PREVIOUS SHOWS AT CHELA




	UPCOMING \| PREVIOUS SOME PREVIOUS SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS 2003 6/6 - Collaborate + Perform: Chiara Giovando, Betsy McDonald, Jackie Milad.. more 5/30 - Sean Meehan/John Dierker Duo, Rod Smith Words 5/8 Christine Bailey: The Ready-made Show 4/12 - 5/2 iNTERSECTIONs 3/27 - The Poetry Wholesaler's OUTRAGEOUS, Spring Clearance Sale!! A BONANZA EVENT! EVERY POEM MUST GO! 3/4 - 3/27 - journey: a traveling art show 2/27 - 2/29 - Art Collision Tour 2003/2004 2/20 - 2/21 - Silver Brown Dance from New York City 2/13 - 2/15 2004 - Cupid's Broken Arrow curated by Lisa Dillin 1/24/04 - 2/8/04 - (eight): CHELA Collective Inaugural Exhibition 12/12 and 12/13 - Transmodern Age: Otherworldly Adornment 11/7 - 11/26 - Yeni Mao: Paintings/Drawings 10/17,18 - The Films & Video of Catherine Pancake 10/4/03 - "AntiMatter" Performances, Events, Transactions 9/26/03 - "Beirdoz", Trio Art Show: Cory Arcangel, Leif Ritchey, Jacob Ciocci 8/8/03 - Birdsongs of the Bauharoque and screening of Street of Crocodiles Sat, 6/28/03 -- ONE NIGHT ONLY, A Traveling Art and Film Show featuring artists from the Midwest 4/17/03 - 5/9/04 Art Work: An Exhibition of the Art of Art Handlers 3/13/03 Organic Nightmare -- Chuck Sehman, Carly Ptak, Tom Borax 2/22/02 Experimental Performance Poetry - A Night of Collaborations 4/4/03 SEE MONKEY SEA, Mask and Puppet Show BLASTER: The Art of Blaster Al Ackerman, 1972-2002 Suchitra Van : Photographs of New York and India 2001- 2002 8/10/02 THE ALCHEMISTS OF TRADITION 8/5/02 "P" is for Puppet/Poetry/Performance 7/27/02 Performance + Media + Sound 6/30/02 Theatrical Absurdity 6/20/02 Shoddy Puppet Theater: Puppetry Palindrome 6/9/02 Jackie Milad, Paintings & Drawings 4/20/02 A Night of Video and Puppetry 3/16/02- 3/30/ "PART A PART" -- a poetry installation project 2/8/02 VIVID SNARES 2/2/02 PERFORMANCE, DANCE, VIDEO, WORD 11/2/01 GALLERY OPENING March 27, 2004 The Poetry Wholesaler's OUTRAGEOUS, Spring Clearance Sale!! A BONANZA EVENT! EVERY POEM MUST GO! There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either. Robert Graves (1895 - 1985) One night event on Saturday, March 27 from 7pm til' bust Poetry is going out of business. CHELA artspace will be hosting a poetry art clearance sale. Its a one-night-only, everypoem-must-go blowout. Writers/texters/inter- disciplinarians from Baltimore, Ohio, New York, Rhode Island, and beyond will be selling their wares in tidy editions of 10. Packaged specially for the event by Bonnie Jones & Ric Royer. Don't miss the chance to buy a piece of the piece. Everything must go. All for 3$ each. Participants: (more to come...) Blaster Al Ackerman (Baltimore) Mike Basinski (Buffalo) Website Tawrin Baker (Buffalo) Lauren Bender (Baltimore) Mobtown Writers Collective John M. Bennett (Ohio) Luna Bisonte Prods, Lost & Found Times Tom Boram (Baltimore) Dan Breen (Baltimore) G. Lucas Crane (Brooklyn) Website Temple Crocker (Baltimore Terry Cuddy (New York) Website Char Dickerson (Chicago) Canvas Theory John Eaton + David Jones (Baltimore) K.S. Ernst (New Jersey) Ben Freeman (New York City) Furniture Press (ed. Christophe Casamassima) (Baltimore) Chris Fritton (Maine) Ferrum Wheel Nick Golebiewski (Brooklyn) Kamikaze Productions Holly Johnson (Buffalo) Bonnie Jones (Baltimore) Website Jeffrey Little (Delaware) Lex Loeb (Portaland) Lexie Maachi (Baltimore) Megan McShea (Baltimore) Van Magazine/Ross Priddle (Vancouver) Stephen Ratcliffe (Oakland) Avenue B Ellen Redbird (Berkeley) Pyriform, Nerve Lantern Ric Royer + Jackie Milad (Baltimore) Matt Sahr (Baltimore) Justin Edward Sirois (Baltimore) Narrow House Recordings Danielle Stefanick (Chicago) Kevin Thurston (Baltimore) Chris Toll (Baltimore) Heather Troy (Brooklyn) Website Matthew Turner (Providence) Chelsea Warren (Buffalo) Rupert Wondolowski (Baltimore) Shattered Wig Review Madam X (LA) Human Being Society March 4 - March 27 journey Traveling group art show Organized by push & pull collaboration: Julie Benoit & William Downs OPENING: Sat, Mar, 6th 7 - 10pm Additional Gallery hours, Sat, Sun 12-5pm jour. ney (jur'ne),n.,pl-neys. 1. traveling from one place to another,usu. taking a rather lone time; trip. 2. a distance or course traveled. 3. a period of travel. 4. passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey to sucess-v.i. 5.to make a journey;travel. jour'ney.er, n.-Syn. see trip. journey. a group show featuring work by: Seth Adelsberger Laura Amussen Julie Benoit Jason Bryant Alysa Dennis William Downs Susannah Gust Geoff Grace Nick Murry Cara Ober Gerald Ross Ann Stephenson Jeremy Siegler February 13, 14, 15 2004 Cupid's Broken Arrow Curated by Lisa Dillin OPENING: Fri, Feb 13th 7-10pm Gallery hours: Sat, Sun 12-5pm Artwork about what else? Love. PARTICPANTS: View Bios Lisa Dillin Karie Hughes Tang Sept. 26 to sept 28 Opening Friday 9/26, 8:30pm (with live performances from the artists!) Additional Hours: 9/27 noon - 5 9/28 noon - 5 OPEN FOR ONLY THREE DAYS! $5 Suggested donation for artists "Beirdoz" A Show of 3 Artists on View for 3 Days Only Tarantula Hill's Carly Ptak brings together three brave new artists from New York City and Pittsburgh. Cory Arcangel (NYC) Video Leif Ritchey (NYC) Installation Jacob Ciocci (PGH) Art VIEW BIOS The FRIDAY OPENING will feature live performances by the artists which may or may not include: a teach-in, a tea ceremony, stargazing, lectures, a jamboree, a rollerskating rink, collective meditation, musical incantations, a gum chewing contest, repitive body movement and everyone's favorite ... chanting. From Leif Ritchey, Whole Earth, 1992-1999 Friday, August 8th Birdsongs of the Bauharoque + a screening of Brothers Quay "Street of Crocodiles" An evening of trans-modern puppetry, dance, philosophy, and entertainment Presented by: Lavender Diamond (Becky Stark) LA based singer, dance, and comedian Lady Long Arms (Xander Marro) Providence RI based filmmaker, puppeteer and printmaker. -- Both artists have recently shown their puppet/performance work at Puppet Uprising in Philadelphia. A NOTE ON: Birdsongs of the Bauharoque The evening's performance will be a meditation on the concept of the BAUHAROQUE which comes from the visionary painter, architect, and philosopher of history and science, Paul Laffoley. In his seminal text “Phenomenology of Revelation” Laffoley describes the emergence of the Bauharoque, a word that means the blending of the Bauhaus Utopian impulse with Baroque theatricality. The Bauharoque is the last period in the Modern Cycle, beginning at the turn of the second millenium A.D. and lasting to the year 2099. Laffoley notes: “The Bauharoque began, not surprisingly, with a complete and literal rejection of the impotent cynicism of Post-Modernism. It directed its initial volley straight at the heart of what Post-Modernists considered their forte, fashion and fads, a concern for the nature of time, and taste for historicism.” The Baharoque would also end the popularity of the genre “science fiction” as well as being a period where technology will become actual living structures. Saturday, February 22nd 2003 8:30pm 6$ artist donation CHELA: 3500 Boston Street, #210, Baltimore MD EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE POETRY: A Night of Collaborations Chela presents an evening of the finest bi-lingual, wry-lingual, mechani-lingual experimental performance poetry. From NYC's Koja Press www.kojapress.com founders of the Russian-language Magazinnik and Koja Magazine William James Austin + Mikhail Magazinnik + Igor Satanovsky William James Austin lives in New York City and remains addicted to its dystopian landscape. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines and journals both print and online, including The Paterson Literary Review, The New Laurel Review, Koja, Blaze, Appearances, Louisiana Literature, The American Book Review, Masthead, and BLuR: The Boston Literary Review. To date he has published three collections of poetry and essays: 1 UNDERWORLD 2, 3 UNDERWORLD 4, and 5 UNDERWORLD 6, plus the book length study A Deconstruction of T. S. Eliot: The Fire and the Rose (Salzburg University Studies). He was a finalist in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award Competition and was nominated by Richard Kostelanetz and BluR: The Boston Literary Review for the Pushcart Prize in 1993. His music and lyrics have been recorded by Lou Rawls, Hammer, and other rock and jazz artists. Currently he teaches at the State University of New York. Mike Magazinnik is a bilingual Russian-American visual poet/conceptual artist/translator living in New York since 1989. He is one of the co-founders of Koja Press. Currently, he co-edits and contributes to literary magazines Koja and New York-based Russian-language Magazinnik. His work appeared in Black Box, vy da vy, an example and on the internet. He was one of the presenters at An American Avant Garde: Second Wave (The Ohio State University, 2002). His Russian and English books are due out in the fall of 2003. Igor Satanovsky (b.1969, Kiev, Ukraine) is a bilingual Russian-American poet/translator/visual artist who moved to the United States in 1989. Satanovsky's work in both the visual arts and poetry has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic: his Russian poetry, as well as translations of Allen Ginsberg, e. e. cummings and Antonen Artaud appeared in Zerkalo magazine (Israel, 1996-2000), his book of Russian poetry Svet na Snegu: Poems by Alexander Struk, Igor Satanovsky and Sergei Shalaev (Stozhari Press, Russia, 1994). Other works have appeared in Koja, Blackbox, Riverrun, and Urban Spaghetti magazines. His collaborative work with Richard Kostelanetz appeared in A Point of View. Visual Poetry in the 90s, Simplisii Press, Koenigsberg, Russia; Dock(s)on: La Trilogue Des Medias: Tome 2, Akenaton Press, France; Spud Songs, Helicon Nine; Liberty Magazine; Confrontations Magazine; O!!Zone Magazine. His online works appeared at Blaze, Compilator, go.to.rushins, Magazinnik.com, Ostrakon & Spidertangle. He also edited the Rush-ins Poetry Reader (Koja Press, 2000), co-edited William James Austins 3 Underworld 4 (S Press, 1998) and contributed notes to the Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Schirmer, 1999). AND from Baltimore: Fred Collins & Charleigh Chadwick (cello)-------Fred (Motor Morons and Pleasant Livers) and Charleigh (also from Pleasant Livers and in previous lives Pornflakes, Beatos, Globetrotter, and the Mo Fine All Blind Orchestra) bring explosive and sight searing spoken word and cello. Bonnie Jones and Megan McShea performing "Typewriter Improvisations" ---- Bonnie (co-founder Chela, and local poet) and Megan (of Charm City Kitty Club fame, and authoress of several chapbooks) perform TYPEWRITER IMPROVISATIONS, instant, improvised, off the cuff, and immediate pecked out text on dueling typewriters. Saturday, January 4th --- SEE MONKEY SEA, Mask and Puppet Show Doors open at 8pm show at 9ish. $5 suggested donation to help the artists keep in gas and road food on their move from NYC to the Pacific Northwest e: chelabaltimore@yahoo.com q?: 443-983-5575 Come see the "SEE MONKEY SEE, Mask and Puppet Show" in their Portable Puppet Pavilion! The show will feature several short puppet shows from folk tales to social and political satire including: "Baba Yaga and Mr. Punch" A puppet show of Enlightenment and Illumination. "Ok, Robota" An Orwellian tale of the life, love and creation of a robot factory employee. "War" A combined human action and puppet exposition on human conflict. "Mephistopheles Possessed" A medieval cyberpunk drama about lonely appliances, internet servicemen and pragmatic devils. With musical accompaniment by Professor Devon Angus performing a wide array of original and traditional songs on guitar, fiddle and musical saw. See Monkey Sea Mask and Puppet Show is an extravaganza of sound and vision where the past, present and future are blended and revealed. The subject matter is within all realms of human experience. Myths are blended with scientific realism. Audiences are encouraged to see the infinite relations twixt all stories and life. Everything