[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] July 26 – July 31, 2006

Eyedrum events July 26 – July 31, 2006


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

Friday July 28  8:30pm $6
Stand In Sisters

Saturday July 29  8:30pm $6
Stand In Sisters

Sunday July 30  8:30pm $6
Stand In Sisters

Monday July 31  9:00pm  $5
Hyle / GFE

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July 28  Friday


Stand In Sisters
Theater
8:30pm
$6

Twinhead Theatre and Performance Group
http://www.twinheadtheatre.org/

STAND IN SISTERS
by Dr. Gayle Austin, directed by Deisha Oliver

Twinhead Theatre and Performance Group announces its second collaboration with writer Gayle Austin entitled, Stand In Sisters. This piece is a feminist conceptual performance with music and visuals that are a collage of texts both aural and visual, live and mediated, verbal and non-verbal. It is a result of a process of collaboration among writer, director, actors, artists and technicians. Stand In Sisters will concern the dyads of women: sisters, twins and doubles and takes its shape from the likes of Baby Jane, sister Blanch and the denizens of Mulholland Drive and Persona.

"Last fall Twinhead Theatre did such a good job re-mounting my "Resisting the Birthmark" from fifteen years earlier, about the relation between a woman and a man, that I wanted to come full circle and collaborate with them in composing a companion piece, about the relations among pairs of women," says the writer, Gayle Austin.

This collaborative "work-in-progress" will ask both participant and audience member: Who can stand in for a sister? Who is the "other" woman in the drama of women?"

The cast includes: Diana Brown, Caroline Caspar, Krista Carothers, Neil Huber, Amanda Quinones, Cherry DelRosario and the Twinhead Theatre ensemble with special musical accompaniment under the direction of Norm Ficke.


July 29  Saturday

Stand In Sisters
Theater
8:30pm
$6

See above description


July 30 Sunday

Stand In Sisters
Theater
8:30pm
$6

See above description


July 31 Monday

Hyle
GFE
Music
9:00pm
$5

Hyle is Maxwell Citron and Cole Leahy playing semi-improvisational folk music (+more adjs) subjected to electronic manipulation. we make audio/visual environments as a way to fuel nomadism using compositional tools acquired through time spent in stanford's center for computer research in music and acoustics. having tired of this setting, we are off to be nothing but simple men playing / singing / dancing / etc for this is the best thing we can think of doing in this instant. if you wish to assist wandering bikhu musicians in this world, a show or bed will aid our mission. we like good books and bad ones. we like walnuts and almonds. This project is filled with a youthful exuberance. I think. (always second guessing self and understanding). Regardless of the self-aggrandizing bio/manifesto (overly dramatic phrasing), we wish to create art and travel far.

GFE:
Jeff Bradley - double bass
Scott Burland - pedal steel, theremin
Rob Cheatham - saxophones, keyboards
Kevin Haller - guitar
Bob Hulihan - electronics
Milt Jones - percussion, etc.
John Lowther - turntables

or some combination of the above...

"Boom! Boom! Wow!"
      - Iva Keranova

"They sound like an orchestra tuning up."
      - Martha McCall

"Here comes a charging, wild rhino. If you want to listen, fine. Either way. This rhino stops for no one."
- R. Walter Riley


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.


Miscellany

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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