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Special Events
 

Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 9:00 p.m.

Artists & Models 2011 - RAPTURE/RUPTURE

Rock Harbor Yard - 57 Tonawanda St. Buffalo (Near intersection of Niagara, Rt. 198, and Forest)

$15 in advance, $20 at the door

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Parking available onsite!

Join us for Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture – a night of interactive art, dance music, live performances and all-out fun in the euphoric style for which Artists & Models is known. It's a journey to the exquisite, the ecstatic and the unrestrained, possibly to the point of implosion — and all with a celebratory air as more than thirty artists and performers interpret the theme and invite us into their revelry.




spacer Buffalo's longest-running and most outrageously fun arts party — set in a giant creekside warehouse — Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture is an opportunity for everyone to enjoy as barriers between artists, models and audiences explode, leading to a frenzy of creativity and all-out surprise.

It's Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture and it's happening only once, on Saturday May 21. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and are available at the outlets listed below. Cash bar (note: no ATM is available onsite). Must be 18 or over to attend. Must be 21 or older and have proper ID for beer and wine.

Over 30 Art Installations by:

  • Debora Bernagozzi - a large scale projection loop called Night Walk 4, experience a walk through the night in a small central NY village.
  • Jason Bernagozzi - a projection of mass media news pundits, rupturing and pixilating the too common news media manipulation.
  • Seth Tyler Black - Rupturing the body of canvas in 7 parts with throbbing lights.
  • James Boatwright, John Fink, Issac DV Johnson, Anna Scime & Neil Terry - will absorb audience members into their "PIT" of mash-up media spewing vog with TV culture.
  • Michael Bosworth - Trebuchets gone wild, launching rubber balls through out the evening for patrons to catch in the patio area.
  • Victoria Bradbury & Mark Hursty - Metabellum - huge white inflatables, videoography, choreography, musicology, all come together.
  • Nelson Bradley - Barnum - a funny funhouse façade with viewfinders to see the hidden world behind the façade.
  • Scott Bye - Rapture/Rupture is a large scale sculpture made from multi-cube painted wood creating a stairway to the sky.
  • Justin Chouinard - The Amazing Exhibited Newborn - performers and video addressing the foundations of film combined with found footage.
  • Josh Cleminson & Monte Burman - Iceberg/Ice-cave-esque monuments, building up suspense as the night proceeds glowing and pulsing.
  • Kelly Cornelius - cocooned in a shell of white, dreaming, waking, sleeping symbolized through sound and image.
  • Cosmic Horses (Julia Prudhomme & Bethany Scholl) - Not the fort you made as a child, this large scale version will allow the audience can explore the space through visual, auditory and the sense of taste.
  • Katherine Gaudy - Rapture & Rupture experienced through the creative process, rupturing the audience from the world of subjective knowledge.
  • Jody Hanson - Bubbles and water cascading through light, fluid movement in real-time.
  • Paul Kochmanski - Lie on the couch and pour out your artistic soul to Dr. Kochmanski, he can cure you of your creativity.
  • Hacker Space/Buffalo Lab - James Andrix leads this troop of artists practicing experimental workshops for electronic, robotic & mechanical antics.
  • Jeffrey Lane - Recycled nightclub installations to wow us all.
  • Jeff Maciejewski - Grim House - a semi-apocalyptic miniature house no one can enter, but it will shake, talk and glow.
  • Jim McLaughlin - Jimyn the singing mime - need we say more.
  • Brian Milbrand & Jan Nagle - Daymares: Vignettes of the Prepocalypse - Two-screen video installation chasing 2 characters and their avatars.
  • Esther Neison & Allie Brady - Art Gallery/Museum re-enactment of post binge curator - audience members make art in 5 minutes or less to fill empty frames for the "exhibit".
  • Nancy J. Parisi - Rapture/Rupture photo booth. Three large panels that revelers may stick their faces through to pose for and/or purchase Fuji Instmax pictures the size of a credit card.
  • Lee Somers & Elisabeth Pellathy - A circular room and a spinning mirror create an immersive environment 
  • Real Dream Cabaret (John Carocci, Holly Johnson, Liz Knipe, Brian Milbrand) - Battle of the Raptures - Two competing religions and only one rapture, come and feel the spirit of a Real Dream tent revival.
  • Timothy Scaffidi, Alice Alexandrescu, Marc Tomko & Kevin O'Keefe - Punch Option 4 - a mixed reality fighting video game where participants control real people through game controllers.
  • Eric Souther - The Phonic Chorale - voices scrambling through a 576 LED board all the vowels and consonants in the English language prompting random light shows.
  • Susanne Stefanski, Scott Ries & Kristy Warmus - Posers: Keep the Change - backlit flickering images that audience members can be interact with.
  • Peter Tucker - an homage to Rev. Jesse Jackson's reading/preaching of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs & Ham, kneel at the kiosk and become an ordained minister too.
  • Goda Trakumaite - Become Debbie Harry for a moment.
  • Kit Young - News with melting talking heads, Action, chase, catastrophe, violence, Sexy, advertisements and melting pop stars.
  • On Site Artists Painting: A.J. Fries, Joyce Hill, Candace Keegan, Gennifer Felicity Krupper, Sarah Sutton, Chuck Tingley

Music and Performance by:

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Transgendered Jesus
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Bev Beverly
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DJ LoPRO
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Obskyura
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Deebaser
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Jamie Kubala & SpiritDance Co.

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12/8 Path Band

Sponsors include:

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Robert D. Bielecki

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BC Automotive

Studio 806

HiTemp Fabrication

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For her residency project, Buffalo ex-pat Sarah Baker is producing Our Time, a multi-media soap opera project set in the Queen City. The artist, who graduated from Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts in 1995, is visiting from the United Kingdom. Based on her research into figures from local history and popular culture, Baker's vignettes will re-imagine these individuals and their relationship to Western New York.
 
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