Technologies of the Self: Ecstatic Trance Session - 2/5, 1:00 pm

Looking inward can uncover unexpected figures and uncharted landscapes.

While many shamanic practices are lost or inaccessible, if the basic format of our minds and brains is universal, doorways into the alternate reality and the non-conscious mind can be recreated and rediscovered.

The first in a series of five "Technologies of the Self" events, Susan Josephson will lead participants in an introduction to "ecstatic trance" through ritual body posture and sound. Susan's technique for calling the spirits is based on the work of her late mother, anthropologist and founder of a neo-shamanic new religious movement, Felicitas D. Goodman. (Her work lives on in an organized fashion in New Mexico at the Cuyamungue Institute <http://www.cuyamungueinstitute.com/> and in Germany at the Felicitas-Goodman Insitut <http://www.cuyamungue-institut.de/>, and in numerous books and articles.)

We will settle into two trance postures for the session. The first, the Singing Shaman, and the second a divining or metamorphosis posture, to be announced. Young adults welcome.

Susan Josephson is an artist, philosopher, and educator, currently residing in central Ohio.

***Instructions for participation: Please arrive on time, the door will be closed at 1:15 so that the session can begin without interruption. Fasting will enhance the experience, but at very least do not eat within 30 minutes prior to the session. Wear loose-fitting clothing and avoid wearing metal. In this folk tradition, metals on the body, excepting gold and silver, are believed to interfere with the experience.

***Facilitators are not expecting payment and all sessions are by donation. Please contribute to their visit and the rent and maintenance of the studio space with a small contribution.

Technologies of the Self: Conceptual Context

Every Sunday at 1:00 in February and the first Sunday in March the studio on 13 E. Tulane Rd. (itlookslikeitsopen.blogspot.com) will host “Technologies of the Self,” a series of workshops focused on traditional and non-traditional methods of reconstructing or deconstructing personhood through ritual and awareness. All events are by donation.

This program is intended to introduce participants to a set of spiritual disciplines for self knowledge and self transformation. No particular religious affiliation is expected nor need one enter the experience without a critical attitude. It is for you to decide if these practices are beneficial to your own project of life acceptance and adaption. It is my hope that all the practices presented in this series will benefit artists, activists and others.

The presentation of these “technologies” is also intended to challenge scholars and academics to step outside purely theoretical or objective modes, and enter into another kind of knowing. Social theorist Michel Foucault, best known for his work on sexuality and theories of power, turned at the end of his life away from “technologies of power” to those technologies which “permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality.” (http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.technologiesOfSelf.en.html) For Foucault, technologies of the self are value-neutral. They bring to bear regimes of truth onto psychic and somatic inner-life, and through practices of knowing, reformulate the subject, or deconstruct it. Foucault’s primary interest was in how the Greek maxims of “know yourself” and “take care of yourself” were transformed into early Christian techniques of self-disclosure and self-renunciation with the goal of spiritual purity. Here other, largely non-Western, forms and philosophies will be presented for consideration.

2/5 - Ecstatic Trance with Susan Josephson

2/12 - Mindfulness Meditation with Daron Larson

2/19 - Tea Ceremony with Sherab Chen

2/25 - Krishna Kirtan with Satish More

3/4 - Restorative Yoga with Ann Tepperman

seth.josephson@gmail.com for more information.

KEROAÄN . Envenomist/Shiflet . Joe Panzner

Sunday 1/5 8:00pm until 10:00pm

Time

KEROAÄN is a musical artificial intelligence developed by Ian Fraser and Reed Even Rosenberg that performs by implementing XENAKIS'S Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis. This non-standard synthesis is played in real time by the KEROAÄN program. Pushing and pulling between sections of hard noise, singing glissandos, jagged melodic scribble and other sonic curiosities, the program liberates the computer from its position as a mere tool of hyper-productivity and transports the machine into a state of creative and performative being. Operatic in scope, a live diffusion of KEROAÄN features lasers, strobe lighting, and fog synched to both audible and structural qualities of the music as an infinitely morphing chorus of digital voices croon, cry, scream and everything in between.

Envenomist & Mike Shiflet
Local drone champions will bring the darkness to extinguish your light. There will be bass.

