First Friday opening
Dec. 4, 6 p.m. to midnight
Free beer sampling by Upland
Music starts at 9 p.m. with Andy D, Twin Monster and Motif
$5 suggested donation
NoSpace is an extension of Reising's investigation of how drawing and painting are related to sculpture. With a playful hand, he makes work that operates as sculptural paintings -- becoming an entire environment to experience.
"The idea is that the viewer is trapped between two pages of a closed sketchbook," Reising says. "They'll be able to meander through the fun. Think Reebok high-tops, 80s hair salons, indoor playgrounds and NASCAR clothes."
Later in the night, hip-hop and rap artists Twin Monster and Andy D will perform, starting at 9:30 p.m. Andy D is quickly becoming one of Indianapolis's favorite performers. Donning a moustache, rat tail, tight white pants, fanny pack and a vest only (no shirt). Andy D's music is a cross between Kid Rock and My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult. Now wowing the crowds with his dancing and lyrics, Andy D grew up in Greenwood but moved to Brooklyn, NY and had just come back to Indiana work at IU in Bloomington.
Andy D
To hear his music and learn more Click here.
To hear Twin Monster Click here.
Interview with Tre Reising
Why are you excited about this show?
Many reasons. This will be my second installation show in the largest space I have ever worked with. Being involved in the art scene for the past six years, I have always fantasized having a show in Big Car. I thought about it for a long time and now I can finally let loose all the ideas I have for the space.
How will it be challenge?
The very large space is the challenge. Since I am doing an installation, the whole space is the artwork, so figuring out "togetherness" between the "separate" elements will take a lot of consideration.
How did the ideas come to you for the work in the show?
This show is about drawing. I think it is interesting how space is described by drawing a few vague marks on a blank sheet of paper. If there is no inherent space on a blank sheet of paper, marks are required to make space. The installation will appear as if one is walking around an infinite void between two pages of a sketchbook. It will be minimal and have a very playful, colorful tone.
Also Friday at the Murphy Art Center
On Friday, December 4, the music and multi-media performing arts group BASILICA will present "Thunder Perfect Mind: An Exploration of Sound, Light, and Consciousness" at the Murphy Art Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. This vast, interactive multi-media production will include performances and installations by over 20 musicians and artists.
Thunder Perfect Mind will be presented in Suite 2 of the Murphy Art Center, the 5000-square-foot location formerly occupied by Dolphin Papers. The space will be filled with a vast installation of wood, metal, and fabric architecture that will serve as the environment for the lights, sounds, performances, and interactions that comprise Thunder Perfect Mind.
Thunder Perfect Mind focuses on themes of post-dualistic transcendence of the inherited dichotomies between consciousness and non-consciousness, order and chaos, past and future, reality and the ideal, the known and the unknown; and the establishment of a dynamic, harmonic equilibrium between these supposed binary oppositions. The dissolution of these apparent dichotomies will be realized through the spatial and temporal juxtapositions of the performances and other components of this production. This process will be presented in a manner seeking to engage both the material and the spiritual; the mind and the body; the senses as well as the emotions and the intellect.
Thunder Perfect Mind takes its name from a poem of the same title that was discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts found in a sealed clay vessel at Nag Hammadi in southern Egypt in 1945. This production will include the recitation of an interpretation of this ancient text by poet and performance artist Chelsea Parkkila. The recitation of this treatment will continue throughout the entire duration of the evening.
The musicians of BASILICA will provide thundering concretions of consciousness through the performance of compositions by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, Indianapolis native Charlie Olvera, and BASILICA's own Joe Molinaro. The precision and exuberance of these performances will create points of intense focus of psychological and physical intent amid the more nebulous chain of events that will fill the evening.
Thunder Perfect Mind will also feature the premiere of Matthew Andert's Optical Theremin Choir, a system of nearly 20 interactive electronic instruments. Like traditional theremins, these custom-designed-and-built instruments are activated by movement and proximity but instead of being sensitive to electromagnetic fields, these instruments are activated by light and visual motion.
The evening will also include the premiere of a new composition by Joe Molinaro which provides a depiction of the ideas presented in the compelling and controversial book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by psychologist Julian Jaynes. Molinaro's "Breakdowns of the Bicameral Mind" explores Jaynes's notion of the emergence of human consciousness from the mythological dependencies of the archaic human mind into the modern perceptual and cognitive state of awareness that we now recognize as "consciousness." The composition features primal rhythms and hypnotic repetition and improvisation that will work in conjunction with the Optical Theremin Choir to produce unforgettable sculptures of sound, light, and video interactivity that will fill the entire space inhabited by Thunder Perfect Mind.
The entrances and exits of Thunder Perfect Mind will feature the Unified Fields interactive video display by IUPUI Music and Arts Technology faculty member Jordan Munson. Thunder Perfect Mind will also feature the premiere of Munson's new audio-video interactivity system that transforms musical and environmental sound into video motion.
Prof. Andrew Bucksbarg will present his social cinema work PASS CAMERA, which will engage the audience in live audio and video reflections and interactivity, and Prof. Margaret Dolinsky's Celestial Reflections will provide breathtaking displays of digital art that will evolve throughout the course of the evening.
Additional music and video interactive improvisations will be held throughout the remainder of the evening.
Thunder Perfect Mind will be held from 8:00 to 11:00 P.M. on Friday, December 4 at the Murphy Art Center at 1043 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46203. Thunder Perfect Mind is presented in conjunction with the Big Car Gallery and is part of the IDADA First Friday Art Tour which is held in downtown Indianapolis every month. Admission is free, and all ages are welcome to attend. Audience participation will be welcomed and encouraged!
LUNA 15th Anniversary Party at Big Car Dec. 11
Sold out! Sorry...
LUNA music PRESENTS: An Evening with Mark Kozelek
FRIDAY, 11 DECEMBER, 2009
DOORS @ 7:00PM / SOUNDS @ 9:00 PM
Drinks/Beer will be for sale that night.
We turn 15 years old (come late December) and to celebrate, our old friend Mark Kozelek has kindly offered to play a one-off for us!
This is Mark's last show of 2009 and a rare opportunity to enjoy an evening of Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, and solo Kozelek material in the small, intimate setting that is Big Car Gallery.
Everyone who attends gets a beautiful, numbered 19" x 25" silkscreened poster (peep the image above) designed by renowned Indianapolis-based graphic designers, Commercial Artisan.
>>>Tickets are sold out.
Visit LUNA's website or call (317) 283-5862 for more info.
Contemporary Classical Music at Big Car
Dec. 18: Outside Orchestra live. 7:30 p.m. $5.
The purpose of The Outside Orchestra is multi-fold. First it is an ensemble for new music -- from premiering new works by young composers, to playing music from the standard modern repertoire the ensemble is focused on the promotion on new music. Secondly, the ensemble is about stepping over the lines between classical and rock or jazz or improvisation and not constricting ourselves to one genre.
video corner
The Eggleston Poems - Live at Harrison Center from Big Car on Vimeo.