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SUMMARY:Flore Laurentienne at Tube Factory artspace
DESCRIPTION:Flore Laurentienne is performing at Tube Factory artspace on Wednesday\, March\, 26\, 2025 from 7-9pm EST. \nTickets are $10 and can be purchased HERE via Eventbrite. \nIn addition\, Indianapolis composer and instrumentalist Rob Funkhouser will open the concert.  \n\nEach performance is a chance to step into a world where music and nature intertwine—a rare and intimate experience. \nFlore Laurentienne is an open window to the technicolor soundscapes of Mathieu David Gagnon – the Canadian composer\, producer and multi-instrumentalist who shapes vast orchestral sound to interpret the rugged wilderness and waters of his native Québec. The namesake of an inventory documenting St. Lawrence Valley flora\, Flore Laurentienne illumes the science and spirit of his surrounds through expansive string orchestrations melded with the textures and experimentation of early analogue synths. \nFollowing the compass and critical acclaim of his Volume I debut\, Flore Laurentienne returned in October 2022 with Volume II to resume his voyage into environment and emotion. Recorded with string and clarinet ensembles along with Gagnon’s signature modulation\, Volume II explores forces of water as metaphorical markers to navigate passages of life and loss\, . Reflecting the parallel tenors of nature and humankind\, Volume II locates another estuary in Flore Laurentienne’s tides toward contemporary sonic romanticism. \nIn his approach to composition hued by leitmotif and constraint\, Gagnon challenges himself to extract beauty from simplicity in homage to the changing faces of natural landscapes. The presence of familiarity and flux in Volume I is heightened through the vivid instrumentation of a fifteen-piece string orchestra\, which Gagnon brings together with an array of 1960s and 70s synthesizers\, including the Minimoog Model D\, the EMS Synthi and combo organs – an innately ambitious project which forges the composer’s distinctive path in the expansion of classical music archetypes. \nFlore Laurentienne was nominated in seven categories at the 2020 ADISQ in Québec\, winning the ‘Arrangement of the Year’ and ‘Sound Recording and Mixing of the Year’. In 2020\, Volume I was longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize and received four nominations at the Felix Awards for ‘Revelation of the Year’\, ‘Songwriter of the Year’\, ‘Critic’s Choice Album of the Year’ and ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’. In 2021\, Flore Laurentienne was nominated for the** Juno Awards** ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’ in recognition for his contribution to Canadian music. In addition\, Fleuve No. 1 opened the Chanel fashion show at Paris Fashion Week 2022. \nAwards & Recognition \nNominated at the 2021 JUNOS Awards for Instrumental Album of the Year \nNominated on the 2020 Polaris Prize Short List for Volume 1 \nWinner at the 2020 ADISQ for Arrangement of the Yearfor Volume 1 \nWinner at the 2020 ADISQ for Sound Recording and Mixing of the Year for Volume 1 \nNominated at the 2020 ADISQ for Best New Artist \nNominated at the 2020 ADISQ for Album of the Year – Critic’s Choice for Volume 1 \nNominated at the 2020 ADISQ for Author or Composer of the Year for Volume 1 \nNominated at the 2020 ADISQ for Revelation of the Year for Volume 1 \nNominated at the 2020 ADISQ for Songwriter of the Year for Volume 1 \nNominated at the 2020 ADISQ for Album of the Year – Instrumental for Volume 1 \n\nRob Funkhouser is a composer\, performer\, and instrument builder who can never quite sit still. His work is concerned with ideas of place\, memory\, and pattern and he is interested in interrogating the interstitial spaces between established genres.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/flore/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250427T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250427T150000
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SUMMARY:Current State 2025: Herron's Electronic Music Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Featuring more than 20 performers\, CURRENT STATE is a live concert event putting the talent of Herron School of Art and Design music students on display.\n\nStudents from Herron’s undergraduate music technology program will present original works drawn from a wide array of musical styles including electronic pop\, house\, hip-hop\, noise\, experimental\, and beyond.\n\nHerron’s music technology program is proud to partner with Big Car Collaborative\, whose Tube Factory artspace will serve as a stage for this exciting afternoon of live music.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/current-state-2025-herrons-electronic-music-showcase/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250427T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162820
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Play!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-play/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250615T170000
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SUMMARY:Ben Hall: Trunk Rattle Sound Bath
