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Allsorts Studio - Connie Wheeler and Stephanie Czyryca
Every Good Boy Does Fine
Elevator Installation
Memorial? Lullaby? Every Good Boy Does Fine is the first in a series of light studies testing concealment and consumption. Located in the freight elevator at Lo A d oF FuN, the appearance of the works will shift in daylight and darkness. Allsorts Studio is the collaborative work of artists C. Wheeler and S. Czyryca. We perform experiments, pose questions, and prefer to hide while we seek
Dave Bakker – Dioramas
This work has its roots in dioramas and shadow boxes. Dollhouses have long been a traditional folk art whose primary appeal, I believe, is voyeuristic in nature. I attempt to enhance this by creating a dramatic narrative within the miniature space. Viewing one of these dioramas is an intimate experience both physically and spiritually for the voyeur-viewer. These are narratives of an inner world, stories about original knowledge. Not original as in new but original in the sense of being of the origins, knowledge which is so old language cannot express it.
Jeff Colburn - Artcar
Dan Conrad - Parallel Universes - Fact or Fiction
Light and Sound Installation
Sound will be generated by an instrument with two long strings mounted on a PVC tube about 8’ long. A robotic processor will control servo-actuators that will pluck and fret the strings. Electromagnetic pickups will allow amplification. Four color-light ‘sculptures’ will be placed on walls surrounding, or adjacent to the sound instrument. Each 22” x 22” x 7” sculpture will use two 12” LED lighting units with programmable color changes. The visual effect will involve figure-ground alterations caused by the color changes.
Christophe Casamassima - poet
sponsored by Poetry in Baltimore - www.poetryinbaltimore.com
DJ Pierre Bennu
Mario Moorehead
Sound Scape - Film Scape: Sidewalk Theatre
A live performance with DJ Pierre Bennu of Exit Apple, and Mario Moorehead of Black Sky. Pierre and Mario will present vintage film clips with remixed new sound tracks
Barbara DeCesare - poet
sponsored by Poetry in Baltimore - www.poetryinbaltimore.com
The Dork Brothers – John Ellsberry and Michael Gentile
AV, film, comic strips, books, and rubber stamps
Back then . . . we would entertain ourselves by doing this stuff. If John … laughed and I laughed while we were doing it, then we knew it was OK. That’s how we worked everything. Whether other people laugh, that’s up to them.
Baltimore cycles through art scenes like a cultural laundromat. 
The late 70s and early 80s were one of its peaks, when punk, fine art,film, poetry, theater, cartooning and a lot of indigenous Bawlmer sleaze all converged and tumbled through the wash, spin, and wear it wrinkled program together. Thankfully, the Dork Brothers, Michael Gentile and John Ellsberry, were there to keep feeding slugs to the cultural machinery, helping to both create and document, through their comics and films, a unique period in the corruption of the city’s arty youth.
—John Strausbaugh
Nicole Fall
Installation - Pediment of the LOF Studios
Nicole Fall is a sculptor who works in clay, welded steel and cast bronze. She teaches at Baltimore City Community College and MICA. Besides her own art work she likes to make colorful projects that engage the community.
David Franks - poet
sponsored by Poetry in Baltimore - www.poetryinbaltimore.com
Tim Goecke - Web Design
Gavin Heck - Performance & Artcars (see RAG, below)
A. Robert Kaufman - Artcars
Featuring Liz Downing and Michael Willis, Lurch and Holler performs Appalachian parlor operettas and parables. Using careening vocals, piano, banjo, electric drums and monkey screams, they bring shiny nuggets of songs, scary and beautiful, like confessionals at the family picnic. 
Spoon Popkin
Costume Show: Mermaids and Monsters
RAG
A short multimedia performance piece featuring Gavin Heck (www.2goats.com) and Stephen Thomas (www.hamiltonartscollective.org), an original soundscape and a gnome with a very runny head. Eight audience members will have the chance to experience the performance from within the temporary performance space the rest will be able to see it from just outside. If you'd like the chance to experience the performance from within the space, please wear something you don't mind getting dirty/destroyed
"like philip glass meets gwar, in your fever dreams"
- sorta overheard by Rob Hatch
Raga Celtic Delta Blues Explosion - Music
Reed Sayre
Description:
A series of 9 color still life photographs of ubiquitous objects: fast food, bullet shells, medicine, etc. demonstrating their dubious nature and plasticity.
