- Tour poster for Some Kind of Loving release with Astria Suparak and Swan Tool with Miranda July and Zac Love. Xeroxed flier, 2000. 17″ x 24″. Designed by Miranda July and Sean Tejaratchi.
Miranda July and Astria Suparak took Joanie 4 Jackie Co-Star #3, Some Kind of Loving, and July’s multimedia performance The Swan Tool on a fourteen-date tour up and down the Pacific Coast between Vancouver to Los Angeles. Just an hour long, Suparak’s Some Kind of Loving comprises of six shorts by five women and represents various ways to make movies – low-fi video, hand-processed super-8 film, optical printing, stop-motion animation and manipulated found footage.
Tour dates:
Oct. 24, 2000. (Bellingham, WA) Allied Arts Performance Space, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
Oct. 25, 2000, 8:30 pm. (Vancouver, BC) Blinding Light!! Cinema, 36 Powell Street.
Oct. 26, 2000, 9:30 pm. (Olympia, WA) The Olympia Film Festival at the Capitol Theater, 206 E. 5th Avenue.
Oct. 27, 2000, 8:00 pm. (Seattle, WA) The Little Theatre, 608 19th Avenue East.
Oct. 28, 2000, 8:00 pm. (Portland, OR) The Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Nov. 7, 2000, 7:30 pm. (Chico, CA) The Blue Room Theatre, 139 West First Street.
Nov. 8, 2000, 1:00 pm. (San Francisco, CA) San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut St. Guest lecture in Jon Rubin’s New Genres class.
Nov. 8, 2000, 7:30 pm. (Berkeley, CA) Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way.
Nov. 9, 2000, 9 pm. (Santa Cruz, CA) The Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave.
Nov. 10, 2000, 9 pm. (San Francisco, CA) San Francisco Cinematheque at the San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut St.
Nov. 11, 2000, 7 pm. (Santa Barbara, CA) Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara Community College, 721 Cliff Drive.
Nov. 13, 2000, 7 pm. (Valencia, CA) The Bijou Theater, CalArts, 2400 McBean Pkway. Organized by Zoe Crosher.
Nov. 14, 2000, 3:00 pm. (Claremont, CA) Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College, 1050 N. Mills Ave.
Nov. 16, 2000, 7:30 pm. (Los Angeles, CA) L.A. Freewaves Festival @ Side Street Projects, 425 South Main Street. Organized by Anney Bonne.
As Astria Suparak recalls: “It was the first time I had toured with other people and my first time visiting many of those places. I remember having stage fright when I got on stage and saw hundreds of people looking back at me, waiting for me to speak, at the grand, balconied Capitol Theater in Olympia”
Tour communications:
- Letter from Steve Polta, Office Manager at the San Francisco Cinematheque, to Astria Suparak, confirming Suparak and Miranda July’s Some Kind of Loving Tour event. October 2, 2000. From the collection of Astria Suparak. Suparak’s handwritten notes on top confirm a phone interview with a Santa Cruz newspaper while both Suparak and July were in Houston, Texas presenting other events prior to the start of the Some Kind of Loving tour.
- Email with technical requirements and press materials, written by Astria Suparak to venues on the Some Kind of Loving tour, 2000. Page 1. Collection of Astria Suparak.
- Draft letter from Some Kind of Loving curator Astria Suparak to the artists on the compilation, sent after the SKL tour. January 2001. From the collection of Astria Suparak. After touring with Some Kind of Loving, Suparak sent packages to all the artists with the items listed in the hand-written section at the bottom (press materials, list of tour venues, and copies of press reviews [http://joanie4jackie.com/archive/press/#jp-carousel-8117]). In the letter Suparak points out that the underlined words on the new Joanie 4 Jackie website are links, because websites were still new to many people at the time.
- List of Some Kind of Loving and Swan Tool tour dates. January 2001. From the collection of Astria Suparak. Suparak was interning at the Museum of Modern Art at this time, and “borrowed” some letterhead to draft a post-tour report to the Some Kind of Loving artists.
Promotional materials:
- Press release for Some Kind of Loving and Joanie 4 Jackie’s Co-Star series. Written by Miranda July with Astria Suparak. c. Summer 2000.
- Some Kind of Loving press packet, page 1. 2000.
- Some Kind of Loving press packet, page 2. 2000.
- Some Kind of Loving with Astria Suparak and Miranda July on Blinding Light!!! Cinema calendar of events. Newsprint, 2000. Collection of Astria Suparak. August-Oct. 2000, 36 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- The 17th Annual Olympia Film Festival catalogue cover, Oct 26-29, 2000.
- The 17th Annual Olympia Film Festival catalogue, Some Kind of Loving and The Swan Tool, Oct 26, 2000.
- Some Kind of Loving with Astria Suparak and Joanie 4 Jackie with Miranda July on The Little Theater calendar of events. 2000. Collection of Astria Suparak. Sept./Oct. 2000. 610 19th Ave. E, Seattle, WA 98112.
- Some Kind of Loving tour with Astria Suparak and Miranda July in Pacific Film Archives Film Notes, University of California Berkeley Art Museum. Newsprint, Nov. – Dec. 2000. Collection of Astria Suparak. 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA.
- Detail from Some Kind of Loving tour with Astria Suparak and Miranda July in San Francisco Cinematheque calendar. Fall 2000. Collection of Astria Suparak.
- Program notes for Some Kind of Loving Tour: All Night Long with Miranda July and Astria Suparak, San Francisco Cinematheque, Nov. 10, 2000.
- Ad in local paper for tour of Some Kind of Loving with Astria Suparak and The Swan Tool with Miranda July, at Santa Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery. Newspaper, 2000.
- L.A. Freewaves Festival booklet, including Some Kind of Loving screening with Astria Suparak and performance by Miranda July on Nov. 16, 2000 @ Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Collection of Astria Suparak.
- Some Kind of Loving tour with Astria Suparak and Miranda July in L.A. Freewaves festival booklet. Collection of Astria Suparak. Nov. 16, 2000 @ Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
- Joanie 4 Jackie Co-Star Tapes event, with Astria Suparak’s Some Kind of Loving and Rita Gonzalez’s I Saw Bones, on Aurora Picture Show calendar of events. Xerox flier, 2002. Collection of Astria Suparak. May 19, 2002. 800 Aurora St., Houston, TX.