I was out of town yesterday and wasn’t able to catch Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston, but from all reports, the event was a huge success!
Here are some videos from the event. I will update as more videos come down the pipeline.
“light adapted” @ Track One
Bill Vincent’s projection-mapped Nashville Skyline @ Fort Houston
Shelby Shadwell “Auniversal Picture 7” @ threesquared
My neighborhood will be bustling Saturday, November 2nd for the fourth Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston. Participating galleries include Infinity Cat Records, Zeitgeist, Cleft Studios, Fort Houston, Ground Floor Gallery, threesquared and an after party at Track One. Look for a map at any participating gallery for the full list.
The crawl is from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Track One will stay open until 11:00 p.m.
Here are a few highlights:
Infinity Cat Records
467 Humphreys St., Nashville, TN 37203
This Saturday night at the Infinity Cat Visitors Center there will be a show of photographic prints by Julia Bee. Fans of JEFF the Brotherhood, Apache Relay, Mumford and Sons, The Vaccines, and Old Crow Medicine Show will be able to view (and purchase) photos from last Saturday’s epic night of rock. Julia Bee is a local photographer who’s been shooting Nashville’s dirtiest, grittiest, gnarliest shows for years. At age seventeen she began shooting for Nashville’s Dead and continued to expand reach into the photographic community. Shooting only traditional 35mm film, she develops and prints all of her work in her own darkroom, and will be opening Nashville’s first community-based darkroom in the coming months at Fort Houston (with the help of friend and fellow photographer Bekah Cope). This weekend, armed only with a camera and ten rolls of film, she followed supergroup Salvador Dali Parton through their entire three day craze of writing, rehearsing, and performing. Salvador Dali Parton is Jake Orrall, Mike Harris, Winston Marshall, Justin Hayward-Young, and Gill Landry. — Infinity Cat Press Release
Track One
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
1209 4th Ave S, Nashville, Tn 37203
Light Adapted – Projection Art by Black and Jones (Kell Black and Barry Jones), Jonathan Rattner, Kelli Hix, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Michael Hampton, Mika Agari, Zack Rafuls and Josh Gumiela. — Press release from Track One.
If you liked our Bring Your Own Beamer show at Track One a few months ago or our ON/OFF electronic art show at S.N.A.P. Center for the first Wedgewood/Houston art crawl, you’ll love this showcase of projection art. Curators Josh Gumiela and Morgan Higby-Flowers participated in those previous shows, and they have some amazing things cooked up for Saturday night. Trust me. Don’t miss this.
Ground Floor Gallery
Chestnut Square Building
Conditionally Human — A juried exhibition featuring Richard Brouillet, Chris Burks, Aletha Carr, Julie Cowan, Liz Heller, Kelly Hider, Ryan Hoevenaar, Laney Humphrey, Nathan Madrid, Elysia Mann, Miriam Norris Omura, Mary Robinson, Liz Clayton Scofield, Bridgit Stoffer, Denise Tarantino, Ross Turner, Jake Weigel, Cathleen Windham and Fotios Zemenides.
This exhibition juried by University of Texas at San Antonio professor Libby Rowe is sure to be one of the highlights of the crawl. Bring Your Own Beamer and ON/OFF participant Liz Clayton Scofield will unveil a new work.
threesquared
Chestnut Square Building
Auniversal Picture – new large-scale drawings by Shelby Shadwell, Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wyoming. Shadwell actively exhibits across the nation and was recently featured in the International Drawing Annual 5 and 6 publications through the Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had a solo exhibition in February 2013. — threesquared press release.
Zeitgeist Gallery
516 Hagan Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Shade Models by Patrick DeGuira is made up of paintings, collage and sculpture and investigates the concepts of memory, time and language. It deals with the creation of impermanence in one’s historical makeup.
Reckonings by Gieves Anderson is a series of images made by photographing wet paint. The photograph freezes the fleeting moment when the paint is at the height of it’s vitality and allows the artist to share an intimate, ephemeral moment in the life of a painting causing one to think about paint as something other than an end product. — Zeitgeist press release.
Fort Houston
500 Houston Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Fort Houston is pleased to present Unit 2 (part 2): From the High Chair to the Electric Chair, an exhibition of a model society designed by David Duncan, Ron Cauthern, and other prisoners on Tennessee’s death row.
Constructed from materials permitted by prison authorities, including painted cardboard, plastic, and pasted paper, the miniature city offers a view of the society from the standpoint of individuals it has condemned to death. In a series of episodic vignettes, it traces a dispiriting, but familiar path from the housing projects through the playgrounds and schools and ultimately to the prisons and execution chambers. In this piece, the artists describe a social landscape where a persistent lack of opportunity becomes an engine of criminality and incarceration, where the downtrodden are continuously subjected to surveillance and control, and where social and political failures destroy lives. Overall, the ensemble suggests that our courtrooms, prisons, and execution chambers will never be empty until our institutions take responsibility for society’s most vulnerable citizens. It argues that social and political failures inaugurate a cycle of poverty and incarceration that frequently repeats itself from one generation to the next.
