Open Source will Live Again
Adam Day
Saturday, Nov 13th, 8pm
This kid – he’s right off the farm, or maybe picked up from the side of the road, dirty hair and unshaven, mouth like a sailor, and manners like a distinguished gentleman. He can talk to you on anything from yesterday’s hangover to 20th century literary figures. He’ll tell you stories that will bust your gut laughing, and others that will shut you up and make you wonder where this kid is from. You listen to him, you think about where you grew up, who you’ve loved, who you might find, or where you might end up. You’re sad, excited, and can’t stop smiling all at once.
This is 25 year-old Adam Day, hailing from Baltimore, MD with a guitar in-hand and a story on his breath. In the vein of James Taylor, John Mayer, and, Ray LaMontagne Day has been stunning audiences with meticulously crafted songs and stories about the complexities of the human experience.
In every town that he resides, this quirky, at-times-awkward, and lovable fellow garners local celebrity and is loved by those with an appreciation for well-written and melodic folk rock tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/adamday
Nobuko – Origami Workshop
October 23rd and 24th, 2-4pm
ANIMALS AND MORE
For Adults as well as for Children.
Through NGO for cultural exchange, Nobuko has traveled to more than 20 countries promoting peace, human rights, equality, and sustainable development. She has exhibited her origami and taught the Japanese craft to the locals. Her ability to teach and share Origami connect her to people all ages.
Please RSVP , so we can have an idea. Just put the date and Number of people. We appreciate your $10 Donation.
Susie Asado: Hello Antenna
Sept. 18th, 7-10pm
Susie Asado is the poet and songwriter Josepha Conrad. She grew up in Frankfurt am Main and in Chicago and naturally geographic challenges and a life between countries are her main subjects. “Hello Antenna” is the title of her debut album released on the German independent label Lolila in 2008. These songs are about borders and crossing them, about falling in love with border patrol and with countries and that is more than one country. They are about the construction of home and the relationship to fictional characters and books. In many ways Susie Asado is a dialog with the writings of Gertrude Stein. You might know Josepha’s strange wordy songs from Crazy for Jane, the band that she has with her brother Philipp. You might have seen her in Uli M Schueppel’s film “Berlin Song”. You might have run into her along the Landwehrkanal in Berlin where she currently lives.
www.susieasado.com
www.myspace.com/susieasado
www.susieasado.com/video.html
The event is FREE.
About Second Saturday Events
Open Source announces an open call for submission of proposals for Second Saturday (of the Months) Events.
Open Source offers artists the opportunity to perform/view/sing/act/show/create. The Second Saturday Events are always happening within a show that is ongoing in the Gallery.
If you have an idea please contact us.
PAST EVENTS
Simon Joyner: May 26th, 8pm
Simon Joyner was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but he’s lived in Omaha, Nebraska most of his life. The geography, mythology, and personal connection to both the South and the Midwest act as shadow characters throughout his large body of work–swallowing some characters, emboldening others, always reminding us that place is much more than mere scenery. Joyner’s songs and stories focus on struggling or haunted characters who confirm their humanity during moments of strength and weakness, disappointment, failure, and, of course, love. Here is the site to buy tickets in advance:
http://www.weeblackskelf.co.uk/tour/buy.html
Admission: $12
Deconstruction: by Anne Phelan
directed by Nicole A. Watson
April 10th: 7:30 and 8:30
image in the right bottom corner:
Parker Leventert, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, Cotton Wright and Director Nicole A. Watson
“Deconstruction” takes place a few years from now, after the U. S. has been defeated in World War III. In some major American city, Emma and Trudy are assigned to the same work detail to clean up the post-war rubble. Their very different pasts and personalities clash immediately.
The Play is written to be and will be performed during the opening reception of Rachel Youens show at Open Source called “Cornucopias”.
Silver Ticket Project: Help Wanted
Saturday Nov 21st, 7-10pm
With unemployment numbers at 8.8% in New York City and topping 9% nationally, laid off workers are turning to their passions to find more meaningful work. Artist Erik Fabian wants to help, and luckily the Silver Ticket Project is hiring!
