If anyone is in New Orleans for the Prospect 1 hoopla, and looking for a fun time Sunday night, come check out Kyle's and my latest labor of love, The Front (number 64 on your prospect one map) at 4100 St. Claude. There are four solo shows on view in the gallery (www.nolafront.org). Starting at 7:00 sharp (don't forget the time change) is our animation party (www.cartunexprez.com). There will be beer, popcorn, and good times. It'll be projected on an outdoor screen, so bring a blanket:
Please join us for our grand-opening and inaugural event, Cartune Xprez!!!
WHO: Cartune Xprez, a traveling animation party
WHAT: Live multimedia performance by Hooliganship followed by an animation screening
WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 2, 7:00p.m. hospitality support provided by The Saint Bar & Lounge. 961 Saint Mary St
WHERE: The Front, 4100 St. Claude Ave
The multimedia dance duo Hooliganship will present the freshest incarnation of "Cartune
Xprez", an 80-minute program of short animated videos and performances that celebrates the wilderness of imagination through motion pictures. Featured artists include Bruce Bickford, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad and more. Alongside this cartoon theater they will be performing their most recent piece entitled "Realer" in which audiences strap on a pair of 3D glasses to bear witness to a televised parade gone awry. This is a one-night event that has been in the works for 2 years. It is very special program with a collective resume including collaborations with Frank Zappa and major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many other institutions throughout the world.
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Additional exhibitions at The Front throughout the Prospect 1 Biennial include:
November 1 - 22, Opening reception: Saturday November 8th, 6-9pm
Natalie Sciortino & Jeff Rinehart
Stephanie Patton
Rachel Jones & Julie Pieri
Morgana King
November 30 - December 20, Opening reception: Saturday December 13th, 6-9pm
Andrea Ferguson
Michelle Levine
Hot Iron Press
December 28- January 18, Opening reception: Saturday January 10th, 6-9pm
Jennifer Odem & Ann Schwab
Jonathan Traviesa
Claire Rau
Megan Roniger
We hope to see you there!
Best wishes from the Front Collective
so as i left for work today, i noticed a bunch of trucks filled with lighting equipment in the parking lot around the corner. i called kyle, "hey, they're filming a movie on our street." by the time i got home, there was a catering van in my driveway and a kitchen on wheels parked out front. they said that, you know, since they were using my driveway, i could maybe have a snack later or whatever. thanks. now it's 1:30 in the morning, there are bloodshooting, blinding lights pouring into our windows, and every five minutes or so i get to hear a big lumbering dumptruck speeding way too fast about a quarter way up the bridge (next to our house), screeching to a very obnoxious, high pitched halt, and then some dude's voice booming "CUT!". then the truck backs up and starts it all over again. and you know, i've consistently been 30 minutes late coming and going from/to work the past couple weeks because of "bridge work" that reroutes way to many people to another bridge which is frequently drawn. now i see all that was really just to prep the bridge for this high speed adventure shot. so, i was just wondering, and not to sound ungrateful for the movie industry's interest and investment in new orleans, but doesn't it seem only reasonable that these people could get the neighborhood's permission before terrorizing us so. or, at the very least, warn us in advance of the takeover. i mean, you have to go this crazy circuitous way just to get home, because they have the streets all blocked by police. and none of us are getting sleep tonight. kyle just came in from the bedroom where he's trying to sleep (with one of those soothing noise machines on) to say that a cop car keeps circling round, speeding past and screeching to a halt in the intersection. i guess they are filming a cop car/ dump truck near miss. i feel like we are at the indy 500 or whatever, and i have to go to work tomorrow morning. so... whaddaya think about our chances of making a few compensatory bucks out of this predicament. it only seems fair. our homes are like extras in their movie, and they are using our properties to park their junk. any thought?
