among friends

Bi-Co Mix CD Party
Friday, March 20th, 9 p.m.

Did you participate in the Bi-Co Mix CD Exchange? Wish you had participated? Now that the exchange is over, join Mawrtyrs and Fords in James House for a party celebrating the mixes we made for each other.

Big Birthday Party
Saturday, March 21st, 9 p.m.

Do you know Emily Carton, Sydney Keough, Hilary Schwartz, Julia Ryan, Cristina Smith, or Laura Zipin? Join us in James House to celebrate all their birthdays! Bring presents, because this is their birthday party.

among friends is coming next week!

Join us Tuesday, March 24th at 4:30pm in Stokes Auditorium for presentations by the artists Nao Bustamante, Jennifer Delos Reyes, Harrell Fletcher, and William Pope.L. Each artist will show and discuss their past work and announce their Haveford collaborations.

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whoa man, Jen Delos Reyes is flying into philly tonight. prepare yourself for a week and and a half of relational aesthetics awesomeness, and stay tuned for more news on the Remaking “Rumours” project.

Today I went down to Fabric Row on South 4th St. to pick up some materials for Nao’s talismans. Ever-trusty Liz Turner came along as my unofficial unpaid among friends photographer. Here’s what I got.

I got 10 yards of velcro at Pennsylvania Fabric Outlet.

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We need you to sew heart pouches with us. We need you to eat food with us. We need you to have a sewing party with us in James House Tuesday and Wednesday night (Tues 7-10, Wed 8:30-10/after We Speak).

Whether you’ve been sewing all your life or have never stitched a stitch, come. We can’t sew, but we’re going to try. (There will be sewing machines. If you have one you can lend to us, let us know.)

We are sewing heart pouches for the comfort station we’re hosting with Nao around March 25th. We will also screen some of Nao’s films. She’s done some pretty great stuff—dressed up her dog Fufu as a water buffalo; dolled herself up in a huge blond wig, climbed a ladder, and sung “America the Beautiful”; traveled around the country dressed as Ronaldo McDonaldo and demanded a free hamburger. The list goes on.

Conclusion: Come to James House. Sew with us.

I just can’t help myself.

I went to a high school, actually the oldest public high school in the country, where a “classical” education was not only valued, but required. We took four years of latin (it used to be six years, then five years…) and learned all about Julius Caesar and his downfall on the Ides of March. We learned about the brothers, Romulus and Remus, and how Romulus literally stabbed Remus in the back. As much as I hate on my high school, I secretly sort of love these geeky holidays.

My high school

Here’s more geeky stuff, for your enjoyment:

blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/10-annoying-hab.html

And here’s an article to help you through this fateful day:

jezebel.com/5170248/things-to-beware-of-on-the-ides-of-march

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Happy Pi Day!

I read Sara Corbett’s “Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar” in The New York Times Magazine over break and thought it was pretty interesting. Read the rest of this entry »

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In his past work, William Pope.L has regularly used food as a medium. In both performance and installation work, processed foods have become symbolic of poverty, the scarcity of life below the welfare line, and of life in households where food is not consistently available. Hot dogs, mayonnaise, pop tarts, and milk are consumables that, when left in the open air, ultimately will lose their nutritive qualities. In the piece Map of the World (2002), for example, Pope.L constructed a map of the United states entirely out of hot dogs. Read the rest of this entry »