Wednesday, March 31, 2010

CLUI in Northern Nevada

Carson City Library [map]
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City
ph. 775-887-2244

Wednesday, March 31 | 7 pm

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series

"Everything Is Land Use: Humans and the Common Ground in America" Illustrated Talk by Matthew Coolidge


"Nevada Neighbors, the Capital City Arts Initiative's ongoing series of illustrated public talks, will host Matthew Coolidge, director of CLUI – The Center for Land Use Interpretation.

From Nevada’s location on the western edge of the Intermountain West in the center of the Great Basin, environmental issues speak to the heart of the state. A look at these issues through work created by scholars, environmental activists, and artists will provide new information and perspective on our delicate high desert environment.

Southern California-based CLUI has an experimental field station near Wendover in northeastern Nevada. Founded in 1994, CLUI takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history.

Mr. Coolidge is the author and editor of several books, including "Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with CLUI", and "The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to the Nation's Nuclear Proving Ground."

[Text from CCAI press release. Image courtesy of CLUI. Caption: "Center for Land Use Interpretation Field Session at the Desert Research Station. Credit: CLUI Archive. 2001." In the spirit of full disclosure: the Data Stream editor serves on the board of CCAI and acts as its curator.]

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Eric is Derek

[Clearly best known by most in this century as the most polished of guitarists, Eric Clapton has a formidable history as a bluesman and rocker. Below is a brilliant and somewhat enigmatic vintage 60's performance by Cream of "Sunshine of Your Love," on the occasion of Mr. Clapton's sixty-fifth birthday.]



Eric 'Slow Hand' Clapton. Born in Ripley, Surrey, England on March 30, 1945.

Monday, March 29, 2010

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Line-up - Friday April 30

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Friday April 30


* Aretha Franklin * Allen Toussaint * Gipsy Kings * Kirk Franklin * Jose Feliciano * Take 6 * Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Band * Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers * The Dixie Cups * Stanley Clarke Band feat. Hiromi * The Subdudes * John Mooney & Bluesiana * Elvis Perkins in Dearland * Stanley Buckwheat Dural * Eric Lindell * Nicholas Payton Sextet * Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys * Louis Prima, Jr. * The Iguanas * Nadirah Shakoor * Fredy Omar con su Banda * PJ Morton * New Orleans Spiritualettes * Astral Project * John Boutte * Kent Jordan * The Jon Batiste Band * Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra * Onward Brass Band * New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra * The Selvys * Big Al Carson * Hadley J. Castille Family & the Sharecroppers Cajun Band * Fi Yi Yi & the Mandingo Warriors * Jimmy Robinson * The Rocks of Harmony * Connie & Dwight with the St. Raymond/St. Leo the Great Choir * Papa Blue Viking Jazz Band of Sweden * Dee-1 * Buckwheat Zydeco * Thomas 'Big Hat' Fields * Julliard Jazz Ensemble * Pfister Sisters * Ray Abshire * Kid Simmons' Local International Allstars * Brother Tyrone * J. Monque'D Blues Band * Forgotten Souls Brass Band * Bamboula 2000 * Kristin Diable * Creole String Beans * Rev. Jermaine Landrum and Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir * Kora Konnection feat. Morikeba Kouyate of Senegal and Thierno Dioubate of Guinea * Marisa y Mariachi Agave * Fleur de Ladies Brass Band * N'Fungola Sibo West African Dance Company * Voices of Peter Claver * Gospel Inspirations of Boutte * Heritage School of Music Band * Gloria Bell & the Revelation Gospel Singers * Nashville Children's Choir * New Wave Brass Band * New Orleans Indian Rhythm Section * Original Big Seven and Original Four Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * Adella Adella the Storyteller * KIDsmART and ISL Circus Arts Program * Young Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians * Scene Boosters * Ole N Nu Fellas, and Secondline Jammers Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * KIDsmART Artist Troupe * The Jazz Cats Marionettes

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys'.]

