[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] February 14 – February 20, 2007

Eyedrum events February 14 – February 20, 2007


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

Members are admitted free to all events!
There are a couple of calls posted on our ‘Calls for Artists’ page that some of you might be interested in: a Portrait Show, ‘Furious’: The Angry Show’, and a Found Footage event . Click here for details! 

Last week to see the huge Sculpture show!  Now or never!
Ends Saturday, February 17th!
An all around great week, but be sure to scroll down a ways as there’s events early next week that deserve attention: The Noise Fest on the 19th and the return of Jean-Louis Costes on Tuesday the 20th!!
February’s Podcast is now available and includes recordings of performances by Subtitle, Blueprint, Islands, Chris Swartz, Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel, dp3, and Rising Appalachia. Check out the feed or use the direct download link!
Becoming a member of Eyedrum is a huge value in addition to helping keep the doors open! 
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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Wednesday February 14  8:00pm  $7 (sliding scale)
Pink Eye Queer Movie Salon:  When Art and Kink Collide’

Friday February 16  8:00pm  $5
The Amaranth & Anti-Arktikos

Saturday February 17  8:00pm  $15
Valloween Party!

Monday  February 19   8:00pm $5
President’s Day Post-I.N.C. Noise Fest

Tuesday February 20  9:00pm  $8
Jean-Louis Costes:  “Little Birds Shit”

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February 14  Wednesday

Pink Eye Queer Film Salon:  When Art and Kink Collide
Film
8:00pm
$7 (sliding scale)
Whether you're an art-lover, or an erotic adventurer, you won't want to miss Valentine's Day with the PinkEye event "Dirty South", featuring a program of Southern-made queerotica. We're especially excited to host Atlanta filmmaker/photographer Teri Rice's 15-year anniversary showing of her ground-breaking film 'The Kindling Point," shot here in Atlanta!
This showing will be the never-before seen director's cut of the movie that earned Ms. Rice international acclaim. 'The Kindling Point' (1993) frames intimately acted out rituals of lesbian sexuality in the context of artful dominance and submission. It was shown as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, and chosen as one of the top 10 films of the year by the Village Voice. This program also features other shorts by Rice, as well as the world premier of her sweetly romantic 'Signals'. Rice will be at the show to introduce 
her pieces and answer questions.

Also showing will be "Squishy Does P*rno"
(1994), another ground-breaking erotic piece created by a New Orleans art collective headed by director Wash Westmoreland. "Squishy" shows that sexy can also be smart, sassy, subcultural AND pansexual. Director Todd Haynes ("Velvet Goldmine," "Far From Heaven") called it "a lush explosion of radical sex and cinema." 

PinkEye is also thrilled to host the sizzling hot burlesque duo Good
N' Plenty performing their stunning sexy diva stunts. Add the tasty red velvet cupcakes and champagne we'll be serving, and you have the recipe for an unforgettable Valentines' evening to treat your sweetie! 

This program is so hot we're limiting it to 18-and-overs, please.
To sign up for email announcements, submit a film for consideration, or get more info, go to: 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PinkEye

http://www.myspace.com/PinkEyeFilm

or PinkEyeFlix@xxxxxxxxx



February 16  Friday

‘The Amaranth’
‘Anti-Arktikos’
Film
8:00pm
$5
'The Amaranth' is an open-ended--and possibly infinite--movie produced and presented in parts. New, sequentially numbered parts will appear from time to time (parts are added on most saturdays). At some time in the future, the parts will be presented together as a complete movie (or series of movies). 

http://amaranth.oakstreetfilms.com/

His Introspective Trance:
Jarrod Whaley grows his Amaranth online
by Bill Colrus
September 20, 2006
If you have a little bit of trouble figuring out Jarrod Whaley’s films, it’s to be expected. Whaley doesn’t work within a standardized structure the way, say, 99 percent of filmmakers do.
“Maybe this sounds kind of cheesy and New-Agey or something, but I guess I want to put people in a kind of introspective trance,” says Whaley. “I want to see if I can strip away the mundanities of everyday life and delve into my subconscious, with the hope that doing so will maybe help others do the same. There are a lot of weird and interesting things buried beneath the surface of conscious thought, and there’s a lot that can be learned about both oneself and the universe as a whole in there.”
With his latest work, The Amaranth, Whaley has found a way to further develop his approach. Every week or two since May, he has released three- to five-minute chunks of the film online. (Segments can be viewed at http://amaranth.oakstreetfilms.com. Segments are also available via video podcast subscription.) Citing a lack of interesting content within videoblogging and video podcasting circles, Whaley thought it might be interesting to do “something cinematic with the whole podcast thing” and see what came of it. What came of it was a whole new way for him to make films. 

