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SUMMARY:RCA: Scott Hocking
DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based Scott Hocking visited Indianapolis in January and selected the former RCA Factory at Michigan and LaSalle as fodder for his installation in the main gallery. “It immediately grabbed me\,” Hocking explained of the experience. “The RCA history was interesting enough. But the building was last used as a recycling plant\, and was filled with now abandoned\, un-recycled waste: plastic\, paper\, foam — thousands of objects.  The irony of these mountains of recyclables is that they would never be recycled. A huge pile of military grade plastic cases\, with ominous stencils: ‘laser firing simulator system\,’ ‘interrogation kit\,’ ‘casualty evacuation kit\,’ ‘tank weapon gunnery simulation system.’  Pallets of clothes and books\, including dozens of old hymnals. Plastic pill and dish soap bottles strewn everywhere. Giant fragments of fast food and gas station signage: McDonald’s\, Steel City\, Family Dollar\, Wendy’s. And a monster stack of Styrofoam slabs and wedges — melted and distorted from failed arson attempts.  The whole place was crazy and great.” \nHocking spent three weeks in Indianapolis gathering materials from the site\, documenting\, researching\, and creating his installation. He hauled over 100 massive hunks of burned Styrofoam\, multiple plastic blobs melted by fires\, fragmented fast food signage\, nifty anthropomorphic food-character murals\, and dozens of other artifacts. He brought this all to Tube Factory. And he worked onsite while living in Big Car’s neighboring artist residency home. The resulting installation uses the main gallery as a kind of ceremonial site — the burned Styrofoam mountain could be a dystopian temple or future glacier. \nAlso featured — in the eastside space adjacent to the cartoon food doodz from the old RCA building — is a sampling of Hocking’s Bad Graffiti series. These are photographs he takes of the work of renegade painters. The series\, featuring photos taken most often in Detroit\, now includes discoveries from his Indianapolis visits. \nIn the video room\, Hocking blends images from projects he’s competed in Detroit and rural Michigan with footage from his recent work in Indianapolis — offering a look at his often solitary and meditative process. The videos also highlight Hocking’s love of nature and ways the natural and man-made worlds are really one. \nHocking’s artwork has been exhibited internationally\, including the Detroit Institute of Arts\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit\, the University of Michigan\, the Smart Museum of Art\, the School of the Art Institute Chicago\, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis\, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum\, the Mattress Factory Art Museum\, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, the Kunst-Werke Institute\, the Van Abbemuseum\, and Kunsthalle Wien. He was recently awarded a Kresge Artist Fellowship\, and is represented by Susanne Hilberry Gallery. \n“The coyotes roaming Detroit fascinate artist Scott Hocking. It is an animal that is adaptable and gregarious\, yet also solitary and rejects human domestication.  Hocking encounters them on his sojourns through the parts of the city where post-industrial urban landscape is in the process of being reclaimed by nature.  He creates photographs\, sculpture\, and assemblages in these places of transition. Likewise\, he is a coyote-like roamer in pursuit of evidence and archeological specimens created by the modern human species. The coyote is a frequent character in the folklore of the Western World going back to Mesoamerican cosmology—a picaresque figure that has the ability to assume both human and animal form.  It is easy to conjure such a fantastical character around Hocking\, because he is more of a scavenger than flâneur\, and his work is more mythology than documentary.” \n— Laura Mott\, Curator of Contemporary Art and Design\, Cranbrook Art Museum \nThe exhibit\, curated by Shauta Marsh\, is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nThe exhibit is open Monday through Friday\, 9 am – 6 pm and Saturdays 11 am-3pm. \nPhoto: RCA\, installation of found materials\, Scott Hocking
