[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] June 19th - June 23rd, 2007

Eyedrum events June 19th – June 23rd, 2007
Gallery Hours: Closed this week. Will reopen Sunday, June 24th, 1 – 6:00pm 

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

Tuesday June 19th, 9:00pm  $5
Rapider than Horsepower, Chopper, Tree Creature

Friday, June 22nd  8:00pm  $5
Film: Plagues & pleasures on the Salton Sea

Saturday June 23  - free
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Art Opening: Anderson Scott's Nuwaubian ruins photos  &

Mercer's exhibition of Nuwaubian relics.

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Art Opening: Furious: The Angry Show




Tuesday June 19th, 9:00pm  $5
Rapider than Horsepower, Chopper, Tree Creature
Art punk featuring members of Race Bannon, motorhead style rock featuring members of Deerhunter, spacey droney goodness featuring members of Suitcases/1000 Holy Shards... ALSO!!: Yea Big + Kid Static 



Friday, June 22nd  8:00pm  $5
Film: Plagues & pleasures on the Salton Sea
Narrated by John Waters, with music by Friends of Dean Martinez, this disturbing documentary chronicles the rise and fall of California's notorious Salton Sea. Created by an irrigation accident, the large lake just outside of Los Angeles became a major tourist attraction in the 1950s and was soon hailed as the California Riviera. But after numerous hurricanes and floods, the Sea eventually grew into a stagnant, murky pool with an overly high salt content that killed fish by the thousands. Although the area is now a gross ecological disaster, a couple of hearty souls still live on it's edges hoping one day it will regain it's past glory. 

“Weird and wonderful!” - The New Times

“A heartbreaking, sidesplitting parade of humanity.” - Village Voice
"Fascinating! An alarming yet highly entertaining documentary." - Hollywood Reporter
“It’s a winner. This odd, but accessible documentary is reminiscent of Errol Morris’ early work… Metzler & Springer are no less talented.” - Pitch Weekly
“A lot of laughs. A funny and poignant new documentary.” -San Francisco Chronicle 

“A hilarious and kindly ode to a fallen paradise.” - SF Weekly
“An interesting, disturbing, and humorous look at environmental disaster.” - Berkeley Daily Planet
“Four stars! Offering you a vacation like you’ve never had before… in this charming, yet sad documentary.” - Film Threat 

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Saturday June 23  - free
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Art Opening: Anderson Scott's Nuwaubian ruins photos in Gallery 2 (through August 4th), & Mercer's exhibition of Nuwaubian relics in the small gallery (through July 14th.) 

A  photgraphic exhibit by Anderson Scott

From the Macon Telegraph article by Joe Kovacs Jr.:
In July 1999, Time magazine ran a 635-word item about an influx of black strangers who had descended on a plot of rural Georgia farmland, built "40-ft. pyramids, obelisks, gods, goddesses and a giant sphinx," and, in the process, drummed up quite a stir.
“Space Invaders,” read the headline of a piece that noted the cosmic- gone-country leanings of a religious-slash-”fraternal” group. These ostracism-claiming outsiders had dubbed themselves Nuwaubians.
Of course, locals had long known of them by the summer the national magazine blurb came out. They were “the pyramid people,” ones who, according to some of them, were followers of a leader who’d come to earth from another planet and settled, of all places, in Putnam County.
The tone of that breezy write-up in Time nearly eight years ago — and its understandably limited perception of what was truly transpiring in the pyramid pasture — persists even to this day. Even after the horrors that took place there have come to light.
The man from planet Rizq, or, as Dwight D. York is now known, inmate No. 17911-054 at the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo., was such a master manipulator that his most despicable acts are sometimes glossed over in memory.
We tend to remember the pyramids, then the perversion and only then the imprisonment. And it hasn’t been that long. If you ask, most folks don’t know how many years York was sentenced to serve in prison. Or that he is now living under the same roof as Terry Nichols, Eric Robert Rudolph, Zacarias Moussaoui and Theodore Kaczynski. Or that he was sent there for 135 years for molesting 14 boys and girls as well as for racketeering.
Or, necessarily, that he was, as author Bill Osinski’s new book refers to York, the target of “the largest child molestation prosecution … ever directed at a single suspect.”
Art Opening: Furious: The Angry Show (in Gallery One through August 4th). 
7:00pm – 11:00pm
An exploration of the dark side, curated by Natacha Roussel.

Those offended by the word "fuck" are invited not to attend.

Featuring the work of
Thomas Bailey
David Borawski
Cécile Carrière
Woody Cornwell
Jonathan Field
Scott Groeniger
Jenny Hager
G.H. Hovagimyan & Brian Caiazza
John Jennings
David Kasdorf
George Kennedy
Cara Pastore
Dietrich Wegner



Miscellany
The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences invites you to find out more about its Residency Program. Join us at Eyedrum, June 25th at 8:00pm, for wine and hors d’oeuvres, a presentation of work by Hambidge Fellows, and an overview of how and why a residency could be important to you and your work. Atlanta musician and composer, Dick Robinson, will be on hand to present his music and sound compositions created at Hambidge. RSVP to Bob Thomas at residents@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
June’s Eyedrum Podcast featured featured poetry from the Atlanta Poets' Group. APG is a group of experimental poets who have been in the Atlanta scene for over a decade. Once a year we bring them onto the radio show to recap the past year of Eyedrum performances and do some live works in the studio. Joining us on the show this time were Zac Denton, Alka Roy, Tracey Gagne, Mark Prejsnar and James Sanders; hosted by Chris Campbell.
You can find information and links to download this podcast (and many others) here…

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