Wednesday September 5, 2007

06:00 PM : Mini-Fest @ Milepost 5

Music Flyered by kmikeym

On WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, to celebrate the launch of Milepost 5, Garett Strickland of Phase One will host/curate an on-site, interdisciplinary mini-festival of film, music, and performances, presented by Someday Lounge.

Featuring:

Screenings by filmmakers:

MATT MCCORMICK
VANESSA RENWICK
GRACE CARTER & HOLLY ANDRES
Music and performances from:

WATERY GRAVES
MATTRESS
JANET PANTS
JOE VON APPEN
HAIKU INFERNO
PASH (LY)
RUSH-N-DISCO
The event will be completely FREE and open to the public from 6 PM, with available food and drinks. ALL-AGES (Bar w/ ID).

LOCATION: Milepost 5. NE 81st & Oregon St. (Take Red or Blue line MAX to NE 82nd).

For more information on Milepost 5, click here.

06:00 PM : (TBA) Cooley re-opening @ Cooley Gallery

Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by kmikeym

Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider
Wednesday, September 5, 6 p.m.
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
BBQ and live music at the Cooley Gallery

This exhibition is a special collaboration between the Cooley Gallery and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's 2007 Time-Based Art Festival, and the first exhibition in the newly renovated Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery

Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider
September 4–December 9, 2007
Curated by Cooley Gallery director Stephanie Snyder
and PICA Visual Art Program director Kristan Kennedy
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Austrian artist Marko Lulic re-examines modernist art and architecture through a wide range of construction materials and media, often radically shifting the scale of historical monuments and artifacts. With roots in Serbia and Croatia, Lulic re-envisions degraded structures through models, installations, and drawings, incorporating original film into his exploration of potential futures and past (and present) political regimes and social philosophies. Lulic is particularly interested in the lives of utopian communities and charismatic individuals such as Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich. —Stephanie Snyder

Marko Lulic graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in 1997, and has completed residencies at the Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway, 2007, and the MAK Center, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA, 1998. Lulic's recent exhibitions include: Disco Wilhelm Reich + Schlamm, Bastard, Oslo, Norway, 2007; Pressspanplatten für den Frieden, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany, 2007; and Modernity in YU, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY, NY, 2005. Lulic is the recipient of the 2007 Krupp Foundation award for artistic achievement. He is represented by the Gabriele Senn Gallery in Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Peter Kreider's work addresses a hidden potential in the content of the world and the interstices between wonder and understanding. Here Tesla's unattained dreams also come into play, as a nebula of electrical cords and adapters are re-calculated and cast at three times its "normal" size. This sculptural system both confounds and legitimizes the familiar and ubiquitous. Kreider's puffed up and organized mass of adapters suggests not only a scale shift but also a shift in power, threat, and influence. —Kristan Kennedy

Peter Kreider received his BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1995, and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, 2004. Kreider's recent exhibitions include: The Blank Show, Shanghai, China, 2007; Up as if Down, Cuchifritos, NY, NY, 2007; Tropical Punch, Jack the Pelican presents, Brooklyn, NY, 2007; and Material World , Public Art Fund, Metrotech Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 2005. Kreider is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY. Kreider is included in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY