Adam Good is a writer and performance lecturer from Washington, DC. Through diagrams, lectures, and prototypes, he explores the Realm of All Relations (the ROAR), quantum semantics, object-oriented thought, and radical recombinance. He thinks about thinking, a lot. Some of his lectures are available here: http://www.errationality.com/?page_id=6. He has collaborated with Kate Porter on “I Know Where We Are: An Interface in Three Movements” (http://tinyurl.com/ahxsun). He posts his diagrams here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/asgood/. He is a member of the research collective WE ARE SCIENCE! with Jon Lee and other humans. He sends a shout out to post-it notes.

“Comprised of Jim Fetterley and Rich Bott, Animal Charm’s tapes are mind-bendingly inventive experiments in uncanny, surreal montage that defy logical analysis. [Their work] is a tour de force of incongruous juxtapositions, startling dislocations and ingenious visual rhymes assembled from the banal detritus of late night TV.” –Gavin Smith, 1998 New York Video Festival

http://www.animalcharm.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/therealanimalcharm

The art made by Baltimore artist Dan Deacon is about community and how to organize and inspire it. From founding a now well-known art collective (Wham City), to organizing and running an annually sold-out DIY music festival (Whartscape), to conceiving, planning and curating a massive 60 person/30 band tour (Baltimore Round Robin Tour), it’s clear to see that community and bringing people together is the major theme of his work.

Bromst, Deacon’s ground-breaking new album, is the embodiment of that way of thinking. Dan will be performing Bromst with the Dan Deacon Ensemble at the 2009 Annual Transmodern Festival.  This event will act as a record release for his exciting new work, as well as a celebration of his Baltimore base & home and his commitment to on-going ecstatic, collective creative action.

For the last three years Dan Deacon has been working on Bromst. Fusing together the growing intensity of his live performances with his background in electro-acoustic composition, the outcome is a collection of pieces that are intense and epic and at the same time down to earth and welcoming.

Bromst embodies the same energy and excitement as Spiderman of the Rings, however the craftsmanship and composition on Bromst have a wider scope and richer palette.  Unlike the completely electronic Spiderman of the Rings, the instrumentation on Bromst is a mixture of acoustic instruments, mechanical instruments, samples and electronics. The player piano, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, live drums, winds and brass give Bromst a much richer tone than his previous work.  The intricate and complex parts, skillfully executed by the performers, are woven together into a rich, dense, noisy dance pop that has become Dan Deacon’s signature sound.

Daniel Van Allen has been creating a visionary environment in Baltimore since 1980. He has been driving an art car since 1976. Van Allen has operated his own furniture restoration business for 35 years. He is the founder and organizer of the Intertribal Powwow (an annual cultural expo) and The Arabber Preservation Society (for our horse cart vendors); Dan directed The Sowebo Arts Festival for 6 years and helps organize several art organizations around town. His work includes multimedia art and architecture documentation, installation; mixed media, found object and wood sculpture; painting and performance.

Dime Store Therapy
A carnivalesque push cart with signage announcing therapeutic services (Dime Store Therapy) will lead the public to engage with the three artists,providing access to alternative counseling and prescriptions (legal) from an outsider friendly, non clinical point of view.

“Be The White Rabbit”
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

Baltimore based artist & activist working in community interactive situation, event & spectacle for over 30 years. Co-founder/producer of BaltiMedia events, Ad Hoc Fiascos, Baltimore Oblivion Marching Band, TESTES-3 & VD-RADIO- interactive telephone experiments. Sleep Deprivation Therapy School, Adopt-A Doug & other social experimentations.Owner/operator of “Random Universe Tours & Services” and “Art & Effects” - event, fx & phenomenon design & creations

Curated “Autoternatives-Human Mobility & Alternative Transportation Concepts” for Artscape. Producer of Winter Gatherings & “Zimni’ Setkani”-Eastern European Winter Festivals. Co-designer of AVAM MardiGras & Mondo Exotica spectacles

