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Transmodern Age 2006

...A festival of experimental performance, dance, sound and action...

The Transmodern Age festival is a three day celebration of experimental culture from Baltimore and beyond combining performance, dance, sound, action, film, and installations.

Transmodern Age 06 kicks off on Thursday, April 6th with film and video works from some of the nation's acclaimed experimental film-makers including Martha Colburn, Jenny Livingston, Nancy Andrews and more. This Special Night of Films is sponsored by MICA and will held at the Falvey Theater, Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art.

On Friday, April 7th and Saturday April 8th, the G-Spot will host two evenings of original pieces by established and emerging artists working in time-based art including durational performance, experimental rock & hip hop, avant dance, and other genre twisting performance phenomena.

Philosophy

What is experimental culture?

The Transmodern Age Festival is a gathering of the unconventional. The organizing collective sees the festival not only as an art event,
but as work that responds to the now, created by a critical mass of cultural experimenters in a language of artistic action. The gathering
expands beyond art and into lifestyle, politics and social statement. This experimental culture is composed of a diverse community of
cultural workers. In the Transmodern Age, the fringe is in the foreground, and focus is given to those normally marginalized in the operations of "normal" society: Women, minorities, gays and lesbians.

The Transmodern Age Collective is comprised of a diverse group of artists who strive to create a cultural milieu that reflects and promotes cultural diversity, but that aims to radically push boundaries aesthetically, intellectually, and socially.

The festival organizers embrace the importance of curatorial work outside the traditional academic, institutional, and commercial art world. In fact, we believe that collaborative curatorial work by and for peers creates a radical foundation and intellectual freedom inherently necessary for producing experimental and socially
challenging work. Our goal is to create an informal setting where this
work can be brought into direct contact with audiences.

Collective

Members

Rebecca Alvania
Bonnie Jones
Jackie Milad
Melissa Moore
Catherine Pancake
Ric Royer

History

Transmodern Age 05 "What is Human"
After a one year break, Transmodern Age was officially titled a "festival" by the organizers and held at two larger venues, Area405, www.area405.com and the Creative Alliance (http://www.creativealliance.org.) The festival was expanded to include 15 performers with more nationally recognized artists such as Wynne Greenwood, Praxis, PaperRad and more. The festival attracted a capacity crowd on Friday and sold-out on Saturday. The overall festival audience stood at @ 350. The festival was reviewed by the nationally respected, award-wining arts magazine "ArtPapers." The Baltimore City Paper awarded Chiara Giovondo's Transmodern Age performance as the "Best Performance Art" of 05 and recognized the festival as one of the "Top Ten Art Events" of 2005 in Baltimore.

Transmodern 05 Web Site

Baltimore City Paper interview with Jackie Milad

ArtPapers Review

Queerkit Interview with Catherine Pancake

Baltimore City Paper Best Performance Art 05

Baltimore City Paper Best of Art 05

Transmodern Age 03 "Otherworldly Adornment"
Transmodern Age 03 was conceived by Catherine Pancake, Bonnie Jones, and Jackie Milad. The show was a realization of the organizers desire to expand and enrich local avant culture by providing a festival focused on avant works by predominantly women in performance, dance, sound, and action. The shows were also an attempt to bring together improvised music with performance art and dance. The event was held at the Chela Gallery which was filled to capacity for both nights with an overall audience of about 200 people.

Transmodern 03 Web Site

Baltimore City Paper interview with Catherine Pancake




photo credits, top: K8 Hardy (Mike Muniak), bottom: Chiara Giovando (Stewart Mostofsky)