South Hall is really big. 80,000 square feet big. So thank goodness we have some big projects on the horizon. For the 3rd 01SJ Biennial, ZER01 is commissioning artists Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark to build a theater inside South Hall of the San Jose Convention Center using salvaged materials.

Todd and Jeff were in town just long enough to scout materials,  take a few measurements, and start thinking big. Both Todd and Jeff are working on advanced degrees from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  More about them:

Todd is an artist, musician, and filmmaker who is currently working on the feature-length film FLOOD TIDE. FLOOD TIDE is an experimental narrative film that was shot amidst the artist Swoon’s 2008 Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project http://www.switchbacksea.org/, in which seven homespun boats were built and crewed by an eclectic group of artists and performers. The primary cast includes the bands Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor, members of which were actual crew on the homespun boats. The bands will be collaborating to write, perform and record the film’s musical score.

Jeff Stark is an artist, journalist, and the editor of Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list and discriminating resource for independent art and senseless culture in New York City. He has also conceived of and directed several street events, such the Idiotarod races in New York, and wrote and directed IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations, a theatrical production that was staged within the New York City subway system.