How Many Feminists Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?

Call for Female Video and Performance Artists:

Feminists are notorious for not having a sense of humor. With more and more women and specifically vocal Feminist women having success in mainstream comedy(Tina Fey, Lena Dunham), the worlds of academia and activism need to catch up. “How Many Feminists…” will focus on artists who identify as Feminists (and possibly activists) who use comedy as a part of their work. It will take place at Antena Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, in August 2013. This show is looking for video and performance work, which is informed by Feminist and Art theory, but is all about the joke. Pieces should be intended to make the viewer laugh.

Open to women who identify themselves as Feminists. Acceptable formats include: video and performance. There is no fee. Email submissions with video links or jpeg attachments to antenapilsen@gmail.com

Deadline Midnight, June 30, 2013

Antena Gallery
1765 S. Laflin, St.
Chicago, IL 60608
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
(773) 340-3516

Guest curated by Sara McCool.
Sara McCool is a writer and digital media artist who uses the difficult humor found in identity politics to address confusing and complicated social issues.

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Form is secondary to function: new works by Odie Rynell Cash

Image: We wish you every success
found polaroid and greeting card; 2010
detail of work from installation
8in x 4.5 in

Form is secondary to function: new works by Odie Rynell Cash

Opening Friday September 7 from 6pm-10pm
September 7- October 6, 2012

In formalist criticism, the criterion for progress remains in one direction: the treatment of the whole surface as a single undifferentiated field of interest. The goal of the site specific installation Form is Secondary to Function is to explore abstract and absurd(ist) relationships and the discontinuities of foreground and background of the kind we employ through class and creative expression.

Antena
1755 S. Laflin, St.
Chicago, IL 60608
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
Hours: by appointment
(773) 340-3516

Beer donated by Indio Beer.

     

Radius Episode 29: Yair López

Yair López
Primitivo branquiado comedor de hierba de los fondos abisales
00:00

Performance and reception: 
Friday August 10, 2012 from 7pm-9pm


Statement:
The noises heard over there are almost impossible to record. So how do you record them? I think you just push the red button and walk around while listening to breaths, squeaks, and other animal sounds.
I couldn’t even trace lines that satisfied me on paper. I sought to take pictures while my parents slept in the cottage. I managed to portray a cat and as a prize I received a penalty. I spent my brother’s birthday party crying. I wanted to play with the big cube and push the black button to take pictures.
Among all those tapes I found one recorded by my mother, of my brother’s sorrow. I think that was my first encounter with sound art.


I found the mistake since many years ago. At an early age, I played records on the wrong speed, and I had fun finding “different things” within this simple intervention.


The world deserves to be heard. There are stories that were not written, but told from generation to generation, printed in all of our memories, the extinct sounds, and marks that make us relive the first moment of listening.


Bio:
Yair López graduated with an engineering degree in multimedia and communications from the University of Guadalajara. Working with fixed images and animation, sound has always been an important element and complement for his work, both as a musical resource and form of expression. López participated in academic programs at the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Art (CMMAS), where he was a scholar and resident artist.


His discography includes Casa de Omar (2008, digital), Paisaje sonoro del Malecón de Puerto Vallarta (2010, CD), Ep ep popo (2010, digital), Narita Airport (2011, digital) Paisaje sonoro de los Pueblos Mágicos del Jalisco (2011, CD), SONORA (2011, CD) and MARCA Y REGISTRO (2012, DVD).
Yair created the Sociacusia in 2008, linking sound art and electro-acoustic music in Guadalajara, Mexico. 
He was a scholar of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) in 2010-2011, and was also a scholar of the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y el Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA) in 2009-2010 and will also in 2012-2013.


Notes:
Episode 29 will be performed, broadcast, and recorded live on Friday August 10, 2012 at Antena, a project space headed by Miguel Cortez located in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL, USA. Radius features a new project monthly with statements by artists who use radio as a primary element in their work. Radius provides artists with live and experimental formats in radio programming. The goal is to support work that engages the tonal and public spaces of the electromagnetic spectrum. All audio works are broadcasted locally on 88.9 FM with a secondary stream online. http://theradius.us/

Antena
1755 S. Laflin, St.
Chicago, IL 60608
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
Hours: by appointment
http://www.antenapilsen.com

Texploitation: Art, Guns, Girls, and BBQ

“Texploitation: Art, Guns, Girls, and BBQ”
Artists:  Cirkit of Mythos: Steve Cruz, Omar Hernandez, Eddy Rawlinson,
Ryder Richards

Opening Friday July 27 from 6pm-10pm
July 27- August 25, 2012

Dallas artist group examines Texas clichés and big egos at Antena, Chicago.


“We can’t help it. Living in Texas makes us better than you. Just look at the art. We deal with real issues, like chicks, engines, guns, and sex. None of this political pantywaist, hand wringing, and whining about ourselves or crying about the earth or any of that hippy shit. We make work about real stuff. Like how men jump in head-first, breaking shit and fucking anything, and how lame it is that people get all caught up in power when all you need is a warm hole to holster your gun in and some wind in your hair.”

