butohPhoto performance video

~  
Edited video of the performance which was the finale of the butohPhoto workshop (link below) held at the Gray Loft Gallery, San Francisco, California. 

butohPhoto video edit 

Gray Loft Gallery
San Francisco, CA

August 14, 2015

butohPhoto is one of several ButohDrawing projects that have been held since the first one, Action/Reaction with Audience Participation, in 1997.

Video credits:

Tom White - Director
Betty Jo Costanzo - Assistant Director
Styrous® - Sound design
Kyung Lee - Video

Performers:
Isaac Amala   
Minoo Hamzavi   
Larissa   
Kaia Self   

Moses Correntte - Lead cam

Jan Watten - Gray Loft Gallery Director

GRAY LOFT GALLERY
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakland, California 94601
510.499.3445

butohPhoto Workshop @ the Gray Loft Gallery   
   

TW aka bUtom


Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts CCA

~

ButohDrawing Articles

 

~

ButohPhoto

photos by Styrous®

butohPhoto is the name of a recent workshop:

a way of taking a photo utilizing peripheral perception combined with Butoh practice --  snapping the picture, sending it to a pod-cast that’s projected into The Gray Loft Gallery. 

The photos in this article are of the workshop.  The end-product, with it's faults in mind, will be in video form in the next article I post on here. 

Thanks for stopping by.

The following are a few words from previous workshops and classes originating in  a 1997 CCA winter-break workshop called ButohDrawing, where I was forced to find a way for the class participants to serve as Live Models for what was intended as an academically credited Life Drawing class.

 

“ButohDrawing is a recombinant culture, a nomadic umbrella whose spokes point to many disciplines: art, architecture, design, movement, performance, philosophy, psychology, and historicism.  It interfaces the Japanese discipline of Butoh* movement with investigations of contemporary drawing, writing and postmodern thought.   

The conceptual locus of ButohDrawing can be traced from the picture plane, through the mirror, to the Butoh-rhizome; a filigree of nerves beneath the skin:  Brunelleschi. Leonardo, Cezanne, Lacan, Hijikata and Deleuze/Guattari.  We suspend and elevate this filigree ---  we move it attentively, creating drawings and digital documents in peripheral vision that shift from "doxa" into paradox.  Dynamic tension is at the heart of this program”.   

Tom White © 2003  

* Butoh is a Japanese dance form, circa 1959.  

 





 

projection by Betty Jo Costanzo 

TW aka bUtom


Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts CCA

  

~

ButohDrawing Articles

 

~