Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Sapere Aude’ March 21 2014

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Mammal Gallery opens Sapere Aude, in partnership with the N.E.M. art collective and Ex Somnium, both about which you should probably know nothing before attending the show. “So much of this requires a kind of element of mystery and having an audience who is trying to experience the pieces with no preconceived notions,” says Ex Somnium Artistic Director Timothy A. Hand. “However, what I can say it that Sapere Aude is a series of immersive and interactive performance installations, as well as some musical performances by Dark Room and BLiSS, all centered around questioning accepted notions.” Both parties say the partnership that produced Sapere Aude was an organic one: “We wanted to find out what happens when you enter the Chapel Perilious, break the chains of our mis-education, and spread the word to the masses,” says N.E.M.’s Kris Pilcher. “We have created our own illuminated secret society, to expose the ancient mysteries and question the contemporary state of being.”

At 8 p.m. Friday; admission is $5. A portion of the proceeds benefit Mammal’s new Kickstartered renovation fund.

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SATURDAY

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Beep Beep Gallery is putting on its first Contraband Cinema screening of the spring, a story about “punks of the video world, glitch artists, use a wide array of new and old technologies to rebel against the hyper-slick and glossy world of contemporary media.” That’s referring to Broken Beauty: A Show On Glitch, which starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $7 at the door. The artists Michael Betancourt, Adam Bruneau, Chris Chambers, and Anna Spence will also attend.

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It’s the return of BURNAWAY’s Art Crush, “Atlanta’s most fun, most irreverent auction, featuring a collection of crushable creatives” from around the Southeast. Craig Drennen, Karen Ann Myers, Katherine Taylor, Lina Tharsing, Jessica Wohl and dozens more are among this year’s participants (they’re called “crushes”). The live auction will also include City Crush, an art-seeing weekend trip for two to Birmingham with BURNAWAY Executive Director Susannah Darrow. Art Crush starts at 7 p.m. at Lé Maison Rouge. Tickets are $40 in advance, $50 at the door.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

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The Atlanta Ballet’s Modern Choreographic Voices welcomes Ohad Naharin, Alexei Ratmansky, and Tara Lee for a three-day stint at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Each is notable: Naharin will show “Secus,” in its Atlanta Ballet premiere; Ratmansky, formerly of the Bolshoi and now of the American Ballet, will show “Seven Sonatas”; and Lee, a longtime member of the ballet, will premiere “the authors.” As our Andrew Alexander said about the Ballet’s first Choreographic Voices three years ago: “A small close-knit regional company has clearly come into its own. It would be silly not to go enjoy the moment with them.” Tickets start at $20; there is some partial nudity.