Help Wanted: Sell Colonel Sanders' Secrets... Apply Within...

Help Wanted:
Someone to sell Colonel Sanders' secrets on Thur, June 27, 8-9pm, at Griffin's Modern Hotel
To Apply:
Please... no more than 50 words on why you are qualified to sell Colonel Sander's secrets
Deadline: June 20, Honorarium: $50.00, Email only: ELandFgallery@yahoo.com

DESIGN YOUR OWN REVOLOUTION! May 24 LOT Lexington

DESIGN YOUR OWN REVOLUTION!

with Dakota Smith and Paul Michael Brown

May 24, 9am-3pm

@ Land Of Tomorrow (LOT)

527 East Third Street, Lexington KY

ELandFgallery@yahoo.com, elandfgallery.blogspot.com

 

Help Wanted: Person to draw 5 breaths in succession

ELandF Projects
Help Wanted: Person to 5 draw breaths in succession near proposed coal train route, Albany Oregon
To Apply: Please ...no more than 50 words on why you wish to draw 5 breaths in succession near the proposed coal train route.
Honorarium: $50.00
Deadline: April 14, 2013
Email Only: ELandFgallery@yahoo.com

THE STONER CREEK BOYS at McConnell Springs

Many thanks to all who made it happen!

 

1. On youtube: THE STONER CREEK BOYS (prequel)

2. On youtube: THE STONER CREEK BOYS... The Words For This Flashsad Moment

3. On youtube: THE STONER CREEK BOYS... Wild Forest Grand Life Experiment 

 

THE STONER CREEK BOYS  

Featuring Dakota Smith  
 
a record release party for

Carly Simon Shadow
Thursday, Feb. 7th 12:15pm
McConnell Springs Park (take first fork to right and listen)
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Grande Living Experiment #7- ALU- 8768where are the words for this flashsad moment
them ancients say that you said that you have asked for them 
and then you went and scattered all his ashes...........

The Stoner Creek Boys at Institute 193 (My Life As A Receiver)

blog of Institute 193: http://blog.institute193.org/blog/

On December 4, a group of musicians and writers gathered at Institute 193 to enact a performance piece orchestrated by the artist Bruce Burris. The performance was ostensibly a record release party for My Life As A Receiver, a new album by the Stoner Creek Boys

After the writer Whitney Baker introduced the event, Eric Sutherland (wearing a hat fashioned from aluminum foil) read lyrics from the Stoner Creek Boys’ new album, accompanied by Mason Colby on the banjo. Meanwhile, Daryl Cook created ambient electronic background sound, creating the aural sensation of listening to a bizarre backcountry radio broadcast.
The artist Robert Beatty was simultaneously riding a stationary exercise bike in the front window of the gallery. According to rules laid out by Burris, Beatty was powering the entire performance with his pedaling; it would end whenever he chose to stop.

This performance was similar to other projects Burris has organized under the guise of the Stoner Creek Boys. Though the make-believe premises for these happenings are whimsical and often funny, Burris uses them to explore issues of social justice, community engagement, and collaboration. Though he creates a basic structure for each performance, individual performers have the power to take the project in any conceptual direction they choose–if Beatty had stopped pedaling at any moment, the performance would have ground to a halt.

 

 

Archive: Our 5th Annual Winter Solstice Conversation at Denny's

Many thanks to all those who joined us for a great solstice evening!
 

Youtube: Kurt Gohde "I threw it over the fence"

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ELandF projects 5th Annual Midnight Winter Solstice Conversation
Midnight December 21st
Denny's Restaurant 1949 Nicholasville Rd. Lexington, KY
(for those of us who are annually confused as to what date midnight falls on- we are referring to really, really late night Friday)
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ElandF projects 5th Annual Midnight Solstice Conversation is just that, a few intrepid storytellers gather at one of America's great restaurants to usher in the the Winter Solstice and to share a story or two based on the preference of this year's Solstice/Hostess/Curator,  Lexington artist Georgia Henkel.
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Bring a story... or not...
This year's topic is... pleasures of memory... lost
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open up 1871
the spoils of time
twenty years ago
our waning spirit
over the river
the bridge of sighs
pleasures of memory
lost
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Left 2011 curator/host/ess Kremena Todorova Right 2012 curator/host/ess Georgia Henkel





Rae Goodwin "Into the woods... " with Latitude Artist Community

YouTube performance clip (into the woods)



