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The films are free, screenings at 8 pm. Free parking, too.
Wed May 2
Fur (2006) Steven Shainberg
Wed May 16
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Robert Mulligan
Wed June 6
The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo
Wed June 20
Trumbo (2007) Peter Askin
Wed July 11
Norma Rae (1979) Martin Ritt
Wed July 25
Hunger (2008) Steve McQueen
Wed Aug 1
When I Rise (2010) Mat Hames
Wed Aug 15
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra
Wed Sept 5
Paris is Burning (1990) Jennie Livingston
Wed Sept 19 I
In This World (2002) Michael Winterbottom
Wed Oct 3
Umberto D. (1952) Vittorio De Sica
Wed Oct 17
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) Vittorio De Sica
Films for the 99%
Wednesday, 2 May, 8 pm
Fur, An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Fur (2006) by director Steven Shainberg; "Fur" provides a fictionalized account of the life of Diane Arbus, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr. Our film screening is one of a two-part program in conjunction with Jennifer Schwartz Gallery who will be presenting a book signing by a SCAD professor and Arbus scholar the following Friday...
April 4, 7:30 pm
Film Screening: Before Night Falls (2000) by Julian Schnabel
Before Night Falls, directed by Julian Schnabel and starring Javier Bardem, tells the story of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas and his persecution and imprisonment by the Cuban government for his openly gay lifestyle. I have chosen this film in conjunction with the current exhibition, Living Color: new works by Julia Kjelgaard and Mehmet Dogu because of Schnabel's magnificent use of color. Schnabel and his cinematographers, Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas, experimented with high-speed films in bright daylight to unbelievable effect. The saturated color creates a richness to the imagery, transporting the viewer to Cuba of the 1960s.
The screening will begin promptly at 7:30pm to allow time for brief discussion following the film.
April 14, 11am -1 pm
Musical Performance, Sarah Henson
at WonderRoot,
982 Memorial Drive Southeast Atlanta, GA 30316 (Google Map)
Sarah Henson learned to play guitar and banjo at the foot of the Black mountains in North Carolina. Dark, modal banjo tunes and the blues of the rural south inspired her early work, which evolved as she discovered Takoma players and contemporary classical composers. Her lush, hypnotic guitar and banjo compositions recall rhododendron thickets and countless hours playing by her crackling woodstove, and her voice reflects the soul of the field recordings she has absorbed over the years. She has combined these elements into a mature and original sound that pushes the boundaries of folk and experimental music.
Music from Sarah's 2010 performance at Poem 88.
A video from Sarah's 2010 performance at Poem 88.
April 18, 6 pm
Phillip March Jones Book Signing
Phillip March Jones, founder of Institute 193 and director of the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, will be signing his new photographic collection, "Points of Departure: Roadside Memorial Polaroids" at Poem 88 on April 18. The book was published by The Jargon Society (Highlands, NC) and features a foreword by poet and scholar Thomas Meyer.
From the author:
"Roadside memorials mark geographical points of departure in a landscape that is generally devoid of real human interaction or activity. We pass them at sixty miles an hour, sometimes glancing back, but are never afforded the time to actually see them. This project is about slowing down.
Polaroid was a natural choice. Early in its development, Polaroid film was widely used by police officers and other law enforcement, because it produced an unalterable instant photo,irrefutable evidence of a particular event. These photographs are evidence of something greater, an unspoken need to commemorate and celebrate our own fleeting lives and stories."
Wednesday, March 7
{Poem88} artist Mehmet Dogu, whose work will be on view in the gallery in Living Color has chosen a reading by Kirk Varnedoe from his book, Pictures of Nothing. It addresses specifically ideas about minimalist painting.
Click here to download a PDF of the article.
Mehmet, who is an architect by training, an artist and exhibition designer will facilitate the discussion. Please feel free to post relevant readings on this event's Facebook page.
12 February 2012, 4 pm
Valentine’s Day Salon
Please join us for a Valentine Salon of music and poetry.
featuring:
Free Poems on Demand
Robin Bernat
Heather Buzzard
Jon Ciliberto
Zac Denton
Jimmy Lo
James Sanders
Special treats by Stella & Dot! Surprises and refreshments, too!
15 February 2012, 8 pm
Book Release Party
With musical performance by Duet for Theremin and Lapsteel. Have a listen to some of that, here!
"In a series of successive cultural interventions of which Fort!/Da? is only the latest iteration, Robert Cheatham has sought to keep alive alternative models and modes of thought about the human condition, modes that belong to no single intellectual camp, though interdisciplinarity reigns supreme in all his enterprises.
