TUESDAY IMPROV MUSIC SERIES! PLEASE SUPPORT!
Please help support the Tuesday Improvised Music Series
at Madame for the Arts. This series serves as a catalyst for
community building around improvised music by presenting
emerging and established artists twice a month in a casual
environment at Madame of Arts in Minneapolis. Funds from
this project will go directly to the rental costs of The Tuesday
Series. And we need your help!
The Series strives to minimize the boundaries inherent to
traditional concert settings, holding events in such venues as
Gus Lucky’s, Acadia Theatre, Art of This Gallery, Franklin Art
Works, and Madame of the Arts. Beginning by presenting a
dedicated core of local performers, the The Series has grown
with the expanding Twin Cites improvised music community,
and now programs national and international artists regularly.
The Series will continue to present concerts at Madame of the
Arts in 2012, centrally located at 3401 Chicago Avenue in
Minneapolis.
Only 35 days to go, please consider donating today!
The pre-holiday events just keep on coming!
Friday December 16 6-9pm
Katelyn Farstad @ Shoebox Gallery
“Tap in the tree, tap at that sap, rocking in such
sweet pendulums, my heart beats a little off from
nervous premonitions of grandeur, or seemingly
obvious shortcomings that are seemingly obvious
for a reason. That reason however, is unknown.
To give a mile only takes an inch. If one sets out to
instigate waves, you gotta make sure you wear your
life vest in the wave pool. Painting is like a wave
pool. Maybe everyone would rather be at the ocean…
everyone looks like the are having a good time but you
know there are a few kids scared shitless and balling
salty tears as their faces get smoked time and time
again by the predictable and simulated slaps of life
essence”.-Katelyn Farstad
Saturday December 17 6-9pm
Monster Drawing Rally @ Midway Contemporary
Just in time for the holidays the annual Midway
Contemporary Art Monster Drawing Rally arrives
for a night of community art making (mixed with
some gawking) and an amazing opportunity to
purchase art by local artists.
Check out the bevy of things to do and see before you become
overwhelmed with the holidays.
#1 – Tuesday Improv Music Series @ Franklin Artworks
Tuesday, December 6 @ 8pm
The Tuesday Improvised Music Series, Taiga Records and Franklin
ArtWorks are pleased to present percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani
and the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. The NGO is an ensemble comprised
of a different group of five artists specific to each of the cities on
Nakatani’s North American tour. The Twin Cities’ artists performing for
one night only in this rare and exciting setting include Adam Patterson,
Jackie Beckey, Jonathan Kaiser, Kevin Cosgrove and Jonathan Zorn.
Local improv-rock quartet, Take Acre and tape music duo, Visions of
Christ will perform in a first-time collaboration to round out this evening
of world premiers.
#2 – Walker Art Center Launches New Website
You gotta check out the Walker’s new website. This thing is an online
hotrod and is getting rave reviews from around the globe. What more
could we have asked for? This thing has articles about Walker projects,
news from beyond on brrrr-y borders, links to local blogs and mnartists.
org, all presented in an accessible and articulate way. Kudos to the New
Media team and Paul Schmelzer, and of course to Director Olga Viso.
You have done it again.
#3 – Ruben Nusz @ Thomas Barry Fine Arts
Opening Reception – Friday, December 9, 6-9pm
Local artist Ruben Nusz presents “Sticks/Stones,” a new body of
paintings that explore the non-verbal language of painting as well
as the metaphysics associated with painting’s potential for illusions.
Prepare to be wowed.
62 tracks of pure phonographic excellence.
This release surveys the vast sonic archive maintained
by artist/administrator/pirate radio DJ David Pitman.
Like brief glimpses into an innumerous set of situations.
Reproduced here in a MP3 disk accompanied
by a 8 panel booklet packaged in a clear jewel case.
The artist’s intention is to scatter these 19 second tracks
into your music stream randomly.
FINAL WEEKEND! TWO ONE NIGHTERS!!
What a long strange journey it has been, indeed. Please
join us this weekend for two exciting events that will conclude
the 2011 One Nighter Series.
