Not much going on this week - or I am not in the loop anymore.
Well, I am leaving for San Francisco tomorrow and then San Jose for the rest of the week. Anything going on in San Francisco this weekend? Let me know! (I don't even try asking you about San Jose...)
Friday, 1/12
7:30 PM BILL O’REILLY SINGS! @ Meany Hall
8:00 PM? Elvis Invitationals @ EMP
9:00 PM Chill tunes and new flix Friday @ Alibi Room
Saturday 1/13
Noon Video Quartet / Kit Bashing @ Western Bridge
6:00 PM JEFF ROSS ART SHOW in Georgetown
9:00 PM? Shameless invades Krakt @ Rebar.
Monday 1/15
8:00 PM Bring Your Own Projector (BYOP) @ Alibi Room
Wednesday, 1/17
6:00 PM Comic Book Jam: “Friends of the Nib” @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
Friday, 1/12
BILL O’REILLY SINGS! @ Meany Hall
I got this one from Marlow:
GET READY FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE IN CLASSICAL MUSIC!
Mackris v. O’Reilly is coming to Meany Hall on January 12 & 13, 2007 at 7:30 pm. On those two nights,
the baroque oratorio will receive an unforgettable infusion of contemporary culture and controversy.
BILL O’REILLY SINGS!
The piece is a setting of the sexual harassment complaint lodged against Fox News pundit, Bill O’Reilly,
by staff producer, Andrea Mackris, in October 2004. It includes all memorable moments from the original complaint and more – paranoid rants, clumsy sexual innuendo, and the famous falafel fantasy. Composer
Igor Keller has produced this 31-part, concert-length work in the form of a baroque oratorio, in the style of
an updated Handel’s Messiah, for 28-piece chamber orchestra, 26-voice chorus and three soloists. It’s an oratorio for the 21st century!
CAUTION!
Because of the nature of the subject matter, this performance is not intended for audiences under 18 years of age. The piece contains no profanity, but it does feature an array of “mature themes” which are treated with the highest artistic regard.
ENDURING ART OR SHAMELESS HYPE?
Read on and judge for yourself. Or better yet, come see it. Tickets are only $10 a piece and $12 at the door. When was the last time you could see the world-premiere of a classical work for the price of a movie ticket?
http://www.mackrisvoreilly.com/home.html
Elvis Invitationals @ EMP
Marlow writes:
Yes, it's that time of year once again, I'll be judging the 11th annual edition of the Elvis Invitationals, Friday, January 12, at Experience Music Project. Amateur impersonators get one chance to perform a song, in costume, backed by the Memphis Mafia all-star band, while competing for over $1,000 worth of prizes.
Click here for details: http://www.emplive.org/calendar/index.asp?categoryID=36&m=1&d=12&y=2007&eventID=94
Happy Elvis' Birthday!
-- Marlow
EMP
http://www.emplive.org/
Chill tunes and new flix Friday @ Alibi Room
Rob writes:
FRIDAY (Jan 12, 9 pm - close)
I'll be spinning an eclectic set of relatively obscure vinyl as well as plenty of hits.
Jazz, blues, soul, funk, new wave, rock, punk, hip-hop, reggae and world music.
Yeah, that's right, a total clusterfuck for your listening pleasure. This is my only scheduled night for forseeable future and I hope you'll join me for a laid-back evening of drinking and conversation. And if you want to dance on the tables, too, that's up to you. I'll also be premiering some new short films in the endless series: http://zverina.com/i/films.htm
Yo-K!
robZ
Alibi Room
www.seattlealibi.com
Saturday 1/13
Video Quartet / Kit Bashing @ Western Bridge
Western Bridge opens Christian Marclay: Video Quartet and the group exhibition Kit Bashing, Saturday, January 13, 2007, noon to six.
Video Quartet
Christian Marclay
Gretchen Bennett
Kit Bashing
Steven Brekelmans
Ryan Gander
Carsten Höller
Paul Morrison
Steve Roden
Ben Rubin
Western Bridge begins 2007 with Kit Bashing, a group show on appropriation and archives, and Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet, 2002. These exhibitions conclude a series of three collection hangings built around Paul Morrison’s commissioned wall painting mesophyte.
Marclay’s synchronized four-channel video installation is one of the treasures of the William and Ruth True Collection. The southernmost gallery at Western Bridge , was designed to accomodate the spatial requirements of Video Quartet, whose forty linear feet present an inventive and rich audiovisual collage of quick cuts drawn from the broad history of sound cinema. Working with film clips as a DJ does with sound samples, Marclay finds music in cacophony.
Paul Morrison’s mesophyte, a 150-foot-long wall painting commissioned for Western Bridge ’s largest gallery, has served as the core for three exhibitions in 2006-2007. Its rich associations have led us to exhibitions which keyed off of its genre (Boys and Flowers) and its formal qualities (Into Black). Kit Bashing looks at mesophyte as the product of a specific kind of use artists make of archives. Kit Bashing casts the artist not as archivist, but as a disruptive force within the categorical order of the archive. The title is derived from Steven Brekelmans’ Drums (Kit Bashing), 2006, named after the practice of repurposing existing scale model kit parts to create novel designs.
