TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER

THIS THURSDAY!
Silky Shoemaker

No Mas Bodas

Enter this in your Google calendar, write it in your diary, tape it to your locker and cross your heart: It’s going to be a fever-pitch night of performance this Thursday at W&TW with Silky Shoemaker and No Mas Bodas.
As anyone who has seen Silky Shoemaker’s performances can attest, she’s the ultimate entertainer, a master of disguise, parody, obscenity and the macabre. She founded Camp!Camp! and GayBiGayGay AND co-produced Rebecca Havemeyer’s Trivia Travesty. She’s so in-demand, I hear that even P.J. Chavez wants to interview her. This Thursday, she will debut her new short play featuring video collage, dancing and papier machê costumes at W&TW before she takes it on tour.

Definitely do not miss No Mas Bodas after Silky’s play. These four ladies are crushing hearts and ruining dance shoes with their mystical synth/saxophone/cello/drum machine avant-pop. Nobody in town comes close to what they’re doing right now. Thursday night is definitely your only chance to catch them against the backdrop of the Texas Biennial exhibition, which is almost over! The party’s free, so bring whoever you most like to dance with and we’ll see you here. Silky goes on at 7:45, No Mas Bodas at 8:45.

Mas!Mas!Mas! @ Women & Their Work Gallery
Thursday, April 2, 7-10 pm, FREE
1710 Lavaca Street
Austin TX 78701
512.477.1064
www.womenandtheirwork.org

A beautiful night to be entertained and Jill Pangallo wants to entertain you.

Don’t miss it! “Let Me Entertain You” is a one-time performance by Jill Pangallo commissioned by Art in Public Places as one of the seven temporary art projects in the Texas Biennial .  Be there or miss it.

The promo is great! Click the link below to check it out.

Let Me Entertain You Promo from turnitloose on Vimeo.

Austin Art Community Call to Action

It’s time for the Austin Art community to show up. The candidates running for mayor and city council will be at the Paramount on Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm to tell us their platform for the arts in Austin. The art community needs to represent, or the powers that be will think the arts can be put on the back burner and no one will care.

Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle makes a great point:

“… collectively the creative sector in Austin – music, film, the arts, digital media, et al. – generates $2.2 billion in economic activity every year and employs 44,000 people. That sector is not only responsible for a lot of the city’s international rep (Austin City Limits, Slacker, Stevie Ray, Willie, South by Southwest, to name a few), but it’s grown steadily over the past 30 years, even through the real estate and dot-com busts. Hey, if you’re looking for economic stability …

But when money gets tight, if anything gets cut faster than library hours, it’s arts and culture. And part of the reason is we don’t show up. Let’s not make that mistake this time. A packed Paramount would send a pretty powerful message to City Hall. I think I saw it on a trailer at the SXSW Film Festival: Creativity is all. All is creativity.”

So, show up Austin!!

I’ll never forget the story I heard about the lack of the helmet law in TX. When congress was going to vote on whether or not to make riding a bike or motorcycle illegal without a helmet, hundreds of motorcycle riders circled the capital, so much so that the congressional chamber shook. The result? The law didn’t pass and still to this day you can risk your life by riding helmetless. Now, we don’t have motorcycles, but we do have the numbers if people will just show up. Let’s demand the respect and visibility we deserve!

Fusebox: Must See

The Fusebox Schedule is out! A lot of things have caught my eye this year especially: Shade Compositions by Rashaad Newsome  

April 24th 9:30 pm – 9:50 pm US Art Authority

Shade Compositions 2009, is video documentation of a live performance featuring a chorus of more than twenty black women. Using improvisatory orchestral music and live video-mixing, Newsome divides his performers into groups akin to instrumental sections. The performers then enact his choreographed sound score comprised of repeated sequences of culturally specific or stereotypical gestures, movements, and vocalizations. Newsome simultaneously records, loops, edits, and remixes in real-time the audio and video documentation of the performers using a hacked Nintendo® Wii™

game controller. The result is a composit of real and projected imagery that investigates assumptions and constructions of identity in mainstream media and popular culture.

Sounds good, right?  More recommendations coming soon.

Do we need women-only galleries?

Article by Charlotte Higgins On Culture Blog Gardian.co.uk

Women are becoming more recognised as artists than a generation ago, but the art world can still be a lonely place for them

Rachel Whiteread, pictured in the Tate turbine hall, is one of one three women to win the Turner prize. Photograph: Graeme Robertson

I’m fascinated by Joanna Moorehead’s piece [July's] arts pages about the collections of art by women at New Hall, Cambridge, and in Washington. My instinct was that I would no more divide the books on my shelves by gender than I would embrace the notion of visiting a women’s art gallery.

Nonetheless, Moorehead’s piece is persuasive. And women do not have equality as art practitioners. A crude measure it may be, but even if you look at very recent history – and take the Turner prize as a snapshot – out of 23 winners, the only women have been Tomma Abts, Rachel Whiteread and Gillian Wearing. If you looked at solo shows at, say, Tate Modern, I am sure the statistics would be yet more bald: part of the force for me of its recent Louise Bourgeois exhibition was that it reminded me how rare an experience it is for female sexuality and female experience to be explored on this scale and with this level of forcefulness and sophistication.

But gender inequality cuts right through the art world. While a phalanx of talented women have risen to the top of the private gallery world in the UK – Sadie Coles, Victoria Miro and Maureen Paley to name three – the public sector is in a ridiculous situation. Of the 31 directors of national museums and archives, only four are women. Clearly, the situation for women in the art world has transformed beyond all recognition over the past generation or so. But it still has a long way to go. Perhaps it will be time to pack up the collection at New Hall when Tate and the National Gallery are run by women.
-Charlotte Higgins On Culture

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