"French and Italian philosophers are likely to find themselves keeping company with novelists, poets, and UFO researchers, with the results always happily unpredictable. " Jerry Cullum, editor-at-large, Art Papers
18 February 2012, 1 pm.
A last minute fill in for scheduled performer Pedro R. Rivadeneira, Jon Ciliberto performed music intended to react to Phillip Buntin's paintings at Poem 88. Listen to one of the performed pieces, for classical guitar and live processing, here.
Have a look at Phillip's paintings.
And here are the other two pieces of music performed:
And an encore (of sorts), much more friendly.
Bagpipes in the Gallery
December 28, 2011
My old friend Mark V. dropped by to play bagpipes. You can watch a short movie here, and hear the world's first ever (I am fairly certain about this) bagpipes and ’ukulele duet.
Jazz Piano Originals and Standards, by Zac Denton
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Listen to Zac, with Drew Lloyd (bass) playing "Time Remembered", and solo on the e. piano.
Charlotte Graft, Ben Warsaw, and Jean Jansen in Concert
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 8pm
Free Concert of classical piano and electronic music by Charlotte Rada Graft, Benjamin Warsaw, and Jean Jansen with Jon Ciliberto.
~ Reception to follow ~
Saturday
November 12
1pm to 5pm
Jewelry from Stella & Dot
Chocolates & candies from Sugar-Coated Radical
Dessert wines from
Perrine’s Wine Shop
apparel from drue dun
Atlanta Art Now Launch Party - a creative black tie affair!
Click HERE to watch a short stop-motion movie from the event....
Join Atlanta Art Now as we celebrate the publication of our inaugural edition - Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape.
Tuesday, November 8, 7-11 PM @ Poem88 Gallery Enjoy food, drinks, music and art as we shine the national and international spotlight on the Atlanta art scene! General Admission Tickets - $25Film screenings in conjunction with Holly White: Cinematic Language:
Thursday, November 10, 8pm: Summer Hours by Oliver Assayas (2008)
Thursday, October 20, 8pm: Claire’s Knee by Eric Rohmer (1970)
Please join us at the gallery for a talk and open discussion Monday, November 7pm "Can't Buy Me Love: Guy Debord in the age of the Society of the Spectacle." Presented by Emmanuel Guy in Collaboration with the Art History Department of Emory University and {Poem88}.
Emmanuel Guy is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Agrégé de Lettres Modernes. Currently he is teaching Literature and Art History at Université Paris 13, and working on the Guy Debord Archives at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France where he will curate a Guy Debord exhibition in 2013. Also, he is leading the seminar "1955-1975 : sources et methods" at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, with Sophie Cras.
A revolutionary artist, cut-up writer and Marxist strategist, Guy Debord co-founded two radical movements that continued the Dadaist and Surrealist tradition: the Lettrist International (1952-1957) and the more famous Situationist International (1957-1972). Within these politico-artistic collectives, he developed an uncompromising critique of modern art, urban planning, capitalist and communist ideologies, mass media and mass consumption society. Born as an anti-art movement, the Situationist International increasingly became a political avant-garde group over the course of the 60's until its hour of glory: the student uprising of May 68 in Paris. Guy Debord ended the SI in 1972, but the group inspired a large part of the 70's counter-culture in Western Europe. Today, it is still a recurring reference for numerous authors, artists and political activists. This presentation will focus on the art/politics interweaving within the situationist project : the construction of situation and the revolution of everyday life. Dérive, détournement, psychogeographie, urbanisme unitaire, and permanent play are the main anti-art practices invented by Guy Debord and his friends to fight back on its own ground the Society of the Spectacle: the pin-ups and Godard, Mao and Nixon, modernist architecture and advertisement… This event is Free. Parking is also free.Thursday, September 29, 8pm: experimental films by Christina Price Washington
Art Criticism Reading Group
Beginning October 5 at 7 pm, {Poem88} will host an Art Criticism Reading Group facilitated by Paul Boshears, editor of the journal Continent.
The first readings will be focused on photography: a selection from Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida and/or a selection from Francois Laruelle's The Concept of Non-Photography.
The group will meet regularly on the first Wednesday of every month at 7pm. For this first meeting, Paul has selected the readings, but after our initial meeting, participants may suggest readings for each successive month.
Please email your interest in participation to info@poem88.net, or seek us on Facebook to join.
Eyedrum presents: Thresholds! A new presentation series hosted by Robert Cheatham
The synonyms for ‘threshold’ say as much as we need to know: brink, dawn, door, doorstep, doorway, edge, entrance, gate, inception, origin, point of departure, sill, start, starting point, verge, portal and probably many more that we could present.
