Collaboration between physical theater groups Nemcatacoa (Bogotá), Carpetbag Brigade (San Francisco, CA) with music and words by Verbo•bala (Tucson, AZ) and Hojarasca (Carmen de Viboral, Colombia). Debut in Carmen de Viboral and later performed in Bogotá at the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro. Videos from the creation process in El Carmen de Viboral, Colombia:
Perforgrafías
Spoken performance art piece transmitted live via internet from Mexico City to Heredia, Costa Rica as part of Sotavento Theater Group's "PERFORGRAFÍAS" event. While audience members waited to enter further into the performance space, they watched the live-transmitted piece on the monitor while musician Mario Corrales generated a sonic landscape.
Un performance de Gustavo Monge.
Artistas invitadas: Marta Vazquez, Mario Corrales, Fiorella Álvarez, Lauren Latifa y desde México en vivo Logan Phillips.
Arte Mandado
Performance art intervention in front of the Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca, together with five other artists from all over the US and Mexico. While mostly blocking one of the primary tourist corridors of Oaxaca's centro, performers yelled, whispered and purred questions and statements to passerbys on the sidewalk. While the bilingual text itself was improvisational, its structure was developed by Phillips in collaboration with the group.
ARTE MANDADO intervención de movimiento, cuerpos en resistencia y voz
DURACIÓN: 45’
ARTISTAS: Saúl López Velarde (Oaxaca, MX) Nayla Altamirano (Distrito Federal, MX) Logan Phillips (Tucson, EE.UU. / DF, MX) Heather Wodrich (Tucson, EE.UU.) Luisa Restrepo (Oaxaca, MX / Colombia) Zachary James Watkins (Oakland, EE.UU)
Artistas de diferentes lugares y disciplinas convergen en la reintervención, en este caso preformativa, de la fachada del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACO) de Oaxaca.
DESCRIPCIÓN: Mercado de frutas. Art market. Mercado humano. Superávit. Yo soy un artista oaxqueño. Se vende ¿te vendes? Foto foto foto foto. Mercado de pulgas. El consumo me consume ¿te consumiste? Yo soy un artista contemporáneo oaxqueño. ¿Cuánto vales? I’m a Oaxacan artist. ¿Quieres comprar? Art is cheap. Collect / recollect. Llévense su foto con un artista oaxqueño. Yo hago performance en Oaxaca. ¿Qué es esto? Mercado de valores. Mercado sexual. ¿Mande? Black market. Art is cheap in Mexico. Can you take my picture? Yo nunca compro arte. ¿Me subes a tu Facebook? Cómprate la acción de un artista oaxqueño. ¿Dónde está el mercado? ¿El mercado marcado? 5 pesos la foto con el artista oaxqueño. Now now now. ¿Me estás grabando? Valor. ¿Cuánto vale? Yo quiero. El folklor es la muerte de la cultura. Yo quiero ver más gringos en Oaxaca. ¡Fuera! Art tourism. Te vendí, nos vendimos ¿te vendes? I am an American tourist. Mercado de artesanías. ¿Tú vives en el mercado? Art market. Yo vivo del arte. Yo soy un artista oaxqueño. ¿Mande? Yo vivo del arte. Nadie compra arte. ¿A dónde me llevan? El consumo me consume, ¿te consumiste? Buy my art? Take a picture. Export / exploit. Tómase su foto con el artista internacional. Llévelo llévelo bien barato seis por uno. Mercado de flores. Envíame por correo electrónico. Yo soy un artista conceptual oaxqueño. Es más fácil comprar que entender. Curar / curate. Mercado barato. ¿Nos llevas al mercado? Book market. Déficit. Super market. El super mata mercados. Gains / losses. Artemandado. ¿Mande? Artemandado. Artemandado. Ar. Te. Man. Da. Do.
Entrelineas: audio & performance art
Audio score for video performance art.
