Show and Tell goes to Monkey Town

August 1, 2006 by leejone.

Hello, here’s my blog that follows up my Show and Tell events.
See http://showandtell184.com if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Here is a space where you can continue any conversations with presenters or audience members, which you may have started at S&T.
I have posted up the August 5th MonkeyTown presentation descriptions to refresh your memory. The theme of this Show and Tell was Revival. Feel free to comment, post questions or information, and/or submit photos/artwork related to Show and Tell presentations.
Show and Tell:
REVIVAL
Monkey Town
Saturday, August 5
7:30pm and 10:00 pm

Line-Up
THE FOUR SHOPPING CARTS OF THE APOCALYPSE - Taking the current controversy over the role of American evangelicals as a starting point, Kristin will 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.

Kristin Dombek writes about rhetoric and Christians,
sometimes separately and sometimes at the same time. She is currently completing a book about evangelical popular culture called Shopping for the End of the World, working on a documentary theatre project about fundamentalism called The Testimony Project, and directing a summer college preparatory program at a women’s prison in Manhattan. She is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University. 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.

SHEER- 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 her completed works. SHEER is an installation that involves sound, sculpture and architectural space; it provides an experience through which the viewer explores the relationship between the body/space and past/present. This installation emphasizes the preciousness of individual life amidst the homogenizing tendencies of contemporary society.

Emiko Kasahara is widely known for her sculpture, video installation and performance work. Since moving to New York from Japan several years ago, she has exhibited all over the world, most recently at the Sydney Biennale, and at the Volkskundermuseum Graz, Austria.

15 FEET OF MAYONNAISE: ABOUT NEWTOWN CREEK - Kate Zidar, a member of Newtown Creek Alliance, will present a slide show about the NEWTOWN CREEK BIKE TOUR. Kate and Brendan Fitzgerald lead 25 riders around the creek to witness pollution and infrastructure issues. In this presentation, Kate 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.

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— were performed by an eight-vehicle orchestra on the 28th of July. Eight drivers and their passengers couple-danced in the center of a circle formed by parked vehicles and illuminated by headlights. The suite of songs has been 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.

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.
– 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. – Both are currently in residence at the Contemporary Artists Center.

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