Friday, October 28 8-11pm
Hopsack Painting Inc. presents “Capitalism Kills”
Organized and operated by Broc Blegen, Hopsack Painting Co.
will employ the talents of artists Matt Lawler and Jake Dwyer for
this unique project. At Hopsack Painting Co, they use the same
tools and materials as traditional painting companies, except their
employees use them in creative ways. By only hiring artists and
limiting their color palette to white primer and Hopsack (the #1
best-selling paint color in the US) they are able to focus on exploring
new patterns, textures, lines, and processes to make compelling
abstract compositions directly on your wall!
Sunday, October 30 8-11pm
“In the Pale” organized by Jonathon Thomas
Featuring the work of artists Aaron Anderson, Justin Schlepp,
Martha Colburn, Cameron Gainer, Alex Hubbard, Justin Matherly,
Peter Tscherkassky, Stan Vanderbeek, Liz Wendelbo, and
C. Spencer Yeh, In the Pale will bring together a selection of 16mm
films, videos, prints, a sculpture, and a photograph that all deal
somehow with darkness, masking, or splitting. Very scary, indeed.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
See you in 2012!
Andy Sturdevant – 2012 U.S. Cities Contemporary
Art Rankings: A New Hierarchical Approach
Andy Sturdevant convenes a group of artists, writers, gallery-
goers and arts patrons — including you — to collaboratively
place each of America’s 125 largest metropolitan statistical
areas into a five-tiered hierarchy that will definitively answer,
once and for all, where every major U.S. city stands in the eyes
of the contemporary art world today.
Wednesday 10/19 7-9pm
AOT Book Fair!
Featuring book projects from Chad Rutter, Sam Hoolihan,
AOT Imprint, Dressing Room, Midway Contemporary,
Scott Nedrelow and more!Come peruse all the books and book-like
objects, as well as meet with their makers/publishers at what should
be a fun-filled evening. Feel free to bring your own books too.
Books for sale and trade!
Friday 10/21 8-11pm
Greg Carideo – Palm Trees, Beaches, Bushes and Benches
Recent Jerome Fellowship recipient Greg Carideo presents new works
of hope and despair, upstairs, downstairs and maybe even out back.
xxx
Quodlibetica Salon Part 2 – Sunday @ 6pm!
The second portion of this scintillating series, Quodlibetica
editors Christina Schmid, Collier White, and Tom Haakenson
(quodlibetica@gmail.com) will host and moderate the salons.
We hope to see you there!
Curious by Squid Fist $10
This release captures a stellar performance by the Minneapolis
trio of Bryce Beverlin II, Casey Deming, and Timothy Glenn.
Recorded live at Madame of the Arts, offered here in CD-R format
and digital download, along with 4 original CMYK silk screen
prints in a hand-printed and cut 7inch envelope.
ONE NIGHTER #5 – {Silent} Films
Stefanie Motta and Nicholas Hoolihan
With a nod to early cinema and silent film, Stefanie Motta
and Nicholas Hoolihan will collaborate on a film screening/
performance combining Super 8 footage with piano accompaniment.
Using small gestures and simple technology, {Silent} Films will high-
light the beauty found in ordinary moments, evoking humor, curiosity,
and nostalgia.
There will be three live performances throughout the night at 8pm, 9pm,
and 10pm. Additional photographic and video work will be on display
all evening.
AOT Space - 4 E. Franklin Ave. - Mpls
Please join us this Tuesday
to celebrate our AOT Imprint Release
as part of this year’s one-nighter series
w/ a large-scale botanical installation
accompanied by slides, film works & music.
Squid Fist
Ventures Cover Band
DJ Fast Elvis
Botanical Slides by Lisa McGrath
New films by Trevor Adams
Plants and Material Installations by
Squid Fist, Celestine Puéringer & the Organ Haus
ONE NIGHTER SERIES RETURNS!
UPDATED CALENDAR!
10/2 – Cereal Breakfast @10am
10/4 – AOT Imprint Release Party for Squid Fist @8pm
10/7 – Stephanie Motta @8pm
10/9 – Cereal Breakfast @10am
10/12 – Jess Hirsh @7pm
10/14 – Basketball Team @8pm
10/16 – Cereal Breakfast @10am
Quoblibetica Salon pt.2 @6pm
10/19 – Book Fair: A Group Book Release Party – 7-9pm
10/21 – Greg Carideo @8pm
10/28 – Hopsack Painting Co. @ 8pm
Stay tuned for more details…
AOT One Nighter Series
4 E. Franklin Ave.
Mpls, 55404
This 47 minute cassette presents a meditative exploration
of purely electronic sources that polarizes the constructs
of maximalism and reduction, composing a swelling bed of
machine-made organicism.
