Sleeping Around

Sleeping Around

works by Anni Holm
Opening Reception: Friday, June 19, 7-11pm

In the creation of Sleeping Around Chicagoland based Danish artist Anni Holm explores personal relationships prompted and/or developed by sleeping in someone’s guest room. For her installation at Second Bedroom, Holm collaborates with friends and family to recreate specific objects from these spaces in order to explore their commonalities and divergences.

Anni Holm is a conceptual artist working with photography, installation, performance, and collaborative art. Born in Randers, Denmark, Anni holds a Studenter Eksamen in math from Randers Statsskole, Denmark and attended here after Krabbesholm Art College. She graduated with a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago 2004, where she received the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship twice. In 2005, she received an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, was a Featured Artist during the Chicago Artists Month in 2006, and was named a Break Out Artist in Newcity Chicago in 2007. Anni has performed and exhibited her work at various locations nationally including Ohio University Gallery, Ohio; Waterloo Center for the Arts, Iowa; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York; Space 301, Alabama; along with the Glass Curtain Gallery, the National Museum of Mexican Arts, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, all in Chicago. Since 2006 Anni has also toured the country with the ever-expanding NetWorking knitting project. International exhibitions include the group exhibitions at Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland, Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Finland, Ljungbergmuseet, Sweden and Norsk Folkemuseum, Norway. Anni co-founded Art Walks Chicago, an annual public performance art series on the streets of Chicago, with former performance partner Nyok-Mei Wong in 2004. She is the founder and curator of the three-day multimedia art exhibition artXposium and artINcorporators umbrella arts organization, both based in West Chicago, Illinois, where she also resides.

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Second Bedroom Project Space
Chris Smith & Irene Pérez - Directors
3216 S.Morgan Street, Apt. 4R
Chicago, IL 60608
secondbedroom.project@gmail.com
http://secondbedroomproject.blogspot.com

Edra Soto @ the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago

Soto's installation, The Chacon-Soto Show, focuses on Iris Chacon, the charismatic Puerto Rican performer who starred in the 1970s variety television show El Show de Iris Chacon. Despite sexually provocative costumes and performances, the legendary diva became a popular family entertainer. Flamboyantly dressed and flanked by male backup singers and dancers, Chacon became a symbol of the liberated Puerto Rican woman. For this work, the artist analyzes issues of sexuality specific to Puerto Rican culture through the double filter of her adult understanding of US feminist issues and childhood memories of Chacon on television.

Edra Soto’s childhood memories of watching Chacon in Puerto Rico inspired her to re-examine female sexuality and how this celebrity’s image translates into American culture. Soto presents a large hand-crafted stage and drawings inspired by the variety show. Edra Soto talk June.16.09 6:30 pm

First Fridays Opening Reception June 5th from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2643
General Telephone: 312.280.2660
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=223

Vanderbilt University

More Art, Less Filler II: The Faculty Selects
June 3 - July 31, 2009

Public Reception: Friday, June 5, 4-6 p.m.

Artists:
Sally Brogden
Zoë Charlton
Miguel Cortez
Chris Dean
Tim Dooley
Lanie Gannon
Johan Hagaman
Farrar Hood
Erin Elizabeth Jones
Jessica Jones
Frank Martin
J. Powell Miller
Craig Nutt
Peter Rose
Cynthia Wallace
Carlin Wing
Andrew Winn
Saya Woolfalk
and more.

Ingram Studio Art Center Gallery Space 204
second floor of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center
25th and Garland, on the Vanderbilt campus.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
For more information, contact Diane Acree at 343-7241.

http://calendar.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/2009/06/03/more-art-less-filler-ii-the-faculty-selects.80576

OVNI 2009 - RHIZOMES

Advice, slogans: follow the plants.

www.desorg.org

May 26 to 31

CCCB - Montalegre 5 - Barcelona

Free admission.

“The rhizome is an acentered, nonhierarchical, nonsignifying system without a General and without an organizing memory or central automation, defined solely by a circulation of states”

Through a series of video screenings, presentations and open discussions, OVNI Rhizomes proposes a reflection along two lines: socio-cultural critique, and inner experience. A reflection that opens a path towards more equitable and less aggressive forms of community, offers us a greater diversity of perspectives from which to approach current conflicts, or their roots, and allows us to anticipate or learn about other ways of understanding work, housing, community, communication... along with a reflection that can trigger a change in the way in which human beings identify and limit themselves.

OVNI Rhizomes aims to bring to light the subterranean, rhizomatic points of contact linking worlds and experiences that seem nominally or formally very different from one another.

Presentations and open discussions with:

John Zerzan Green Anarchy. The Critique of Civilization * Espai en Blanc. Worthy is all that which deserves to not be destroyed * Abdelnour Prado. Islam as Mystical Anarchy místico * E.Duran – M.Deriu – F.Schneider- De-growth. * Alberto Arce. Gaza . Erased: Wiped off the map.

