Illiterate Presents - Denver Does Denver August 28, 2010
ILLITERATE PRESENTS Denver Does Denver 2010 An Event of Creative Promiscuity : : Bands DO Bands! Artists DO Artists! SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 2 VENUES | 20+ BANDS | 20+ ARTISTS @ THE MEADOWLARK (2701 Larimer) @ THE FLOBOTS.ORG COMMUNITY SPACE (2705 Larimer) ART AUCTION :: 6PM - 11PM MUSIC :: 8PM - 2AM + A BACKDOOR BBQ! $8 TICKETS BEFORE AUGUST 27 (purchase tickets online here) $12 DAY OF EVENT AT THE DOOR MUSIC LINEUP THE FLOBOTS || HOUSES || ESME PATTERSON (OF PAPER BIRD) || BIG LIL' (LILLY SCOTT & COLE RUDY) || THE LEGENDARY RIVER DRIFTERS | LUMINEERS || PINK HAWKS || SAFE BOATING IS NO ACCIDENT || HUNTER DRAGON || OBLIO'S ARROW || MARRIED IN BE...Read more
Illiterate Opening This Friday: Down With The Sickness Too
Down With The Sickness Too infects Illiterate with a group of Denver's leading up-and-coming art misfits. Curated in conjunction with Travis Egedy, one of the founders and residents of Rhinoceropolis, a DIY breeding ground for radical young artists, this exhibit captures a unique segment of Denver's progressive cultural landscape.Including works in various media, the exhibition explores cohesion in chaos. The follow up exhibit to the Down With The Sickness show over a year ago, artists associated in various ways with a creative epicenter on the edge, express their transgressive reactions to the current order seen as contaminated and polluting, while simultaneously sharing in a collec...Read more
Tonight! "The Pyre" Book Release and Closing Reception
Tonight, Friday, July 30 at 6PM Illiterate celebrates the culmination of Ravi Zupa's solo exhibition, "The Pyre" with the release of a collaborative book by the same name. Containing an epic poem written by Tim Holland, aka Sole, founder of Anticon records and leader of Sole and The Sky Rider Band, and illustrations by Zupa, "The Pyre" evaluates a world set in flames. At 8PM Tim Holland performs "The Pyre" in it's entirety as a spoken word piece followed by projections of video's directed by Ravi Zupa for Sole and the Skyrider Band. ...Read more
The Enchantment of Camille Vivier
Camille Vivier is a french filmmaker and photographer who studied Fine Art in Paris and at Central St Matrin’s in London. Her photography has been featured in magazines such as Purple, Dazed and Confused, i-D... Vivier constructs a reality that seems to be hidden behind a dark veil of mystery. It is as if the viewer gets a sneek peek into one of Vivier’s dreams. In an interview by Purple gallery, Vivier said, “I’m borrowing from the imagery of the unconscious and dreams, from the art of vanitas, from magic, mythology, from an inner experience having to do with the bizarre, with fear, with the irrational, with love, while ...Read more
Paul Fusco, somber in the summer
I came across this recent exhibition in L.A. of Paul Fusco, who was present on the RFK's funeral train in the summer of 1968. Just like any good photographer would, he documented the journey from NYC to Arlington, near D.C. I find the perspective interesting, a ride along a funeral prosession for a president who never was... ...Read more
Illiterate Film Night Thursday: Stingray Sam (Official Screening)
On Thursday night, July 8, Illiterate is proud to present Cory McAbee's follow-up to his gritty, interstellar western musical, American Astronaut. Shown in six consecutive episodes, STINGRAY SAM hurtles across the galaxy as a dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. $5 admission...Read more
Illiterate Opening This Friday: Ravi Zupa's
PRESENTS "The Pyre" New Works by Ravi Zupa JULY 2 - JULY 30, 2010 Opening Reception FRIDAY JULY 2, 6PM 82 S. Broadway Denver, CO 80209 click for directions To schedule a private showing call Illiterate at (303) 993-4474 or email us at admin@illiteratemedia.com ABOUT THE EXHIBIT Temperatures rise at Illiterate as Ravi Zupa engulfs the gallery with his searingly sharp representations of the past and present. Historical styles are collected and rearranged as the kindling for drawings, paintings and sculptures that blaze with the intensity of a modern man’s angst as he attempts to place his own contemporary struggles amongst turmoils in...Read more
Illiterate Film Artist Series: Jason Appleton Presents Battle in Heaven
Each month on the last Thursday of the month, Illiterate invites it's exhibiting artist(s) to present a film in relation to their artwork in the gallery. On Thursday June 24 at 8PM, artist Jason Appleton presents Battle in Heaven, a sexually charged story of intrigue and salvation set in modern Mexcio, directed and written by Carlos Reygadain....Read more
Illiterate Film Night: American Astronaut Official Screening
It's official, tonight, Thursday, June 10, Illiterate screens the widely acclaimed intergalactic frontier musical, American Astronaut. "Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis. Written, directed, and starring Cory McAbee of the legendary cult band The Billy Nayer Show, this sci-fi, musical-western uses flinty black and white photography, rugged Lo-Fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier. We follow Curtis on his Homeric journey to provide the all-female planet of Venus with a suitable male, while pursued by an enigmatic killer, Professor Hess. The film features music by ...Read more
The Mix Tape Release Reading: Denver Edition
Answering the battle cry to human evolution's call for shorter and shorter attention spans, comes the June release of The Mix Tape--the new international anthology of 1,000 words or less fiction from Fast Forward Press. Stay tuned for a full review of the entire book, coming soon to an Illiterate Fiction Section blog spot near you. Right now all you need to know is that the annual Fast Forward Flash Fiction anthologies have managed to gather some of the best new writing out there, and that at this particular event a handful of extremely entertaining fuckers will be reading from the new edition. “Fun will be provided.” --Super Troopers and ...Read more
