“Despotism & Democracy” (11 min, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1946)
“Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?”
courtesy Will Swofford!
Little Faith, 2008
Acrylic on cotton rag paper
106″ x 2″ x 78″
Delirium, 2008
Acrylic on cotton rag paper
43.25″ x 2.75″ x 40.25″
June 26 – July 26
“For his first gallery solo show, seventh-generation Floridian Jimmy Joe Roche presents a series of painstakingly hand-cut, obsessively hand-painted, and intricately hand-woven paper works. For Roche, they serve as conceptual talismans for the collective American unconscious while capturing the spirit and energy of the Baltimore art collective & warehouse music scenes that play a central role in his life.”
Rare Gallery
521 W. 26th Street
New York 10001
212.268.1520
HYPE: New poetic rants and prose poems from the author of TAZ and Millennium, among many other influential incendiary texts. This volume includes selected Communiques of the Cro-Magnon Liberation Front.
BACK COVER TEXT: “Black Fez is the emblem of our intransigent disgust with the lukewarm necromantic vacuum of dephlogisticated corpse breath that passes nowadays for Empire and organic death.”
Peter Lamborn Wilson’s essays have appeared in Arthur No. 16 (‘Secessionism’) and Arthur No. 29 (‘Endarkenment’).
MIRRORS
feat. Jamie Klimek, Jim Crook, Craig Bell, Paul Marotta & Paul Laurence
with Home and Garden & Rainy Day Saints
July 19th, 2008 at Beachland Ballroom
Cleveland, OH
8PM doors / ALL AGES / $8.00
MORE INFO: Julian Cope on Mirrors
Male Odor Monsters
A group exhibition featuring original works by
Brian Chippendale
Matthew Thurber
C.F.
Carlos Gonzales
Wednesday, July 16, 7pm – August 5
Hope Gallery – 1547 Echo Park Ave 90026
Featuring four artists known for their visionary work in comics, this show presents new pieces that explore collage, watercolour, silkscreen, acrylic, and crayon, with the same inventiveness of form as their narrative work.
A founding member of Providence’s Fort Thunder collective, Brian Chippendale was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial (as Forcefield), and shown at Deitch Projects (Panic Room, 2006), and D’Amelio Terras (2006). He has published two graphic novels with PictureBox, Ninja (2006), and Maggots (2007). He is also drummer in the band Lightning Bolt, and has collaborated on projects with musicians such as Bjork, Thurston Moore, and the Boredoms.
Matthew Thurber is the creator of the ongoing comic book series, ‘1800-Mice’ (PictureBox), and has had work included in the anthologies Kramer’s Ergot, and the Ganzfeld. As a performer he has appeared as Ambergris at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and as Saxophonist in Soiled Mattress and The Springs, shared bills with Gang Gang Dance and No Age.
C.F. is the alias of Christopher Forgues, creator of the serialised graphic novel ‘Powr Mastrs’ (PictureBox). His work has appeared in exhibitions at Loyal Gallery (Stockholm), The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari, Japan), and New Image Art (Los Angeles). Under his musical moniker Kites, he has several recordings with Load Records.
Author of the xeroxed comics, Slime Freak, and Rat’s Cocoon, Carlos Gonzales’ work featured in Kramer’s Ergot 6. His musical project, Russian Tsarlag has released cassette tapes on the Unskilled Labor label.
Hope gallery is jointly curated by the bookstore ‘Family’, and the record label ‘Teenage Teardrops’. familylosangeles.com teenageteardrops.com
Hope Gallery
hopegalleryla@gmail.com
323 782 9221
From Grady Runyon:
WHEN: Tuesday, 7/15, 8-10pm
WHERE: Grady’s Record Refuge, 2546 E. Main St., Ventura, 805-648-5565
WHAT: The Pink Snowflakes and The Bad Trips
Yes, it’s some FREE Tuesday-night rock featuring:
The Pink Snowflakes (8pm), all the way from Portland, on tour supporting their new release Sun Chasing……..the band has been claiming a psychedelic buzz of late with their “awe-inspiring Flaming Lips-hobo guitar-wash” (or is it unwashed) sound…….
…….and Ventura’s The Bad Trips (9pm), making a rare local appearance, conjuring their “real-deal, acid-casulty stripper pole music” for all to see…….
So shut down your computer, find your O-mind, and come on down to Grady’s Record Refuge for this unique Ventura County experience!
Remember it’s FREE! See you there!
-GRR
http://www.myspace.com/thepinksnowflakes
http://www.myspace.com/theebadtrips
http://www.myspace.com/gradysrecordrefuge
Drawing on Film
May 29 – July 24, 2008
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013
t212-219-2166
Tuesday – Friday, 10 AM – 6 PM; Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM
“Drawing on Film” will survey the practice of “direct film”—the process of drawing, scratching, or otherwise manipulating film stock to create images without a camera. The exhibition will present works spanning from the late 1930s to the present and will highlight an overlooked facet of experimental film. Many of the works to be exhibited are seminal films in the history of the genre—including Len Lye’s A Colour Box and Norman McLaren’s Blinkity Blank—while other, more contemporary works are being screened for the first time. By showcasing films from over seven decades, Drawing on Film will present an overview of the rich legacy of direct film.
The exhibition will transform the Drawing Room into a screening room with a program of films by eleven artists that will screen multiple times each day. In addition, individual installations, one by Jennifer Reeves and one by Jennifer West, will run for one week each. Two separate evening screenings will feature works by Stan Brakhage and by Dieter Roth and Amy Granat, respectively.
Artists include: Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Amy Granat, Pierre Hébert, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Bärbel Neubauer, Jenny Perlin, Jennifer Reeves, Richard Reeves, Dieter Roth, Harry Smith, and Jennifer West.
Screening Schedule
Thursday, May 29 – Saturday, July 5 (daily)
Tuesday, July 22 – Thursday, July 24 (daily)
Len Lye, A Colour Box, 1935, 4 min.; Norman McLaren, Blinkity Blank, 1955, 5:15 min.; Harry Smith, Early Abstractions no. 3: Interwoven, 1947–49, 3:20 min.; Bärbel Neubauer, Roots, 1996, 3:44 min.; Dieter Roth, Dot, 1956–62, 2:39 min; Jenny Perlin, Lost Treasures, 1999, 2:33 min.; Pierre Hébert, Op Hop – Hop Op, 1966, 3:30 min.; Richard Reeves, Linear Dreams, 1997, 7 min.; Jennifer West, Double Fast Luck Film (16mm film leader sprinkled with Red Luck Oil, Green Luck perfume, soaked in mint, cinnamon and vanilla), 2006, 2:44 min.; Len Lye, Free Radicals, 1958 (revised 1979), 4 min.; Robert Breer, Eyewash, 1959, 3 min.; Pierre Hébert, Memories of War, 1983, 16:10 min.; Bärbel Neubauer, Moonlight, 1997, 4:11 min.; Norman McLaren, Scherzo, 1939, 1:25 min.; and Amy Granat, Valentines Day Film, 2008, 6:57 min.
Courtesy BKD!
Arthur Magazine 