Videos:

Autonomía Obrera * Oaxaca . Un poquito de tanta Verdad * Okupas Territorios Necesarios * Kabul Transit * Malcom X prince of Islam * To Exist is to Resist Venezuela Okupaciones * Road to Peyote * Las Guitarras de la Rebelión Tuareg * Las Aguas del Mal * Rod Coronado & Animal Liberation Front * Occupation 101 * On Free Cooperation: Rules and Monsters * Prelude to Revolution * Ah! Liberty * Mezquita No * Black Panthers Newsreels * Fuck the Corporate Media * Ramana el sabio de Arunachala * Weather Underground * A Road to Mecca * Wanja Perro detector de Polis.

Workshops: Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 May. 12 midday to 2pm. Sala Mirador (4^th floor)

Concert: Gnawa Thursday 28th, 11:30pm . Hall
Archives Consultation: from 27^th to 31^st May. 12pm to 11pm. Hall

OVNI Archives:

Open consultation of the Observatory Archives holdings. Around 2000 audiovisual documents.

The Observatory Archives are intentional in nature: they aim tofacilitar una crítica de la cultura y sociedad contemporáneas, utilizando diversas estratepromote a critique of contemporary culture and society through a range of strategies such as independent documentary, video art, media archaeology..

The Archives bring together a constellation of very diverse kinds of works, all of which share a commitment to free expression and reflection on our individual and collective fears and pleasures. A multifaceted vision, thousands of tiny eyes that deepen and explore our world, or herald other possible worlds.

A particular record of the dreams and nightmares of our time.

Screening programme at: www.desorg.org

Changement de Pieds

an art installation by amelia winger-bearskin and carlin wing

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 9 from 2pm-6pm
with performances throughout the opening by Native American storyteller, Charlene Winger-Bearskin

The exhibit is made up of video, photographs, story-telling and an installation that provide an
opportunity for the audience to participate in commemorating the life of Lyncoya, the adopted Creek Indian son of President Andrew Jackson. Each participant will be given a sachet of native flower seeds to scatter.

Changement de Pieds is the second in a three part series inspired by the role of The Hermitage as a historical site within the local community. The first exhibition, Unusual Sympathy was at gallery F @ Scarritt Bennett this past February. The third and final part of the series will be a video installation at The Hermitage on May 17th in conjunction with the Enslaved Memorial
Dedication Ceremony.

organized by sabine schlunk

PANEL DISCUSSION: May 21 from 7p-9p

SHOW RUNS THROUGH: July 5



GALLERY HOURS: Tues-Fri 12-6p - Sat-Sun 9a-4p
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1008 19th Ave South (corner of Grand Ave), Nashville, TN 37212
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Secret School 03: Grow with the K.I.D.S.

Join Secret School and the K.I.D.S. (The Kindness and Imagination Development Society) for four seasons of growing, exchanging, storytelling, and snacking. Throughout the spring, we will exchange seeds, build prototypes for mobile greenhouses, and form a network of secret gardens. Over the summer, we will make books, tell stories, and invent recipes. We’ll celebrate our harvest over the fall, and hunker down together with hot cider and early growing tips over the winter. We will examine what it means to grow a network from the ground up.

Secret School and the K.I.D.S. will issue a series of books and posters that document and explore the hidden network of secret gardens that form B-lines, continuous paths of green spaces for bees, birds, and bugs to travel. Add your garden to the B-line and join us for our future exchanges (Check secretschool.wordpress.com for the most up-to-date schedule):

Secret Seed Exchange and Garden Party:
Bring seeds to exchange.
April 19 *and* May 3, 1-3PM
120 Waterbury #2N
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Storytelling at FEAST:
May 9, 6-9PM
Church of the Messiah
129 Russell Street, Brooklyn
$10-20, no one turned away
feastinbklyn.org

At each FEAST, participants will pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they will receive supper and a ballot. Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be awarded funds collected through the entrance fee to produce the project. The work will then be presented during the next FEAST.

Secret School explores the importance of the hidden and invisible in the social identity of a community through a series of time-based events and collaborations. Ranging from the political to the personal, epic to the quotidian, unknown to unknowable, how do secrets function in the transfer and preservation of power? At a time in which oversaturation of readily available information already exceeds our capacity for adequate synthesis, how can the poetics of secrets cut through the logic of facts? When does the form of a secret supersede its content, and under what circumstances must information remain a secret? Secret School spans an indefinite number of sessions and range of spaces and extends from the aesthetic practice of building systems of social exchange.

For more information, visit secretschool.wordpress.com, kidsociety.wordpress.com or email s3Cr37.5ch00l@gmail.com

Critical Gameplay

Critical Gameplay is a collection of strategically designed video games. Each game asks the question, what do common game mechanics teach us? The four games in the collection are designed to help reevaluate our perspective on gameplay experiences. Critical gameplay seeks to offer alternate perspectives on the way we play.
The Exhibition:

Four video games will be displayed for visitors to play on multiple stations. Each game takes a specific gameplay standard and actively works against it. The hope is the initiation of an intellectual dialogue about the opportunities in unexplored gameplay mechanics.

The exhibition will also include other video games and interactive works created by Lindsay Grace.

The exhibition is open to the public and will be held for one night on April 17th.
• Location: 1100 West Cermak (enter at 2268 S. Carpenter), Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
• Cost: Free (Open to the public)
• Contact: info@criticalgameplay.com[/email]

Refreshments will be served.

Please visit http://www.CriticalGameplay.com or email [email]info@criticalgameplay.com

For a video teaser, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapYAQ-fTIw