[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] July 19 – July 24, 2006

Eyedrum events July 19 – July 24, 2006


Regular Gallery Hours are Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm

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July’s Podcast is now available!
This month's show is now available and features music from Dirty Projectors, Venus 7, Eastern Seaboard, Z-Axis, Shaking Ray Levis with Erik Hinds, Unbounded Sky and King Congregation, among others. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the May or July show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.

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

Thursday July 20  9:00pm $3
Info Demo 2.3 ‘How to be Hot’

Friday July 21  9:00pm $5
Sue Wilkinson, TouchXTone

Saturday July 22  6:00pm – 8:00pm  Free
Meta Gary – small gallery opening

Saturday July 22  9:00pm  $5
Kareem Khalifa Farewell Concert

Sunday July 23  9:00pm $5
The Aum Rifle, Eiliyas, Mugu Guymen

Monday July 24  9:00pm  $5
Awesome Cool Dudes, Hot Gold, LA


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July 20  Thursday


Info Demo 2.3 – ‘How to be Hot’
Multimedia performance
9:00pm
$3

Hot and bothered. Hot under the collar. Hot ‘n’ spicy. Hot as molasses in July.

The Info Demons, Terra Elan “Moana Loa” McVoy and Christopher “Steamin’” Stevens, warmly encourage your presence at Info Demo version 2.3, for an entertaining examination of various kinds of hotness. We have quite a number of things on the boil once again, including:
A medley of torrid tunes
The unveiling of a new, more masculine steam iron
A fevered fable of surgery at Sundance
Music video of Rural Romp-n-Roll (all the way from Alabama!)
Some boilin’ burlesque with the babes of “Good and Plenty”
Plus more super-heated surprises, and the ever-popular “Guess What’s in the Boxes” contest!
For more Info Demo info, contact the Info Demons, at
boyohboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or visit www.eyedrum.org

INFO DEMO: ARE YOU HOT ENOUGH FOR IT?


July 21  Friday

Sue Wilkinson
TouchXTone
Music
9:00pm
$5

Best known as a rock'n'roll pianist/singer, Sue Wilkinson presents a different side of her artistry ... ambient, electronic, ethereal, experimental dreamscapes.

More info...
http://suewilkinson.com/index.html

Ambient synth stlyists TouchXTone open


July 22 Saturday

Meta Gary
Art opening small gallery
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free

Meta Gary presents a series of paintings and drawings on wood depicting the intimacy and innocence in human relationships with animals.

Opening reception.
Small Gallery.
Through August 12th.

Later that evening…

Kareem Khalifa
Music
9:00pm
$5

Kareem Khalifa, dp3, , The Unexplained Explainers , and King Bomba, . Slated to leave Atlanta for Middlebury, VT in late summer, Kareem has gathered his closest musical collaborators from these three projects to play in all manner of configurations and ensembles, to debut some new compositions, and to give thanks to everybody who has listened to, played, or inspired his music and his life during his 7 years in Atlanta. All are welcome to attend, particularly people who have played with Kareem at Eyedrum’s open improvs.


July 23 Sunday

The Aum Rifle
Eiliyas
MuguGuymen
Music
9:00pm
$5

The Aum Rifle is a geographically obsessed low volume noise and folk project based out of Raleigh, NC. They've done albums for Shrimper Records and Nightpass Handmade as well as appearing on a variety of compilations. Their records have been nationally distributed at one time or another. Right now The Aum Rifle is touring in support of a new EP of strange songs about two seats of industrial decay, a tale of two cities of sorts. Though theres not too much in the way of Dickensian rags to riches, but rather street tales about neighbors and friends. The project uses prepared guitar, found objects, bells, contact mics thumb pianos and the show space environment itself. Lead singer and throat singer, John Thill has been known to play a washer/ drier combo at house shows and junk found outside the venue at other locales. Nonetheless the sense of melody is there, though shot through with interesting changes and sounds. This combination of low volume noise and guitar strumming has charted several times on college radio stations in the West such as KSPC. A former part of the Southern California folknoise scene that produced bands such as Amps for Christ and Gowns, Mr. Thill now resides in the Mid South region and is looking to explore.

Eiliyas's music mixes and mashes unlikey layers of sound to create a startlingly lovely landscape of loops, samples, keyboards, and glitchy racket. it's good stuff.

Nigeria's Mugu Guymen whip up a chaotic sonic storm fueled by thier own greed and a knack for creating turbulent wave forms...mind melting noise and face droppingly good rock and roll (sort of).

