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It’s Circus of Dreams! We’re back with the November installment of our whackadoodle love fest once described by an innocent first-timer as “pure anarchy”…or something like that. Helluva show this week!
Pre-show Go-go with Ruby Love and Witchney Fears 8:30 to 9:30; DJ John Swan John Swan killin’ it all night. facebook event
Join BFP Creative at 119 Ingraham Street in the New Temporary Storage Galleries (ground floor) for the opening reception of their inaugural group show.
Hrönir: Un-Lost Things takes its name from Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. “Hrönir” are objects that, once lost, have been found–but they are duplicated and somehow affected by having been lost, or by having been found. The same missing pencil may be found by two separate individuals, with each finding a version of the pencil they expect to find. Hrönir are distorted by expectation and memory, but as personalized facsimiles of the original are valid and very real objects.
For the first group show hosted by BFPCreative, nearly 80 artists were asked to “recreate something lost,” effectively using art to manufacture something like hrönir in the real world. The resulting work ranges from heartfelt and tragic to humorous, irreverent takes on things lost.
The hottest ticket in the hood tonight: The Losers’ Lounge founder Joe McGinty runs the keys at Manhattan Inn for this recurring Tuesday night Live Piano Karaoke.
Every Tuesday night, Joe McGinty holds court at the Manhattan Inn’s Grand Piano, enthusiastically accompanying anyone with the desire to croon, sing, belt, or whisper their favorite song. You can pick from over 200 songs spanning the history of pop music – and, now, thanks to the iPad, you can pick songs that AREN’T EVEN ON THE LIST!
Joe says “You can also bring in your own sheet music and lyrics, and we’ll have a go!”
“Auditory landscapes can also be interpolations between space and time, space and reality, the psycho-social and the geographic, and temporality and memory. The act of listening involves a transitional state between attention and imagination, between sensual experience and understanding or seeking a possible meaning.” -Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening
Cinema remains the last medium for speaking and performing love culturally. While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since the tradition and practice of amour courtois. Partly inspired by Christian Marclay’s ontology of time in cinema, THE CLOCK, and René Magritte’s word paintings, which textualized the visual tropes of painting with “written” images, LOVE SOUNDS, a 24-hour sound poem and montage, dematerializes cinema’s visual legacy and reconstitutes it as an all-tonal history of critical listening.
At Spectacle, LOVE SOUNDS will be presented in four hours over two evenings. Tuesday, November 4th we will screen Part 1 (sections include Desire-Sex, Sexual Politics, Trust-Betrayal and Break-Ups). The following night, Wednesday, November 5th, we will conclude with Part 2 (sections include Heartbreak, Violence-Death, Fate-Time-Memory and Love).