BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Big Car - ECPv6.9.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Big Car X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bigcar.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Big Car REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190420T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20181221T190240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T220337Z UID:7416-1549044000-1555772400@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:David Schalliol-Three Communities DESCRIPTION:We shape our surroundings at the same time our surroundings shape us. Communities and their environments are inseparable. Yet as we go about occupying\, utilizing\, and altering our natural and built worlds\, how much do we think about the connections we share with the others who inhabit the place we call home? \nFor his exhibition at Tube Factory Art Space\, David Schalliol addresses the interdependence of people and place through photographs and video interviews with residents of three geographically and culturally unique places. \nFirst\, he explores the very neighborhood in which this exhibition takes place\, Bean Creek\, a hamlet of homes and businesses on the Southeast Side of Indianapolis. The waterway for which the neighborhood is named has undergone a peculiar evolution as homes\, churches\, and businesses have grown around it. In some places\, Bean Creek flows undisturbed\, a trickling rill winding through thickets of gently bending trees. In other places\, the creek has been covered by roads and other obstructions\, only to remerge more than 100 yards away. The odd evolution of landscape and municipal planning has caused some houses to face the creek—today’s residents enter through the back door\, as the front faces nature. \nNext\, Schalliol takes us to the South Side of Chicago\, where since 2011 a tight-knit group of neighbors has watched their community disappear as the owners of a nearby freight yard buy up houses in order to expand their facilities. The few remaining homeowners have banded together to try to preserve whatever is left of this place and its unique culture. The economic powers that are being exerted\, however\, will likely prove too powerful to bear. \nFinally\,Schalliol visits former coal mining communities in the north of France. Following decades of economic contraction\, the French government ceased all coal mining in the country in the early 2000s. Towns like the one in these photographs must completely re-imagine their future economic and cultural identities. Meanwhile\, the visual and social fabric of the region is affected in every conceivable way by its historic attachment to coal. For example\, the “spoil tip” hills interspersed throughout the town\, created by waste rocks from the mines\, now serve as artificial mountains being re-purposed for motorsports and ecological tourism. \nThough located worlds apart from each other\, the three communities share threads of kinship that hint at possible human universalities. \nDavid Schalliol is a visual sociologist. He is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and a principal of Scrappers Film Group. His work has appeared in numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, and been exhibited extensively. Recent exhibitions include the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial\, the Belfast Photo Festival\, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies. His directorial film debut\, The Area\, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018. He earned his BA from Kenyon College\, and his MA and PhD in the Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/david-schalliol/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/04schsmall.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190301T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20190212T182037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T194719Z UID:7665-1551463200-1551477600@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Zach Carrico-Queer Aura DESCRIPTION:Queer Aura explores the complexity of our identities and tackles the stereotype that being gay looks any specific way. Carrico shares the sacred intimacy of bedrooms where the veils of our protection are divulged to show our raw forms. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/queen-aura/ LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MG_9495.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Big Car Collaborative":MAILTO:info@bigcar.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190301T220000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20190218T194726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T194815Z UID:7685-1551463200-1551477600@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Emma Bennett DESCRIPTION:Emma Bennett’s first solo exhibition features explorative paper works and found object sound sculptures. \n“My daughter tried for years to get me to create anything. It wasn’t until I transitioned and separated from my wife of thirty years\, my kids left the house and the PTSD I had been hiding from for decades since the Gulf War flooded in\, did I pick up materials and begin to create.” URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/emma-bennett/ LOCATION:Listen Hear\, 2620 Shelby St\, \, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-18-at-10.59.15-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20190206T210807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T210807Z UID:7652-1551463200-1553364000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green: Fences/Imperia DESCRIPTION:Artists Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green will present new works that explore outmoded forms of conquest\, power\, and control—both real and imagined. Nakagawa’s work will consist of an installation of cyanotype prints created while in Okinawa. Green’s new work extends his exploration of monumentality and power through the language of architectural blueprints. The two seemingly disparate bodies of work present the question: How do the forces of power and control manifest themselves in real\, immediate ways and in our collective conscious? \nFENCES \nIn James Nakagawa’s work\, the landscape often functions as a witness to history and suffering\, as well as a platform to examine conflicts political and personal in nature. Raised in Tokyo\, Japan\, his family moved to Houston\, Texas when he was fifteen. As an artist he mines the complicated pasts of both countries\, touching on issues related to nationalism\, family\, pop-culture\, tensions between eastern and western ideals\, and war. Since 2006\, James has produced several series reflecting on the legacy of World War II and Japan-U.S. relations on Okinawa. \nNakagawa started FENCES several years ago\, as he was visiting the island to complete MAPS\, a series using a frottage technique to create rubbings of words from war memorials. During this time\, he had received permission to photograph inside a U.S. base looking through the fence at Okinawa. Nakagawa’s clearance was revoked before he could begin the project following a disagreement with the colonel assigned to him as a PR liaison. The conversation concerned the benefits of the U.S. military station to the island