In this exhibition, Kit Bashing serves as a heading for a broad group of interventions and appropriations: Gretchen Bennett has been commissioned to create three pieces in cut and collaged stickers. Carsten Höller’s Birds, 2006, a new print series, documents in photogravure ten birds created through crossbreeding existing species. Ryan Gander’s A Phantom of Appropriation, 2006, is a broken archive in neon, built of 23 letter forms copied from existing artworks in neon tubing, then shattered. Steve Roden’s sculptural sound installation Transmission (Voices of Objects and Skies), 2005, contains buried references to both a Rimbaud poem and a transcription from John Glenn’s orbit of the earth, set to an eight-channel sound composition built on samples of satellite transmissions recorded by shortwave radio buffs. Upstairs, in the apartment’s bedroom, the 12 LED screens of Ben Rubin’s The Quiet Ticking of Dreams, 2006, endlessly loop several hundred dreams recorded in online dream diaries by anonymous dreamers, dropping the viewer into a chaotic sort of group subconscious that’s anything but collective.
Exhibition dates are January 13 through May 5, 2007
Hours are Thursday to Saturday, noon to six
Western Bridge
3412 Fourth Avenue South
Seattle , Wash. 98134
tel: 206-838-7444
fax: 206-838-7448
email: info@westernbridge.org
web: www.westernbridge.org
JEFF ROSS ART SHOW in Georgetown
K.D. writes:
Hey Party Volcano!
Long time no see.Happiest of New Years!
I have a friend who's art show needs a little promotion.
Do visit his website.
Jeff always has plenty of Ding Dongs and cheap Beer (The Breakfast of Champions!) at his opening parties.
Hope to see you soon and that your sweet Puppy is doing better.
xoxox
K.D.
Here are the details:
JEFF ROSS ART SHOW
SCOOTERS CUT COLOR CULTURE
6005 12TH AVE SOUTH
GEORGETOWN
JANUARY 8 - MARCH 7
OPENING RECEPTION
JANUARY 13
6-9PM THEN TO 9LB HAMMER
206-767-0611(SCOOTERS)
WWW.JEFFROSSART.COM
DING DONGS/BUDLIGHT/PABST
SCOOTERS CUT COLOR CULTURE
6005 12TH AVE SOUTH
GEORGETOWN
WWW.JEFFROSSART.COM
Shameless invades Krakt @ Rebar.
>>>Saturday, January 13th - Shameless invades Krakt @ Rebar. Plus, it's the Squid Leader's birthday! You've been warned...
More info: http://www.myspace.com/krakt
Flyer: http://myspace-064.vo.llnwd.net/01550/46/07/1550077064_l.gif
Monday 1/15
Bring Your Own Projector (BYOP) @ Alibi Room
Come and show us what you've got.
Or just sit back and have a good talk.
$3 drafts in the basement; full bar upstairs.
Hope to see you there!
robZ
www.seattlealibi.com/byop.htm
Wednesday, 1/17
Comic Book Jam: “Friends of the Nib” @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts a live Comic Book Jam
featuring “Friends of the Nib” on Wednesday, January 17 from 6:00 to
9:00 PM
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery invites the public to observe the
creative process unfold with a fascinating demonstration of comic
book production on Wednesday, January 17 at 6:00 PM. This free event
features inventive Seattle-area cartoonists associated with “Friends
of the Nib,” a weekly cartoonist’s salon founded by influential
artist Jim Woodring. Over the course of the evening, the
participating artists will create and reproduce a narrative mini-
comic, which will be offered for sale at a nominal price at the
conclusion of the event.
Formed over a year ago, “Friends of the Nib” meets each Wednesday at
Café Racer, near Woodring’s Ravenna neighborhood home. “I wanted to
create an informal meeting place for young artists to draw comics and
network,” he explains. “I’ve only recently met most of the artists,
and many of them aren’t professional cartoonists. Anyone can
participate.” Many successful cartoonists regularly attend to mentor
aspiring artists.
Woodring, together with collaborator Bill Frisell, was recently
awarded a prestigious United States Art fellowship, funded by The
Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Prudential
Foundation and the Rasmuson Foundation. After presiding over the
“Friends of the Nib” comics jam, Woodring will depart for France,
where he will be a featured guest at the 33rd annual International
Comic Strip Festival in Angouleme.
This lively event will complement the current exhibition “MOME: The
New Guard” which features emerging cartoonists published in
Fantagraphics Books quarterly anthology of the same name. Admission
is free to the public of all ages. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of Seattle’s creative
Georgetown district. A selection of images in a variety of formats is
available for publication.
“Friends of the Nib” Comic Book Jam
Wednesday, January 17, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way)
Seattle, WA 98108
206.658.0110
Cold Lava Report
Arcana New Years eve party
Dave writes:
Hey,
I did photography for the Arcana New Years eve party and it turned out fantastic. I can't believe how many great costume parties I've been to recently.
I posted pictures up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/davematthews/sets/72157594454562792/. Want to share the link in your computer corner? It's totally non-commercial - I didn't get paid and people can print the photos if they want. I just do it for fun.
Anyway, love the partyvolcano :)
Dave
Thanks Dave!
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