Citizen Rahne Alexander is a writer & performing artist from Baltimore. She has been
involved with Transmodern in various roles every year since its inception. A core member
of Baltimore’s award-winning queer cabaret, the Charm City Kitty Club, Rahne has performed across the US, both as a solo performer and with her all-female garage band, The Degenerettes. www.rahne.com
Paul Druecke resides in Milwaukee where he’s preoccupied, dramatically speaking, with the imminent death of a very dear friend. This friend, it so happens, is the distant relation of Frank Budgen, the Frank Budgen who was a friend of James Joyce’s. And this, tangentially, has given way to thinking that spam would’ve been a great medium for Joyce — the boozed up, near-blind, randy-old-smart alec broadcasting his forcefully playful language onto a public angry at the intrusion.
No doubt Joyce could’ve parodied with brutal precision those weirdly transparent emails whose author adopts the persona of someone, moderately educated, who has 25,000,000 gold pieces in a tattered trunk somewhere in Abidjan. Of course, if there’s a modern-day Joyce plying her craft via email con jobs, we’ll never notice — lost, as it is in the mountain-sized digital mire of male-enhancement and black-market software notices. There is, really, no hope for the spam folder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Druecke
You: Tall, established corporation made of many people sharing a collective identity, manufactures goods or services. Should be personable, secure, outgoing.
Me: Individual of smallish proportions, spontaneous, sincere, affectionate. Seeking companionship or possibly more (no commitment phobes)
Gobolux (Andrew Nelson and KimSu Theiler) is an art collaborative that is interested in the meeting of sound and image. Gobolux formed in 2001 and is still active today. Gobolux makes both single channel video and video installations.
Thus far, Gobolux has had solo shows in the Oslo Open 2003, Norway: General Store, Milwaukee: Bamboo Theater, Milwaukee. Gobolux has also participated in both national and international group shows.
Andrew Nelson is a photographer and studied filmmaking at Mason Gross School for the Arts: Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. In the 90’s he was most active in music bands from the raunchy metal of The Thing, to the experimental folk music of Azalia Snail, and the art punk of Poem Rocket.
KimSu Theiler is a filmmaker of all genres and mediums which is to say she makes everything from narrative film to experimental video. She has made experimental 16mm documentary shorts that have screened at international film festivals and has had solo video exhibitions in the United States and Korea. She received her art education at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in New York City.
Bonnie Jones works with sound, text and performance. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In sound performances Bonnie plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Her primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet “English”) and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a inter-discipinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the ErstQuake Festival, and the 14 Karat Cabaret.
www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
myspace.com/bonniejonesbaltimore
Born in England 1972, Kemp has persisted as a self-taught artist-musician, using prepared/bowed guitar, piano, trombone, vocals, electronics, cassettes, field recordings and turntables. Based in deepest darkest Devon UK, she is a member of London sonic performance group Uniform, co-director of online gallery/forum The Lazarus Corporation, Conductor of Poltergasmic Frequencies for the Performance Thanatology Research Society and has collaborated in various forms with Dual, 2nd Gen, Bark Psychosis, DEFEATIST, the Body Cartography Project, Leechwoman, Vatican X-ray Dept, Hilary Jeffery and Ringo Christ. She is also known as Germseed and has performed in Europe and Japan. For more [dis]information about this person please visit:
http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/galleries.php
http://www.youkneeform.com
Frankie Martin is a multi media artist living in Brooklyn, NY whose work utilizes video,music, painting, sculpture, mobiles and human interaction. Frankie’s work is an intersection of culture, fantasy, craft, music, and color all contained within a conceptual framework that varies on a per-project basis. In 2007, Frankie recently exhibited her full length motivational DVD entitled “A Beautiful You”, along side of rorschach facescapes paintings at her solo show at CANADA in New York City. Frankie is currently working on a series of performances called Freakout, performed either alone or with friends.
Frankie is looking forward to a three person show at 404 Gallery in Naples, Italy in January 2008. dditionally Frankie is planning a large scale project ntitled “Live From the Bermuda Triangle” which involves herself and four other sailors sailing through the Bermuda Triangle three times in December of 2008. Frankie’s artworks have been exhibited in Miami, Milwaukee, NYC, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Oslo, Bergen, Rotterdam and more. She has been lucky enough to participate in residencies in Toronto and Massachusetts and once won an Emerging Artists Grant in 2004/05 from the Mary L Nohl Foundation for the Arts. You are cordially invited to sign up to join Frankie’s fanclub at
www.frankiefeverforever.com.
www.youtube.com/user/frankiemartin
www.canadanewyork.com/artist/frankie_martin/
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Having successfully completed transition from womb life to first life. David NeSmith early on met success in challenging authority through his 2nd grade teacher when she failed to grasp the concept that Pluto had swung closer to the Sun than Neptune during the 1970s. After a lengthy court trial surrounding what became known as Pluto-Gate, David was awarded $4.62 the bulk of which was used to purchase crayons and some paper (the rest used on a Zero candy bar). His art career had begun! Several years later, David has been a musician, playing in such bands as Maximillian Colby, Sleepytime Trio, Men’s Recovery Project, Rah Bras and Bats & Mice. He also has a solo acoustic act based in part on his published cartoons called “EL GREED.” Currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, he has toured many parts of the world bringing his art to Europe, Japan, Mexico, Canada and the USA. His CDs and LPs are produced by Lovitt Records (http://lovitt.com). His cartoons in book form are published by Publishing Genius (http://www.publishinggenius.com/). He maintains a podcast at http://ajdn.org/podcast.
