Heaven Gallery
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EventsSunday July 27, 2008
Saturday August 2, 2008
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Death Drive Art Opening Death Drive is a one-day exhibition of art works that speak to the function of monuments and memory. The main space contains work in various media, including photography, painting and sculpture. Inverted Taj Mirror (2007) a mirror cutout of the Taj Mahal, plays with the history of this architectural monument, and a reassessment of the complicated intentions of it's creator. Historians Against History (2008) is a sculpture made from a book by the same title, where the pages are glued together and all the text on the open page is blacked out except for a single phrase. These and other works in the show play with the processes through which history is recorded by way of object-making. This reference of historical artifacts is interrupted by hyper-specific site works that encapsulate the present moment by enveloping the architecture around them. In contrast to the works that tell a story from the past and from external sources, the site works exercise a sense of place and perform a shift in the activity of citation, bringing the present into the narrative. The show culminates in the second space, which is a darkened room containing a single sculpture. Launch Ramp (2008) is a skate ramp that is perforated with thousands of small holes, revealing a glow from the interior. A light emanating through the perforations make up a constantly shifting image, an obfuscated film looping on a muted television which is only experienced through its rhythm and palette. Made as a memorial for a friend who died in a skateboarding accident earlier this month, this sculpture will be dismantled after the one-day show, making it less an enduring monument to his death than a moment of contemplation about his spirited, and at times reckless nature. Friday August 8, 2008
Start: 7:00 pm
Friday, August 8, 2008 Saturday August 9, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series presents... a new group led by Tim Daisy! tim daisy- marimba, percussion TWO SETS! Heaven Gallery Thursday August 14, 2008
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Classical/improvisation duo Wild and Wulliman (cello and violin), and Duo Borealis (soprano and bass) will play new music by contemporary composers including Shawn Jaeger, Eliza Brown, Lee Hyla and others. Saturday August 16, 2008
Start: 9:22 pm
Heaven Gallery Screening Series Proudly Presents “Superfuntasticexperimentalcomedyshortexplosion” In the spirit of our experimental video series we thought that we would designate a night of experimental comedy videos. The artists in this show use experimental video technique and writing to produce pieces with a comedic edge. Post screening there will be a live performance by “Kill Comedy” a stand up comedy duo that aspires to perform live comedy but also to “kill” the standard stand up approach. Fresh from a four-day tour of St. Louis, MO., Kill Comedy is an anonymous standup duo in white sweat suits with “no jokes”. They present “a scientific study of the straight man/funny man dilemma”. “What is comedy?” they ask. Kill Comedy perform after the video screening. Video Show Will Include Work By: Video show curated by Clara Alcott & Keith Kolecki Links & Information about artists www.paperrad.org TV Sheriff www.jimfinn.org Sample of a video that is part of the show: The Video Program is about 90 minutes with an intermission. Kill Comedy will perform for a half an hour. The videos will screen indoors in Heaven’s main gallery and on the back screening roof. Kill Comedy will also perform on the porch. For more information contact (773) 983-6905 | Email: clara@heavengallery.com| Heaven Gallery 1550 N. Milwaukee 2nd Fl. Chicago, IL 60622 Start: 11:00 pm
PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music Eric Glick, prepared electric piano + The Young Equestrians (NYC) 11pm (show up early for Experimental Comedy Screening!)  
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