is true. Everything we share in our imagination is real. See Monkey Sea is here to help us remember the fantastic, beautiful and vicious. See Monkey Sea Mask is on a cross country tour while they move from NYC to the Pacific Northwest. The group has performed at the Puppet Uprising in Philadelphia and warehouses, galleries, forests, streets, parks, basements, and roofs. Saturday, August 10th 2002 THE ALCHEMISTS OF TRADITION Doors open at 7pm show starts at 8 6$ suggested donation for artists Join us for an evening of psychedelic folk Appalachia hallucination inspired country blues heartrending music just for folks like us who live below the Mason Dixon line! CURRITUCK COUNTY (Brooklyn, NY): Currituck County Is Kevin Barker. Kevin lives in Brooklyn, which is good, because it keeps him from getting behind the wheel of an automobile. If you've heard Kevin's latest release, the one on Teen Beat, you'll know what I mean (and yeah, Teen Beat is an odd home for a folkie, but Kevin's involvement in Aden explains it all). Though Clarence White is a hero of Kevin's, you won't hear any b-bender guitar this time out; it's an acoustic set. However, you're bound to witness an inspiring efficiency in the acoustic fingerpicking department (think Bert Jansch, Mississippi John Hurt), not to mention a zinger or two in the way original songwriting. SHARRON KRAUS (UK) Drawing on 60's folk legends the likes of Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy and Anne Briggs, Sharron Kraus creates timeless original folk music characterized by soil-rich vocals, fine acoustic guitar and banjo picking, and colorful word craft. Her songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters and tell tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, death and various supernatural phenomena. Her debut cd Beautiful Twisted is out on Camera Obscura Records. THE ESPERS (Philadelphia, PA): Lifting their name from a late 60s text on deviancy, the music of The Espers feeds equally on the lightness of folk's timeworn traditions, and the dark underbelly of its 60s/70s psychedelic manifestations. The cult's, er, group's de-tuned guitars, dulcimer, wood flute and broke-down death's-door synths will scare small children and send animals scurrying. But the lilting male/female vox and melancholic tunesmithing will lure all other creatures to a glorious doom. THE BAIRD SISTERS Pennsylvania): Old-timey cuties on an Appalachian bender, the Bairds work the Cambridge-spawned folk vibe to the hilt, and break a multitude of hearts in the process. The sisters float vocal harmonies that'd make you swear you were experiencing Club 47 firsthand, underpinning it all with solid banjo and dulcimer chops. The Baird Sisters are Laura and Margaret Baird on vocals, banjo, dulcimer, guitar, train whistle, and other noisemakers. Woo-hoo! GREG WEEKS (Philadelphia, PA): Without seeming all that deranged in person, Greg Weeks manages to instill fear in the hearts of reviewers and audiences alike. Something to do with the cover of his latest album, a bloodstrewn scene suffused in the whiteness of an upstate New York winter. But really, he's an okay guy, and not half as dangerous as the conflation of chamber-folk, electronics and psychedelia found on that latest record (Awake Like Sleep). He'll be entirely acoustic this evening, but not without his charms. Just without all that blood. Monday, August 5th 2002 "P" is for Puppet/Poetry/Performance Doors open at 7pm show starts at 8pm 6$ suggested artist donation Roby Newton & Erin Rosenthal (Puppetry): A LA SINISTRA PRESENTS “SIMULACRUM”, THE LATEST IN PUPPET PROPAGANDA! “Simulacrum” , a puppet show by Roby Newton (a.k.a. A La Sinistra), follows the disintegration of a marriage, as the couple find themselves lost in a well of jealousy and delusions. A housewife, Ada, is overwhelmed by her suspicions that her husband, Peter, a Finnish immigrant who left his homeland during World War Two, is having an affair. He is a cold and stoic man, silenced by the horrors of Russian persecution in Finland he