updates from karen augustine
Video Screening at Cachin Cachan Cachunga!
Cachin Cachan Cachunga! is a monthly, interdisciplinary arts event of queer dance, film, poetry and music. paradise jacked, my experimental video short on Toronto women artists, will be screening in Edinburgh, May 31st. Narrated by sound poet Sandra Alland, it features fluxus performer Sook-Yin Lee, comedian Martha E. Chaves, [...]
new artists, new sites
Marlene Hawthrone Thomas, Obsidian Eye Photography (via Dodge & Burn where there is also a brief interview)
Steven Duarte (via Blank.Bare.Clean)
Kwesi Abbensetts, SpaceshipGeorge (via StyleNoir), who has a new publication which is posted at 81 Press).
Patricia Coffie, also via StyleNoir (which you ought to check out!)
Patricia Coffie
Gisela Torres, via Kasalina
Gisela Torres from Show Me Your Wardrobe
this week and next in Berkeley
(This has been a fantastic series, and I don’t just say that because I was a part of it. If you’re in the Bay Area and can make it, I recommend trying to get to these last two presentations.)
Mendi+Keith Obadike
interdisciplinary artists
Artist talk
Wednesday, April 22
4-5:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Since [...]
it’s good to go through your inbox…
…because I had otherwise missed this these videos by Holly Bass, from “a Venus/Video vixen performance piece titled Pay Purview.”
Want to know when she’s performing next? Join her mailing list (managed by Lil Soso Productions).
http://www.lilsoso.com/index.php?page=contact
Check out her links for more info:
http://www.myspace.com/hollybassforever
http://www.hollybass.com/
Exhibit on Black La Jolla
(So interesting. Thanks, Cristin, for sending the link.)
UCSD Arts Library exhibit sheds light on La Jolla’s historic, little-known black community
January 26, 2009 – The community of La Jolla is renowned for its stunning coastal beauty, its village charm, and the high price of its ocean-view real estate. But, a little-known chapter in La Jolla’s storied [...]
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- Taking a Break February 7, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]