01/15 @ 8:30pm - Trans-Historical-Post-Colonial Dinner Theatre-Burlesque
Buy Tickets | Admission: $50 (includes meal) / $40 for members
SPECIAL EVENT
Leon Johnson + Creative Material Group Present BLUE HAMMER
Trans-Historical-Post-Colonial-Dinner-Theatre-Burlesque
South African convergent media artist and educator Leon Johnson and Creative Material Group, a collective of artists of all disciplines that promotes passionate, engaged, cultural labor, team together to present a premier performance: A Trans-Historical-Post-Colonial-Dinner-Theatre-Burlesque. Creative Material Group intends this premier to seed the beginning of a long-term dinner theater event, incubating and presenting new convergent-media performance works in collaboration with designers, chefs, bakers, and farmers. Expect African politics, propaganda, a graphic arts production workshop, 8-track video mixing, and, of course, dinner. (New York Premier – Seating Limited to 50)
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Creative Material Group is convergence of artists from all disciplines promoting passionate, engaged cultural labor who actively invent and bring to the public games, interactive works, performances, objects and printed matter. CMG is a 501-C3 arts collective.
Leon Johnson is a convergent media artist and educator, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the proprietor of The Long Bell Press, and founding member of Creative Material Group. He performed ”Faust/Faustus: A Duet For Devils” in the UK, in the summer of 2000, with the film version being selected for the KunstFilmBienale, Cologne, Germany, and the Raindance Film Festival, London in 2003. He is the recipient of the Jackson Pollock/ Lee Krasner Foundation Grant and a Yaddo Fellowship, and the Ersted Award for innovative teaching. He assumes the Chair of Fine Arts position at CCS Detroit in 2010.
BLUE HAMMER: A Trans-Historical-Post-Colonial-Dinner-Theatre-Burlesque
Supported by a Maine Arts Commission Grant, the launch of Nomadic Convivial Operation #7! Creative Material Group intends this premier performance to seed the beginning of a long-term dinner theater, incubating and presenting new convergent-media performance works in collaboration designers, chefs, bakers and farmers.
This performance project unfolds in a late-night cable television studio, between two live broadcasts: a cooking show, HOT POT, and BLUE HAMMER, presented by a host who professes to have toured Africa during the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya, and the Belgian occupation of the Congo. His name is Vin Pays and he believes there is a vivid connection between the Jacobean play he performed, The White Devil, and colonial Africa. A guest joins him, the former leading-lady of the African tour [and of Hammer Horror films] named Tabula Rasa, who appears only to disrupt and dispel, an angel of death whose memories of Africa are harder to maintain than Vin’s nostalgia.
A post-performance dinner will be served to the 50 members of the audience in custom produced porcelain bowls. In addition, throughout the run of the show, we will operate a graphic-arts production workshop in the gallery issuing press-releases, posters, pamphlets and contemporary propaganda. We feature 8-track video mixing, including GPS analysis, a prototype portable kitchen, and custom porcelain bowls.
Blue Hammer Company 2010:
Kristopher Logan
Odelle Bowman
Michael Chestnutt, SPOT Architecture
ZU bakery/Barak Olins
Megan O’Connell/The Dead Skin Press
John Schmor
Ksenya Samarskaya
Chris Archer Studio
Scott Fuller Studio
Cole Caswell
Jessica George
Justin Taylor
Iain Kerr
Luke Bertus/supaflu studio
Leander Johnson
Joey Bargsten
Raphael DiLuzio
Ten Apple Farm
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Projects + Speculations
http://www.leonjohnson.org
Dinner Theater
http://thephoenix.com/Portland/Arts/81723-Conversation-piece/
http://www.leonjohnson.org/cmg.html
http://bluehammer.wordpress.com/
RISD Public Engagement Associate
http://www.risdpublicengagement.net/id15.html