I have become highly suspicious of everything that I interact with. I have been sick for 20 years and I’ve just now realized it. Why? I am being poisoned. I am assaulted by our culture and its diseased logic. We are a culture of masochists. Fat chokes our bodies and violence makes us cynical. And we pay for every bite, every bullet. We have no choice. These pictures demonstrate the saga of capitalist violence against the human being. In making this series I wanted to let the materials speak in their own defense, if they had any. I wanted to discover their secrets. I am still sick. But I’m getting better all the time.
Rebecca Siegmund – Paintings
Cats have a visual body language that Rebecca feels very empathetically connected with and in turn uses poses and facial expressions of these animals to project her own emotions. Using vintage photo books as reference, the paintings of cats are distorted, mutated, and changed into a new illustrated language of their own, expressing the thoughts of the artist that she could not put simply into words. Rebecca is a 2004 graduate of MICA and a Baltimore native.
Laurie Stepp - Postcards
Naomi Sullivan - Recent Paintings
An exhibition of visionary surrealism bringing color, balance and mixed media into a unified field
Their unique sound falls somewhere between Johnny Cash and Captain Beefhart, with some Root Boy Slim thrown in for good measure. For more than 15 years T.T.Tucker has flourished in obscurity, making friends along the way, playing his special brand of American music his fans have grown to love. From the Country & Western tradition to Rock and Blues, musical influences as diverse as Waylon Jennings, George Jones, John Prine, and Stan Ridgeway, among others too numerous to list, T. T. Tucker blends a multitude of influences together for a memorable live music experience. T. T. Tucker and the Bum Rush Band have gathered a dedicated fan base and loyal local following in both Baltimore and Brooklyn, NY. T. T. Tucker and the Bum Rush Band refuse to be labeled. You can call them roots, cow punk, Americana, rockabilly, swamp boogie, alter country, whatever you like. Their original mesh of these and other styles personify american music, plain and simple.
Renee Tantillo – Metal Flowers
Flowers seem to grow everywhere, save a pile of metal tossed aside as useless, unwanted, and wishfully forgotten.  Brought back from the land of 'never again', again, (local artist Renee Tantillo has) (I have) compiled a compendium of flora for the eye to see!  Efflorescence to inflorescence, a static yet changing arangement, the bloom of machine to flower transmogrifies before your eyes. One man's trash is another woman's flowers!
Stephen Thomas (see RAG, above)
Chris Mason, Rupert Wondolowski, Scott Larson, Elizabeth Mason and Surprise Guests.
“The Tinklers are environmental prophets and folk philosophers employing music as their primary medium. With cherubic faces and haunting subterranean voices they strum their guitars made of rubber bands and boxes, beat on old cans, and occasionally point at charts and graphs. They sing about people who went outside the boundaries of society, such as Malcom X and Joan of Arc, as well as more average joes like Mike Cheesewolf, who "was in junior high school, but he was doing senior high school stuff".
- Rupert Wondolowski
Dan Van Allen - Slides & Observations
The Art and Architecture of the Burning Man Festival, Black Rock, Nevada 1998-2006
Vox Environmental Lighting - Magdalena Sudnik/Jessie Floryan
VENTING - large scale constructions inspired by air exhaust mechanisms found on city roof tops. Highly reflective globes, fitted with interal rotating "fans", will be lit by outdoor flood lights and installed on the roof top of the Load of Fun Studios building. Constructed by Magdalena Sudnik and Jessie Floryan, Venting will be on display throughout the Altscape Festival. 
WESTNORTH Studio
EXHIBITION - 7/19/06 to 7/30/06:
the Chair
An exhibition of sculpture and
mixed media works inspired by the chair
Contributing artists :
William Rhode - Chevelle M. Jones
Gard Jones - Vivian Mc Duffie - Connie Wheeler
AltskapeWeb Design by Tim Goecke
:Logo by Sherwin Mark
Poster by Kelly Bell / Cakeweek
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