Affects of Gravity is a collaborative intervention, joining artist Andi Sutton and poet Chris Tonelli in a sound installation that will take place on a Gravitron amusement park ride at the Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, MA, on Oct. 2 – 4th.
Riders will enter
the metaphoric world of the Gravitron through a soundscape of amusement park field recordings and poems narrated by the Gravitron itself – stories of the Midway, its riders, and seasonal cyclical labor. The poems, selections from Tonelli’s forthcoming chapbook For People Who Like Gravity And Other People(Rope-a-Dope Press 2010), draw upon this age-old symbol of American entertainment and consumer distraction.
For Boston-area readers, there will be a bus leaving from Kendall Square, Cambridge, on October 3rd. Leave a comment below if you’re interested, and we’ll get in touch.
Disclosure: Andi is our friend, and I’ll be on the bus.
(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)
My friend Coralina Meyer organizes an annual event called The Last Supper a collaborative project that brings together artists through food/storytelling/performance. This year’s supper event is being held at 3rd Ward next Saturday (Sept. 26th from 6pm – 12pm). She is always looking for collaborators and artists to work with! Check it out:
The Last Supper is a multimedia, project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption. Viewing the creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media, it is a non-profit benefit event for the Food Bank of New York City. The Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas occurring in NYC during the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. The Last Supper’s 2009 salon is the creative dialog about consumption where Means as motive, economy of Means, ways and Means, and Means of production are all tools for storytelling.
The HONK! Festival, oft-discussed on Groundswell, is summarized brilliantly in the documentary below. HONK! No Noise Is Illegal was crafted after the 2008 HONK! Festival by a team of Tufts University students, including Sara DeForest, Deborah Neigher, Jane Ottensmeyer and Chloe Zimmerman.
sprout is a Boston-area group of learners and teachers working to uncover the scientific stories of everyday phenomena, now offering a new dinner theater series that seeks to bring people from the Somerville and Cambridge communities together around good food, music, and performance.
Each month, we’ll find an eclectic group of performers to explore the month’s theme through different lenses. In the tradition of dinners hosted by NYC-based theater company Great Small Works, we want to cast new light on common ideas from artistic, musical, and scientific perspectives.
The debut performance will include:
Disclosure: I am a member of the HONK! Festival organizing committee, and have done graphics for Great Small Works.
(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)
A gaggle of friends from Brooklyn and the metro area are descending upon Nurture Art tomorrow for the opening of an exhibition titled PLAN B. Although I think the title for the show is a little hokey – the artists involved express incredible sincerity and tempered optimism in their work; a deviation from the artist as individual to a more holistic community-based aesthetic. Works from the The Kindness and Imagination Development Society and Secret School, OurGoods and Feast Brooklyn populate the space, and in so doing strive for community in a city often devoid of intimacy and human scale. Bring some knitting, some matte tea and join us for stories and art that’s as much as about you as it is about the artist.
PLAN B is an investigation of the emerging artist response to the current economic crisis. Plan B is a group exhibition curated by Krista Saunders, opening on September 11, 2009 at the NURTUREart Gallery at 910 Grand Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Featured artists include Double A Projects, F.E.A.S.T., K.I.D.S. and Secret School, Jess Levey, OurGoods, Lynne Pidel, Mark Stafford and Tattfoo Tan. On display will be alternative commercial structures, documentations of unique gatherings and online exchanges, gardens, installations, and paintings. Workshops and “crafternoons” will take place throughout the run of the exhibition. Collectively, the works in PLAN B allude to society’s growing skepticism and re evaluation of existing social and economic norms. They also encourage the viewer to embrace the potential for constructive change and viable support networks.
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