Photos from the opening night reception for “Insolvent” (March 2012)
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City Pages “A-List” preview by Jessica Armbruster:
March 10 – March 31, 2012
FEATURING ARTWORK BY:
Abigail Slawik | Anna Tsantir | Curt Lund | Edie Overturf | Faye Passow | Karl W. Nelson | Jesikah Orman | Joshua Norton | Jonathan McFadden | Jonathan Stewart | Laura Brown | and Snezana Petrovic
Opening Night Reception: Saturday, March 10, 7-10 pm
Free live music:
Jim and The French Vanilla
(Jim Blaha of the Blind Shake)
WHERE: Big Table Studio
375 Wabasha St N
St Paul, MN 55102
March 10 – March 31, 2012
FEATURING ARTWORK BY:
Abigail Slawik | Anna Tsantir | Curt Lund | Edie Overturf | Faye Passow | Karl W. Nelson | Jesikah Orman | Joshua Norton | Jonathan McFadden | Jonathan Stewart | Laura Brown | and Snezana Petrovic
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CAUSE ART OPENING NUMBER 12 and LIVE MUSIC SERIES Cause Spirits and Soundbar 3001 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis FEATURING NEW ARTWORK BY THE ROGUE CITIZEN COLLECTIVE: Shawn Dalsen | Eric Mattheis | Matt McGorry | Matt Wells
Join us for two nights of live music and visual art at Cause Spirits and Sound Bar
October 7-8, 2011
A long time ago, four artists were born. It was the height of the Reagan era, and science fiction films were predicting an apocalyptic future for America. One such film, Robocop, satirically takes on the specter of cash-strapped American cities that have outsourced essential services to private companies, their local police departments managed by multinational conglomerates.
Today, Blackwater security contractors patrol the streets of New Orleans; city school districts are being turned over to so-called “educational management companies”; while for-profit companies such as Veolia Water compete for control over access to safe drinking water and sewage treatment facilities. Yesterday’s nightmare scenario has become our reality.
A quarter century after the New Right declared war on the public sector, the sudden collapse of the Mayan civilization is being replayed amidst the abandoned ruins of urban Detroit.
Mixing pop art and religious iconography, Rogue Citizen has appropriated the visual language of dystopian sci-fi, wartime propaganda films, and video games in a cybernetic send-up of the American obsession with excess and ultra-violence.