ONE NIGHTER #3!
New Video Work by Ben Moren and Aaron Steffes
Art of This presents A Night of Video Work by Ben Moren
and Aaron Steffes. During this event, Ben Moren will present
looping super8 films, digital projections, audience based stop-
motion animation, audience produced films, and live, on the
spot, processing and projecting of super8 film stock. Aaron
Steffes’s video work, Junky Farm, will also be on display.
This narrative video blends, as he describes, “ideas of urban
and rural strife that starts to resemble a hallucination.”
Ben Moren is a candidate in the MFA Program at the
University of Minnesota. Aaron Steffes is an artist living
and working in Milwaukee.
AOT Space, 4 East Franklin Ave. Mpls
Saturday, September 17 8-11pm
ONE NIGHTER #2 !
Katelyn Reece Farstad – RAGBAGSALAD
Disjointed, square peg in a circle hole, optimism drains like an
hourglass, pit fall, pit stop, pigeon holed, new feelings, gut rot,
tepid pursuits, caged laments, holistic nepotism, terrified joy,
schematic seduction…an attempt at making something beautiful,
through blind and desperate executions, sensory ecstasy without
any baggage. Unadulterated out-pour. RAGBAGSALAD
Saturday, September 10 8-11pm
4 E. Franklin
Mpls
This week in the Tuesday Improvised Music Series!
Three exciting performances, all duos, for this week’s installment
of the Improvised Music Series.
Termination Shock (Jesee Whitney and Tim Glenn)
modular synth, guitar and electronics
Bryce Beverlin II and Jaron Childs
percusision+voice, lapsteel
Jackie Beckey and Jonathan Kaiser
viola and cello
Madame of the Arts
3401 Chicago Ave. S.
Tues. Aug 30 @ 8pm
$3-5 & byob
Hopsack Painting Co @ Dressing Room – Saturday Aug. 27
Organized and operated by Broc Blegen, and employing a team
of cohorts/painters, Hopsack Painting Co. uses Valspar Corp’s
best-selling paint color, Hopsack, for all of its projects. However,
instead of painting in the traditional brush and roller manner of
most contractors, Hopsack painters are free to focus on experimenting
with new techniques and processes, explore materiality, make dynamic
compositions and abstract paintings, employ performance, and more.
For this special remodeling project, Hopsack has utilized the talents of
Katelyn Farstad, who has transformed DR’s plain white wall into a
fabulous new work of art. And of course, as usual, this Dressing Room
project will be accompanied by an edition of artist-made books.
Hopsack Painting Co.
Saturday, August 27 7-10pm
Dressing Room
TUESDAY IMPROV MUSIC SERIES RETURNS!
The Tuesday Series returns with an exciting line-up of
several local Improv veterans, favorites from back in the day!
Montgomery Ward
(Patrick “Trout” Lein & Steve Earnest)
Silenus
Aerosol Pike
(Philip Mann, Rick Ness, Ryan Reber)
Madame of the Arts
3401 Chicago Ave S Mpls, MN
August 16th, 2011
8 PM | BYOB | $3-5
THE AOT ONE NIGHTER SERIES RETURNS!
One of AOT’s most successful programs, the One Nighter Series,
will return this fall! To be held in a TBA location over the months
of Septempber and October, this year’s One Nighter is being
organized by recent MCAD graduates Alyson Coward, Kelly Filreis,
Katy Vonk, Jenny Moxley, Maura Doyle and AJ Warnick.
PLEASE SUPPORT! DONATE THROUGH KICKSTARTER HERE!
We need your help to ensure that the One Nighter Series is a big
success! Please visit our Kickstarter micro-fundraising site to make
a quick and easy donation to this exciting and vital project. Your
contribution is greatly appreciated!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
A single evening presentation of the various collaborative pursuits of
Eric Carlson, Fletcher Barnhill, Derek Maxwell, and Aaron Anderson.
The show will consist of new drawings and work installed in the gallery,
a selection of durational pieces screening in the Trylon Microcinema
from 7 to 9, and musical performances by Radical Cemetery, Cage 3
and others in the space throughout the evening.
Machine Project – Summer Jubilee II
For the past two weeks The Walker Art Center has
welcomed the L.A. collective Machine Project to Open Field.