These presentations are all about portals, possible openings (note the plural) into different forms, times and spaces. And, although it may seem a bit of hubris on our part, into the new, that which may be on the other side of the door sill. Granted, the term ‘new’ has been leveraged into banality by thousands of consumer ads; it may be time to degrease it and knock the rust off. The one thing that modernism has done is bequeath a patina of ‘been there, done that,’ a patronizing sense of familiarity with the world. It may be that the mechanisms of modernism have turned from excavating to backfilling. Even the very idea of ‘thresholds’ has been set on a wobbling axis by those who believe there is not, and cannot be anything radically new under the sun, and those who wish to bring back a sense of enchantment, of stepping through a portal, into a different world. (Let us just note in passing that the premier contemporary philosopher of the threshold Giorgio Agamben is not so sanguine about the possibilities of threshold events, in that ‘states of exception,’ ‘zones of indifference,’ ‘bare life’ and a general orientation toward human/inhuman thresholds lead to what some would claim as fascinating and others as fearful repercussions. But then, a threshold by its nature is also a zone of indeterminacy.) Whether dream world or drudge world, prison world or paradise world, our technologies are ever on the way to seemingly making both come true simultaneously. These presentations over the next six months will, with any luck, at least open thoughts to possibilities. We open the series with Rick Phillips and the UFO phenomena.‘The particularly peculiar UFO phenomena' presentation by Rick Phillips
Can there be any three letters that inspire such shaking of the head or a quickening of the pulse as ‘UFO’? The UFO has to be one of the most visualized (while still largely invisible!) objects in the contemporary landscape, especially after five decades of cinematic explorations. Is there any single item on the cultural agenda that inspires more snarkery and ridicule on the one hand, and on the other hand such unselfish-devotion by amateurs to try to unravel the quixotic aspects of the UFO? (And I include in this, the urgency which some apparently feel, who wish to hoax UFO sightings) Is there less to the phenomena or much more to it, than meets the eye? Mr. Phillips asserts that not only is there more than meets the eye but that the phenomena has been morphing into many other forms, aspects, many more sightings being reported every year, and more theories to account for what they are. This should be a hair-raising ride through the mind field of contemporary mythos, where nothing is certain but that huge morphing bright light outside your window at three in the morning.
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Rick Phillips, Market Researcher and Analyst in real life, deep into the alternative and esoteric in mental life. UFO blogger since 2007 with many followers, inspired by 1991 close up UFO sighting, brings full range of analytical skills in looking at the TOTAL UFO phenomena - with opinions you simply do not hear in the LameStream Media.
Phillips's websites include www.theheavystuff.com and ufodisclosurecountdownclock.blogspot.com .
$5 donation
"Transmography" was performed in conjunction with the residency of visual artist Phillip Buntin. The piece was inspired by Phillip Buntin's work, the impossibility of true repetition and the change inherent in attempted repetition. The piece explores the patterns created through repetition of one movement phrase over time, across bodies, and through interaction and interruption.
Dancers: Jessica Gaines, Aasim Hudson, Chris McCord, Rachael Rinehart, Said Rios, and Lane Eldridge Salter.
Music: "eight zero one" by lacunae "Sacrificial" by Shigeto
FRIDAY FRIGHT NIGHTS! July 15, 22, 29; and August 5 at 8pm come and enjoy some heart-racing suspense on screen. Guaranteed to elicit nightmares. Popcorn. Beer. Wine. No charge (barely suggested donation of $2).
July 15 The Vanishing (1988) or “Spoorloos” in Dutch meaning “without a trace” is by director George Sluizer. A young woman, Saskia, disappears from a rest stop while on holiday in France. Her boyfriend, Rex, searches for her obsessively getting closer and closer to discovering what has happened to her. 
July 22 La Moustache (2005) by Emmanuel Carrere explores the marriage of Marc and Agnes posing questions about sanity, fidelity and treachery.
July 29 La Ceremonie (1995) by French director Claude Chabrol tells the story of a dyslexic housekeeper who, after befriending an unstable local woman, becomes increasingly contemptuous of her employers
August 5 The Seventh Continent (1989), Michael Haneke.
Haneke's first feature film portrays the true story of an Austrian family and their uneasiness with modern life. Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune, writes "The Seventh Continent is a calm chronical of hell...how commonplace people can erupt into despair and violence. Beautifully controlled, liberatingly intelligent... it establishes Haneke as one of the more remarkable young contempory filmmakers. The climatic half hour of this film ranks among the mosy truly terrifying in the modern cinema."