DESCRIPTION:Trunk Rattle Sound Bath merges ongoing areas of Ben Hall’s research into polyrhythm (the simultaneous use of two or more contrasting rhythms)\, sonic immersion\, and ancestral resonance through the lens of embodied listening. The title draws from the cultural experience of low-end frequencies booming from car trunks — windows shaking with no discernible rhythm\, the body absorbing it all. “Vibrational frequencies are in everything\,” Hall says. “Our bodies. We are observing by vibration even when we shut down. Our nervous system is still there\, thrumming.” \nWith this new body of work\, Hall focuses on not just what is played or heard\, but what is felt\, what is transferred through vibration\, what buzzes and rattles in the body long after the source has passed.  The body is a resonant shell for the vibrations that occur all around us. “The 17th-century Dutch physicist Christian Huygens observed the entrainment of pendulums\,” Hall explains. “He noted in 1655 that if two pendulum clocks were placed near each other\, they would synchronize. They wanted to be in rhythm with each other — but it was\, and is\, not instant. That move toward synchronization\, toward harmony… The experience of rhythm\, of immersion in sound\, of allowing your body to be an entire resonating chamber is to allow that process to begin each time — and allow for the vibration to be you.” \nInspired by the mbira\, a traditional African thumb piano with metal tines and built-in buzzers used in spiritual ceremonies to connect with ancestors\, Hall draws a throughline from West African sonic cosmologies to Midwestern street corners. “Those buzzes are supposed to be the actual frequencies that cut through to the ancestors\,” he says. “The consequence of the sound is what communicates with another world.” In this way\, the sound bath is not a cleansing ritual in the New Age sense\, but a full-bodied immersion in histories. \nHall makes the connection between the mbiras of tradition and the trunk rattle of modernity. “When you are at the red light next to the Buick\,” Hall says\, “you’ll notice that the rattling and buzzing is not consistent with the rhythm created by the bass frequencies coming from the vehicle. Often\, it will seem that the rattling of your windows — a different distance\, a different material from the sound maker — is not even related at times to the rhythm\, as though the frequencies you’re hearing in the passing vehicle are somehow coincidental to the vibration in your home.”  \nTrunk Rattle Sound Bath invites visitors to consider rhythm not only as musical but as a way of knowing\, of feeling\, of remembering. “When a frequency\, a sound (but also a rhythm\, a repetition) occurs to us at a different frequency than the one we live in\,” Hall says\, “we are receiving energy. Frequency is just another way to say energy.” Whether through sound\, image\, or movement\, Hall’s work opens a space for that energy to circulate — and for the body\, buzzing like a loose antenna\, to receive it.  “Vibrational frequencies are in everything\,” Hall declares. \nAbout the artist: Ben Hall is an artist and composer based in/from Detroit\, Michigan. He was profiled in Fred Moten’s 2017 book\, Black and Blur and frequently works as a critic and essayist with a research focus on the visionary American composers Milford Graves and Bill Dixon. He formerly served as a senior research fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College from 2018-2022. He has presented prints\, drawings\, film\, sculpture and works for sound in numerous exhibitions including the solos Jives & Gambles at Essex Flowers in NYC and Slow An Alarm Until It’s A Tone at MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit). He is currently compiling material for the forthcoming publication\, A Black Liberation Music Guide. \nCurator: Landon Caldwell \nLive performance: June 8\, 12pm by Hall’s ensemble\, Oceanic Beloved. \nThis exhibition is made possible by the Indy Arts Council and the City of Indianapolis\, the Indiana Arts Commission\, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Fund\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, and Efroymson Family Fund.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/ben-halltrunk-rattle-sound-bath/
LOCATION:IN
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250504T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250504T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162820
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Play!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-play-2/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250507T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162820
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T164031Z
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SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, come hang out and draw with our longterm artist in residence\, India Hines. \nIndia Hines\, a self-taught artist from Denver\, CO\, and raised in Indianapolis\, IN\, uses ink\, watercolor\, and oil paints to explore spirituality and the subconscious. Their intuitive process results in figurative faces and organic shapes that reflect a journey of growth\, resilience\, and love. India’s art is deeply meditative\, rich with emotional depth\, and narrates stories of overcoming adversity. Active in community projects and exhibitions\, India believes in art’s power to unite and continues to push creative boundaries while exploring personal growth and self-discovery