The Aum Rifle
http://www.myspace.com/theaumrifle

Eiliyas
http://www.myspace.com/eiliyas

Nightpass
http://www.geocities.com/frodalfandgandor/

Mugu Guymen
http://www.myspace.com/muguguymen


July 24 Monday

Awesome Cool Dudes
Hot Gold
LA
Music
9:00pm
$5

Hits include "Larry Bird Highlight Reel" and "Dorm Room Disco Fantasy." Don't leave em hangin'. They're just here to entertain...

A.C.D.
http://www.awesomecooldudes.com/

Hot Gold is a musical experimentation yielded at the helm by professional knobtwiddler, troublemaker, and
misunderstood cracked mind of matt mccalvin - consisting of keyplayers from many of atlantas premier bands such as airoes, blame game, and a fir-ju well.. Long in depth and short of fear, Hot Gold is a constant stream of thought from the imagination -from kraut rock stomp
to electronic squalls the sounds range from surfy demented guitars and mechanical drumming to complete wall of noise segues.

Lesbian Afternoon, or ‘LA’ as the band is often
referred, is the recorded adventures of one Atlanta
native, Mike Koenig. About 10 years ago Lesbian
Afternoon was born into the delicious world of sound
by way of a ghetto blaster, an acoustic guitar and
some girls on the sidewalk passing by. Moving on
through years of 4/8 track recording, 5.1 ‘LA stereo
surround sound’ and countless LPs available only to
friends wearing space suits, Lesbian Afternoon has
amassed quite a following in the less inhabitable
regions of greater New Zealand.



In the galleries:


Front Gallery:

"The Carbonist School: Study Hall"

School is in session.

Eyedrum hosts the first public exhibition (June 24-August 5, 2006) of The Carbonist School, an underground art and idea movement with its roots in the American South. The Carbonist School was founded over wireless laptops and cell phones in 2004 by a small group of black artists in response to shifting social realities in which an ever widening array of experiences has become available to black people.

By using metaphors of strangeness and mutation, and strategies of disorientation and science fiction allusion, these artists imagine a geek-enabled practice in which blackness is expressed as a malleable technology open to infinite mutation. No longer limited narrowly by metaphors of struggle or strictly by the logic of oppression, the Carbonist School opens a new era of expression marked by aesthetic exuberance, multilayered realities, and the cult of the strange. The Carbonist School seeks to represent blackness in ways that do not foreclose on multiple readings of the work. The Carbonist School is an idea whose time has come.

Come study with the Carbonist School: video, painting, sculpture and sound works by emerging and mid-career artists will be on the curriculum.

Exhibiting artists include Greg Tate, William Cordoa, Cauleen Smith, Kojo Griffin, Mendi+Kieth Obadike, Kevin Sipp, and others.

Exhibit runs through August 5th.


Back Gallery:

Robert Witherspoon, “Machinations”

sculptural installations

Machinate (mak'-e-nat'): to devise, plan, and plot artfully, especially with evil intent.
Machinator: a plotter, schemer; intriguer.

This exhibition, Machinations, showcases Robert Witherspoon's recent sculptural works that investigate the merging of installation art, social commentary, and object making. For this exhibition, Witherspoon has turned his attention to metaphor-laden objects and common iconography that have politically and socially potent messages. The associations and meaning escalate as the artist takes these objects out of context to investigate social issues ranging from censorship, the language of the defenses industry, to unabashed American consumerism. These subjects are all closely related in our society and current events at home and overseas.

At times the work leads you down some dark mental pathways that utilize humor, irony, and sometimes an exaggerated sense of scale to usher in a dialogue with the viewer. Witherspoon remarks, "My work strives to create situations that draw the viewer to investigate my objects closely while simultaneously creating visual and physical barriers that confront the viewer and create a psychological barrier that can be navigated."

At a time when the absurdities and perversions of war are unfurled and fears and insecurities about the future are augmented daily, the very collective psyche of our nation has temporarily become altered. The trajectory of Witherspoon's artwork reflects on this evolving dynamic and attempts to ratchet and rise to meet these challenges. In two of the installations, the language of the defense industry and censorship is certainly one of the foremost concerns. Using satire, common iconography and dark humor, Witherspoon unfurls his own parachutes and arsenals of the mind's eye that bears witness to political landscape like a canary in the coal mine.

Exhibit runs through August 5th.





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