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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:26:09 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: robert cheatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: eyedrum call for work: 'crop circles, cosmogams, psychogeographies'
Call for material for a visual arts show at
Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
The show will run from
October 18 through November 29; it will also constitute
a featured issue similarly titled in
the online journal PERFORATIONS.
Deadline: August 1, 2008
Crop Circles, Cosmograms, Psychogeographies
If nothing else, perhaps it can be said that modernity is about diagrams,
schematics, blueprints, Rorschalk cards, flow charts, maps, floorplans and all
the other graphic devices designed to simplify and link the real, material
world with the abstract world of thought and feeling. The same thing might be
said of the visual arts in general.
The infamous crop circles started mysteriously appearing in the fields of
England in the mid-Seventies. Over the past thirty plus years, they have
become the source of much speculation, wonderment, hoaxing: were they made by
artists? By aliens? By intelligent plasmas? Unknown terrestrial forces? Covert
military operations? As with everything, your answers depended on your
proclivities and stations in life. At the very least, they were beautiful and
'artistic' and SEEMED to be some form of cosmograms, in the same league with
mandalas, Mayan city constructions, Egyptian mega-constructions, archaic native
American pictographs and other nativistic schematics which seemed to link an
astronomical world above with the terrestrial world below … and to imbue those
diagrams with a purported spiritual power.
All these types of 'ground-based' diagrams also have in common implicit
psychological connections with the land even to the point of creating those
connections ex nihilio. The term 'psychogeography' was coined some years ago to
account for the feeling that the 'beach under the pavement' somehow makes
itself felt in ideas, feelings, and 'spirits'.
The visual arts show at eyedrum art and music gallery will explore these
connections and forms: What are these forms? Do they have effects and affects
or is 'aesthetic' sufficient? Can they be created anew? Does technology
facilitate these 'cosmic figures' and give them new voice or does it kill them
off in paving them over and leave us with a dead schematic ... which
nevertheless still tries to speak?
There is not much space so please contact the curator if you are interested in
participating in the show.
Deadline: August 1, 2008
Curator: Robert Cheatham: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eyedrum: 290 Martin Luther King Drive SE, Suite 8. 30312
http://www.eyedrum.org
PERFORATIONS: http://www.pd.org
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Georges Braque: "You must always have 2 ideas, one to destroy the other. The
painting is finished when the concept is obliterated."
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