The diorama advances this critique while aspiring to introduce its audience to some of the dismal realities of contemporary poverty and imprisonment. As David Duncan had remarked, “I don’t want children today to learn about this cycle after they’re in prison.” — Fort Houston press release.
Fort Houston will also feature multimedia artist Bill Vincent‘s amazing projection-mapped Nashville skyline.
Cleft Studios
444 Humphreys St, Nashville, TN 37203
New Work by Rbt. Sps. and Christine Rogers
This is shaping up to be one of the best art crawls of the year! Here’s an area map to help you plan your route:
There are two great art happenings tonight, and it’s killing me that I can’t attend both.
The first is a Watkins opening reception for two of its new faculty members, Fine Art chair Kristi Hargrove and Fine Art assistant professor Morgan Higby-Flowers. The show “Monsters, Prophets, Sinners & Tourists” is open tonight from 5:30pm to 8pm.
According to the Watkins event page, Hargrove will “present a collection of work across disciplines, from the series ‘Playing with the Pause.’ Her studio practice is primarily drawing, but includes investigations into other media such as photography, sculpture and installation.” Higby-Flowers, who has performed at Noa Noa, Boheme Collectif, and the Wedgewood/Houston ON/OFF exhibit, is “exhibiting a single channel video entitled ‘Timonds are [not] Forever,’ captured in realtime via a self-contained analog system using a Sandin Image Processor, video mixer, camera and CRT television.”
As a part of the Clarksville First Thursday Downtown Art Walk, Austin Peay professor Josh Gumiela is presenting a NO MEDIA event.
The concept:
Participating artists are randomly matched in sets of 3 && given 10mins to perform. NO MEDIA aims to bring together artists from a broad range of performable disciplines (poets + dancers + expanded cinemaistas + free jazzers + audio/video noise makers + etc) to challenge the conventions of their practice by responding in realtime to artists from other disciplines.
The Rules:
No Media At The Beginning!
[NO preparation is allowed. Bring your tools, devices, instruments, props, etc., but you’ve got to start with a blank slate. NO time will be allotted for ‘setup’. There will be a 2min turn around time where you can carry your stuff up and meet your collaborators]No Media At The End!
[NO documentation allowed. It happens once && in realtime.]
Today Josh sent out the final details for the show, which I am including below. He’s appeared on several Theatre Intangible episodes and has exhibited work at Future Night, The Circuit Benders’ Ball, and the Wedgewood/Houston ON/OFF exhibit.
I’ll be performing at tonight’s NO MEDIA event, armed with an SK-1 keyboard. It should be a blast!
The when and where:Thu Sept 5, 6pm – 8pm
Please arrive by 6pm in order to be entered into the pool of performers.
124 Strawberry Lane
Clarksville, TN 37040(map: http://goo.gl/maps/H2546)
The Rules:
This is important. Be sure you review the rules of the event before you arrive, they will be strictly enforced: http://no-media.tumblr.com/
The Equipment:
There will be a PA, mixer, and one video projector available. We will also have power outlets available near the performance area. That’s it. Bring all cables/wires/misc. tech required for your performance.
The Performers:
You! And anyone else you can bring along to participate. We need as many performers as possible in order for this to be a success. Absolutely anyone is welcome. This is a safe place to take risks and experiment. No documentation is allowed so there’s no worry that your performance will be captured on YouTube or Facebook for all of eternity. Assume that most, if not all of us, will fail in epic fashion. And that’s totally okay. Actually, it’s kinda the point.
Cheers,-Josh
Professors Morgan Higby-Flowers and Josh Gumiela are organizing a NO MEDIA event for the Clarksville First Thursday Art Walk, and they’re seeking participants. The event is presented by the Austin Peay State University Department of Art. Morgan is a former APSU professor who currently teaches at Watkins University. Josh is a professor in the APSU Department of Art. Check out the APSU press release.
NO MEDIA is an open improvisational realtime/performance media art event conceptualized by Jason Soliday, Nick Briz and Jeff Kolar.
The concept:
Participating artists are randomly matched in sets of 3 && given 10mins to perform. NO MEDIA aims to bring together artists from a broad range of performable disciplines (poets + dancers + expanded cinemaistas + free jazzers + audio/video noise makers + etc) to challenge the conventions of their practice by responding in realtime to artists from other disciplines.
The Rules:
No Media At The Beginning!
[NO preparation is allowed. Bring your tools, devices, instruments, props, etc., but you’ve got to start with a blank slate. NO time will be allotted for ‘setup’. There will be a 2min turn around time where you can carry your stuff up and meet your collaborators]No Media At The End!
[NO documentation allowed. It happens once && in realtime.]
The event happens Thursday, September 5th from 6-8pm. The venue address is:124 Strawberry Alley Clarksville, TN 37040.
If you’re interested in participating, contact Josh Gumiela at joshgumiela