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Saturday, August 5
Admission: $10, includes your first drink
Showtimes: 7:30pm or 10pm
reservations
are recommended
1) THE FOUR SHOPPING CARTS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Taking the current controversy over the role of American evangelicals
as a starting point, I'll perform an illustrated essay about
evangelical portrayals of Jews, when evangelicals drag as Jews,
why
evangelicals think they make the best Jews, and what theme parks
and
evangelical performances can teach us about the fetishization
of
Jerusalem and Israel.
Kristen Dombek is currently revising her dissertation
into a book about evangelical popular culture and rhetoric called
Shopping for the End of the World, working on a documentary theatre
project about fundamentalism called The Testimony Project, and
directing a summer pre-college writing program at a women's prison
in Manhattan. During the school year, she is a Lecturer
at Princeton University, where she teaches a seminar called "Apocalypse
in American Culture and Politics." She co-wrote Critical
Passages: Teaching the Transition to College Composition (Teacher's
College Press, 2004) with Scott Herndon, and, most recently, her
essay "Murder in the Theme Park: Evangelical Animals and
the End of the World" will be published in TDR: THE DRAMA
REVIEW this fall.
2) THE FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT
Some Melodies Regarding Blood Moons, Telegraphy, Rapture, Revolt,
and
Revival, as well as Comets, Meteor Showers, the Aurora Borealis,
the
Burnt Over District, and the Great Disappointment was performed
by an
eight-vehicle orchestra on the 28th of July. At Show and Tell
Mary and
Danyel will have a multimedia presentation about this performance.
A
suite of songs was composed by various musicians including participants
of the Bang On a Can Music Institute. Vocal and instrumental components
are played separately through individual car stereos, collectively
creating a complete song within the circle.
Danyel Ferrari's most recent work was exhibited
at Gallery 2 in Chicago, Illinois and in the Lost in Translation
workshop housed by the Istanbul Biennial. She received her BA
in Visual and Critical Studies from the Art Institute of Chicago
and will be pursuing her BFA at the Burren College of Art in Ireland.
Mary Walling Blackburn is creating videos and drawings
for the Longwood Cyber Residency in New York City, has written
for Cabinet Magazine, Women and Performance, and Aperture and
currently teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Both are currently in residence at the Contemporary Artists Center,
the Istanbul Biennial.
3) Emiko Kashara will present SHEER, an ongoing
participatory sound
and sculpture installation exploring stories of loss from people
around the world in the context of completed works. In Japan,
Emiko is
widely exhibited and was known for her sculpture and later for
a
variety of media such as video installation and performance work.
Since moving to New York, she has exhibited all over the world,
most
recently at the Sydney Biennale,and at the Volkskundermuseum graz,
Austria.
4) 15 FEET OF MAYONNAISE: ABOUT NEWTOWN CREEK
Kate Zidar, a member of Newtown Creek Alliance,
will present a slide
show about a bike tour she and Brendan FitzGerald did circumnavigating
the creek. She will discuss recent developments on the creek and
the
sordid past of one of the country's most polluted waterways. Kate
Zidar is Program Director of Environmental Education at the Lower
East
Side Ecology Center. Kate has worked previously as an Assistant
Planner with the Planning Center at Municipal Art Society and
as a
consultant for NYC Housing Authority's Greening and Gardening
Program.
She is active with many community-based organizations such as
Newtown
Creek Alliance, Water Resources Group and the East River Network.
She
is a Master Composter and an active member of Green Dome Community
Garden in Brooklyn..
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