[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] February 1 – February 4, 2007

Eyedrum events February 1 – February 4, 2007


New Gallery Hours:  Friday 3 - 8:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 1 – 6:00pm

Members are admitted free to all events!
There are a few calls posted on our ‘Calls for Artists’ page that some of you might be interested in: a Portrait Show, a Found Footage event and ‘Furious: The Angry Show'…hurry, hurry, hurry! 
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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Thursday February 1  9:00pm  $Free
First Thursday Open Improv

Friday February 2   7:30pm  $10
Atlanta All Stars Talent Show Network

Saturday February 3   6:00pm - 8:00pm $Free
Small Gallery Opening:  Lynn Marie Kirby

Saturday February 3   8:00pm $TBA
Films by Lynn Marie Kirby

Sunday January 28   7:00pm – 9:00pm
Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special on WREK 91.1 fm

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February 1 Thursday

First Thursday Open Improv
Music
9:00pm
$Free
Anything goes at Eyedrum's monthly open improv night as a gaggle of Atlanta jazz aficionados & freaked out freebirds come together in a celebration of skrinks, skronks and experimental whispering and wailing. Reined in by Eyedrum Executive Director Robert Cheatham, the Thursday night event is a marathon of cool, spaced out and bizarro sounds laid down by everything horns and drums to howling dogs. Chad Radford 

This month it’s the return of: ’60 seconds over Atlanta’
Yes, we all have attention deficite syndrome...let's put it to use before we forget what we're supposed to be doing. 
You got sixty seconds: get in and get out.


February 2  Friday

Atlanta All Stars Talent Show Network
”Have You Ever Seen a Dream Rappin?”
Performance
7:30pm
$10
Join us for this inspiring production "Have You Ever Seen A Dream Rappin' ?" written by the young cast, 11 to 18 years old, based on original spoken word, original song, rap and dance pieces, and personal letters written by the youth to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asking the collective question, 'Are we still dreaming about a better world?' The program is sponsored by Atlanta All Stars Talent Show Network a non-profit that fosters social development through performance, particularly in some of the most underdeveloped communities. Come to support youth who are creating in communities and enjoy the humor, honesty and power in their words and music.
Performance at 8PM, Doors open at 7:30PM. For more information, call 404-634-4645 or http://www.atlallstars.org/ 


February 3  Saturday

Lynn Marie Kirby
Installation/Small Gallery Art Opening
6:00pm - 8:00pm
$Free
“Film is now as much an archive medium, a slightly by-passed material, as a container of images. Yet film retains an aura, it has a physical presence, that even when not projected we can see.” --Lynn Marie Kirby
San Francisco artist Lynn Marie Kirby’s three-decade body of work encompasses film, video, performance, installation, and sound art. In February, Eyedrum welcomes Kirby for her first-ever installation in Atlanta. It is the first gallery show to be presented as part of Eyedrum’s award-winning Film Love series.
Kirby’s film-based installation in Eyedrum’s Small Gallery will use both the materials and history of cinema, exploring the spaces between new and old technologies, present and past, home and travel. Accompanying the opening at 8:00 PM on February 3, Kirby will host a special screening of her films.
Please see the separate calendar entry for information on Saturday's film screening with Lynn Marie Kirby
A past Guggenheim Fellow, Kirby is a professor at California College of the Arts. Her work has been shown at at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, L.A.C.E. in Los Angeles, SFMOMA, the Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and venues in Berlin, Istanbul, London, and Sarajevo.
The Film Love series is programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love was awarded Best Film Series by the critics of Creative Loafing in Best of Atlanta 2006. 


