CAM RALEIGH ANNOUNCES ARTHOUSE 2012
ENTERTAINMENT LINE-UP AND HOST COMMITTEE
NEW ARTISTS ADDED TO ART+CULTURE AUCTION
1ST ANNIVERSARY PARTY
with Honorary Chair Mayor McFarlane
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Raleigh, April 2012—After many years of planning and hard work, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum) is now thriving in Raleigh’s warehouse district. To celebrate the museum’s first year, CAM Raleigh on May 11 will host Arthouse 2012, an exciting party and art and culture auction, whose proceeds will support CAM Raleigh’s operations, exhibitions, and educational activities.
Arthouse 2012 promises to be an amazing event in a fabulous and unique venue. The evening will include an unforgettable VIP hour, creative cocktails, delicious food, groundbreaking entertainment, and silent auctions filled with artworks donated by premier galleries, artists and collectors along with additional featured specialty items and packages. The event will be a gathering of friends, curators, architects, designers, dealers, artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts alike. Valet parking is provided by Capital Parking.
Elysia Borowy-Reeder, CAM Raleigh executive director says "Arthouse 2012 is CAM Raleigh’s annual fundraiser event that will help meet a deep need for support. With every pioneering effort, support is critical. CAM Raleigh is a celebration of the diversity of artistic expression that puts the artist in the center of the community. We are avid champions of artists early in their careers and we give them an atmosphere where they are encouraged to foster a cross-fertilization of ideas and dynamic interaction with visitors. Come out and help us realize our mission—it is an event that is not-to-be-missed.”
CAM Raleigh seeks to curate the most contemporary works of art and design possible—those still emerging, growing, and living and to spark new thinking by creating ever-changing experiences that explore what’s now and nearing. CAM Raleigh is collaboration between the Contemporary Art Foundation, the community and North Carolina State University’s (NC State) College of Design. “I support innovative thinking about art and design and our new home for contemporary art and design, CAM Raleigh, aligns with both the College of Design’s curriculum and the ambitions of the many artists and designers that are on faculty—it also serves as a great source of inspiration to our students,” said North Carolina State’s College of Design Dean and Arthouse 2012 host committee member Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA.
The anniversary event’s theme is loosely based around 1970's street art and celebrates CAM Raleigh’s home in the warehouse district. The event will feature live art by local graffiti artists, Victor Knight and Bart Cusick, b-boys such as Juan Matta, Napoleon Wright and b-girls breakdancing inside and outside the Museum to electro-clash inspired music. The museum will undergo a transformation, featuring a unique lounge resembling a wild graffiti clad train car. Carrboro-based video artist Adam Graetz is creating video projections for the event. DJs for the evening are Raleigh's finest and most edgiest: DJ Chico, Logan Sayles, Jon Yu, Edwin, and DJ Nixxed. There will also be a airbrush station where downtown Raleigh tattoo and air brush artist Mo will make personalized CAM Raleigh t-shirts and hats to commemorate this major milestone.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 2012
409 West Martin Street
Raleigh, NC 27603
MEDIA CONTACT
Elysia Borowy-Reeder
elysia_borowy@camraleigh.ncsu.edu | 919.513.7200 | 312.972.4096
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CAM Raleigh Presents
Invisible’s The New Obsolete
Performance on First Friday April 6, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
The New Obsolete Documentary on view March 31 through April 6, 2012
Raleigh, March 2012—CAM Raleigh is proud to present The New Obsolete, a performance art piece by the Greensboro-based collective Invisible. Performing with elaborate inventions, obsolete technology and six channels of video, Invisible's work falls somewhere between installation, performance and music. The objects they perform with form a bricolaged landscape of contraptions–found, made and repurposed. Like the objects, the performances are crowd pleasing at one level, aesthetically and conceptually challenging at another. CAM Raleigh will also feature the debut of a documentary by Jonathan Butler that explores The New Obsolete. The documentary will be available for viewing March 31 through April 6.