Whether investigating art, technology, natural history, music,
literature, food, or any of a wide span of interests, Machine
Project approaches everything they do with a curiosity and
enthusiasm that’s infectious.
So check out the second and final Summer Jubilee moment
this Thursday, July 28th for an entire day of melons, music,
movies and mowers on the Open Field.
Thursday, July 28: Summer Jubilee Field Day
11:30 am–12:30 pm, 2–3, 4:30–5:30, and even 7–8
Much to report, all the goings-on this week in Mpls.
#1 Tuesday Improvised Music Series
String Quartet (Davu Seru, Naomi Joy, Elaine Evans, and Daniel Furuta)
Glue Clinic (Matt Himes and Jason Millard)
Paul Metzger and Charles Gillett
MADAME of the ARTS
3401 Chicago Ave. S.
8pm BYOB!
#2 OPENING! Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program!
Please attend the opening for Scott Nedrelow’s exhibit, “Movie” and
Adam Callier and Michael Mott’s collaborative “Finally, we are all
young again.”
This Thursday, 7/22 from 7-9pm
Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program Gallery
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
#3 SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT!!!
AOT continues to need your help! Please contribute to the Kickstarter
campaign to raise the needed rent and artist stipends for the upcoming
One Nighter Series. We need all the help we can get and are counting
on you. Yes, you!
Also, if you are interested in contacting the One Nighter Series about
your project, or have any other questions about the program please
contact them! Here they are – onenighterseries(at)gmail.com
Aaron Anderson @ Dressing Room – Saturday, July 9
Presenting a new work and book project, Aaron Anderson
will be showing us just about everything this Saturday night
with a show he has titled “Reflections.” Whether or not you
were lucky enough to catch his project at They Won’t Find Us
Here Gallery a few weeks ago, you definitely don’t want to
miss this one.
Reflections by Aaron Anderson
Saturday July 9, 8-11pm
Dressing Room
Tuesday Improv Series – July 5!
Oh what a night! This Tuesday at Madame of the Arts, the
Tuesday Series will feature 3 touring acts and new local duo
(or have they been around for a while) John Marks and Crystal
Myslajek. How can you beat that?
Sudden Oak – San Fransisco
(lap-steel + sax)
Palmetto Moon Electronic Group – Charleston, SC
(analog and digital synthesizers and drum machines, microcassette,
and field recordings)
John Niekrasz – Portland, OR
(percussion + voice)
Glitter Pig – Crystal Myslajek / John Marks
(electronic piano, modular synthesizer, tape)
MADAME of the Arts
3401 chicago ave s
(enter side door in mural)
7 / 5 / 11
doors 730 | music @ 8 sharp
$3 – 5
B Y O B
Hee-ha! After a a grueling wrestling match between this very
website and our very selves, we have at long last defeated the
many bugs that were plaguing both the site and your lovely
artist pages. As of last count, we (and by ‘we’ I mean you and
me) are up to 23 pages, each unique and wonderful in their own
way. And with any luck, there are many more to follow soon.
Hazaa!
Isa Newby Gagarin @ Dressing Room
Isa Newby Gagarin presents When Her Son Flies in the Sky
at Dressing Room this weekend. With this new project, Isa
poetically explores the facts and fictions, and the twists and
turns of the not-so-certain origins of herself and her family
making poignant stops along the way at Maui’s Hale ‘akala
volcano, circular rainbows and the dark side of the moon.
And as usual, there will be a new DR publication to compliment
the exhibition.
I haven’t even seen it yet but you know it’s freaking gorgeous.
When Her Son Flies in the Sky by Isa Newby Gagarin
Dressing Room
Saturday, June 25 7-10pm
Marsh of Sleep – Isa Newby Gagarin $10
Our first release is a combination 82-page book and 24-minute cassette
with cyanotype inserts entitled Marsh of Sleep by Isa Newby Gagarin.
The book is an exercise in Isa’s use of arranged appropriated images and
original drawings to create possible histories. The audio component of
Marsh of Sleep explores gravitational, accidental, and durational
aesthetics by utilizing chance operation, found object percussion, and
tape – all cut live - in one take in a South Minneapolis living room.
In tandem, the two relate to Isa’s larger Dead Sea Library project.
This release is in a very limited edition of 50.
Technical Difficulties! Vanishing Pages!
