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Directions to The Synthetic Zero Art Space Sunday, March 22nd, 6:30pm - Jessica Danser/dansfolk presents:  Thursday, March 26th, 7pm - Portland writer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist Tiffany Lee Brown brings the Easter Island Project: Participation Tour to the Synthetic Zero Art Space:  Friends are invited to bring art- and music-making gear. And we'd
LUV it if you wanted to help document the gathering --- bring video
cameras, recording devices, cameras, etc. of any quality or lack
thereof.
Contact Tiffany at easterislandproject@gmail.com if you want more
info about participating (in person or via mail/Internet). Music,
writing, tiny sculptures, dance, performance, & objets trouves
have all been contributed. No, you don't have to be "An Artist"
to participate, but there are a couple guidelines.
Attached photo by: Motoya Nakamura of The Oregonian; for
press-ready images, see link below.
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We are compelled to create-to make, write, act, and give birth.
How do we manifest this deep desire? How do our creations-novels,
babies, and atom bombs-affect our lives, our culture, and our
planet? The Easter Island Project invites audiences to explore the
questions through the act of creation itself with Plazm magazine"editor Tiffany Lee Brown, as she prepares for an interdisciplinary art
expedition to Easter Island in the South Pacific. The "Easter
Island: participatory tour" welcomes live audiences at intimate
gatherings in Seattle, New York City, Portland, Prescott AZ, and the
San Francisco Bay Area.
The work, while lighthearted in many respects, arises from
Brown's explorations into childlessness and the act of creation.
"With Tiffany, things are not theoretical," said Stephanie
Snyder, curator and director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art
Gallery at Reed College in Portland, when interviewed about Brown's
work. "With her, it's always about the lived issues."
(The Oregonian, Jan 24, 2009).
Audience wishing to participate without attending an event-and
those who'd like to prepare a special artwork or performance to reveal
at an event-can email easterislandproject@gmail.com. "Seeds"
for the Easter Island Project are accepted via email and snailmail.
The project's ongoing blog will launch April 1, 2009 at
www.magdalen.com, when Viator.com will also publish related
arts/travel writing from the artist's journey.
File Under: Participatory & Interdisciplinary Arts;
Process-focused; Community Engaged; Social Practice; Casual & Fun
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PROJECT URL:
PRESS PHOTOS & IMAGES:
THE OREGONIAN: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT THE PROJECT:
PRESENTED BY:
Synthetic Zero, http://www.syntheticzero.com/
and
2GQ/New Oregon Arts & Letters, http://www.2GQ.org
SPONSORS & CO-PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
Viator.com, Tastebud, Performance Works NW, Myrtle Street Review
(Oakland), Studio Current (Seattle), Synthetic Zero (NYC), and Plazm
Media.
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CONTACT:
2GQ/New Oregon Arts & Letters
PO Box 2863, Portland, OR 97208 USA
Preview on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 6pm - 9pm, presentations on Saturday, April 4, 5pm - Stranger Than Fiction Presentations and work shared by Yasmine Alwan, Sergio Bessa, Melissa A Calderón, Ethan Ham, Jane Hsu, Edwin Torres and Spanic Attack, and Angie Waller, curated by Laura Napier. The movie Stranger than Fiction is about an author who is literally writing a real person's life as it happens. The event Stranger than Fiction features interdisciplinary art and literary work that fictionalizes and is often collaborative: it follows the lives of strangers, disorients one while browsing the internet, uses social networks in ways not originally intended, and is cryptically dispensed and dispersed. The installation of Stranger than Fiction is artifacts and archives related to the event: a networked computer, video and movies, photographs, signage, a manuscript, clothing, supplemental books, and a comfy couch. Upcoming Events April 16, 6:30pm - 9pm - "An Evening of Vibrance, Sass, and a Touch of Class" art fundraiser May 6 and 9, 7pm - Alison Ward-curated show June 3 and 6, 7pm - Synthetic Zero Event
The art space is at 305 E. 140th St., #1A, Bronx NY 10454. IF YOU HAVE EXPERIMENTAL FILM, VIDEO, ARTWORK, WRITING, A PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, OR SOMETHING ELSE you would like to submit to a future event, please email us at events at syntheticzero dot com. Send video submissions to: Mitsu Hadeishi / Synthetic Zero Preferred formats for video are DVD (NTSC or PAL) or Blu-Ray disc. We're about 20 minutes from Union Square. From Manhattan, 4-5 train to 125th, transfer to 6, one stop to
3rd Ave/138th, 2 blocks north on Alexander Ave, left on 140th to 305, #1A. (Ring 3A if 1A does not answer).
If you end up at 138th and Grand Concourse,
walk east, across 3rd Avenue, turn left, go to 140th, then
turn right to 305, #1A (ring 3A if 1A does not answer). You can also take the 2 train to 149th and 3rd Avenue (one stop PAST 149th/Grand Concourse!) and walk 9 blocks south to 140th, turn left and it's half a block to 305.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO FRIENDS! Thanks.
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