“NOW” offers a unique installation experience, casting a sacred and mystical space within six monitors and four projections, including a projection on a pool of water! Coming to the rescue to provide a path through the madness are two over the top, comical, Goddess-like characters who animate “NOW”. The high fashion Valkyrie, medicine woman, Perspicacious and the skeptical, sarcastic haute Goth, Catharsis. Shot in stunning natural landscapes, these two characters are often at odds, yet aligned in their mission to inform, entertain and guide the audience through steps for personal transformation.
“NOW” explores the nexus between technology, the natural world and humanity. It incorporates the idea that the writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell discussed, about an emerging global mythology. It expands upon this concept to include the emergence of a global mysticism, tying ancient practices to modern quantum physics and recent discoveries by DNA scientists.“NOW” embraces the concept that the microcosm affects the macrocosm, and so as we clean up our own internal environment we are also remedying the external one.
"NOW" proposes that each of us matter individually, and together - we are a force!
“NOW” will premiere at SF Camerawork in February 2018; before being exhibited at other venues around the world.
THE ARTISTS
Monet Clark is a performance and video artist. She received her BFA from SFAI and also minored in Holistic Heath at the pioneering department at SFSU. She has trained in mind/body medicine, intuitive and energetic healing, and herbal and vibrational medicine. Her works have exhibited at The Kitchen in NYC; WP8, Dusseldorf, DE; SFMOMA; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; Krowswork Gallery, Oakland; RETHink Art Digital Festival, Rethymnon, GR; Rapid Pulse, International Performance Art Festival, Chicago; and more. Her recent video “Bunny Girl” (2016), which has shown internationally including with AVIFF Art Film Festival, Cannes, FR uses wry humor to tie environmental degradation to the suppression of the feminine, offering hope for humankind - in high heels.
Watch the Trailer for Monet Clark's "Bunny Girl"
John Sanborn is an award-winning media artist whose work has been shown at every major museum in the world, and broadcast worldwide. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MOMA, and the Kitchen in New York; the ICA and Tate Modern in London; and the Centre Pompidou, Videoformes, Bandits Mages and Gallery de L’Angle in France. He has created broadcast work for PBS (“Alive TV”, “Great Performances” and “Sesame Street”), Comedy Central (“Frank Leaves for the Orient”) and His feature length media works have played at major international festivals including the Tribeca, Sundance, Mill Valley, Rotterdam, New York and London film festivals. He was an artist-in-residence at the celebrated TV Lab at WNET/13 and received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Vogue magazine called him “the acknowledged genius in the field”.
Watch the trailer for John Sanborn's "The Temptation of St. Anthony"
WHAT WE NEED TO SUCCEED
In order to create “NOW” we are seeking $12,000 to produce the video and install it at SF Camerawork in February 2018. SF Camerawork is also raising funds and only through our combined efforts we can make “NOW” a reality.
Productions costs include:
- The creation of costumes for the two main characters. Monet’s practice includes building striking, wryly humorous characters through fashion pieces that provide ironic commentary.
- We need to shoot on location, not a big budget with a huge crew, but travel is involved as the natural landscape is part of the overall message of the piece.
- Renting a drone camera to shoot sweeping landscapes around California.
- Shooting in Sanborn’s studio with a high speed camera, to capture movement and gestures that bring the ritual visually to life.
- We need to hire 4 dancers and rehearse them to play the spirits of change in the work and we need to pay for their contributions.
- We need to edit the piece, which involves animation and layering images, creating a mixture of spiritual and cultural references that represent the global mystic and mythological melting pot.
Installation costs include:
- Renting monitors and projectors
- Building frameworks for the installation, which includes a site for projecting on water
Every dollar you contribute will go into the work you will get to see and participate in once it’s installed at SF Camerawork – it’s an offering from us to the world and to you.
WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR SUPPORT
We have unique and personal perks at varying levels of contribution. Its our way to thank you, and to get you involved in the work, just as the piece itself will invite involvement from the audience.
Each perk involves you in the creation of a new media artwork, which is directed at personal transformation in order to transform our global environment and global conditions. We feel passionately that people should support this work and that their support be returned via thanks and gifts.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
With your help we are going to create something unique and amazing. If you can contribute, that’s wonderful - and if you can help by simply spreading the word about this project, and getting your community to pitch in and/or making sure everyone you know comes to see the exhibition at SF Camerawork, those are all wonderful ways to help as well.
Thank You,
Monet Clark and John Sanborn
