Larissa Mellor - and/und/şi

Friday, February 10, 6-9pm

@ It Looks Like It's Open Studio

13 E Tulane Ave.

Romanian, German and English are entwined in my head and my history.  The words in the works are taken form these three languages.  All of the words present are connectors, usually used to link words or phrases.  While the languages themselves are links to larger cultures, the cursive script signifies the personal.  The works evoke the contortions, fusions and confusions of experience.  Within the works there is no hierarchy.  Sometimes they are legible and sometimes hardly discernible.  Letters and words emerge and disappear.

Larissa Mellor holds a BFA from Maine College of Art and an MFA from The Ohio State University.  Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including the Moscow Biennial of Young Art in Russia, the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Ohio Art League.  Mellor recently spent a year abroad in Berlin, Germany at the Universität der Künste Berlin as a Fulbright Fellow.  She currently lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, where she is a Lecturer in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

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, seekers, 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. Neither necessarily good nor bad. 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 exploration and consideration.

2/5 - Ecstatic Trance with Susan Josephson    http://www.facebook.com/events/209487835811000/

2/12 - Mindfulness Meditation with Daron Larson    http://www.facebook.com/events/174591049313517/

2/19 - Tea Ceremony with Sherab Chen   http://www.facebook.com/events/337423969611899/

2/26 - Krishna Kirtan with Satish More  http://www.facebook.com/events/292017704194841/

3/4 - Restorative Yoga with Ann Tepperman  CANCELED 

seth.josephson@gmail.com for more information.

"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.

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!

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

Nicole Langille presents Ensemble, 7-10 pm this Friday, January 22, 2010

January 22, 2010

7-10pm

13 East Tulane

We invite you to visit,

Ensemble

light. sound. mylar. vinyl. paper. cardboard. video. flooring. shelving. video. cloth. glue.

Walt Whitman wrote, “I will not make poems with reference to parts/ But I will make poems with reference to ensemble.” Using the idea of ensemble as an organizing principle, this project draws a collection of materials and methods into a conversation that probes the fragile, frustrated, and fleeting nature of communication.

For more information:
www.nicolelangille.com