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

Eyedrum events October 19 – October 24, 2006


New Gallery Hours:  Friday 3 - 8:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 1 – 6:00pm


This Friday (10/20), gallery hours are from 3:00pm – 6:00pm ONLY!


Please come and join us for our Artparty and fundraiser on Friday, October 20th! Festivities begin at 7:00pm and there’s a wide range of food, art, entertainment and prizes! Support Eyedrum!


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

Thursday October 19 8:00pm $TBA
Word and Praxis: Temporal Strategies for Artistic and Critical Production

Friday October 20   7:00pm – 1:00am  $10 - $20
Eye Came…Eye Saw…Eyedrum!  Art Party!

Saturday October 21    8:00pm  $5
Therefore I Live, Part 3  Film Series

Sunday October 22  8:00pm  $10
Bent Frequency

Monday October 23   8:00pm  $5
Therefore I Live, Part 4  Film Series

Tuesday October 24   9:00pm  $5?
Flaming Fire
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October 19  Thursday

Word & Praxis:
Temporal Strategies for Artistic and Critical Production
Discussion
8:00pm
$TBA

You have questions like, 'Is there enough time?'
or, 'Can I get there in time?'
or, 'How will I ever get the time to finish this?"
or, 'oh my, where has the time gone?'
or some such observation as: 'Have you ever noticed that time seems to be speeding up?' or 'Oh gosh, time stopped for me last night.'

Well, those questions probably won't be answered since the Amazing Criswell won't be present. But perhaps there will be some questions and discussion of something around the idea of Time, that always- approaching limit of everything, gnawing away like a rat in your attic, chewing your 'house' apart to make a nest for all the little time-rat babies, whose time is rapidly approaching also, while you sit there steeping in your time like a cold tea bag...time's awastin'

Or something like that.

" Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable....."
Criswell, opening from Plan Nine From Outer Space


October 20   Friday

Eye Came…Eye Saw…Eyedrum!
Art party/Fundraiser
7:00pm – 1:00am
$10 - $20

Eyedrum and The Atlantan magazine invite you to our annual fundraiser and art party! Come show your support for Eyedrum by eating, drinking, dancing, and experiencing the art installations of Martha Whittington and Jessica Marshall. All proceeds go toward keeping our non-profit, all-volunteer-run space open and thriving!

Catering: Sun in my Belly. Live bands: Divided Like A Saint's, Grandchildren, Black Mona Lisa, and special surprise guests "Team Radical". DJ: DJ Swivel. Live performances: Dames Aflame burlesque, The Subliminator spoken word, Seabergs' Acrobatic Poetry and ASSTOW sound/video/performance project with Allison Rentz and Stan Woodard. Fun fundraiser raffle: win cool artwork and other prizes.


October 21    Saturday

Therefore I Live  Part 3
Film Series
8:00pm
$5

Therefore I Live: Home Movies, Personal Cinema, and the Avant-Garde
Part 3
Here Now: The Atlanta Footage Project and Recent Artists' Films from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

For the Atlanta Footage Project, local artists and videomakers contribute footage of 2006 Atlanta in an attempt to document and celebrate the city as we know it today. The resulting compilation is edited by K. Tauches, Blake Williams, and Andy Ditzler.

Beginning the evening is a selection of film and video works by New Orleans artists, made since Hurricane Katrina. Filmmaker Helen Hill's home movies, restored after flooding, show "haunting decayed imagery of lives so suddenly and drastically displaced by water." Chicago filmmaker Liza Johnson's South of Ten poetically shows the attempts of Mississippi Gulf Coast families to carry on their lives after the hurricane. Other works show New Orleans neighborhoods before and after the floods.

Accompanying the Atlanta Footage Project is vintage footage of African-American Atlanta from the 1930s, originally made for a documentary. These rare motion picture images show such landmarks as the Royal Barbershop and the long-gone baseball stadium on Ponce de Leon Avenue.

PART 1
tentative program, subject to change:
Liza Johnson, South of Ten (2006), 35mm, color, sound, 10 minutes (screened on DVD)
Helen Hill, restored New Orleans home movies
Courtney Egan and Helen Hill, Cleveland Street Gap
Blaine Dunlap, Our Bones (2005), 5 minutes

PART 2
Atlanta Daily World documentary footage from the Goodlett film collection (1936), 16mm, black & white, sound and silent, 5 minutes (screened on VHS) courtesy the Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta Footage Project

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


October 22   Sunday

Bent Frequency
Music
8:00pm
$10

Bent Frequency's annual Composers' Concert featuring: the top selections from our recent International Call for Scores, music of local Atlanta composer Alvin Singleton, and a tribute to the late composer György Ligeti (1923-2006).

