Jai Brooks is a comedic poet. With his tongue fully ensconced in her cheek, he will poke fun at all things we revolutionary artists hold dear. Jai is a core member of the Charm City Kitty Club and a grateful performer at We Are Hip Hop Too events. He has been performing for over two decades and is excited to put the “trans” in Transmodern.
Sarah Buccheri was born and raised in suburban Chicago. After living for a stint in New York City, she now resides in Milwaukee, WI. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Film from The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Aside from her film and video work, Sarah is a performer and collaboratively produces regular performance art evenings at Darling Hall, one of Milwaukee’s finest underground art spaces. She has performed at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and Galapagos Art Space. Her films and videos have screened at The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Heaven Gallery in Chicago.
Filmography
Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL
Ingrid Burrington is from California, and has made terrible mistakes. Her website is www.lifewinning.com.
Project Name: Memorial For Everything That’s Ever Happened Ever
Project Description: “A public gathering to recall the vastness of history and the loss of our sense of it.”
Capet Baggers are Owen Brightman and Hermonie Williams
Owen Brightman - Artist, Independent Curator. His work includes performance, video, and instigation. Fronts as a migrant, a mime, or a muscle-man. Brightman creates an odd couple with and within himself and his audience. Some people become incredibly stimulated.
Hermonie Williams - Artist. Baltimore resident. Aesthete. Epistemological Liberal. Favorite color(s): Primaries. Aries. Subject matter of work includes but is not limited to: LOCATION, MOVEMENT, MASS, & PRESENCE.
Project Name: Rock Paper Scissors
Project Description: The audience will be confronted by a militia of mimes signing Party affiliations: Panther, Nazi, Hippie. In actuality these mimes will be playing Rock-Paper-Scissors. These gestures have simultaneous significance. The mimes will form a gauntlet, so that pedestrians can be trafficked between the two jeering, taunting, and provoking rows of rabble-rousing mimes.
Theresa has a warm and kooky approach to the avant garde. She debuted a short play at the Pussycat Caverns in New Orleans in 1994. She has toured with many many performance pieces and plays, often incorporating “punky synchronized movements and experimental and/or funny singing/music.” She was n.
Dillon de Give grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and studied film at Northwestern University. He presents elementary school style plays and video pieces. He has shown work at the Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Margaret Thatcher Projects, and Canada galleries NYC among others. Dillon lives in Greenpoint Brooklyn and is writing his first feature length film called “In the Shower Going Over the Waterfall”. http://www.implausibot.com/
DiTolvo and her accordion are recent transplants to the Baltimore area from Seattle. DiTolvo was the ringmistress for three years for Carnival Reverie, played percussion for carnies in The Bad Things, and is otherwise associated with several other dark characters.
Project Title: Roaming Accordion Player
Project Description: DiTolvo will be playing accordion for people as they go on tours throughout the day.
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
Lara Emerling is an interdisciplinary artist who produces work in drawing, sculpture and video. Her recent work comments on contemporary cultures constant ability to grow and collapse at the same time. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and will continue her studies there in art education. Emerling has shown her work at Current Gallery, Load of Fun, Maryland Art Place, Not Just Another White Cube, Substation Gallery, and Whartscape.
Project name: Walking Sticks
Project description: Lara Emerling will distribute walking sticks to pedestrians wandering near the corner of North Avenue and North Howard Street. These walking sticks will be made out of fallen tree branches and other various recycled materials such as fabrics, paint, tape, etc. Each walking stick will be an explosion of energy, which will happily be given to anyone walking through the festival that day. The walking sticks serve as a prop for pedestrians to think through and consider the idea of slowing down while walking through Baltimore.
EPHKLATCHEMERAL is a toxic performance cactus from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They snore a variety of writingand performance bums to come up with peanuts. The headband is suited to the cactus with the salt that the performance wouldn’t be possible without a hippyish approach. In this way the lumps are always
ice-cold, authorship isn’t trash and nobody gets crazy
>Peter Barrickman
>Tyson Reeder
>Jinnene Ross
>Xavier Leplae
>Randy Russell
>Sarah Buccheri
Lindsay Fundakowski Feldman is a 21-year-old bi-coastal fibers student in Baltimore. She’s just weeks away from being cast naked, mewling and goo-covered into a world of frightening wilderness and domesticity, where she has no intentions of becoming a career fine artist. You can follow her poorly-edited adventures as camp counselor, passionate lover, conquerer-of-the-wilds, and domestic goddess at http://elleasinswell.blogspot.com.
Project Name: Pancake Manifesto
Project Description: Pancake Manifesto is a booth with a single vendor and a couple of gas-powered Coleman stoves, and gallons of pancake batter (including vegan). The artist has a variety of batters and fixings, and out of a need to nurture and covertly exert power over the audience, will dole out pancakes upon request, for no fee. Also available from the vendor at a minimal cost are ‘Zine-style “cookbooks” called “The Pancake Manifesto.”
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)
Fluid Movement is a Baltimore-based performance art group that juxtaposes complex subject matter with delightful and unexpected mediums. We create art that is accessible, and often educational, for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Our performances are created for urban spaces, in Baltimore and beyond. For ten years, Fluid Movement has been working hard to share our joy and silliness and we do it all for one reason: we do it for the LOVE!
Project Name: Love Parade
Project Description: The Love Parade has so much LOVE to give and a kazillion ways to give it! We will host a “costume shop” for a parade at the end of the day. Then we take you on a grand street safari! Complete with a:
1. A troupe of Milkmaids.
2. Tourists in love (with each other, the city, and all the people and things they encounter).
3. A bonafide compliment girl, Melissa “Ultra” Sharlat, who is all about boosting the self-esteem of everyone she meets.
4. A strolling musician (accordion) who serenades YOU with amour.
5. A warm cuddly Care Bear (Joe Burton, “Esther Mer-man” in It’s a Wonderful Special, 2006 FM water ballet) who the instigator of a spontaneous hug-a-thon. He will lead the participants in passing hugs, a hug that crosses the Howard Street bridge and a hug around the LOF building.
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.
Ilana Goldszer formerly of Michigan was raised by wolves. Ilana grew up in an animal-free traveling circus of thieves and magicians. Ilana’s astrological sign is Capricorn.
Project Name: Alternative Exchange Area a.k.a “Barter Shack”
Project Description: The Barter shack steward will open the barter shack with ornamental cabbage (edible!) and ornamental cabbage/kale kraut for trade. Any individual who wishes to barter goods or services is welcome to practice this activity within the barter shack. No activity involving the exchange of goods or services for currency except local or alternative currency may be practiced within the barter shack.
The Good Taste Committee is dedicated to fostering tastefulness in live human interaction. In an age of media interface, we find that Game structures ease the anxiety many feel in close contact with others.
Project Title: Segue
Project Description: Zoë Charlton and Cameron Ayres are honored to be representing the Good Taste Committee in the Pedestrian Service Exquisite in this year’s Transmodern Festival. We will establish a salon on a street corner in the area of the Exquisite. Conversation will flow, refreshments will be served and we will play a game of our own design, Segue. A player in Segue is given three unrelated topics – cotton candy, the Kremlin and Danish modern,for instance. The objective of the game is to steer conversation seamlessly from one topic to another. Tangents and non-sequiturs are grounds for expulsion from the game. In advanced rounds, players know each others’ topics and must vie for control of the conversation. The Good Taste Committee is dedicated to fostering tastefulness in live human interaction. In an age of media interface, we find that Game structures ease the anxiety many feel in close contact with others. We have found the model of the salon to be the perfect vehicle for re-stimulating dialogue.
Dynasty Handbag is the solo music/video/voiceover/
comitragic performance vehicle created and executed by Jibz Cameron.