Sunday, March 28, 2010

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Line-up - Thursday, April 29


2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Thursday, April 29


* Widespread Panic * Elvis Costello & The Sugarcanes * Gov't Mule * Average White Band * Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers * Blues Traveler * Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk * Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Celebration of 'Lady Day' * Bernard Allison * Martin Sexton * Four Freshmen * Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys * C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band * Soul Rebels * Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots * Kirk Joseph & the Sousaphone Symphony Parade honoring Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen * Inspirational Souls of Chicago * Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show * Shannon Powell's Organ Combo feat. Charlie Gabriel, David Torkanowsky, and Peter Bernstein * Bobby Lonero's Tribute to Louis Prima with Johnny Pennino & the New Orleans Express * Geronimo Hunters and Creole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove * Orange Kellin's New Orleans Deluxe Orchestra * Elysian Fieldz * Derek Miller * Willis Prudhomme & Zydeco Express * GROUPA - Nordic Folk Fusion * The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders Band * Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole * Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony * Dala * Black Seminoles Mardi Gras Indians * Red Hawk Mardi Gras Indians * Walter Payton with Snapbeans & Gumbo Filt * Vivaz! * Jazz Ladies Sing the Blues feat. Gina Brown, Angela H. Bell, Tereasa B., and Heather Rothstein * R. Scully Rough 7 * Coco Robicheaux & the Swamp Monsters * Classie Ballou & the Family Band * Mark Adam Miller * Grupo Sensacion * 101 Runners * Paulin Brothers Brass Band * Mario Abney Sextet * Lafayette Rhythm Devils * Loose Marbles * Hot Club of New Orleans * Joe Hall & the Cane Cutters * Lucky 7 * BonSoir Catin * Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band * McDonogh #35 * O. Perry Walker, and McMain High School Gospel Choirs * Lyle Henderson & Emmanuel * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Eddie 'ChopChops' Paris * Tulane University Jazz Ensembles * Thunder Hill * The Wright Brothers * Dillard University Jazz Ensemble * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Heavenly Melodies * Pastor Terry Gullage & the Greater Mount Calvary Voices of Redemption Choir * Tornado Brass Band * VIP Ladies and Bon Temps Roulez Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * David & Roselyn * Miss Claudia & her Traveling Troubador * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Jazz Fest Residency Showcase with Seva Venet and the Wilson Charter School * OPSB Talented in Theatre feat. McMain Secondary, Bethune, and Franklin Elementary Schools

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from 'C.J. Chenier, Jr. Myspace page.]

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)


Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
Frank O'Hara

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

=

Frank O'Hara. Born March 27, 1926

[Photo from Google image search for 'Frank O'Hara.]

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy

March 26 - 8 pm

Gabe's

330 East Washington Street
Iowa City, IA

Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy

“…Psychadelic -folk pieces – Think Syd Barret and Neutral Milk Hotel.” — Chris Riemenschneider, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

QNTV


Queen's Nails Annex
3191 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 648 4564

Friday, March 26th

QNTV
Screenings at 8pm + 10pm


Performance by Wanda and Wonder between the screenings, around 9pm.

"Introducing QNTV: the first in a series of video screenings at Queen's Nails Projects that showcase work blending performance, music, video and song writing. Join us this for a fantastic line up of local, national and international artists whose practices range from conceptual/ performance bands, to straight-up music promos, to videos that feature music as the inspiration for the artist's work."

Austin Young/ Jackie Beat, Baby Got Front, 2007
Andrew Steinmetz/ Jennifer Sullivan, Sexual Healing, 2010
Japeth Mennes/ Judson Claiborne, Moonraker, 2009
Mark Locke/ Jeffrey Lewis, Willamsburg Will Oldham Horror, 2005
My Barbarian, The Night Epi$ode, 2009
Sofia Córdova, Dip Si Dai Ver, 2010
Ely Kim, Boom Box, 2009
Lew Baldwin/Juiceboxxx, Thunder Jam III, 2005
Cody Critcheloe/ Ssion, Bullshit, 2009


Curated by Rachel Adams and Zoë Taleporos.