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/scott-hocking/
LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Librería Donceles
DESCRIPTION:Librería Donceles is an itinerant\, Spanish-language second-hand bookstore\, created by Pablo Helguera in 2013 out of a desire to address the lack of outlets that serve the growing Hispanic and Latino communities in the United States. Since it was first installed in New York City\, has traveled to Phoenix\, San Francisco\, Brooklyn\, Seatle\, Chicago and now Indianapolis. Each time that it has been presented\, it has constituted the sole Spanish-language used bookstore within that city. This is the same night as the opening night of the  Scott Hocking exhibit at Tube Factory artspace.  \nAgosto 5-Octubre 22\nLibrería Donceles es una en librería itinerante de libros en español de segunda mano\, creada por Pablo Helguera en 2013 por el deseo de hacer frente a la falta de salidas que sirven a las comunidades hispanas y latinas que crecen en los Estados Unidos. Desde que se instaló por primera vez en la ciudad de Nueva York\, ha viajado a Phoenix\, San Francisco\, Brooklyn\, Seatle\, Chicago\, y ahora Indianapolis. Cada vez que se ha presentado\, ha constituido en ser la única librería de libros en español dentro de esa ciudad. \nPart functioning bookstore and part participatory installation\, it confronts the very tangible implications of particular social dynamics\, revealing social structures that exist within plain sight\, while powerfully advocating for equity through the physical presence of a bookstore. It asserts the materiality of books\, at a time when digital platforms for reading have fundamentally shifted the economics of book production\, distribution\, and consumption. \nParte librería funcional y parte instalación participativa\, enfrenta a las consecuencias muy tangibles de determinadas dinámicas sociales\, revelando estructuras sociales que existen dentro de la vista\, mientras que poderosamente la defensa de la equidad a través de la presencia física de una librería. Afirma la materialidad de los libros\, en un momento en que las plataformas digitales para la lectura han cambiado fundamentalmente la economía de la producción de libros\, distribución y consumo. \nComprising over 6\,500 volumes on topics ranging from biology to architecture\, the books in were all donated in exchange for artworks created by Helguera. Each book bears the name of its donor on a plate inside its front cover\, pointing to the social history retained within that book. Each visitor to the bookstore is allowed to purchase one book\, at a price that they set\, substituting the terms of a market economy with those of a gift economy. \nConsiste de 6.500 volúmenes sobre temas que van desde la biología a la arquitectura\, los libros fueron donados a cambio de obras de arte creadas por Helguera. Cada libro lleva el nombre de su donante en una placa dentro de su portada\, que apunta a la historia social retenido dentro de ese libro. Se permite que cada visitante a la librería para comprar un libro\, a un precio puesto por el visitante\, la sustitución de los términos de una economía de mercado con los de una economía del regalo. \nThe project takes its name from the historic street\, Calle Donceles\, in Mexico City that is lined with used bookstores. \nEl proyecto toma su nombre de la histórica calle\, la calle de Donceles\, en la Ciudad de México que está llena de tiendas de libros usados. \nPablo Helguera is a New York-based artist whose practice has addressed issues of memory\, ethnography\, pedagogy\, and the absurd through installation\, socially engaged art\, sculpture\, and performance. Helguera is the recipient of a Creative Capital Grant (2005)\, a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)\, as well as the first International Award for Participatory Art (2011). \nPablo Helguera es un artista con sede en Nueva York\, cuya práctica ha abordado cuestiones de la memoria\, la etnografía\, la pedagogía\, y el absurdo a través de la instalación\, el arte socialmente comprometido\, la escultura y el rendimiento. Helguera es el destinatario de un Capital Creativo Grant (2005)\, una beca Guggenheim (2008)\, así como el primer Premio Internacional de Arte Participativo (2011).