laura blereau curated a show featuring a whole bunch of lsu people that opens this weekend:
Second Line
Art and Film related to the Gulf Coast
Art by Kile Anderson, Raina Benoit, Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno, Kyle Bravo, Robin Brazelton, Thomas Chapman a.k.a Pleoavcee, Gerald Cannon, Michael Crespo, Courtney Egan, Alec De León, Deborah Fisher, Brooks Frederick, Rhea Gary, Melody Guichet, Takashi Horisaki, Christopher K. Johns, Libby Johnson, Keisuke Kondo, Jenny LeBlanc, David Rae Morris, Royce Osborn, Edward Pramuk, Punk Rope, Katie Richert, Kant Smith, Emily Sartor, David Sullivan, Cornelia White Swann, Richard Tugwell, Sean Star Wars, Erin Wright, Michael White, and Annie Yalon. Films by Bongiorno Productions, Brent Joseph, Ambarish Manepalli, Mr. Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Royce Osborn
August 25 - September 17, 2007
Ad Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street (East Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
jambalayarts.com
check it out
under latest news, click on the audio slideshow, "katrina inspires flood of new art."
or, after today, try: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0604/art.after.katrina/frameset.exclude.html
also, we're doing a residency at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley this summer. do you live near berkeley? should we hang out?
also, the second printing of kyle's MAKING STUFF AND DOING THINGS is out, and we have quite a pile of them. let us know if you want one, and we'll make a deal.
so we snuck in this weekend. the ninth ward is still closed off, but we told the nice man with the big automatic assault rifle that we were checking on a barge in the industrial canal- AND showed him a photocopy of a letter that my uncle had procured that said we worked for a nearby construction company. i don't think he believed us, but he eventually let us through. everything is crusty and dead, and smells a lot like grand isle on a bad day. everything in our warehouse is gone. you can see for yourself at www.hotironpress.com. the water was lower than we originally feared, but higher than we were later led to believe. the water line on the building was taller than me by several inches, and there wasn't much in the shop that was ever taller than me since i was a main user. the only really salvageable thing was my compound miter saw, which i was glad to keep. somehow the table that it floated atop didn't crash over, but slowly came to rest on our front porch bench. all seven presses are totaled, including our pride and joy Vandercook Universal I seen here before and after krazy katrina.
just about all of the neighborhood cars were still around, which really worries us.
helicopters kept flying overhead, and after a while one lowered towards us and just hung there in the air- someone hanging out the open door staring us down. we hid, and a few minutes later a hummer full of guys comes barreling down our street to check on us. we just smiled and waved (as i'm cramming a printer from upstairs into the truck) and they kept going. another privilege that the color of our skin afforded us. so what now? we WERE really homesick, but now... we just don't know. we did manage to get some MRE's, and i'll be damned if they aren't quite tasty. there should be a way for civilians to come by these in non-catastrophic-natural-event times. some even come with peanut butter m&m's!
if you are in the new orleans area this weekend, drop in on the bookfair and related events. hot iron press will be slinging at the fair on saturday with zines and artists' books and records and comics and toys and stuff- Barrister's Gallery 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. (formerly Dryades) near Felicity. it should be fun.
i'm not sure if zack will be there, but he has been in the past. if he's lame and doesn't come, we'll have some of his comics to fill the void. we'll also have some of ben's new comics and brad's new zine. hooray. there's also some rock and art and parties and readings that you can find out about from the official nola bookfair site. Additionally, art openings and lectures abound because of the international sculpture center conference here this weekend.
Just wanted to let everyone know that Hot Iron Press has officially released its very own blood, sweat, and tears in the form of this adorable little book...
phew [swipes back of hand across brow]
Ben Claassen, Zack Soto, Angela Nichols, and twelve other (non lsu) artists each made an original edition of postcard sized works for this collection. Kyle Bravo and I letterpress printed the back of and perforated the works so that each can be torn out of the book and mailed. It took about a year, a ruined press roller, some heated printing "debates", numerous photopolymer failures, lots of dry ramen and sushi take-out, some walking home at 3 a.m., and many stress relief cocktails to get it all together, but we think it pretty much rules. Ask Ben or Josh or Zack if you don't believe.
I for one would like to thank and congratulate Ben and Zack and Angela publicly for their awesome submissions. We think It turned out great you guys- thanks, thanks, and thanks again.
oh, and josh, now you can stop bugging me about posting already! geesh!