[Text and graphic from Queen's Nail mailing. Poster by Robin Muccari.]

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

William Kentridge


The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400

William Kentridge: Five Themes


"This large-scale exhibition surveys nearly three decades of work by William Kentridge (b. 1955, South Africa), a remarkably versatile artist whose work combines the political with the poetic. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism, his work is often imbued with dreamy, lyrical undertones or comedic bits of self-deprecation that render his powerful messages both alluring and ambivalent. Best known for animated films based on charcoal drawings, he also works in prints, books, collage, sculpture, and the performing arts. This exhibition explores five primary themes in Kentridge’s art from the 1980s to the present, and underscores the inter­relatedness of his mediums and disciplines, particularly through a selection of works from the Museum’s collection. Included are works related to the artist’s staging and design of Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose, which premieres at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in March 2010."

Through May 17

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Graphic from The L Magazine.]

Friday, March 19, 2010

Drift and Surge

Outpost for Contemporary Art
1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, March 20
3 - 4:30pm

Mike Wolf - Drift and Surge


"For the past four years, Mike Wolf has been an itinerant cultural worker, circulating in the upper Mississippi and Western Great Lakes parts of the Midwest, with a home base in Chicago. He helped to organize Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago; and contributed to The Compass Group, a group of activists, artists and theorists working to unleash the decolonization campaign of the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.

Wolf will present "Drift and Surge: How We Conjure A Radical Culture Corridor" where he’ll draw on images and anecdotes from various collaborative projects such as walking pilgrimages, exhibitions based on Midwestern wanderings, and the campaign to decolonize North America; experiences that brought him into contact with the broader landscapes of the Midwest, beyond the traditional urban cultural centers. He will also discuss the plans of The Compass Group leading up to the U.S. Social Forum, held this June in Detroit, and his encounters with other Midwestern-based groups like "Boggs Center To Nurture Community Learning" and "Unsettle Minnesota."

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Text from Outpost Facebook invitation. Graphic from Google image search for "Midwest map.']

Thursday, March 18, 2010

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Line-up - Sunday April 25


2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Sunday April 25


* Anita Baker * Allman Brothers Band * Darius Rucker * Jonny Lang * The Levon Helm Band * Juan Luis Guerra y 440 * Imagination Movers * Keely Smith * King Sunny Ade & His African Beats * Blind Boys of Alabama * Susan Cowsill Band * Marcia Ball * Shawn Colvin * Donald Harrison * Voice of the Wetlands All Stars * Theresa Andersson * Louisiana LeRoux feat. Tab Benoit * The Radiators - Pre-War Blues * Wayne Toups & Zydecajun * The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong feat. Wycliffe Gordon, James Andrews, and Victor Goines * Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra * Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians * Free Agents Brass Band * Golden Blade and Ninth Ward Navajo Mardi Gras Indians * Golden Star Hunters and Carrollton Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Jeremy Davenport * Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians * Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience * Preservation Hall Jazz Band * James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars * New Orleans Klezmer Allstars * Susan Cowsill * Grayson Capps * Mark Braud's New Orleans Jazz Giants * Guitar Slim, Jr. * Tribute to Juanita Brooks feat. Germaine Bazzle, Leah Chase, and Betty Shirley * Storyville Stompers Brass Band * Lionel Ferbos & the Palm Court Jazz Band * The Electrifying Crown Seekers * Watson Memorial Music Ministries * Honey Island Swamp Band * Seguenon Kone & L'Ivoire Spectacle * Marc Stone * BateauKracBook Stiltwalkers * Kim Carson * Michael Ward * Original Dixieland Jazz Band * Miss Sophie Lee * Sammy Rimington's Jubilee Band * Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys * Sonny Bourg & the Bayou Blues Band * Nineveh Mass Choir * Gospel Soul Children * Rumba Buena * Minister Jai Reed * Robert 'One String' Gibson * Julio y Cesar * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Untouchables * Furious Five, and Big Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * Young Pinstripe Brass Band * Gospel Stars * Voices of Distinction * University of New Orleans Jazz Ensemble * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Olympia Aid * New Look, and the First Division Social Aid & Pleasure Club * Young Audiences presents Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue * Angela the Yarnspinner * New Orleans Traditional Brass Band with the Heel to Toe Steppers * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Red Hot Brass Band * Kai Knight's Dance Academy * Guardians of the Flame

