Upcoming, Ongoing, and More!

[Anne Elizabeth Moore]

Hello Friends!

It's been a cold-hearted winter but things are rapidly heating up (around these parts at least), so I thought I'd better update you on a few upcoming projects, appearances, and general down-goings before I became overly consumed with the sorry state of my tan.

UPCOMING

My Green Lantern exhibition Without You I am Nothing: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago comes down at the end of the week, but there's still time to catch it (just call the gallery first to make an appointment). New City described it as an exploration of “the radical idea that it’s okay to talk to someone else about art,” while a thoughtful review by Albert Stabler at Proximity called the exhibition “a moving illustration of a de-centered totality, a cohesive diagram of an impossible place, a simple scheme implying a grand gesture of incidental accidents." Also check out full reviews and pix on the blog if you failed to make the amazing and overwhelming opening, which I have come to count among the funnest nights of my life.

This weekend sees the Chicago Premiere of Paper Tiger TV's Infiltrating the Underground: the Corporatization of Radical Culture, chosen as a "Selected Feature" at the 9th annual Chicago Anarchist Film Festival. Plays Sunday night on a great bill, starts at 7, more details at the CAFF site or Democracy Guest List. (Sit tight, West Coast: we're working on a screening tour now!)

In case you missed Holle Cambodia at ThreeWalls, Time Out Chicago had some really nice things to say about it, and I'll be in conversation about it on the radio program MediaGeek on Thursday, May 7. I'm also developing plans to bring this work directly to international communities of young women concerned with human rights issues, so if you run a program for young women here or elsewhere, let's talk!

Unlympics fans take note: I'll be participating in this weekend's Version Fest with Boston's amazing Andi Sutton, but hope to sneak out as often as possible to King Ludd's Midway Arcade by my amazing pals at Material Exchange and their amazing pals elsewhere. Also nearby on Sunday will be the Aesthletics crew, for even more gaming enjoyment. Not, by any stretch of the imagination, to be missed.

Finally, please mark your calendars now for the June 19 opening of Dismantling the Corporate State, and Other Amusements, presented by the Institute for Excellence in Awesomeness at the Columbia College Book and Paper Center for the Arts. Here's the blurb:

June 19-August 22
Opening Reception June 19, 6-9pm
For almost a decade, Anne Elizabeth Moore has been targeting injustice with little but her quick wit and a photocopier, impacting the public conversations around coffee shop gentrification, youth marketing, advertising's destruction of democracy, giant sporty mega-events, and the relevance of silliness to political discourse. Her work has received rave reviews from the business press, been collected by and displayed in major museums, and gotten her ejected from retail establishments by armed police officers. A retrospective of sorts, this exhibition will be the first that presents this work in one place.

ONGOING

Democracy Guest List continues to serve as a haphazard repository for things that should be on the Internet already but aren't, or sometimes things that are on the Internet but hard to find, or sometimes just things that I'm doing that I don't know where else to place. (Lately, a bit too much of that, if you ask me.) Feel free to read it, link to it, comment on it, or send suggestions for coverage. Or: apply for a week-long guest-blogging miniresidency. (Application process = you telling me what you want to write about.) It's a very small collaborative program open to anyone I sort of know.

FINALLY

A quick note to those of you who control the flow of money in our culture (feel free to forward!): This occasionally amusing mailing list of AEMxploits is a totally unfunded endeavor, and in fact, not a thing on here is available for sale—except by entities with which I have no financial relationship. That is, if you wish to support my work directly, please feel free to award me a grant or fellowship, discreetly forward the small piles of cash you surely have lying around directly to my Paypal account at a...@anneelizabethmoore.com, or purchase large quantities of the publications Unmarketable, the Manifesti of Radical Literature, Hey Kidz Buy This Book, 17 Theses on the Edge, or New Girl Law to distribute as, say, Flag Day gifts to all your friends, acquaintances, and coworkers. Please also, while I have your attention, stop firing people, support journalism and cultural production in your communities directly and financially, and favor wherever you can independent media outlets, retail stores, and coffee shops. You will be rewarded with the unending gratitude of cultural producers everywhere, and possibly immortalized in a statue, although that is NOT guaranteed, because I do not make statues.

Sincerely,

Your Friend,

Anne Elizabeth Moore