Installations for AVAM, Port Discovery Children’s Museum, Art on the Gwynns Falls Trail, EcoFestivals and numerous other involvements

Co-producer of GreenCityBaltimore.org -enviro & community resource site &

GreenCityBaltimore Flickr site - a community photo documentation bank

Presently spearheading “Grow Art” - creating vegetated sculptures in co-operation with & in celebration of Baltimore’s community gardens & urban farms.  www.greencitybaltimore.org

www.flickr.com/photos/growart/sets

    415 Worms

        ”and the little ones chewed on the bones oh…. the bones oh.”

Emilie Mouchous aka Gmackrr is active in the fields of electronic and noise music, interactive art, sonic installations, as well as radio and sound art. She’s searching for unique sounds using handmade, intuitive electronic instruments. Her work is less about understanding how electronics work than about finding (literally) touchy points that’ll make circuits “scream out” their own, personal voices. She’s always looking for ways to avoid the regular stage, table and chair associated with electronic music shows.
She’s been performing in France, the United States (Bent Festival NY 07 & 08) and Canada where she currently resides (Montreal).

Fil(s) is a sound performance using a modular, one-of-a-kind wearable outfit as the instrument (in french language, fil stands for electrical wire, thread/string, and has a rather fragile, organic connotation). Small sonic modules (circuit-bent toys & handmade electronics), sewn recycled materials, as well as conductive thread make a soft, body-scaled, playful instrument. 


Erin Markey is a Brooklyn-based writer/performer who creates musically theatrical events. Her solo musical, Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail, toured nationally with the 2008 Sex Worker’s Art Show and her blues opera, Looking for Limbo, co-written with Joseph Keckler, was included in the 2007 Lincoln Center Director’s Laboratory. Her work has appeared at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joe’s Pub, Performance Studies International, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, Here Arts Space, Galapagos Art Space, Club Wötever (London), and frequently at Dixon Place. She is currently developing a new telemusical, Dardy Family Home Movies by Stephen Sondheim, and is in the process of making Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail into a screenplay.

Press:

“Performance artist Erin Markey started out with comedy, talking about trying to support herself after college by becoming a stripper. Markey had a cloud of puckish hair and dark-painted eyes, and she explained that the strip club had asked her to pick a stripper name. What she chose, she explained, was Bridget, her sister’s confirmation name and the patron saint of childbirth. At first this seemed a little sacrilegious. But then Markey started to sing. ¶ She was topless, in gold panties and leather boots, arching her body around the golden pole. It was incredibly sexy, but it was more than that. She was singing about Bridget, the saint of childhood, and how she spread her legs, as Markey, too, slid up the pole and spread her legs wide. She kept climbing higher, looking at the audience with that sultry exhibitionist gaze but also reaching up, aiming for something more. ¶ It was thrilling and thought-provoking and beautiful, and it was pushing beyond all these into something else, a kind of constant striving. ¶That didn’t just count as art, I realized, spellbound; it embodied it.”  –The Harvard Crimson

“Erin Markey gets guffaws on virtually every line…” –Backstage.com

“Every single one of [Markey's] lines received a huge laugh from the audience. Silly voices are a dime a dozen, but this was a real performance worthy of the warm response.” –NY Theatre

“wickedly funny” –The NY Blade

“There are probably no envelopes Ms. Markey hasn’t pushed to the tearing point, but the effort always seems to come out funny and strangely beautiful.” –Grand Street News

“But perhaps the very strongest and most truly Brechtian moment comes at the hand of Erin Markey… fiercely eccentric, almost androgynous roughness…indulges in some very low comedy indeed.” –KDHX

“The standout performance is by Erin Markey…” –TheatreMania.

“Lovely” –Gay City News

“Vampy” – SPIN

“Brave” –Artforum

“Art Sexpot” –HX

photo: Kristyn O’Reilly

LOVE PARADE! 