The New Obsolete explores the idea of obsolescence–both in technology and the human body. At the center of the piece is a professional typist, whose words are transposed into music by way of an electromechanical adaptor that turns each letter typed into a note played on a piano. Guitars, synthesizers, heartbeats, and dripping water are just some of the sounds that accompany the typist's "lyrics." A tiny video camera mounted on the stylus of the IBM Selectric typewriter allows the text to be projected alongside additional videos displayed on CRT monitors.
The objects used in The New Obsolete:
The Selectric Piano is an IBM Selectric typewriter that has been electromechanically rigged up to a piano so that every letter typed results in a note played. Incredibly, an IBM Selectric types 88 characters—the same number of keys on a piano. The Selectic Piano was built by Mark and Fred for Jodi as an adaptor for translating her preexisting skills as a typist, to that of a performer. Jodi had no previous experience as a musician but has been with Invisible for Selectric Piano performances ever since.
Elsewhere's Roof was built during the Summer of 2011. It uses dripping water and human hearts to trigger acoustic percussion devices. Because its five channels are independent, Elsewhere’s Roof produces rhythms that humans can’t and drum machines don’t.
In addition to Invisible's performance, CAM Raleigh's April First Friday program includes after-hours access to the galleries, a hands-on activity at the creation station, food trucks, and a cash bar.
First Friday activities are free with $5 museum admission. CAM Raleigh members, children 10 and under, members of NARM and Mod/Co, and NC State students, staff, and faculty are admitted free.
April 6 First Friday Schedule:
Cash bar: open 6:00–9:45 p.m.
Food trucks in the courtyard: 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Hands-on creation station in the classroom: open 6:30–9:00 p.m.
The New Obsolete performance by Invisible: 7:30 p.m.
Museum open until 10:00 p.m.
Current Exhibitions:
Born Digital–Exploring Digital Culture and Interactivity
Through April, 30, 2012
Born Digital, invites visitors to physically explore digital culture and movement-driven artwork—to exercise their creativity and act on their curiosity. The exhibition showcases the contemporary, visitor-dependent art of 12 national and international pioneers of digital and new media art.
Chris Bradley–Close One
Through May 28, 2012
A recent School of the Art Institute of Chicago M.F.A graduate, Bradley balances humor with thoughtful composition in his playful installations and pairs unlikely elements with more common sculptural materials such as wood and steel. By arranging prosaic objects in uncommon ways, Bradley assigns them new importance and suggests new ways of relating to them. The use of disparate materials, such as discarded auto parts and cast bronze forms, Bradley creates a conversation amongst the work that diminishes conventional means of appraisal and embraces the material’s immediate effect.
Dara Friedman–Dancer
Through May 14, 2012
Dancer, created by Dara Friedman, documents a series of dances that took place on the gritty and lush landscape of Miami, Florida in the spring of 2011. The film captures 66 performers in 40 segments as they dance, during the day and at night, along Miami’s sidewalks, in its parks and parking garages, street corners, bus benches, and on its beaches.
About First Fridays at CAM Raleigh
CAM Raleigh First Fridays include special performances, music, cash bar and hands-on activities at the First Friday Creation Station. First Friday activities are free with museum admission.
Hours and Admission
CAM Raleigh hours are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 11:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and first and third Fridays of the month open late. The museum is closed on Tuesday. General admission to the museum is $5. CAM Raleigh members, children 10 and under, members of NARM outside of the City of Raleigh and Mod/Co, and NC State students, staff, and faculty are admitted free.
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CAM Raleigh is a non-collecting museum that explores what’s now and presents an always-changing museum experience. CAM Raleigh is collaboration between the Contemporary Art Foundation, the community of Raleigh and North Carolina State University’s College of Design. CAM Raleigh is generously supported by the Contemporary Art Foundation, North Carolina State University, individual and corporate members, private and corporate foundations, and government agencies. CAM Raleigh is located at 409 West Martin Street, Raleigh, NC 27603, between Harrington and West streets and in the heart of Raleigh’s Depot National Register Historic District and Warehouse District. CAM Raleigh has a parking lot; additional parking is available at metered spots on the street or at the Davie Street Parking Lot located at 201 W. Davie Street. Information about CAM Raleigh’s exhibitions, programs, and special events is available on the CAM Raleigh website at camraleigh.org or by phone at 919.513.0946. Follow @camraleigh on twitter.