For the festival David NeSmith will be performing the “Opera on the Hour” including musical act Straight Punch to the Crotch.
Spoon Popkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Glasgow School of Art and the Chautauqua Institute for Performing Arts. Solo exhibitions include Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), The Lee Nagrin Workshop (NY, NY), The Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg, Austria), RGB Gallery (NY, NY), The Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA) and the International Festival of Women in the Arts (Glasgow, Scotland). She has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria and was a finalist for The Bellagio Center. She has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the CityArts Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts. Her work has taken her to India, the UK, Panama, Mexico,Turkey, Greece and throughout Europe.
Melissa Scherrer grew up in Milwaukee, WI and attended the Milwaukee High School of the Arts where she studied Theatre Arts and mime. After receiving her BFA from UW-Milwaukee in 1999, she worked collaboratively with Milwaukee artists and performed as a mime in the traveling musical “Chaza Show Choir”. During her MFA studies at the University of Illinois Chicago she created a body of photographs narrating her experience of the Midwest landscape. In Chicago she also ran a small gallery out of her living room called “The Greenhouse”. Scherrer now lives in Brooklyn, NY with artist Mike Pare and teaches art and design. Her work has been exhibited at several museums and galleries in the United States and is part of the permanent collection at The Ulrich Contemporary Museum of Art. Currently she writes, makes videos, and takes photographs of the spiritual geography of towns in America. Her latest video piece, Genesis, can be seen at www.mscherrer.com and http://www.myspace.com/melissascherrer
Straight Punch to the Crotch is a synth-folk-pop band that is slashing and burning the rock-forest of Virginia. Straight Punch to the Crotch hits you where it counts, and you like it. Get ready to feel the love, as we summon the powers of earth, wind, fire and, most importantly, heart.
Straight Punch to the Crotch will hit you during David NeSmith’s “Opera on the Hour” spectacular.
Renato Umali has born in Manila, Philippines and grew up in Jersey City, NJ. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Northwestern University, and received an MFA in Film and Video Performance from UW-Milwaukee. Much of his current work is derived in some way or another from data about his life, which collects and stores in various spread sheets. His work takes form in videos and performances. He teaches in the UW-Milwaukee Film Department, and maintains a piano studio for private instruction.
Erin Womack is perpetually seeking an entryway into outer space — via printed matter, the moving image, and other methods much simpler than astronautics. Although born of this planet, her spirituality and creative energy remain rooted in a distant astral plane. She is a 2007 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has since bided time at Brooklyn publisher, Picturebox Inc. The Force propels her forward as she continues her humble quest.
I live in Baltimore though I have a southern heart and track red clay everywhere. I have lived throughout the South and in Philadelphia. I make drawings and crafts and friends and anything that might comprise a tight life. I do the best I can. I eat nice food so that I’ll be strong when the world festival comes. GET LIVE.
(born Glasgow Scotland 1966) Dirty moments/foul ameliorations, the ‘got wrong’ and other things. Gillian Wylde is an artist working with video performance activities, installation and object. A mongrel little cur practice alluding to instances appropriated from the unpopular popular, the extraordinary everyday and high vs. low art. Comedy + trauma = traumedy as a rupture in aesthetics + little investigations/big ideas of the pathetic, poetics + shoddiness. Temporalities and timing vs the rubbishy/crappy within the composite live or mediated moment like maybe a rude smell or hairy logic. Recent work includes; 2007 “Wintry” group show, Lounge Gallery London. 2007 Rules and Regs -commission South Hill Park Bracknell-’practice-led development platform supporting 4 commissioned artists to create new work in response to rules that challenge habits and stimulate creativity’ 2006 Taoh Residency Stavanger City Norway- “is kylling bogg bogg” series of video works and installation which emerged out of a 3 week residency in Stavanger City Lounge Gallery London, Midlands Art Centre Birmingham. ‘the story of my object (turdus merula merula)’ Video installation- the work developed out of an uncanny encounter with a real living blackbird and considers the uneasy and unromantic attitudes towards a bucolic and ‘abjected’ sublime nature” Gillian Wylde is currently a Senior Lecturer in Art at Dartington College of Art. g.wylde@dartington.ac.uk.
Puddin’ and Joseph Young.