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/libreria-donceles/
LOCATION:Listen Hear\,  2620 Shelby St\, \, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:MUFON Symposium-Bill Konkolesky- UFO Abductions and Encounters
DESCRIPTION:While other people’s first memories are of birthday parties and dental visits\, Bill Konkolesky’s first memory is a visit from a strange\, little man with giant eyes — an alien. It would be the first of many visits he would receive over the years. And\, thanks to MUFON Indiana\, (Mutual UFO Network) Konkolesky will share his expertise on encounters and abductions with the public. \nKonkolesky spent the last two decades actively investigating these otherworldly phenomenons\, trying to make some sense of the bizarre events that have happened to him and others. What he’s discovered is that the truth is far stranger than what he first assumed. \n“At our meetings\, we have people from all sorts of professions\, including pilots and law enforcement\, that have seen things but don’t talk about it at their work\,” Konkolesky told the Oakland County Daily Tribune. \nUnited States presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan\, NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper\, actor Jackie Gleason\, and former Beatles member John Lennon have all openly discussed their UFO sightings. \n“The thing about the phenomena is that many people have the luxury of disbelief. Culturally\, you don’t have people talking about it\, it’s not in the news\, they live their life completely without any need to buy into something like this\,” Konkolesky continued. “If you tell someone about it and ask them to believe it\, you’re really asking them a lot because then they have to process it —what does this mean to my place on Earth and our place in the universe\, what does that mean for my religious beliefs\, my political beliefs\, or our future. Unfortunately\, some people lose that luxury of disbelief when something goes way beyond the point of explanation\, and they have to re-evaluate everything.”\nIn addition to the presentation by Konkolesky\, State Director for the Indiana chapter of MUFON\, Stewart Hill will speak about technology in his talk “Exoplanets\, A Fine Tuned Universe? Physics and the 4th Dimension and Omega 3.” This will be followed by a free screening at dusk of the 1951 film The Day The Earth Stood Still.\n\nThe Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction film. In the movie\, a humanoid alien visitor named Klaatu comes to Earth\, accompanied by a powerful eight-foot tall robot\, Gort\, to deliver an important message that will affect the entire human race. \nIn 1995 The Day the Earth Stood Still was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as “culturally\, historically\, or aesthetically significant.”\nThe afternoon schedule will go as follows: Konklesky at 1:30 p.m.\, followed by Hill at 3 p.m. and the movie at 7:30 p.m. \nAbout Bill Konkolesky\nBill Konkolesky is State Director of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network and the author of the autobiographical “Experiencer: Raised in Two Worlds” and his personal abduction experiences have been chronicled in the SyFy documentary “Abduction Diaries\,” DVD documentary “Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind\,” and the ABC news special “UFOs: Seeing is Believing.”\nHe has also served as consultant to the History Channel’s “Hangar 1” and “UFO Hunters\,” as well as the Science Channel’s “Uncovering Aliens” and “Close Encounters.” \nAbout Stewart Hill\nHill has been the State Director for the Indiana Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network for the last six years and served previously as the state Chief Investigator and a state section director. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and worked for 26 years in the medical diagnostics industry working with state-of-the-art technology and chemistries. Prior to that he worked with commercial and military electronic applications and spent six years in the U.S. Air Force working in airborne navigation. First interested in UFO’s with the 1952 national wave\, he lost interest when the subject of “flying saucers” was discontinued in the popular media but regain interest when the Internet became an informational tool in the 1990’s. He has managed\, investigated\, researched and documented hundreds of Indiana UFO reports over the last sixteen years. \nAbout MUFON Indiana\nMUFON Indiana is a dedicated group of MUFON certified field investigators donating their time and expenses to the investigation of submitted reports and to the study of UFOs. Read more about them at: http://indianamufon.homestead.com/
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/bill-konkolesky-ufo-abductions-and-encounters/
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park
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SUMMARY:The Day The Earth Stood Still
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an outdoor movie!\nThe Day the Earth Stood Still (aka Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World) is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction film from 20th Century Fox\, produced by Julian Blaustein\, directed by Robert Wise\, and starring Michael Rennie\, Patricia Neal\, Hugh Marlowe and Sam Jaffe. The Day the Earth Stood Still was written by Edmund H. North\, based on the 1940 science fiction short story “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates.The notable score was composed by Bernard Herrmann. \nIn The Day the Earth Stood Still\, a humanoid alien visitor named Klaatu comes to Earth\, accompanied by a powerful eight-foot tall robot\, Gort\, to deliver an important message that will affect the entire human race. \nIn 1995 The Day the Earth Stood Still was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as “culturally\, historically\, or aesthetically significant.” \nPart of the Indiana MUFON conference.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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