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-2/
LOCATION:IN
CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250511T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250518T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-2/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250521T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250521T200000
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Derek Mong
DESCRIPTION:Derek Mong will begin reading at 7pm. \nAfter Lynch’s reading and a brief break\, the open mic will begin. \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem about a beautiful catastrophe. \nAbout Derek Mong: \nDerek Mong is the author of When the Earth Flies into the Sun (October 2024)\, The Identity Thief (2018) and Other Romes (2011)—all from Saturnalia Books. A chapbook\, The Ego and the Empiricist (2017)\, was a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Contest. His collaborative translation\, The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin—completed with his wife\, Anne O. Fisher—received the 2018 Cliff Becker Translation Prize. \nA poet\, essayist\, and translator\, Derek’s work appears widely: the Kenyon Review\, Blackbird\, At Length\, Pleiades\, Verse Daily\, the Missouri Review\, Two Lines\, Poetry Northwest\, and in the anthology\, Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite (2017). He has blogged for Kenyon Review Online\, where he wrote a series of Leaves of Grass beer reviews\, and written essay-reviews for Gettysburg Review. He is currently a Contributing Editor at Zócalo Public Square and\, along with his wife\, edits At Length\, a literary journal devoted to long work. \nNew poems and essays have appeared in the Houston Chronicle\, the LA Times\, Zócalo Public Square\, Free Inquiry\, Always Crashing\, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review\, and the Boston Globe. His latest long poem\, “Midnight Arrhythmia\,” was published in Action\, Spectacle.  \nAn Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Wabash College (Crawfordsville\, Ind.)\, Derek holds degrees from Stanford University (M.A. Ph.D.)\, the University of Michigan (M.F.A.)\, and Denison University (B.A.). Born in Portland\, Oregon and raised outside of Cleveland\, Ohio\, he currently lives in West Lafayette\, Indiana with his wife and son. \n@derek_mong \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjarderek-mong/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250525T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-3/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250601T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250601T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-4/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250606T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250921T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162820
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T185028Z
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SUMMARY:Will Higgins: Museum of Fabulosity
DESCRIPTION:June 6 through Sept. 21 | Guichelaar Gallery at the Tube Factory artspace campus | 1135 Cruft St.\n“It’s widely held that Indianapolis is a boring place with a dull\, vanilla past.\nThat notion is wrong.\nYes\, the city is a “good place to raise a family” and yes\, it’s a “sports capital.”\nBut it’s also freaky.\nPeople don’t realize this because staid\, well-meaning chamber-of-commerce types have swept the weird bits of Indianapolis’ history\, the truly interesting and truly human stories\, under the rug.\nFinally\, along comes the Museum of Fabulosity to look under the rug.\nIncluded in this pop-up museum\, made to resemble a small-town history museum\, are 16 amazing stories\, many so strange they may seem made-up. But they are not made up. They are all absolutely true. They are paired with amazing photographs and also fabulous objects that approximate long lost Indy icons — boxing gloves worn by Lou Thomas the night he killed Arne Andersson; the chair Cannonball Adderly tipped back in the night he discovered Wes Montgomery; James Snow’s Panama hat; Jinx Dawson’s skull; Max Emmerich’s spikes…”\n\n\n— Will Higgins
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/will-higgins-museum-of-fabulosity/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250608T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250608T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162820
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-5/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250615T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250615T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-6/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250622T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250622T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-7/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250629T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250629T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Bocce Ball!