Joe Panzner
Critically-acclaimed critic-musician will provide blistering synthesis over pretty much everyone's head but his own.

http://www.facebook.com/events/361809453835464/

"Sustainable Worldviews: Re-Indigenizing Non-Violent Activism"

Michael Tawd Bell, anarchist activist and founder of the Rad Dog vegan hotdog cart, will lead a discussion on the theory and practice of non-violent action in zones of conflict. He will share his philosophy, outline his on-going work, and invite feedback and community engagement.

Tawd will be leaving in January to train with Christian Peacemaker Teams and continue his work with the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people of northwestern Ontario. Corporate clear cut logging of traditional territory has destroyed hunting, trapping, food and medicine gathering activities. Indian Residential Schools have deeply impacted families and communities. Mercury contamination discovered over 40 years ago continues to poison residents.The Anishinaabe, are engaged in healing, resisting colonialism and struggling for sovereignty, and invited the CPT to enter as an ally in their cause.

Please join the struggle!

"The human-centric wold view of the civilized west has thoroughly disconnected us from nature. The combative stance of modern man in relation to "the other" especially the natural world has been from the beginning, and continues to be, unsustainable. The water is dying, the forests and jungles are dying, the animals are dying. The human race is poisoning all that sustains it. Man's posture and wold view of exploitation propels us forward towards an ecological apocalypse.

Time is short. Turtle Island (earth) has precious little time before absolutely nothing can be done. If that time isn't already upon us. Nothing short of a complete perceptive shift must occur. This shift must be broad based and wide spread. It's the shift from a world view that places man clearly at the center of history to one that sees the connectedness and interdependent of all life on Turtle Island. Human kind is neither the center nor the apex, but one piece of a beautiful whole. Said differently, this is a shift from a 'civilized' world view to a 'primitive' one. Going back is the only way forward. Re-indigenizing is the crucial first step toward a healed and healthy world." -Tawd Bell <http://experimentsindecolonization.blogspot.com/>

Michael Tawd Bell (38) from Columbus, Ohio: Carpenter by day, volunteer activist by night; Has worked with Mercy For Animals, Cop Watch, Anti Racist Action, Food Not Bombs; Is a member of Jesus Radicals and has helped coordinate several of their conferences; Has lead talks on topics such as Anarchism and Christianity, Decolonization and White Privilege; Experimenting with Quakerism; Participated in the 2011 spring delegation to Grassy Narrows with The Aboriginal Justice Team.

CONFESSIONAL

Friday, November 11, 2011

CONFESSIONAL, a new installation and performance piece presented by Columbus artist Mac Arnold, addresses the themes of self-acceptance and reconciliation through the confessions of one's fears and anxieties, as well as one's sins. The opening begins at 7pm, and the performance will begin shortly thereafter. For more news and to see other work by Mac Arnold, please visit http://macarnold.tumblr.com

STRINGS GONE DEAF

11/8/2011, photo by R. Agnew

October Open Meditation

Sunday Oct 9th 1:00pm Open Meditation at It Looks Like Its Open

Nearly all religious traditions advocate some form of silent practice for spiritual benefit, and scientific study after study demonstrate the value of Meditation for physical and mental health. Every second sunday, the gallery space at 13 E. Tulane opens for folks to support one another in their practice. Whether a small or large group, we sit in a circle in chairs or on cushions, in silence, for two 20 minute sessions. Before and after, talking about our experience and intentions. All are welcome to join. No previous experience with formal meditation is required. Bring your own cushion, if possible. Together we can create a community of awareness. Hosted by Seth Josephson.

Tatsuya Nakatani // Tuesday Oct 4th

TATSUYA NAKATANI
solo percussion, gongs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxOa-dTVzHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47xyGEssTcs

RYAN JEWELL & JOE PANZNER
debut live duo performance, drum/electronics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYbpjDgpVw (Ryan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZieZJLxa7IM (Joe)

8:00
BYOB, donations for touring artist
Hope to see you out,
Mike

Variegated Peddlars of an Otological Life

Film & sound artist Bruce McClure will be presenting a unique audio-video performance/experience at 13 East Tulane September 20th at 8:00. $5-10 suggested donation. See Bruce's description (and some video links) below.