Come one come all,

Artists, Performers, Milkmaids, Fluid Movement peeps, friends and family are encouraged to come by and enjoy the festival, feel the LOVE and be part of a Love Parade and bring the kids…

Fluid Movement is a Baltimore-based performance art group that juxtaposes complex subject matter with delightful and unexpected mediums. We create art that is accessible, and often educational, for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Our performances are created for urban spaces, in Baltimore and beyond. For ten years, Fluid Movement has been working hard to share our joy and silliness and we do it all for one reason: we do it for the LOVE!

So if one were to unravel a bunch, and I mean, A WHOLE LOT of thrifted afghans, one would get a sizable amount of yarn to wind around two 3-foot, doughnut-holed cardboard discs.  Depending on when one assessed one’s progress, the cardboard form’s colors would vary quite a bit (unless somehow one was able to find all the same color blanket).  One could wedge their fingers into the strands of yarn to get a peek of what’s within, but for the most part, layers and layers of whoknowswhatcolor would be buried inside.  Then, if in front of an audience one were to cut along the outer edge of the yarn-filled form, all the colors would spill out, no apologies.  Once the center has been tied, and the doughnuts have been chewed out by scissors, a ridiculous 3-foot pom-pom is left full-exposure on the stage.  This may or may not literally happen when one shares one’s words, but it for damn sure happens figuratively.

San Francisco duo FREDDY MCGUIRE is Anne McGuire, accompanied by electronic musician Wobbly (Jon Leidecker). Together they perform as The Freddy McGuire Show, in twisted lounge mode. myspace.com/freddymcguire

Anne is widely regarded for her video work, and has screenings this winter at the Berlin Film Festival and The Stan Brakhage Symposium in Boulder, CO.

Wobbly began as an improvised live mix radio program in Santa Barbara In 1990 and since 1994 has become the unintentional psuedonym of Jon Leidecker.  Live performances are still laptop free and aim for extended narratives spun from spontaneous yet coherent multi-sample polyphony.  It tries to sound like everything that’s ever happened.  Selected recent albums  are freely available online.  Previous and ongoing collaborators include  Thomas Dimuzio, People Like Us, Matmos, Anne McGuire (as ‘The Freddy McGuire Show’), Negativland, Tim Perkis, Xopher Davidson, Blevin Blectum, Lesser,  Otomo Yoshihide, Zeena Parkins & MaryClare Brzytwa (as ‘The Amen Seat’).

Frequently Answered Question Workstation

At the Lifewinning Workstation (a table made of a chalkboard and some saw horses), participants are given a pamphlet of 100 questions and a piece of chalk. The participant is asked to pick one or more questions and work on an answer or answers on the surface of the workstation. The participant should not write down which question they are answering when they write, only their personal response to it. As groups progress, they are permitted to edit or respond to any of the previous statements on the workstation surface. By the end of the day maybe we’ll have sorted out some things.

Lemonade and cookies may be provided.

inside=outside

J. Gräf, a dynamic improvisor and stalwart of the Baltimore freek music
scene, creates vivid, compelling soundworlds using intuitive/primitive homebrewed electronics, guitar and voice. J. Gräf is one-half of the noise duos Harrius (with Chiara Giovando, two LP’s on Ehse Records) and Metalux (with MV Carbon, recordings on Hanson, Load and 5RC/Kill Rock Stars, etc). She is also known for her interactive social interventions such as The Guitars Project, in which she worked with a group older women with Alzheimer’s to produce music using electric guitars, Threshold, a piece performed at last year’s High Zero event in which the audience triggered sounds by ordering food, and her Rock Carving Oraclestra, which uses psychic channeling through stone to generate readings for selected audience members. Her recent releases include Proud Flesh, a movie soundtrack to her Western film collaboration with Chiara Giovando (ehserecords.com), a split 7″ with Zaimph as well as a split Metalux/K.K. Rampage.

Exercise at 11:oo am sharp!

