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2003
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
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 GALLERYNG
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 )
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
NG:
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
NG: 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
ng Friday 9/26, 8:30pm
(with live performances from the artists!)
Additional Hours:
9/27 noon - 5
9/28 noon - 5
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 FRIDAYNG 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
memory strategies Louisville. visit russia. http://travelroot.ru/21228.htm. peugeot 407. Order russian brides, Slavonic girls pictures. link http://ideal-clean.ru. Get one of the offshore oil and gas jobs by clicking here. 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
Doorsat 8pm show at 9ish.
$5 suggested donation to help the artists keep in gas and road food on their
move from NYC to the Pacific Northwest
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q?:
Come see the "SEE MONKEY SEE, Mask and Puppet Show" in their Portable
Puppet Pavilion! The show will feature several short puppet shows from folk
tales to social and political satire including:
"Baba Yaga and Mr. Punch" A puppet show of Enlightenment and Illumination.
"Ok, Robota" An Orwellian tale of the life, love and creation
of a robot factory employee.
"War" A combined human action and puppet exposition on human conflict.
"Mephistopheles Possessed" A medieval cyberpunk drama about lonely
appliances, internet servicemen and pragmatic devils.
With musical accompaniment by Professor Devon Angus performing a wide array
of original and traditional songs on guitar, fiddle and musical saw.
See Monkey Sea Mask and Puppet Show is an extravaganza of sound and vision
where the past, present and future are blended and revealed. The subject
matter is within all realms of human experience. Myths are blended with
scientific realism. Audiences are encouraged to see the infinite relations
twixt all stories and life. Everything is true. Everything we share in our
imagination is real. See Monkey Sea is here to help us remember the fantastic,
beautiful and vicious.
See Monkey Sea Mask is on a cross country tour while they move from NYC
to the Pacific Northwest. The group has performed at the Puppet Uprising
in Philadelphia and warehouses, galleries, forests, streets, parks, basements,
and roofs.
Saturday, August 10th 2002
THE ALCHEMISTS OF TRADITION
Doorsat 7pm show starts at 8
6$ 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
Doorsat 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
Doorsat 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 grandng 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: or shoddypuppet
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
(SHOWNG: 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
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 isng
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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