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For Immediate Release April 21,

2010
Contact: Diane Maxwell, 408.961.5841
dmaxwell@montalvoarts.org

Violet Juno performs April 30

Three 'Final Fridays' on Tap at Montalvo

Multisensory Performance Piece and New Music
Scheduled for April, May, and June

SARATOGA, CA - Three artists in the internationally recognized Lucas Artist Residency

Program will conclude their overlapping three-month stays at Montalvo Arts Center with
performances in April, May, and June. Part of the popular Final Fridays series, these events are
free and take place the last Friday of each month. Featured artists include Violet Juno (April
30), Packard Jennings (May 28), and Anthony Pateras (June 25). All performances begin at 6
p.m.; no reservations are necessary.

· Friday, April 30: Violet Juno (in residence February 1-April 30; August 2-7)

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Juno will premiere her new performance piece, (I am Still Here) Language Has Left the
Building, at the Carriage House Theatre on the magnificent grounds of the Saratoga arts
center. The piece explores the intriguing dynamic between language and language(less)ness,
including her experience with idioglossia or twin language. This multisensory piece combines
unusual props, movement, flamboyant costumes, soundscapes, and a three-dimensional form
of cognitive mapping.

Since 1990, Juno has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally at venues
including MoMA and Poets House in New York; LACE in Los Angeles; Banff Centre for the Arts
in Alberta, Canada; and Arches Theater and Center for Contemporary Art in Glasgow,
Scotland. In addition, she creates site-specific performance in unusual environments such as a
farm hayloft in upstate New York; a theater in Scotland carved out of an underground train
yard; a dry creek bed in St. Louis, Missouri; and the military batteries of the Marin Headlands.
She holds a bachelor's degree from Washington University and a master's from UC San Diego
and has lectured at various universities, including Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute,
California College of the Arts, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, and UC San Diego.

· Friday, May 28: Packard Jennings (in residence March 1-May 31)
Jennings will present an overview of his works in the Commons Building at the Lucas Artist
Residency Program with an emphasis on projects developed during his residency. The public
will then be invited to visit his studio and see some of the works in person.

A native of Oakland, California, Jennings is a visual artist who uses appropriation, humor,
and interventionist tactics to address political and corporate transgressions against public
interests. Working across a wide range of media, he portrays fictions of dissent, absurdist
morality, and alternate future worlds through subverted advertising tactics and other forms of
propaganda. Down-loadable DIY projects from his website provide tools and a framework for
further public participation.

He received his bachelor's degree from San Francisco State and his master's from Alfred
University in New York. His work has been shown in Geneva, Turin, Paris, Stuttgart, Madrid,
Barcelona, Ljubljana, Vancouver, and across the United States. It has garnered critical
attention across a variety of media, including Artforum, Playboy, Flash Art, the Believer, New
American Painting, the Washington Post, and the front page of the New York Times.

· Friday, June 25: Anthony Pateras (in residence April 1-June 30)
Pateras' presentation in the Commons Building at the Lucas Artist Residency Program will
include a demonstration and explanation of new piano performance strategies developed at
Montalvo and a brief formal analysis/lecture of the works written there.

Pateras is a multidisciplinary musician from Melbourne, Australia, who performs on piano or

analog electronics and composes works for ensembles, orchestras, and soloists. His main
projects are an electro-acoustic duo with Robin Fox, the prepared instrumental trio

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Pateras/Baxter/Brown, piano/drums duo PIVIXKI, and PoletoPra with visual artist Marco
Fusinato.

Pateras has performed with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra,
Speak Percussion, Percussion Group The Hague, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vanessa
Tomlinson, Flux String Quartet, and Ear Massage Percussion Quartet, among others. He has
collaborated with musicians The Necks, Paul Lovens, Jérôme Noetinger, Thomas Lehn,
Natasha Anderson, and Anthony Burr; conductors Brett Dean, Markus Stenz, and James
McMillan; and filmmakers Pia Borg, Ben Hackworth, and Eron Sheean, winning Best
Soundtrack for Sheean's Bing at the 2003 Dresden Film Festival. In addition, he has guested
on albums by Oren Ambarchi (Southern Lord) and Christian Fennesz (Touch) and his prepared
piano work was also featued on the soundtrack for Wolf Creek. His sound works have exhibited
in group shows at San Francisco MOMA (Variable Resistance), Centre Pompidou (écoute), and
the Melbourne International Arts Festival (21:100:100).

Pateras holds a bachelor's degree from LaTrobe University and a doctorate from Monash
University. He intermittently teaches composition at the Victorian College of the Arts and the
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. His music is currently released through Tzadik
(New York) and Editions Mego (Vienna).

The Lucas Artist Residency Program offers selected artists private housing, a professional
staff that is supportive of the creative process, and an environment conducive to both individual
practice, community engagement, and the energetic exchange of ideas among international
and culturally diverse Fellows.

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About Montalvo Arts Center

Montalvo Arts Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to forging meaningful connections
between art, artists and the communities it serves through creation, presentation and education
in extraordinary ways and settings. Located in Silicon Valley's Saratoga hills, Montalvo Arts
Center occupies a Mediterranean-style villa on 175 stunning acres, including an international
artist residency program. The historic villa and grounds were left to the people of California by
Senator James Phelan for the encouragement of art, music, literature and architecture. In
January 2005, the organization changed its name from "Montalvo" to "Montalvo Arts Center" to
commemorate its 75th year as an arts center and to better communicate its mission to
expanding local, national and international audiences. For more information about Montalvo
Arts Center, call (408) 961-5800 or visit http://www.montalvoarts.org/ .

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