Coleen Fitzgibbon

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MASSART FILM SOCIETY
presents:
COLEEN FITZGIBBON: DIARY FILMS

Wednesday November 16, 2011 8pm
FILM Dept Screening Rm 1

Artist In Person!
An evening of recently preserved short experimental film works the by New York based artist Coleen Fitzgibbon. For the past few years, Fitzgibbon has been actively preserving and screening her early Super-8 and 16mm films, many of them not screened since the mid-70’s. This program will include a selection of intimate cinematic sketches, portraits, travelogues and home movies.

PROGRAM:

Trip to Carolee, [1974/2011, Super 8mm xfr’d to digital, color, sound, 5:08 min.]

L.E.S., [1976/2011, digital, color, sound, 16:22 min.]

FM/TRCS, [1974, 16mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 11:48 min.]

Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 minutes, [1975, 16mm xfr’d to digital, b/w, sound, 10:28 min.]

Make a Movie, [1975/2011, Super 8mm xfr’d to digital, color, sound, 9:16 min.]

X Magazine Benefit, with Alan W. Moore [1978/2011, Super 8mm xfr’d to digital, b&w, sound, 11:40 min.]

Coleen Fitzgibbon is an active experimental film artist who previously worked under the pseudonym “Colen Fitzgibbon” between the years 1973-1980. A student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she studied with Owen Land (aka “George Landow”), Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, and worked on film and sound projects for Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. She formed the collaborative X&Y with Robin Winters in 1976, The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince and Winters in 1979, and is best known for co-founding the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab) in 1977 through 1981, along with forty plus artists.

Fitzgibbon has screened her work at numerous international film festivals, museums and galleries, including The Toronto International Film Festival; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Light Industry, NYC; De Appel, Amsterdam; Exit Art, NYC; Subliminal Projects Gallery, LA. Fitzgibbon currently resides in New York City and Montana.

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Screening Venue
chashama Flagship Space
217 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017

“L.E.S (Lower East Side)” by Coleen Fitzgibbon. (Super-8mm transferred to digital video).

“The story of the collapse of the problematic island of Manhattan, whose inhabitants worshiped the god of mamon, John Doe. Shot in the lower eastside of Manhattan, NYC circa 1976. Filmed on Super-8mm with sound, summer 1976, shown on videotape in 1978 on Manhattan Cable Channel D, Collaborative Projects, Inc.’s Red Curtain show.”

Screening: Sunday, November 13, 12:00PM at 217 East 42nd Street

http://www.chafilmfest.com/2011/films/time.html

Colab X Magazine Benefit still with James Chance

Colab Artist Collective Show At Printed Matter
Opening Saturday, October 15,
Showing through Nov 30, 2011

Printed Matter, Inc.
195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011
T: 212 925 0325, F: 212 925 0464

Store Hours:
Tuesday to Wednesday: 11am – 6pm
Thursday to Saturday: 11am – 7pm
Closed Sundays & Mondays

A Show about Colab (and Related Activities)
October 15 – November 30, 2011
Opening Reception Saturday, October 15, 6 – 8pm

Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce the exhibition, A Show about Colab (and Related Activities), which runs from October 15 through November 30, 2011. This overarching survey will presents a wide range of materials and artworks from various Colab activities from the late 1970’s through the mid 1980’s, including screenings of film and video works, and cable broadcasts. The exhibition also features works and material from other related groups, collectives and projects. An opening reception is scheduled at Printed Matter on Saturday, October 15th, from 6 – 8 pm. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets in Chelsea, New York City.

Formed in 1978, Collaborative Projects, Inc. – aka Colab – was initially created as a means to seek new venues for the creation and exhibition of work made through collaborative artists’ efforts. With a membership drawn mainly from New York City’s downtown artist community, Colab was able to harness recently established funding for the arts from federal and state agencies to support a myriad of artists’ projects from and for that extended community. Part collective, part platform and part agency, Colab did not have a fixed identity or function. Indeed what set it apart from most of the other art nonprofits of the time was that instead of duplicating the bureaucratic structure of corporations, Colab’s inclusiveness (meetings and memberships were open, and officers rotated annually) and nomadism (they were not tied to a specific space) engendered a decidedly anti-bureaucratic mode of operation and experience. Propelled by creative brilliance – and strong convictions and personalities alike – Collaborative Projects reflected the energy, the creativity, and the chaos of that iconic period of NYC in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

A Show About Colab (and Related Activities) is designed to serve as an homage to that experiment and experience in artistic collaborations, but one which is instructive to the current state of art and politics. Presenting a huge array of material including ephemera, posters, flyers, handbills, meeting announcements and agendas, prints, multiples, artworks, film, video and more, this exhibition will follow the various exploits of Colab as well as related artists groups and projects that either preceded or branched out from Colab.

Featured Colab projects will be X-Magazine; the Real Estate Show; The Times Square Show; the cable TV shows, All Color News, Potato Wolf and Red Curtain; and the A. More Store and Christmas Stores. And there will also be artworks, ephemera and artifacts from related and overlapping communities and projects: Send/Receive and Qwips from the Center for New Art Activities; the pre and early Colab exhibitions including the Batman Show, the Income & Wealth Show and the Manifesto Show; Fashion Moda; The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince and Winters; Just Another Asshole; Ocean Earth; the New Cinema; ABC No Rio; the Cave Girls; the Cardboard Band; Spanner; M-W-F Video, and much more. In addition there will be an array of artists’ books and publications by members of Colab.

