Posted by giveawayboy on October 20, 2005 at 01:11:47:
The Post-Industrial Carnival
October 21 - October 30, 2005;
Flight 19, 601 Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, at the Union
Station Baggage Building
Opening event Friday, October 21st between 6-11 PM
Video festival and closing reception on Saturday,
October 29th, 6-11 PM. Gallery hours are daily between
11-5 PM.
The Post-Industrial Carnival is a one-week happening
of the arts that follows up on last year's raucous,
lively and highly successful Industrial Carnival. The
event brings together innovative artists from all over
the world working in a variety of media and genres:
including photography, video, sculpture, site-specific
interventions, painting, interactive media and
performance. Works will be presented inside the
building as well as in adjacent exterior spaces
visible to the public.
The Post-Industrial Carnival will be a space for the
intersection of diverse cultural experiences. Themes
being explored by artists include: spectacle
entertainment and commodity culture; globalization,
global economies and displacement; technoculture and
media; surveillance and compliance; and the
acceleration of successive nostalgias.
The Post-Industrial Carnival is at once a sequel,
homage, and continuation of the Industrial Carnival,
which was held in two installations in 2004. The
first, one-night event, April 30th at the Bustillo y
Diaz Cigar Factory in Tampa, was voted “Best of the
Bay - Best Art Happening for 2004” by the Weekly
Planet. The second installation was dubbed the
Industrial Carnival Museum and opened at the Art
Center in Sarasota on September 17, closing on October
17.
Organized by Jeff Stover and Richard Beckman, the
Industrial Carnival brought in Tampa Bay's most
interesting artists and musicians. This year's event,
in homage, follows the late Richard Beckman's credo,
“Change is good.” While vastly different in theme and
content, The Post-Industrial Carnival promises to be
even more aggressively imaginative, a not to be missed
arts event with local, regional and international
impact.
Participating artists: Richard Beckman, Ciprian
Muresan, Elisabeth Condon, Rene Gabri, Joe Farbrook,
Calin Dan, Neil Bender, Ayreen Anastas, Sherry
Wiggins, John Byrd, Matei Bejenaru, Anat Pollack,
Joseph Melancon, Kara Holland, Chip Neville, John
Steelman, Amber Cobb, Yoko Nogami, Gerlinde
Miesenboeck, Dan Acostioaei, Wendy Babcox, Peter
Lasch, Bradley Valentine, Daniela Alexa, Rachel
Hoffman, Janos Sugar, Mark Coven, Dana Plays, Alex
Costantino, Juan delGado, Juliet Davis, Colleen
Cleveland, Monica Bradley, Lasse Raa. Jeff Stover.
Artist collaborations: Posters in Action; MPG; Meme
Rider Media Team; Xurban Collective; Amy Pezzicara +
Jessie Stehlik; Nikki Pike + Jeanine Minge + Amber
Cobb; Donna Stack + Andrew Kaufman; Kimmy Ellinwood +
Aaron Ellinwood + Jon Schiller, Andrea Burgess +
Meghan Hogan + Rose Ranov + Christina Fernandez +
Maeve Garvin + Anthony Record + Jun Parra + Nina Stolz
+ Vanessa Jacko
Flight 19 is an Experimental Skeleton project, an
alternative art space located in the former Baggage
Building of the Union Train Station in downtown Tampa,
Florida.