Evelyn Leder

MIND IS THE ONLY TRUTH I’VE FOUND

John Bankston, Craig Calderwood, Taraneh Hamami, Gregory Kaplowitz, Evie Leder, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Masako Miyazaki
Curated by Brion Nuda Rosch

April 24^rd – April 28^th

Reception: Thursday, April 26^th 6-8pm
Gallery 104 & Media Room
Minnesota Street Project / 1275 Minnesota Street  / San Francisco

It was very late last night
I sat at the radio
Dialing from left to right
Why I do not know

I heard a man in a voice low
And sweet with circumspection
Say innocent listener don’t you know
The flame is its own reflection
The flame is its own reflection

He turned me on off I turned him
We tuned out all direction
I sat alone my head aswim
The flame is its own reflection!
The flame is its own reflection!

The universe is nought but sound
Sound is its own perfection
Mind is the only truth I’ve found
The flame is its own reflection!
The flame is its own reflection!

I sat alone my head aswim
The flame is its own reflection!
Mind is the only truth I’ve found
The flame is its own reflection!
Mind is the only truth I’ve found
The flame is its own reflection!
The flame is its own reflection!

Silver Apples – Program

Brontez Purnell has a new book out and they chose this image from The Objects series for the cover!

Let’s talk about the intimacy of your work and the intimate experience for the viewer. Can you speak to that? The relationships between your production, your thoughtful display, and the audience—

For me, it comes down to this idea of looking and being seen. I’m a voyeur. I’ve chosen to look deeply as part of my practice.

For most of my life since I was a teenager, I have been looking at things you are not supposed to look at. I remember the first photographs I took were in high school photography class and I made prints of a woman’s legs stretched horizontally across the paper. The obviously unshaven, female legs unsettled everybody in school, including my photo teacher. I like to think that it disrupted gender rigidity in some small way in 1979.

The idea of looking and being seen is so fundamental to our binary gender systems. I’m thinking of some ideas that really opened my eyes in college like Laura Mulvey’s essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” or philosopher Marilyn Frye talking about the male gaze and the lesbian gaze. Her metaphor is: women are acting on stage and men are viewing the women on stage. The queers are backstage taking in everything from a different perspective. I like to share this perspective, from backstage.

More:  http://sfaq.us/2017/01/evie-leder-in-conversation-with-brion-nuda-rosch/

I just found thee images online, from a show at SOMARTS in San Francisco from 2015. My video was part of the show, and it is very interesting to see images of this performance in front of the video. Thank you so much to Queen Gidrea

Hapa Bruthas combines elements of spoken word confession and the Afro-Brazillian martial art of Capoeira to create a live cypher and photoshoot performance. Through these elements the artists explore brotherhood, the privacy of attraction, and interracial dating in Asian American communities

http://www.queengidrea.com/hapabruthas.php