NONSITE || A Performance and Discussion with Marcus Civin

"I had been so confident and now I had an awful feeling that the war had gotten out of my hands" 
                                    --Gertrude Stein as Alice B. Toklas (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)

With the Nonsite Collective, Marcus Civin will project, re-build, perform, and dissect gestures and utterances that riff on themes from his recent performance work--performance work that lands a poor, rough tramp behind enemy lines and forces the poor, rough tramp to decide: am I a killer, OR am I a clown?

Or: "In a series, objects become undefined simulacra one of the other. And so, along with the objects, do the people that produce them." -- Jean Beaudrillard (Simulations)

I handle an ax, matches, a deck of cards, a spear, drips of water. I make a bathtub. Am I a bathtub. Or: I make a small black painting.

Or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjarLbD9r30&feature=related

Or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw


Participants who want to prepare for the performance and discussion in advance might enjoy watching:

http://www.archive.org/details/busterkeatonfilm (SAMUEL BECKETT, FILM)

and/or

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8727552817849141561# (BUSTER KEATON, HARD TIMES)

Attendees will be also be invited to enter the space of Marcus' work during a discussion facilitated by Chris Nagler.

This event will take place at:

935 Natoma Street, San Francisco
between 10th and 11th Streets
and between Mission and Howard
close to the Civic Center BART Station
and the Van Ness MUNI station

(Parking in the neighborhood is limited, so please arrive early if you're driving).

Marcus Civin's text-and-prop-based performances include: B O U N T Y, JohnnyAngel, and The American Rifle: Parts 1, 2, & 3. Marcus is for burnt art, orange peel art, grape-stem art. Marcus is for water music, New Romantics, Neo-Enthusiasts, polytemporal construction, and wooden, plaster, silver objects—objects that bend. Marcus earned an MFA in Studio Art from University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Theater from Brown University. Recently, Marcus has exhibited and performed at Chung King Project, LAXART, compactspace, Betalevel, Monte Vista Projects, and High Energy Constructs in Los Angeles, Tight Space in Santa Ana, and Ruffin Gallery at University of Virginia.