[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] August 2 – August 6, 2006

Eyedrum events August 2 – August 6, 2006


Regular Gallery Hours are Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Members admitted free to all events!

Carbonist School and Robert Witherspoon exhibitions end Saturday. Last chance! Now or never!

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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Wednesday August 2 9pm $5
Oak Island, Suitcases, Jean Claude Jam Band, African Greys

Thursday August 3 9pm Free
First Thursday Open Improv

Friday August 4 8pm $8
Finding Clear – Blake Dalton & Crossover Movement Arts

Saturday August 5 9pm $5
Z-Axis CD Release

Sunday August 6 7:00pm – 9:00pm Free
Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special on WREK

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August 2  Wednesday


Oak Island
Suitcases
Jean Claude Jam Band
African Greys
Music
9:00pm
$5

Oak Island, hailing from Massachusettes, deliver insanely beautiful songs that range from brooding and ambient to quirky rock and roll.
Jean Claude Jam Band (Boston)wrap up the evening with thier particular brand of bent power pop.
Atlanta's Suitcases shred the aural spectrum with a little noise, a little rock.
The likeminded noisters African Greys will open up...your skull.

Also performing is Pocket Gallows, former Atlantians with a penchant for noise-addled fury.

Oak Island
Jean Claude Jam Band
Suitcases
African Greys


August 3  Thursday

First Thursday Open Improv
Music
9:00pm
Free

Get'cher Twang On: avant-country

"…all efforts to restore art though its social function…are doomed."
T.W. Adorno/Aesthetic theory

"I was country before country was cool."
Barbara Mandrell

"..walkin's easy when the road is flat…"
some country song

Yeah, the country was here before any of us
('Avante! The future becomes the past becomes the last becomes the first…'),
the land, maybe even the trucks, yr dawg, your guitar,
your mama, and you walked right out one rainy night,
didn't let the door hit you on the way out,
the melancholic bluesy booziness
Cletus and Bocephus
of the Dwight Yoakam or the George Jones or the Loretta Lynn
to have four walls around you to hold you tight
when the race is on and it looks like heartbreak's in the lead …
but what the HELL would 'avant-country' be!!?,
some unknown, untaken country before the country, even ahead of the country
somebody to take back the country while there's still a country to take back,
YEE-HAW even, the heartbreak, the screen doors, the corn fields
and burlap sacks, the red clay roadside,
moon shine through pines, sussurring
humming, moaning, yearning,
the dark minor chord cicada mansions at night towering over head,
buzzing white-noise like,
some insect spaceship comin' to get us southern mofo's
in a concrete bean patch in a minor key, diminshed seventh,
instead of 'JA-ZUS is coming soon, lay down your burdens',
bloody swords overheads,
anyways
she'll be coming around the mountain when she comes
but she got her phazers on high comrades, hissing,
C'mon ya'll now,
shake that sh*t off'n your shoes and
let's kick it 'cause south's gonna rise again
into the stratosphere
of frozen magnolias, mutant kudzu,
back to celtic gameplan yodeling monsters
stuck on Spaghetti Junction at night
w/o the sauce
…get on out ch'ere
'fore the creek dries up
if it ain't already

les' blow sumpin'
up ya'll



August 4 Friday

Finding Clear–Blake Dalton & Crossover Movement Arts
Multimedia – Movement
8:00pm
$8

A laboratory showing of the continuing work Finding Clear. Blake Dalton with his collaborative group Crossover Movement Arts, brings you inside the ongoing project, delving into the archetypal foundations of our existance thru visceral movement of martial arts, dance and theatre, live music composed and created by Colin Bragg, video art by Kevin Hoth. Also featuring east coast freestyle poling with the Crossover Pole Posse.
www.crossovermovementarts.com

myspace.com/colinbragg


August 5 Saturday

Z-Axis CD Release Brouhaha
Music
9:00pm
$5 minimum donation to Eyedrum

Celebrating the long awaited release of "Concatenations"
Post-progressive rock; New-edge ambience; Psychedelia with a world- beat flavor; Synths, guitars and percussion; Funky, frenetic jams; Eclectic instrumental soundtracks to surreal multi-media experiences...