-Mike

VARIEGATED PEDDLARS OF AN OTOLOGICAL LIFE
Tuesday, September 20, 8:00pm
13 E Tulane Road, Clintonville 43202

Since my last visit to the Wexner and Columbus in 2007 I have
continued to keep the company of 16 mm projectors with film as their
analogue. My projection performances lean into spaces shaded and
hushed seeking implicit triangulations among living things where the
conversion of matter into energy is a metaphor for consciousness. “It
Looks Like Its Open Gallery” will be the first in a pair of change
ringing performances in Columbus, projector placements that define
boundaries by measuring them in light years and soundsense while
giving special attention to echo. Although I have proposed that
“every seat is the best in the house” changing the house will offer
chances to flex mussels anew and find another vantage point to take in
the wavescape. Two performances using different materials and
separated by four days are like a pair of dumbbells that will
hopefully provide some with an additional means to exercise in
phenomenal space.

During these performances we will find ourselves like explorers in the
undiscoverable arctic regions where the needle indifferently respects
all points of the horizon alike. This projection performance will be
like a transmitter from these regions. It will consist of both double
walled pipes constructed of two patterned emulsion and base loops
sandwiched and closed in the film path and the simpler frequencies
produced a single loop. Working together the machines will heterodyne
across the variegated film surfaces shifting interest onto a useful
frequency range for the reception of nerve endings and concatenation
under many domes that form the skyline of the city.

Bruce McClure
Brooklyn, New York
August 18, 2011

http://vimeo.com/18290696
http://vimeo.com/19733942

Jesse Hemminger is Alive!

A Q&A with our studiomate Jesse Hemminger is now featured in Alive!

Click HERE to read the Q&A article and also visit his website, jessehemminger.com.

You can see Jesse's sauerkraut-powered robots in person at Franklin Park Conservatory's exhibition HUNGRY PLANET: LOCAL FOOD, GLOBAL VIEW

Open Meditation August

Sunday, August 14 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm

13 East Tulane

"Awakened within a dream,
I fall into my own arms.
....what kept you so long?"

-Lou Hartman

Join me and friends in the practice of quiet sitting. Together we can support each other to deepen our calm awareness and sharpen our insight. We will have two sessions of 20 minutes with a short walking in between. Everyone will have the opportunity to speak and to listen before and after the sit so we can pass along insights and answer each other's questions. Then we'll have tea.

Folks new to the practice are welcome. Some chairs and cushions will be available but you may want to bring your own. Feel free to pass on the invitation to others.

May our time together be a benefit to all beings.

-Seth Josephson

Moving, Seconds, Art and Art and Art Supply SALE!!!

Join us as we prepare to clean house, pack and prepare to see the world beyond Columbus! (Adam Hinterlang, Kyla Toomey, and Janet Macpherson will be leaving for Canada and Pennsylvania, Aimee Sones is downsizing too!)

Marotta Hour featuring Mike Shiflet

Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W Town St
Free and open to all. Donations accepted.

From the OSU Urban Arts Space website:
This month's Marotta Hour is a meeting of three of Columbus's better known improvisers and collaborators: Ryan Jewell (percussion), Mike Shiflet (electronics), and series curator Larry Marotta (guitar). Ryan Jewell is constantly challenging expectations of what drums are supposed to sound like. Mike Shiflet's musical journey has brought him from punk rock through noise through a new synthesis of electronics and melody. Larry Marotta will be a featured performer at the Wexner Center's summer Kinema Japan series, providing a live score for the Yasujiro Ozu silent film "I Was Born, But" on July 28.
About Marotta Hour
Marotta Hour is an electro-acoustic music series featuring unexpected sounds from free jazz to electronic to free-form improvisation. Come hear some of the most cutting-edge musicians and composers from Columbus and beyond.

Catch WORM MAN

WHAT: Worm Man at ABSOLUTELY ABSURD BENEFIT FOR OAL
WHEN: 11:00pm Friday, July 15, 2011
WHERE: sidewalk at Rich and Gift (Franklinton)

Worm Man is an ongoing project by Columbus artist Ryan Agnew and has been performed in a variety of settings including a parking lot, auditorium, market and cafe. Worm Man begins with a person laying down into a human-sized earthworm suit, inching horizontally over the ground and gradually crawling out of the suit to stand.

This event is $20 at the door, all proceeds benefit the Ohio Art League, a non-profit visual arts organization that has been enriching the community for over 100 years by providing exhibition and professional development opportunities to artists.

There’s No Thing Like Nothing,

Friday, July 8, 2011, 7-9pm

An exhibition of selected works by Sylvia Doebelt, Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Residency recipient from Dresden/Leipzig, Germany.