Nicole Herbert resides in Harrisburg, PA where she has worked as an art educator for the past six years. She graduated from Lafayette College with degrees in anthropology and art and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa. Nicole is currently working towards her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and expects to graduate in the summer of 2009. She has exhibited her work and created outdoor installations in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Project Name: Placements
Project description: The “placements” project involves studying the area around North Ave. and locating areas to install plaster casts of objects that fit within voids or niches in this urban environment. These “placements” haven taken the form of placing plaster bricks within existing gaps, such as areas where bricks are missing in pathways or buildings. Other forms, such as construction cones, have also been cast and placed in contexts where they have a relationship with their surroundings. Herbert uses the plaster as a material for its impermanent and vulnerable qualities. The medium is susceptible to the potential intervention of individuals and impact of the environment. As such, Herbert typically leaves these objects in their respective contexts over time, returning to document any changes that occur.
Working across a range of media – painting, performance, craft and more – Hildebrandt recently moved into The Creative Alliance at the Patterson as a Resident Artist. Prior to her move to Baltimore, Hildebrandt traveled in a 6-month residency on the Artrain USA, which travels the country with studios and a museum on board. From reimagining Mary Pickersgill and the making of the Star Spangled Banner, to her ongoing correspondence with the Pope, Hildebrandt combines a wicked sense of humor with innocent joy in the act of making things. She appears in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings.
Project Name: Blue Light Special
Project Description:
The Blinking Blue Light will make things better, not worse.
The Blinking Blue Light will know and see everything.
The Blinking Blue Light will show the pedestrians it is watching.
The Blinking Blue Light will be popular with many pedestrians.
The Blinking Blue Light will be a “top-of-the-line high-tech” blue beacon.
The Blinking Blue Light will capture pedestrians with its electric eyes.
The Blinking Blue Light will beautify and improve the neighborhood.
The Blinking Blue Light will keep the street awash with light and the pedestrians awake.
The Blinking Blue Light will blink in locations of “high activity” in the Transmodern Radius to assure pedestrians of their protection, and suspicious persons that they are on camera. The Blinking Blue light will create a feeling of safety, security, and warmth as it films and monitors Transmodern Tourists.
Please Note: In the long term, the Blinking Blue Light might not to engender a sense of safety.
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
Katastrophe (aka Rocco Kayiatos) is a genre-busting, emo-hop mc, whose stunning lyrical skills merge with beats that slide from slick to raw to solid to eccentric, creating a sonic otherworld that snags you in a dance-trance while teasing your head with rhymes that snap, pop and educate.
Recently crowned producer of the year by out music awards, Katastrophe’s beats rev and surprise, inspired by the grime craze and emo scene as well as both traditional and underground hip hop. a hybrid sound that challenges genre, Katastrophe fills his layered beats with lyics that rif on pop culture, slide into personal revelation, call bullshit on contemporary culture, offer a ragged hope for revolution and flirt with a pretty girl on the dance floor, all in the course of a song.
Using his struggle as a trans man and his contested place in contemporary queer and hip hop culture as a springboard to discuss and express larger issues of community, space, privilege, sex and self-worth, katastrophe occupies a singular place in the music underground — brainy and playful, defying genre, keeping listeners on their toes with lyrics that hook and beats that set you moving.
Dina Kelberman, born in 1979, has shown in every major gallery in the United States. She owns 3 houses and lives in all of them at the same time. She is a founding member of the Wham City collective. Her main focus is miniature comic books and illustration, although she has in many other mediums including film, fashion design, and playwriting. She webs at importantcomics.com and whamcity.com. God I hate writing these things.
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
Xav Leplae considers himself an artist when making art, film maker when making films, performer when performing. he refuses to state much else due to his distrust of it’s affects on his thinking process.
Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL
David London was trained as a magician and filmmaker, and much of his recent stage work places an emphasis on the deconstruction of the magic trick. He has toured with four of his own productions- “Cerebral Sorcery, “…Art of Dreams,” “The Adventure to the Imagi Nation,” and most recently, (insert title here), which features excerpts of the three other shows. He has done a handful of site-specific installations and performances. He also paints, wanders, and glues random things together.
Project Name: Wonder
Project Description: Magicians work primarily with the emotion of wonder. In this interactive and collaborative experiment, David will explore the state of wonder utilizing Wonder Bread. Prepare to get hands-on while unlocking the mysteries of this profound substance.
Project Name: Your Favorite Celebrity Drawing Survey
Project Description: Magazine Stand, a portable stand that displays and sells low volume artists’ publications, will be set up so that attendees can come and make drawings of their favorite celebrities. The drawings made will be compiled into a new Magazine Stand-Baltimore published Favorite Celebrity magazine. Selections of other Magazine Stand published titles such as Battles/Duets, Connectors & Centers, Fashion Magazine, Non-Directed Drawings, Reenactments, and Xeroxable Wall Patterns will also be available for reading and possibly purchase.
J.W. Mahoney is a Washington, D.C.-based artist, critic, and independent curator who serves as Washington’s Corresponding Editor for Art in America. He is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has been writing and curating on the idea of transmodernity since 1992. His most recent nationally published piece on this subject was “Transmodern Yoko,” which appeared in Art in America in February 2002. His latest one-person show, “Stella Maris,” was on exhibit in January 2007, at Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C..
Project Name: The Transmodern Manifesto
Project Description: Mahoney will pass out copies of a 7 to 8-page document, printed on day-glo orange paper, which details the fundamental elements of the Transmodern - which is an attitude, not a movement - in contrast to the post-postmodern. He will be dressed in a Japanese worker’s jacket, and will accompany the distribution of the document with lit incense and music from a portable CD player.
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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Jackie Milad is an artist who works with drawing, performance art and installation, and often creates projects that brings these disciplines together. Her projects explore the awkward moments shared between people.
She has exhibited internationally and nationally in such places such as The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Gallery 32 as part of the London Biennale, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in Wilmington, Museum of Fine Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico and Galeria de Jovenes in Culiacan, Mexico.
In 2005 she earned her MFA from Towson University, and in 2000 she received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts. In 1998, Ms. Milad studied painting at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence Italy. She is currently Program Coordinator for the Union Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park.
As an artist Kim Miller moves across the fields of video and performance. Employing forms borrowed from performance art, modern dance, theater, and film, multiple forms of address and shifting subject articulations build and collapse. Mapping an intersection or interstices between public space and private, political and social, associative and didactic, questions are structured around a radical democratic model. What is possible within a democratic viewing situation? Does such a thing exist, and what does it look like? What’s at stake is our positions in relation to culture and to one another. These shifting, surfacing and submerging connections are unstable and fleeting, deliciously and infinitely now. Maybe working towards the existence of a democratic subject, hopefully and enthusiastically, without ever reaching this place. Or else, when I say you, I have called a you into being.
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.
Ellen Nielsen is the kind of person who puts new rolls of toilet paper directly into the dispenser as opposed to leaving them on the back of the toilet. She has a habit of forgetting vegetables in the crisper and finding them, weeks later, reduced to bags of black slime. She would like to be remembered as a public intellectual, but so far she has only made a public spectacle of herself. She has a multitude of talents, such as caramelizing onions and dressing to impress. She was born on March 20 (the first day of spring) which makes her a Pisces-Aries cusp.
Project Name: FUF 2008
Project Description: Ellen Nielsen will sell superfluous commodities (aka pompoms) for $1.99 in a point-of-purchase display similar to those in convenience stores. Like the bulk of her work, this piece addresses the consumption of desire and the desire for consumption.
Thach Thao Nguyen lives for food and adventure. Born in Vietnam and raised in Texas, she grew up chowing down drive-thru hamburgers and slurping up her mom’s pho. Now living in Baltimore as a student, she sometimes makes money selling homemade spring rolls and rice cakes. Recently she re-visited Vietnam, a journey that brought her closer to her food and family. She brings you treats reminiscent of the homeland, prepared in the most home-down manner.
