THE LAST AMERICAN ICON
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THE LAST AMERICAN ICON: July 6th - 11th @ Queen's Nails Annex
Home detention surveillance, fellow elders, post-911 human rights, poetic releases, internal interrogations, rare possibilities and shoe gazing surface for the Queen's Nails Annex Performance Series, The Professionals, with an exhibition, nightly events and a forthcoming book.

The exhibition highlights Performance Art Direct and the hemp canvas uniforms used exclusively in the project's four year period by the artist emael. Shown for the first time as a collection since the project's culmination on January 20, 2006, these uniforms will be accompanied by photographs, video, objects and legal documents that attempt to contextualize their place in the art world.

A performance festival revolves around a voluntary house arrest titled "(IN)BOUND: A Pop! Meditation on Life, Art and the Patriot Act."  In this re-presentation of the work, emael will live in the gallery and host nightly performances by incredible Bay Area Artists for the length of the show.

This week at Queen's Nails Annex is not to be missed.

VISUAL WORK by: Jaime X. Cortez, Ted Jocson, Eduardo Luna, Dolissa Medina, Juanita MORE!, Diego J. Pacheco, Julia Reodica, Manuel Trujillo, Moriah Ulinskas, Susana Valdez, and Marilyn Yu.

RECEPTION
Friday, July 6th: from 8-11 pm,
with DJs Trilce & Kinetic, a special blessing by MamaCoAtl and a molecular (re)configuration by Caleb Duarte.

Queens Nail's Annex
3191 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 648 4564


Radio-signal anklet and home detention surveillance kindly facilitated by Alfredo Pedroza of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services and the San Francisco Sheriff's Department.


P E R F O R M A N C E * S C H E D U L E
Doors open nightly at 7PM with performances starting at 8PM. Doors close at 11PM.

Saturday, July 7th
"A Visit by the Elders from the Dimension of IS"


As part of emael's retrospective, fellow elders (artists from (a)eromestiza and SpaceSuperStar) from the Dimension of IS will visit with the artist, who was also an elder from the Dimension of IS in a previous incarnation.  They will sit and vibe with each other, perhaps engage in minor calisthenics, and join in communicine - a remnant ritual from MUVE, another previous work in which emael so beautifully collaborated with (a)eromestiza and SpaceSuperStar.  The creatures will visit with the artist at some point during the hours of 8 and 9pm.  For more information on MUVE and Dimension of IS, visit devilbunny.org.


Sunday, July 8th
Performance by Priya D. Mohan; accompanied by Musicians Randi Freemire and Freedom Bean.

Finding Human Connection in a Post-9/11 World- A Modern Song of Hope.
Join us for a soulful journey into the world of a Post-9/11 human rights lawyer, exploring the tension in reconciling violations through non-violent advocacy and compassion. In the face of seeing suffering through the eyes of another, Priya finds grounding and inspiration in breath, solitude and surrender. Over the years, creative expression has become an essential mechanism for recovery, revitalization and hope.  In gratitude, she shares her stories as we build strength, and celebrate as a community.

Monday, July 9th
UNBINDINGS: a poetic release.
 
Energy swirls around creating realities thought out by the human mind, realities of joy and pain, energy does not discriminate. Humanity has collectively imagined this dream we see as hard reality impossible to change, however it all is nothing but invisible threads of emotion and thought.  How does the Urban Shaman unthink or dissolve the energetic shackles that keep us in prison?  Physical, legal, cultural, religious, economic...?

Lets journey together into the realm of PERFORMAGIC and create the space for UNBINDINGS: A poetic release in the name of all those in prison in California, come and get a healing, hold whole hearted space for a clearing of cosmic magnitude.  If one light worker is capable of transforming the energy of ¾ of a million people who are unconscious, how many can we do if we were 20 hearts holding the intention?

This work is a collaboration between 5 San Francisco  healers of different traditions.

Jorge Molina, a Native Peruvian Ritualist who incorporates ceremonial sounds and prayers from Indigenous wisdom throughout the Americas.
Marja West, from the Philippines, she is Mother of Absolute Balance Mastery, a cutting edge modality of energy work that efficiently unplugs the human body from artificial realities.
Maria Conlon,  born in Canada, Maria is an eclectic healer, who works with ABM and the power of Stones, Angels and Ancestral guides.
Luis Vazquez, a Native Colombian, is a reiki master and works a Shamanic lineage with sound and sacred smoke.


Curated by MamaCoAtl,
Border Crossing Provocateur, she loves curing alternate realities into existence by the power of her wall collapsing Huarache.

Tuesday, July 10th
Eulipia Presents Internal Interrogations.

Eulipia explores alternative spaces within the diasporic spectrum through performance, sound, and sight. With a focus on lo-tech, neo-primitive/paleo-sophisticate, and invention outside the realms of conventional and mainstream expression, Eulipia becomes a destination for avant garde artists who revel in the collision of past, present and future, steel and wood, circuitry and artery, howl and song.
Featuring: Tan Khanh Cao, D.Scot Miller & Walter Kitundu.

Kitundu is a, sound/visual artist, graphic designer, composer and instrument builder. He uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop compositions-installations-instruments that blur the boundaries between media. He has constructed elemental turntables that rely on wood, water, fire and earthquakes for their power and pitch. Kitundu is the creator of a family of Phonoharps, beautifully crafted multi-stringed instruments made from record players. He strives to reconnect the technology of new music to fundamental principles drawn from the natural world.

Tan Khanh Cao:
Gia Dinh province
40 miles inland
northwest of Saigon
birthplace of my father's father
the red earth there is good
for growing pine trees and coffee plants
Willing to be care-full and present.
I paint.

D. Scot Miller:
Writer, artist, teacher, founder of The BlackBard Writing Collective, and a Director of the Board for noctunes returns celebrates recent publication of an excerpt from his afro-surreal novel, Knot Frum Hear, and inclusion in the  Bronx Biannual Two. He presently is completing Slicker, a forthcoming book of poems.

Wednesday, July 11th
David Molina of Los Veneremos.


Combining elements of shoe gaze, slo-core, ambient, dream pop, space blues, and noise.  Los Veneremos weave together cinematic textures, sound scapes, and lyrics which tell stories of pain, betrayal, self destruction, but with a faint glimmer of hope and revelation.  Their sound brings to mind artists like Slow Dive, Swans, Calla, His Name Is Alive, Black Heart Procession, Angelo Badlamento, Brian Eno, Franklin Delano, Lisa Germano, Duster, & Gustavo Santaolalla.