The Philadelphia Art Hotel will be hosting a screening of 3 cinematic pieces on the grassy lot at 2007-2015 Hazzard St. this Friday. It will be operated kind of like a drive in, except your more than welcomed to walk or ride a bike as well! Sound will be broadcast by low wattage FM radio, so bring a small battery operated FM radio! Click through for full details.
The Philadelphia Art Hotel presents a video screening featuring the work of resident artists:
Elana Mann, Caleb J. Lyons & Kathryn Scanlan
July 16, 2010, 8:30pm
2007 – 2015 E. Hazzard St.
Philadelphia PA 19125
Free and open to the public
*BRING AN FM RADIO FOR AUDIO*
On July 16, 1945, Leonard Pepkowitz, a scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, put on some warm clothes and sat on a
summit in Los Alamos, New Mexico waiting for the detonation of the “Trinity Test.” On July 16, 2010, during a different kind
of war, Elana Mann (Pepkowitz’ granddaughter) will wear a dress and project her new video Can’t Afford a Freeway (2007-10)
on the wall of a building in East Kensington, Philadelphia. All are welcome to drive-in/ride-in/walk-in and bringing an FM radio
is greatly encouraged. Additional videos will be screened by fellow PAH residents Kathryn Scanlan and Caleb J. Lyons
Elana Mann’s artwork probes the theatrics of exchange. Through performative strategies, she investigates psycho-social and
emotional undercurrents of both open communication and silence. In many of her projects she initiates dialogs and
collaborations with friends, acquaintances and strangers as a means to explore interpersonal, social and political contexts.
Caleb J. Lyons’s artistic practice encompasses a diverse range of activities—directing an exhibition space and a “conceptual
artist residency program,” gardening, DJing, working collaboratively with other artists, as well as more conventional modes
of working such as painting, sculpting, and video-making. He investigates abstraction both formally in the work itself and
conceptually by addressing the way in which ideas and information can become increasingly mediated or disconnected from
reality.
Kathryn Scanlan is an artist and writer currently living in Des Plaines, Illinois. Her work has appeared in NOON, The
Collagist, Wigleaf, and elimae, and she recently received first prize in The Iowa Review’s annual fiction contest. She is
the nonfiction editor of MAKE Magazine and co-director of Old Gold Exhibitions and Events, a collaborative project space
in Chicago.
