Manjello, Manjello, Manjello

Right now CIA has agents in Cuba ... really ... we have three intrepid travelers visiting the island nation in search of a future artist-in-residence for the Institute. Its a research trip that's being supported by a Creative Fusion grant from the Cleveland Foundation. Next spring they'll be giving a talk on their adventures so look for an announcement of that coming up.

But currently the scene in Cleveland proper continues to heat up. Thursday night there's the upcoming Manjello performance at CIA's VATe Coventry Center (see below for details) and then this weekend there's The Unsung Torsos Event at MOCA - Cleveland. That's on Saturday the 30th from 7 pm until 10 pm - tickets are just $5.

Unsung Torsos - MOCA - Cleveland

One of the most remarkable performances you will ever witness:

Manjello performed by Canadian artists - Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker
Thursday, October 28, 7 pm
CIA’s VATe Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd.

Free + Open

Collaborators Crocker and Kelly will create a real-time drawn-on-film animation with accompanying soundtrack in front of a live audience. Kelly will create evolving imagery on a loop of clear 16mm film, progressively building visuals with inks and with each subsequent pass of the film loop through the projector. Crocker will respond to the developing animation with an array of digital and analogue noisemaking devices. This work creates a transitory footprint of the visual and auditory mark-making journey taken by Kelly and Crocker.

On Friday the pair will appear as part of the Lunch on Fridays Series, giving their audience an overview of their careers and insights into how they make work.

A Canadian and Newfoundland-born media artist currently living and working in Alberta, Calgary, Kelly has made a number of films that have received international awards. He works primarily with film, and has completed and screened ten films on super 8, 16 and 35mm formats. He also creates film and video-based installations and has shown all across North America, from Halifax to Victoria, all over the United States, and in Europe and Asia. His work has been featured in the following festivals: Images, Black Maria, PS1, and Ann Arbor.

Joe Kelly's Website

Jay Crocker is a musical explorer, multi-instrumentalist, analog recordist/producer, and general creative wunderkind. Over the last decade Crocker has been relentless in his contribution to both the Canadian independent music scene as well helping to put Calgary's avant-guard and noise scene on the map. He is best known for his work as a leader, as well as being a full time member in both the trash jazz noise group Nomoreshapes, and the progressive experimental pop outfit Ghostkeeper. His work has received critical acclaim in such publications as the New York Times, the Paris Transatlantic, exclaim! Magazine and countless others. Always searching for new sounds and ways to conceive and perform his work, Crocker is boundless as an artist and performer.

Jay Crocker's Website


These events are made possible by The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Visual Arts and Technologies Environment, CIA’s Sculpture Department and CIA’s George P. Bickford Endowment for Visiting Artist.

LOF at CIA - The Bang Group - this is going to be cool!

Our most unique LOF yet:

Friday, October 22
12:15 pm

AITKEN AUDITORIUM
11141 East Blvd.

Latter Day Hoofers
With David Parker and The Bang Group

http://www.thebanggroup.com/images.php

http://www.notsoobvious.com/home.php

New York's David Parker and The Bang Group work their alchemy on traditional tap and vaudeville forms, transforming these most traditional of styles into fully contemporary dances about love, friendship and current social mores. Parker telescopes time in his work, merging the past with the present in pieces based on the great legacy of American popular dance but shot-through with a modern, urban wit and agility. These smart, funny works feature musical accompaniment made by the performers themselves as they dance. Parker will be joined by long -term Bang Group colleagues Jeffrey Kazin and Nic Petry in a show which looks forward and backward at once.

The Lunch on Fridays Series is sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments. This event and most others are free and open to the public. The Bang Group appear at CIA as part of their residency with Cleveland-based GroundWorks.

poster design by: the monkey in the basement

Brinsley Tyrrell to speak as part of Lunch on Fridays, Friday, Oct. 15

LOF welcomes ...
Enameling Visiting Artist -
Brinsley Tyrrell
Friday, Oct. 15
12:15

A local legend known for his work as a sculptor and as a public artist, Brinsley Tyrrell has embedded himself deeply into the region's culture in a profound way. Areas of our life are regularly punctuated and enriched by his work as we walk down a street or through an airport.

In 2007 in response to a commission for an RTA station, Brinsley Tyrrell began exploring the potential of enamel. It was a medium for which he had no formal training. The results were a series of large-scale, often over 48 inches in their largest dimension, enameled landscapes fired in the vintage oversized kiln located at Kent State University. Sometimes refiring a plate 15 to 20 times, Tyrrell let his lack of expertise give him permission to experiment beyond the boundaries. It proved a process that gave way to unfettered, expressive images of the land drenched in saturated color.

Most recently on view at the William Busta Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, Tyrrell will discuss these and other works as part of his artist talk at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Brinsley Tyrrell is a native of Godstone, England. He received his education at Camberwill School of Arts and Crafts at the The University of London. He is a Professor Emeritus at Kent State University. His work is represented by Cleveland-based gallerist William Busta.

William Busta Gallery

Join us this Friday and take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear this remarkable artist speak. These talks are free and open to the public.

Cleveland.com Brinsley Tyrrell

The Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series is generously supported by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments. Brinsley Tyrrell appears with the support of the Enameling Department. Special thanks to William Busta Gallery.