Surabhi Saraf

Spinning Four @ SOMArts

surabhi — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:10:00 +0000

27th April – Surabhi will be performing @ SOMArts as a part of one night only Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party. The event blankets SOMArts in site-specific luminous art installations, live music and performances, digital and cinematic projections and sound sculptures by more than 50 Bay Area artists.

In addition to light and sound sculptures, projections, and ambient performances, Night Light features five experimental audio-visual performances by Mauricio Ancalmo, EA&AE ElíasAguirre&ÁlvaroEsteban, Amar Chaudhary, David Molina and Surabhi Saraf from 8:30pm to 10pm. Performances will be broadcast on SF Commons, San Francisco’s public access television station.

Ancalmo, whose performance broadcasts live in conjunction with the international Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival, offers an electronic music set incorporating the light and the amplified staccato rhythms of a dual film slide projector clicking to the next empty slide.

Chaudhary marries original electronic sounds with images inspired by the urban landscape of San Francisco. Using electronic, traditional, customized and found object instruments, musicians led by Molina perform a partially improvised soundtrack accompanying a set of etherial and abstract 16mm film loops hand-painted and processed by Anna Geyer.

Choreographed movement influences the performances of Saraf and EA&AE ElíasAguirre&ÁlvaroEsteban. Along with carefully mapped and repetitive actions, Saraf incorporates multiple projections, strobe lights, table fans and live vocals. Spanish dance duo EA&AE ElíasAguirre&ÁlvaroEsteban, presented with support from The Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain, mixes urban and contemporary dance to create a style of movement reminiscent of animal and insect life.

Exhibiting artists include:

Brendan Aanes
Mauricio Ancalmo
Luca Antonucci
killer banshee
Daniel Blomquist
Laurie Buenafe
Amar Chaudhary
Iris Charabi-Berggren
ChuCha Santamaria y Usted
Bethany Clemen
Paul Clipson
Jen Cohen
Glenna Cole Allee
EA&AE ElíasAguirre&Álvaro Esteban
Eurostache
Jordan Essoe
Linda Ford
Rob Fatal
Anna Geyer
Michael Goodier
Donald Hanson
Christopher Heston
Sonja Hinrichsen
David O. Johnson
Krisztina Lazar
Garrett Le Fevre
Geraldine Lozano
Drew Mason
Tom McGovern
Microclimate Collective
David Molina
Ranu Mukherjee
Stephen Parr/Oddballfilm
Christine M. Peterson
Christina Pierson
Radka Pulliam
Jennifer Rarick
RKDB
Yoshie Sakai
Ashley Lauren Saks
Surabhi Saraf
The Sarah Gray Research Headquarters Project
Channin Smith
Lawyer Films Inc., LLC
Phil Spitler
Thom Tamayo
Transient
Merav Tzur
Bryan Von Reuter
Doug Garth Williams
Vanessa Woods
Laura Zaylea

Night Light includes site-specific works by Stephen Parr/Oddball Films, Paul Clipson, and Krisztina Lazar. Parr contributes a selection of archival video oddities and re-imagines SOMArts’ kitchen as a site for overlapping live film projections. Clipson utilizes a 100 year old sand casting pit in the gallery floor as a multi-level projection surface. Lazar suspends a cocoon-like fibrous installation from a tree and directs an encased projector at existing garden stones.

CRT televisions along the entry path and nestled throughout the Bamboo grove showcase a curatorial sub-section by MicroClimate Collective and provide accompaniment for a durational performance by Jordan Essoe.

Viewed from a boat in the center of the gallery, Sonja Hinrichsen’s 4 channel video projection guides the viewer on a trip down the Yangtze river in China. Christina Pierson’s dual projections on a steel sphere reflect colorful abstract light, illuminate the gallery annex and create the shadow of a double eclipse.

Partner organizations include the Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain and Oddball Film + Video.

As part of an ongoing partnership with Bay Area Video Coalition, this event will be live on SF Commons 2 (Comcast Channel 76, Astound Channel 30) and stream online live here at 8:30pm to 9:30pm PST.

SOMArts is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Community Arts and Education Program with funding from Grants for the Arts/The Hotel Tax Fund and The San Francisco Foundation.

Surabhi Saraf quarterly News & Events

surabhi — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:43:03 +0000

Upcoming Events:

March 18 – April 22 2012
Syncrony: Contemporary Video group exhibition
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA

April 14th – 21st 2012
Visual Art in Movement, Visionaria20 International Film Festival
Piazza Duomo, Siena, Italy

April 27th 2012
Performance at Night Light, SOMArts Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA

May 22nd – June 21st 2012
Djerrasi Resident Artist Program (one month residency)
Woodside, CA, USA

June 28th 2012
Performance at Current 2012: Santa Fe International New Media Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

July 5th – 8th 2012
Exhibition at Galarie Sophie Lanoe, Beirut Art Fair 2012
Beirut, Lebanon

July 27th 2012
Collaborative performance with Nadav Assor,Soundwave Biennial at the LAB Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA

Dear Friends & Supporters,

I’m happy to share with you some updates on my upcoming shows, performances and projects. At the beginning of this year I started working on two new projects: a new video production for the Digital Dome in Santa Fe and my first experimental electroacoustic music album. The Digital Dome at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe creates unique immersive audio and visual experiences and I am thrilled that I was given the wonderful opportunity to create a video for it. My video called Spinning Ten premeired at the festival DOME2012 this past weekend (13th-14th April).

