Citizen Rahne Alexander is a writer & performing artist from Baltimore. She has been
involved with Transmodern in various roles every year since its inception. A core member
of Baltimore’s award-winning queer cabaret, the Charm City Kitty Club, Rahne has performed across the US, both as a solo performer and with her all-female garage band, The Degenerettes. www.rahne.com
Paul Druecke resides in Milwaukee where he’s preoccupied, dramatically speaking, with the imminent death of a very dear friend. This friend, it so happens, is the distant relation of Frank Budgen, the Frank Budgen who was a friend of James Joyce’s. And this, tangentially, has given way to thinking that spam would’ve been a great medium for Joyce — the boozed up, near-blind, randy-old-smart alec broadcasting his forcefully playful language onto a public angry at the intrusion.
No doubt Joyce could’ve parodied with brutal precision those weirdly transparent emails whose author adopts the persona of someone, moderately educated, who has 25,000,000 gold pieces in a tattered trunk somewhere in Abidjan. Of course, if there’s a modern-day Joyce plying her craft via email con jobs, we’ll never notice — lost, as it is in the mountain-sized digital mire of male-enhancement and black-market software notices. There is, really, no hope for the spam folder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Druecke
You: Tall, established corporation made of many people sharing a collective identity, manufactures goods or services. Should be personable, secure, outgoing.
Me: Individual of smallish proportions, spontaneous, sincere, affectionate. Seeking companionship or possibly more (no commitment phobes)
Gobolux (Andrew Nelson and KimSu Theiler) is an art collaborative that is interested in the meeting of sound and image. Gobolux formed in 2001 and is still active today. Gobolux makes both single channel video and video installations.
Thus far, Gobolux has had solo shows in the Oslo Open 2003, Norway: General Store, Milwaukee: Bamboo Theater, Milwaukee. Gobolux has also participated in both national and international group shows.
Andrew Nelson is a photographer and studied filmmaking at Mason Gross School for the Arts: Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. In the 90’s he was most active in music bands from the raunchy metal of The Thing, to the experimental folk music of Azalia Snail, and the art punk of Poem Rocket.
KimSu Theiler is a filmmaker of all genres and mediums which is to say she makes everything from narrative film to experimental video. She has made experimental 16mm documentary shorts that have screened at international film festivals and has had solo video exhibitions in the United States and Korea. She received her art education at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in New York City.
Bonnie Jones works with sound, text and performance. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In sound performances Bonnie plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Her primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet “English”) and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a inter-discipinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the ErstQuake Festival, and the 14 Karat Cabaret.
www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
myspace.com/bonniejonesbaltimore
Born in England 1972, Kemp has persisted as a self-taught artist-musician, using prepared/bowed guitar, piano, trombone, vocals, electronics, cassettes, field recordings and turntables. Based in deepest darkest Devon UK, she is a member of London sonic performance group Uniform, co-director of online gallery/forum The Lazarus Corporation, Conductor of Poltergasmic Frequencies for the Performance Thanatology Research Society and has collaborated in various forms with Dual, 2nd Gen, Bark Psychosis, DEFEATIST, the Body Cartography Project, Leechwoman, Vatican X-ray Dept, Hilary Jeffery and Ringo Christ. She is also known as Germseed and has performed in Europe and Japan. For more [dis]information about this person please visit:
http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/galleries.php
http://www.youkneeform.com
Frankie Martin is a multi media artist living in Brooklyn, NY whose work utilizes video,music, painting, sculpture, mobiles and human interaction. Frankie’s work is an intersection of culture, fantasy, craft, music, and color all contained within a conceptual framework that varies on a per-project basis. In 2007, Frankie recently exhibited her full length motivational DVD entitled “A Beautiful You”, along side of rorschach facescapes paintings at her solo show at CANADA in New York City. Frankie is currently working on a series of performances called Freakout, performed either alone or with friends.
Frankie is looking forward to a three person show at 404 Gallery in Naples, Italy in January 2008. dditionally Frankie is planning a large scale project ntitled “Live From the Bermuda Triangle” which involves herself and four other sailors sailing through the Bermuda Triangle three times in December of 2008. Frankie’s artworks have been exhibited in Miami, Milwaukee, NYC, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Oslo, Bergen, Rotterdam and more. She has been lucky enough to participate in residencies in Toronto and Massachusetts and once won an Emerging Artists Grant in 2004/05 from the Mary L Nohl Foundation for the Arts. You are cordially invited to sign up to join Frankie’s fanclub at
www.frankiefeverforever.com.
www.youtube.com/user/frankiemartin
www.canadanewyork.com/artist/frankie_martin/
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Having successfully completed transition from womb life to first life. David NeSmith early on met success in challenging authority through his 2nd grade teacher when she failed to grasp the concept that Pluto had swung closer to the Sun than Neptune during the 1970s. After a lengthy court trial surrounding what became known as Pluto-Gate, David was awarded $4.62 the bulk of which was used to purchase crayons and some paper (the rest used on a Zero candy bar). His art career had begun! Several years later, David has been a musician, playing in such bands as Maximillian Colby, Sleepytime Trio, Men’s Recovery Project, Rah Bras and Bats & Mice. He also has a solo acoustic act based in part on his published cartoons called “EL GREED.” Currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, he has toured many parts of the world bringing his art to Europe, Japan, Mexico, Canada and the USA. His CDs and LPs are produced by Lovitt Records (http://lovitt.com). His cartoons in book form are published by Publishing Genius (http://www.publishinggenius.com/). He maintains a podcast at http://ajdn.org/podcast.
For the festival David NeSmith will be performing the “Opera on the Hour” including musical act Straight Punch to the Crotch.
Spoon Popkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Glasgow School of Art and the Chautauqua Institute for Performing Arts. Solo exhibitions include Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), The Lee Nagrin Workshop (NY, NY), The Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg, Austria), RGB Gallery (NY, NY), The Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA) and the International Festival of Women in the Arts (Glasgow, Scotland). She has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria and was a finalist for The Bellagio Center. She has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the CityArts Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts. Her work has taken her to India, the UK, Panama, Mexico,Turkey, Greece and throughout Europe.
Puddin’ and Joseph Young.