Join Erik Fabian, at the Open Space Gallery on Saturday, November 21st, from 7-10pm, for a performance constructed and delivered by fully paid labor. Erik asks the audience to consider the value of artistic labor in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis.
Erik Fabian is an artist working in performance, installation and conceptual art. For several years, in anticipation of the current economic crisis, Erik has been presenting work that explores notions of value; how we value art and the experience of performance; and how the perception of value changes during inflationary monetary periods. The Silver Ticket Project pair performances with simple commodities (like silver bullion) within marketplace environments in an attempt to establish a rational price for performance art. Erik is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Autotune the Art Object: October 24, 4-6pm
by Patrick May
Medusa digital c-print, 2009; download source (~198MB)
On Saturday October 24th, 4-6pm, Patrick May will present the processes and ideas behind his recent body of work “Portrait Photo Considered Harmful”. His recent work uses digital techniques weave together gestures of documentation, craftsmanship, selection, and narrative. These juxtaposed layers of authority expose each other, causing the final images to question the notion of the artist as an individual speaker.
In keeping with the notion that the artwork is in a state of constant collaboration, the full source files of the artworks have been released under a Creative Commons license at http://hexane.org. Any interested parties are invited to examine, re-use, or appropriate any materials or techniques from the exhibition.
May received a BS in Studio Art from New York University in 1999. His work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, and Berlin, including Maiden Brooklyn, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, and the Galerie Scherer 8. He currently works in Brooklyn, NY creating intimate portraits of his friends and family.
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Performance starts at 8.30pm (25min)
We will be serving Wine and Beer from 7-10
When Parts of You Are Still Arriving
Photo: Lisa Grave
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer will present a live performance of their current work-in-progress. Blending their two distinct, yet complimentary practices, this piece will be an inquiry into collaborative audio-visual and intertextual explorations.
With a background in narrative, relational, infiltrating, and visual performance, Stanton has lately been examining comprehensive states of “performative consciousness,” investing a “performative” presence within multiple spaces / times. Using video montages of taped public interpolations, within a live setting, she has been layering recorded and live performance to produce a composite presence – fractured, whole, congruent, in transition; at times obscured but nevertheless felt.
An emerging electro-acoustic composer and tape-deck performer, Richer combines analogue and digital technologies, building and deconstructing sound loops for audio recordings and live presentations. With field recordings from both urban and rural settings, he takes the seemingly mundane and transforms it into architecturally responsive, multi-textured environments, creating atmospheric (and at times unsettling) spaces with, and through, sound.
http://www.bankofvictoria.com
http://www.myspace.com/elementkuuda
on view now
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)January 14th – Feb 8th, 2012 Opening Reception: January 14th, 7-9pm Leigh Davis, detail from Foreclosed Storage Unit, 2009 “Now the truth of the matter – and one has no eye for that in times of great peril, and only by a great effort even in times when danger is threatening – is that in [...]
upcoming
Evan Robarts and James Moore
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Patrick Cadenhead
past
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Soap Box Derby
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions: Mi Tigre, My Lover
Associated
Raphaela Riepl: adorable steamed sea urchin
Allison Read Smith: Thugs
Open Source Gallery 2008-2010
Soup Kitchen 2010
Pirmin Hagen: First
Nobuko: wa
ORFI nyc: live gig 2010
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24
Sara Ching-Yu Sun: Nov 7th- Nov 30
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Patrick May: October 3 – november 2
Christian Brown: September 5 – October 1
Urban Plant Research: August 15 – August 30
Make Soap Box Racers! July 13th-August 8th
Hubert Dobler: June 6th – July 1st
Gary Baldwin: May 2nd – June 4th
Second Saturday Event: June 13, 7-10pm
Scott Groeniger: March 27 – April 26
Sara Bouchard: April 4th, 8pm
MonsterBASH | July 4th – August 15th | Party July 4th 4-7pm
Jeremy Slater and Tamara Yadao
