An outdoors screening series, part of Intervene! Interrupt!
Rethinking Art as Social Practice

The University of California, Santa Cruz
May 15-17, 2008
http://may2008.artintervention.org

Screenings:
• San Jose (May 2, 8:30pm, SJSU campus, Downtown San Jose)
• San Francisco (May 10, 8:30pm, 16th and Florida St.)
• Santa Cruz (May 14, Cedar @ Locust St, downtown,
with Grant Wilson & Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In)

Filmmakers/ artists:
Danielle Adair: The Making of Americans
Perry Bard: Status: Stolen
Aya Ben Ron: Still under treatment
Julia Bradshaw: Can Art be Humble?
David Sanchez Burr: Unwound
Francisca Caporali, Laura Chipley & Pilar Ortiz: The Urban Homesteading Project
Ian Cheng: MoMa Audio Adventure club
Robert Ladislas Derr: Labor
Dubois/ Sifuentes: Fashionably late for the relationship
Angela Ellsworth: Hot Air: Keep Yourself Alive
Lisa Erdman: Annual Checkup: Pharmaceuticals for the 21st Century
Escauriza, Greenwald, Jenkins, MacPhee, Scarfone, & Tramell: United Victorian Workers 
Alan & Michael Fleming: Vertical Tactics
Dara Greenwald & Sarah Kanouse: What the Market Bares
Sonja Hinrichsen: Oil Spill
Cynthia Hooper: Bay Dredge
Sarah Klein: The Bread Project
Bryan Konefsky: You are Here
Steve Lambert: Light Criticism
Luci Liss, Misha Riley, Alex Torres-Tarver & Zoe Zimsky: That’s Hot!
Lilly McElroy: The Square - after Roberto Lopardo
EE Miller & Samuael Topiary: Gum & Tea
The Mission Media Archive: Untitled
Kari Orvik: Mission Portrait Studio
Julie Perini: I’ll ask for lunch in reverse order while you try to figure out if the waiter cares
Monica Rodriguez: Para Ser Feliz
Dina Ropele: Practice makes Perfect
Second Front: 28 Avatars Later
Pilvi Takala: Easy Rider
Aislin Thomas: In Your Shoes: Exchanges II
Nick Tobier: Small cascade for a large city
Oakie Treadwell: Maggots and Men
Amy Westpfahl: The informational cookie project
Ayelet Zohar: Love me or Leave me

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From the call for work description:
The Show Starts on the Sidewalk features work that either documents public intervention or is an intervention in itself.
Screenings will take place in outdoor locations in public places in San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Cruz. These films consider relational aesthetics, interventions, Situationist practices, Fluxus style events and explore the followings concepts:
Intervention: An action undertaken in order to change what is happening or might happen in another’s affairs, especially in order to prevent something undesirable In·ter·rupt (v) 1.To halt the flow of a speaker or of a speaker’s utterance with a question or remark. 2. To disturb somebody who is busy doing something, causing him or her to stop. 3. To cause a break in the flow of something or put a temporary stop to something. 4. To discontinue doing something temporarily. 5. To obstruct or block a view In·ter·fer·ence (n) 1. Involvement in something without any invitation or justification. 2. Hindrance or obstruction that prevents a natural or desired outcome. 3. An unwanted signal that disrupts radio, telephone, or television reception. In·tru·sion (n)1. A disturbing of somebody’s peace or privacy by an unwelcome arrival or presence. 2. An unwelcome presence or effect that disturbs or upsets something. In·volv·ing (adj) Holding the attention.
Alternatively, Bring Your Own Definition!
Curated and produced by Nomi Talisman and Bill Basquin
THANKS TO: the artists/filmmakers
Grant Wilson & Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In, Dina Ropele;
Chris Esparza, Barbara Goldstein, , Sarah Kennedy, KFC Collective,
Susan O'Malley, Whispered Media, Jennifer Worley