Sunday 7 August 6pm
DAVID FINKELSTEIN study group and potluck dinner
Harry Potter and the Lively Quantum: Georgia Tech Professor of Physics, David Fineklstein, will present thoughts on classical and quantum physics. Very Limited Space. Please email robin@poem88.net for more information.
Wednesday, August 10, 7 pm
CONVERSATION: Interpretation, Mindfulness and Creativity
Phillip Buntin, artist-in-residence, Ass. Prof. from Kent State University in Ohio, will lead the discussion.
Other discussants:
Robert Cheatham of Public Domain
Jon Ciliberto, Buddhist Art News
Julia Kjelgaard, lecturer at Emory University, Visual Studies
Michael Elliston, Roshi, Atlanta Soto Zen Center
The conversation, open to the public for participation, is on the intersection of these ideas. Free.
Buntin says about his work:
"In my current body of work, I have sought to create an uneasy equilibrium between fragments and their conjoining into elusive wholes. This is done to create a perceptual experience and language that metaphorically expresses our limitations and inclinations when approaching complex phenomena. The language of the work is diagrammatic and alludes to rationalistic approaches of
understanding. The sources for my figures/diagrams are borrowed, manipulated, inspired by diagrams from various scientific disciplines. When using them in the paintings, the diagrams are combined to augment, obfuscate, or contradict one another, yet still strive to hang together. This relationship between competing fragments and elusive wholes reveals as a metaphorical and perceptual analog the longing to make our partial understandings in life into systemic or narrative wholes. An important linchpin of the work is the inability to easily “close off the circle” or to see the fragments as a related whole. This aspect of the paintings allows us to directly understand in a visual experience that our interpretations and understandings of complex phenomena are illuminating yet incomplete, and as such, are always open to reevaluation."
Friday, August 12, 8 pm
Performance by Brooks Emanuel Dance Company (youtube link of performance)
“Transmography” is inspired by Phillip Buntin’s work and the idea of the impossibility of true repetition and the change inherent in attempted repetition. The piece explores the patterns created through repetition of one movement phrase over time, across bodies, and through interaction and interruption. Other dancers in the piece are Jessica Gaines,
Aasim Hudson, Chris McCord, Rachael Rinehart, Said Rios, and Lane Salter.
Performances at 8:00 and 9:00 pm. followed by a dj’d dance party!
suggested donation, $5
Saturday 13 August, 8pm
ZAC DENTON + 1: John Coltrane, Bill Evans and some original compositions by Zac......
jazz for keyboard and bass... suggested donation, $5.
Saturday, 16 July, 1 pm
Jon Ciliberto talks about drawing, with many anecdotes and absurd but true stories to illustrate the value of giving art away, the place of immediacy in art as a means of communication, how mania interacts with practice. Very likely free drawings and paintings will be made and given as gifts.
WORKS on PAPER: a stop-motion photo movie from the opening night of this exhibition.
2 July - 2 August 2011.
x (lattice), y (glyph), z (time): a performance and collaboration between David D’Agostino and the Atlanta Poets Group––
With Luke Leavitt, Dessislava Dimova, Andrew Axel, Jean Kern, Lazare Lazarov
May 17 to May 19 2011, 6pm to 9pm daily in Suite 111, White Provisions Building
David D'Agostino kidnapped the Atlanta Poets Group. They were taken to Bulgaria on a silver ship. Something returned. X (LATTICE), Y (GLYPH), Z (TIME) is an installation-performance resulting from the collaboration between visual artist David D’Agostino and the Atlanta Poets Group and including Bulgarian painter Rassim and other artists. This “in-between-exhibitions-exhibition”, sited for the Poem 88 gallery space, consists of various physical objects (paintings/poetry objects/photos/other), performances, music and sound phenomena. Words are connected to the grid. Life is line-drawn, turned as a table, and unearthed in a city too hussy to bait. The installation-performance will span three evenings, May 17, 18 and 19, from 6 to 9 PM each evening. You may come and go as you please. Sound is a photograph of language how a lattice breathes.
Rapidly made videos from the performance: first night, third night.
21 May for the opening of Marwencol: Photographs by Mark Hogancamp & David Naugle at 7 pm, and a special screening of the documentary film Marwencol (2010), directed by Jeff Malmberg, at 8 pm.
Stop motion video from our screening.
Sunday, 15 May 2011, 3 pm
Hallucination Duet in Performance
HARKEN,HARKEN!! Poem 88 announces a concert on May 15 at 3 PM by the famous Cullum-Robinson duo and their infamous HALLUCINATION SEXTET (two live and four virtual), a freely improvised, nonidiomatic, quadraphonic, quasichaotic performance jamboree...