Through the various series of work presented in the exhibition, Doebelt blurs distinctions between illusion and reality. She asks what is, and what is not, or rather how does perception become truth? This deceptively subtle depiction of the struggle between surface and space manifests in photographic images capturing light, pattern, margins and lines of demarcation.

For more information about the artist, visit http://www.pix-to-go.de/

Epic Theatre, inkjet print, 67 x 50 cm, 2011

Summer Sailing at 13 East Tulane!

Inspired by Ryan Agnew's seersucker shorts and deck shoes, Herb Peterson, Jessica Larva and I (Aimee Sones) decided to go for a quick sail in Columbus!

Tues June 28 @ Brothers Drake // 7-10pm

Fuse Factory Presents: sound artist Tim Kaiser (Duluth, MN), who will be performing at the Brothers Drake Meadery. Joining him on the bill is Tone Elevator, Mike Shiflet, and Kate Westfall. Admission $5. Location: 26 E. 5th Ave, Columbus 43201.

All the Pretty Trees

@ IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S OPEN

13 E. TULANE RD COLUMBUS, OH

Opening reception Friday, June 17, 2011 6-9pm

performance by the Ginger Lees & Cathy Wicks Ours

Special meditation and discussion Sunday June 19 at 1:00pm hosted by Seth Josephson exploring issues of interconnectedness and transcending the human/nature division.

click image for larger view

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Click for feature article in Columbus Alive

FEATURED ARTISTS Ryan Agnew, Michelle Alder, Bob Bennett, Casey Bradley, Larry Copeland, Amanda Delozier, David C. Gentilini, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Kent Grosswiler, Mollie Hannon, Jake Housh, David Ike, Michelle Ishida, Dale Johnson, Bethany Jozwiak-Butler, Michael Kellner, Nicole Langille, Cat Lynch, Terri Maloney-Houston, Tim Perdue, Stephanie Rond, Ruth Smith, Aimee Sones, Scott Steelman, Tera Stockdale, Justin Sutters, Cathy Wicks Ours, Charles Wince, Lauren Whearty, Brooke Zamudio

JURORS Michelle Ishida is a fiber artist and clothing designer based in Delaware, OH. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University. Michelle has exhibited her work at art festivals and galleries for 18 years and maintains a retail website for Starfish Earth. Michelle finds inspiration from nature and the beautiful shapes of tree silhouettes seen simply taking a walk through a meadow or the woods. She photographs trees whenever hiking or traveling and draws the silhouettes from these photos. Each year she donates a portion of her profits to The National Arbor Day Foundation in support of their mission to plant more trees. Tera Stockdale is a mixed media artist and Art Educator residing in Columbus, OH. She received her Bachelor of Art Education and Masters of Art in Art Education from The Ohio State University and currently teaches K-12 Visual Arts in public education. Along with visual art she is also a writer and singer songwriter often taking inspiration and motivation from the beauty and power of the natural world.

Thanks to Tera, Michelle and all of you who made this project such a success! -Ryan 7/18

June events at 13 E Tulane

Tuesday June 7 // It Sounds Like It's Open (Improvisation) // 8-10pm

Sunday June 12 // Open Meditation // 1:00pm

led by Seth Josephson

Friday June 17 // All the Pretty Trees // 6-9pm

w/ performance by the Ginger Lees & Cathy Wicks Ours

Sunday June 19 // Open Meditation // 1:00pm

led by Seth Josephson

Tuesday June 21 // Screening of John Cage: Variations VII/ 9 Evenings in Theater and Engineering // 8-10pm

DAN HARVEY

HOLE PARTS

by Daniel Harvey

Monday May 23rd, 8:00 pm

Sometimes experiences and ideas that do not make sense by themselves are better understood when grouped together. Come see “Hole Parts” on May 23, an installation and performance that interprets how the fragmented experiences of watching, talking with and having relationships with people in Columbus, Ohio over one year can connect to each other. Hole Parts features a single performance at 8:00pm starring Zachary Podgorny and Daniel Harvey. The show is open for one night only from 8:00-9:45 pm.

ALL THE PRETTY TREES call-for-entries

Seeking original Pretty Tree artworks of emotional relevance. All media considered. All the Pretty Trees will be presented as a living, interactive forest in which artists and audience come together in linking identity to the natural world in which we evolved.

