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E.S.P. TV Video Shoot at Franklin Street Works! Be Part of the Live Audience!

Franklin Street Works is excited to announce that E.S.P. TV, an analog-based broadcast group in New York City, is taping their latest episode at our space Saturday, November 10, from 3-7 pm.

Franklin Street Works is excited to announce that E.S.P. TV, (http://www.esptvnyc.com/) an analog-based broadcast group in New York City, is taping their latest episode at our space Saturday, November 10, from 3-7 pm. The free, public event will include experimental sound, video, and performance artists from New York and Connecticut. The episode will be filmed in front of a live, studio audience and is slated to air on cable access channels in Fairfield County and/or Manhattan. Please join us for this unique opportunity to be part of the E.S.P.TV   audience this Saturday night! The café will be open until 5:00pm during filming, but audience members are welcome to hang out until the performance has ended. The public is invited to drop by at any point during the taping. Following the event, stay tuned for air times, which will be posted on Franklin Street Works’ website and social media!

Performing artists include: Lea Bertucci; Brooklyn-based band The Dreebs; artist/comedian Heather Guertin; Patrick Higgins (Z's), with videos by LOGAN OWLBEEMOTH and more, including a handful of collaboratively inclined media  artists and musicians from the region. 

Formed in 2011, E.S.P. TV opened a space in Williamsburg during the summer of 2012. That space serves as a locale for the production of their show and regular screenings, events, and performances. Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City. Many are filmed in a variety of locations ranging from living rooms in Brooklyn, to alternatives spaces around the world. E.S.P. TV episodes are broadcasted Tuesdays at 10pm on MNN4, TW Channel 67, NYC and www.mnn.org.

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The E.S.P. TV shoot is one of several events and off-site artworks created as part of Franklin Street Works’ current exhibition, Working Alternatives: Breaking Bread, Art Broadcasting and Collective Action. The E.S.P. TV taping is part of curator Mackenzie Schneider’s “Art Broadcasting” segment. In “Art Broadcasting,” Schneider examines artists using media such as radio, television, and newspapers as alternative venues for presenting work. E.S.P. TV is a contemporary example of how artists use broadcasting as a way to share art with the larger public.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

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An original exhibition produced by Franklin Street Works, Working Alternatives is curated by Mackenzie Schneider, Terri C Smith, and Jess Wilcox. The group show explores three threads of alternative art platforms and production: conviviality and food as components in alternative art space programming and mission (Wilcox); artists using media such as radio, television, and newspapers as alternative venues for presenting work (Schneider); and artist collectives presented in a living archive with weekly changing exhibitions using archive materials (Smith). In addition to historical examples, the exhibition also includes original artworks by contemporary artists that reflect and expand on the show’s themes. Working Alternatives’ artists include: Paul Branca, Jaime Davidovich, E.S.P. TV, Group Material, Ann Hirsch, Alison Knowles, Tom Marioni, Anna Ostoya, Legacy Russell, Chris Sollars and Jerome Waag. Artist Collectives represented in the show’s archive are evolving, and currently include: Basekamp, Conflict Kitchen, Fierce Pussy, Howling Mob Society, JustSeeds, M12 Studios, Paper Tiger, Philly Stake, The Pinky Show, Second Front, SubRosa, Temporary Services, and W.A.G.E. Working Alternatives is open to the public through January 13, 2013. 

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