Gentle Now: an examination of safety and balance
We discovered that a synonym for safety is freedom. Come join us
as we celebrate and contemplate the many ways this affects our lives.
Saturday, January 31st 7pm-...
art/music/booze
Hallvarður Ásgeirsson ensemble:
Lauren Lacey Slowik: contrabass, cello, voice
Patrick O'Reilly: percussion and tape recorder
Hallvarður Ásgeirsson: guitar, electronics and voice
Lisa Uhlig: painting
Kristi Stalzer: installation
Matthew Silver: perfromance
Marissa Roesijadi: drawing, installation, performance
Travis Pendlebury: drawing
Marissa Mickelberg: performance
Andy Jambeck: performance
Anne Herzog: video
Selene Cohen: music, painting
Domingo Castillo: installation, music
John Kazar Asare: video
Which would you choose: safety or freedom? What if it wasn't about
choosing.. Is it really just about finding the right balance. Well,
that's easy enough isn't it?
Safety is actually a synonym for freedom: according to thesaurus.com
anyways..
| Main Entry: | safety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection from harm |
| Synonyms: | assurance, asylum, cover, defense, freedom, immunity, impregnability, inviolability, invulnerability, refuge, safeness, sanctuary, security, shelter |
| Antonyms: | danger, exposure, jeopardy, vulnerability |
Well damn, I'd say that sounds about right. And fuck I need my freedom!
But it's pretty evident that we aren't fully free to do what we want and we're never guaranteed complete safety. We're all conflicted with various judgment calls and there is no absolute right. This is a huge debate in our government right now. This conundrum enters our lives in various shared social settings, environmental issues and it is present in our personal psychological worlds.
It takes a lot of analyzation, work, and maintenance to live a balanced safe and free life. In the meantime we're going to experiment on how these ideas affect our art and make a night to remember.. hopefully full of safety and freedom.
If you have the time check out this lecture by Terrence Mckenna: http://www.matrixmasters.net/
As Travis says, "It's dandy".. You might want to skip thru the dj intro?
* Below you will find images from the show
:Event night images photographed and provided by Lisa Uhlig
:Installation images photographed and provided by Division of Human Works
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