McCAW/BUDSBERG at The Soap Factory

Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg working on the BROKEN DOWN installation in their Milwaukee studio.

McCAW/BUDSBERG COLLABORATIONS
present
BROKEN DOWN
at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Opening: June 30, 2007 at 7:00PM

Using theatrical lighting, carefully choreographed fog machines, LEDs and 1:32 scale models, "Broken Down" transforms the decaying boiler room of the Soap Factory into a murky industrial landscape. The focal point of the installation is a small-scale semi truck stopped in the middle of a bridge spanning the space. Viewed from only two portals into the space, "Broken Down" creates an unsettling vignette, set against the hulking silhouettes of defunct industry.

Memory Palaces

Memory Palaces
an installation of digital prints on found paper
new work by Lane Hall

Exhibition runs June 10 - July 29
Opening Reception on Friday, June 15, 5-7pm

Memory Palaces is a convergence of Homer, Joyce, and Google, along with decades of personal journal entries that artist/writer Lane Hall has mined with the intention of telling stories about memory and forgetting. Memory Palaces interconnects cognitive theory and historically derived memory models. Senility, narcotics, psychotropic drugs and the spirit-world are invoked as meditations upon oblivion, while writing itself is posed as a means for fixing memory to imperfect maps.

The Memory Palace is a mnemonic model which consists of interconnected rooms subtitled Lotus Eaters, Telemachiad, From A Moon With No Planets, Lost Wax, Ars Narcotica, and A Snake Men Fear To Touch.

Queer Zine Art Show

From Milo Miller:
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) in conjunction with the Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival and Rhizome Space celebrates QZAP's third year with a film screening and Queer Zine Art Show on Friday, June 22nd in Milwaukee, WI. The 7pm film screening at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E Locust St) features queer zine pioneer Bruce La Bruce's "No Skin off My Ass" (16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 73 min., 1991). Tickets are $2. This seminal and sweet queer punk romance features a Karen Carpenter-loving gay hairdresser who falls helplessly in love with a stray skinhead who he invites into his home. Kicking off after the screening at 8:30pm, the gallery show at Rhizome Space (3172 Bremen St) lifts art from the pages of phenomenal queer zines by artists Miss Schnookum, Lane McKiernan, Cookie Tuff, Sina Shamsavari, Rachael House, Larry Bob, and more.