Pancake's involvement in music manifests in her document of the High Zero 2000 festival in which experimental, improvising musicians, real-life givers of what no one asks for, and their significant others answer the question, does playing experimental improvised, experimental music increase you sex appeal? In The Back Door Boys, Pancake elicits the straight sex exploits of the real (!) touring, drag king Backstreet Boys tribute group. In Effortless Battle, she gives electronic musician Ian Nagoski's sounds a visual analog in a bombardment of near-stasis, furious sensuality and philosophical questions on perception itself.

For the past several years, Pancake has been working on a documentary of the political exploitation and environmental catastrophe taking place in southern West Virginia, where hundreds of thousands of acres of mountains have been blown apart in search of remaining threads of coal, and where residents are forced to live with their most precious possessions in the trunks of their cars in anticipation of the day when the resulting floods will destroy their lives. Like all of Pancake's major work, Moutaintop Removal is a true document of the fringes of experience, a protest against dullness and conformity, an affirmation of the richness of lived experience and an epic exposition of subtle, unseen or impolite personal realms. This show directly benefits the completion of Mountaintop Removal.

We look forward to seeing you at this special event. -- Notes by Ian Nagoski