i love it here

[prairiecity]

aceart currently has an installation on consisting of a gigantic, wooden slope constructed in the gallery. things i have witnessed on the slope in the last five days include:

*a secret film screening

*a concert of accordion-based music with improvisational tuba, slope-as-group-percussion implement, and slide projection, also featuring a significant number of people waltzing

*liz from aceart playing the theme from beverley hills cop on keyboard with amanda from urban providing dance moves

*this, this, and this

there's also plans for a giant pie fight in the next few weeks. winnipeg is basically the best.

Comments

[nubule.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

yeah, at first i was all "big woo, it's a slope". now i've come to realize that it may be the best art installation of all time.

[postethotic.livejournal.com]

oh the consequences i suffer from removing myself from all social networking sites =]

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

ha.

[postethotic.livejournal.com]

ooo and that current exhibit really seems to deal a lot with my academic research (bodily experience of space and intervening in the way culture programs our bodies' movement through architecture).

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

because you don't live in winnipeg, it's possible you didn't see this work 86,000 times like i did: http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/inst/paradise_institute.html

it was canada's entry to the venice biennale (put together by winnipeg's plug in gallery) in 2001.

[postethotic.livejournal.com]

how wonderful is this - please keep me (us all?) updated on this kind of stuff - i plan to start traveling to lots of different American cities in this next year - i'd love to get more art and city viewing in.

(am i the only one who read the beginning as uber queer? Reminded me a bit of Touch [the short film that's full of trigger warnings]...)

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

if i can think of anything else local/regional that might be relevant to your research, i'll let you know. i don't know that film.

[postethotic.livejournal.com]

i'll pm you the download links - it's quite a wonderful indie short if, like i said, you're ok with the entire thing being a trigger warning

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

thanks for the lead!

[postethotic.livejournal.com]

yea, for sure - let me know what you think when/if you watch it? I sent the links - hope you got 'em.

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

loud and clear!

[postethotic.livejournal.com]

or really, any good stuff at all - i can always weasel it into my research =]

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

will do.

[prairiecity.livejournal.com]

it's the little rat-a-tat of its feet that gets me.