April 9 - 6:30-midnight, $5. Beer for sale. Decay Sustain art and music show: featuring musicians HELADO NEGRO, JULIANNA BARWICK, EPSTEIN, KID PRIMITIVE FAMILY, BERRY, ABNER TRIO and JOOKABOX and artists JONATHAN DUECK, RYAN IRVIN, JOHN BERRY and DM STITH. event info here.
And this awesome show:
April 23 - The Black Swans, Holy Ghost Canyon, Beat Debris. Music at 8:30 p.m. $5.
IT IS FINE! EVERYTHING IS FINE:
An Evening with Crispin Hellion Glover
Actor/director Crispin Glover comes to the IMA to present the nerve-jangling strangeness of It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE (2007, 74 mins., dirs. Crispin Glover and David Brothers), a cocktail of horror, exploitation and poignancy. Paul Baker (Steven C. Stewart, who also wrote the script) is a murderous middle-aged man with cerebral palsy and a plethora of psycho-sexual fantasies and fetishes. Laura Kern of The New York Times called the film "wildly impassioned and macabrely fascinating." Shown in 35 mm.
Prior to the film, Glover performs a one hour dramatic narration of eight profusely illustrated books known as The Big Slide Show. After the presentations, he will answer questions and sign books.
Co-presented by Big Car and the Indianapolis International Film Festival.
7 p.m. on Saturday, April 24
IMA Tobias Theater
4000 N Michigan Rd.
$15 IMA members / $20 public
For tickets, visit www.imamuseum.org or call toll free 877-IMA-TIXS (877-462-8497).
Intermedia Music Festival at Central Library April 23-25
The Intermedia Festival is a unique and futuristic series of concerts and events highlighting telematic and media arts performed by artists throughout North America and Europe. Telematic art synthesizes live traditional performing arts with computers, media and telecommunications. While more than 100 performers will travel to Indianapolis, others will participate through the Internet interactively with collaborators at the festival. Big Car is a supporter of the festival.
The Festival will present 10 concerts between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon, April 23-25. There will be additional installations, presentations and exhibits. Live dancers, musicians, laptop ensembles, computer artists, actors, videographers, scientific presentation, commentary and discussion will come together to create a provocative and compelling set of experiences. Noted guest artists featured at the Festival will include San Francisco-based singer Pamela Z, New York composer and computer artist Luke Dubois, singer Bora Yoon, eco-acoustic composer Matthew Burtner, and Indianapolis-based electro-acoustic ensemble Big Robot. The Friday evening opening concert will feature Pamela Z followed by a modern dance concert featuring Indianapolis-based Dance Kaleidoscope with other performers and media onstage and online from Florida State University. A complete schedule, including screenings, installations, lectures and concerts is located on the Intermedia Festival website.
Find out more at music.iupui.edu/intermedia
Thrift Store Music Competition
When: 7 p.m. on April 28 for drawing; 2 p.m. on May 2 for performance
Where: Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St.
How much: Free for the public to attend; $25 per team budget for instruments
Info: www.bigcar.org; (317) 450-6630
Big Car has created an experimental twist on musical competitions with Thrift Store Music happening at Central Library later this month as part of the Made for Each Other series of interactive, community-building programs.
On April 28, teams will draw random thrift stores where they'll shop for the instruments used to create original songs. Limited to budgets of $25, teams will likely be challenged to get creative in choosing items to play. Maybe they'll get lucky and find an old Casio keyboard or out-of-tune toy guitar. Or maybe they'll find no regular instruments and have to bang on glass jars or shake baby rattles. Either way, the musicians will take a few days to write new songs and then perform them in 10-minute sets at Central Library on May 2. Winners will be chosen that day -- with prizes going to top performers.
Interested bands or individual musicians must be present on April 28 at 7 p.m. to draw their thrift stores. Single musicians will be randomly paired to form teams as needed. Bands can have up to four members with a minimum of two. The competition is limited to 10 bands. Neutral music experts from the community will serve as judges with audience vote factoring into the final tally to choose winners on May 2.
in the gallery: the pLopLop show
A selection of paintings, drawings, ephemera, objects found and transformed, flyers, posters, and documentary video clips culled from the archives of John Clark, the inventor of pLopLop opened April 2. Inspired by dada, surrealism and fluxus activity, pLopLop started life as an experimental arts and literary zine nearly 20 years ago. pLopLop grew beyond publishing to encompass live performance, video experiments, multimedia installations and visual art innovations based on collaboration and transformation.
The pLopLop show at Big Car gallery reflects the ongoing experimental and collaborative energies of the inventor of the zine -- and pLopLop's influences, contributors and fellow DIY pioneers as we work together to explore and transform the rugged terrain of an increasingly homogenized world. pLopLop #12 was released to coincide with the opening and is available to purchase for $5. Learn more at www.ploplopzine.org. The show runs through April 17.
Made for Each Other events at Central Library
Find out more about our Made for Each Other project at www.made4.org.
Pics from Big Car events & programs