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Marcia Ball 'Photo by Mike Perry.]

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Music Line-up - Saturday, April 24


2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Saturday April 24

* Simon & Garfunkel * My Morning Jacket * Drake * Better Than Ezra * Ledisi * Sam Bush * the funky Meters * Campbell Brothers * Smokie Norful * COWBOY MOUTH * Red Stick Ramblers * Big Sam's Funky Nation * Walter 'Wolfman' Wahington & the Roadmasters * Papa Grows Funk * Tab Benoit * Sax For Stax Featuring Gerald Albright, Jeff Lorber, Kirk Whalum * Kirk Whalum * Jeff Lorber * Preservation Hall with special guests Jim James and Terence Blanchard * Davell Crawford and One Foot in the Blues with special guests Dr. John and Jon Cleary * Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians * Golden Comanche and Seminoles Mardi Gras Indians * New Orleans Bingo! Show * Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters * Terence Blanchard * Wild Mohicans, and Red, White & Blue Mardi Gras Indians * Savoy Center of Eunice Saturday Cajun Jam * Bonerama * Bounce Extravanganza feat. Big Freedia Sissy Nobby, Katey Red, and Magnolia Shorty with DJ Poppa * The Wiseguys * Jewel Brown with the Heritage Hall Band * Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Thais Clark * The New Orleans Bingo! Show * Treme Brass Band * Bill Summers & Jazalsa * George French & the Original Storyville Jazz Band * Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes * Lil' Buck Sinegal Blues Band * Guitar Woodshed feat. Steve Masakowski, Todd Duke, and Jake Eckert * Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars * Midnite Disturbers * Kirk Joseph & the Sousaphone Symphony Parade honoring Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen * Tin Men * Judy Spellman * Mahogany Brass Band * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * D.L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces * Rockie Charles & the Staxx of Love * Kirk Joseph & Tuba Tuba * Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble * Andrew Duhon & the Lonesome Crows * Panorama Jazz Band * The Red Stick Ramblers * Blessed * Patrice Fisher & Arpa and the Honduran Connection * Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble * Chris Clifton * Bleu Orleans * Tonia Scott & the Anointed Voices * Leo Jackson & the Melody Clouds * N.O.C.C.A. Jazz Ensemble * Black Feathers * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Da Souljas Brass Band * Culu Children's Traditional African Dance Ensemble * Loyola University Jazz Ensemble * Resurrection Mass Choir * Greater Antioch Full Baptist Church Mass Choir * Betsy McGovern & Patrick O'Flaherty * Lindsay Mendez * Ladies of Unity * Dumaine Gang, and Divine Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Johnette Downing * Archdiocese of New Orleans Mass Gospel Choir * Golden Voices Community Choir * Curtis Pierre & Samba Kids * RRAAMS Drum and Dance * Single Men and Nine Times Men Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs


[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. 'Photo by NealyBob.]