Mark Baker - guitars, guitar synth, ebow, loops, electronics, occasional percussion, vocals;

Phillip Hart - drum kit, djimbe, electronic & acoustic percussion;

Jeff Tyson - bass, occasional percussion, electronics, vocals;

Allen Welty-Green - keyboards, synths, electronics, melodica, percussion.

Special guests include Harold Timms (aka the Supersonic Scientist) on lap steel, Chip Epsten (Sundog) on violin & Beth Heidelberg on flute & sax. and featuring projections, live video manipulations and shadow- puppets by Madeleine St. Romain.

Z-Axis.org

Z-Axis myspace page


August 6 Sunday

Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special
Radio Program
7:00pm – 9:00pm
WREK 91.1 FM


On the first Sunday of every month, at 7 p.m., Eyedrum does a show on WREK (91.1 FM / www.wrek.org) that features nuggets from Eyedrum's archive of live performances.

After the show airs "live", you can listen to it via WREK's 7-day archive if you forget to tune in (direct links to Sunday Special streams: lo-fi or hi-fi). But wait, there's more! We now have a podcast available, for those of you who have discovered podcasting. You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size.



In the galleries:


Small Gallery:

Meta Gary

Meta Gary presents a series of paintings and drawings on wood depicting the intimacy and innocence in human relationships with animals.

Through August 12th.


Front Gallery:

"The Carbonist School: Study Hall"

School is in session.

Eyedrum hosts the first public exhibition (June 24-August 5, 2006) of The Carbonist School, an underground art and idea movement with its roots in the American South. The Carbonist School was founded over wireless laptops and cell phones in 2004 by a small group of black artists in response to shifting social realities in which an ever widening array of experiences has become available to black people.

By using metaphors of strangeness and mutation, and strategies of disorientation and science fiction allusion, these artists imagine a geek-enabled practice in which blackness is expressed as a malleable technology open to infinite mutation. No longer limited narrowly by metaphors of struggle or strictly by the logic of oppression, the Carbonist School opens a new era of expression marked by aesthetic exuberance, multilayered realities, and the cult of the strange. The Carbonist School seeks to represent blackness in ways that do not foreclose on multiple readings of the work. The Carbonist School is an idea whose time has come.

Come study with the Carbonist School: video, painting, sculpture and sound works by emerging and mid-career artists will be on the curriculum.

Exhibiting artists include Greg Tate, William Cordoa, Cauleen Smith, Kojo Griffin, Mendi+Kieth Obadike, Kevin Sipp, and others.

Exhibit runs through August 5th.


Back Gallery:

Robert Witherspoon, “Machinations”

sculptural installations

Machinate (mak'-e-nat'): to devise, plan, and plot artfully, especially with evil intent.
Machinator: a plotter, schemer; intriguer.

This exhibition, Machinations, showcases Robert Witherspoon's recent sculptural works that investigate the merging of installation art, social commentary, and object making. For this exhibition, Witherspoon has turned his attention to metaphor-laden objects and common iconography that have politically and socially potent messages. The associations and meaning escalate as the artist takes these objects out of context to investigate social issues ranging from censorship, the language of the defenses industry, to unabashed American consumerism. These subjects are all closely related in our society and current events at home and overseas.

At times the work leads you down some dark mental pathways that utilize humor, irony, and sometimes an exaggerated sense of scale to usher in a dialogue with the viewer. Witherspoon remarks, "My work strives to create situations that draw the viewer to investigate my objects closely while simultaneously creating visual and physical barriers that confront the viewer and create a psychological barrier that can be navigated."

At a time when the absurdities and perversions of war are unfurled and fears and insecurities about the future are augmented daily, the very collective psyche of our nation has temporarily become altered. The trajectory of Witherspoon's artwork reflects on this evolving dynamic and attempts to ratchet and rise to meet these challenges. In two of the installations, the language of the defense industry and censorship is certainly one of the foremost concerns. Using satire, common iconography and dark humor, Witherspoon unfurls his own parachutes and arsenals of the mind's eye that bears witness to political landscape like a canary in the coal mine.

Exhibit runs through August 5th.





Miscellany

July’s Podcast is now available!
This month's show is now available and features music from Dirty Projectors, Venus 7, Eastern Seaboard, Z-Axis, Shaking Ray Levis with Erik Hinds, Unbounded Sky and King Congregation, among others. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the May or July show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.




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