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Here's something to do this Friday night: The CARNIVAL OF DESTRUCTION at Xchanges Gallery. I have a piece in the show, a simple motorized sculpture that erases and mutates drawings. This is the first time I've shown sculpture in a gallery.


Tickets available at The Papery (Fort Street, across from Eaton's Centre), I'm sure they'd let you in at the door too. Five bucks. All ages.

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Press Release

Carnival of Destruction,
Artists' Midway & Demolition Derby
October 10, 8 pm
Xchanges Gallery
$5 (includes demolition coupons)

Destroy Art?

On October 10th, 2003, Xchanges Gallery will present the public with the unusual opportunity of doing exactly that. Xchanges Gallery will be transformed into a Midway, replacing the usual attractions of sideshows freaks and cheap teddy bears with stalls set up for the destruction of art.

Swap your coupons at the 'Tomato Toss' and then let rip on a
watercolour painting, or see how a piece of pottery withstands the impact of the 'Gravitron'. For one evening only the Carnival of Destruction, Artists Midway & Demolition Derby will invite the public to express their feelings about art like never before. Shout insults at that incomprehensible piece of abstract sculpture or that cliché landscape at our 'Verbal Destruction' booth or learn to Flamenco on top of an oil painting. Complete the cycle of destruction and
creation by sifting through the debris at our 'Salvage Yard' and create your own art work out of the wreckage.

The evening will also feature films and performances about
destruction as well as live music & DJ's. All artwork destroyed at the carnival has been donated by local artists for that purpose. "It is a great opportunity to get rid of that stuff I was storing in my mothers garage." Says Charles Campbell, Xchanges' Gallery Coordinator.

The public is also invited to bring any unwanted kitsch or art objects to be destroyed on the night.

The $5 ticket includes coupons redeemable at any destruction stall. Proceeds from the event will go to Xchanges Artists' Gallery & Studios.
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Xchanges Gallery is at 420 William Street in Vic West. It's
near the end of William Street where it meets Esquimalt Road. There's a second hand shop on the corner there in a triangle lot, if you see a sign for Reno Cycles you've gone a bit too far. The gallery is in the same building as "Crossgrain Photo Studio", next to a sheet metal place.

Buses that will get you closest would be the 6 Dockyard or 25
Admirals Walk. You could take the 14 Vic General and walk a couple of blocks across the front of Vic West Elementary School (keep your zip gun ready), or the 24 Admirals Walk.

I would show up promptly at 8:00, 'cos if you wait too long all the good stuff will be smashed before you get there.

Date: 2003-10-07 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seaofrain.livejournal.com
hmnnnnn......uncontrolled rage


do you know where to get ticket? Is the gallery the same place where the erotic art show was?

Date: 2003-10-07 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
Tickets are at The Papery, a store that sells cards and crap on Fort St. across the street from Eaton Centre. If you are sure you want to go, I will get a ticket there for you (since I'm downtown at lunch hours) and you can pay me back.

Yes, it is the same gallery where we saw the Erotic Art Show.

Date: 2003-10-08 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seaofrain.livejournal.com
Yes I will go definitely. See you friday!

Date: 2003-10-08 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
Outstanding. I will be there pretty promptly around 8 or before, and if I don't see you at the door I will leave the ticket in an envelope with your name on it at the door. I will have to go in and set up my machine, but I will see you at some point!

Date: 2003-10-08 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scuttle.livejournal.com
>:(

I want to go! It occured to me that I could as I don't have to leave for parent's place on Friday (or res reflex, must get out as soon as possible as food and power shut off) but it is still the most economically (and academically) sound tactic as I will eat their food and use their hydro rather than my own. And not be here socializing.

Boo.

Date: 2003-10-08 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
Too bad, so sad...but have a spongin' good time up-Island.

Date: 2003-10-10 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seaofrain.livejournal.com
HA! anne can't go~~loser!!

Date: 2003-10-10 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
HaHaHa!

Let's say it agian, and louder -

LOSER!

Date: 2003-10-10 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scuttle.livejournal.com
I actually COULD go. I just don't want to hang out with losers like YOU!

Date: 2003-10-10 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
Hold your nose, Eve - the aroma of sour grapes in here is absolutely overwhelming....

Date: 2003-10-10 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scuttle.livejournal.com
I don't mind really. It sounds cool but $5 I don't have. Plus I timed my bus right so I'd get some free dinner when I meet my ride in Nanaimo!

remember food beats art in Anneland.

Date: 2003-10-10 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
I know There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, but maybe there's a free dinner out there for all of us - one day...

Have a good weekend; enjoy whatever you use as a bird-substitute (Tofurkey? Turk-alike? Roast mockingbird? Triples on the mashed potatoes?).

Date: 2003-10-10 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scuttle.livejournal.com
curry. My mom misses having me around to make curry.

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