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Thursday May 27th @ 6:30 p.m.
Please join us at The Front on Thursday, May 27th @ 6:30 pm for the second installment of Back Talk at the Front. This month's discussion is on the topic of Arts Education in the Greater New Orleans Area. Facilitating this discussion will be a panel of arts educators from public, private, high school, grade school, university level, and extracurricular institutions. As our arts community enjoys this period of growth, we must be diligent in our support of every available opportunity to expose students to The Arts. On the 27th, we will explore some of these current opportunities, address some of the needs not being met, and discuss what can be done in the face of an ever-shrinking budget. As always, audience participation is welcomed, and everyone is invited to add to the conversation.
Having an Artist Run Gallery
May 19th
A recent panel, Having an Artist Run Gallery, at the Arts Council featured Front member Kyle Bravo, Tami Curtis Ellis, and Steve Martin. Thank you to the the Arts Council for offering an audio recording of this workshop for free streaming.
Audio file here
May 8-June 6
Visual Mischief: Elléphant presents a program of video and film from the near and far-out.
The Front hosts VISUAL MISCHIEF, a program of experimental videos and short films by artists from the US and Europe. The works are eclectic and diverse, from conceptual visual exercises to digitally mediated performance narratives. Highlights include Erika Yeomans’ videos on 70’s Dutch Artist Bas Jan Ader and Bunny Boy with Casey Spooner (FischerSpooner), Kahlil Joseph’s music video for Shabazz Palace, Nicolas Jenkins' homage to Genesis P-Orridge and the darkly comic work of Jennet Thomas.
PROGRAM I
May 8th, Reception 6 pm | Screening 8 pm, Running Time 60 Minutes - Loop
AMBER BOARDMAN (NEW YORK) Animations from the Inside Series
ERIKA YEOMANS (NEW YORK) Bunny Boy, Hardhead Flair
NICOLAS JENKINS (NEW YORK) New York Story
KAHLIL JOSEPH (LOS ANGELES) Belhaven Meridian
JEREMIAH CLANCY (NEW YORK) Feelings & Opinions
DANIEL STEDMAN & ARON EPSTEIN (NEW YORK) The Moth & the Firefly
VIRGINIE YASSEF & JULIEN PRÉVIEUX (PARIS) L’Arbre
ANDREA STANISLAV (MINNEAPOLIS) Blow Away
WILLIAM LAMSON (NEW YORK) Actions, Intervention & Fall
JENNET THOMAS (LONDON) Double Dummy, The Truth and The Pleasure
PROGRAM II
May 11th, Reception 7 pm | Screening 8 pm, Running Time 70 minutes
ERIKA YEOMANS – 3 EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVES
Paging Dr. Freud (2007, multi-frame video, 18 minutes)
In Search of Bas Jan’s Miraculous (1997, Mixed Media, B&W/Color, 39 minutes)
Chubby Buddy ("The Last Castrato") (2003, Super 8, color, 13 minutes)
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Room 1: Daniel Fuselier
CROPPED CIRCLES: If It Don't Fit... Force It!
Any painting a painter will ever do is an exercise. For me the exercise in these paintings is about finding a way to paint quickly, freely, and in turn, enjoying the process of it rather than agonizing over high expectations. It is what it is. Specifically, these works are ambiguous storyboards sourced from four separate photographs. In the paintings I cropped the compositions down to emphasize the expressions of perverse fear, confusion, frustration, and occasional pleasure.
Room 2: Dave Greber
Primer
Primer is a multi-panel video installation which explores our responsibilities as biological creators/conduits of thought by emulating the tactics of corporate propaganda. Dave Greber is a new member of the Front.
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Rooms 3 & 4: Lee Deigaard
Tapeta Lucida
My nocturnal portraits of animals explore ideas of animal autonomy, trespass, and artistic collaboration at the pixellated interface of nocturnal wilderness and camera lens. Animals regard us in the darkness without technical aid. What we see later in their faces-- the tapeta lucida, source of their superior night vision, reflecting as blank white discs-- is eerie, seems somehow impersonal. The animal reveals little; in returning our gaze she appears to see through us. My drawings of trees explore the neural mechanisms of perception, in particular, the experience and velocity of looking at a tree. Through the movement of light and shadow, the tree draws and redraws itself in the mind's eye, less material substance than vibration and rhythm.