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In Performance Tapes no. 6, art and film historian Jennifer Stob pairs two mid-1970s videos from the artists Ulay and Ant Farm that challenge the distinction between aesthetic and embodied acts of subversive appropriation, or détournement.
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Three separate events to celebrate the launch of Pastelegram no. 6, "Women on the Edge of Time," co-edited with Los Angeles-based artist Megan Whitmarsh.
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FRIENDS OF PASTELEGRAM :: Please help us welcome the new fall season by supporting our First Annual Fundraiser! Our goal is to raise $1500 by September 30 through merchandise sales and donations. All proceeds go toward paying our artists and writers for their work.
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Join us from 7-9pm for the launch of Pastelegram's new publishing project, Breach Press! Dedicated to translation, Breach Press publishes bilingual, letterpressed books and broadsides in which the visual format changes in conversation with the original text. Our first book, "The Poet and the Prostitute," features a 17th century story from Bengal about a poet who finds Krishna through the teachings of a prostitute. At 7:30 the translator will perform selections from the original text.
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Screening
Wed Aug 3, 7pm
Performance Tapes no. 5 | Terry Fox's Lunar Rambles
Co-Lab Projects' DEMO GALLERY
at The Avenue, 721 Congress Ave (Austin)
In this summer edition of Performance Tapes, Pastelegram will screen two videos from Terry Fox’s series Lunar Rambles: one filmed at the Brooklyn Bridge and one on Canal Street. The videos provide loose documentation of the performances, as the camera wanders among Fox and other points of interest around him.
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Performance
Fri, April 8, 9pm & 10:30pm
My Barbarian: Pre-Apocalyptic Jam Band Dance Soiree (PoLAAT)
Austin Saengerrunde Halle, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd
Performances at 9pm & 10:30pm (25 mins)
Through a weeklong series of workshops My Barbarian’s PoLAAT project will take an interest in how a culture “performs itself.” Exploring Austin’s reputation as the “Live Music Capitol,” My Barbarian will use this PoLAAT workshop to form an experimental band for a one-time live performance.
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Discussion
Wed, April 6, 6 PM
My Barbarian in conversation with Dr. Cherise Smith
UT Campus (Austin), GWB 2.206, 210 W 24th St
My Barbarian will appear in conversation with Dr. Cherise Smith during their week-long residency at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin. The panel will be moderated by Pastelegram editor Ariel Evans.
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Workshop
Deadline: February 29, 2016 // 11:59 p.m.
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Visual Arts Center (Austin)
Performance collective My Barbarian seeks applications for participants for a workshop series and performance of their Post-Living Ante-Action Theater techniques (PoLAAT), as part of the VAC Sound + Vision Artist in Residence program. The PoLAAT incorporates song, dance, levitation, trust circles, masks, signs and other elements to playfully reenact serious artistic, political, social and historical situations.
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Screening
Thu Mar 31, 7pm
Performance Tapes no. 3 | Ursula Hodel
Museum of Human Achievement (Austin)
Performance Tapes is back! In this third iteration, Pastelegram and Free Beer have partnered to present a special screening of Ursula Hodel’s works from the nineties paired with YouTube videos that use a similar visual language. Rarely screened, Hodel’s performances engage issues of desire, consumerism and self-absorption by using the video camera as a mirror.
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Screening
Wednesday, March 2, 7:30PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: CHRISTMAS ON EARTH / BLONDE COBRA
Museum of Human Achievement (Austin)
In 1963 at the age of eighteen, Barbara Rubin filmed some of the most sexually explicit and beautiful footage in the history of New York underground film. Special guest Ara Osterweil, film scholar and professor of film at McGill University in Montreal, will introduce the films. Presented by Pastelegram and Experimental Response Cinema.
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Sale
Nov 14-15, 21-22
Mobile Artists' Yard Sale
Various Locations (Austin)
The Pastelegram Mobile Artists’ Yard Sale features items from the studios and offices of Pastelegram’s many collaborators including artists' proofs, failed artworks, unsold works, sketches, working photographs, books, supplies, interesting materials, found objects and other assorted power objects and totems all priced to sell for $50 or less. The yard sale will take place in various locations within the East Austin Studio Tour boundaries during all four days of the event.
