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TALK IS THE OBJECT (under discussion)

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:34:07 UTC

Bring your work or your words of wisdom. If you don't have any of those, bring your friend who does.

THOUGHTS UNSAID, THEN FORGOTTEN (working title)

a series of public events organized by BRANDON ALVENDIA

June 11-12

Saturday, June 11, noon-midnight

Sunday, June 12, noon-4

Mess Hall

6932 N Glenwood Ave

ACRE and Mess Hall present a day-long series of public events on Saturday, June 11, 2011 from noon-midnight and Sunday, June 12 from noon-4pm at 6932 North Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL. ACRE has partnered with Mess Hall to host BRANDON ALVENDIA: THOUGHTS UNSAID THEN FORGOTTEN, the next installment in ACRE's year-long series of solo exhibitions by 2010 ACRE summer residents.

The latest iteration in Brandon Alvendia's investigation of economies, communities, use value, and pedagogy is THOUGHTS UNSAID, THEN FORGOTTEN, a collection of several public events presented in succession. The day-long affair is a meditation on and experiment with the act of conversation as a medium, raw material and object of creative production. An abstract, fragmented portrait of a fleeting community, it slowly reveals a classic tragicomedy of struggle and imminent failure of utopic ideals leavened by human-scaled communal experiences, embracing the life process as the reward.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

SATURDAY

Noon-4pm – Stage 1 – Small group critique sessions

“If it doesn’t work make it BIGGER.

If it still doesn’t work make it RED.

If it still doesn’t work make it POLITICAL”

This section of the day is set up to provide a venue for ACRE residents to present their work for

feedback to a larger audience in preparation for their time at the residency. This session is

offered primarily to recently-accepted incoming residents, but is open to the former and

returning residents as well as larger art community. A group of art professionals of all

levels from ACRE and other institutions will be invited to form the critique panel. Artists

can bring artworks or images (or merely ideas) to discuss in a friendly yet critical format.

A stenographer will be on hand to document the process.

4-8pm – Stage 2 – Impromptu group exhibition and fundraising event

“Saturday Salad Stipend”

This section of the day will be set up to support incoming residents with an opportunity to

exhibit their work and compete for a modest grant to celebrate their acceptance into the

residency. Playing off the popular InCUBATE Sunday Soup model, “Saturday Salad

Stipend” is intended to provide one resident with NON-MONETARY support for their time at the

residency later in the summer (for gas, supplies, cigarettes, etc.) Artists that participated

in the critique will be invited to hang their work as well as any other interested ACRE

residents or guests.

8pm-12am – Stage 3 – Large group discussion

“Talk is the object is the subject of conversation” or “The Foot Therapy EP”

This section of the event will consist of an informal discussion following Gregg Bordowitz and Stephanie Brooks’ reading at ICEBERG projects at 6:30. The beginning of the last four-hour stretch will be a more or less formal conversation on the curating and

reading/lecture.

SUNDAY

Noon – Skill Share Session

“No Sleep ‘til ________”

Brandon will be lecturing and directing a skill share on the politics and realities of sleep

in history and the future. A survey of sleep artworks will be presented as well as Sleep

Hacking strategies to provide visitors with resources to get the most out of their days and

nights. *ALL THE INFORMATION PRESENTED WILL BE AT-YOUR-OWN RISK

MESS HALL is an experimental cultural center in the heart of Rogers Park, Chicago. It's a place where visual art, radical politics, creative urban planning, applied ecological design & other things intersect & inform each other.

More information about Mess Hall can be found at messhall.org

ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition) was founded in 2010 with the ambition to provide the arts community with an affordable, cooperative, and dialogue-oriented residency program. The residency itself takes place each summer in rural southwest Wisconsin and brings together artists from across disciplines and levels of experience to create a regenerative community of cultural producers. Over the course of the following year ACRE endeavors to further support its residents by providing venues for exhibitions, idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects.

More information about ACRE can be found at acreresidency.org

NFS or OBO

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:53:54 UTC

The Storefront feat. Silver Galleon Press

at the MDW Fair

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Booth #237 (2nd Floor)

The Geolofts

3636 S Iron Street

Chicago, IL 60609

Saturday, April 23 1-10 pm

Sunday, April 24 1-5 pm

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At your perusal will be a hand-picked selection of hand-crafted publications by the Silver Galleon Press!

The titles are priced for all budgets (including plenty of great freebies, take-aways, gifts as well as premium top-shelf selections). Cash, check, Paypal, IOUs or barter.

Come observe the unique binding process (and peculiarities) of the press with custom instant publications and a surprise title designed specifically for the fair.

All proceeds from the sale will be used to provide support for the artists participating in The Storefront programming.

The director (or friendly Storefront associate) will be on hand to persuade visitors to contribute to future programming at The Storefront at 2606 N. California in Chicago.

A plethora of opportunities (including funding) are available for projects of all kinds, including the Storefront initiatives The 16:9 Club, HomeSchool, The Storefront Façade, upcoming Silver Galleon publications and anything you can think up (all ideas will be reviewed with strong preference to proposals presented in a face-to-face manner).

Century 21 Real Estate

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:07:18 UTC

Read Brandon's interview with Art21 guest blogger Caroline Picard of Green Lantern for more thoughts on what art is.

The Search for the Miraculous just became $2000 easier.

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:27:21 UTC

Brandon is proud to announce receiving a grant from the Propellor Fund.

The grant will fund a new project by the ALVENDIA studios - The STOREFRONT.

Directed by Brandon Alvendia, The STOREFRONT is an exhibition, event, and publishing venue in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. It is designed to support local artists working on either temporary and/or long-term sustainable projects. Projects will be archived and published for international distribution.
Stay tuned for launch info and related projects.

The STOREFRONT is located at 2606 N. California, Chicago, IL 60647

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Fri, 1 Oct 2010 07:09:49 UTC

The Silver Galleon Press is happy to announce its participation in:

FUTURE SHOCK (curated by Abigail Satinsky) at the Green Lantern (Chicago).

with a new work:

Silver Galleon Press - New Formats

100 copies of Future Shock from the collection of Randall Szott, 100 Perfect-bound blank books with B/W imitation Future Shock Xerox covers, mirrors, paper bookmarks printed with a link to download NVSBL Linux .01b custom operating system preloaded with eBook of Corey Doctorow's Little Brother.

Link to follow...

Have you hugged your VOID today?

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:26:42 UTC

A NEW project from the Alvendia Studios.

PORTABLE VOID

Photocopies

Edition of ∞

2010 - ∞

Included in

BASEMENT SHOW

presented by

PARKING SPACE

1100 N. Damen, Chicago

Opens Friday 9/24/2010 6-10 pm

and by appt. 9/24 - 9/30

(documentation to follow)

RE:CON

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:08:52 UTC

The Silver Galleon Press will be stationed at the SAIC Sullivan Galleries SUMMER STUDIOS from Aug 4,5,6. Come visit and watch the process of binding one of a kind artists' books and take one home today!

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Steve Gutenberg

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:44:31 UTC

The Silver Galleon Press is proud to be contibute to the exhibition:

Nomadic Studios at the Depaul University Art Museum, curated by the Stockyard Institute.

JULY 8 - NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Opening Reception: July 8th 5 - 7pm
2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614

I know what I did last summer...

Tue, 25 May 2010 21:44:13 UTC

***NOW ONLINE***

How to Disappear in America (for $500 or less) 2009

Filmed in and around the 2009 Harold Arts residency in Chesterhill, Ohio, USA.