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Music Line-up - Friday April 23


2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Friday April 23


* Lionel Richie * Dr. John * Steel Pulse * George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic * Baaba Maal * Elvin Bishop * Chocolate Milk * Jon Cleary * Frankie Ford * Deacon John * Joe Lovano * Bob French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band's 100 Year Celebration * Irma Thomas' Tribute to Mahalia Jackson * The Joe Krown Trio with Walter 'Wolfman' Washington and Russell Batiste Jr. * Lena Prima * Anders Osborne * Jumpin' Johnny Sansone with Anders Osborne and John Fohl * Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers' Tribute to Rockin' Dopsie Sr. * Black Crowes * Maurice Brown Effect * Black Mohawk Mardi Gras Indians * Kenny Neal * Glen David Andrews * Mia X with Ms Tee and Cheeky Blakk * OTRA * Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas * Leah Chase * Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band * Little Freddie King Blues Band * The Revivalists * Semolian Warriors and Comanche Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Leroy Jones & New Orleans Finest * Tommy Sancton New Orleans Quintet * Lost Bayou Ramblers * New Orleans Night Crawlers * The Revealers * Rotary Downs * James Rivers Movement * Spencer Bohren * Jesse McBride presents the Next Generation * Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys * David Egan * Kipori Woods * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Mas Mamones * Shades of Praise * Franklin Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir * Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders feat. Butch Thompson * Jambalaya Cajun Band with special guest Merlin Fontenot * Real Untouchables Brass Band * Beth Patterson * June Gardner & the Fellas * Kevin Thompson & the Sensational Six * Native Nations Intertribal * Chip & Polly Radke with the God's House Choir * Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Ensemble * Mount Hermon Mass Choir * Smitty Dee's Brass Band * Alexis Marceaux Band * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Kat Walker Jazz Combo * Natasha Richard of Canada * Delgado Community College Jazz Ensemble * John Lee & the Heralds of Christ * The Bester Singers with the Dynamic Smooth Family Gospel Singers * Keep N It Real and Single Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * Grey Hawk * Brass Band Throwdown with the Behrman Charter & O. Perry Walker School Bands * Family Ties and Big Nine Social Aid & Pleasure Club * McDonogh #42 Elementary School Performers

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Irma Thomas.']

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

It's a great day for the Irish.



Óró 's é do bheatha 'bhaile

"... a traditional Irish song, that came to be known as an Irish rebel song in the early 20th century.

The song in its original form, Séarlas Óg (meaning "Young Charles" in Irish) refers to Bonnie Prince Charlie and dates back to the second Jacobite rising, during the reign of George II in 1745-6.

In the early 20th century it received new verses by the nationalist poet Padraig Pearse and was often sung by IRA members and sympathisers, during the Easter Rising. It was also sung as a fast march during the Irish War of Independence."

==



When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.
Dennis Morgan
: "The very fine Hollywood actor with the excellent tenor voice sings this famous ballad from the film Tear Gas Squad."

[Óró 's é do bheatha 'bhaile text from Wikipedia. Dennis Morgan text from YouTube.]

Monday, March 15, 2010

Umm Kulthum

Below are links to "Umm Kulthum: 'The Lady Of Cairo," a feature on National Public Radio by Neda Ulaby. The March 15, 2010 report is part of the U.S. radio network's "50 Great Voices" series.

READ | LISTEN

[Cross-posted to Signal Fire. Graphic from Google image search for "Umm Kulthum"]

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Performing Public Space


Performing Public Space

La Casa del Tunél
Calle Chapo Márquez 133
Colonia Federal, Tijuana BC Mexico

Saturday, March 20
Closing Party


2:00 pm: Fallen Fruit: Acción Fruta Urbana
4:30 pm: Lauren Bon: Tia Juana Day
7:00 pm: Portable City Projects: People's Café Dance Party
7:30 pm: John Geary: A Touch of Evil

"As towns and cities are increasingly overwritten by the needs and desires of globalized capital, so public spaces and the behaviors they support are becoming evermore shrunken and controlled. At the same time however, everyday examples of common usage – a skate boarder curving past a crowd, a girl chopping and bagging melon on the sidewalk, a child dancing up a mountain of steps – counterpoint homogenization and regulation.

Curated by Owen Driggs, Performing Public Space (PPS) is both a celebration of artists who consciously adopt such tactics and instrumentalize their bodies in an effort to bend, expand, or puncture dominant spatial narratives, and an inquiry into the ways in which public space is articulated through real use.

