Atomic Elroy

Watch This Space presents April 2010 First Friday event, VIP Lounge (Video Installation Performance) Series.

Watch This Space will restart our VIP Lounge (VIP for Video Installation Performance) Series by presenting the “Return of Art Angst and the Neo-Bohemian Collective” for First Friday on April 2, 2010 at 8pm. The cost of admission will be $10.00, which will include a complimentary mocktail, and hors d’oeuvre. The proceeds of which will benefit the newly formed Our Community Dance Co. up coming production.

Faux conceptual artist Art Angst will return to the VIP Lounge with his ragtag art collective of performance and conceptual artists with the Neo-Bohemian Experimental Ensemble to provide audio art.

WATCH THIS SPACE is a performance, dance, and multimedia art space located in the Depot Arts Building, under the Colorado Avenue Bridge at 218 W. Colorado Avenue, Suite 102, in Downtown Colorado Springs.

…and He is US!”, Pogo. We’ve all heard that we are our own dilemma, change comes from within, we make our own problems, etc. in My case this is more than evident. Had a bit of an ongoing epiphany lately that I”m trying to combine incompatible elements. I’ve always liked the way, in the 1960’s,unconventional that unconventional and iconoclastic people had legitimacy. The era of the anti-hero. Being an impressionable youth at the time I aspired to mimic the behavior to gain the same results. But like any experiment, the conditions must be duplicated to achieve the same results. Oops. Our fickle friend time with it’s constant march forward is constantly changing the rules of the game. Trying to embrace an accepted anti-hero persona has caused unattainable goals, and I’ve created an unachievable objective.
I’m not talking about the romanticism involved in dreaming an impossible dream, I’m talking psychology. I need to stop self censoring, to not worry about how I appear, or wether the work I create will be acceptable in the art world. I need to focus on just making it ( like I said a few posts back).
My honest dilemma revolves around not having a role model, It’s much easier to be an early adopter than a trail blazer. I tend to be a alter-mimic, I mimic something but just tweak it a bit and make it my own. Which is counter intuitive to my basic belief in authenticity, how can I be authentic if I’m in essence copying someone. The artistic equivalent to a cover band. I know of two artists who do so, one just flat out steals the style the other apprenticed and is under influence of the alleged master. I’ve found this may work on a local or regional scale, but knowledgeable gallerists ( art dealer), and curators tend to turn their noses up at such work. Then I’m making an assumption here. I’m assuming that these artists are trying to be original. Maybe they are not, maybe they are finding artistic solace in expression of imitation of technique. Which is OK, for they are not the first nor the last to do so.
The choice is obvious, I’ll be the unlikable anti-hero, the scathing social commentator, the art curmudgeon. I feel my path leads to the city of Authenticity. No matter how difficult or frustrating the path. Perhaps that should be the subject the Authentic City. If you find where it is please let me know, oh wait look it’s right here, I just had my thumb on the map covering it!

Amerika aint gonna happen. At least not this spring, I came up with a workable set, concept, text, etc. yet this piece is not a one man show, so it’s going on the back burner until I figure out other things. Here’s a drop I was going to make for the Theatre OK (Great Theatre of Oklahama) segment.
I really want to work on creating a solo electronic performance apparatus and removing the pressure of trying to mount Amerika will help that come to fruition in a more concise manner.
I’d like to pop a VIP Lounge into the slot. Most likely revive Art Angst and the Neo-Bohemian Collective.
I also want to focus more on SCAM, maybe even try to develop 802 into some kind of video art gallery. STAY TUNED!