Noah Berlatsky, Diana Guerrero-Macía, Carol Jackson, and Bert Stabler

When: Sunday, November 16th, 4:30 PM

Where: Old Gold, 2022 North Humboldt Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60647, Basement Entrance (California Blue Line (towards O’Hare). Walk west on Palmer Boulevard, south on Humboldt Boulevard to 2022)

Cost: FREE

What: Please join us for this unique event.  Brief readings from Chicago art critics and visual artists Noah Berlatsky and Bert Stabler will be followed by a slideshow and roundtable discussion on the use of text in visual art with celebrated Chicago artists Carol Jackson and Diana Guerrero-Macía

The closing (1pm-4pm) of Cole Pierce’s show, Clockworks - a painting and sound installation that meditates upon repetition, the mystery of infinity, and the rendered line - precedes this event/

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1.  This Sunday!

Issue 2 contributor Lisa Janssen, along with the poet and activist Jennifer Karmin, and Californian Hugh Behm-Steinberg read at Myopic books November 9th at 7pm - 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue.  For more information on the poets and the place: http://www.myopicbookstore.com/mynews

2. Danny’s Reading Series

Co-curated by MAKE Poetry Editor Joel Craig

The Danny’s Reading Series

Wednesday, November 12st

Danny’s Tavern (near the corner of Armitage and Damen). 21+

7:30PM Sharp

“We’ve been waiting years for this one…so don’t miss it.”

Poetry by:

Lewis Warsh and Donna Stonecipher

Fall 2008 schedule: www.noslander.com/dannys.html

mini dutch gallery presents…
Stacie Johnson- Mise-en-scène

Opening reception: Saturday, October 25, from 7-10pm. Show runs until, Sunday, November 23, 2008

Closing reception: Saturday, November 22, 7-10pm. Open Sundays 11am-3pm or call/email for appointment

“In mini dutch’s new show, Mise-en-scène, Johnson will be responding directly to mini dutch making site-specific paintings. She has taken on the themes of the gallery, named after a breed of rabbit, and acquired information such as the birth date of the space and of its occupants to find out astrological signs. Based on this information, Johnson will set up a series of maquettes in the gallery. She will be working from this installation of props during the course of the show, and for the closing reception the installation will be replaced with paintings. This is an opportunity to view Johnson’s complete process: from maquette to painting that would otherwise only be available during a studio visit.”

Stacie Johnson is an active participate in the Chicago alternative scene, having had solo shows at Old Gold and threewalls. She currently teaches a painting class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in NY Arts Magazine, New American Paintings and she was named one of Newcity’s one to watch in 2008. She is the Visual Art Editor for MAKE.

“The Chicago Publishers Gallery is a true display of the city’s diversity, enthusiasm, and determination. From the largest university publisher in the U.S. to experimental ‘micropresses’ to authors of every stripe, Chicago’s literary entrepreneurs are motivated by a do-it-yourself spirit and a fierce independence. Visitors are invited to explore the gallery in order to get a sense of the many exciting publications that are being written and published in Chicago today.

 1500 Books from over 125 Publishers  The Gallery showcases approximately 1500 books from 50 area book publishers and 75 periodical publishers. It includes selections from university presses, trade publishers, small presses, and art publishers, as well as zines, pamphlets, comic books, and book arts items. It also includes a selection of Chicago’s proliferating periodicals. The city’s newspapers and magazines are as various as the concerns of its citizens, and they prove the intellectual and artistic depths that one can plumb from a perch in the Windy City.”

Dean Rank’s film Head, which he wrote and directed, premieres Saturday, Sept. 13th at AV-aerie -  2000 W Fulton , Suite 310, 
Chicago, IL.  Doors open at 7:30 pm and the film screens at 8:30 pm.  The screening will be followed by a Q & A with the cast and crew, as well as a musical performance from Jim Becker and Reid Coker.

Dean curated the screening of experimental videos at the issue 6 release party.  We’re pleased to help him announce Head is ready for the world.

The film features Dean De Matteis as the horse-headed man and Kate Sheehy as the woman who wants to be close to him, with Damon Locks and Jim Finn.  Darryl Miller photographed the film, which also features a haunted score written by Jim Becker and Reid Coker.

Advance praise for Head:

               “From Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête to the recent Penelope, featuring a girl with a pig’s snout, “Beauty and the Beast” is a story that cinematically endures, but no one has approached it quite like Dean Rank with Head. In this case, the main character is neither leonine nor porcine, but equine. Rank subverts the classic fairytale into a fabulist nightmare filled with Monte Carlos, an alarming analyst, and Freud’s unheimlich.  Kate Sheehy delivers a touching opening performance with the horse-man (Dean De Matteis). While Head continually two-steps between horror and humor, the base note is one of profound sadness.

The film’s fulcrum is a primeval forest scene that dramatically shifts from narrative to musical spectacle. Though the film could devolve into mere jokiness, the director never lets it.  A palpable sadness pervades the film’s surprises, where we are lead through a labyrinth of fender-benders, to the graffiting of “I love you more than god,” to a trio of singing dryads, to a Tarantino-style dialogue between horse-man and a character donned in a #9 jersey.

A notable D.P. (Darryl Miller), good special effects, solid acting, a superb score by Jim Becker and Reid Coker, and smart, droll dialogue make this film unnervingly enjoyable, resonating with visual metaphors that will linger beyond the film’s finale: a clay horse ridden by a cowgirl, a marshmallow head splotched with bloody handprints and a series of neon Xeroxes.Head is an exploration of identity and estrangement, of misconnection and disconnection, when the masks we wear become who we are.”

—Simone Muench, Asst. Prof. of English, Lewis University    

Kathleen Rooney is reading poetry right now at Quimby’s in Chicago.
Let this be a announcement declaring all future readings by Ms. Rooney something to anticipate. She, along with issue 6 contributors Danielle Aquiline, John Beer, Lindsay Hunter, Amy Leach, and Michael Robins, read at last week’s release party. All were excellent. If I do say so…