DESCRIPTION:Grab some friends or neighbors and come by to enjoy Tube Factory’s Bocce court! The outdoor court is located to the left of 1207 Cruft Street\, down Cruft past Tube Factory. Enjoy the weather\, Terri Sisson Park\, and our community with open bocce ball!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/open-bocce-ball-8/
LOCATION:Terri Sisson Park\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Outdoor Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20250905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251019T150000
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SUMMARY:SOMA
DESCRIPTION:Main Gallery \nThis exhibition explores the supernatural and ethereal states of somatic responses. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World\, where soma was a fictional drug used to pacify civilians in a state of existential bliss and disassociation. Exploring the socialized perceptions of figures occupying space\, Soma takes on confronting perceived utopia and dysmorphia in this exhibition. \nIn the works\, moments of adolescent innocence are paired with surrealist and folkloric expressions of figuration. Satirically\, this speaks to resisting and transcending moments that are out of alignment as people grow; without physically being dismissed. \nFeatured artists: \nJo Archuleta (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nTommy Lomeli (Helena\, Montana) \nKatherine Looney (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nOctober Sharify (Chicago) \nIsaac Tapia (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nCesar Velez (Kansas City\, Missouri) \nGuest Curator: Yashi Davalos\nDavalos is an Afro-Puerto Rican-Mexican\, Atlanta Native\, based in New Orleans. Her practice began in the Americana Deep South. She attended HBCU\, Savannah State University\, where she studied Vocal Performance. Yashi’s curatorial research centers socio-cultural epistemology\, the south and the global south\, through an interdisciplinary arts praxis. \nDavalos was the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow and interim grants and awards coordinator at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City\, Missouri. She was previously a member of collective run gallery The Front New Orleans. Davalos has designed and facilitated programming in collaboration with various institutions including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\, Prospect New Orleans\, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans\, UMKC Music Conservatory\, and MDW Artist Coalition. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans\, ATL\, KCMO\, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic. Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center\, Burnaway\, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU. \nArtist Bios: \nJo Archuleta (b. Taos\, New Mexico 2000) is an artist living and working in Kansas City\, Missouri. Her work explores the complexity of identity and mythology of womanhood found within leisure\, desire\, pleasure and the specificity as a state of being. By acknowledging rules within the landscape of femininity\, gender roles and their societal expectations. Archuleta has found that there are multiple approaches to transgressive and transformative definitions of these identities. Her specific approach to this critique has been to use humor\, jokes\, and satire. Archuleta is interested in exploring how the figure is perceived and how she sees herself\, a constant battle between self-awareness and self sabotage. The figures seduce and confront complexities within the vapidness of beauty\, vanity\, and ego while also using self-consciousness as repulsion. The women in her work wear masks\, perform softness\, weakness\, shallowness\, and confidence; all while cowering within their own insecurities. \nTommy Lomeli (b.1993) is an emerging ceramic artist born in Stockton\, California. Lomeli holds a BA from CSU Sacramento and an MFA from the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the International Sculpture Center’s 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award\, and first place at NCECA’s 2023 National Juried Student Exhibition. He was a 2024 Charlotte Street Foundation Artist in Residence. He is currently a 2025 Taunt Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation. \nKatherine Looney (b.1989 (she/her)) is a Black and Native American visual artist living in Kansas City\, Missouri. She usually works with oil paints when creating colorful portraits. Many of her works are based on photos she has taken of her friends and family. She was a part of Charlotte Street Foundation’s 2023 Artist INC cohort. She was also a 2024 recipient of Charlotte Street Foundation’s Artboards Award. Katherine has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Missouri-Columbia. \nOctober Sharify (b.1999) is an oil painter based in Chicago\, Illinois. Their longtime interest in history and theology blends in their work with feminine aesthetics and spiritual imagery. October has a developmental disability and believes that this is both a detriment to their work and integral to their process. October has an African American and Persian cultural background\, and often turns to the visual language of their respective cultures’ past for inspiration. “I enjoy working with a limited palette\, and I mix my own custom colors to use consistently across my work. Blue to me is a very atmospheric color and my favorite time of day has always been twilight. World-building and paintings that evoke a feeling are very important to me and this exists in every piece that I make.” \nIsaac Tapia was born in Mexico\, where he lived until moving to the U.S. when he was nine. Isaac focuses on portraits that