kc: this weekend: bam
three things of fairly impressive note going on this weekend:
1. This is Kate Bingaman from Obsessive Consumption and I was just writing you to tell you that obsessive consumption is having a show at the Leedy - Voulkos Gallery. It opens Sept 5th (this Friday).
The reception is from 6-9 and the address of the gallery is 2012 Baltimore
Ave in Kansas City. It will be up until the 26th of September.
The show will consist of all of the paper documentation of the past year and
a half of obsessive consumption along with other OC swag.
I just thought I would tell you. I don't think that there is any promotion
really for the show since is was pretty last minute...so, if you want to,
tell anyone who is interested!
(gratefully ganked from kelly sue.)
2. The
Grand Arts Gallery is opening a new exhibit of
Catherine Chalmers' insectcentric art. People who know me know how around the bend I am about Chalmers' stuff, including her book
Food Chain, a better conversation starter/stopper I've not yet encountered. Her more recent work is more focused on cockroaches, including
Infestation, photographing roaches running rampant in a fully furnished dollhouse, and
Executions, with roaches strapped to electric chairs, burning at the stake, swinging from nooses. Her current works seem to involve turning roaches into art, via cockroach legs glued into patterns resembling the molecular map of insecticide or a pile of 4 foot long roach legs or a 6 foot resin-cast cockroach statue. She's giving a talk on Saturday afternoon, which is such a great way to spend an afternoon, I'm about to burst with giddy enthusiasm.
3. The Chucky Lou AV Club / Boulevard Drive-In two-night extravaganza: Sleaze Under the Stars. $15 buys you 6 films, two bands, numerous interstatials from old drive-in ads to crude shorts and cartoons, and one of the last drive-in experiences of the summer. Friday night is Gore Night, with a rundown of The Corpse Grinders (cats eating people), Zombie (notable for two things: zombie fighting a shark and the subtitle: WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU รท also notable because Chucky Lou organizer Gary told me his starkest memory is of a guy throwing up during the eye-piercing scene, a memory which forbids him from really "enjoying" the movie), and something called Eternal Evil of Asia (apparently features an 'acrobatic mid-air violation').
Saturday night is Hicksploitation, with Scum of the Earth, Shanty Tramp and Black Vengeance. I have no idea what any of these are, except that the first two have the greatest exploitation titles going and the third features Lurch from the Addams Family and Shelly Winters, slumming as always.
Thankfully Sunday contains nothing more taxing than breakfast and layabouts, with occasional bursts of writing.
Posted by xtop at September 4, 2003 10:03 AM
