SUNDAY April 20, 2008
NFO XPO CONTINUES
1pm @ Viaduct Theater • 3111 N. Western (link)
Hours: 1pm to 1am • $8
(entry fee covers all programming and daily bar-bq!)
The second and last day of the NFO XPO
See details on (Saturday April 19)
The NFO XPO (pronounced “info expo”) brings art groups, community organizations and artists together to exchange information and ideas. We view it as a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It’s our version of what an art fair should be and it’s a big part of the festival and the Dark Matter that is Version. Come see emerging artists’ visual works, and participate in artist-run spaces and projects. Learn how to XYZ. Watch some great new videos, meet future historians of the counter public sphere, and party with us like its 2099. View the NFO Directory for a list of participants.
Groups, projects, people and spaces representing this year are found here:
SPlease view NFO XPO Program Page for more details>
NFO XPO Fair and installations will be located in the main theater room. It opens at 1pm and will close around 9pm.
Talks, Screenings, and live music happen simultaneously to the Fair in the Studio room until 1:30am.
Program Details:
1pm NFO XPO opens:: Free University program
1:45pm Center for Tactical Magic. Aron Gach
A fusion force summoned from the ways of the artist, the magician, the ninja, and the private investigator, Tactical Magic is an amalgam of disparate arts invoked for the purpose of actively addressing Power on individual, communal, and transnational fronts. http://www.tacticalmagic.org/
3:15pm Cracking The Looking Glass: Precarity and Everyday Resistance with Timothy Sarrantonio
This workshop is envisioned to be apart of the Free University platform. It will explore the intersections of theory and practice, specifically focusing on precarity, everyday resistance, and autonomous movements. Utilizing movie clips and popular culture references, the workshop will attempt to formulate ideas on how precarity can be used as an effective lens for activist organizing. Furthermore, the workshop will provide immediately useful resources such as bibliographic sources, a Chicago based activist resource map, and a stated goal of creating a militant research collective based around precarity organizing.
4:30pm Sunday Soup and OTHER OPTIONS
OTHER OPTIONS is a both a research project and traveling exhibition that looks at artists, both historically and contemporaneously, who have re-interpreted, altered and created infrastructures, which have affected their everyday lives and artistic practice. Within the current climate of support, artists are increasingly incorporating new models of resource allocation, community building, funding structures and forms of exchange as part of their artistic production . OTHER OPTIONS is a way to share research, imagine solutions and create a simultaneous network of similar practices dealing with conditions of support for artistic production.
Sunday Soup: http://incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoupfaq.html
5:15pm Lamprey ARCADE adjudication
The Spring opening session of an arcane meetings of the Ever So Secret Order of the Lamprey unfolds.
6:30 pm Dinner Break! Featuring our annual Korean Polish bar-b-q (tofurkey kilbassa also represented!) a special Lamprey bar b q yum fest and! Texan mesquite bar-bq-ing with the Earthman (food and stuff included with admisiion)
7:30 Underground Multiplex
Video screenings of works by Arturo Cubacub and Sarah Weis, Telefantasy Studios and Version shorts.
Featuring:
Exclusively Yours by Mike Finch
Exclusively Yours - the new comedy from Mike Finch where he stars in three separate roles as The Boss – a shrewd and focused businessman obsessed with obtaining a sailboat; The Salesman – a ladykiller blind to a potentially lethal office crush; and The Graphic Designer – a fragile artist and the company doormat.
What potential do these men have when the abuse goes too far? Will they rectify the situation for all to see? Will their plans include – GASP! – A GUN!? With a superb supporting cast finding out who will live or die in the ridiculous comedy is just part of the fun of Exclusively Yours...when these idiots punch in, it's business as usual. - myspace.com/magicpantz
Watch the trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9pUZbWUlY4
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8:30 pm Works by Jan De Bruin
A collection of shorts from one of our favorite Version filmmakers including:
Calling 911 (video 6 min.)Recorded in Los Angeles about the hidden network of rescue in the United States. An example of the idea that reality in America does not exist but is a constant continuation of a narrative. Distribution: Montevideo and Filmbank Amsterdam.
Waiting for Felipe (video 7 min. ) One-shot film about two Italian police officers waiting for the end of their own inconvenience. Making the unseen theatre of reality visible. Recorded in Milan 2005. Distribution Filmbank.
No Fire (video 7min. )One-shot film about a father and daughter sitting outside their own perception of time, reality and each other. Recorded in Hamburg 2006. Distribution Filmbank, Amsterdam.
Brussels 04-08-07 00:13 am (video 4min.)
The title of this piece is just a location, a date and a time. Just like any other true documentary work could have. This work is also a homage to the observer being portrayed. Observation functions as a base for understanding. But ‘to observe’ in it’s act is not ‘to understand’.
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9:15 pm Rotterdam VHS Festival
The Rotterdam VHS festival shows videoshorts from all over the world, and takes place in an artist run space called "Het Wilde Weten" located in a former convent in the center of Rotterdam. Every 6 months we put together a 1.5 hour videoprogram and show this to our evergrowing (inter)national audience. For NFO XPO we will screen a special compiled program with some of the very best videos from our archives.
10:30pm - 1:30am Music
Magical, Beautiful
Ah, Music in the 21st Century. . .everything has been ridiculed and destroyed by punk/hardcore/noise, so now everything is available at a low, low price. What happens when a piano wiz-kid from Orange County grows up in the midst of this cultural chaos and gets his (hardcore influences) mixed up with his (psychedellic/rock/experimental influences)?
http://www.ihearanewworld.com
Pillars and Tounges
A trio from Chicago, Illinois who want to bring peace and sublimity to each space they inhabit, whether it be the speakers in your room or playing live at some venue.
http://www.myspace.com/pillarsandtongues
Stress Ape
Josh Abrams
Calm, patient, quiet - and ever so eloquent... he maintains the motivation needed to play, record, and tour with over 10+ or more bands Who knows? He's got this big fucking leather bound planner that looks like the Bible or something...
www.myspace.com/reminderrr
Tim Kensella (solo)
is a musician from Chicago , Illinois . He has been a part of many bands including Cap'n Jazz [1] , The Sky Corvair , Joan of Arc , Owls , Friend/Enemy , Everyoned , and Make Believe , . He has also recorded solo material, some of which under a pluralized name: Tim Kinsella(s) .