Like tumbleweed, the inquiry is designed to pick up more material as it roams. Understanding that, despite the strategies of corporate commerce, local spatial conditions vary, at each place it visits PPS will work with local citizens to create a city-specific archive. Documenting both quotidian uses of public space and witting artist interventions the archives will be included in the exhibition and become part of a growing website that considers local, national, and international interpretations of 'public space' and approaches to its preservation, generation, and augmentation."

Lauren BON
FALLEN FRUIT
FINISHING SCHOOL
John GEARY
Anne HARS & Bill
WHEELOCK
Ari KLETZKY
Paul PESCADOR
Nancy POPP
PORTABLE CITY PROJECTS
Jane TSONG
L.A. URBAN RANGERS


[Text and graphic from organization. Caption: "'Ryan, Freerunner, 2009.' Owen Driggs." Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Security


Root Division Gallery
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.863.766

Security

Marisa Aragona | Andrea Chung | Gary Duehr | Oasa duVerney | Benjamin Echeverria | Stephanie Ellis | Pete Hickok | Glenn Hirsch | Yu-Hang Huang | iiiahh Collective | Jeremiah Jenkins | Suzanne Kehr | JP Kelly | Lee Lee | Alma Leiva | Paula Levine | Lesley Louden | Lisa Martin | Masako Miki | Randall Miller | Robert Minervini | Nancy Popp | Renée Rhodes | Paulina Velazquez | Serena Wellen | Doug Williams | Kathryn Williamson

Guest Curators: Stephanie Ellis & Serena Wellen

"Security means simply, the provision of safety. Security is related to the oldest meaning of curate: to care for souls. Today, the business of security is a global and corporate phenomenon. Its primary agenda is the production of fear; its ideal consumer is immobilized by dread.

Security (the exhibition) seeks to address this pivot between asylum and alarm. We are painfully aware of the brutality that so-called professional security may engender. Unspeakable ugliness appears when protector and protected warp into perpetrator and victim, but the curators of the exhibition seek to upturn rather than reproduce the fear, uncertainty, and mistrust already so pervasive in our everyday. To that end, they looked for humor, gentleness, and a light touch as well as acuity, provocation, and gravity in the works selected.

The artists chosen for the exhibition touch on the care or solicitude necessary for collective wellbeing as well as artists who tackle the charms or fetishes necessary for security's sell. How we define security for our communities and our world will determine how we get there and where we arrive."

Reception: Saturday, March 13, 7 to 10 pm

Through March 27

[Text and graphic courtesy of the gallery and curators. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Friday, March 12, 2010

Virtuoso Illusion

MIT List Visual Arts Center
20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15
Atrium level
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
617-253-4680

Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde

"... explores what has traditionally been called gender crossing or cross-dressing (drag) as a tactic for media artists that has been central to the development of the current avant-garde. The show explores how experimental art has been invigorated and advanced by artists who cross dress for many different reasons as part of their conceptual process. It is not intended as an exploration of identity issues specifically, but more as an in depth look at current and historical strategies of cross dressing as an art of the irrational, the unexpected."

Through April 4.

more

[Text from List website. Graphic from Google image search for "Claude Cahun." Caption: "Claude Cahun (Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob), French (Nantes, France, 1894 - 1954, Saint Hélier, Jersey.) 'Le Mystère d'Adam (The Mystery of Adam).' 1929. photograph | gelatin silver print.]

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Umpiring Under the Amateur Code of Rules

Outpost for Contemporary Art
1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, March 13, 2010 7 - 10pm

"T-shirt Revival Night" with Kiki Johnson


"For a minimal charge ($3 for one, $5 for two), Kiki will "revive" your old T-shirt, canvas bag or whatever other clothing you bring in by silk-screening one of five designs onto it.

Titled "Umpiring Under the Amateur Code of Rules" Kiki Johnson will use drawings inspired by spring training and the approaching baseball season for the silk-screening event.

