IN THE LIGHT CONE

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FRIDAY:
5 pm OPENING OF ART SHOW!
7:53 pm JONAH ADELS VIDEO/PIANO
8 pm VIDEO PROGRAM
9:15 pm SUNSET BELL-RINGING WITH BRENDA HUTCHINSON
9:45 pm WEAVER, NEAL MORGAN, BRAINSTORM
11:30 DJ VISION QUEST!

SATURDAY:
5:15 am SUNRISE BELL-RINGING
3 pm MORE ART, BBQ START
SUNSET: RINGING
SLIGHTLY PAST DUSK: WHY I MUST BE CAREFUL, PIKELET, SHEAHAN DRIVE

(THERE ARE A LOT OF SURPRISES, FIREWORKS, HANGING OUT, HIKING AND LIBERTY-REVELING HIDDEN IN THE ABOVE WORDS AND WHAT THEY MEAN.)

HOW TO GET WHERE WE’RE GOING!

At the Department of Safety, as part of Lasercave’s inaugural juried art show, IN THE LIGHT CONE, Jesse Malmed has programmed a video and film program of several exciting young makers from throughout the country. 

Working within the same themes as ITLC, but with greater flexibility, the program has an internal logic and momentum that has guided the selections and sequencing. Among the works selected are Brooklyn-based Chris Rice’s death cry (siren song) which is a formal re-creation of Tony Conrad’s seminal Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plane with hair metal hero/has-been Jim Gilette of Nitro’s scream in place of Conrad’s minimal (though traditional) instrumentation and slow-burn film work; Chicago-based Jesse McLean’s The Eternal Quarter Inch takes us to an interesting space nestled somewhere between media-saturated faith-kitsch, the transcendent, the base and the desperate, ultimately it is as haunting and evocative as it is bizarre in its yearning; periodic Bay Arean Molly Bradbury’s structuralist From Stone, featuring a composition by Paul Scriver, bounces between oneiric and shifting landscapes and heavily textured palimpsests before barreling into a locomotive section. 

Other featured artists include Brooklyn’s Aurora Halal, Portland’s Jesse Malmed and Jade Ajani, Austin’s Duncan Malashock, Berlin’s Brandon Rosenbluth, San Francisco’s Tyrone Davies and more! 

Press Release  

WHO:        Lasercave — Group Show: In the Light Cone  

WHERE:    Department of Safety   

                  1011 12th St., Anacortes, WA 98221  

WHEN:      Exhibit runs July 3rd  to July 29th, 2009    

                Opening reception: July 3rd, 6pm-10pm   

WHAT:       Art Exhibition, Experimental Video Screening, BBQ, music, kombucha         

tasting, and weekend of festivities:   

                  July 3^rd 6pm – July 5^th  

Tags: Lasercave, In the Light Cone, Department of Safety, What the Heck Fest  

Lasercave, the Portland, OR-based independent media label, is pleased to announce its art show, In the Light Cone. Lasercave and In the Light Cone have been selected by the Department of Safety in Anacortes, WA to steward and activate their expansive gallery spaces during the month of July. The weekend of Lasercave-curated art, video and musical performances will anticipate the Department’s annual, much-lauded and anticipated What the Heck Fest (July 17th-19th). The curatorial premise behind In The Light Cone is as original as it is simple: makers from throughout the country have made dynamic, site-specific work based around the notion of two viewing times, during the day, when natural and artificial light commingle in a traditional gallery setting and at night, when piece-specific and -generated lights and shapes transform the space into a wholly new environment.   

Friday, July 3rd  

The crew will kick off the celebration with an art opening, followed by an experimental video screening, musical performances, and a set from Portland’s DJ Vision Quest (aka Bobby Smith). Visual art on display will include work by Timothy Karpinski (of Portland’s Together Gallery), Adam Baz, video game by Mark Essen, a photo-painting by Rebecca Leopold,Ben Segal,  Allison Cekala, Michael Rae, video artists Brel Froebe and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (of Light Industry )and installations by Sarah Hendrickson, Jade Ajani, Tim Donovan, and Jonah Adels. Think kaleidoscope mobiles, glowing globes, an interactive “brain machine.” The night will be punctuated by sunrise and sunset performances by renowned sound artist Brenda Hutchinson.   

The video screening will begin around 8pm, showing new work by:  Chris Rice, Saralee Gallien, Aurora Halal, Austin’s Duncan Malashock, San Francisco’s Tyrone Davies (of Loaf-I and the Free-Form Film Festival), Brandon Rosenbluth, Jesse McLean and Portland-based video artist Jesse Malmed (of Deep//Leap).  

Musical performances will follow, including Brainstorm , Weaver and Neal Morgan .    

Saturday, July 4th,  

Events will begin in the late afternoon with a BBQ and kombucha tasting, complimented by the ample swimming and hiking on Fidalgo Island, and further opportunity to check out the gallery space. At dusk, outdoor and indoor musical performances by Why I Must Be Careful, and Gus Franklin (of Architecture in Helsinki).   

Fireworks, midnight pancakes, s’mores, and more.   

For information regarding performers, camping arrangements, potential shuttle service from Portland to Anacortes, or anything else, contact inthelightcone@gmail.com.  

Press contact:

Attn: Maggie Jones, Lasercave PR

c/o The Grey Lodge, 241 N. Shaver St., Portland, OR, 97227

email: lasercavepr@gmail.com

phone: 503-805-4201