Light Milkmaid Aerobics and Stretching with Joe Meduza and Laura Dulski.

PSE TOUR GUIDE, Joe Meduza has been performing, creating and expressing himself in and around Baltimore since 1991.

Conspirator with the former Haus of Frau, former member of Charm City Kitty Club, Fixture and performer at the 14Karat Cabaret, founder of Wire Hanger Productions, Milkmaid and currently a board member and producer with Fluid Movement.

Joe’s work includes performance, acting, writing, painting, directing, producing and general creative endeavors.

A jack of all artistic trade and master of none.

Kathryn Williamson is a multi-disciplinary artist that uses performance, video, drawing, photography, and /or installation. Her ideas and inspiration come out of observing the world and culture around her and later transforming an idea into an action or a public intervention. Current interests involve social and political issues; specifically car culture and our lack of alternative forms of transportation. Williamson has performed and shown videos nationally and internationally. She received the Bay Area Award for Performance Art in 2000 and received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University Of Maryland.

Please join Wiliamson on Sunday for a unique ride on the Light Rail. She will be taking a group on round trip tours demonstrating different riding techniques and philosophies. Meet her at the Centre Street Light Rail Station for warm up “exercises” where participants can win FREE Light Rail Tickets and other prizes before boarding the train…or jump on Kelley Bell’s Pedestrian Services Express at any point, a new convenient way to navigate the festival, for a pre-ride that will make a stop at the Centre Street Light Rail Station. Ride on!!

• Warm Up “Exercises”: 12pm (Park behind the north bound Centre Street Light Rail) Station)
• Light Rail Journey : 1pm (Short RT ride on Light Rail)

Leslie Rogers is a Philadelphia-based artist, puppeteer, and wrangler. She was raised studying quilting and textile art, topped it off with a BFA from MICA, then discovered a dirty secret: magic. She practices the craft with the Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont and Puppet Uprising, a Philadelphia-based puppeteers’ collective. Her specialty is lifestallation in either form, installed life or live stalling. Her greatest joy is coercing viewers into performing in ways they never would if asked outright.

Leslie Rogers will invite the Birth Beast of Business to plant the seeds of commerce in an area of commercial suffering. From its seething marsupial sack, the BBB will bestow upon the region the most pure and unadulterated symbol of success, the Necktie. The BBB’s properly blessed, birthed, and planted necktie is a surefire route to lucrative and total acquisition for all. The beast’s miracle will be glorified on video by Johnny Woods of Mathematical Park. http://www.vimeo.com/980661

Mark Brown is a Video & New Media Artist presently living and working in Baltimore. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art; majoring in Interactive Media with a concentration in Video.

Mark Brown currently works with local art collective Wham City and the presently forming and mutating Baltimore Humans group; with whom he recently toured exhibiting video works and performing experimental electro-acoustic improvised audio/visual compositions with Baltimore Artists Shaun Flynn and David Zimmerman. He also regularly collaborates with Baltimore artist Kari Altmann; with whom he helped form the experimental curatorial project Netmares Netdreams (http://www.netmaresnetdreams.net).

please visit http://www.mcbrown.info for more information and selected works.

Pedestrian Service Exquisite’s Professional Welcoming Fairy

Melissa Ultra Sharlat,  is a vocalist and welcoming fairy. An ordained reverend, Ms. Sharlat can officiate a non-denominational and personalized service for any occasion.

Exercise at 11:oo am sharp.

Every morning a happy morning…… with movement!

here is my grandma and i right after morning exercises. 

Neil Feather has been inventing and performing with experimental musical instruments since 1970. His instrument are qualitative machines that produce scary and funny sounds to construct a music that is as unlikely as it is beautiful.

Owen Brightman and Santina Gutierrez find pleasure in walking tall, stilt waltzing, spectacles and specs-appeal.
WHAT THE FUTURE
At the intersection of trick and treat, we will perform ribbon cutting ceremonies for red-light audiences. The line will be drawn, limp and luxurious. The pose will be held, eager and expectant. The scissors will scissor and the new will be open, allowing passage between the local and the cosmological beyond.