elevate important\, yet often underrepresented\, members of his community and celebrate the complex narratives of contemporary migration. He blends photography\, audio interviews\, and traditional oil portraiture techniques to convey rich\, multilayered stories and create opportunities for identification and connection. Isaac’s paintings have been exhibited throughout Kansas City — including at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art — and his work has traveled in shows across the Midwest with the Mexican Consulate and La Onda and the M.A.S.A. Collective. He had a residency and exhibition at Casa Lu Sur en Mexico City in December of 2024. Isaac is a founding member of the M.A.S.A. Collective\, and is one of the resident artists at the Charlotte Street Foundation. He is also one-half of the mural duo IT-RA Icons\, which has painted murals across the country. \nCesar Velez is a self-taught painter and first-generation immigrant from Mexico based in Kansas City\, Missouri. Velez’s work draws from his personal experience growing up in the South and Midwest United States as an undocumented immigrant (now DACA Recipient) living amongst American peers. \nThis exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Efroymson Family Fund. \nIMAGE: Big Fish\, Cesar Velez\, oil on canvas\, 24×30\, 2022
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/soma/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Keren Cytter: Rose Garden
DESCRIPTION:Video Gallery  \nCytter’s short 2014 film explores the unsettling duality of American culture’s ideals regarding being protectors of life and harbingers of death. This title is a reference to both the 1964 Joanne Greenburg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden\, which deals with mental illness and the 1971-84 Marine Corp recruitment campaign “We Don’t Promise You A Rose Garden.” These references are meant to clue the viewer in that the seemingly ordinary setting hides a distorted reality. As the tension builds\, multiple guns and disjointed conversations between characters escalate the sense that the calm is about to be shattered. A chaotic shooting spree unfolds against the backdrop of normal daily life. The chilling final scene serves as a grim conclusion addressing violence and its pervasive presence within American culture. \nRun time: 8 minutes and 55 seconds \nPlease note: This work contains adult themes and gun violence that some may find triggering. \nAbout the artist \nKeren Cytter (b. 1977) creates films\, performances\, drawings and photographs on topics of social alienation\, language representation\, and the function of individuals in predetermined cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. Mostly characterised by a non-linear\, cyclical logic Cytter’s films consist of multiple layers of images; conversation; monologue\, and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries\, these montages of impressions\, memories\, and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition. The artist creates intensified scenes drawn from everyday life in which the overwhelmingly artificial nature of the situations portrayed is echoed by the very means of their production. \nCytter was awarded the Joseph Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021)\, Absolut Art Award\, Stockholm (2009)\, Ars Viva Prize\, Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft\, Berlin (2008) and the Bâloise Art Prize at Art Basel (2006). \nRecent solo exhibitions include Hot Lava Night\, Kunsthalle Bielefeld\, Bielefeld\, Germany (2023); Double Standard\, LLS Paleis\, Antwerp\, Belgium (2023). Cytter’s work was showcased in a major survey exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022)\, featuring: films\, soap operas\, plays\, sculptures\, drawings\, novels\, zines\, life coaching guides\, children’s books and a festival. Cytter’s videos were shown in solo exhibitions at Winterthur Kunstmuseum\, Winterthur (2020); Centre for Contemporary Art\, Tel Aviv (2019); Museion Bolzano\, Bolzano (2019)\, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien\, Graz (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago (2015)\, Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen (2014); State of Concept\, Athens (2014)\, Tate Modern\, London (2012)\, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2011); München Kunstverein (2011); Kunsthaus Baselland\, Basel (2010); Moderna Museet\, Stockholm (2010); Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles (2010); X Initiative\, New York (2009); Le Plateau Paris\, Paris (2009)\, Witte de With\, Rotterdam (2008)\, MUMOK Vienna\, Vienna (2007); Frankfurter Kunstverein\, Frankfurt (2005); Kunsthalle Zurich\, Zurich (2005) and Kunst-Werke Berlin\, Berlin (2006). \nKeren Cytter’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions such as MOMENTUM 10\, Momentum Biennial\, Moss (2019); Masculinity\, Düsseldorf Kunstverein\, Düsseldorf (2019); SUR/FACE: Mirrors\, Museum Angewandtekunst\, Frankfurt\, (2017); Instructions for Happiness\, 21er Haus\, Vienna\, State (in) Concepts\, KADIST\, Paris (2017)\, Vision on Vision- Lemaitre video collection\, SEMA Museum\, Seoul (2017); Busan Biennial\, Busan (2016); Creating Realities – Encounters Between Art and Cinema\, Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst\, Munich (2015); Political Populism\, Kunsthalle Wien\, Vienna (2015); John Bock\, Keren Cytter\, Paul Pfeiffer\, Gillian Wearing and Akram Zaatari\, Regen Projects\, Los Angeles (2013); Expanded Cinema\, Moscow Museum of Modern Art\, Moscow (2011); Videonale 13\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, Bonn (2011);  Found in Translation\, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York (2011); Morality\, Witte