Andrew & Nichole Made a Map

It was heavy and long and lovely and here are a few hints at what you can still see at the Art Lab throughout December:

Anonymously Made Maps

that Frank and I found when we arrived on friday:

Friday night was a blast

Thanks to everyone who showed up! Kelsi did a great job reading, and it was a fine time creating our new country together:
Kelsi Vanada adds a border:

Kelsi Vanada adds to our country while Jess Wigent watches with appreciation.

Amber Highberger adds another:

And finally we have what we’ve been waiting for:

Much more on this country in our collective memory later.

Here’s Kelsi sharing with us stories/poems of her family’s life in South Dakota:

And these good sports made maps to add to our wall of maps made inside the Art Lab:

More pictures to be posted soon. Thanks again to the folks who braved the cold on a Friday night to listen to people read and to make things together.

Some new maps, some new news!

New maps are going up! We’ve got maps from Frank Stoner & Andrew Linares & Nichole Salanky & myself, with more to come, as well as a few pics of Peter & his wife Jess installing Peter’s “Man Made” & finally a quick glimpse of Richard Froude’s photography/text project.

ALSO! Friday, December 11th performances by Kelsi Vanada and myself, Jess Wigent, begin at 6:15pm. Saturday, December 12th, performances by Jennifer Denrow, Richard Froude, Shawn Huelle, and Dani Rado begin at 4pm. Please do stop by!

Below is Frank Stoner’s map, a Burkean blueprint of the notion of moment in physics:

“Indeed, if all the ratios were adjusted to one another with perfect Edenic symmetry, they would be immutable in one unending “moment.” –Kenneth Burke from A Grammar of Motives

A hint of Richard Froude’s map

We had a great first night! Thanks to everyone who showed up to support our readers and the exhibit. Here’s the plan for next weekend:

Friday night @ 6:15-ish Kelsi Vanada and Jess Wigent will be reading.
Saturday afternoon @ 4 Richard Froude, Dani Rado, and others will be reading.

Next weekend the show is open Friday night at 5pm & Saturday at 12pm so stop by anytime and get settled in to the arts & crafts table with the string, doilies, paint, books to tear apart and paste together and lots of other fun things and make your own!

We’ve got a new email address too: rememberedmaps@gmail.com so if you have any questions, came up with some grand idea, you should be a part of next weekend’s wonderfulness!

Pictures to be posted soon.

Remembered Maps Opens Tonight!

Address Counterpoint

Greg Douras will have not one but TWO wonderful sound maps installed at the Art Lab beginning next Friday, December 4th. Listen to the first, Address Counterpoint, a musical representation of the addresses and zip codes, the “numerical history” of the homes Greg and his fiancee have lived throughout their lives. The left speaker’s piano is Greg’s “numerical history” of home, and the right is his fiancee’s.

Lorraine Pritchard

Greg Douras is a mild-mannered computer repair technician during the day, but by night he is a musician and sound artist who appears to spread his special brand of noise around the fair city of Fort Collins. He is often found bending ears at the Art Lab.

Eight Miles West of Opal

Kelsi Vanada’s two maps below (and her reading in December) investigate the scale of memory alongside the expanse of the landscape of South Dakota and the sweep of personal history (the true story based on a true story).

If I Told You the Title of This Map I’d Have to Kill You

This is Nicolette Bond’s re-imagined map of a re-membered home.
Nicolette Bond is.

“Map or puzzle? Home / travels”

Our next re-imagined map is by W. Scott Howard. “Map or puzzle? Home / travels” will be projected electronically in the Art Lab–but here’s a hint at what’s to come. Be sure to click on this link to see the entire work in progress.

Scott’s Bio: Writer/Dreamer/Reader. Loves poetry, good food & wine, conversation, mountains, oceans, deserts. Bicycle-commuter. Agnostic coffee snob. Gardener. NJ/NY-raised.