Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

In collaboration with Space Time, join us at 5PM for the screening of Ulysses Jenkins' Inconsequential Doggereal (1981) followed by a performance at 6PM of Fates, Boots and Bob: A Hijacked Hootenanny Holiday Hullabaloo by beck haberstroh, Maria Antonia Eguiarte, mika Castañeda, and Victor Castañeda H.

About Inconsequential Doggereal

Initially created as an editing exercise for his students at UCSD, Jenkins’ Inconsequential Doggereal mixes poetic narrative fragments of self-shot footage with moments ripped from the unending flow of TV news, advertising, and entertainment. The images and sounds of mainstream television are jammed, freeze-framed, looped, overlaid and rewound—clips of science documentaries, movies broadcast on TV, nightly news commentary on the minimum wage, and a 60 Minutes style interview with the actor Peter Sellers are all jumbled together. Jenkins interjects several original threads, which show pickup football games gone wrong, a young white couple doing chores and hanging out at home, and Jenkins himself laying on a green suburban yard as a lawnmower moves perilously close to his body.

About Fates, Boots and Bob: A Hijacked Hootenanny Holiday Hullabaloo

Bob Cratchit is on his way to work when a spaceship crash lands in his path. In this extraterrestrial twist on a holiday classic, an alien, a museum educator, and an enormous piece of sacred toast help Bob navigate his existential workplace woes.

Drawing on references from absurdist theater, politically-engaged performance, pop culture and queer nightlife, this tragicomedy pilfers the practices of Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian to stage raucous homage, mischievous theft and fantastic departure. Through a series of sing-alongs, the audience will help Bob decide whether to give in, organize, or burn it all down.

Join us for a live jazz show with Future is Color Studio Sessions in Strauss Plaza, Sahm Seaview Room, and Art Park at 6:30PM.