de With\, Rotterdam\, Revolution\, van Abbe Museum\, Eindhoven (2010); Scenväxlingar / Scene Shifts\, Bonniers Konsthall\, Stockholm (2010); 8th Gwangju Biennale\, Gwangju\, Future Generation Art Prize: 20 Shortlisted Artists\, PinchukArtCentre Kiev (2010); Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art\, Whitney Museum\, New York (2009); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus\, New Museum\, New York (2009); Museum für Gegenwart\, Berlin (2009); Fare Mondi 53rd International Art Exhibition\, La Biennale di Venezia\, Venice\, (2009); VideoZone: Video Biennale\, Tel Aviv (2008); Shifting Identities\, Kunsthaus Zurich\, Zurich (2008); Yokohama Triennial\, Yokohama\, (2008); Torino Triennale\, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art\, Rivoli (2008); Television Delivers People\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York (2008); The Second Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art\, Moscow (2007); The first Hertzelia Biennial\, Hertzelia (2007); The 9th Lyon Biennial\, Lyon (2007); All Hawaii Entrees/Lunar Reggae\, Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Dublin (2006). \nHer films have been screened in numerous film festivals such as The Wrong Movie\, Berlinale\, Berlin\, Germany (2024); Villae film festival\, Villa d’Este\, Tivoli\, Bolzano Film Festival\, Bolzano (both in 2019); European Media Arts Festival\, Osnabruck (2018); A Retrospective at Bergamo Film Festival\, Bergamo (2016); Rotterdam Film Festival\, Rotterdam and KunstFilmBiennale Köln\, Cologne (both in 2009); Berlin International Film Festival\, Expended Forum\, Berlin (2008); Berlin International Film Festival\, Expended Forum\, Berlin and Glasgow Film Festival\, Glasgow (both in 2007). \nThis exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/keren-cytter-rose-garden/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,The Show Room,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
DESCRIPTION: Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the door \nA sound and visual meditation \nJon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism\, preternatural focus\, brute restraint\, and ecstatic\, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky’s photographs\, it becomes a deliberate focus on form\, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet\, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.  \n\n​​An apt reference point resides within the broad\, decades-spanning catalog of Table of the Elements. Like Tony Conrad’s surging Outside the Dream Syndicate\, the aural and conceptual headwinds are real\, but the perceived affronts of provocation are not. These works are not endurance challenges\, nor are they threadbare minimalist upholstery. They are not obstacles. They are invitations. Within their simplicity and formalism await a sympathetic repose\, a comfort. These are gestures of generosity. \n  \nMueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago\, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer\, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States\, Canada\, England\, Europe and Japan. \n\nIn addition to his solo work\, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Mind Over Mirrors\, Volcano Choir\, Collections of Colonies of Bees\, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block\, Aaron Turner\, Faith Coloccia\, Dawn Springer\, Chris Hefner\, Jason Kahn\, Hal Rammel\, Asmus Tietchens\, Z’EV\, Rhys Chatham\, Jarboe\, James Plotkin\, Duane Pitre\, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Table of the Elements\, Type Recordings\, Important Records\, Taiga Records\, SIGE Records\, and American Dreams. \nwww.rhythmplex.com  IG: @jonmueller \n   \nTom Lecky has worked in photography\, music (as Hallock Hill)\, the book arts\, prose and poetry writing\, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory\, place\, and environment\, the work of the imagination\, perception\, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own\, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.\n \nThese creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions. He is the owner of Riverrun Books\, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com  \nIG: @tom.lecky
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/jon-mueller-tom-lecky-all-colors-a-sound-and-visual-meditation/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:www . RachelOrmont . com Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join us at CAMi for a special free screening of Peter Vack’s film www.RachelOrmont.com on Thursday\, March 12 from 8 to 10:30 p.m. \nThe film is an unflinching psychedelic techno-satire about a woman who unknowingly grows up in captivity working for an advertising agency\, starring Betsey Brown (Assholes\, The Sweet East)\, Dasha Nekrasova (Succession\, The Beast\, Materialists)\, and Chloe Cherry (Euphoria). \n“Boasting a daring lead performance and a wicked sense of humor\, this satirical sci-fi comedy delves into themes of performance\, digital existence\, consumer culture\, and contemporary sexuality\, offering a provocative and unsettling reflection of our hyper-connected society.” — BLEEDING EDGE \n“A filthy and absurd midnight movie determined to fry brains and flip stomachs; a film so terminally online that even the milder scenes would\, as the kids say\, “kill a Victorian child.” — Pop Matters \n\n\nContent Warning: This film contains graphic sexual content and nudity. This screening is 21+ only.\n\nRun Time: 120 min.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/film-screening-www-rachelormont-com/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Garfield Park,Visual Art
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