has seen and incapable of communicating his pain or assuaging her doubts. It is 1951, the Rosenbergs are being sentenced to death for allegedly stealing the secret of the atomic bomb. The atmosphere in the United States is thick with fear, terrifying for all those with questionable backgrounds, as Joe McCarthy, America’s bloodhound, sniffs out commies and traitors and spies and rips them to shreds. The repression and paranoia of the times permeate Peter and Ada’s home and affect them in ways they could never have imagined. The show is performed with hand puppets, in a theater that is built around the puppeteer’s body. The backgrounds are sewn, in a style similar to quilting, and incorporated into wearable sets. The audio is fabricated “radio”, complete with songs, advertisements, and newscasts, all written, performed, and recorded by Roby. Roby is a veteran of several puppet tours: she has performed on national tours with bands such as the Convocation Of… and Love Life, with filmmaker Erin Rosenthal, and also on her own. Fred Collins & Charles Chadwick (performance, poetry, cello): ...Architects’ crowd-flow studies have made our world a big stage where the sunlight falls on buildings from sunup to sundown, or the way buildings or other public places are lit become works of art. The way crowds move through train stations in fast motion time-lapse photography are all studies of mass movement through various places is art. Even the building blocks that make up our bodies (cells, organs, the brain) have a natural beauty when put on x-rays, CAT scans, video microscopes or when illustrated in more conventional means... – Fred Collins Charles Chadwick has been collaborating with Fred Collins for over a decade. He is 1/5th of Baltimore's The Plesant Livers with Jason Willet, John Dierker, Fred Collins, and Lyle Kissack and has played in the Pornflakes, Beatos, Globetrotter, and the Mo Fine All Blind Orchestra. Dawn Culbertson (lute): Dawn is a Peabody graduate who is seriously jeopardizing her attempts to be known as an accomplished player of the Renaissance lute by using that noble instrument, which was played by the likes of Henry VIII and Martin Luther, for the purpose of accompanying cover versions of punk rock songs--along with heavy metal tunes and obscure oldies. Her unique interpretations of these tunes are guaranteed to make you tingle in your toenails. Saturday, July 27th, 2002 PERFORMANCE + MEDIA + SOUND Doors open at 8pm $6 suggested artist donation WORKS BY: + Meena Satnarain (Baltimore nurtured, NYC bound) uses divergent media to visualize the relationship of the body within culture (and sometimes culture within the body). “constellation” - a performance/installation in thousands of easy-to-swallow pills. for more information: + Matt Borghi is a Detroit-based contemplative drone guitarist. His solo sets traditionally consist of "live" processed acoustic or electric guitar with a laptop for extra tweaking. The music is ambient, or spacey, in nature, and could be compared to Steve Roach, Stars of the Lid, or Brian Eno. for more information: + Michael O'Reilly is a filmmaker, musician and writer. His films have been shown in the Philadelphia and the London ICA, The New York Film Festival, and are included in the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others. In 1994 he was named a Fellow by the Pew Fellowships in the Arts in the discipline of media arts. In 1996 he was awarded an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship. At Chela, Michael will debut a new 8 min short. for more information: + Jason Sloan is a visual performance/sound/installation artist working from Baltimore, Md. His work explores the various aspects of spirituality and it’s connection to life, death, memory, religion and our transitory passing here on earth. Through his performance, video and audio works, he examines the need for transcendence beyond the body through a vehicle of visual ritual and auditory stimulation. Sloan's works have been exhibited in various galleries in the United States & Europe. His sound works can be heard on various international ambient radio programs. for more information: KANT'S GNAWSER and....GNAWSER AGONISTES + performances by aminibigcircus The Gnawser birthed from the madcap exalted mysticism of Blaster Al Ackerman, takes the stage not once but twice in these two original plays. FIRST, Kant's Gnawser explores the tender relationship between philosopher Immanuel Kant and his fiendish imaginary friend the Gnawser. But wait... ...there's more. The grand opening of the NEVER BEFORE SEEN Gnawser Agonistes! Written by revered Baltimore wildstyle Mok Hossfeld. Here the Gnawser faces off with The Prettiest Girls in the World in a play that you'll love to dodge. Both plays will be performed by Slease Steele and His Happy Time Players: including, Kristen Toedtman and Rupert Wondolowski. Music by Bonnie Jones and Dan Breen The evening starts with short performances by aminibigcircus, Baltimore's beloved gaggle of tremendously talented musicians, performers, singers, writers, etal...aminibigcircus has performed and shown their work at Philadelphia's Fringe Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and Baltimore's Artscape and they've been a fixture in Baltimore for as long as I've been around these parts... Shoddy Puppet Company & Ramshackle Enterprises present: PUPPETRY PALINDROME "An Absurd Array of Tabletop Theatrics and Cardboard Capers for a Reversible World." Featuring: >TWO THOUGHTS ON PELICANS by Beth Nixon Drowning in a sea of information, a woman is lifted aloft in the pouch of a giant avian and given a bird's-eye view of our planet and all its fishy details. (puppets and cantastoria) >THE PLANE by Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews Winged machines from afar descend upon unsuspecting civilizations, carrying strange cargo in a surrealistic ballet of two-dimensional globalization. (toy theater) >AMORAL AROMA by Beth Nixon Meet the Gambler Who Won A Pig, the Woman With No House, the Brother That Can Hear and the Drycleaner Who Doesn't Care the giant waiting room of Dr. Awkward and his healing palindromes. (hand-puppetry) For more information Contact: (215)729-2809 or shoddypuppet@hotmail.com SUNDAY, JUNE 9th 3-6PM SOLO ART SHOW & SALE JACKIE MILAD PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS > with musical hydrophone performance led by Catherine Pancake Jackie Milad's work discovers the human form as it lies and narrates. Vivid and tongue-in-cheek color and form offers a unique vision of torque and movement. Jackie is currently working on her graduate degree in fine art while also co-organizing CHELA gallery with Bonnie Jones. She is the owner of Milad Atelier, a fine art jewelry workshop and studio. Catherine Pancake is an accomplished and unique Baltimore experimental instrumentalist, and filmmaker. The hydrophones invention ampliflies the sounds of water manipulated by the players, to create dynamic and delightful landscapes. SATURDAY>APRIL 20 A NIGHT OF VIDEO AND PUPPETRY Cindy Rehm (from baltimore) >video and performance artist video "The Failure of Words": a dark fairy tale told in a visual narrative. Video "I Live Here Now": documents the artist claiming the territory of her new home. Beth Pulcinella (from philly) >puppet artist< performing "Legends Walk the Streets #3" Gina Favano (from philly) >puppet artist< performing "Alive" MAR: 16TH - MAR: 30TH/ "PART A PART" -- a poetry installation project (the show will be on view Saturday and Sundays 12-5pm) ..... with 2 evenings of performances SATURDAY, MARCH 16TH 2002 8:00PM (SHOW OPENING: Featuring solo gong performance by Andy Hayleck) SATURDAY, MARCH 23RD 2002 8:00PM In conjunction with "PART A PART", a night of typewriter improvisations with Bonnie Jones & Megan McShea. (BALTIMORE POETS MEET FOR AN EXCHANGE OF WORDS) "PART A PART" IS A 3-DIMENSIONAL, POETRY/VISUAL INSTALLATION PROJECT FEATURING NEW AND UNPUBLISHED WORK BY UNCONVENTIONAL WRITERS INCLUDING: MEGAN MCSHEA - MOK HOSSFELD - BONNIE JONES - PATTIE MCCARTHY - JEFFREY LITTLE - BLASTER "AL" ACKERMAN (IN COLLABORATION WITH JOHN M. BENNETT) - FLYNN ECKENRODE - MATT TURNER - RUPERT WONDOLOWSKI PART A PART CHELA / BALTIMORE: MARCH 2002 To be a part of something to be apart from something to be Part A and perhaps even its corollary Part B to be inside the circle or outside the circle to be sitting at home reading or standing here reading next to somebody reading. The poets in this show traverse in many ways the insides and the outsides of experience, constructing, and translating. They have views that crash nicely with other views because these things are not always so separate. PART A PART let's you inside and still affirms that you are a part of what is being stated or written. It takes what often starts as a private gesture and brings it into the public view/eye. It affirms that we can communicate in all types of spaces. It affirms that all types of spaces are not necessarily constricting but necessarily open and free. We have a shared language and so we're doing our best to use it. BONNIE JONES (2002) Friday February 8, 2002 8:30 PM The Vivid Snares Over two hours of classic, experimental films in 16mm by Scott Bartlett, Robert Breer, Jordan Belson, Daniel Conrad, Arturo Tambellini, Stan VanDerBeek, James Whitney, and John Whitney With a paralell, continuous program of new experimental electronic music by Mike Barker, John Berndt, Tom Boram, Michael Chaiken, Stephen Fenton, Ed Flis, Jason Glover, Andy Hayleck, Twig Harper, Ben Howson and Thom Roach, Thomas C. Moore, Ian Nagoski, Carly Ptak, Jason Willett, and Philip von Zweck. Plus two new video works by Kelly Ragland. "Despite the delerius wonder of the most psychedelic experimental films of the 1960s, despite the structural complexity and the freshness of vision of the best of them, few of them have soundtracks worth hearing twice. We have compiled a long program of playful, mind manifesting, vintage masterpieces of film and combined it with an audio program of contemporary electronic music with contributors from Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, which we feel not only are vast improvements over the old soundtracks, but a wonder and a joy to hear." - I.N. "Music which leaves me suspended its snares its snares which holds me in its snares. The world turned soft turned soft the whole becoming waves and flowing" -Henri Michaux SATURDAY > FEBRUARY > 2nd > 2002 > 8.30PM Michael Barker Thomas Clark Melissa Putz Donna Coppola Blaster Al Ackerman Rupert Wondolowski< A night of performance, dance, video and word with: >>>>>>>>"Scratched Surface" choreography by melissa putz sound and image by michael barker and thomas clark Scratched Surface is a multimedia collaborative performance. It integrates dance, video and music. Drawings of human figures by thomas clark are the basis for a video by Michael Barker and Clark. Choreography by Melissa Putz sets up a series of poses derived from the drawings which translate into phrases of contorted movement. >>>>>>>>Performance Art Donna Coppola Coppola, a former Mobius Art Group member and resident of Boston, performs subtle, quiet, and enduring work that moves the audience and environment towards radical change. >>>>>>>>poetry/ prose by Blaster Al Ackerman Baltimore's own ineffable raconteur, Blaster Al Ackerman will read new and old pieces of great lore and legend. Don't miss the one about the finger that seceded and formed its own third world country. >>>>>>>>poetry/prose by Rupert Wondolowski. Maestro of Baltimore's Shattered Wig Review, Wondolowski's provocative and sardonic poetry and prose enlightens and stirs....and that's not all he'll do....< November 2, 2001: On Friday, November 2, 2001 at 8:30 PM a new Gallery and space is opening called "CHELA" located at 3500 Boston Street, #210, Baltimore Maryland (The Broom Factory). >The night will feature films by: Catherine Pancake Madeline Gallagher and others TBA< as well as special screenings of Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Emile Cohl, and other delights.
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