SRL News

Preparations for Under the Big Black Sun are underway. Please note that Mark will be operating the De-Manufacturing machine at the Members Only opening this Friday Sept 30 at LA Moca (the Geffen one). Normally memberships are about $60 (don’t quote us on that) but if you’re with a member you can get into the event and get a discount on membership ($25). The public opening is Oct 1. The machine will be on display but not running till Feb 2012.

Here’s Mark making one of the props. SRL props unplugged -no power tools, no large format printers:

Mark Pauline has been busy preparing for the LA MOCA exhibition Under the Big Black Sun with it’s public openingi on October 1. One of the props to be de-manufactured will be a circuit-bended, re-animated fish. This video shows the beginning of the prop-building process:

Here is the double dog and chicken prop that we’ll be modifying to re-animate dead chickens with: http://youtu.be/tYTstgfpwUE and http://youtu.be/4j66ohP-qFk. This one will be used to re-animate dead eels: http://youtu.be/rPVCXWWcf8U

For members of LA MOCA, there will be a members only opening on Sept 30.

Thanks to SRL pal David Pescovitz SRL was BoingBoing’d today. The post is about the SFMOMA groundbreaking in 1992.

For those in LA this October, SRL will be making another appearance at another museum. MOCA in LA for Under the Big Black Sun an exhibition showcasing the diversity of significant art from the mid to late 70s. October 1 2011 – February 13 2012. Mark Pauline will be bringing down and operating the very first SRL machine (De-manufacturing Machine) pictured here with the latest SRL machine the Spine Robot. David Pescovitz posts on BoingBoing as well: Machine Sex 2.0

Also Mark Pauline has been going through the SRL archives and re-editing/digitizing all the videos and putting them on YouTube. Find them here.

Mark Pauline, Bob Taylor prep the DeManufacturing machine for the MOCA exhibition:

Full video of SRL show Deliberate Evolution of a War Zone held at a toilet paper factory in Graz caused the Austrian military to go on high defense alert thinking the Serbs were attacking. This was in 1992 when the Serbs had just recently bombed nearby Vukovar. Note sproinging sound fx thanks to GX Jupiter-Larssen/Haters. Video shot and edited by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.

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Mark Pauline has updated another re-edited video from Carnival of Misplaced Devotion: Calculated to Arouse Resentment for the Principles of Order show in Seattle from 1990 in conjunction with COCA. Part of the “Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess” documentary. Directed and edited by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.

Another fine SRL show in a small enclosed space for extra added intimacy and intensity newly uploaded by Mark Pauline for your viewing pleasure. This was from the show at the Shipyard in Berkeley in 2001. Many thanks to Jim Mason for hosting! Video edited by Alan Kelley from footage by Dave Scardina and others.

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“You wont get hurt. You’ll just get killed.” – Mark Pauline, 2001

The SFMOMA groundbreaking in 1992 actually featured SRL but you wont see that in their archives most likely. Downtown SF was shut down for approximately 15 minutes. Video shot and directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.

Another vintage SRL video this time from the Phoenix show in 1996. Footage from Dave Scardina, edited by Alan Kelley:

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Another digitized video from the SRL crypt!

More info on the only SRL show shot as a short film on the Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief page