by: Samantha Esguerra

Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 8:00pm983 E Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN 55414 (Intelligent Nutrients Building)
because we know beautiful people,,
who don’t always get the chance to present
their perspectives, or listen to yours….
and because you’re doin’ somethin right

An evening of music and art by;;;

Samuel Beddow
Ema C. Cook
Blake Hawbaker
Andrew Hickock
Be yourself
is Andrew Paper Cup
Cinnamon Janzer
Amanda Johnson
Miles Mendenhall
Sean Michel
Aila O’Loughlin
Tom Ricard
Caroline Smith
Jake Telschow
Bethany Turnwall
Milo Weil
Dan Wihelmsen

;;;

evening concludes with a dance party into the night,,,

P.S. Its a potluck too;;; bring a dish to share….please?
AND, there will be free wine,, but we can’t promise it for the whole night….but…there WILL be free wine at 8

Alex St Germain & Mark McGee (i’m guessing cello and electronics)

Tamarack Tim Glenn & Portia Richardson (strings and percussion)

Casey Deming & Jaron Childs (tapes and alto sax)

Art of This
Tuesday 11/24
8pm
BYOB

Franklin Presents: On the Road with Dark Dark Dark

Music and Closing Event

Thursday October 29, 2009 at 8pm

In the spirit of Fischer’s interest in travel and the mythological American road trip, local chamber-folk band Dark Dark Dark will give a special performance, interlaced with their stories of floating down the Mississippi river on homemade rafts, discussions of special projects (see below), and projected images of life on the road.

In the last several years, Dark Dark Dark have become known as one of Minneapolis’ most talented musical acts, while simultaneously embarking on journeys across the country to play music and participate in exhibitions and collaborative projects, exchanging stability for a life of travel and adventure on the road.
Debuting Franklin’s new program of live events, Franklin Presents, band members Nona Marie Invie, Marshall LaCount, and Jonathan Kaiser will discuss their participation in Swimming Cities, an art boat project originating in Brooklyn, an upcoming film entitled Flood in which they are the featured subjects, participation in major exhibitions (at MassMoCA and the Van AbbeMuseum, the Netherlands), and collaborations with artists SWOON, Jay Heikes, Tim Piotrowski, Tod Seelie, Christian Rex VanMinnen, and filmmaker Bill Daniel.

For this closing event, Dark Dark Dark will perform amid the sculptural environment created by Fisher for Few Landmarks and No Boundaries, once more bringing the space alive with live music and stories of restlessness and adventure in celebration of the exhibition’s closing.

Opening band tête-à-tête. Suggested $5 donation.

About Franklin Presents

Franklin Presents is a new arts program devoted to presenting live music, film screenings, readings, lectures, artist talks, and collaborative projects that highlight underlying themes of concurrent Main Gallery exhibitions.

Please contact Colleen Harriss at 612-872-7494 x 4 or at colleen@franklinartworks.org

with any questions regarding the program.

Franklin Art Works

1021 East Franklin Avenue

Minneapolis, MN 55404

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Shinders: 788 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN

This performance will feature an electronic piece that I created out of whistle sounds, as well as experimental improvisation. It is presented by myself, Edward Schneider, and the Minneapolis Free Music Society.

This Wednesday, October 28th, 7-9pm, Shinders 788 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN. Come hear music and check out the ongoing art show, curated by Minnesota local art phenom Matt Bakkom!

There are some amazing performers on this gig, including: Wendy Ultan, Alden Ikeda, Jon Davis, Jamie Paul Lamb, Kevin Cosgrove, Joseph Damman, Jonathan Warnberg, and Edward Schneider.

Hello.

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the transplanted show at Shinders. Very fun times.
This week we go back home to the gallery and will be hosting some local favorites. Hope to see you there.

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1 – Charles Gillett (guitar) & Stefan Kac (tuba)

2 – Jaron Childs (alto saxophone) & Jesse Petersen (guitar)

3 – George Cartwright (saxophones) & Davu Seru (percussion)

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10/27/09
8pm

Art of This Gallery

http://www.artofthis.net/

3506 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55408
$3-5 suggested donation
BYOB

all the best,
Casey

OX-OP ARTS PRESENTS:

Non Consensual Post Dada Constructivist Cerebral Warts
Art/Music/Film Festival 2009

OCTOBER 22nd- 25th • SOO Visual Arts Center

On October 22nd through 25th, SOOVAC Gallery will host a conceptual tour de force seldom seen outside the two coasts.

The large main Gallery will feature a major retrospective of two hometown Minneapolis heroes of the international flatstock design and printing world: Burlesque of North America and Aesthetic Apparatus.

The side gallery will present a bizarre opening of local artist and alternative music mogul, HAZE XXL. A multi-media onslaught, the exhibition consists of 100 individually hand-made art CD sleeves, each containing original art and individual Polaroids, along with HAZE XXL created objects d’art featured in numerous national shows including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The show marks the first and only release of the Halo Of Flies/Gay Witch Abortion collaboration album. Just 100 CD’s produced, and that’s it forevermore but not surprising coming from the former head of Amphetamine Reptile Records who initiated his label by originating the whole “limited edition thing in music” back in the 1980′s.

Each night of the four-day event, performance art takes on a literal meaning with live music sequestered in yet another gallery within the gallery. The musicians will be performing behind large screened windows facing the main gallery, harshly backlit so that the audience sees only silhouetted shadows and movement. Four security cameras inside the room will broadcast those performances live onto screens in the main gallery, playing with perceptions of time and space and lessening even further our distinctions between reality and the alternate broadcast reality which is far to often blurred.

The Opening Event will also offer an additional layer of altered perception, featuring the short films of renowned artist Chris Mars. Primarily known for his deeply surreal oil and pastel images, he has taken to animation
and film with all the intensity and incredible detail of his oil paintings.

ART SHOWS
Aesthetic Apparatus • Burlesque Design – Retrospective/Installation
HAZE XXL -100 Disciples Art Show
HOF/Gay Witch Abortion CD Release

LIVE SHOWS
Oct 22• CHRIS MARS Short Films
Live improvisational accompaniment by
Grant Hart • HAZE XXL • Shannon Selberg

Oct 23• GAY WITCH ABORTION Live performance in security cam vision

Oct 24 • H•O•F Live performance in security cam vision

Oct 25 • THE MELVINS Live performance in security cam vision

N.C.P.D.C.C.W.
4 days of multi media splooge brought to you by the
Workers Sensory Stimulation Committee

Soo Visual Arts Center
2640 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408

www.ox-op.com
www.soovac.org

This is one of the 100 limited HOF/Gay Witch Abortion releases..

October 15, 2009

Set One:

Luke Polipnick, Guitar + Laptop

Minneapolis debut of Polipnick’s piece; a combination of delicate, processed classical guitar textures and glitchy, pounding drill’n’bass. A very dynamic piece, it is alternately dark and bright, cold and warm, fragile and violent. It is fairly “classical” in design, in terms of the flow of events and contrasts. Luke will be improvising and playing some pre-conceived material against the computer track.

Set Two:

Luke Polipnick, Guitar;Erik Fratzke, Bass; Tim Glenn, Drums

Shinders is at 731 Hennepin Ave.  There is no heat in the building, so please dress accordingly.  People can use the bathroom at Chambers if need be.  This is a BYOB event, as usual, and we expect civility and decorum if you choose to drink.

$3-5 /// DOORS @ 8PM

WE ARE NOT ABANDONING ART OF THIS, just taking advantage of this opportunity.  I can’t express enough gratitude and joy for our experience with the AOT gallery and the people therein.  Hats off to them!

DEATILS:

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Presence (ex-hardland/heartland)
Aaron Anderson and Eric Carlson

Squid Fist
Tim Glenn, Bryce Beverlin II, and Casey Deming

Soaking Rasps
Markus Lunkenheimer and Adam Patterson

Marijuana Deathsquad
members of Building Better Bombs

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Digitata have been on hiatus for awhile now. They re-united to record an album. Here is note about their first and possibly last show in a long time..

We are releasing it at an art show we are throwing for some friends at First Amendment Arts. the show is called “Sawdust City”. These are the artists:

Eric Lee – incredibly detailed “realist” paintings of decaying industrial settings. Uses gunpowder too. some of them are HUGE.
David Jensen – abstract paintings made with a huge variety of materials, i believe mostly from the construction world.
Chance Orth – wood-framed photography and strange small sculpture.

Info:
Saturday, June 27th 2009
Sawdust City
+ Digitata EP/CD release show
@ First Amendment Arts
7:00 – 10:00 PM
beer and wine. maybe booze. not sure what the deal is.

Marijuana Deathsquads will play first around 8:00 ish, i think.
Digitata will play second around 9:00 ish, i think.