[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] February 7 – February 10, 2007

Eyedrum events February 7 – February 10, 2007


New 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 and a Found Footage event . Click here for details!
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 7  9:00pm  $8
MV + EE with the Bummer Road (Matt Valentine & Erika Elder),
1000 Holy Shards, Lift Winds

Thursday February 8  9:00pm  $8
Athens Boys Choir

Friday February 9  9:00pm  $7
dp3, H(k)at

Saturday February 10   9:00pm $12
Sex Workers Art Show


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February 7 Wednesday

MV + EE with the Bummer Road
1000 Holy Shards
Lift Winds
Music
9:00pm
$8
From the deep wilds of New England, specifically lower Vermont and western Massachusetts, MV/EE and the Bummer Road, an enclave consisting of Matt Valentine, Erika Elder, Michael Ehlers and a revolving/evolving auxiliary of men, women, dogs and stars has been exploring, developing and investigating the lost-and-found art of what they describe as “lunar blues, sometimes fingerstyle noise/ space” for a few years now. After a host of recordings issued by various cosmo-song inspired labels, particularly MV/EE’s own Child Of Microtones imprint, which has released an awesome array of hand-made CDRs not only of their own exploits but that of the howling spirit- community they run with, Ecstatic Peace is positively glowing to announce what may be the heaviest, most sky-minded recording in MV/EE + the Bummer Road’s oeuvre - a stunning follow up to the critically acclaimed MOTHER OF THOUSANDS record released earlier this year and WE OFFER YOU GURU, voted one of the best avant rock records of 2005 by THEWIRE.
Locals 1thousand Holy Shards open with a tonic concocted from equal parts acoustic and electric, melody and racket. 
website


February 8  Thursday

Athens Boys Choir
Ex Members
and more!
Music
9:00pm
$8
Athens Boys Choir consists of national touring transexual spokenword artist Katz who delivers hard-hitting poetry with a multi-media twist. He has released two CD's and has shared the stage with musicians such as Ani Difranco, the Indigo Girls, Michelle Tea, Girlyman, and even Poets of HBO's def Poetry Jam. His Poetry is raw, honest, and unapologetic. THE EX-MEMBERS are an Indie-Electro-Rock band from Durham, NC featuring the vocal power of riot grrrl Shirlé Hale (ex-Gerty!, Womyn of Destruction & Mary Lou Lord), the hard- hitting groove of Melissa York (ex-Butchies, Team Dresch, & Vitapup) & the rhythmic strumming of David K (ex-Gerty! & Liquor Bike). Combining electronics, dance beats, punk rock and naughtiness, The Ex- Members are about to burst at the seams. 
One other act TBA


February 9  Friday

dp3
H(k)at
Music
9:00pm
$7

dp3 is an Atlanta-based quartet, focusing on improvised themes and
occasional compositions. Comprised of Andrew Boring (trumpet), Paul Mercer (violin), Davis Petterson (drums), and Matt Mansfield (bass), dp3 strives 
for searing sonic textures on top of solid grooves.

dp3 website: http://dp3online.com
dp3 MySpace: http://myspace.com/dp3online


February 10  Saturday

Sex Workers Art Show Tour
Visual/Performance Art
9:00pm
$12
An eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by the people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and genuises.. 

This year's incredible lineup of performers includes:
International burlesque sensation and recent recipient of the "Best Body in Burlesque" award Dirty Martini 
Author of Happy Baby, Stephen Elliot
Member of the internationally renowned Japanese performance collective Dumb Type, Cono Snatch Zobobinskaya 
Award-winning author of How I Learned to Snap, Kirk Read
Acclaimed Whitney Biennial artist and winner of Miss Exotic World 2006
Julie Atlaz Muz
Stripper historian and activist Jo Weldon
Enigmatic operatic singer and performer Reginald Lamar
Feminist smut purveyor and queer film star Amber Dawn
And our tour founder and ringmaster Annie Oakley.

For more information on the tour visit:
http://www.sexworkersartshow.com





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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