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Butch Queen Realness with a Twist in Pastel Colors

June 27, 2006- July 26, 2006

Assume Vivid Astro Focus

John Connelly Presents

625 W 27th St
In the JCP Annex: Butch Queen Realness with a Twist in Pastel Colors video program curated by assume vivid astro focus

butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors (bqrwtpc) is an ongoing video program curated by assume vivid astro focus which was first presented in Miami at the Rosa and Carlos De La Cruz collection in December 2004. bqrwtpc began as a compilation of emerging and established (mostly) american artists works (Ara Peterson, Forcefield, Cory Arcangel, Devin Flynn, Black Leotard Front, Lovid, Takeshi Murata, Dearraindrop, Kembra Phaler, Miguel Calderon, Lothar Hempel), plus music videos (Les Rita Mitsouko, Sylvester, Blondie, Jefferson Airplane, Devo, The Residents, Kraftwerk), documentation of nightlife and performances by Nelson Sullivan in New York in the 80s, anonymous documentation of vogue balls in Harlem, dance excerpts from music programs aired on Television from the '70s and '80s (like Soul Train, Graffiti Rock) and excerpts from movies (Derek Jarman's Jubilee with Adam and the Ants, excerpt from Style Wars, excerpt from Code 46, Morvern Callar and Beau Travail).

For assume vivid astro focus's solo exhibition at the Tate Liverpool in Spring 2005 the program was expanded and screened simultaneously on three video screens. avaf spent three months in the UK researching local artists such as Dick Jewel and Raw Sewage to add to the program which eventually expanded the program to nearly 17 hours. Subsequently bqrwtpc is an evolving subjective project of borrowed, appropriated and found video and film that seeks to offer a glimpse of avaf's inspirations while paying honor to those included. Both entertaining and provocative, bqrwtpc is both a subjective archive and an iconoclastic present to it's audience. As Ian White suggested in August 2005 ArtReview magazine "[avaf's] video program is not so much an artwork in its own right but a social service."

Art Reviews of Butch Queen Realness with a Twist in Pastel Colors

New York Times July 21, 2006

Holland Cotter

"My favorite group show of the summer so far is a video program organized by the artist Assume Vivid Astro Focus and running continuously in a room off the main gallery...."

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