Bio: Primarily a vocalist and performer, Deena OH seeks to blend experimental innovation with accessible entertainment. Other activities include: writing in The BashamoBlog, typing on her typewriter, promoting people doing awthum things, capturing and editing video, impromptu improv cooking, and dancing as much as possible. She works with the New Music Coop, Low Red Center, Gayle Gold, and her own project, Nanobangbang.
Drool! Gaw I’m so in love with Cryptacize. Her voice dropped straight from heaven! And the percussion is so interesting. There aren’t a lot of bands that can achieve accessibility and innovation simultaneously. Crypatacize is a great reference point for the genre of “experimental pop.” Totally catchy, but not necessarily predictable and very inspired.
I love this place. Come to the opening this Friday so you can see the tour and see the people demonstrating all their crazy gadgets! I know Chad A:’s got something in store, and probably Eric Archer, and maybe Wiley Wiggins too.
WONDROUS INSTRUMENTS
Grand Opening: Friday November 14, 7-10pm
Open SATURDAYS 1-4PM, November 15, 22, 29, & December 6, 13, 20
As you probably know, Co-Lab is an exciting new space in east austin that hosts performances, installations, and video every Sunday. I’m curious about this one because of the subject matter.
Repository : Sarah Sudhoff Video Installation: Sunday, November 9, 7-11 PM @ Co-Lab
Body art is, “A direct reflection of the artist’s life experiences.” –Rosemary Mayer, 1972
“I examine the body within a medical context by exploring four main themes: pathological waste; containment of the body and its parts; fragmentation and violence against the body; a subject’s relationship to a specific environment.
Following my surgery in 2004 for cervical cancer, I began to perform in hospitals, morgues, medical museums and my doctors’ offices. The film works focus attention on the physical and emotional traces cancer and surgery can leave on the body while challenging the prescribed treatment for recovery and role of the patient.
Through self-performance, private rituals are revealed to the public only through documentation. Personal experiences are intertwined with unfamiliar environments thus creating a new environment for the viewer through their experience in the space. The same character’s presence in many of the works allows for an introspective look at these, in some cases unfamiliar worlds in comparison to one another.
The repetition of spaces, procedures and a central character highlights and reshapes our thoughts on medical environments, the treatment of our bodies in these spaces, what role we have at protecting our bodies and the lengths we will go to achieve a sense of health. While the journey stems from a personal bout with cancer, I hope to resonate with each viewer as they participate in the space and reflect on the work.”