Engaging Culture with Culture Through Acts of Creative Excellence
We are excited to note the collaboration between Continuum fellow, Kent Smith, and Nashville dance troop FALL. The performance is tonight at 9:30 (10/7/2011) at Avenue 9. FALL describes themselves as:
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http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com
This is exactly the sort of thing that the Continuum was formed to encourage. -truly a fantastic idea and opportunity for artists around the globe to participate. To fully understand the concept, be sure to read the “about” page.
The Continuum and its artists have participated in several community initiatives including “Help-Portrait” and “The Young Artists gifts”, to name a few. We believe that art is generative—that it is a gift that creates out of its effusiveness. We believe that artists have a significant role in the redemption of culture one-by-one through the individuals they encounter and by means of their art. How fortunate, then, to be given the opportunity to partner with Advance Memphis.
The C3 (Christ, Church and Culture) conference featuring Makoto Fujimura, Andy Crouch, Donald Miller, F. Matthewes-Green, Paul Weston, Christian Smith and including workshops lead by Steve Taylor and several others is going to be in Nashville, Feb24-26. It looks to be an interesting event. Here is a link to the conference.
http://www.stgeorgesinstitute.org/C3__Conference
The other day I was at a friend’s house. He was looking for a corkscrew and couldn’t find it. Fumbling through one drawer he asked another friend to take a look in the junk drawer—pointing to one just down from where he was rummaging. “Junk drawer? That’s an intimate thing!” said the one to the other. Filled with things too precious to discard but neither valued, neither useful nor useless—in some sense like the treasures tucked away by a child in a shoe box and shoved under the bed or buried by a tree in the back yard. They are like souvenirs taken from sojourns as though they were the deepening of childhood memories: sluggishly past traumas, whizzing by the mundane, dawdling in the company of the cherished and monumental, or just pebbles in shoes. Intimate perhaps because we often feel as though we are those junk drawers: cobbled together with miscellany that doesn’t quite seem to fit together, point to anything larger or say anything—anything; just a discarded mess of unattended to questions. Baubles.
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The latest show to hit Midtown Memphis’ still new but increasingly potent Gallery 210 is a collaboration between Chris Nadaskay and Melinda Eckley titled Sitting up with the Dead—according to them a distinctly southern tradition—a vigil over the recently departed. “Who’s passed?” one might ask. According to Nadaskay and Eckley it is modern culture’s place of archeological importance; it is the enforced expectations of heirlooms restricting the future, both individually and culturally.
The show will exhibit a museum like atmosphere in an attempt to encapsulate the feeling that each piece is a “remnant of some future past”—excavated and historically meaningful. But what is it present-humanity culturally esteems, and how will its treasures be perceived when exhumed? What contribution, if any, will they make? Will they liberate, enlighten or impede?
Nadaskay and Eckley are both artists of repute who have a local tradition. Both are professors at Union University; Eckley is also an alumni of Memphis College of Art. Nadaskay currently works in “mixed media/ceramic wall relief”; while Eckley creates sculptural installations.
The show opens with a reception and artist lecture and runs from July 16 – August 15, 2010. The opening night reception (July 16th 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.) is open and free to the public. General gallery hours are from 9:00 a.m. – Noon, Monday thru Friday and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Sundays. For more information please call (901) 377-3372.
Gallery 210 is currently housed inside LifeLink Church at the corner of Cooper and Walker.
1015 S. Cooper St. | Memphis, TN 38104-5614 | (901) 377-3372.