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May 2019
Yvette Mayorga-High Maintenance
Yvette Mayorga’s multi-media installation High Maintenance is a flamboyantly chilling revelation, offering unsettling insights into how the forces of violence, make-believe, and consumerism infiltrate the contemporary immigrant experience, and subvert our understanding of identity. Drawing inspiration from the politics of America’s southern border with Mexico, her own life as a first generation Latinx-American, and her parents’ often dangerous experiences as immigrants in the 1970s, Mayorga’s work examines how pain and uncertainty are covered with a veneer of celebration. High Maintenanceconjures up…
Find out more »July 2019
Lockerbie Night Market
In partnership with Citimark and Gershman Partners, Spark Placemaking and Big Car Collaborative are back for another year to host four Night Markets at Lockerbie! Thanks to our friends at Sun King Brewery, beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street. Join us for an evening downtown, full of opportunities to enjoy the local Indianapolis arts, music, and food scene. Purchase goods from local artists and food…
Find out more »August 2019
Adam Wollenberg: Holy Smokes & Bad Jokes
Join us at Listen Hear for the grand opening of Adam Wollenberg: Holy Smokes & Bad Jokes, Friday August 2nd. The opening ceremony will be accompanied by a performance from Drayco McCoy Holy Smokes & Bad Jokes is a collected representation of metaphors and symbols based off Adams experiences in the past year and a half. Most of these pieces are done in all ball point pen which has a shelf life. Especially when exposed to UV light. This body…
Find out more »Masters Retrospective II: Social Practice & Placemaking
The second cohort in UIndy's MA in Social Practice Art exhibits their work from the last year in many neighborhoods in Indianapolis and from around the state, including interactive and participatory projects in the gallery. *Closing Reception: Friday, August 16, 5-7 pm (Remarks at 6) Gallery is free to attend & open during regular Tube Factory Artspace hours. Eve Eggleston presents a series of social practice art projects to raise community awareness of the plight of the pollinators. This recent…
Find out more »Now Age Emcee
Live performances involve group chanting, a shrine, a cassette boom box and telephone mic to create a lo-fi shamanic Hip Hop ceremony; a boom bap sound bath. His moniker is inspired by the brilliant writings of Taraka Larson of the band Prince Rama. In November 2018, he released the first single, "Come out of Hiding" from his forthcoming debut album, Transition Vision. The record is a sound he dubs: Hep Cat Hippie Hop. Now Age Emcee considers himself a part…
Find out more »Cry Salon
Featuring readings by Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy / Soundtracked by John Dawson and Jared Landberg About Performance: Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy will present their contributions to the recently released book "Cry List", a collection of essays on the topic of crying, along with a variety show other of poetic conversations, and short plays. The soundtrack for the evening will be provided by John Dawson and Jared Landberg. -- Bios: Sammi Skolmoski is a writer…
Find out more »Low Pone Presents: Minor Sweat
Low Pone presents: Minor Sweat A safe space to be your queer selves. A mashup of open mic, art drag, radical thoughts, and community for the youth of Indy.
Find out more »Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself. Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will…
Find out more »September 2019
Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination
In this new exhibition, New-York-based multi-media artist Saya Woolfalk explores our understanding of the human condition — a state of affairs governed by seemingly unavoidable conflicts such as birth, growth, and death. This show explores how technology has allowed us to ease our suffering by making change less difficult and transformation more enjoyable. Perhaps the ultimate human technological advancement would be the elimination of mortality by extending human life indefinitely in a biological, digital, or other virtual state. Recent advances…
Find out more »Pints for Parks – Featuring Indy Urban Acres
Our Indy Parks are beautiful, but it is our programming partners and park users (you) who give them life! Join us at the Tube Factory artspace the second Wednesday every other month for Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis beer, and tons of fun! $1 per beer supports the Indianapolis Parks Foundation! https://www.indyparksfoundation.org/indy-urban-acres/ *Family Friendly*
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