Masterpiece in a Day winners
Writing
1-Danielle Wheeler--"In Each Other's Faces We Take Out Lines, Streets, Stories"
2- Cindy Ragsdale---"Parade Rest"
3 - John Hawn -- "She Paints a Poem"
Art
Best in show: Jessica Dunn- _O_N_A_N Sqaure
Category pick 2D-Kyle Ragsdale--Fountainless Square
Runner up 2D-Thomas J. Lemanski- The 65/70 Split
Category pick 3-D-Lukas Schoder-Cabinet of Curiosities
Runner up 3D-- Lauren Ditchley--All In A Day
Sept 23: Experimental music show
8 p.m. $6 (all ages)
Phyllis Chen
Bad Day at the Airshow
"Olive," ensemble performance art
Big Car hosts a night of multimedia and musical curiosities on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The occasion is the return to the Midwest of Phyllis Chen, one of the world's foremost toy pianists now based in New York City. Praised by the New York Times for her "delightful quirkiness matched with interpretive sensitivity," Phyllis has become a trailblazer in performing original multimedia compositions using toy pianos, electronics and video and works by prominent contemporary composers. Her artistic pursuits take her in numerous directions as a toy pianist, pianist, composer and performance artist, leading to her selection as a New Music/New Places Fellow at the 2007 Concert Artist Guild International Competition.
Recently, Phyllis was the featured solo musician for the world premiere of Stephin Merritt's Off-Broadway production, Coraline in May 2009 at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York City. In this unique on-stage performance, Phyllis was praised as impressive (New York Times, June 2009) for her work as a multi-keyboardist, big and small. Her repertoire sometimes includes compositions by John Cage, Julia Wolfe, and original compositions that make use of fried eggs, dresses made out of VHS tape, or percussion instruments. Opening the concert at 8 p.m. will be a performance by Bad Day at the Airshow, an indie-rock band recently formed in Indianapolis. Members of this group are also in such groups as Black Arrows of Filth and Impurity.
Following Phyllis Chen will be a group performance art composition written by Joe Molinaro, featuring nearly a dozen local artists and musicians. Joe has also composed for Basilica, Phyllis Chen, and Pecha Kucha Indy.
The series, presented by Big Car Collective and the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, and supported by The Efroymson Family Fund, gets started this month. It is linked to the library's fall adult reading program.
Sept. 30: Jeffrey Meldrum, a prominent researcher on Sasquatch and professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University presents a talk. Also a preview of Big Car Gallery's Bigfoot-themed art show for October, opening Oct. 2 in conjunction with a show on the same theme at iMOCA. Meldrum's interest in Bigfoot grew after being shown 15-inch footprints in a plowed field near Walla Walla, Washington. Although initially believing the tracks to be forgeries, upon further examination he noticed what he believes is evidence of a high degree of flexibility in the print and a mid-tarsal break, traits he has come to believe belong to Bigfoot. Meldrum has published several academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch and is a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. Meldrum is the author of the 2006 book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, a companion volume to the Discovery Channel documentary of the same name.
Indianapolis Central Library
40 E. Saint Clair St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
All events start at 7 p.m. and are free.
All take place in Clowes Auditorium.
Click here for details on other upcoming events in the series.
Screening coming to Herron on Oct. 14
in a partnership between Herron and Big Car
Download a guide to the Transformation episode we're screening here