Project Title: Street Hawker
Project Description: Thao will prepare and sell Vietnamese-style spring rolls made with foraged edible plants. Assuming the role and costume of a native itinerant street-hawker, she will attempt to vend these homemade treats to passers-bys. The spring rolls will be made of rice paper wrapped in wild plants from the neighborhood such as chickweed, dandelion, cleaver, spearmint, garlic chives, lambs quarter, and other various edibles. She will be making these rolls one at a time so passer-bys may acknowledge the ingredients. She asks people to pay a small amount of money: 50 cents.
Anna Oxygen is a multi-media artist and musician. She has extensively toured Europe and the United States, performing dance pop recitals and fantasy-science pieces. Her audio and video works often deal with interactivity, movement and semiotics in forms of narrative, performance and installation. She has released several albums of electronic music, most recently “This is an Exercise” on Kill Rock Stars. Her solo work has been presented at The Seattle Art Museum, Telic Arts Exchange (LA), NYU, The Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Rohsska Museet in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also in the multimedia performance group “Cloud Eye Control.” http://www.annaoxygen.com/
Anna Oxygen Press & Reviews:
Natalia Panfile was born in the Republic of Moldova, and came to the United States when she was 17. She attended the Community College of Baltimore County for 2 years and then transferred to MICA. After graduating from MICA with a BFA she was accepted into the IMDA (Imaging and Digital Arts) Graduate program at UMBC. Panfile is a performance artist and in her performances explores social, cultural and gender issues. She wants to see how all of these issues affect her as an immigrant and as a woman.
Project Name: Carpet
Project Description: Everyone has a different experience when dealing with grief and the death of a loved one. From Panfile’s own experience she noticed that when she was going through the grieving process, her way of dealing with it was to occupy herself with cleaning or washing, as if to erase the person that is no more. She is an immigrant to this country, so everything that she does or makes is influenced by her native culture as well as the adopted culture. When it comes to housework she mostly does everything the way it is done in Moldova (her native country). This piece is influenced by a task that her mother and she would perform almost every summer- washing the carpets outside on the sidewalk. She will use the sidewalk on Howard Street, behind the Load of Fun Gallery to wash a carpet. The purpose of this performance is to see how people react to a person doing tasks that are usually done inside the house. Panfile wants to see if people will try to engage her or avoid her.
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.
Valeska is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and holds degrees in fine arts and art education. Since arriving in Baltimore, Valeska has been an active member of the Baltimore arts community, performing original puppetry productions, participating as a stiltwalker in parades, exhibiting her work in galleries, and teaching arts workshops to kids and adults at public schools, craft schools and museums. The Cause Company is a pseudonym used for the various aspects of her artistic practice.
Project Name: Sweep Away the Doom and Gloom
Project Description: A cadre of stiltwalkers, clad in costumes constructed from garbage bags and refuse will be sweeping the streets with long-handled brooms. A photographer, in old-fashioned press hat, will be accompanying them.
Trained in the art of hypnotherapy Carly Ptak has a way of getting into your head and sometimes into your heart or even to your stomach. She loves to ferment both ideas and home brews until they are tangy and bubbly and healthy too. Every performance is predictably unpredictable except for the one thing you can be sure of: it comes from a place of love and a desire to create more of it in the world.
http://www.heresee.com/cptak.htm
http://www.integrationhypnotherapy.com
DJ Rapid Fire is one of San Francisco’s most adored, and in demand, queer female DJs. Her original style mixes disco, 90s hi-nrg, hip-hop, electronic and dance-pop and continuously sets nightlife trends. Rapid Fire is one of the co-creators and resident DJs of Stay Gold, San Francisco’s favorite dirty queer dance party, as well as resident DJ at Sucker Punch, the city’s popular Monday night hot spot. This fierce femme has heads turning, booties shaking and dance floors begging for more.
