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HAIL:

Jackqueline Frost, Jen Marie Hoff, and Isobel Marcus

softdefinitions@gmail.com
604 56th St Oakland, Ca 94609
(415)3074303
http://hailweather.blogspot.com/

Performance:

June 27th in The Old Foundry
July 4th at We ArtSpace Anniversary “Paint by Numbers Show"

Debut as Hail at Royal Nonesuch for 21 projects

Jen: Love Everywhere, Erika Chong Shuch Project at City Hall (SF) 2/10
The Field SF, solo work at The Garage (SF) 12/09

Delicate Situation (intermedia performance) sonic installation
non traditional instruments, set pieces, improv,
AK Press, The Speakeasy, Fort Gallery, Rock Paper Scissors, Invisible Ocean Music Festival, Dapper Bay Studios Sessions

Isobel Odd Numbers group art show painting Big Umbrella Gallery
Isobel: electronic music, vocal layers as pine, the uptown, We Art space
Paper Trail (situationist improv) at Art Murmur

Jackqueline: Featured readings at 17 Poets in New Orleans, The BookZoo,
performative poetics


Publication:

Jen: In Dance Magazine, forthcoming June issue, article “Kinesthetic Aesethics”
Jackqueline: Poem, “Fable” in New York Issue of Try! Magazine

Curation:

Jackqueline: Former curator of HoldSTILL Performance Salon
Curates a reading series of experimental poetics “Condensery” with Zack Tuck
Curates avant-guard music at The Speakeasy


Art Related Employment:

Jackqueline: Intern at Small Press Distribution
Antiquarian Books Apprentice

Jen: Technical Assitant to Mann

Education/ Training:

Isobel: UC Santa Cruz in Politics and Italian Literature
Jen: UC Berkeley in Dance and Performance Studies
Sara Shelton Mann workshops, Axis Syllabus Training
Jackqueline: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Conservatory in Theater and Writing
University of Louisiana in English Literature, Mills College, Creative Writing, Jazz Vocal Improv Training with

Jen Marie Hoff, trained in German dance-theater, has performed with ESP Project (Erica Chong Shuch), Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, and in her own work at SF’s The Garage, The Field, Hold Still Poetry Salon, and the Sunshine Biscuit Factory. Yvonne Rainer, Zora Neale Hurston, folk dance, and modern conceptual art inspire her in her work.

Isobel Marcus is a musician and visual artist. Her songwriting is informed by myth, iconography, modern literature and teaching children. She has recently performed at WE Artspace in Oakland and has shown work in Big Umbrella Gallery, SF. http://www.myspace.com/pondpine

Jackqueline Frost is a poet and performer who utilizes found text, dialect, and pop-cultural elements in her writing. She is influenced by the sound art of avant-garde poets Susan Howe and Carolyn Bergvall. Her work had appeared recently in Try! Magazine and Ekleksographia.