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Screening
Tue Nov 17, 7pm
Performance Tapes no. 2 | Trisha Brown
Museum of Human Achievement (Austin)
In this second iteration of Performance Tapes, Pastelegram will screen the early works of experimental dance pioneer and postmodern choreographer, Trisha Brown. A founding member of the Judson Dance Theatre, Brown is best known for her early works, which weave quotidian movements into choreographies that are both humorous and spatially complex.
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Launch Party
Oct 14 2015, 7-10pm
Pastelegram Fall Launch Party
The Butterfly Bar @ The VORTEX (Austin)
Join us for the release of our two newest projects: Pastelegram Issue 5 with My Barbarian, and Online Issue 11 with Kegels for Hegel.
At 7pm enjoy a screening of My Barbarian’s work and readings from the new print issue, followed by an 8pm performance by Kegels for Hegel (including a philosophical hanky code game). Finishing off the night is a DJ set with DJ TBA at 9pm.
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Sale
May 9-10, 16-17 2015
Mobile Artists' Yard Sale
Various Locations (Austin)
The Pastelegram Mobile Artists’ Yard Sale features items from the studios and offices of Pastelegram’s many collaborators including artists' proofs, failed artworks, unsold works, sketches, working photographs, books, supplies, interesting materials, found objects and other assorted power objects and totems all priced to sell for $50 or less. The yard sale will take place in various locations within the West Austin Studio Tour boundaries during all four days of the event.
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Conversation
October 4, 2014
Traveler, Abductee, Monster, Refugee
The Wild Detectives (Dallas)
A panel discussion on the alien--expatriate or extraterrestrial--and how to live as one. Mary Walling Blackburn, the artist of Pastelegram no. 4 "The Extra Earth Analog," will be there, as will Noah Simblist, Beatriz E. Balanta and Ariel Evans. We will talk while you listen, if you come. Then you can talk, and we'll listen. Then everybody celebrates.
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Party
May 23, 2014
Print Annual no. 4 Launch Party
MASS Gallery (Austin)
Join us for the Austin release of Pastelegram Issue No. 4: The Extra Earth Analog!
Pastelegram's fourth print issue, “The Extra Earth Analog,” guest edited by artist Mary Walling Blackburn, is an anti-authoritarian sourcebook for aliens--of both the expatriate and extraterrestrial sorts--and their allies.
Sponsored by Saint Arnold Brewing Company, and supported by Big Medium, the University Art Gallery of UC - San Diego and the City of Austin.
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Conversation
March 18, 2014
Homeschooled
Poet John Ashbery, His House, His Work, His Life
Harry Ransom Center (Austin)
Tom Healy will present the first preview ever of AshLab. Created by a small group of Ashbery friends and graduate students at The New School, AshLab is a digital project documenting Ashbery's home, art collection and poetry. Healy is a poet, professor at The New School and chairman of the worldwide Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
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Screening
October 23, 2013
Unfair Films
Cheer Up Charlies (Austin)
A selection of short films related to Johan Zetterquist’s series, Proposals for Public Art, which were recently featured in the third print issue of Pastelegram magazine, co-edited by C.C. Marsh. Pastelegram’s screening unfolds a few of Zetterquist’s influences, paying attention to Werner Herzog’s early short films, absurdist avant-garde films of the 1960s and contemporary video artists such as Birgit Rathsmann who spoof Herzog’s signature concepts in their work. Music by DARK PLANES
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Screening
August 10, 2013
Unfair Films
Sala Diaz (San Antonio)
A selection of short films related to Johan Zetterquist’s series, Proposals for Public Art, which were recently featured in the third print issue of Pastelegram magazine, co-edited by C.C. Marsh. Pastelegram’s screening unfolds a few of Zetterquist’s influences, paying attention to Werner Herzog’s early short films, absurdist avant-garde films of the 1960s and contemporary video artists such as Birgit Rathsmann who spoof Herzog’s signature concepts in their work. Music by DARK PLANES
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Conversation
April 30, 2013
Two Ships Passing
Poets Kyle Schlesinger and Cindy St. John
Visual Arts Center (Austin)
With poets Kyle Schlesinger and Cindy St. John, this edition of Two Ships Passing concerns the kinds of meaning that viewers and readers can extract from looking closely at the producer’s temporal structuring of a work. Whether works fragment, layer, or juxtapose sequences of events, ideas, or images, these moments of fracture and compression guide us through the work. In collaboration with the University of Texas Visual Arts Center.
