[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] February 22 – February 24, 2007

Eyedrum events February 22 – February 24, 2007


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

There are NO gallery hours this Sunday, February 25th!!!
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 Lynn Marie Kirby’s installation in the small gallery! Now or never! 
Ends Saturday, February 24th!
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! 

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

Thursday February 22  8:00pm  $5
Michael Shaowanasai

Saturday February 24  6:00pm – 10:00pm  Free
Grant Park Cooperative Preschool Auction

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February 22  Thursday

Michael Shaowanasai
Performance/Film
8:00pm
$5
Michael Shaowanasai presents The Adventure of Iron Pussy, his over- the-top spoof of Thai action films and the sex industry. At Eyedrum he will screen episodes of The Adventure of Iron Pussy, as well as giving a performance involving several dozen masks. 

from kickthemachine.com:
"'The Adventure of Iron Pussy' series are underground video projects portraying a crime-busting heroine who was once a-go-go boy. He has seen the unfair treatments of the sex workers during his years in the business. Gradually, (S)he has become the most wanted heroin who most likely to save the day and make Bangkok safe for the tourists who come to support the sex industry. Iron Pussy is one of the personas of a Thai performance artist Michael Shaowanasai, whose works directly criticize; satirize the Thai gender politics and the art industry at the same time."
Michael also appears on Wednesday, February 21, at Emory University (8:00 PM in White Hall room 112) to screen the feature length version of The Adventure of Iron Pussy. These are Michael's only eastern US appearances!
Michael Shaowanasai graduated from School of Law at Chulalongkorn University in 1985, earned a bachelor's of fine arts degree at San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and a master's of fine arts from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. He is a founding member of Project 304, a Bangkok-based contemporary art group. 


February 24  Saturday

Grant Park Cooperative Preschool Auction
8:00pm
Free

Enjoy an evening out and support Grant Park Cooperative Preschool.
Silent and live auctions featuring vacations, restaurant gift certificates, retail items, and anything else you can imagine. 

New Orleans style dinner & dessert, $15.

Cash bar with beer, wine and hurricanes!

Live jazz by the Adam Cole Trio.
Featured Artists: Laura Bowman-McNeil, Mary Frances Estock, Gail Foster, Charles Keiger, Christy Kinard, Elliot McMichael, Claude Miller, Ian Nicholas, Rebecca Puig, Cooper Sanchez, Jill Schultz- McGannon, Tom Swanston 

Auction Highlights
A one-week vacation for the whole family in the mountains of Little Switzerland, North Carolina! Hand-crafted items for kids - sandboxes, a picnic table, schoolhouse bookshelves, and an artist's easel. 
A commissioned portrait or sculpture of your child by local artists.
Items for the home - everything from dining room chairs to marble and drywall. 




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



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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