My album will be a compilation of studio versions of my past live audio-visual performances along with a couple of new compositions I have been working on this year. Besides my voice, this album will feature multiple vintange table fans, field recordings and digital and electronic devices. The album will be coming out later this year — stay tuned for details!

Finally, I will be part of Night Light: a one-night, multimedia garden party at SOMArts on 27th April! Night Light will feature five experimental audio-visual performance by Mauricio Ancalmo, EA&AE ElíasAguirre & ÁlvaroEsteban, Amar Chaudhary, David Molina and myself from 8:30pm to 10pm. Performances will be broadcast on SF Commons, San Francisco’s public access television station. I am particularly excited for it as it’ll be my first solo performance at this scale: I will be performing with multiple vintage fans, lights and live video while singing and processing my voice on top it. I hope some of you can make it to the event!

Be well and have a wonderful day!

Surabhi

FOLD @ Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee

surabhi — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:04:10 +0000

March 18th- April 22 2012

The Hunter Museum’s new video exhibition, Synchrony, explores these connections through video works by a mix of emerging and established artists—Jonathan Horowitz, Catherine Ross, Surabhi Saraf, Mary Ellen Strom, Ann Carlson, Johan Grimonprez, Takeshi Murata and Oliver Herring.

More Info:

http://www.huntermuseum.org/exhibition/34/synchrony-contemporary-video-work/

FOLD {Live} Rehearsals in Australia

surabhi — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:38:13 +0000

FOLD {Live} in Parramatta, Sydney- Performance Documentation

surabhi — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:13:59 +0000

In November 2011 FOLD {live} three site- specific performances were held in Parramatta, Sydney, as part of the Saraf/Davies exhibition @ Parramatta Artist Studios. Saraf/Davies presents work by contemporary artists Surabhi Saraf (INDIA/USA) and Fiona Davies (AUS) in the public spaces of Parramatta inspired by the act of folding and arranging fabric and clothes.

Below are the performances documentation images from the 3 different sites in Parramatta.

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Images By Alex Wisser & Sophia Kouyoumdjian

*Amphitheatre, Corner of Church Street Mall and Macquarie Street, Parramatta
*Parramatta River, between Church St and Wilde Ave/Smith Street, Parramatta
*Parramatta Local Courts, Corner George and Marsden Streets, Parramatta

FOLD {Live}

surabhi — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:15:27 +0000

Four FOLD {Live} Performances will be held all around the city of San Francisco in the Sept and Oct culminating in an exhibition opening on Oct 7th 2011 @ the Lab Gallery , San Francisco.

More details @ http://foldliveproject.net

To Participate please visit: http://foldliveproject.net/participate-volunteer/

Performance Schedule:

11th Sept: Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park

18th Sept: San Francisco Federal Building

25th Sept: Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park

2nd Oct: Montgomery and Market

Performance @ HiveMinds Gallery, Oakland

surabhi — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:29:55 +0000

29th July Surabhi will be doing the first performance of her new piece Spin @ HiveMind Gallery, Oakland

Friday July 29th from 7:30 to 10:00 PM.

HiveMind Gallery

5765 Lowell St, Oakland 94608

16th Annual Juried Exhibition @ SOHO20 Chelsea, NY

surabhi — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:13:21 +0000

July 26 – August 20 Surabhi will be a part of the 16th Annual Juried Exhibition with Juror Dean Daderko @ SOHO20 Gallery, Chelsea, NY

SOHO2O Gallery Chelsea is a non-profit artist run gallery that has been promoting the work of women artists since 1973 through gallery exhibitions and public programming. Our annual juried exhibition is open to both men and women artists working in all media.

Bay Area Currents 2011

surabhi — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:02:16 +0000

19th July – 2nd Sept, Bay Area Currents is a critically acclaimed juried exhibition showcasing the regions’ top emerging artists. Each year, a small number of artists are selected by a nationally recognized curator to represent a snapshot of the energetic and risk-taking work made in the Bay Area today. Bay Area Currents 2011, Selections by Julio César Morales features recent work from eighteen accomplished Bay Area artists: Matthew Cella, Pablo Cristi, Dana Hemenway, Julie Henson, Amy Ho, Emily Hoyt, Gregory Ito, Jeanne Lorenz, Cathy Lu, Fiamma Montezemolo, Francesca Pastine, Suzy Poling, Maggie Preston, Lisa Rybovich, Cralle, Surabhi Saraf, Sunaura Taylor, Linda Trunzo, and Chris E. Vargas.

Exhibition: July 19 – September 2

Artists’ Reception: Friday, August 5, 6 – 8 PM

Artists’ Talk: Friday, September 2, 6 – 8 PM

ProArts, 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (at Oakland Art Gallery)

Spin, 2011

surabhi — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:29:26 +0000

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Click here to view the embedded video.

Performed at Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe as a part of Currents 2011 International New Media Festival.

Duration: 18 mins
Excerpt: 7:50 secs