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Party
February 22, 2013
Print Annual no. 3 Launch Party
Farewell Books (Austin)
Pastelegram is pleased to announce the release of the winter 2013 issue, "Utopolis." Featuring the work of Swedish-born artist Johan Zetterquist, this third print issue of Pastelegram, co-edited with C.C. Marsh, will include works from two of Zetterquist’s ongoing series: Proposals for Public Art and Study for a Monument. Come with friends and celebrate our third issue!
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Conversation
October 4, 2012
Two Ships Passing
Curator Barbara Perea with Drummer Nick Hennies
Visual Arts Center (Austin)
With curator Barbara Perea and Drummer Nick Hennies. Straddling the worlds of contemporary visual art and music, sound art includes diverse practices, from inventive machines, video and film, to performance and other possibilities. Sound art's boundaries are thus amorphous, posing particular complexities to those who wish to display such works or write about the field. In collaboration with the University of Texas Visual Arts Center.
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Party
May 10, 2012
Print Annual no. 2 Launch Party
Domy Books (Austin)
In popular magazines such as TIME, articles are the filler and ads are the content. As Ricky Yanas—Pastelegram’s guest editor for its second print issue—sees it, the ads must be included among the magazines pages, economically speaking, and the articles do not. Therefore the magazine’s articles for the most part support the advertising companies’ sale of goods. Sponsored by Real Ale.
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Conversation
April 17, 2012
Two Ships Passing
Architects David Heymann and Murray Legge
Visual Arts Center (Austin)
With architects David Heymann and Murray Legge, this edition of Two Ships Passing presents a conversation about ways of thinking about and reacting to landscapes, whether through architecture, performance, photography, or art history (among other possibilities). In collaboration with the University of Texas Visual Arts Center.
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Conversation
February 9, 2012
Two Ships Passing
Art Historian Andy Campbell and Fashion Designer Gail Chovan
Visual Arts Center (Austin)
With art historian Andy Campbell and fashion designer Gail Chovan, this talk concerns the methods of dealing with the profusion of pictures in magazines, photographs, the Internet, documents, and other assorted ephemera–instead of a single work of art. In collaboration with the University of Texas Visual Arts Center.
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Party
October 13, 2011
Print Annual no. 1 Launch Party
Domy Books (Austin)
Join us as we launch the first print issue of Pastelegram! Our premier issue features artist Barry Stone. The title, The sun had not risen yet / Now the sun had sunk, is drawn from two sentences from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931), where Woolf’s complex narratives return again and again to descriptions of the sun’s movement.
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Elsewhere
2016-2017
Print annual: no. 6
Women on the Edge of Time
Megan Whitmarsh
2016
Online Issue no. 11
Sexing Up Social Theory
Kegels for Hegel
Spring 2016
Online Issue no. 10
Primitive Games
Birgit Rathsmann
WINTER 2015
Print annual: no. 5
The Audience is Always Right
My Barbarian
2015
Online Issue no. 9
We Belong Dead
Margaret Meehan
SUMMER 2015
Online Issue no. 8
Narcissus Rising
Ivan LOZANO
FALL 2014
Online Issue no. 7
French Leave
Chuck Ramirez, Anjali Gupta
Summer 2014
Online Issue no. 6
Time, and Again
Cindy St. John
Summer 2014
Print annual: no. 4
The Extra Earth Analog
Mary Walling Blackburn
2014
Online Issue no. 5
There Is No Taste in Theatre: It Is a Medium
Chelsea Weathers
Fall 2013
Print annual no. 3
Utopolis
Johan Zetterquist, C.C. Marsh
2013
Online Issue no. 4
Time Zone
Scott Eastwood
Summer 2013
Online Issue no. 3
Unsound
Barbara Perea
Spring 2013
Print annual no. 2
Wipe Out
Ricky Yanas
2012
Online Issue no. 2
At the Weehawken Dueling Ground, July 11, 1804
Andrew Douglas Underwood
Fall 2012
Online Issue no. 1
Width and Against
Kristina Felix
Summer 2012
The greenhouse
Ruth Van Beek
Spring 2012
Camera Phone Photos
Sterling Allen
Fall 2011
Print annual no. 1
The Sun Had Not Risen Yet / Now The Sun Had Sunk
Barry Stone
2011
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