| Peter Cramer and Jack Waters
are the creators of Short Memory/No History, an interdisciplinary live media work about memory, perception, history, and representations of AIDS Activism and queer culture.
The installation previewed at Zurich's Shedhalle in June 2000 .
Cramer's Photographs were a prominent feature of this piece as were his photographic images for their June 2000 collaboration on NYC's Creative Time Daily Dispatch project .
Their media environment Time Warp 2000 was shown in November 2000 at NYC's Anthology Film Archives presented by MIX, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival.
Since 1981 Cramer and Waters have been partners in their combined experience in performing, visual and media arts.
They were a catalytic force behind POOL, a dance/performance collective in the early 80's. POOL explored contact
and other forms of improvisation, emphasizing combined theatrical forms, ritual, activism and group dynamic. Co-Directors of Abc No Rio from 1983 -1988, they initiated an arts in education program in association with neighborhood public schools and settlement houses. This was a multifaceted program of workshops in the arts conducted at the facility. The community interface was thorough and detailed, yet organic. The activity reflected the style of Abc No Rio in the 80's - raucous, progressive interdisciplinary multi-media. An apprentice program was developed with student internships assigned to professional artists. Studio, gallery and museum visits, plus production assistance with performances and screenings were all integral elements of the program. Concurrent with their work at No Rio they, among a group of colleagues co-founded and ran Allied Productions,Inc. a not for profit arts umbrella. Under their direction this multi-purpose organization highlighted the performing arts, having sponsored, produced and presented many experimental and emerging dance artists and groups. Under the combined auspices of POOL, No Rio, and Allied, they organized and produced national and international events - tours in dance, performance, music, media, and visual art exhibitions as interdisciplinary events. |
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Jack Waters is a film maker, writer, media artist, choreographer and performer.
His video short The Male Gayze was shown at the Whitney Museum Of American Art's February 1995 exhibition The Black Male. Water's film works are the subject of preservation by Visual AIDS' Estate Project for Artists With AIDS.
These are distributed by NYC's Film Maker's Cooperative and archived at New York University's Fales Library and Special Collections. A selection from this archive was viewed in an April 2001 presentation by the Center for the Study
of Gender and Sexuality at NYU. He is the creator of the digital art work Superschmoozio, the game of the international Art Market
Waters was a co-founder of Naked Eye Cinema, a component of Abc No Rio's film program, and an international venue for experimental film from 1985-1992.
As a journalist he has published articles on politics, cultural affairs, and reviews in visual arts, film, and media. He was a founding contributing writer for Color Life, the news journal for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered
and two-siprited people of Color, and for LGNY, New York CityÕs LGBT news bi-weekly. Other writing credits include The Coney Island Wedding of The Great Fredini and Kiva, Princess of Pyrotechnics for Conde Nast Bride's Magazine,
and a January 2000 profile of the HIV positive artist Valerie Caris for Poz Magazine. Waters was a panelist on the February 2000 College Art Association panel titled
Archiving the Unarchivable chaired by Martha Wilson. Jack Waters Vitae |
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Peter Cramer's Soma, Soma, Soma (2000) is a video of the exhibition of the same title at NYC's Sculpture Space.
It documents performance artists Geoffrey Hendricks, William Pope L. and Patty Chang. Cramer's 16mm film Black & White Study ('90) involving chiaroscuro, nudes, and camera matte box film techniques is the basis
of the multi-media performance collaboration with Jack Waters premiered in the Spring of 1999 at Danspace Project and in December 1999 at Zurich's Miller's Studio. Other works include the 1995 restaging of PUTTI,
a multimedia dance performance at Danspace. His films, videos, installations, and performances have shown in New York City, throughout the U.S., and internationally. Among them, Corrective Measures ('86),
Patty Rocks The Block ('96). His most recent digital video Peter Palace Porn culls from visual animated chats on the internet. Cramer's many video & film collaborations with Waters include The Flower Market (1994)
and Percodan and Wisdom (1995). Peter is also a former co-director of ABC No Rio
and Allied Productions,Inc. His video & film collaborations with Jack include The Flower Market (1994)
and Percodan and Wisdom (1995). He is currently project director for Le Petit Versailles garden. Peter Cramer Resume |
| Jack and Peter are Co-Founder/Directors of POOL, a dance/performance collective creating and performing performance, choreography and ephemeral events in NYC; throughout the U.S. and internationally touring Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Canada. |
Venues performed have been (selected list):
| The Kitchen, NYC PS122, NYC Creative Time, NYC Franklin Furnace, 122 Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church, NYC Anthology Film Archives, NYC DCAC, Washington, DC, BACA ARTS Brooklyn, NY, Abc No Rio, NYC RAPP Art Center, NYC |
La Mama Cabaret, NYC Fuch's Keller, Hamburg Germany Las Dahlias Sala De Fiestas (Ibiza, Spain) La Fabrica (Barcelona, Spain) American Dance Center Repertory Workshop (Ailey III Company), NYC Shauspeilhaus (Cologne, Germany), Dance Theater Workshop, NYC The Kitchen, NYC Rote Fabric (Zurich), Creative Time (Art On The Beach), NYC |
| CLUBS: | Cat Club, Pyramid, Armageddon, Brooklyn Terminal Show, The Saint, Limelight, Hotel Amazon, Palladium, Club Nu (Miami), Etc. |
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