Opening reception Friday, June 17, 2011 6-9pm

Entry Deadline Friday, May 20, 2011

Take in Sunday, June 12, 2011, 3-5pm

Pick up Sunday, June 19, 2011, 3-5pm

Please send up to three digital images of works to: picturesofprettytrees@gmail.com

and include

NAME, PHONE, EMAIL, TITLE, SIZE, MEDIUM, PRICE

Jurors: Michelle Ishida is a fiber artist and clothing designer based in Delaware, OH. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University. Michelle has exhibited her work at art festivals and galleries for 18 years and maintains a retail website for Starfish Earth. Michelle has always found inspiration from nature and the beautiful shapes of tree silhouettes seen simply taking a walk through a meadow or the woods. She photographs trees whenever hiking or traveling and draws the silhouettes from these photos. Each year she donates a portion of her profits to The National Arbor Day Foundation in support of their mission to plant more trees. Tera Stockdale is a mixed media artist and Art Educator residing in Columbus, OH. She received her Bachelor of Art Education and Masters of Art in Art Education from The Ohio State University and currently teaches K-12 Visual Arts in public education. Along with visual art she is also a singer songwriter often taking inspiration and motivation from the beauty and power of the natural world.

WANDERLUST, Friday April 29, 7-9pm

exhibition of selected works by Elizabeth Gerdeman

created during the Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Residency in Dresden, Germany

curated by Zuzana Muranicová

From Friedrich: The Grosse Gehege near Dresden

acrylic and watercolor on paper

22” x 30”

2010

For more information about the artist, visit http://elizabeth.gerdeman.com/

CHINESE SOUND ARTISTS at 13 E Tulane

Monday, April 4th.
8:00 - 10:00
$5.00 for the artists.

Yan Jun
www.yanjun.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V52i0KI4w0

Li Jianhong
http://www.douban.com/artist/lijianhong/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKEZ9y1lZ0

Wang Fan
http://www.myspace.com/wangfanofficial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu6g3KRO3iM

Solo sets and performances with local artists.

WAGGLE and SQUIRM

an open-studio reception of work by Ryan Agnew at 13 E Tulane Rd, Columbus (behind CupO'Joe in Clintonville)

Wednesday, April 13th
5:30 to 8:30 pm

GCAC’s OPPArt: Opportunities for Artists

GCAC’s OPPArt: Opportunities for Artists comes to ITLOOKSLIKEITSOPEN at 13 East Tulane

Monday, March 21st, 6-7:30pm

“Artists in the Community” is GCAC’s newest grants and services program designed to support individual artists in the community. New fellowships, supply grants and much more will be available in 2011. While these opportunities are not available to students, it is never too early to learn about what opportunities are out there to prepare for a career in Columbus as a professional artist. Join Ruby Classen in this informative session where she will de-mystify GCAC’s Artists in the Community application program and provide some one-on-one consultation in an informal environment. Bring your ideas and questions.

RSVP to attend this event, rclassen@gcac.org .

Walk-ins welcome, space allowing. Some seating provided, feel free to bring a chair or pillow.

www.gcac.org

FLOWING

Meagan Alwood / Aaron Troyer

Saturday February 26, 2011 7-10pm

Open Meditation

Sunday February 13th, 1:00-2:30pm

All are welcome to join and sit quietly together with us. Seth Josephson will facilitate with a short discussion of loving-kindness meditation. Participants are welcome to practice any form of meditation or prayer they feel comfortable with and are invited to share their techniques and the experience of getting to know themselves with awareness. Two 20 minute sessions will be followed by tea. Donations to the It Looks Like It's Open space are welcome.

"When compassion fills my heart,
free from all desire,
I sit quietly like the earth.
My silent cry echoes like thunder
throughout the universe."
-Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

image of handmade glass stones by Keikichi Honna, 2010

updates, shift and change in the studio

the studio at 13 east tulane is shifting and changing over time. we originally started out with a humble studio on summit in the winter of 2009. the idea for a space was conceived of by jamie boyle and herb vincent peterson, who later invited aimee sones, adele mattern and ryan agnew to join them. the studio on summit was not the right location and the group moved to our present location at 13 east tulane in the spring of 2009.

lots of making and events have occurred since then and are archived here on the blog.

adele relocated to massachusetts where she continues to practice. her website is www.adelemattern.com

jamie boyle recieved a greater columbus arts council neighborhood arts program grant to support the video support group film school in the spring of 2010.

