Founded in 1978 by inventor and engineer Mark Pauline, Survival Research Laboratories bring the concept of Industrial Performance Art to its most logical and extreme end. The bodies in a typical SRL happening are not breathing, but they’re certainly alive. Weapons-grade robotics and fresh carcasses find themselves engaged in a dangerous, cacophonous marriage of flesh, fire, steel, blood, oil, and electrocution. Tonight the field is filled with smoke, cannonballs, shattered glass, and hypnotized excruciating screams. The only institution that does mechano-mortal combat better is the U.S. Military.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 – 10 PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 – 5 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 – 10 PM
A BITTER MESSAGE OF HOPELESS GRIEF
Dir. Jonathan Reiss, 1988
United States. 13 min
A SCENIC HARVEST FROM THE KINGDOM OF PAIN
Dir. Jonathan Reiss, Joe Rees, 1984
United States. 46 min
THE WILL TO PROVOKE: AN ACCOUNT OF FANTASTIC SCHEMES FOR INITIATING SOCIAL IMPROVEMENTS
Dir. Jonathan Reiss, 1989
United States. 45 min