i wonder if i can get the latest from HFFFA there?
any word out on that?
later...john
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hastily written emails containing errors in spelling, punctuation and
grammar make one look like a dumbass. this is a difficult first
impression to overcome.
i wanted to urge folks to check out jason seales' paintings at forum +
function. expressionistic and abstract imagery with great colors,
framed in welded metal. forum + function was a fun place to hang. the
lump show was, eh... elin o'hara slavik (did i get that right?) is a fine
photographer, but her political sensibilities are rather stunted. i would
call it trite, cliched, presumptuous sloganeering. the (very white)
self-righteousness was framed better when we left. on the lump
side
of town things start getting seedy, and as we walked outside, one of the
boozier locals, who you can meet most any lumpnight, staggeringly
dropped his nighttrain halfpint. he proclaimed it wasn't his, didn't know
where it came from, then muttered "i better go, i'm not wanted here."
why was david s. ware so lame, when the rest of his group so goddamn
good? i thought matthew shipp was better than his duo show at duke with
wm. parker, and susie ibarra was phenomenal. when ware showed his lyrical
side later in the show, he was more potent. but i guess one doesn't go to
see him expecting lyricism.
jay huber
me, i check my biorythms every day
(http://www.southpeak.com/wreckroom-frame.htm).
-christa
Forum and Function also featured Dzu Teh on Friday night, but as is
usually the case with them and me, I didn't hear about it until after
the fact.
They (F&F) have also advertised live music on Sunday the 14th, but the
ad didn't specify who that would be. I'm sure I'll find out about it on
Monday.
Actually, that's a lie, because I'll already be in Raleigh on Sunday the
14th. Hovercraft will be performing at Lump in the early evening, and
then there's a show at Humble Pie (David Olney & Kenny Roby, I think)
later on that night. So I'll maybe find out who was at F&F only mere
minutes after it's over. ;-)
the
> lump show was, eh... elin o'hara slavik (did i get that right?)
Nope. elin o'Hara slavick. You were close, though.
is a fine
> photographer, but her political sensibilities are rather stunted. i would
> call it trite, cliched, presumptuous sloganeering.
I'm not sure I would use such strong words about it. I *did* see a
rather unfocused show. It begins with an American Flag on the floor,
with a little sign asking people to not step on it.
(which, for me at least, summoned up memories of Dread Scott Tyler's
"What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?" show in Chicago--only
Tyler had it set up so that viewers had to stand on the flag if they
wanted to write comments in the book. Neat idea. Got him in a lot of
trouble. It was 1985.)
On the flag, text about the number of people in each state who are below
the poverty line, sewn in the place of the stars. It was a pretty
simple, effective piece, but then elin scattered empty shell casings all
over the floor around it, which wound up just over-complicating it
without really adding anything, for me.
The rest of the show consists of big glossy photos on one wall, taken in
various "third-world" places. I didn't get a lot of time to look at it,
but my recollection was that all of the text around the photos (and
there was a lot) was primarily in the words of people other than the
people in the photos. It felt like a white first-worlder coming back
from a trip to the third world and telling us about it. I'm not sure I
need to hear that story again, you know? I'd rather hear it straight
from the people.
I *was* sort of intrigued by the huge glowing photo of cow guts,
emblazoned with the legend "Global Economy." It's an obvious
metaphor--just as westerners eat lots and lots of meat, totally
oblivious to the carnage that goes into the production of it, so too are
we implicated in all kinds of *other* "carnage" by our participation in
the global economy, which conveniently conceals the blood and guts.
But again, it's sort of obvious, and I'm not sure that enough was done
with it. I mean, I eat meat, and I like the picture of the cow guts.
It's a pretty neat picture. I didn't come away from it feeling any
different about my position on the food chain, or in the global economy.
But then again, I didn't get a chance to look in the mirror with the
words "implicate yourself" scrawled on it, so there you go. No wonder.
All in all, I felt more yelled at than persuaded--but then I often have
trouble in my own work with handling the distinction between one and the
other, so I feel compelled to cut her some slack.
Ross
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Reply to: RE>>more art less fudge
>14th. Hovercraft will be performing at Lump in the early evening, and
how early?
It's been slightly altered. Hovercraft and Milk Cult will be playing at
Forum and Function in Raleigh on Sunday the 14th at 7:00. This will then
dovetail nicely, albeit weirdly, with the David Olney/Kenny Roby show at
Humble Pie (next door to F&F) at 10:00 or 10:30 or so.
The Lump folk booked the Hovercraft show, and I think they were glad to
relocate it to someplace other than Lump, which they have decided is too
small for music. Forum and Function is bigger and has more room to rock.