Printed Matter also has historical ties to Colab, not only as part of the same interwoven community, but also as host to one of the A. More stores and as co-producer of Art Direct, a mail-order art initiative the two organizations collaborated on. “Printed Matter and Colab were both deeply invested in the creation of a grass roots, artist driven, alternative economy for artistic production and distribution”, notes the exhibition’s curator, Max Schumann.

Colab was incubated out of the debris of New York City’s financial collapse. This was soon followed by the election of Ronald Reagan and the beginnings of a social policy of austerity coupled with an economic policy of unfettered capitalism – all sold under the guise of a rose-hued American mythology. The artistic fervor which characterized Colab ran concurrent with the cultural shift which produced the punk, no-wave and hip-hop subcultures (Colab had a foot in all those doors). While there is a sense of political desperation and nihilism in much of the work – along with healthy doses of sarcasm and irony ­– the Colab generation (most of the artists were in their twenties) were acutely aware that the dream was a lie, and sensed that the Empire was beginning to unravel. As the historical connections of our present predicaments to that period become ever more clear, the directness and urgency of Colab’s many voices, the DIY ethic of necessity, and the carnival-like spirit of resistance and play stand as a model (or maybe better, an anti-model) for the political and cultural struggles of today.

For more information, please contact Max Schumann at (212) 925-0325 or mschumann@printedmatter.org

Here is what CinemaProject.org/ has to say about Coleen Fitzgibbon’s upcoming shows.

Cinema Project is excited to bring New York-based artist Coleen Fitzgibbon for two evenings of her recently preserved short experimental film works. For the past few years, Fitzgibbon has been actively preserving and screening her Super-8 and 16mm films, many of them not screened since the mid 1970s. Night one looks at Diary Films, intimate cinematic sketches, portraits, travelogues and home movies while night two features Micro Films, hyper-kinetic works made with a special “microfilm” camera used to photograph and preserve paper documents on a roll of 16mm film. Coleen Fitzgibbon is an active experimental film and video artist who previously worked under the pseudonym “Colen Fitzgibbon” between the years 1973-1980. Fitzgibbon has studied with Owen Land (aka “george Landow”), Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, and worked on film and sound projects for Dennis Oppenheim, gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. She is best known as a co-founder of the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab).

OCTOBER 25: DIARY FILMS

Gym by Coleen Fitzgibbon with Christa Maiwald
[1974, video, color, sound, 4 min.]
L.E.S. by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1976/2011, video, color, sound, 17 min.]
X Magazine Benefit by Coleen Fitzgibbon with Alan W. Moore
[1978/2011, video, b&w, sound, 11 min.]
Trip to Carolee by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1974/2011, video, color, sound, 6 min.]
Make a Movie by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1975/2011, video, color, sound, 9 min.]
Restoring Appearances to Order in 12 minutes by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1975, 16mm, b&w, sound, 12 min]
Found Film Flashes by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1973, 16mm, b&w, sound, 3 min.]
FM/TRCS
[1974, 16mm, color, sound, 11 min.]

OCTOBER 26: MICRO FILMS

Daily News by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1976/2011, video, color, sound, 11 min.]
Der Spiegel by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1975/2011, video, color, sound, 10 min.]
I.S. Migration by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[2010, video, color, sound, 17 min.]
Document by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1974-75, video, b&w, sound, 8 min.]
Dictionary by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1975/2011, video, color, sound, 4 min.]
Time by Coleen Fitzgibbon
[1975, 16mm, b&w, sound, 12 min.]

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November 16, 2011

Coleen Fitzgibbon’s L.E.S. will be showing here.

September 9th – Amsterdam
http://www.filmhuiscavia.nl/

10 September – Worm, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://wormweb.nl

11 September – BUTFF, Breda, The Netherlands
http://www.butff.nl/

18 September – Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.nova-cinema.org/

HEBBEL AM UFER
HALLESCHES UFER 32
10963 BERLIN

YOU GOTTA LOSE – FILMPROGRAMM MIT WERKEN VON JAMES NARES, MAGGI CARSON/ JULIUSZ KOSSAKOWSKI/RIC SHORE, MICHAEL MCCLARD, VIVIENNE DICK, COLEEN FITZGIBBON/ALAN MOORE

4. Juni / 20.00 / HAU 1

James Nares: „Ramp“ (1976), Farbe, 3 min.
Maggi Carson, Juliusz Kossakowski, Ric Shore: „Punking Out“ (1978), S/W, 25 min.
Michael McClard „Alien Portrait“ (1979), S/W, 11 min.
Vivienne Dick: „Guerillere Talks“ (1978), Farbe, 25 min.
Coleen Fitzgibbon & Alan Moore: „X Magazine Benefit“ (1978), S/W, 12 min.

THROW ME AWAY – FILMPROGRAMM MIT WERKEN VON COLEEN FITZGIBBON, TINA L’HOTSKY, ANDREA CALLARD, JOHN LURIE, JAMES NARES

4. Juni / 22.30 Uhr / HAU 1

Coleen Fitzgibbon: »L.E.S.« (1976), Farbe, 24 min.
Tina L’Hotsky: »Barbie« (1977) Schwarzweiß, 10 min.
Andrea Callard: »11 Through 12« (1977), Farbe, 11 min.
John Lurie: »Men In Orbit« (1978), Farbe, 45 min.
James Nares: »Waiting For The Wind« (1982), Farbe, 8 min.