jessica larva joined the studio in the fall of 2009.

mike shiflet joined the studio in the fall of 2010 and began hosting the Monumental Documents Listening Sessions and It Sounds Like It's Open on tuesday evenings.

studio mates winter 2011, from left to right: mike shiflet, jessica larva, herb vincent peterson, aimee sones and ryan agnew (center)

studio mates may 2009, from left to right: aimee sones, jamie boyle, herb peterson, ryan agnew and adele mattern

MEDITATIONS

Open Meditation
Sunday Jan. 9th, 11:00am

All are welcome to join and sit quietly together. Seth Josephson (Buddhist Network of Central Ohio and MA/PhD student at OSU's Department of Comparative Studies) will facilitate with an introduction to Zen and other Buddhist meditation styles. Participants are welcome to practice any form of meditation or prayer they feel comfortable with and are invited to share their techniques and the experience of getting to know themselves with awareness. Two 20 minute sessions will be followed by tea. Participants are welcome to bring a cushion. Donations to the It Looks Like It's Open space will be accepted.

"Learn to take the backward step that turns the light inward to illuminate the self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will manifest."- Dogen Zenji


image of handmade glass stones by Keikichi Honna, 2010

THE HUSH HUSH with MYCELIA

Echo at the Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery

Curated by Orion Barrett, this show explores themes of nature and loss in the works of Aimee Sones, Jessica Larva and Molly Jo Burke. The show will be up until December 13th, 2010.

Molly Jo Burke

Jessica Larva (prints), Aimee Sones (aluminum foil mountain)

Jessica Larva (prints), Aimee Sones (aluminum foil mountain) and Molly Jo Burke (sculpture on rear wall)

ARTIST HYPE

JOEY

"i paint heads and knuckles, self-taught, with honors"

MONSOON

Lindsay Gallery, 986 N High St, Columbus OH 43201, 614-291-1973

http://www.joeymonsoon.com/

HANNAH BARNES

And at the Hour of Our Death, works by HERB VINCENT PETERSON

Sean Christopher Gallery at Health Perspectives

815 N. High St., suites H & N, Columbus Ohio 614-291-5890

Open Wed.-Fri. 3:30-5:30 p.m., 1st Sat. 6-10 p.m., remaining Sat. 1-3 p.m. and by appointment, through 11/27

ARTIST HYPE

David Staniunas had a show August 2010 at It Looks Like It's Open with Adam Hinterlang. David and his partner, artist Sara Gallo, moved to Philadelphia this fall. I caught up with him in Columbus while he was installing his work at ROYGBIV Gallery. David's recent completion of the Kent State University's MLIS program has something to do with the recurring depictions in his work of a character performing various specialized tasks vaguely referencing information science and blowing bubbles. Works included in the photos below are acrylic on canvas and guache on paper. David's work will be up at ROY through Nov 27, along with superb photos and video by Takeshi Moro. An artists' talk is scheduled Saturday, Nov 27th at 2:30pm.

LINKS:

SKYLARKING by David Staniunas and Adam Hinterlang here and here

Gallostan site and blog

ROYGBIV Gallery here

Takeshi Moro

-Ryan

TUESDAY NIGHTS

Mike Shiflet is curating two weekly series at 13 East Tulane here in Columbus: It Sounds Like It's Open, an open-to-all improvisation session, and the Monumental Documents Listening Sessions, in which classic experimental recordings are played through our PA at concert-level volume. The events will alternate in an 8:00 to 10:00 time slot on Tuesday nights, beginning October 12th. More info below.

It Sounds Like It's Open
This bi-weekly mass improvisation session is free and open to all,
acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments and non-instruments are
all welcome. If you plan on playing something electric, please bring
your own amplification suitable for playing alongside unamplified
acoustic instruments. The format for this is still being worked out,
and we will try a few different approaches the first few weeks before
democratically deciding on one (or not).

Monumental Documents Listening Sessions
This series will kick off Tuesday, the 19th, with two Pauline Oliveros
recordings, Primordial Lift and Alien Bog. As the concepts behind the
Listening Sessions take inspiration from Pauline’s philosophy of Deep
Listening, it only seemed right to initiate the series with selections
from her vast discography. Feel free to bring a computer, book,
homework, what have you to these sessions. Though inspired by deep
listening, 100% devotion to the recordings is not required at these
events. As long as it is not disruptive to others, you can do as you
please while listening.

