Please spread the word on my film events in Michigan. Hope to see you. Info follows:
3-17=Grand Rapids, 3-19=Hamtramck, 3-20=FIA in Flint, 3-23=Ann Arbor Film Festival, 3-28= Saginaw, 3-29=Wayne State, 3-30=Crazy Wisdom in Ann Arbor Thanks, Gerry Fialka 310 306 7330 <(310)%20306-7330> *pfs...@aol.com <pfs...@aol.com>* *http://laughtears.com/ <http://laughtears.com/%C2%A0%C2%A0EVENTS> *Bio - http://www.laughtears.com/bio.html *FRIDAY, MARCH 17 from 8pm* =* Gerry Fialka (in person) -* *ART SALON - *Gerry Fialka's fun interactive workshop probes the function of art (painting, film, literature), and the motives of its makers. Explore the hidden psychic effects of the environments resulting from art-making and art-viewing. This gathering evokes the word "salon," meaning "to consciously follow Horace's definition of poetry's aim: 'to please and to educate.'" Delve deep into the artist as "probe" and "antennae of the race." What role does intention play in the creative process? With rare film clips (including SNEEK PREVIEW OF RIAtoo) and fiery discussion at The Pickle Fort, 1141 Hermitage SE, Grand Rapids MI 49506, 616-752-8381, free admission, donations appreciated *SUNDAY, March 19* at 5pm (potluck) till late = *Gerry Fialka (in person) -* *POLITICAL FILM & ART SALON - At 6pm - *Gerry Fialka's fun interactive workshop probes the function of political art (painting, film, literature), and the motives of its makers. Explore the hidden psychic effects of the environments resulting from art-making and art-viewing. This gathering evokes the word "salon," meaning "to consciously follow Horace's definition of poetry's aim: 'to please and to educate.'" Delve deep into the artist as "probe" and "antennae of the race." What role does intention play in the creative process? With rare film clips and fiery discussion in Hamtramck at Bill Meyer's, free, 6pm potluck, 7pm discussion & film - at 3016 Trowbridge, Hamtramck, MI 48212 (313) 207-3904 www.OneHamtramck.org <http://www.onehamtramck.org/> *AT 7pm=* *Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World* (2016, 98 minutes) Werner Herz <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog>og ponders the existential impact of the Internet, robotics, AI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence>, the Internet of Things <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things>, and more on human life *AT 8:30=AKA DOC POMUS*. (2013, 98 minutes) Paralyzed with polio as a child, Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as Doc Pomus, first as a blues singer and then as one of American popular music’s greatest songwriters. “Save the Last Dance for Me” and “This Magic Moment” are among his many hits. *MONDAY March 20* Gerry talks with students at The Flint Institute of Arts at 6pm * Thurs, March 23* Gerry Fialka's Pecha Kucha 6 minute presentation at the Ann Arbor Film Festival http://www.aafilmfest.org/ at 3pm at North Quad Bldg. Space 2435 at 105 S State St AA *Tuesday March 28* Gerry talks with students at Mike Mosher's SVSU class at 4pm *Wed March 29* Gerry Fialka's interactive workshop - Art As Activism - Marilyn Zimmerwoman & Wayne State at 6:30pm - 9pm, location TBA, free and open to the public *Thursday, MARCH 30 from 6pm - 9pm = Political Poetry as James Joyce & Marshall McLuhan* at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore 114 S. Main St. Ann Arbor MI 48104 734-665-2757, free admission crazywisdom.net <http://crazywisdom.net/> Gerry Fialka leads an interactive and expansive discussion, including local poets. Delve deep into current issues & events via new questions. What's the difference between rights & responsibilities? Revolution & rebellion? Fialka will interconnect James Joyce's *Finnegans Wake* and Marshall McLuhan's *Understanding Media* with poetry and politics. "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian and military participation." And "The police state is now a work of art." And "Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.” - McLuhan. "It is a curious thing how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve." *Gerry Fialka* - Artist, writer, and paramedia ecologist lectures world-wide on experimental film, avant-garde art and subversive social media. Fialka has been praised by the *Los Angeles Times* as "the multi-media Renaissance man." *The LA Weekly* proclaimed him "a cultural revolutionary." Laughtears.com Consider these axioms: “The pressure of experimentation is greater than the fear of embarrassment. That is the essence of art.” - Wolfgang Tillmans "The artists that I'm interested in are the ones that make a picture of the times they live in....The eye always craves what it doesn't see." - Marilyn Minter "Art is confession; art is the secret told. . . . But art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time. And the secret is nothing more than the whole drama of the inner life." -Thornton Wilder. "The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity." - McLuhan "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde What is art about, and then what is it really about? Delve deep into the artist as "probe" and "antennae of the race." What role does intention play in the creative process? Marcel Duchamp said there is no art without an audience. What role does the audience play in the creative process (during the making)? What was the motive of the cave artists? James Joyce was the first projectionist in Dublin over 100 years ago. He abandoned it and asked, "Why should I go inside a building and see a movie of a tree when I can go outside and see a real tree?" Years later William Faulkner said that the best fiction can be more true than journalism. Why do we have to recreate/reproduce things in order to get them? Why do we go to a theatrical play of people acting out life? Why don't we just live life? McLuhan and Warhol both said that art is anything you can get away with. Examine the interconnections between "art for art's sake" and "the medium is the message/massage." Gerry's related articles: New OtherZine article http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/wannabe-jujitsu/ Breeding Brakhage http://laughtears.com/bestbrakhage.html "Just what would be the fate of wars and disasters without “coverage” could be considered a meaningless question, since the coverage itself is not only an increase of the violence but an incentive to the same. The power-starved person can easily see himself getting top coverage if he is involved in a sufficiently outrageous act of hijacking or mayhem. The older pattern of success story by achievement simply takes too long to be practical at electric speeds. Why not make the news instead of a life? The close relation between sex and violence, between good news and bad news, helps to explain the compulsion of the admen to dunk all their products in sex by erogenizing every contour of every bottle or cigarette. Having reached this happy state where the good news is fairly popping, the admen say, as it were: “Better add a bit of the bad news now to take the hex off all that bonanza stuff.” Let’s remind them that LOVE, replayed in reverse, is EVOL—transposing into EVIL and VILE. LIVE spells backward into EVIL, while EROS reverses into SORE. And, we should never forget the SIN in SINCERE or the CON in CONFIDENCE. Let’s tighten up the slack sentimentality of this goo with something gutsy and grim. As Zeus said to Narcissus: 'Watch yourself.'" -McLuhanhttp://goo.gl/zTqhfZ
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