Way more info on our website

Anti-Arktikos by Judith Mogul

http://www.anti-arktikos.com
Combining live and stop action, puppets and children, ANTI-ARKTIKOS follows the adventures of a young girl Momo, and her penguin friend Pipi, in a land first identified by early Greek explorers. Constructed primarily out of paper, Mogul has created a fantastical landscape of sculpted glaciers, inhabited by demons, shamans and a skeptical colony of penguins. In the making for over 6 years, Mogul's collaboration with Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner for soundtrack, and Jarrod Whaley for camerawork, bring this dreamlike story to life. 


February 17  Saturday

Valloween Party
8:00pm
$15


It's time to dress up and throw down!!!!
This is a funky prom for everyone, no date required. A swinging outfit is, however, so think "thrift stores" for some threads. Tickets are $15 and include beer/wine fountains, food and Webb Wilder, "last of the full grown men." But wait that's not all, you'll also get a Personalized Polaroid Prom Picture - your lasting proof that your were cool enough to attend. You could even get your fortune told!
Please note that dancing is encouraged and popular here, and hey, why wouldn't you dance? 

The event starts at 8pm, and Webb's on at 10pm.
You can check Webb out at www.myspace.com/webbwildernow -- the Human Cannon ball video just floors us every time!!!!! 


February 19  Monday

President’s Day Post-I.N.C. Noise Fest
Music
8:00pm
$5

curated by SFTP
Temple Of Bon Matin: "If a gang of smelly welding students broke into your house, force fed you PCP, tore the place apart, all while some maniac banging on your doors with two ball peen hammers, that would have to be Temple of Bon Matin" Pete Larson Bulb Records
Radio Shock is a disco-noise-wave one-man band. Get ready for Yamaha beats, Gameboy bleeps, and the best guitar playing since Arto Lindsay in DNA.
Mugu Guymen are Nigerian brothers with a penchant for on the fly spastic space-drone musick via synth/guitar/electrified drums
Buck Gooter is theremin, stylophone. acoustic guitar thru effects. drum machine. homemade instruments. freak out.
Social Junk is a band from huntington, west virginia and ashland, ky. you'll be happy to find that they are doing the most experimental music.
Yatagarasu is bass, drum machine, nintendo [literally] rhythmic spazz outs
Bishonen Idolpop Genocaust is live/audience participation DIY Dance Dance Revolution synth-pop hyginx. they did a cdr for local label Sleepaway Recordings
Zack Kouns, also a member of Social Junk & Kissy Kissalots, produces feelings. just what sort of feelings is for you to decide. but don't miss him, or you have no feelings
White Noise Team U.S.A. is local yokel Whiskey Zack of Whisk-Hutzel label, Jose P Orchestra, and host of live shows/contests all about whiskey. 


February 20  Tuesday

Jean-Louis Costes
”Little Birds Shit”
Performance
9:00pm
$8

Starring: Jean Louis Costes and Lisou Prout with support act: Mr Natural
The return of renouned French absurdist Jean-Louis Costes to Eyedrum is certainly one of the most highly anticipated performances of the year. His 2003 vomit inducing presentation of “Holy Virgin Cult” at the gallery both thrilled his long-time fans and earned him a legion of new listeners. After surviving malaria, the Paris riots and the authoring of his first book, this historic cult figure returns to Atlanta to present his new work "Little Birds Shit".
“Little Birds Shit” is the story of an ordinary couple. They meet...they flirt…they fuck…They make a baby. Gradually they find themselves falling into the trappings of normal existance. Working to make money becomes their new focus. As they grow weary from the struggles of life, they find solace in bizarre acts of S&M sex. Yet cruel, earthly fates conspire to keep them down. The couple must finally come to The logical conclusion of this journey, finishing in Hell.
Jean-Louis Costes is a multi-discipline artist- musician, playwright, author, and performer - he was once the husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, and helped write the backing noise-opera music of the Suckdog Circus, and was also a performer in Suckdog, along with Carver, Dame Darcy, Coz the Shroom and others. Costes has released many albums, including Hung by the Dick from Nihilist Records. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin. Some of his albums have been banned in his native country of France for their obscenity. 

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In the Galleries:




Small Gallery:

Lynn Marie Kirby
“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.
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. 

Through February 24
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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