Friday Feb 18
Opening Dark Matter Group Show

Co-Prosperity Sphere • 3219 S Morgan St (link to map)
Hours: 7pm -2am $8

An art exhibition and happening for Version>08
What do naive art, protest posters, custom rides, zines, composting poop, LARPing, cosplay, gay dating websites, student mapping projects, art puzzles, shop dropping, unrepresented artists, push carts, roadkill, drawings and culture jamming have to with dark matter? Come and find out. If you are up for it please come dressed as your favorite Cosplay or LARPing character and get your photo taken.

The Dark Matter Group Show is an examination of works that address the festival’s theme inspired by Gregory Sholette:

Featuring the works of:
Michael Genovese, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Michael T Rea, E.C. Brown, Jefferson Mayday Mayday, JC Hammes, Edra Soto, Adam Farcus, Brian Ulrich, Greg Stimac, Aron Gent, Chris Roberts, Ryan Davies, JJ Stratford, Alice Bradshaw, Randall Garrett, Daniel St george II, Sharon Parmet, Ryan Davies, Natalie Steinmetz, Cole Robertson, Lisa Yu, Christopher Ilth, A.S. Lawrence , Nat Ward, Natalie Steinmetz, Dave the Lightbulb man, Vicki Fowler, Thunderhorse, E*Rock, Neville, Erika Mikkalo, Jenny Inzerillo, J. Byrnes, Mary Balda, Jon Bollo, R.K. Shuquem, Nicholas Schutzenhofer, Jenny Tsiakals, Rose Candela, James Adam, AROE, Oscar Arriola, Juicy, Tony Arriola, Peter KISER Berry, CHILE, Sara Condo, COPE2, COSBE, CRAE, CYCLE, CYFN, Nicky Dieter, EGOR, EVOKE, FACT, GOMA, David COVE Gonzalez, GYROS, Joel DEPTE Ibarra, IRAK, JACK, Rick Jara, JARE, A. Lewellen, MELON, READ MORE, RIBITY, RK9, SHIP!, SIVEL, SMUT, SWEK, SWIS, TELLY, TRUE, TWIST, Ryan Valvick and many others . To see work by participating artists go to this Flickr page .

Performance Program::

7-9:30pm Performance: communication // saturation (( four humans // four televisions )) with Katie Schaag, Sarah Marie Coogan, Ellen Rebman, and Kate Graham
This experimental multimedia performance installation piece will be an exploration of the way constraining forces and limiting discourses put us in boxes and tell us there’s no in-between.

10pm Musical Performances by:

Soft Sex Girls Brigade
featuring
Jefferson Mayday Mayday
The wondersoundsmith from the dirty south.

Fought
ability, will and inclination. Fought is a collaboration between ken zawacki & bob konow

Buquito
what happens when cave and warammer 48 k are not in the same town

Pattern is Movement
music that’s been a long time building, rising out of the ether of evangelical childhoods, best friendship, and life in Philadelphia.

Local Adult Sex Chat

Pit Er Pat
Pyramids were everywhere it seemed, utterly unique and difficult to pin down with musical comparisons.

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DJ Rand Sevilla all nite long

Also featuring:

The Thunderhorse Kustom Karaoke Room with original video karoake works by Nick Bahr, Edmar, Thunderhorse Video and others.

AND! Asneak preview!! From the creators of Dungeon Majesty, Telefantasy Studios presents, THE MULTINAUTS an all new adventure saga, set in an pangalactic post nuke multiverse.

Episode One: Three heroes from different time periods are picked up by a holographic spaceship and sent on a mission to rescue Falco Quasar, a colony pilot, when they are attacked by a mega corporation and it’s mutant empire.

THURSDAY APRIL 17

OPENING OF VERSION>08
THE Space 1026 group show
Country Club Gallery • 1100 N Damen Ave
Hours: 6pm – 11pm free

VERSION>08 AFTERPARTY for The Space 1026 group show
Hours: 10 pm @ TBA

“The official opening of the Version>08 festival starts with a group exhibition by the infamous Space 1026 from Philiadelphia.

“Space 1026 artists create an installation of prints to represent their individual styles along with a collaborative element of an exquisite corpse canvas. They come armed with screens for a live silkscreen event on-site.

“Contributing artists are Myles, Meg Kemner, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Thom Lessner, Crystal Stokowski, Mark Price, Justin Myer Staller, Jesse Goldstien, Isaac Lin, Caitlin Emma Perkis, Ben Woodward, Delilah Knuckley, Zac Beaver, O. Roman Hasiuk, Jayson Scott Musson, Jason Hsu, Alex Lukas, Elena Nestico, Mollie Williamson, Bill McRight, Salty Snacks, Ted Passon, Jesse Olanday, Beth Brandon,Dave Dunn, and more.

“performances by space1026 bands too!

“About Space 1026:
Space 1026 is a artist collective based in Philadelphia’s Chinatown which consists of over 30 members and co-conspirators.

“Founded in 1997 by four friends and recent RISD grads, Space has grown from its two floors of a building at 11th and Arch into an international art giant. It is a supportive network of dozens of artists who share studios at the Space, past and present. Space consists of dozens of artists who come to our events, and participate in our community. Space 1026 is a center for making, producing and creating, not for some outside world of aficionados, but for each other and for our own kind. Space 1026 is a community – a creative community – not an institution.”