Rahne Alexander is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Baltimore. She is the guitarist and songwriter for the art garage trio The Degenerettes and a senior organizer of the Charm City Kitty Club. Her video art has screened in galleries and film festivals across the country, and she is a frequent contributor to City Paper and Smile Hon You’re In Baltimore. www.rahne.com

Photo: Defekto

Transmodern Hoopdreams:

An experimental improvisational, mobile dance happening!
Hula Hoopers, stilt walkers, poi spinners, jugglers and other exotic dancers are invited to perform in the park from 12-2:30pm with Regina.  No experience needed. Learn how to practice what you love!!!!!

“You are the secret of the Universe.” , (Douglas Brooks)

Reina was born Tatiana M. Williams on Sept 17th 1982. The name Reina, by the way, means “Queen” in Spanish. And her royal prowess shines, in Spanish. And her royal prowess shines, as a singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, engineer, and performer of her own, original compositions as well as bringing a new flavor to familiar cover tunes.

So you see, its not just hype, because this woman is the Queen of her musical domain.

Born and raised in a musical family in Baltimore, Maryland, this 26 year old began her music career as an extra on stage, with the Baltimore Opera Company when she was barely 17 months old. Formal musical training began at the age of five, with private piano lessons. She has been writing music and lyrics since age 11, and also plays guitar, bass, and percussion instruments.

Trained at The Omega Studios for Recorded Arts and Sciences in Rockville, Maryland; a State-accredited higher education institution, Reina acquired proficiency on the intricacies of recorded music there, while developing a keen understanding of both the technical and artistic components of recorded music.

She was hired as an apprentice engineer at Reel Tyme Studios in NY, run by Grammy award winner, Ernie Lake, and has also worked with DJ Eddie Baez. She also worked as an engineer at Oz Recording Studio, in Baltimore for two years, where she worked with sensational artists such as Alicia Keys, and Usher.

She is currently involved in developing various East Coast based artists, and is also breaking in to film and television. Her music can be heard throughout various network and cable TV shows.

Reina is an out and proud Lesbian, with a little Dominican blood coursing through veins, which gives her music that extra flava, energy and style, like no other.

Created in the spring of 2008, Services United is a collaborative group that creates social service based artworks that seek to generate community engagement and dialog. From volunteerism to sustainable practices, SU is interested in exploring the concept of interaction and services as an art form. Recent Projects include Baltimore City Seed Bomb Map, Emergency Preparedness Gardens, inviting the public to complete survey’s about the service industry, and a series of performances exploring volunteerism.

Members: Jill Fannon, Marian April Glebes, Jaimes Mayhew, Kathryn Williamson, & Shannon Young.

www.servicesunited.net

Maps for Ascending

Services United will create an electric scavenger hunt in Gallery Four using maps and clues that communicate energy consumption patterns.

Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.

Shana studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Moulton has also recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and studied at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her videos and Performances have been screened and exhibited internationally and she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

shanamoultonweb.com

http://www.eai.org/eai/artistTitles.htm?id=10320

Selfsame Sisters
These two artist connected at the hip in a adjoined dress plan to tempt, tease and tantalize participates into bacchanalian revelry using the game of double dare.  

Teeth Mountain is a collective of musicians, artists, and philosophers seeking to subdue the fabric of time by exploring the hypnotic and transformative effects of sound, volume, spirit, rhythm, environment, and other means. Founded by Andrew Burt and Kate Levitt in Baltimore in the Spring of 2007, the group has worked tirelessly to realize its ideas through numerous tours and hundreds of shows, collaborations with a diverse group of musicians, an acclaimed LP, and hosting events at the Comfort Dome, their headquarters in downtown Baltimore.