Video-Performance
idea original: Nayla Altamirano cámara y edición: Moisés Regla arte sonoro: Logan Phillips vestuario: Gamaliel Islas performance: Oriana Jimenez y Nayla Altamirano asistente: Ary Ehrenberg agradecimientos: f4 libre / Marcos Rossi
México 2010
Pies Sobre La Urbe: audio / parkour / videoarte
Here is a short piece of videoarte done by my homeboy Carlos Altamirano in México, DF. I collaborated and did the audio for the piece, something I love to do and was happy to have been asked. Carlos did the piece as part of UNAM's ArteShock, which was a televised competition between artists in different categories, almost like a poetry slam for all kinds of different disciplines. And he won the videoarte category! Without further ado, Pies Sobre la Urbe:
Transfix Retrospective
A collaboration with the group Vessel and their piece "Transfix," directed and conceived by Rachel Bowditch. I joined the troupe for a shoot in Imperial Dunes, California, and later created a spoken remix of TS Eliot's "The Wasteland" which was performed at the Transfix retrospective at the monOrchid Gallery in Phoenix, April 2010.
Transfix Retrospective 1996-2010 By Vessel
At Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix April 2nd 2010
In collaboration with Verbobala, SonicAnta, Chris Loomis Photography, Saskia Jorda, Simon de Aguero and the PHX Fringe Festival.
Directed and Conceived by Rachel Bowditch
Glenn Weyant – Electric Ferris Box/ Sonic Anta Logan Phillips – Live Spoken Remix of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland (Verbobala) Adam Cooper-Terán – Live Video remix (Verbobala) Simon De Aguero (Tensile Fabric Installation) Saskia Jorda (“Escaping White” - White Ladder Installation) Tedy Isaacks (Lighting Designer) Chris Loomis (Photography) Alexander Oliszewski (Monorchid/Imperial Dunes Video) Jake Pinholster (Sedona Video Footage)
Video Edited by Adam Cooper-Terán
Performed by: Lea Bender, Rachel Bowditch, Logan Phillips, Michael Thompson, Katie Kotulak, Laura Miner, Jamie Haas, Kate Kugler, Genea Sanchez, Erica Majtenyi, and Kyle Wills.
Performers at Imperial Dunes, CA February 2010 Anne Wareing, Philip Zisman, Aaron Wester, Stacey Sotosky, Nick Broderick, Erica Majtenyi, Rachel Bowditch and Logan Phillips.
SPECIAL THANKS TO: White banners commissioned by Scottsdale Public Art for the Art of Maintenance at the Scottsdale Canal (January 2010)
Websites: www.rachelbowditch.com www.verbobala.com www.sonicanta.com www.chrisloomis.com www.phxfringe.org www.monorchid.com www.saskiajorda.com www.dirtyverbs.com. www.vesselproject.org
Urban Intimacies: audio & videodanza
Urban Intimacies by Mexican video-dance artist Nuria Fragoso Armenta. She was recently in Prague to complete a series of projects, this being the first. She directed, danced, and edited it. I did the audio design, using samples from: Juan Pablo Villa, some Glenn Weyant drones, Language Removal Service glitches and street recordings from Cuba and Mexico City. Enjoy!
Bat Night in Tucson
Video from last September's Bat Night 2009 in Tucson, Arizona. The event, sponsored by the Rillito River Project, seeks to bring attention to the disappearing rivers of the southwestern United States. I was asked by spectacle experts Flam Chen to participate in their commission for the event, and I wrote a custom poem for the event, which I'll be posting soon. Check the video below. The poetry starts around 2:10:
Tucson: Bat Night 2009
Come see 40,000 bats fly out from under the Campbell Ave. bridge!PLUS the spectacle & poetry of FLAM CHEN and Logan Phillips!
the Rillito River Project presents BAT NIGHT 2009 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12th 5:30pm Rillito Riverbed, Campbell Ave. bridge Bat expert Tar Petryszyn, P.h.D. Poet Logan Phillips Tucson spectacle experts Flam Chen FREE! One night only!
