Old Gold and MAKE present
A special reading and discussion with artists
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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Old Gold is a project space housed in the basement of a Logan Square graystone.
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.
Performance artists Tyler Myers and Stephen Feihn are Cupola Bobber.
“After it’s debut in New York at the CUE Art Foundation, and subsequent 2007 engagements in Chicago and at the UK’s Nuffield Theatre as part of a year-long international fellowship, Cupola Bobber is remounting their work, The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment, in Chicago before embarking on a 7 city UK tour. In Chicago, the show will be re-mounted in the intimate confines of their studio in Humboldt Park.
Fiehn and Myers made the piece asking the following question: “what comes to mind when gazing at the stars?” The answers range from the voyager spacecraft to the North American transcontinental railroad, to the secret thoughts taking place in a strange bedroom late at night.”
“a coup de theatre of rare sublimity” - The Chicago Reader
Cupola Bobber’s The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment
Fridays and Saturdays, October 17 – 25, 8pm
$10, Suggested donation
1359 N Maplewood
Seating is very limited, reservations are strongly recommended
Make a reservation by emailing or calling: info@cupolabobber.com, 312.560.3799
Website: http://www.cupolabobber.com
This is good. He does the slamming.
WIndy City Story Slam
Brought to you by issue 1 contributor Bill Hillman.
from issue 3 - truthiness
Issue 3 visual art contributor Siebren Versteeg’s show “Zero if the Center” recently opened at the Max Protech gallery in NYC.
While the piece he contributed is great, his recent work is another bird entirely. If you live in NYC, we highly recommend you not miss this one.
(downtown) omaha lit fest
The featherproof books & MAKE magazine Slowdown Happy Hour, featuring readings by Zach Plague, Jonathan Messinger, Starlee Kine & Amy Guth. @ the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St.
We don’t want to be a huge bummer, but thunderstorms and paper goods don’t mix well. We’re going to hold off today, but will be there tomorrow, rain or shine. And it will be rain, just hopefully not so much!
Meanwhile we’re laying out our galoshes, slicker, and aqua net.
Thanks for understanding.
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