April will see the release of a new LP on Not Not Fun Records. Comprised of live recordings from the latter half of 2008, the album is a different take on the live album format, seeking to represent the experience of a live band not through a faithful reproduction of a given performance but rather as a dream of a long journey, with the source material manipulated and edited to form a wholly new composition.

The band also is setting out on a full-U.S. tour with the Dan Deacon Ensemble and Future Islands beginning in April. Members Kate Levitt, Greg Fox, Andrew Burt, Justin Frye, and Andrew Bernstein will also be performing in the Ensemble. Following this tour, the band will head to Europe for a week of festivals with Dan and Future Islands and then a two week tour of the UK and the Continent on their own.

Thao Nguyen is a first generation Vietnamese American, who was raised up on her dad’s fast food treats and her mom’s traditional home cooking. As a broke college student, she sometime made money selling homemade springrolls and rice cakes using the recipes from her mom. The other year Thao re-visited Vietnam, a journey that brought her closer to her food and family. She brings you treats reminiscent of the homeland, prepared in the most home-down manner.

Ginkgo Porridge Street Hawking -
Most people may know ginkgo as the stinky fruit that drops all over Baltimore city streets, but may not know its edible and has been used in traditional Eastern cooking for a long time. This porridge is a recipe I learned from an older Vietnamese woman whom I happen to first meet as she was foraging and since that encounter has grown to be my good friend and a frequent host to my curiosity of our shared culture. Though the porridge as food is absolutely delicious, it is representative of a broader idea of understanding personal and community immigrant history as something to be shared, discussed, and hopefully a source of building bonds.

The Cause Company and Ambush Theater proudly present:

Get Strolled!

Tired of being bolted down, bored with working the same old Baltimore block, a crew of street fixtures breaks free to roam through town.

A choreographed bout of cardboard and chaos, Get Strolled! creates an amusingly unpredictable, kinetic landscape that strolls through YOU! Get ready to be entertained, ambushed and amused by this costumed, dancing posse of lampposts, shrubs, mailboxes and more!

Get ready to Get Strolled!

Get Strolled!, a collaboration between Ambush Theater and the Cause Company, was conceived and produced by Baltimore performing artists Annie Howe, Kesling Kalb and Valeska Populoh. Additional performers include Paco Fish and Kristin Faber.

AMBUSH THEATER is a mobilized posse of shrubbery with a mind of it’s own. Part puppetry, part topiary, part clown, Ambush mixes the overlooked world of shrubbery with the suspense and drama of a low budget thriller. Ambush has shared our unique brand of victory garden antics many places from music festivals to press conferences, historic ships, museums, burlesque shows and even college graduations! www.ambushtheater.com

THE CAUSE COMPANY presents public performances and miniature stage productions incorporating puppetry, costuming and masks. The company, founded in 2005 by Valeska Populoh and Sibelius Anton, draws its inspiration from the City and the power of each person to effect positive change in the world.

From scratch from scratch from scratch. Is it better to use my bio all set to go? Is this a good process? I am an artist who is a performance artist/playwrite. I’ve written and toured with many short and long plays. The play I am working on now has performance art in it; it actually contains performance art! Such questions resonate through my work - when is the best time for performers to burst into song? When is sadness strong and evocative, and when does it droop the energy? How is exuberance funny and deep? Why is the structure of every day so incredibly weird?

You can catch a glimpse of some work I’ve done on www.zerotv.com. Just type my name in the search box in the lower left hand corner. The Tingle Showcase was a show I put on collaboratively at Darling Hall, a theater we started where I lived for 5 years in Milwaukee. I’ve also made several films and videos.

Wendy Clupper is a professor who teaches performance and contemporary art at MICA. Having received her doctorate from University of Maryland at College Park, she has been in the Baltimore area for several years and performed two years ago in the Transmodern festival. Wendy is a published author whose scholarship focuses on outdoor sites for performance and experimental art-making. She has performed her solo shows in N.Y.C. and San Francisco, as well as in MD. Her work plays with notions of authority and absurdity.