[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] October 11 – October 17, 2006

Eyedrum events October 11 – October 17, 2006


There are NO gallery hours this week! Begininning Sunday, October 15th, gallery hours will be: Friday 3:00pm – 8:00pm, Saturday 1:00pm – 6:00pm, and Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment (please call during gallery hours).


Two openings this Saturday, October 14th: Martha Whittington (large galleries) & Jessica Marshall (small gallery).


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

Wednesday October 11   9:00pm  $TBA
Tuna Helpers, My Siamese Self, Mars Killed Mary

Saturday October 14  6:00pm – 8:00pm  Free
Art opening:  Small Gallery:  Jessica Marshall

Saturday October 14    7:00pm – 11:00pm  Free
Art opening:  Large galleries:  Martha Whittington

Sunday October 15  1:00pm – 6:00pm
New Gallery Hours Begin

Sunday October 15  7:45pm  $7
Hungry Flower Gamelan

Monday October 17  8:00pm  $5
Therefore I Live Part 2 (Film Series)

Tuesday October 18  9:00pm  $5
Black Meat, Gator Surprise, Deep Jew

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October 11  Wednesday

The Tuna Helpers
My Siamese Self
Mars Killed Mary
Music
9:00pm
$TBA

After cancelling the southeast leg of their tour this past spring due to transportation issues, the Tuna Helpers have rescheduled.
And how the bizareness ensues with their carnivalesque baby doll brand of creepy rock and roll. Tuna Helpers are described as "Kate Bush meets Cruella D'Ville" by their label (Web of Mimicry, which is responsible for such racket as Secret Chiefs, Estradasphere and the like).

My Siamese Self, from Atlanta, provide postive punchy punkishness and Mars Killed Mary will start the whole thing off with violin, vocals and loops designed to invoke all manner of despair and beauty.

The Tuna Helpers
My Siamese Self
Mars Killed Mary


October 14   Saturday

Jessica Marshall
“In the Middle of Nowhere”
Art opening
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free

A personal experiment with matter and meaning.
Atlanta artist Jessica Marshall creates an installation for the Small Gallery combining paper, paint, original sculptures, and found objects.

Continues through November 4th.

October 14    Saturday

Martha Whittington
“three fold”
Art opening
7:00pm – 11:00pm
Free

three-fold: an installation by Martha Whittington.
Till November 25th.
Artist talk on November 7 at 7PM.


October 15   Sunday

Hungry Flower Gamelan
Music
7:45pm
$7

Atlanta's indigenous gamelan, led by Krispin Harker also music by Fiorre Affamato and guest Diana Obscura with Flowan


October 16   Monday

Therefore I Live Part 2
Film
8:00pm
$5

Therefore I Live: Home Movies, Personal Cinema, and the Avant-Garde
Part 2
In the Garden of Film:
Home, the Body, and Handmade Films

The garden as sanctuary. Home as the place of private life, the family, and sexuality. Home as the Garden of Eden, and the body as home. The body of film: film as a physical object, the filmstrip as home of the image. Home movies as art, and art films made from (and in) the artist's home.

We begin with Marie Menken's ecstatic, handheld Glimpse of the Garden. Rose Lowder's films of sunflowers and a tree in Provençal are painstakingly photographed frame by frame. Lowder changes the focus in between each frame, creating an atmosphere of shimmering movement without moving the camera. Stan Brakhage's garden film reprises his famous Mothlight, through the application of leaves, seeds and other organic material directly onto the filmstrip.

Two groundbreaking body films - Willard Maas and Marie Menken's poetic study of the human form and Stan Brakhage's kinetic film of two friends making love - are followed by Carolee Schneemann's landmark film Fuses. For Fuses, Schneemann and her partner filmed their lovemaking over many months, then Schneemann subjected the filmstrip to a variety of processes: handpainting and etching, bleaching, baking, hanging the filmstrips in lightning and rain. The result is an intense exploration of physicality, and one of the most visually sumptuous films of the 1960s.

Pip Chodorov and Bill Brand use optical printing techniques or process their own film by hand to add layers of visual complexity to their footage of family experiences. We end the screening with Colorado filmmaker Frank Biesendorfer's gorgeously filmed record of domestic life, sexuality, and family travels - multiple superimposed layers revealing the beauty in the everyday.

Marie Menken, Glimpse of the Garden (1957), 16mm, color, silent, 5 minutes
Rose Lowder, Les Tournesols (1982), 16mm, color, silent, 3 minutes
Rose Lowder, Champs Provençal (1979), 16mm, color, silent, 9 minutes
Stan Brakhage, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981), 16mm, color, silent, 2 minutes
Willard Maas/Marie Menken, Geography of the Body (1943), 16mm, black & white, sound, 7 minutes
Stan Brakhage, Loving (1956), 16mm, color, silent, 4 minutes
Carolee Schneemann, Fuses (1967), 16mm, color, silent, 23 minutes
Pip Chodorov, End Memory (Nocturne) (1995), 16mm, color, sound, 5 minutes
Bill Brand, Chuck’s Will’s Widow (1982), 16mm, color, silent, 12 minutes
Frank Biesendorfer, Little B and MBT (2004), 16mm, color, sound, 28 minutes

Program subject to change

THEREFORE I LIVE is a Film Love event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Frequent Small Meals.


October 17   Tuesday

Black Meat
Gator Surprise
Deep Jew
Music
9:00pm
$5

Noise, racket, and clamour.
Deep Jew (aka Oscillating Innards) providing dark tribal chaos, Gator Surprise with harsh ugly noise, and Black Meat will supply something in between....delicious.


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Miscellany

October’s Podcast is now available and this month 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!

August’s podcast: August’s show is now available and features performances by Jonathan Kane, Rising Appalachia, Bent Frequency, Daniel Clay, Tiptons Saxophone Quartet and others. The upcoming 5-day Table Of The Elements festival (Labor Day weekend) gave us a chance to play some Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad and Sun Agustin. Finally, the Eyedrum visual arts crew came in to talk about art shows past, present and future, the Warhol grant, and the state of Eyedrum as a gallery in general. A special edition of this podcast that should not be missed!




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