The Way Things Are

"I have this notion that art occurs in the process of life itself, and you don’t have to go outside of the context of your own life. It’s all there, and you just tap into it. You open up to it. You have to make yourself available to possibilities."

David Ireland
August 25, 1930 - May 18, 2009

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[Quote from Oakland Museum website. Image from the Los Angeles Times. Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. Caption: "Interior view of 500 Capp Street." With "Broom Collection with Boom," 1978/88. Brooms, wire, copper, concrete, and C-clamp. 52 x 31 x 82 inches.]

Social Innovation + Civic Participation

[From NPR's May 28 Morning Edition]

White House Creates Office Of Innovation
by Pam Fessler

"The Obama administration has created the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The idea is for the government to work with nonprofit organizations to identify programs that have had proven success in tackling social problems, such as homelessness and joblessness, and then to expand those programs across the country. The office will in effect provide seed money for the most innovative ideas."

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[text from NPR web site. Graphic from Google image search for 'Office of Innovation.' Cross posted to Signal Fire.]

Meliès Cinémix

Jean Vigo Evénements
Meliès Cinémix

Friday, May 29
6:30pm - 8:20pm

Cour Mably
3, rue Mably
Bordeaux, France

Cinéconcert "mix" par Flamen autour de l’intégrale de Georges Meliès, sur des enregistrements de musiques instrumentales de Pierre Thilloy et des sons électroniques de Flamen.

Par le mix, le DJ allie et enchaîne différentes idées musicales pour les faire avancer ensembles, parfois vers un même but : bien souvent la danse...
Pour Guillaume Flamen (DJ producteur/remixeur, pianiste), ce cinéconcert est un cinémix.

L'objectif de ce cinémix est d'accompagner musicalement de façon actuelle des films de Meliès datés de 1905. C'est proposer un mix de musiques et de procédés : le DJaying et l'accompagnement instrumental de films muets ; le déclenchements de fichiers audios et le jeu improvisé ; le soutien ou la destabilisation du sens de l'image.
Les ingrédients de ce cinémix ?
- un cinéma poético-humoristique à effet spéciaux première génération
- une musique instrumentale, de chambre ou symphonique aux sensations fortes, à l'image de péplums grandioses
- des sons electro/minimale/house/ambient empreints de groove old-school et teintés de culture web & blog.

[text from FB event page. Graphic from image search for "Meliès."]

Flamingos Forever for 6:40

May 28 | 7:30 pm [gmt]

David Gale's Peachy Coochy Nites
Toynbee Studios, London
Tel: 020 7650 2350

"Just a projector and 20 images. Just 20 seconds per image. Just Peachy!

Now a monthly staple for all but a few, David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites are held on the last Thursday of each month in Artsadmin's Arts Bar & Café, where the merciless Peachy Coochy format is imposed on a fresh succession of showoffs."

"Featured this month: Fake I.D. (Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees) presenting Flamingos Forever, a sound sculpture slideshow that gives a second chance to supporting characters from John Waters'never-filmed sequel to "Pink Flamingos."

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[Text and graphic from Toynbee Studios and Fake I.D. Facebook Event page. Long live Pecha-Kucha!]

Market Forces

Gallerie Erna Hecey
Rue des fabriques 1c
1000 Brussels

28 May – 8 August
MARKET FORCES
Curated by Peter Scott

Michael Ashkin, David Baskin, Betty Beaumont, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Louise Lawler, Alex MacLean, Diane Nerwen, Filip Noterdaeme, Sigmar Polke, Walter Robinson, Ron Rocheleau, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, Heidi Schlatter, Peter Scott, Monika Sziladi, Momoyo Torimitsu, JeongMee Yoon

"Market Forces addresses the euphoric consumer culture of the last decade that manifested itself in a seeming overflow of goods and services and an explosion of luxury housing development that now dominates the urban landscape. The term is derived from laissez-faire economic theory and refers to a hands-off approach to the ‘natural order’ of supply and demand. Used in this context, it is meant to invoke skepticism concerning the almost religious belief in, and militant protection of, our god-given right to consume. This two-part exhibition is intended to be as inclusive as the market is pervasive, with work that addresses the influence of consumerism on personality, labor, politics, and the built environment."

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[Text and graphic from the gallery website. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Mr. Tambourine Man

[From the 1964 Newport Folk Festival Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941. Introduced in this clip by Pete Seeger. Headphones recommended.]

Drawing Contemporaries

Eyebeam
540 W. 21st St.
New York, NY

Drawing Contemporaries
through June 9

"... curated by Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg, is an exhibition of work on paper made by a peer group of new media artists who all create drawings, both as a primary object and as an experimental process. For many of the artists, the use of computers and algorithms are the focus in their work. While a number of the artists are Eyebeam affiliated, all are contemporaries whose influences upon each other can be traced in this exhibition."

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[text and graphic from Eyebeam website.]