Patricia Alessandrini - When David Heard
Per Bloland - Negative Mirror, Part II
Panayiotis Kokoras - Metasound
Carolyn O'Brien - Conveyance
György Ligeti - Piano Etudes
Alvin Singleton - Agoru VIII for solo snare drum


October 23   Monday

Therefore I Live Part 4
Film Series
8:00pm
$5

Jonas Mekas in Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Therefore I Live: Home Movies, Personal Cinema, and the Avant-Garde
Part 4
Testament: Diary Films

An evening dedicated to artists filming their own lives and surroundings. Independent film legend George Kuchar (a major influence on John Waters among many others) appears in Rainy Season, a classic video diary work that alternates between the hilarious, the subversive, and the poignant. Kuchar's Wild Night in El Reno is a short, brilliant "weather diary" of a storm in Oklahoma.

Since the early 1980s, Anne Charlotte Robertson has been making an epic diary work on super-8 film. Emily Died is an excerpt from this work, detailing the events of May to September 1994, as Robertson comes to terms with a death in her family and the surrounding difficulties. This screening represents a rare opportunity to see Robertson's brave, highly personal film work.

As an originator of the modern diary film, Jonas Mekas is a crucial figure of American independent film. Walden, one of his most highly praised works, is a three-hour diary film consisting of footage Mekas shot in the mid-1960s. (We will screen the first 43 minutes, which stands as a separate work in its own right.) Walden Reel 1 is a collection of exquisite small films woven together to form a larger whole. It is a home movie, a record of the 1960s cinematic underground, a poetic homage to New York, and a document of Mekas's friendships within the avant-garde (including such figures as Stan Brakhage and Tony Conrad), punctuated by extraordinary sequences of time-lapse photography. Above all it is a celebration of the act of filmmaking. A line from Mekas's poetic narration, "I make home movies, therefore I live," provides the title for this film series. "They tell me I should always be searching," he says in the film. "But I am only celebrating what I see."

Also included in the screening are three shorter works. Brian Parks's video piece follows his father on a typical work day, finding absurdity and strangeness in the everyday. Gordon Ball's Enthusiasm, in which the filmmaker explores the death of his mother, moved poet Allen Ginsberg to comment, "Gordon Ball makes you cry for life itself." DHPG Mon Amour is a touching home movie of a devoted gay couple and their use of alternative treatments for AIDS. Originally intended as a promotional film for these treatments, it now resides in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art as a classic of personal cinema.

PART 1
George Kuchar, Wild Night in El Reno (1977), 16mm, color, sound, 6 minutes
George Kuchar, Rainy Season (1987), video, 28 minutes
Brian Parks, Atlanta Trailer City (2003), miniDV, color, sound, 6 minutes
Anne Charlotte Robertson, Emily Died (1994), super-8mm, color, sound, 26 minutes (screened on VHS)
Gordon Ball, Enthusiasm (1979), 16mm, color and black & white, sound, 13 minutes

PART 2
Carl Michael George, DHPG Mon Amour (1989), 8mm, color, sound, 12 minutes (screened on VHS)
Jonas Mekas, Walden Reel 1 (1969), 16mm, color, sound, 43 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 24   Tuesday

Flaming Fire
Music
9:00pm
$5 ?

Wacko electronic theatrical rock n' roll...reviews:

“It's like experiencing your purest visions of heaven and hell while attending Sunday school wasted on glue...Like a lost synth-prog opera, a forgotten cosmology laced in rock and roll, this extremely theatrical second album from Brooklyn's Flaming Fire very nearly defies description, let alone those facile 'sounds like X crossed with Y' comparisons. 'Songs from the Shining Temple' is like watching Billy Graham with the sound off, Black Sabbath blasting in the background.”
-Jennifer Kelly, Splendid

“Can't accuse Flaming Fire of having a dull stage show--they've got the costumes, the bombast, the eye-grabbing frontpeople, the general sense of performance spectacle. They've also got the songs: unnerving, arty, freaky anthems about mortality, divinity, and leopard ninja people with plastic wings, sort of the avant-garde 'Bat out of Hell.'”
-Douglas Wolk, Village Voice

“Excellent New York-area weirdness...Flaming Fire delivers bent cabaret chaos.”
-Thurston Moore and Byron Coley, Arthur magazine

“I think that we are in the presence of a new religion. The main goddess apparently goes by the name of Lauren Weinstein… Flaming Fire is a band that rivals both the Slits and Crawling Chaos in the utterly weird, totally odd, and disturbingly interesting music… From loud chants to cacophonous percussion and noises I'm too afraid to attempt to figure out, there's a whole lot of weirdness going on here. And, you know what? I LOVE IT… One of the most lovingly confounding records I've heard all year, if not ever. ”
-Joseph Kyle, mundanesounds.com

http://www.flamingfire.com



In The Galleries:

Large Galleries:

Martha Whittington
“three fold”

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



Small Gallery:

Jessica Marshall
“In the Middle of Nowhere”

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.

Through  November 4th.



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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