SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited about OFF YR ROCKER this Saturday @Fifth Planet Press!
Can't wait to see all the putAtoring books in their current states!
putAtoring
baby shower
dear atlanta art village, colleagues and friends of Allison Rentz....
Welcome to Ping Pong's baby shower. Happy proud pregger Allison Rentz
will give birth to baby Rentz sometime in mid-July 2009!!! Here's yr
chance to participate in an virtual shower of baby stuff.. little
clothes, little bottles, little things babies like. No baby shower
games! No driving! Show some love. Trying to raise up to $750 for lil
and big baby stuff.
https://www.fundable.com/groupactions/groupaction.2009-03-18.3729110524
help welcome a critter in fresh from the astral realms!!!!
--
Nisa Asokan, MLS
www.fifthplanetpress.com __book arts
www.tightbrosnetwork.com __ music promotions
www.eyedrum.org __ art music film lit ATL
www.myspace.com/vacationgallery __ art gallery & boutique ATL
www.myspace.com/kirkwoodballersclub __live music incubator ATL
www.ajc.com __local news ATL
www.myspace.com/fifthplanetpress __ EMP sound blog
baginabag.wordpress.com __tales from the asokan family
www.myspace.com/chinesefrankenstein _ nightmares you love to have
Chinese Frankenstein
atGreencup Books, Birmingham, AL. March 28, 2009
Happily disturbed arhythms and textures provide a sonic backdrop for the performance you've been waiting for all of your life. Atlanta trio Chinese Frankenstein performs in strange places...this time in an elevator shaft at GreenCupBooks in Birmingham, AL with improvisational performance, live digital microscope projection, a book art experiment and a rest stop trash can photo tour... But mostly, CF is just a slutty band: guitar, vocals, drum machine and field recordings.
myspace.com/chinesefrankenstein
kegels 11111111111111111..............22222222222222222.............33333333333333333333.......................................4!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!elevator-chordian tentatop sugar-laced bird's nest spider web jewel-encrusted horse head.breath POWmicSCOPEmic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
labour free
Allison Rentz performance installation sketch
Saturday, January 31, 2009
7:00pm
@:
the SCAD space in Studioplex
Studioplex, #143
659 Auburn Av, 30312.
It is very conveniently located on the backside of the building adjacent to the parking lot on the ground floor.
Fertility rituals are handy and necessary in cultures.
There will be plastic and Allison.
Maybe there will be other humans?
A short piece of magical hope.
THANK YOU Mark Leibert for this opportunity!
labour free process notes
I accidentally did a fertility ritual through my performances this past summer, and now I am pregnant. Because of this phenomenon, I'm worried that my art can predict the future. I want to express some of the conflicts that exist around my pregnancy, but I'm afraid this will harm the baby.
This sketch will try to balance a ritual of eliminating conflict, and producing positivity for me and other members of our culture.
Friday, January 30
I woke up angry and I've been crying all morning. Can I pull myself together enough to go work on this installation? I am going to try... Beware, this piece is bound to be full of messes. Earlier, I had a vision of me laying on a fetal position in the space crying [instead of doing actual art]. I am going to keep this from happening.
Saturday, January 31
The space is beautiful! I am so glad I got to work in the space yesterday. I really enjoyed playing with the materials, and I realized that by moving them around and making new configurations, this functioned as a performance. There were some beautiful moments. I decided to make an audio recording, which I am about to edit, and the result will be my sound scape for the performance. I had wanted to borrow a cordless lapel mic from my baby daddy, but he hates me again now. So, I won't worry too much about live audio output.
ads
how are they working for you?
is the visual disruption
small and eventually dismissed
in your mind?
store begins
uniform shelves and benign clothes
oh it is mine
and i discover painting a dress on white instead
and sidekicks dancing in front beside me
merch managers first assigned the bathroom mirror paint
and keep the leg jutting out graffiti
my request
my vision and his execution different
and i was too busy with constant frenzy of newness to discover
one day lip and lids wipe the counter edge with the large lipstick
performance
my assistant
i wasted my time on the floor
post cop cuddle fur wrapped wall
merch manager all night long rearrangement
give me a store space
and i will hoist my canopy bed to the ceiling catching glimpses of the soft shinned hawk flimsy skirt flutters in the wind
and the goose following the paper mache goose with freshly popped balloon top
poor innocence/stupid?
i was big and pregnant prepping for maternity leave
hand over assistant/general manager
halloween i appeared in costume
and the pumpkin man sitting in the old time lawn chair in the middle of the mall
distributing branded candy
and his hat pops up and spreads [oh the mechanics of that creation]
my flat stomach
and dancing in front
window live models
and two were really photos that i discovered only upon feeling their cold flatness.
the little people large plywood pushers that were meant for a parade
and my reaction was that i would have made of posterboard instead,
but i had workers, and they deserved their freedom, as long as they were producing
and i guessed the large heavy contraption was allright as long as it was to be powered by many people
and the price was right 236 = affordable by a nonprofit org, and my workers argued against that pearl, and i mentioned my observations of individuals in groups, and how they happily tossed about a 20 if they believed in a cause, and surely some group would believe in the cause of pushing a large, heavy plywood little people icon for the halloween parade. and i pointedly imagined and indicated with my gaze towards the gangly member of the rcyb
the photo cut out reps of the live models was, i determined acceptable, because they were my workers, and how could i expect anyone to do my actual bidding and remain still for so many hours, but my solution was to move a body part every 10 minutes in such a controlled martha graham manner.
alas, communication had failed
because i was taking on too much
and no time at the drawing table
simply heading up a large org of workers
who were doing my supposed bidding
but i was so lenient that they were really beyond my control
and the outcome was no longer my vision.
this is the world of mine that i will rejoin inside my brain.now.
people wear their
intentions
giving sugary objects
pallid rising
how did i end up in the office space newly upgraded photoshop to the the halloween version and the offerings of sitting thanksgiving in mourning of this terrible world situation. two thousand plus dollar check made me obligated to sit the day away organizing my new office, and discovering that the previous tenant had been murdered, and that a coworker is still a target for murder.
cuts through the super expensive restaurant, watching the people casually throwing their money away.
i can't help salivating seeing bills
that are to them, pocket change.
and the money, promise of more small bills, i gave up my autonomy, and joined the "family"
knowing that i would be looking for escape as early as the next day.
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