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In(di)visible at Noble & Superior

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM

Tw Lis Self (Involved) Portrait

  • Tw Li's "Self (Involved) Portrait"

I saw a crowd of onlookers who ranged from scandalized to righteously indignant to cynically amused gather around TW Li's video installation Police Brutality Grid when it showed in September at Margin Gallery.

Li's video, photography and performance aggressively lampoon systems of control and the impact of technology on daily interaction. His work shows in Noble & Superior Projects' In(di)visible exhibition, which opens Friday 11/20.

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DomeFest at the Planetarium

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Matthew Mascheris Second City from DomeFest 2008

  • Matthew Mascheri's "Second City" from DomeFest 2008

Highlights from DomeFest, the annual Albuquerque competition of full-dome video art, screen Thursday 11/19 at part of "The End of the World," this month's installment of the Adler Planetarium's Adler After Dark program.

The six-source HD video is projected in a 360 degree environment on the 2,300 square foot dome in the Adler's Definiti Space Theater.

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Drag City Peers Into the Byways of Marrakech

Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM

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Last month Drag City Records released Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa, its second project on the sublabel Twos & Fews, run by Kentuckian Nathan Salsburg. Salsburg, who also plays music himself and maintains the swell blog Root Hog or Die—which includes a directory of free MP3s of traditional music of all stripes—has worked for the Alan Lomax Archive since 2000, and both Twos & Fews releases have a raw, folkloric spirit. Last year the label debuted with a collection of a cappella singing by Kentucky coal miner Nimrod Workman, and to celebrate its release the label hosted an informal gathering at Intuit Gallery, where it played Workman’s music, screened rare video footage, and served quasi-authentic hillbilly delicacies.

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