ESH Cemetery Project lecture @ Lonely Mountain Community Center

ELandF performance projects summary on YouTube

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Trust(ing)

TRUSTING(ing)

an extension…  based on Meaghan Carpenter’s performance series Trust with Meaghan Carpenter and Latitude Artist Community

at Latitude Artist Community

948 Manchester Street, Lexington, KY
Friday October 26 1:20pm- 1:40pm, Free
More information: Bruce Burris (859) 806-0195, latitudearts@yahoo.com

Meaghan Carpenter of Maryland is represented in LAL’s nod to performance art “Approach”. Curated by Rae Goodwin director of Art Foundations at the University of Kentucky, Approach opens Oct. 26. This review includes video, photographs, insperformance Meaghan Carpenter: http://www.meaghancarpenter.com/

Latitude Artist Community: http://latitudeart.blogspot.com/
and on facebook

more about Trust(ing): Latitude has long been involved in creating performance and installation works. Often these works allow some insight on practices relative to those of us who live their lives in institutional environments, and thus we encourage further dialog and consideration of issues which are commonly overlooked or most often, simply ignored.

 In this adaptation of Meaghan Carpenter’s “Trust” we take a look at the risk taken by those living in an institutional setting as they routinely trust their self care to others.  What does it mean to transport an enclave of people considered disabled to a salon for a “beauty treatment”?  Can we not take care of ourselves in this way at home? What does it mean when a local faith organization provides grooming and dress accessories to adults as they enter a sponsored dance? Are these positive enhancements or do they demean us as individuals? Are we validating poor institutional practices by encouraging these group fixes? In Trust(ing) Latitude artists turn the tables on these practices, giving to, as opposed to receiving a manicure from Ms Carpenter.

The Stoner Creek Boys

Whitney Baker
Bruce Burris
read from the lyrics of
THE STONER CREEK BOYS
new LP Visionary Output
Thursday September 13, 12-12:30pm
Institute 193, 193 North Limestone St. Lexington
more info on facebook
The Stoner Creek Boys
Saint Teresa’s
from their LP SALTY

Saint Teresa grant us this moment
We have no real in- vestment in the imminent or in the shade of some future tree of life
Our sad ark
The one you left us with
Is on its side on the slope side of
Saint Levee
Bow split open a cave a hole that is a whole earth wide the darkest of dark waters hurtled by whipped wind churn and tide tear through it out and in

as planetary ringmasters we have failed your lively life shadow circus
and so if you choose you are welcome to pluck them up yourself
the llamas, snakes, lions and buffalo who we have left to wander
along the banks
to consider the wreckage we suppose
Please don’t be surprised if in your attempt to make things right as you can again
That if you come upon us you may find us
Consuming what you know to be the last remaining Mongolian Lynx
for we are hungry
we have always been hungry
You know that

 

 

 



re animations at Institute 193

re animations

reviving/revisiting

the performance art of

ELandF projects

february 16. 6-9pm

Institute 193

193 N. Limestone Street

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The Book Reader - Mick Jeffries

Take A Taxi With Jim Gray - Kremena Todorova

Cloud Watchers Wanted - Doreen Maloney and Rikki Gard

Lives Shaped By Boxes - Caitlin Serey

In Your Mind You Have Gone To The Land Of Ultimate Unquenchable Thirst - Lauren Argo

with thanks to Jane McCafferty and Al Edington and Latitude Artist Community

On February 16, 2012, Institute 193 hosted a retrospective of the work of ELandF Projects, one of the only organizations in Kentucky devoted to performance art.



Two pieces were chosen for recreation inside the gallery. In “The Book Reader” a participant (Mick Jeffries) read passages from a book that holds deep personal significance for him. “Lives Shaped by Boxes,” a repetitive box folding ritual performed by Caitlin Serey, examined the tedium and isolation associated with the forms of employment often held by people with disabilities. A television installed in the gallery played video footage of other ELandF performances (see above).

Meanwhile, performers enacted two other ELandF pieces outside the gallery. The artists Kremena Todorova and Kurt Gohde rode in a taxi with willing participants in 15-minute intervals, photographing each participant at a different location downtown. Doreen Maloney and Rikki Gard performed “Cloudwatchers,” sitting on a patch of Astroturf installed on the sidewalk and looked at the sky.

