Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘I Will Be the Void’ April 18 2014
- Courtesy the artist
- Lydia Anne McCarthy
Lydia Anne McCarthy’s I Will Be the Void has its reception at Twin Kittens, in the middle of its months-long exhibition. “Working in color and experimenting with repetition, multiple exposure and light, I remove my subjects from their original context and exploit the idea that photography may be able to capture a world we cannot readily see with our eyes,” McCarthy told me. The exhibit grew from an artist residency at the Kala Institute last summer; it draws inspiration from a triptych of “religious experience, mental illness, and psychedelic culture.” “Appearing as scientific specimens, in these images I create a new lexicon in a similar way to New Age practice,” McCarthy says.
The exhibit’s subjects seem simultaneously diffuse and specific. One photograph references the English dystopian Aldous Huxley. Another, an image of a pile of palo santo, “includes my hand burning a piece of it, showing my own involvement in the ritual and practice,” McCarthy says. “The light experiments of colored lines of light reference visions I have had. They are named after a spiritual workshop, ‘Your Divine Destiny in the Living Matrix’. I am interested in both the sincerity and absurdity of this, as I see this duality within my own path. In many ways, I am a skeptic searching for something that will resonate with me. The portraits are all of spiritual seekers, journeying on their own path, who have intersected with mine.”
More for your weekend, below.
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SATURDAY
- http://clatl.com/atlanta/ImageArchives?by=1223504
- “Nosferatu,” 1922
Here is something a little different: At Eyedrum/C4, Kyle Eyre Clyd will play a live soundtrack over a re-edited version of F.W. Murnau’s original Nosferatu, which you may or may not remember as legions better than the studio-made Dracula, starring Bela Legosi. (Booooooooring.) “A small synth, wind organ, & reel to reel delay will be used to synthesize a vocal choir of the undead,” the gallery said. Starts at 9 p.m. $5
MOMO is coming. Well, technically he’s already here: the New York-based muralist started painting at the Boulevard tunnel yesterday. His public art is the latest in the tunnels ongoing rehabilitation; like a springboard, both Living Walls and the Boulevard Tunnel Initiative have organized a series of events, over 10 days, to celebrate the space. Saturday’s schedule includes and Instameet with #weloveatl, the “Crops & Crafts” Artist and Farmers Market (from noon-4 p.m.), and more. As BTI leader Nicki Braxley told CL’s Max Blau last year, “Now that we have bright lights and pedestrian guardrails and a beautiful mural, we need to see what the community does with the tunnel.”
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
SweetWater 420 Fest will see the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Steel Pulse and Sublime with Rome headlining; at least one hour entitled “What’s in Your Beer?”; and two discrete areas for EDM and comedy. Oh, and the fest is on the move: after nine (!) years at Candler Park, the arts-cum-music-cum-alcohol celebration (plus a 5K) will be held at Olympic Centennial Park. Admission starts at $10. Everything else you need to know about is here.