population. In reaction to this change of circumstance and the protests over the Henoko relocation\, Nakagawa used leftover paper and cyanotype chemistry to make photograms of the outside of the base’s fence. \nThe planned installation of the work is key to counteracting the associated clichés. When James made the photograms\, he did not align the sheets of paper in the same orientation against the fence. Presented in grids on four sides of a wall\, the images are forceful and oppressive. Viewed edge to edge they crackle with energy and immediacy. The experience is disorienting; the barrier feels like it is both advancing and receding. Without an accompanying statement\, this project would provoke more questions than answers—on which side is the photographer? Is the viewer looking up or standing squarely in front of it; are they floating? Like his prior work\, he taps into feelings of claustrophobia\, visualizing the latent histories that continue to linger in the Okinawan landscape. \nIMPERIA | THE BENEFACTOR \nConner Green seeks to investigate the social ramifications of monumental architecture through collages of found materials\, drawings\, and photographs. “I understand ‘architecture’ to refer to more than just the design and decoration of buildings\, but also to how thought or action can make order and meaning out of random space\,” Green says. “My work\, in part\, attempts to excavate those embedded meanings.” To create his work\, Green digitally assembles his materials into sketchy\, black inkjet prints that resemble schematic drawings or computer renderings\, producing a sense of disorder in the otherwise highly organized and rigid\, even scientific\, discourse of architecture. The rendered forms do not refer to any extant structures\, rather they attempt to portray a kind of typological composite of different built forms throughout history. \nOsamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City in 1962 and raised in Tokyo. He returned to the United States\, moving to Houston\, Texas\, at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas\, Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. Currently\, Mr. Nakagawa is the Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography at Indiana University\, where he directs the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. He lives and works in Bloomington\, Indiana. \nNakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship\, the 2010 Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year\, and 2015 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan. Nakagawa’s work has been exhibited internationally\, solo exhibitions include: Eclipse\, PGI\, Tokyo (2018); Kai\, sepia EYE\, New York (2018); OKINAWA TRILOGY: Osamu James Nakagawa\, Kyoto University of Art and Design (2013);GAMA Caves\, PGI\, Tokyo; Banta: Stained Memory\, Sakima Art Museum\, Okinawa\, Japan (2009); Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa\, SEPIA International Inc.\, New York (2003). \nHis work is included in numerous public collections\, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; Sakima Art Museum\, Okinawa; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago\, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art\, Indianapolis Museum of Art\, Grand Rapid Museum of Art and others. Nakagawa’s monograph GAMA Cavesis available from Akaaka Art Publisher in Tokyo\, Japan. \nConner Green (born 1984) is an artist from Indianapolis\, IN. He studied art and literature at Indiana University and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Much of his work combines disciplines\, incorporating found sculptural and print-based elements. His work explores concepts of institutional critique\, myth\, desire\, and master narratives. He finds all of these concepts rife for excavation in the consumer-based material world and the built environment. His process allows for a certain degree of chance or disorder to come into play\, which he believes enables the phenomenal world to speak for itself. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/osamu-james-nakagawa-and-conner-green-fences-imperia/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMPERIA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190308T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190308T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20190114T215311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T194847Z UID:7567-1552039200-1552057200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Radio DJ Workshop DESCRIPTION:Enlarge \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\nWould you like to host a radio show on WQRT? \nHop in the WQRT studio for a one-on-one Radio DJ workshop with resident sound artist Oreo Jones. You can get the low down on how to take your show concept to the actual air. We want to hear your ideas! \nThis workshop is hosted bi-monthly\, with 8 spots available each month. \nFree\, Open to the Public. \nSign up below:\nhttps://doodle.com/poll/376yn5v5d7db2hf5 \nContact us at www.wqrt.org URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/radio-dj-workshop/ LOCATION:Listen Hear\, 2620 Shelby St\, \, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/WQRT-RoundLogo-Pink.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190308T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190308T230000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20181221T182352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181221T182352Z UID:7413-1552075200-1552086000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents Mike & The Moonpies DESCRIPTION:Join Duke’s as we welcome back Mike & The Moonpies. This is a DO NOT MISS show. \nOn-stage and on record\, Austin’s Mike and the Moonpies keep the torch of Texas country burning. Whether it’s a hardcore two-step\, freewheeling Western swing\, Doug Sahm‘s Cosmic American Music\, or George Strait‘s sweet\, burnished ballads\, Mike and the Moonpies tap into the traditions of the Lone Star State\, yet their music feels nimble and fresh thanks to their deft interplay and sly touch. \nA nascent version of Mike and the Moonpies premiered in 2008\, with guitarist Catlin Rutherford leading a variety of musicians through a Monday night residency at the Hole in the Wall\, a dive on the University of Texas drag. Toward 2010\, the band solidified around Rutherford\, vocalist Mike Harmeier\, steel guitarist Zach Moulton\, drummer Kyle Ponder\, and bassist Preston Rhone\, with this lineup releasing the independent The Real Countrythat year. Pianist John Carbone joined in 2011 and the band claimed the East Side venue the White Horse as its new Austin haunt. The following year found the band releasing its second album\, The Hard Way. \nAfter the release of The Hard Way\, Mike and the Moonpies continued to tour regularly\, expanding to the rest of Texas. The group’s third album\, 2015’s Mockingbird\, began to earn the group attention outside of Texas. After delivering a double live album called Live at WinStar World Casino & Resortin 2016\, the group returned in early 2018 with its fourth studio album\, Steak Night at the Prairie Rose. (source: Allmusic.com- written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine) URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/99-1-wqrt-rhinestone-country-presents-mike-the-moonpies/ LOCATION:Duke’s Indy\, 2352 S West St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190316T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190316T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105641 CREATED:20190206T211935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T212915Z UID:7655-1552737600-1552744800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Discover Design – Discover Bauhaus DESCRIPTION:The workshop Discover Design – Discover Bauhaus by the German Design Museum Foundation provides an opportunity to acquire new knowledge of a shared German – American cultural heritage in a practice-oriented fashion. Why are the ideas of the Bauhaus as a legendary school of architecture\, design and art still relevant today? How can we use its ideas for our future? This exciting journey of discovery through the world of design is linked to the celebration of 100 Years of Bauhaus! \nThe design workshop combines intercultural content with imagination and creativity. Trained designers will provide support and advice. During the theoretical section\, key facts about Bauhaus as an evolutionary movement\, its leading figures\, important projects and ideas will be taught. During the hands on section\, the participants can let their creativity run wild and produce their own designs.Theeducational and cultural initiative Entdecke Design(Discover Design) has thus far enabled around 15\,000 children and adolescents to discover the world of design. \nThis workshop is recommended for ages 10-17. \nSpace is limited. RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required \nThis workshop is part of the Year of German-American Friendship initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut\, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI). \nPhoto Credit: Christof Jakob URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/workshop-discover-design-discover-bauhaus/ CATEGORIES:classes,Garfield Park ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/M3A3835sm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190320T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190320T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105642 CREATED:20190305T200317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T200317Z UID:7747-1553107500-1553113800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:WQRT Rhinestone Country Film Series-True Stories DESCRIPTION:Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing\, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil\, Texas\, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman\, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas\, shopping malls\, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories\, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography\, voodoo rituals\, and a singular variety show—all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience. \nPresented by Upland Brewing Company. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/wqrt-rhinestone-country-film-series-true-stories/ LOCATION:Duke’s Indy\, 2352 S West St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Film,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/david-byrne-true-stories.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190323T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105642 CREATED:20190311T160013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T204620Z UID:7813-1553356800-1553364000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Artists Talk-Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green DESCRIPTION:Join us for the closing reception of Fences/Imperia and a discussion with Nakagawa and Green. \nAbout the artists: \nOsamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City in 1962 and raised in Tokyo. He returned to the United States\, moving to Houston\, Texas\, at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas\, Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. Currently\, Mr. Nakagawa is the Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography at Indiana University\, where he directs the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. He lives and works in Bloomington\, Indiana. \nNakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship\, the 2010 Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year\, and 2015 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan. Nakagawa’s work has been exhibited internationally\, solo exhibitions include: Eclipse\, PGI\, Tokyo (2018); Kai\, sepia EYE\, New York (2018); OKINAWA TRILOGY: Osamu James Nakagawa\, Kyoto University of Art and Design (2013);GAMA Caves\, PGI\, Tokyo; Banta: Stained Memory\, Sakima Art Museum\, Okinawa\, Japan (2009); Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa\, SEPIA International Inc.\, New York (2003). \nHis work is included in numerous public collections\, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; Sakima Art Museum\, Okinawa; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago\, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art\, Indianapolis Museum of Art\, Grand Rapid Museum of Art and others. Nakagawa’s monograph GAMA Cavesis available from Akaaka Art Publisher in Tokyo\, Japan. \nConner Green (born 1984) is an artist from Indianapolis\, IN. He studied art and literature at Indiana University and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Much of his work combines disciplines\, incorporating found sculptural and print-based elements. His work explores concepts of institutional critique\, myth\, desire\, and master narratives. He finds all of these concepts rife for excavation in the consumer-based material world and the built environment. His process allows for a certain degree of chance or disorder to come into play\, which he believes enables the phenomenal world to speak for itself. \nMade possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/artists-talk-osamu-james-nakagawa-and-conner-green/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_1107.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190326T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190326T233000 DTSTAMP:20260406T105642 CREATED:20190305T202143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T202143Z UID:7763-1553628600-1553643000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country presents The Currys w/Steve Everett DESCRIPTION:Brought together by family ties and a shared appreciation for folk\, rock\, and roots music\, The Currys are an Americana trio featuring brothers Jimmy and Tommy and cousin Galen Curry. Like many family groups\, their songs are anchored by the sort of elastic\, entwined harmonies that only seem to exist among kin. On their second record\, West of Here\, their songwriting chops match those interlocking voices\, with all three members contributing songs to an album that deals with the constant search for home. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/99-1-wqrts-rhinestone-country-presents-the-currys-w-steve-everett/ LOCATION:Duke’s Indy\, 2352 S West St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,The Show Room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-55833629-253741803706-1-original.20190128-162009.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR