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Each day that I get to work on this project, I come home exhausted after only a few hours of work. So much looking!
The soundtrack is both ambient, using the sounds found in the environment and additive and evocative using the jingling and jangling of silverware.
As the video progresses, new sounds and new actions surround the newly discovered fault. Bread and water, staff of life, the stuff of memory and the stuff of the present.
The opening was very well attended.
The videos were beautiful!
Tomorrow, I will begin to show you how this corner was used!The performance this Friday is entitled Bound
Performers Biography
Jon Wickham, Rolling in Plastic Tapestry
Northeast Minneapolis resident Jon Wickham has lived in Minnesota all his life; he grew up in a small agricultural community but moved to the city in 1992 and has been around the local musicscene for many years. In his spare time he enjoys gardening and riding his motorcycle. This is his first time participating in performance art.
Jennifer Markey, Playing Silverware
Country singer-songwriter Jennifer Markey can frequently be seen playing with her band, the Tennessee Snowpants, at clubs around the Twin Cities. They put out two albums in 2010; "We're All Going To Hell!" and "The Sparta Session." They will be back in the studio in summer 2011 to record their third release.
Website http://www.myspace.com/jennifermarkey
MC Hyland, Aggressive Bread Kneader
Poet MC Hyland’s chapbooks include “Every Night in Magic City” (H_NGM_N, 2010), “Residential, As In” (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and “the hesitancies” (Small Fires Press, 2006, with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck). Her first full-length collection, “Neveragainland,” is forthcoming this winter from Lowbrow Press.
Read some poetry here:
http://slantpoetry.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/dysfunctional-batch-14-mc-hyland/
Hyland lives in Minneapolis, where she runs DoubleCross Press and the Pocket Lab Reading Series and works as an administrator and occasional letterpress instructor at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Tom Evans, Portable Victrola Scratching
Lives in New York City he is the assistant to the artist and has hitched himself to a runaway train.
Nancy Morris, Kick Drum
In the House of the Mineral Spirits
by Dean Ebben
opens Friday, Jan 14
6-10pm
performance begins at 7pm
This was the reason I invited Dean Ebben to develop a show for Susan Hensel Gallery. I had seen his video If I could roll it out of me (still from the video above). In this video a man, Dean, places himself in a "wilderness" to roll until he could physically roll no more. It captured my attention on a deep level. It began as child begins, with a simple joyful act. I remember ecstatically rolling down cool grassy hills as a child, smelling the earth, the worms and beetles, the new growth under a warm summer sky. But we grow and we grow-up and the simple acts change. They are more difficult and fraught with meaning and mystery. Come see this video and more :
A RE-GRAND OPENING
At
SUSAN HENSEL GALLERY
In the House of the Mineral Spirits
Jan 14- Feb 28
The Susan Hensel Gallery has been quiet for the last six months, but that is about to change. On January 14, a new show In the House of the Mineral Spirits, by Dean Ebben, will kick off the final full season of Susan Hensel Gallery before retirement, with performance, installation and works on paper. A reception for the artist will be held Friday, January 14, 6-10pm, with a performance that begins at 7pm.
It will be a visually, aurally rich evening with a gift at the end. Much of the evening will be given over to a performance and series of video projections with live and recorded gamelan music. The central performer of the evening will interact with woven structures, symbolic ice, a starlit sky and sound. In the end, the pieces of the performance are ephemeral and will be transformed on site into free gifts. But the videos and the installation will remain, looping and interacting with the local environment for the duration of the show.
In The House of The Mineral Spirits is a play on words and meanings. The idea of the house is a metaphor of one’s inner-self. “We all have spirits, ghosts, even demons that haunt us in our past, present, and future. The mineral spirits are poison, alcohol, things that evaporate. They are ethereal and clear.”
Dean Ebben’s work always begins as a biographical narrative, taking on a life of its own, building with the response of the viewers. He sees this show as a “wisdom work," seeking wisdom through the exploration of ideas, materials, mythology, and narrative. By using his own observations and experiences in a subtle visual context, he requires the viewers to look carefully and ask themselves what they find significant
Dean Ebben grew up in the Twin Cities, graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Pratt Institute. His media is drawing... but not in the way that most people think of drawing...as an elegant line of pen or pencil. He works with multi-media in a meditative manner akin to the discovery process inherent in drawing. In this show you will see video, performance, artists books, sculpture, gouache paintings, and cyanotype.
In a world of mass culture, which inflicts sensory overload, people tend to become desensitized to visual culture. Ebben asks the viewer to stop and look closely to find what is significant. Finding wisdom through observation and reflection.
As things in the show transform themselves, as videos loop to provide different glimpses into new realities, this show will be an exciting and apt beginning to a transitional year in the life of Susan Hensel Gallery.
WHAT: IN THE HOUSE OF THE MINERAL SPIRITS
Installation, performance and works on paper
By
Dean Ebben
WHEN: January 14-February 28, 2011
Reception: Friday, January 14, 6-10pm
Performance at @ 7pm, Jan 14
WHERE: Susan Hensel Gallery
3441 Cedar Ave S
CONTACT: Susan Hensel 612 722-2324
And then, Dean Ebben's show will open in January. Dean is a local guy who moved on to New York. He comes back every year to see family and to teach at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. On January 14 he will open IN THE HOUSE OF THE MINNERAL SPIRITS at Susan Hensel Gallery with an installation and a performance. Stay tuned!
image from Bound, a series of Cyanotypes Ebben made in Austerlitz, NY. They are the result of a video-taped action of Ebben wrapping his hands and feet. 
One of those tiny dots is the curator, Jon Coffelt.
Performance artist Julia Babb speaking with Susan. Julia will have a performance at the Pillsbury House on March 31 and April 1. I was a very short person lost in the sea of people. That's me, clutching my camera.
I could not get shots much above people's navels! 
That's Zach gesturing in the gloves.
The party closed down after midnight. Stay tuned. On Monday we will have more photos from Zach.
Jodi Reeb-Meyers with her miraculous floating book!
Steven Berg of Steven Be, a Yarn Garage Workshop.CALL FOR ART
THE ARTS OF COMMUNITY
March 19- April 16, 2010 At Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis
Sponsored and curated by SMARTS, South Minneapolis Arts Business Association, a new association of artists and arts related businesses that unite to connect, cooperate and support the arts in South Minneapolis. The focus for this first annual show is COMMUNITY. The jurors want to see work from, about and in support of community, communi- ty building, and the glories of South Minneapolis. Other themes will be considered as SMARTS would like to promote a broad range of South Minneapolis artists. The exhibition will also serve as the launch of the SMARTS guide which is a map of visual and performing art destinations, artists, education and art service businesses in South Minneapolis. The SMARTS GUIDE will lead visitors to arts businesses and destination points in South Minneapolis.
For more information on SMARTS please visit www.southminneapolisarts.org.
WHO MAY SUBMIT
All artists living and working in south Minneaopolis may apply. The borders are roughly south of Franklin Ave, east of Lake Harriet, Lake Calhoun, Lake of the Isles, north of HWY 62 and west of the Mississippi River.
MEDIA
All visual media are welcome, including video. Our exhibition has some restrictions in terms of size and form of piec- es. Specifically: sculptural/3D work should be able to be shelved on walls or rigged from the ceiling . Work requiring pedestals may not be accepted. Please contact Intermedia Arts before proposing work that is unusually large, heavy or fragile for the exhibition. Call or email: 612.871.4444 or info@IntermediaArts.org with questions.
HOW TO APPLY
Send accurate jpegs of the work you plan to show to info@southminneapolisarts.org . Statements about the work are welcome. Please provide your complete name, email, website, address and phone # in the body of the email. Accept- ed artists will be expected to provide a resume and artist’s statement about their work and press clippings, if available.
SALES AND INSURANCE
Intermedia Arts will retain 40% of artwork sales during the span of the exhibition. Intermedia Arts will insure the work for the duration of the show.
PUBLICITY
• At least 1000 postcards will be distributed • local, area and national press kits will be sent • email publicity
DATES
February 8th - jpegs for up to 5 works due at info@southminneapolisarts.org
March 12th or March 15th - Accepted work due (ready to hang/install) at Intermedia Arts from 10am-6pm. Friday,
March 19th - Artists reception, 7-10 pm at Intermedia Arts Monday,
April 19th - Pickup of artwork from 10am-6pm
Thursday, October 15th, 7-9 p.m. inspired by See Take Another Step, Carlson's most recent body of work. He chronicles the women that he walked alongside during his experience completing the Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3 Day. Up beat, lushly painted. Then listen to poetry! You must experience this!
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HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO, Friday, September 18, had a great party. There are just a few more days to see this wonderful show. It comes down on Saturday, September 26. Hurry to see it!
At this stage of her life, Baby the Dog is not noted for her keen perception (hence the diapers). In fact, she has never been noted for her brilliance, just her looks and her sweetness. But even she, beset by Alzheimer's though she is, noticed the real, moist sod on the gallery floor.