Johnson redraws historical images, not as duplications or copies, but as reenactments of the images. Subjects such as sailors and witches are placed side by side, revealing how these two apparently dissimilar subjects are in fact treated as equals within historical discourse. By collecting images from history books, rather than history itself, Johnson creates delicate and eerie images that collapse the languages of maritime history and superstition. As Johnson's drawings are more performative then representational, her work also expands into performances in which she reenacts historical rituals such as baking a Great Depression era recipe or burning a Christmas tree to fry pancakes over the fire on Shrove Tuesday. Whether images or performances, her work confronts viewers with the results of history, stripped of its supporting context. The viewer must justify these images and actions as they exist now, and also question the meaning of the word “yesteryear.” Replacing the authoritative voice of history with her own voice brings cause to question the accuracy, authenticity, and truth of history as it is presented.

In conjunction with NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night."

More

[Text from Outpost FB invitation. Graphic from Kiki Johnson's website. Caption: "Baseball Crest, ink on paper, 8.5”x11”, 2010." Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Listening Party

Thursday, March 11 | 7-8:30 pm

The Holland Project

Holland Project Headquarters
30 Cheney Street

March Listening Party


"Come let your hair down, or whatever? You know the deal. Person + album + more people +rock talking = Holland monthly listening party.

Brad Nelson of RN&R, Reno Noise, and other sundry publication fame will be here to play a record of his choice (maybe a double LP - so bring a pillow)!

Certainly, it's going to be a great night. Hope you can join us!"

[Text from Holland FB invite. Graphic from Google image search for 'listening to 45's.' Caption from Life Magazine: "Group of teenagers listening to 45 rpm. records as they shop for the latest hits at a record store. Photo: Nina Leen/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Dec 01, 1944."]

Saturday, March 06, 2010

free size


March 13 - April 17, 2010
apexart

Sinudom Silk Screen Factory

35/21 Moo 1, Sakaegnam Road
Samaedam, Bang Khun Thian
Thailand

Franchise Two: "free size" **
Curated by Logan Bay

Participating artists: Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Juan Angel Chavez, and P7

"In a mass produced world of global goods, the act of creation is often lost or forgotten. Hidden machinery cranks and sweats out elements of our everyday life, yet we rarely glimpse the environment where ideas are physically forged. To produce the exhibition free size artists Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Juan Angel Chavez, and P7 will work directly in the Sinudom Silk Screen factory along side employees creating works of art. By bringing these contemporary artists into a global manufacturing hub the realms of production and creation will exist in a simultaneous space, transforming this modest factory into an active generator of creative capital. The Sinudom Silk Screen factory is located on the edge of Samut Sakhon a province that houses many factories. Over the past few decades Thailand has worked to become a producer of exportable goods and inexpensive items for domestic use. While the manufacturing machinery is abundant, many of the products are designed elsewhere. free size will encourage viewers to see that industrial spaces can also be incubators for creative thought and social evolution.

** For Franchise Two we excluded submissions for exhibitions to take place in large cities like New York, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, to focus on locations with less than 500,000 people — places such as Moshupa or Priboj, Baton Rouge or Lübeck, Cadiz or Az-Zawiyah, Heidelberg or Zinder. In response we received 243 exhibition proposals from 63 countries, and jurors submitted over 5,000 votes to identify a winner."

Opening reception: March 13, 2-6 pm

[Text and graphic from apexart. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Worms at work for the environment

Wednesday, March 3 - 11am

Public Space 1

Iowa City, Iowa

F@S Session 4: Worm Composting

"Don't know what to do with your banana peel? What about those coffee grounds? And that moldy takeout?

Why not compost?

Don't have enough space? Come to 827 E. Market St. #2 to learn how to build a worm compost bin that fits under your sink! If you would like to build your own, please bring two large, plastic bins with lids and some newspaper."

More:

Worm Composting
Composting With Red Wiggler Worms

[Information and graphic from organization mailing. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]