15 sliding scale at the door
About the Artist
Isaac Ontiveros (ARTIST) has lived and worked in the Bay Area for the past nine years. A life-long multimedia artist, he currently spends much of his time as production coordinator at the StoryTelling & Organizing Project of Creative Interventions—a community-based organization that helps other organizations, families, and individuals to use alternatives models of addressing violence that don’t rely on police and state agencies, to better build and learn from sustainable practices of self-determination. He has worked on many different media and documentary projects as an archivist, sound editor, videographer and video editor, supporting various organizations working for social change. Isaac also organizes with the Oakland chapter of the prison industrial complex abolitionist organization, Critical Resistance.