Tyson Reeder was born in 1974 in Fairfax, VA and currently lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. He holds a B.A. from Montana State University and a B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota. Additional education experience includes the Art Center College of Art and Design M.F.A. Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
In solo or group exhibitions Reeder’s work has appeared nationally and internationally. Recent shows include: Jack Hanley Gallery, LA, Daniel Reich Gallery, NY and Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, ON. Group exhibition, Mudam Musee D’Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, NY, and Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, Norway.
Recent Bibliography:
2005 Sullivan, Jennifer. “Urban Renewal”, Swingset Magazine, Issue 6, 48-52
Smith, Roberta. “Desired Constellations” NY Times, Aug. 12
Armstrong, Liz. “The Four Color Pen Show, I Something Chicago” February 18
Valentine, Valery. “Walking on the Moon”, Pulse of the Twin Cities.
2004 Kalb, Peter. “Tyson Reeder at Daniel Reich”, Art In America, December, 140-141
Right-Geist Connections, Ltd. is the result of a merger/mutually hostile takeover™ between New Jersey-based members of two international artists’ collectives, the Meme Rider Media Team and the Post-NeoAbsurdist Anti-Collective. Participating members include (but are not limited to) Warren Fry and Olchar E. Lindsann of Post-Neo, and Nathan Shafer and Joelle Howald of the Meme-Riders.
Project Name: Right-Geist Connections, Ltd., Baltimore Street Team
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For one day only, we’ll be offering free promotional hauntings to our valued Baltimore Clientele. We will be highlighting our ghost-workers from the local Baltimore area. Happy Hauntings!
Adam Robinson is a writer and musician who lives in Baltimore, MD and works as a technology buyer in the financial industry. He is the founder of the chapbook press Publishing Genius, an editor for the literary journal JMWW, and his poems have appeared in several journals and on numerous stages. He has written a dozen or so articles about Christian rock bands for HM Magazine, and his feature-length slasher-play, The Professor , was staged in Milwaukee in 2005. At the third Transmodern Festival he performed an HL Mencken bioperetta as cARDINAL, which also features Stephanie Barber. Adam currently plays bass in Baltimore’s newest What-Is-It, Hexie Johnson.
Jinnene Ross is a performer, installation artist and costume designer who currently resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has performed collaboratively in several art spaces both locally in Milwaukee at Darling Hall, The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and Hotcakes Gallery, and nationally at Gallapagos in Brooklyn, NY and ArtSpace in Richmond, VA. Her installation work has exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, Beloit College in Beloit, WI and Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI. She received her BFA at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and her MFA from Miami University at Ohio.
Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL
Ric Royer is a writer of performances and performer of writings. He wants to talk to you, spin lies both mordant and morbid, and sing songs of hope and disaster. Sometimes he will whisper into your trusting ear, sometimes he will scream in your face.
Ric has said his words and moved his hands in many places including Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, D.C. Art Center, Baltimore Theatre Project, and the Ontological Hysteric Theatre.
He has performed and recorded several music/performance pieces with his long-time sound collaborator G Lucas Crane, and EHSE records will be releasing an LP of their ghost stories/ghost music in February 2008.
is has also had critical and creative work published in many publications including Performance Research Journal, Lost and Found Times, and Pilot; he is a founding editor of the Ferrum Wheel (1999); and he is an organizing member of the Baltimore’s largest performance event, the Transmodern Festival.
Randy Russell has produced, acted in, and written for film (American Job, The Pool, Modus Operandi), has written many plays, and has performed in the Milwaukee area, including, with Peter Barrickman, The Spinning Rainbow Ball at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He has owned and operated a punk record store, a zine store, and he invented the Semioabstractique Collage technique. He has recently finished writing a collection of stories called: 9 Lies.
Performing with: EPHKLATCHEMERAL
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
Puddin’ and Joseph Young.
