Audio February Opening Reception

February 6, 2009 | 6-9pm

6-8pm Audio Installation. Panta Rhei, “Horses” and other audio art works by Peter Traub and Lanier Sammons on display.

8pm Listening Room. Julie Shapiro, Artistic Director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival presents well crafted and edgy audio documentaries from across the world. She will showcase work from the Radio Ephemera Audio Challenge, Third Coast’s annual awards, and even some local artists.

 Are There Any More Rare, Plastic Ponies?  Julie Shapiro. Girls. Horses. The bond between is deep, timeless, and somewhat…inexplicable. From the living, breathing animals to the mass-produced, painted ponies, one thing remains constant. Girls dig horses.

Ephemera Board 3 What is ephemera? Those bits of throwaway paper and minor documents of very day life, created for a specific, limited purpose, and generally designed to be discarded after use. But ephemera is often kept for some
reason. What ephemeral possessions can you just not bear to part with? Grab a pen, choose a post-it note and leave some ephemera about your ephemera. Ephemera Board 3 consists of more than 500 post-it notes, ephemera in waiting. This project, initially conceived by producer David Green, was inspired in equal parts by the Third Coast International Audio Festival’s Radio Ephemera public audio challenge and the work of the Illegal Art Collective of New York. Ephemera Board I was first installed at the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, IL where David teaches.