Dear AOT Open Studios Artists and Visitors,
We are currently experiencing some unforeseen technical difficulties with
the new site. Please don’t panic, especially you John Marks. Your page,
and any others that have vanished, will reappear soon.
I promise, and thank you all for your patience and support.
Love, Internet
Two McKnight Photo Shows – One Saturday Night!
If I could explain it, you know I would, so don’t ask.
Somehow both the 2009 and 2010 McKnight Photography Fellowship
exhibitions are this evening at two separate venues. The exhibition
for the 2009 recipients of the award, featuring Paul Shambroom,
Lex Thompson, Carrie Thompson, and Monica Haller will be located
at Franklin Artworks. Meanwhile, over at Midway Contemporary, the
2010 show will feature Chuck Avery, Gina Dombrowski, Amy Eckert,
and Karl Raschke.
Both events are from 7-10pm.
Two events are coming this weekend from two our favorite people:
Aaron Anderson and John Waters!
Opening Saturday is Absentee Landlord, an exhibition curated by
Baltimore’s favorite son (although I suppose it depends on who you
ask), John Waters. A curatorial intervention in the ongoing exhibition
Event Horizon, I am having a difficult time imagining how John’s
vision of the Walker’s collection isn’t going to induce both some
smiles and some ire.
Beginning Thursday and continuing through Saturday at the always
challenging They Won’t Find Us Here Gallery, is Aaron Anderson‘s
/Light/Smoke? &&& The Chimerical Shape. Each of the three events
shall begin at sundown and last for nearly two hours. Beyond that,
your guess is as good as mine.
Boy am I outta the loop! I honestly had no clue as to how large this
Northern Spark project is going to be. Not that its quantity will
equate with quality but who cares? All your friends are going to
be there!
As are mine, and here’s a list of the projects that I know about:
Pete McLarnan (cheese, pictured) @ Black Dog Cafe in St. Paul
RO/LU on the roof of Soap Factory and boating down the river
Amanda Lovelee @ MN Center for Book Arts
Piotr Syzhalski and a whole bunch of people down at the
Father Hennepin Bluffs
Red76 @ the St. Paul Central Library
Marcus Young and GraceMN sleepover in the Walker
(i really hate to miss this one, seriously)
AJ Warnick (godblessem) is playing some crazy Commie v. Cappy
virtual soccer match @ MCAD
Jim Campbell stole the name of a show at AOT about a year ago
SOOVAC is doing some sort of carnival on Lyndale
(a carnival sounds familiar too)
Snapshot Shanty is back and not on the ice. But it’s up on Broadway,
so watch for the fallen trees and give people a hand if they need it.
And a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t even know about yet.
I guess you will just have to check it out!
Things to check out this weekend, the first of June…………………..
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
at WAC with a lecture tonight @ 6pm!
Northern Spark kicks off in about 48 hours and includes projects
by AJ Warnick, Chris Baker, the Art Shanty Projects, RO/LU,
Pete McLarnan, Amanda Lovelee, and Marcus Young and GraceMN.
The Walker Art Center’s Open Field begins this weekend too.
Pack your lunch!
Tuesday Series Performances this week, 5/31
John Zuma Saint Pelvyn
Lisa McGrath and Matt Wacker
Eric Lunde
MADAME for the ARTS
3401 Chicago Ave. S.
8pm
This weekend, two gigantic art projects: Constellation and Heliotrope!
Find all sorts of art projects in local houses, apartments,
frontyards, backyards, garages, porches that will be taking place during
the 3-day project, Constellation. Organized by Lacey Prpic Hedtke and
former AOT-member Kevin Loecke, Constellation explores the ways in
which art is an integral part of our daily lives and will have exhibitions,
performances, screenings and more throughout South Minneapolis.
At the Loring Theater you will find Heliotrope 8 which means non-
stop underground and experimental bands, some of which are amazing
and amazingly loud. Although the three nights’ concerts are not free,
you are certainly going to get your money’s worth with outfits such as
Mother of Fire, Daughters of the Sun, and Skoal Kodiak. For real.
Welcome to the new Art of This website.
While we are still working out some pesky bugs,
many of the features are functioning just fine.
And stay tuned as the Open Studios page fills up with
artists and their work. It’s certainly exciting to see
your name all big and pretty!
We also have an easy way to Apply for a page of your very own.
Just send me an email! We can’t wait to have you.