Or not…

Exposing the dialectic of hypocrisy entrenched in stereotype, the Dallas based art group Cirkit of Mythos presents “Texploitation: Art, Guns, Girls and BBQ,” an examination of cliché as the ambiguous prophet of truth. Focused on personal mythology as environmentally determined, the Texas artists take on the icons of the West and modern masculinity as politically charged and contentious while heralding a warning of extremity and romanticized notions of power. Held at Antena in Chicago on July 27- Aug 24 , 2012 the exhibit will feature a series of small paintings and drawings proving that not everything is bigger in Texas, ya’ll. Please join us for the reception on Friday, July 27 from 6-9 PM.

Cirkit of Mythos (est. 2008) formed as a collaborative exercise to increase dialogue between Dallas based artists. “Texploitation” developed from conversations about importing culture as an exotic penchant for the locals. Embracing our inescapable origins, Cirkit of Mythos revels in the Texas commonplace as highly undervalued and over scrutinized. Shrinking our work size to accommodate tourism style gifts, we display our works as the quaint other embalmed in political incorrectness and rebellious turmoil.

With a cast of rotating members this exhibition features works from four artists: Steve Cruz (Director of MFA Gallery, Dallas), Omar Hernandez (Professor at El Centro College), Eddy Rawlinson (Dean of Arts and Sciences at El Centro College) and Ryder Richards (Gallery Director at Richland College). Cruz’s paintings present a series of characters humorously struggling with sin and the consequences of spiritual and sexual stagnation. As a moral corollary, Hernandez offers a series of constructed pieces featuring retro-pop imagery reanalyzed in light of current global and community values. Rawlinson’s vivid paintings of cultural icons re-examines the plight of outlaw and outcast as the sacrificial hero necessary for the continuation of spirit amidst a civilized bureaucracy. Concerned with the subliminal influences embedded within Western culture, Richards gunpowder drawings examine the romance of violence.

SEE PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING ON FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapsus5/sets/72157630999879066/


Antena
1755 S. Laflin, St.
Chicago, IL 60608
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
Hours: by appointment
(773) 340-3516

Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Amelia Winger-Bearskin
video presentation


Friday, June 1, 2012 @ 7pm
FREE ADMISSION



Amelia Winger-Bearskin is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Cinema Studies at Vanderbilt University in the area of Time Based Media Arts and Performance, in Nashville, Tn. She was classically trained as an Opera Singer in Rochester NY at the Eastman conservatory of music, and then finished her Undergraduate degree at George Mason University in 2000. While at GMU she studied sculpture and time based art and received her BAIS in Performance Art. She went on to do her MFA in Transmedia (time based art) at University of Texas at Austin in 2008. She was in the group show Art in the Age of the Internet at the Chelsea Art Museum in 2007 and was a featured video and performance artist at Basel in Miami, Scope at the Lincoln Center and other art fairs consistently since 2007 as an artist at large for the perpetual art machine [PAM]. She has been focusing her performances primarily on Asian performance festivals this year as she finds that regionally Asia has created a unique method of support for Performance Art, she has performed at the 10th Annual OPEN ART Performance Art festival in Beijing, China, The Performance Art Network PANAsia '09 in Seoul, South Korea, the TAMA TUPADA 2010 Media and Performance festival in the Philippines. She recently spent a month in Sao Paulo Brazil where she performed as the first American performance artist to be invited to the Verbo Performance Art Festival and was part of an international scholar exchange sponsored by University of Sao Paulo and Vanderbilt University VIO and Art Department. Spring /Summer 2012 she will have a sound/video/multimedia installation throughtout the Nashville International Airport and will be in Tasmania, Australia to do an artist in residence at the University of Tasmania.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of Art Art Zine a new online publication of art and society for the South and the Director of the Women's Art League of Tennessee (W.A.L)

ANTENA

1755 S. Laflin, St.
Chicago, IL 60608
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
Hours: by appointment
(773) 340-3516

The Road to Candyland: NICK BLACK

The Road to Candyland: NICK BLACK

Opening Friday May 18 from 7pm-10pm
May 18- June 9, 2012

"Dear Friends
I've roamed the thrift stores, discount dollar stores, and alleys of Chicago and burbs in vain search of the fallen icons from the glorious golden age of consumption now come to a shattering end. These new sculptures will hold no bars in slamming together every cheep, cheesy, sexist, office male humor, misogynistic, homophobic, racist cliché in the book in a personal attempt to come to terms with a guilt ridden past, towards the neurotic reality of a failed future. As usual, I'll be laying on the satirical self-depreciating humor thick and heavy.
Hope you can make it." -Nick Black

Nick Black was born in Chicago in 1958. He has attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Massachusetts College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Uncle Freddy's Gallery, Highland, IN, and Joymore, Buddy Space, and Klein Art Works, all in Chicago. Nick has had key works at Art Chicago, the Stray Show, Version Fest, and the New Chicagoans.http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbtoy/sets/72157607672560085/

Antena
1765 S. Laflin, St.
Chicago, IL 60608
antenapilsen (at) gmail.com
Hours: by appointment
(773) 340-3516