[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] May 9 – May 13, 2006

Eyedrum events May 9 – May 13, 2006


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


May 9 Tuesday

Eye Opening Days
Film
8:00pm
$5

Georgia State University's Community Based Media Production class will host an evening of collaborative video work and a benefit.

The Community Based Media initiative finds advanced GSU film/video production students undertaking outreach via video cameras as a means to develop shared media authorship with commnunities that have been overlooked, misrepresented, or underrepresented by mainstream media.

Doors open at 7:30 and the screening will start at 8pm. Raffle tickets will be available at the door and benefit select community projects.

A full list of the video program can be found on Eyedrum’s website.


May 10 Wednesday

Info Demo v2.2
“Are You Gonna Eat That?”
Multimedia
9:00pm
$3      

"Are You Gonna Eat That?
Culinary Obsessions, Compulsions and Repulsions"

Terra Elan McVoy and Christopher Stevens, the Info Demons, invite you once again to the illuminating entertainment that is Info Demo.

FOOD- It's central to every culture, essential for life, celebrated in song and story, and - as Fran Leibowitz noted - goes a long way toward rounding out a good meal. Food is also a major bone of contention: Likes and dislikes, allergies, fad diets (all those restrictive this-or-thatisms), genetic modification, good and bad gustatory memories...

Come one and come all and be edified and entertained by barbecue expert Alvin McNeely, A/Vtrix Jennifer Kornder, lyrical bravadist Leigh Craigmyle, and more! In keeping with tradition, there will be a contest of some sort, and someone will walk off with a valuable prize (probably edible).



May 11 Thursday

Found Fantasies: Video Works by Nguyen Tan Hoang
Film
8:00pm
$5

Artist in attendance!

The video works of Nguyen Tan Hoang occupy a unique space in the current artistic landscape. An adept of the "found footage" tradition of film and videomaking, Hoang uses images and sounds from Hollywood movies, karaoke videos, pornography and other sources to create dense, energetic works which reconfigure popular culture, movies, and sexual identities from his perspective as a Vietnamese-American gay man. Found Fantasies is an evening of Hoang's videos and other works, specially chosen by the artist himself.

A full list of the program and more information can be found on Eyedrum’s website.


May 12 Friday

King Congregation
Celephais
Samadha
Music
9:00pm
$6

King Congregation:  From the four-track mind of Ben Lawless.
Celephais:  Metal-sludge dream-quest survivors.
Samadha:  Chris Case's space-jazz ensemble.



In the Main Galleries:

National Juried Show Exhibition


Artists:
Michael Allman
Artcor
Christopher Boehm
Jonathan Bouknight
Stasia Chung
Xavier Daniels
Grady Haugerud
Heidi Jensen
Jason James
Carol John
Dorothy Love
Jeffry Loy & Joe Martin
Christopher McCarra
Michael Murrell
Ann Otterness
Judy Parady
Lourdes Perdomo
Allen Peterson
Judith Simmons
Delona Wardlaw


Juror:
George Kinghorn is the Director of the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. He
has been with
the museum since 1999, previously serving as the Deputy Director and Chief
Curator. He has organized over thirty modern and contemporary art
exhibitions. Mr. Kinghorn has attended the Non-profit Executive Institute at
Georgetown University and is a graduate of Leadership Jacksonville. He
serves on the selection and art advisory panels for the City of
Jacksonville, Art in Public Places Commission and was involved in the
creation of the city owned photography collection and the selection of
several site-specific sculptural works placed at the newly constructed arena
and baseball stadium. Kinghorn received his Master of Fine Art degree in
visual arts from Michigan State University.

In the Small Gallery:

Patrick Heagney
‘StoryTime’

Color Photography

Story Time rests on an overriding sense of ambiguity. Blurred images
deliberately steer the viewer away from any knowable identity or narrative.
Without a clearly focused center, the photographs encourage the audience to
search out the story by filling in the gaps, like illustrations to fairy
tales whose words have been forgotten or an old photo album found in a
stranger's attic.





Miscellany

May’s Podcast is now available!

This month’s show features performances from the past year of "Language Harm". Language Harm is Eyedrum's bi-monthly poetry event conducted by the Atlanta Poets Group (the next one is Wed May 17th). Tune in to hear language turned inside out.

Poetry by the following writers are featured:
John Lowther
Tracy Gagne
Randy Prunty
Mark Presjnar
James Sanders
Zac Denton
Dana Petersen
Michelle Reeves
If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the April or May show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.



EYEDRUM is located at 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Suite 8 in Atlanta.
404.522.0655 or www.eyedrum.org

Eyedrum’s programming is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.

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