[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] February 22 – February 25, 2006

Eyedrum events February 22 – February 25, 2006

Regular gallery hours:  Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm


Small gallery exhibit by Erin Burke, Danielle Benson, Audrey Molinare closes Saturday, February 25th. If you haven’t yet seen this exhibit, swing by during gallery hours this week, it is really quite something!


February 24 Friday

Sex Workers Art Show
Art, Music, Performance Art
8:00pm
$10


ONE NIGHT ONLY

The Sex Workers' Art Show is coming to Atlanta! The show is an eye- popping evening of visual art and performance created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses! The cabaret-style show brings audiences a blend of spoken word, music, burlesque, and multimedia performance art, as well as a visual art display that travels with the show.

The lineup includes iconic queer writer Michelle Tea; Whitney Biennial artist and burlesque performer Julie Atlas Muz; foremother of the prostitutes' rights movement Scarlot Harlot; hip-hop poet Juba Kalamka, and more. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the artwork and performances smash traditional stereotypes and move beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives.

The Sex Workers' Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, gender, labor, and sexuality. For more information, visit www.sexworkersartshow.com.



February 25 Saturday

recompas
r_garcia
MFBC
Extreme Animals
Music
9:00pm
$5


About Recompas, Brainwashed Magazine says: "The Recompas (sometimes spelled re com pas) sound is a dub-tickled, low tempo collage of processed beats, synth melodies, and scrap bits of noise that sound roughly familiar but don’t identify with any particular scene. What I love most about Thatcher's work is that it's dirty as hell, with loops that are scraped across gravel, beaten to death, and then full of artifacts and wandering hints of noise that fill up the space perfectly. Recompas plays with some primitive synth sounds that echo '70s BBC sci fi music and game melodies, but the result never sounds like a throwback or rehash."

recompas website

About r_garcia, Brainwashed Magazine says: "With as much style hopping and genre mashing as Garcia does, there's sure to be a track or two on a record like this (Nerd Parade) that just miss a particular set of ears, but the reverse is also true: there's
something for everyone to love here. Some of the synths are cheesy and the rhythms are occasionally straightforward to a fault, but it's all supposed to work that way. The secret weapon for Nerd Parade is Garcia's absolutely fearless pursuit of a good tune. Melodies stick out in an almost embarrassing way until you realize that Garcia's well aware that he is the leader of the Nerd Parade, and he revels in it. And while he occasionally breaks beats with the ferocity of the darkest breakcore beats, but he does it playfully, in service of a simple joy that makes his music something special and transcendent of genre or style."

r_garcia website

+ Music from the Belly of the Cosmos

AND! dance party with the Extreme Animals from Paperrad (nerds gone wild!)
Extreme Animals




Currently in our small gallery:

Erin Burke, Danielle Benson, Audrey Molinare

Athens-based artists Erin Burke, Danielle Benson, Audrey Molinare.
www.greenblanky.com

Through February 25th.



Miscellany

Febraury’s Podcast is now available
This month's show features music from Chris Devoe, Ju Ju B. Solomon, and Ocha La Rocha, from the New Street CD compilation event on Feb 3rd Two dozen bite-sized selections from the frenetic February Open Improv that enforced a 60-second limit on all of the improvistional performances. At various times, the instrumentation included a didgeridoo, tuba and a chorus of cell phones.
If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed . If not, you can also just download the January or February show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.

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