Leisure Bowl,
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Hello Friends!
It's been an incredibly fun winter with the four-week sports festival aimed at raising dialogue around the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid known as the Winter 2009 Unlympics. Photographs, descriptions, and missives from the treasurer are all available online, plus resources for further action and a listing of our extensive press coverage, including this amazing piece and the WBEZ interview.
Part art, part media, and part activism, the Unlympics had one goal: to ensure that the PR firm Hill & Knowlton, who established the Chicago 2016 committee, were not the only voices in the discussion about bringing the Olympics to Chicago.
This Friday, February 20, 2009 for the opening of a group of small exhibitions: Holle Cambodia, Dispatch and The Tract House.
threewalls has organized three exhibitions for view during the 2009 Southern Graphics Council that focus on print as a medium for social change and political rhetoric. The gallery will feature Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Holle Cambodia, a document of work Moore did while Phnom Penh, coordinating a self-publishing project with 32 young Cambodian women; Dispatch a (small) sampling of the many DIY political T-shirts Americans have been self-producing to reaction to recent politics, and especially in support of favored candidates; and The Tract House a group of tracts organized by Lisa Anne Auerbach, designed by Roman Jester and written by artists and activists through-out the country.
Holle Cambodia, on view in the front gallery, is the first in-depth exhibition of the innovative self-publishing effort undertaken by Anne Elizabeth Moore in Phnom Penh. Featuring the group’s zines, on topics as diverse as agriculture, women’s issues, spirituality, education, health care, and the country’s unique and disturbing genocidal history, the show will also house the international debut of the collaborative book New Girl Law, a rewrite of a traditional Khmer text that prescribes proper girl behavior. New Girl Law is a hand-bound, letter-pressed demand for human rights and a captivating vision of Cambodia. (Find out more at http://camblogdia.blogspot.com.)
Grass roots campaigning was the buzz word for the Obama election in a cultural climate where DIY, craft and micro-industry are once again popular as a labor-movement. Dispatch, in the back gallery, is an exhibition of DIY political T-shirts submitted by citizens around the country, made by both professional and non-professional or never-before artists and designers. The latest election inspired an unprecedented number of DIY political T-shirts, worn, given away and sold; with millions of dollars spent (and made) on elections, these printers wore their opinion on their sleeves, designed ‘free’ propaganda or even turned a profited. Dispatchdraws attention to how artwork and micro-industry became an important form of participation in a millennial political process where capitalist style branding and grass-roots were not-so-strange bedfellows.
The Tract House is a 'spread the word' project by artist Lisa Anne Auerbach in collaboration with graphic design by Roman Jester. Debuting at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore in May of 2008, The Tract House has since traveled to Printed Matter in New York City before paying our project room a visit. The Tract Housetracts were written by friends, friend-of-friends, neighbors, acquaintances and visitors to The Tract House website. While most popular tracts are religious, The Tract House are nearly everything else: manifestos, diatribes, stories, rants, poems and lyrics, personal, professional, political, domestic, local and global. Visitors to threewalls are encouraged to peruse the many tracts and take home what they wish as well as visiting The Tract House website to print the tracts on their home printers. It is hoped that the tracts will educate, activate, infuriate, obfuscate, titillate, inspire, upset, and irritate. The tracts can be treasured or passed on, crumpled in disgust or venerated, folded up and put through the laundry, or left on a car windshield.
On View until March 27, 2009
Mark Your Calendar
Please join us March 26 at 6pm for a curator’s talk with Anne Elizabeth Moore and to hear more about her project in Phnom Penh. Zine workshops with Moore will also be held on March 7th and 8th, please check the website for more information.
Chili Cook-Off & Team Trivia
Saturday February 21st 5-9 PM
at he said-she said
831 south grove avenue
oak park, IL
$10 for a tasting ticket
$10 per team for trivia (maximum 5 players/team)
All proceeds go to support the creative work of InCUBATE's person-in-residency program.
Chili Cook-Off & homebrew beer tasting: 5-7 PM
Entries by Tony Tasset, Team threewalls, People Powered and more!
Winners decided by popular vote.
Pub-style Team trivia hosted by Randall Szott: 7:30-8:30
Bring your friends & teammates, winners and prizes announced at 9 PM.
Come flex your brain muscles. Do you know which president was the first to be born after the American Revolution (he's also the only president for whom English was a second language)? The answer to this & more esoterica at the Leisure Bowl!
Donors of $50 or more will receive a custom Sunday Soup cooking apron.
Donors of $150 or more will receive a year-long subscription of Sunday Soup.
We are also inviting any willing patrons, groups, organizations to sponsor one month of our InCUBATE residency program by making a donation of $300 or more.
Can't make it on the 21st?
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Anne Elizabeth Moore
Hello Friends!
It's been an incredibly fun winter with the four-week sports festival aimed at raising dialogue around the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid known as the Winter 2009 Unlympics.
Still, there's more coming up, including back-to-back exhibitions at ThreeWalls (opens Friday!) and Green Lantern and the world premier of my new chili recipe, Chocolachini. If you like chocolate martinis, chipotle chilis, and black beans—and who doesn't?—you should come out to InCUBATE's Leisure Bowl Chili Cook-Off for good eatin' and trivia games. (Funds go to support the residency program, which just helped put on the Unlympics!)
Here are some more details . . .
The Unlympic Movement
Photographs, descriptions, and missives from the treasurer are all available online, plus resources for further action and a listing of our extensive press coverage, including this amazing piece and the WBEZ interview. Part art, part media, and part activism, the Unlympics had one goal: to ensure that the PR firm Hill & Knowlton, who established the Chicago 2016 committee, were not the only voices in the discussion about bringing the Olympics to Chicago. A poll conducted before the Unlympics began claimed 88% of Chicagoans were in favor of the bid; one conducted on the day of our Closing Ceremonies showed 78% of Chicagoans were not in favor of the bid. Success!
Holle Cambodia and Gallery Talk
This Friday, February 20, 2009 please join us at ThreeWalls for the opening of a group of small exhibitions: Holle Cambodia, Dispatch and The Tract House. These three exhibitions for view during the 2009 Southern Graphics Council that focus on print as a medium for social change and political rhetoric.
The gallery will feature Anne Elizabeth Moore’'s Holle Cambodia, the first in-depth exhibition of the innovative self-publishing effort undertaken by Anne Elizabeth Moore in Phnom Penh. Featuring the group’s zines, on topics as diverse as agriculture, women’s issues, spirituality, education, health care, and the country’s unique and disturbing genocidal history, the show will also house the international debut of the collaborative book New Girl Law, a rewrite of a traditional Khmer text that prescribes proper girl behavior. New Girl Law is a hand-bound, letter-pressed demand for human rights and a captivating vision of Cambodia. (Find out more at http://camblogdia.blogspot.com.)
Then, join us March 26 at 6pm for a curator’s talk with Anne Elizabeth Moore and to hear more about her project in Phnom Penh. Zine workshops will also be held on March 7th and 8th, please check the website for more information.
The Inaugural Leisure Bowl Chili Cook-Off & Team Trivia
Saturday February 21st 5-9 PM at he said-she said: 831 south grove avenue oak park, IL
Entries by Tony Tasset, Team threewalls, AEM, People Powered and more!
Winners decided by popular vote.
Pub-style Team trivia hosted by Randall Szott: 7:30-8:30
Bring your friends & teammates, winners and prizes announced at 9 PM.