Heaven Gallery

Death Drive Art Opening
Artworks by Cayetano Ferrer
August 02, 2008
12pm-10pm

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.

Heaven Gallery Screening Series Proudly Presents
The Experimental Comedy Video Show
Or the

“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.
Video Screening & performance by Kill Comedy Saturday August 16th 2008 9pm $7 suggested donation.

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:
Ryan Trecartin
Paper Rad
Animal Charm
Eric Fensler
TV Sheriff
Jim Finn
Mike Finch
Leslie & The Lys
Bobby Ciraldo
Andrew Swant
Andrew Rosas
Dean Rank
Elisa Harkins
The Pretty Things
Rodney Ascher
ZZalgern0n
Ryan Kortman
Laura Klein
Ben Driggs
Catie Olsen
Keith Kolecki
Marc Riordan
Rich Szczepanski
Mike Miles
AD&D and Slow Kid
Marc Riordan
Ryan Brennan
Lyn Elliot
Paul Brittain

Video show curated by Clara Alcott & Keith Kolecki

Links & Information about artists
Ryan Trecartin
http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/ryan-trecartin
http://www.youtube.com/user/WianTreetin

www.paperrad.org
www.animalcharm.com

TV Sheriff
www.davyforce.com

www.jimfinn.org
www.prettythingsss.com

Sample of a video that is part of the show:
Kitty Concerto by Ryan Brennan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaREyRxYLFg

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

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music

Eric Glick, prepared electric piano
Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello

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The Young Equestrians (NYC)

11pm (show up early for Experimental Comedy Screening!)
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5 suggested donation