Friends of APAE: SUPERSTITION

“VERY SUPERSTITIOUS, WRITINGS ON THE WALL”

WHO: Directed by J.D. Szalla

WHAT: Superstition: An art party that is a documentary in the
making. The Gershwin Hotel will be the first location for a film documenting unrepresented artists. J.D. Szalla will direct this party as he attempts to work with raw process, dealing with contemporary American myth and ritual. The participating artists and the general public are invited to attend, participate or just observe. Szalla's process tries to work within the constraints of a new era of anxiety. The decadence, fear and loathing of the past decade has fallen. Superstition is the next generation of artists forging the new New York.

• Sponsored by The Local 269 (269 East Houston Street, NY, NY)

• Free Drinks from 8 to 10 pm

• $10 admission

WHERE: The Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street (Between 5th and Madison Aves)
New York, NY 10016
gershwinhotel.com

WHEN: Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 @ 8pm

After party at The Local 269, 10:30 pm
(no cover charge)

MEDIA: For press inquiries please contact:
Sara Shae @ 609.760.4157 sarashae@gmail.com

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JD Szalla is a trusted friend of APAE. Please attend this event and tell your friends.

::Action Potential Arts Experiment::

::: The Radiator Game :::

The Jenga/Book Tower Sculptural Elements

Images: marco dessi "twisted radiator" et jenga blocks from APAE meeting

I have been thinking this over in my head...over et over...then a vision. The fallen jenga tower sculptural elements should be made of books - painted white. I think this may help to frame the "altar" et tie in our zoo map/landscaped feel.

What we need:
100 hardcover used books (guessing on that number) - collected from yard sales
1 can of white paint

***note: be sure not to paint the pages...just the covers.

Any thoughts??? By the way, does anyone have a music stand?

::Action Potential Arts Experiment::
::: The Radiator Game :::


Currently Seeking Creative Individuals

APAE, a local collection of artists, is currently seeking creative, driven individuals, IMMEDIATELY for current project. Character, tech and film crew positions remain open.

The Performance: August 7th – 9th, 2009 @ J. E. Smith Gallery, 413 Main Street, in Evansville, IN.

The play which takes the form of a game, where theater and reality are one, seeks to explore our relationship with time while presenting an image to the phrase "life is a game." The play, like a game, completes itself when all of the rules set out in the script have been played out to their final conclusion by the cast of characters.

The Radiator Game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art, dreams and reality.


About APAE

APAE is an artist run collective/collaborative based in Owensboro, KY. APAE seeks to engage the local community with original, inspiring and thought provoking forms of contemporary art. APAE is free to join.

E-mail actionpotentialarts@gmail.com or call 270.302.3974 to schedule an audition or for more information.

Don’t forget to check out the blog: actionpotentialarts.blogspot.com

APAE: ~Between Art & Life

Into the Wilde

Having been profoundly affected by encountering the following statement today, I simply cannot pass up the opportunity to spread its influence…

Consider this for a moment:

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

Upon first reading, this may strike you as a rather used-up idea in reference to contemporary art. However, take another moment to contemplate the fact that the art you thought you were reflecting on is, in fact, REFLECTING BACK ON YOU.

As a video installation exhibit currently on display at Participant Inc. (Chelsea, NY), Dorian is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th Century novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Read the expanded description of the show if you wish, but my connection with it and The Radiator Game is that Dorian, both in this exhibit and Wilde’s novel, “exists as a contemporary superstar, a mirror to our own narcissism – desirable, unknowable, destroyed by vacant ambition”.

Suffice it to say, I don’t necessarily think that Sir Radiator needs to be destroyed (though this would serve as quite the sci-fi-esque ending), but I do think that at the same time people are desiring not to be him, due to the pain and mockery he is enduring, they should be finding him desirable, because he possesses something they do not – perhaps a key, perhaps an answer, perhaps the way out of this game!

All of the performers in Dorian (which I intend to see in person next week) are playing some version of themselves, ranging from – in reality – a gender-bending drag impresario or a renowned Theremin player, to the slightly more common, but nonetheless unique, media and performance artists. The fact that each character utilizes their own instrument also holds symbolic meaning.

Which brings me back to my original inspiration – we should all set incorporating a true piece of our identity into The Game as a top priority, because despite the fact that we will have spectators, we will ultimately serve as spectators to none other than ourselves.

Wonderful find...

There's a time for living
Time keeps on flying
Think you're loving baby
But all your doing is crying

[chorus]
Can you feel
Are those feelings real
Look at your game, girl
Look at your game, girl

What a mad delusion
Living in that confusion
Frustration and doubt
Can you ever live without the game

The sad, sad game
Mad game
Just to say loves' not enough
?? it can't be true
Oh, you can tell those lies
Baby but you're only fooling you

[chorus]

You feel
I those feelings ain't real
Then you better stop trying
Or you're gonna play crying
Stop trying

That's the game
Sad sad game
Mad game
Sad game