In additon, Louisville artist Lauren Argo performed a new work created by Bruce Burris and Jane McCafferty titled “In Your Mind You Have Gone to the Land of Ultimate Unquenchable Thirst,” part of a cycle called



Our 4th Annual Midnight Winter Solstice conversation at Denny's

Many thanks to all who attended our 4th Annual Solistice Conversation and special thanks to Kremena Todorova who hosted this years conversation. View a portion of Kremena's story "TIMUR... We Were Helpers" here! 

Next years's host/ess Georgia Henkel

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From ELandF small projects… you are invited to...

WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?

ELandF’s 4th Annual Midnight Winter Solstice Conversation
Midnight, December 21st, Denny's Restaurant 1949 Nicholasville Rd. Lexington, Kentucky
(for those of us who are annually confused as to which day midnight the 21stfalls on this year- think of it as really, really late night Wednesday night if you must)
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ELandF’s 4th Annual Midnight Winter Solstice Conversation is just that, a few storytellers who gather at one of America’s great restaurants to usher in the Winter Solstice and share a story or two based on the preference of the year’s Solstice Host/ess/Curator.
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This year’s Solstice Host/ess/Curator is Lexington’s Kremena Todorova who is an artist, an Associate Professor of English at Transylvania University, a native of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and a hostess extraordinaire (you can call her Clarissa). She asks us to contemplate this question: “Where did you come from?” Kremena recommends that as we consider this, we emphasize not so much where we are from, but where we come from.
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Once you have mulled this over, it is essential that you share your story with others at Denny’s on Solstice… props are welcome.

the book... ELandF projects 2006-2011

ELandF small projects | Make Your Own Book

 

discomfort .....in progress

Discomfort, harsh preceptor of empathy and compassion, you appear when something is wrong, demanding our response. These days, a deep and massive discomfort is screaming from all continents and in every language, THIS IS WRONG; too many suffer for the benefits of the few; too many have grown comfortable with hate; too many mountains have fallen; and our feverish earth is thrashing in pain. With compassion and justice as guides, discomfort can transform and reform us, and the world we inhabit. We must listen to discomfort's call to action and not let comfort create complacency. 
Sue Massek
discomfort
ascension
you are invited
 
ground floor escalator
Lexington Center
Lexington Kentucky
Friday May 20th
12pm                                

Discomfort can happen with fear and dread.  Knowing that you will get hurt because you’ve been hurt before.  Waiting for it to happen.  And everyone is there watching and waiting too hoping for some excitement or explanation or spectacle to release the uncomfortable tension.  But the tension is normal and releasing it is not normal and would cause discomfort.  So nothing happens.  Or almost nothing anyway.

Becky Alley

 

 

Wanted:

Are you willing to describe feelings related to the experience of profound personal discomfort while ascending an escalator with Becky Alley.

Artist Fee:

$50.00 for one (appx. 27 second) escalator ascension from first to second level of Lexington Center in Lexington Kentucky while recounting feelings of personal discomfort to/with Becky Alley who will eventually assemble and publish a no more than fifty word account of this interaction.

To Apply:

Please....  no more than one hundred words on why you wish to ascend on an escalator while describing feelings related to profound personal discomfort to Becky  Alley.

Book: ELandF small projects

ELandF small projects | Make Your Own Book

the seven things you think... with Nicole McClure at SF MoMA (performance archive)



(click here for video) the seven things you think... belong to all of us...

Join ELandF projects at SF MoMATuesday, February 15 12:00- 12:30pm

the seven things you think... belong to all of us...
Nicole McClure 

1) Words and sounds 
2) The sound of my voice inside a mason jar
3) Repeating words over and over. Something useless, like “tell me about yourself” 
4) If you repeat words over and over, they get ridiculous. Humpback whales for instance. Hump back wails would have to be a serious mating call 
5) I want a mating call 
6) I could keep it in a mason jar. A giant one where people could visit 7) Future project: sound installation inside a giant mason jar
More on Nicole: http://nicolemcclureart.com/home.html
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call for proposals 
Get paid to think at SF MoMA
the seven things  you think... belong to all of us...
Honorarium: $50.00 for one half hour of thinking
To Apply: Please... no more than 100 words on the seven things you will be thinking about
Deadline: Midnight, February 10th
(thinking at SF MoMA must occur on Tuesday February 15th, 12:00-12:30 pm)
Submissions/Information: By email only: ELandFgallery@yahoo.com 
Many thanks to all who sent in proposals for this project, in particular our good friend Daniel Dallabrida who sent in this proposal. (click here)

Get paid to think at SFMoMA!

the seven things you think... belong to all of us.......

