Featured artists include Matthew Moore, Mary Tuma, Taro Hattori, Joy Dury Cox, Steven Abadie, Maury Gortemiller and Kay Kelley. This group show seeks to demonstrate the dualities found in both nature and contemporary life.UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
March 15th - March 20th, 1/1000 sf/ft
Reception: March 19th, 7:00-11:00pm
Location: NC Music Factory, 820 Hamilton Street, Charlotte, NC 28026
*Competitive apneist, biographical presentation: 9:00pm
Featured Artists: Matthew Moore (Atlanta, GA), Taro Hattori (Oakland, CA), Joy Dury Cox (NYC), Steven Abadie (Athens, GA), Maury Gortemiller (Asheville, NC), Mary Tuma (Charlotte, NC), Kay Kelley (Greensboro, NC)
Maury Gortemiller, Recovering from First Shallow Water Blackout, 1986
Press Release:
Dugg Dugg is proud to present 1/1000 sq/ft, a group exhibition of local and national contemporary artists. Featured artists include Matthew Moore, Mary Tuma, Taro Hattori, Joy Dury Cox, Steven Abadie, Maury Gortemiller and Kay Kelley. This group show seeks to demonstrate the dualities found in both nature and contemporary life.
Matthew Moore’s photographs of wildlife show a vulnerable and intimate view of our overlooked neighbors. With motion sensor cameras placed throughout the backyards and forests of Metro Atlanta, deer, fox, mice and rabbits are shown living within an ever expanding urban landscape. Kay Kelly’s paintings also use natural imagery. Skeletons and bees serve as metaphors for the dissociation we experience by feeling spiritually and ecologically connected to the earth while simultaniously living in an environmentally exploitive society.
Mary Tuma’s fibber installations, crotched and adapted textiles, speak about the transformation of body and soul. Born out of a personal history with the Palestinian struggle, Tuma often memorializes the lives lost through war and displacement. Taro Hattori continues this conversation with a different personal story and investigation. Hattori confronts what he sees to be wrong and unjust. By intergrating “unacceptable” and “pleasurable” elements Hattori renders a more coherent world. For 1/1000 sq/ft, Taro will be installing a site specific piece, building on his recent large scale skeletal constructions of historically significant bombs, planes and imagery.
Steven Abadie’s interactive sculptures are filled with subtleties that address perception and industry. Two towers standing ten feet tall are light in structure and heavy with intention. For Abadie’s second piece one must physically comb through the walls of 7,000 sq/ft to piece together his Remarks.
In crisp typography, Joy Dury Cox documents fourteen alternative states of being. The works I’d rather be valuable and I’d rather be reading paradoxically stir the viewer to feel both an awareness of the present and a familiarity with dissatisfaction. Maury Gortemiller’s work is tinged with humor and often obscurities. In his photographic series, Speed Queens, images one might have previously thought to be closed become open with possibilities. Maury will also be presenting his autobiography as a competitive apneist, for which he is hoping to travel to Slovenia this summer to compete in the AIDA World Championship.
April 8th
Pecha Kucha
Dharma Lounge, 1440 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC
7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7pm)
What is Pecha Kucha? It is a “quick-presentation” format, started in a small office in Tokyo. The idea is simple: each person is allowed to show 20 images, at 20 seconds per image. After 400 seconds – i.e. 6 minutes and 40 seconds – you are out, and the emcee brings the next person on. But other than that, there aren’t really any other rules. You can show whatever you want to, talk (sing/dance/recite your haikus…) whichever way you want to. No subject is off limits, all points of view allowed. It’s just you, your show, and the audience…
Moreover all these are held in informal social venues, ranging from warehouses to atria to bars. So they also are very open interactive events, where the audience and the presenters get to freely mingle.
The past four Pecha Kucha events in Charlotte have gathered increasing audiences and tackled an array of fascinating topics. Dugg Dugg is proud to partner with Point 8 Forum and Cltblog to bring further dialogue through Pecha Kucha's mission and upcoming 2010 series!
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Past
Winter Roughage, hosted by Dialect Gallery
February 8th - March 6th
Opening Reception: Friday, Feburary 12th 6-9pm,
Location: Dialect Gallery, 3204-C North Davidson St. Charlotte NC 28205
Featured Artists: Luis Zepeda, Mike Gentry, Alexis Gideon, & Mike Calway-Fagen. Luis's cosmic deluge of metaphysical inquiry, Mike Calway-Fagen's conversation on human’s inability to escape anthropocentrism, Alexis Gideon's multimedia video opera based on Hungarian Mythology and Folk Tales, and Michael Gentry's experiential installation echoing Adbusters culture jamming mantra have made for a beautiful bouquet of this winter's finest roughage.
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January 21st - 22nd, Dugg Dugg presents Platonic Voyage hosted by Story Slam. Doors open at 7pm Thursday with a short talk at 8pm leading up to departure at 8:15pm. Location: Story Slam, 1401 Central Avenue Suite 103, Charlotte NC 28205
Fallow the captain's log, streaming live on UStream.tv. Or follow on Twitter!
Charles A. Westfall and Layet Johnson
About:
“behind them a fire is blazing at a distance,… and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows…which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.”- Plato, The Republic, Book VII
Platonic Voyage is a performance and installation that uses Google Earth 5.0, a computer program that allows users to view satellite imagery of the earth’s surface, to simulate the experience of an ocean voyage. An inflatable raft is placed on a raised platform and an image of the ocean (from Google Earth) is projected onto the wall so that the boat and its occupants are framed within the projected image. The participants then use a computer mouse to navigate around the virtual surface of the ocean. During the performance the participants never leave the boat. All necessary supplies are brought from the outset.
Traveling over the oceans is a practice (and a fantasy) as old as human history. The story is familiar: young men, always restless (or bored), seeking adventure and refuge on the open sea. Here is an example from the opening paragraph of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:
…having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. …Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
Historically, the ocean has represented the possibility of an almost infinite space. It was a frontier where exploration and escapism could be acted out. But advances in technology and knowledge have slowly undermined our belief in that representation. For many people the Internet has now supplanted the physical world as a space for escapist activities. In Platonic Voyage, the Internet and computer technologies are used to provide a new kind of escapist experience that draws attention to the ways in which virtual spaces and activities function as a surrogate for the real.
Winter Warm-up IV
December 26 9pm
Location: Pony Pasture, 701 Oakland Avenue, Charlotte NC 28204
w/
BO "BLACK CHRISTMAS" WHITE
BOB FIELDS AS COSTA EUREKA
THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
It's avant-pop, fellowship, tenderness, fine wine, and nacho dip. 100% guaranteed warmth.
Preween Potluck and Dance Party
October 30th 7PM-2AM
Location: Pony Pasture, 701 Oakland Avenue, Charlotte NC 28204
"American's Children's Homes"
October 23rd-25th
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 23rd 7-10PM
Location: 130 W. Bland St. Charlotte, NC, 28203
Press Release: After the quick emergence of the gallery in NoDa, Charlotte, Dugg Dugg resurfaces in the South End neighborhood with their third art exhibition, "America's Children's Home". This group exhibition features paintings, drawings, video, sculpture, and performance work from Charlotte, Fort Mill, Austin, Los Angeles, and New York. Featured Artists: Darren Goins, David Sackett, John Prichard, Chris Thomas, Heidi Landau, Ari Richter, Mike Calway-Fagen, Music: John Williamson
Kinnikinnik Presents: Prince Rama, The Quiet Hooves, and Great Architect.
Wednesday, October 21st, 8PM
Location: Pony Pasture, 701 Oakland Avenue, Charlotte NC 28204