Video sampling of the performance. And another movie, by Tom Ferguson.
Saturday 16 April 4pm
In collaboration with visual artist David D'Agostino, the Atlanta Poets Group
will give a language performance, drawing on both scripted scores and as-yet-unknown thoughts that may emerge during the performance.
D'agostino's "Whiteout" paintings series (part of the current Axis Mundi exhibit) will provide the spark; the APG will navigate the possibilities.
Saturday 19 March 3pm
Westside Arts District Third Saturday Art Walk:
Sharon Shapiro in conversation with art historian and critic, Dinah McClintock
Tuesday Film Series in March, in conjunction with Sharon Shapiro: California
Febrary 12
Valentine's Salon
Poetry by Robin Bernat, Jeff Dahlgren, Misty Harper, Jimmy Lo; Music by Jon Ciliberto, Zac Denton, Satchel Mallon. Watch some of it here.
Sarah Henson / False Dawn Echo
Sarah Henson: Sarah Henson first learned to play banjo and guitar while living in the North Carolina mountains. Fascination with rural American culture led to meticulous research into the diverse musical styles known collectively as "the blues" and "old-time." In part through her visual art practice, Sarah has also developed a strong background in experimental music and the work of composers such as Lubomyr Melnyck, Steve Reich, and Meredith Monk. From these varied influences, Sarah presents a clear, original voice in contemporary music.
False Dawn Echo: an Americana folk duo comprised of Zac Denton and David Elden. Formed in 2008 the group has written songs and melodies inspired by old time traditional music still heard all across Appalachia and throughout the Southeast. The musical arrangements present haunting and austere soundscapes as well as lively foot-stomping hootenanny tunes.
Carol Novack is the former recipient of a writer’s award from the Australian government, the author of a poetry chapbook, an erstwhile criminal defense and constitutional lawyer in NYC (newly transplanted on a mountain in Asheville), and the publisher of Mad Hatters’ Review. Her writings have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and translated in several languages. Ms. Novack will read from her illustrated collection of fictions, fusions, monologues and poems,Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack (Spuyten Duyvil 2010).
Hugh Fox has called Giraffes: “THE most seductive, original, impacting work I have seen for years. A fascinating combination of Kerouacian street-talk plus a trip through the museum of Modern Art in Chicago, plus a nod-off to Kosty's furthest out experimentalism. Magnifique!" “She has the literary equivalent of perfect pitch, like those musicians who can specify the hertz of birds and burps. Uncanny tympani!" -- Tom Bradley.
FORT!/da? : Moans from the Crypt --- Readings and Viewings from the Public Domain Archives, New and Old, with Diverse and Uncanny texts Sounds Images, A Show for Every One and No One
A Twenty Year fly-over with:
Multiple projections
Multiple Readers: Ed Hall, Terra McVoy, Robert Cheatham, Sean Beeching
Fort?/da! is the publishing arm of Public Domain, Inc., "a non-profit organization devoted to examining the nexus between art, theory, community, and technology."
Links: Fort?/da!
Robert Cheatham at pechakucha
pd.org
Magicicada live at Poem 88.
Magicicada creates microworlds, wonderful realms, with dark strata and thousands of creatures in conversation and activity. His performances are a treasure within Atlanta music. We are looking forward to his integration with the visual art of EK Huckaby and musical performance live in the Poem 88 space.
Satchel performs for gallery visitors.
Satchel Mallon -- Solo guitar, experiments in the Iberian and Arabian peninsulas, stories from tropical topics and infracted interiority. Join us for live music by Satchel (preview), Readings by KT, and afternoon tea in the Poem 88 bookshop.
Bruce Covey reading at Poem 88.
Author, lecturer in poetry at Emory University, and local literary champion Bruce Covey will read selections from his new release, Glass is Really a Liquid. Reading at 7:30 pm.
Burning Artist performing at Poem 88.
Burning Artist(s) Sale -- Audio alchemy, transformations of the visual into the aural (and vice versa). Burning Artist created an audio substrate and atmosphere, above and below and filtering through permeably for the opening of our exhibition of EK Huckaby's Excursus. Have a listen here.
Audio from performances at Poem 88 space:
13 October 2010: Satchel Mallon: avant-garde guitar
16 August 2010: Burning Artist for EK Huckaby, Excursus. (Click for external link)
Poem 88 seeks artists for music and book events.
We wish, in the main, to program music within these genres: quiet noise, BGM, ambient, drone, deep dub, modern chamber music, and alt folk. However... our programming is only limited by the breadth of the artists we host.
If you are interested in performing at our space, contact jon (at) poem88.net.