The schedule of events for the next few weeks is as follows:
10.12: It Sounds Like It's Open
10.19: Listening Session: Pauline Oliveros
10.26: It Sounds Like It's Open
11.2: Listening Session: John Tilbury and David Tudor
11.9: It Sounds Like It's Open
11.16: Listening Session: Revue OU: Sound Poetry Anthology
11.23: It Sounds Like It's Open
11.30: Listening Session: Orchestral Space 1966

For more info, feel free to email Mike at monumental.documents@gmail.com
or look up Monumental Documents on Facebook.

WITCH-HAZEL TREE

now blooming in front of the studio

STEFAN LENKE

Stefan Lenke (Dresden, Germany)

miles away from home

Viewing/Reception October 9th 6-9pm

Stefan weighing the paintings he made in USA.

CLINTON THEATER WHAT's NEXT?

NONSTOP INSTITUTE PRESENTS:

Local Stories--an Oral Histories Project - opening
* When: September 25 – Saturday – 7pm
* Where: Nonstop Institute, 305 N. Walnut, Yellow Springs
* Cost: Pay as you are able
http://nonstopinstitute.org/nonstop-presents/local-stories-an-oral-histories-project/

This Saturday evening, September 25th, the Nonstop Institute welcomes all to its “Local Stories--an Oral Histories Project,” opening with works by Ryan Agnew, Dennie Eagleson and Jonny No & John Hempfling. During this summer’s residency program (made possible in part by the generous support of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation) our guest artists have developed a varied set of responses to the oral histories theme. Along with individual choices in media and method, each brings a unique approach to the topic of ‘local stories,’ capturing and creating personal narratives and perspectives outside of center that otherwise risk falling through the cracks, attending to personal and collective memory, meaning, imagination, and the legitimacy of voice.

Particular works to be presented include:

“ Wildflower Honey” a temporary installation of drawings, notes and recorded audio charting cycles of discovery experienced, remembered or imagined during this summer’s engagement with Yellow Springs by Columbus-area artist Ryan Agnew;

“ Threshing Day, Medway, Ohio, 1934,” a multimedia installation based upon artifacts and accounts of Milly Bell Wallace and a local family’s efforts to live and cope through the Depression era, by documentary and fine art photographer and sustainable farming advocate, Dennie Eagleson;

“ Public Prohibited / Minor Infractions: The Control and Criminalization of Youth Culture in Yellow Springs, Ohio,” a documentary survey of youth perspectives on the diminished availability of public space accompanied by increasingly assertive law enforcement pressure, by media makers and Yellow Springs Youth Council members, Jonny No & John Hempfling.

Collectively and individually these artists and their works endeavor to expand and thoughtfully contribute to the public dialogue of our community. Please come to the opening and join in the discussion this Saturday evening beginning at 7 at Nonstop, 305 N. Walnut Street.

Open hours for the exhibition will be from 1-4pm on Saturdays in October, or by appointment.

For further information please contact Chris Hill at chris.hill@nonstopinstitute.org

MATT DIETZ

WORKS BY MATTHEW DIETZ
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10th 7-10PM
IT LOOKS LIKE ITS OPEN, 13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

“I started working solely with making abstractions in the year 2000. I have used many different methods and processes to create abstractions. I like to work in a kind of creative stumble, I will use drawing, observation and repetitive processes, to give the work some intentionality.”
-Matthew Dietz

HANNAH BARNES

Hannah Barnes, Quad, 2010

Hannah Barnes, Avo, 2010

WORKS BY HANNAH BARNES

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4th 7-10PM

IT LOOKS LIKE ITS OPEN, 13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

Hannah Barnes was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Muncie Indiana. Barnes received her BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art and her MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally including Work Gallery and Hogar Collection in Brooklyn NY, the Ohio State University in Columbus OH, Hay Gallery in Portland ME, Hello Gallery in New Haven CT, Arthouse Contemporary in Austin TX, and the Shore Institute for Contemporary Art in Long Branch, NJ. Barnes has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Ohio State University, Kent State University, and Maine College of Art and is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at Ball State University.

Barnes's work draws on traditional media and painterly craft to explore themes of ambiguity, fragmentation, and the rejection of overt meaning in painting. For this exhibition, Hannah will incorporate recent painting and works on paper into the studio-as-gallery.