February 3  Saturday

Lynn Marie Kirby
Film
8:00pm
$3 donation requested
Lynn Marie Kirby’s films reconcile opposing forces: intimate family spaces and vast landscapes, domestic interiors and international travel. This reconciliation is rooted in her filmmaking technique. Her 16mm films – made without a camera, by exposing the film to the light of a chosen site – are transferred to a digital editing deck, where in a improvisatory process she creates a new work from the footage, "articulating the machine realm between the realms of film and digital." In a special screening on the night of her Small Gallery opening at Eyedrum, Kirby hosts an evening of her recent film- to-digital works, accompanied by earlier works from the 1990s, including her documentary-portrait film Three Domestic Interiors.
Three Domestic Interiors (1993), 16mm, 36 minutes, color, sound (shown on video) 
Paris and Athens, June (1994), digital video, 15 minutes, color, sound
Latent Light Excavations series (excerpts) (2002-3), digital video, 8 minutes, color, sound Time Dilations series (excerpts) (1999-2003), digital video, 5 minutes, color, sound
Lynn Marie Kirby's films are part of the Film Love series. Film Love is programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. 


February 4  Sunday

Eyedrum Archive Sunday Special
Radio Program
7:00pm - 9:00pm
WREK 91.1 FM Atlanta
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:
Outdoors, In and Around theParking Lot, The Stables (adjacent toEyedrum): 

Sculpture Eyedrum Outdoors 2007

Organized by Bill Spence
An exhibition of over 50 Southeastern sculptors & collaborative groups, presenting sculpture, installation, video, & performance, 
plus an interactive Iron Pour compliments of Inferno Art Foundry
The artwork will be on display in & around the parking lot of Eyedrum, on the outside of the Eyedrum building, and, thanks to the generosity of our landlord The Braden Fellman Group, in The Stables adjacent to Eyedrum. 

Through February 17

Indoor Galleries:

“In Exile From the Land of Reason”

Curated by Linda Armstrong
Using a diversity of approaches and materials, the works selected for this exhibition confront the viewer with their overt yet subversive examination of contemporary political issues. 

Featuring work by:

Julia Fenton
Bill Fisher
Richard Lou
Kerry Moore
Joe Peragine
Todd Woodlan

Through February 17




Miscellany
January’s Podcast is now available. This month we played recordings of live performances by: Islands, Prince Myshkins, The Fuzzy Cousins, Faun Fables, The Friendly Bears, PowerLunch, Human Motion, Au Revoir Simone, Charalambides, Kristen Strezo and the Czech Republic, Acid Mothers Temple, and The African Greys. We played a studio recording by open improv regular Ryan Stich who passed away recently, and filled out the show with some Velvet Underground in tribute to the Andy Warhol film screenings happening later this month. Here’s the direct download link 
Or Podcast feed.


December’s Podcast
Please check it out, it features music from Sailor Winters, Lid Emba and Islands…and info about our last art exhibits/installations. 
Direct download link
Or Podcast feed

October’s Podcast
We devoted lots of time to a revisiting of the Atlanta underground/ indie scene of the early/mid 1980s, with previously unreleased recordings by 86, Pillowtexans, Vietnam and Amalgamated Cliff Divers; there's a show at Eyedrum on Oct. 7th that has lots of people from these bands performing for the first time in many years. After the retro fix, we played a few songs by Tunnels, Acid Mothers Temple and Hubcap City, all recorded live at Eyedrum in the past month. We closed with Tuna Helpers (performing Oct. 11th) and a short piece by avant garde luminary Jack Smith. If you don’t know what all the podcast fuss is about, a podcast is simply an audio file that you can listen to on your computer or portable mp3 player. For those of you who are familiar with podcasting, please click on podcast. (http://www.eyedrum.org/radioshow.xml ) You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size. If you’re having trouble, respond to this email… we can help! 

September’s Podcast
Click here for the feed or download the show here!
It features lots of Table of the Elements stuff! Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, Ruins, all in anticipation / remembrance of the festival happening this weekend at Eyedrum. Also featured were Hubcap City, A.C.M.E., Arthur Doyle, Go! and Tunnels, all recorded at previous Eyedrum engagements and returning to town in September. Check it out! 




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