Wanted: Someone to think at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Honorarium: $50.00 for one half hour of thinking
To Apply: Please... no more than 100 words on the seven things you will be thinking about
Deadline: Midnight, February 10th
(thinking at SFMOMA must occur on Tuesday February 15th, 12:00-12:30 pm)
Submission/Information: By email only: ELandFgallery@yahoo.com

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Daniel Dallabrida, SF

My 7 Thoughts 
The emergence of rage out of intense grief may be a human universal
Story telling is a healing art.
We are free to become what only death can make us, human.
Four gay men died in San Francisco every day between my 30th and 40th birthdays. There was no luxury of tears.
For this particular knot the Alexandrian solution, to slice it open with a sword-stroke, is not the correct one.
No person’s tragedy is commensurable with any other
Silence has no narrative. It intensifies sensation, but blurs the sense of time.

You will work for You

Alex Johns will work for Alex Johns

Friday, January 21, 12-1pm

Common Grounds Coffee House

 

Many thanks to all who submitted proposals for You will work for You. All the proposals were feisty, original and sincere. They ranged from a one hour video interview of a curator at MOMA PS1 to a great idea for a one hour kid's art class to a man who sent in plans to construct a cardboard dory and sail it (in only one hour) to an artist who wants to take photos of as many different penises as he can in an hour for a book about "the line between pornography and art". Oh, and there is one James Tobey from near Syracuse, NY who wanted to clean out his garage, particularly those "out of site, out of mind places". So there you have it - thanks to the many who wrote in.

Alex Johns is the recipient of our $100.00 Honorarium. Alex is very involved in Lexington's cultural community. Among many things, she is a member of Lexington's popular and impossible to define band the Ford Theatre Reunion. Alex will be editing a story she is writing. Though she has written periodically since the age of seven this is her very first effort at publication. "I plan to make my way to Common Grounds on Friday, January 21st, and sit down with my story, ready to give it a critical but respectful edit". 

Common Grounds Coffee House is a public space and we request that in keeping with the general tenor of the place, that you respect Alex's privacy from 12pm- 1pm after which you may feel free to ask her questions and/or interfere with her life in ways typical of coffee house environments.

 

You will work for You

Wanted: worker to work for self

Honorarium: $100.00 for 1 hour of work for self

To Apply: Please... no more than 100 words on what sort of work you will do for yourself and where work will occur

Deadline: January 14, 2011(work must occur on Friday, January 21st -12-1pm)

Submissions/Information: By email only ELandFgallery@yahoo.com

3rd Annual Winter Midnight Solstice Conversation... Hosted by Phillip March Jones

Many thanks to everyone who ventured out to on a snowy midnight to celebrate the Solstice at Dennys! Special thanks to our host Phillip March Jones of Institute 193. Below are some videos and pictures of the event. We will add more as we get them.
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From Phillip March Jones

In the spirit of THE MOTH, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling, ELandF Small Projects and Institute 193 invites you to come and share your stories of "holiday horror" at Denny's Restaurant on Nicholasville Rd. as part of the ongoing Midnight Winter Solstice Conversation. Please come prepared with a story (1 - 5 minutes in length) about some "holiday horror" that you, or someone you know, has experienced in their lifetime. Participants will share their horrifying stories over coffee, tea, hot fudge sundaes and anything else you can scrape off the floor. Please note that the words "holiday" and "horror" are both applied loosely for the purposes of this event. Holidays include, but are not limited to: Birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, The Fourth of July, Hannukah, Kwanza, Church, Easter, etc. Horror is completely subjective, but should evoke mild feelings of discomfort that can be shared by all. Tis the season.

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Clip: Charlie Campbell "My Holidays are all Perfect!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POUsJoQ79xk

Clip: Kurt Gohde: "Cockroaches the size of...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGAHgr0hJ8U

Clip: Ide Bouldin "Demon Voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxZWhtfUk4



Clip: Phillip March Jones "Self Help" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2RpG_yQYQU

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Look for Kremena to host our 2011 Solstice celebration!



yesterday