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Garage Sale Items 2013

HOUSEHOLD

  1. Dressmaking Model Mannequin – “Twin-Fit” – never used; in original box
  2. Sassy Seat – blue plastic
  3. Heavy Duty Dolly
  4. 26” Mitsubishi Television. 26” x 24” x 21” (deep). Works well. Needs converter box.
  5. Treadmill
  6. “Starter” stereo with turntable and detachable speakers
  7. CD player – portable (plug)
  8. Table lamp
  9. HEPA Filter #24000 for Honeywell HEPA Air Cleaner (never opened)

FUN

  1.  Scuba Gear – Frog/Cress-sub flippers (S/M), snorkel with mask (US Divers Tempered). Comes in mesh bag. Barely used.
  2. Hand-painted animation cell from The Elm-chanted Forest.
  3. VHS Tapes – many classic movies and children’s animated films
  4. Audio books (cassette)
  5. Cds/cassette tapes — various music

TOYS

  1. Car model – Jaguar Mark II (1959)

FURNITURE

  1.  “Desk in a Box” – opens up to a full service desk. Measures 71” x 42” x 23” (deep) – Dark Mahogony – worn from use but still looks presentable.
  2.  Free Standing Wardrobe – Vintage – 73” x 46” x 18” (deep)
  3.  IKEA style bookshelves but less expensive than IKEA
  4. Solid, beautifully finished sideboard with shelf inside. 62” x 42” x 21” deep.

ART SUPPLIES

  1. Stretcher Bars
    1. 48” x 4
    2.  18” x 12
    3. 24” x 6
  2. Stretched  canvas: 24 x 30
  3. Many canvas boards
  4. Inkjet paper — FREE PAPER to anyone who will carry it away (up to 11 x 17)
  5.  Blick Artist’s Pastels (90 colors) – some missing
  6.  Frames:
    1. 24” x 24” – 4 frames; light wood color with glass. No backing
    2. 26” x 33” – 1 gold frame; Backing included. Contents can be removed.
    3. 22” x 22” – plexi frame (shadowbox)
    4. 30.5 x 42.5
    5. 39 x 49 (30 x 40 opening)
    6. 29 x 21 (27 x 19) – 8 frames
    7. 28.5 x 40.5
  7. Easels
    1. 2 large standing
    2. 2 small picture easels
    3. 2 portable field easels
  8. Inks:
  9. Colored Pencils — mixed, loose
  10. Prismacolor Pencils (120 set) — none missing, most unsharpened
  11. ‘How-to’ books for various mediums

ACCESSORIES

  1. Many slightly worn briefcases and computer bags

VINTAGE

  1. “Train” and vanity style suitcases

Christel Dillbohner at the ICI

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2 May – 21 May, 2013

“I want to come and look with a fresh eye … then translate, transform, ferry across that deep river of inquiry.”

Visualist-in-Residence and longtime ICI associate, Christel Dillbohner, spent two weeks of  inquiry and discovery at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry. On Saturday, May 18, she shared her processes of visual research along with her unique, ephemeral findings with an enthusiastic audience. Dillbohner documented her residency on the VIR blog.

You can also read or download an e-book of Dillbohner’s residency at Bookleteer: http://bkltr.it/17rSovG

Read more about the Visualist in Residence project.

 

 

ICI Associate featured in New DVD

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ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner, has been featured in a new DVD entitled Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic.

The DVD “offers a rare opportunity to gain insight into the artistic process [of] 28 professional artists in their own voices.”

www.authenticvisualvoices.com for more info.

Chritell Dillbohner at the ICI

Thank you to all those who attended Saturday night’s discussion with our most recent Visualist-in-Residence and long time ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner, as she discussed her project based research at the ICI.

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Be sure to stay tuned for details on upcoming ICI projects and events. We look forward to seeing each of you again soon.

 

Press Release

Valaco in Babel

An evening with Visualist-in-Residence, Greg Cohen

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April 13, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
At the Institute of Cultural Inquiry
Presentation and Discussion will begin at 7pm

The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) presents Valaco in Babel, a public presentation of our current Visualist-in-Residence, Greg Cohen’s practice-based research at the ICI.

Functioning as a window into visual practice, Valaco in Babel will commence with a self-guided studio visit where the images, objects, and ideas produced during Cohen’s residency at the ICI can be viewed. This will be followed by a session where Cohen, the founder of REASArch (the Group for Research on Experimental Accumulation and Speculative Archives), will discuss aspects of his work within the group’s current project, The Valaco Archive. During this time, guests will also be introduced to the project’s digital component (currently under construction) as a means to familiarize the public with the material and conceptual components of the archive as it continues to evolve.

Using the questionable limitations of ‘the archive’ as a jumping point, The Valaco Archive project endeavors to produce, assess, catalog, and interpret the evidential record and trajectory of an extraordinary, if indeterminate historical persona, Roberto Constantín Valaco, through exploratory visual research. Born Robert Konstanz Wälke, Valaco first surfaced as the putative author of an enigmatic manuscript found in Buenos Aires in 2004 before indications linked him to the identity of an extra in Veit Harlan’s Kolberg, the last and costliest film of the Third Reich. Working speculatively with a complex assortment of elements–visual, textual, material, conceptual—Cohen efforts during his residency at the ICI and beyond aspire to (re-) construct a memory that would unearth the densely sedimented imagery of Valaco’s existence.

The ICI’s “Visualist-in-Residence” (VIR) program offers artists, art theorists, writers, and other visual researchers and culture producers a chance to participate in studio-based visual research in a richly layered and mutable environment. The VIR ‘laboratory’ may function as an artist’s studio, a writing room, a space for gathering data or a quiet space for evaluation and contemplation depending on the needs of each individual project. At the Institute, VIRs are actively encouraged to expand current definitions of visual research and to borrow freely from ICI research practices as they develop aspects of their project in one or more of the following areas: Field work and Data Acquisition; Research and Analysis; Manipulation and Experimentation; Knowledge Transmission and Production; and Public Presentation and Publication. At the end of each residency, the VIRs are invited to present their ‘research’ in a public event/discussion session.

Greg Cohen’s VIR workspace and the materials associated The Valaco Archive project will remain on display (by appointment only via info@culturalinquiry.org) until April 19, 2013. New applications for the Institute of Cultural Inquiry’s VIR program are being accepted through May 31, 2013. To apply, please send a letter of interest to info@culturalinquiry.org.

All ICI public programs are free. Prompt arrival prior to program time is recommended. For questions regarding Valaco in Babel or other ICI events, please contact info@culturalinquiry.org.

Christine Nguyen and Pam Posey in New Exhibition

geometry-exhibition Friends of the ICI, Christine Nguyen and Pam Posey, are being featured in a new exhibition at The Huntington Beach Art Center entitled “Geometry and Friends”

The show “explores the geometric variations in practicing artists. Eclectic ideas of time,space, man vs. nature, and mysticism mingles with fact and fictions of different realities.”

The opening reception is March 16, 2013 – Saturday 7-9pm. “Geometry and Friends in on display thru April 6, 2013.

Phantom Worlds – ICI Research and Publication Theme for 2011-2014

The ICI is pleased to announce the launch of Phantom Worlds a long-term research theme prompted by a growing cultural interest in worlds that double, mirror and reflect our own. We anticipate a number of significant exhibitions or performances built around this theme, some of which will develop through curatorial projects and at least one that will culminate in our fourth book through ICI press, Barthes’ Myopia.

Phantom Worlds

Phantom worlds can be duplicate worlds but not necessarily alternate universes; they are ones that exist beside our own. We seek out places where these phantom worlds leak and bleed through, where they can be seen or can’t be seen but can be sensed. Our theme grows from our fascination with reflections – with twins, with Dopplegangers, with invisible friends. Is it the phantom one talks to when talking to oneself? And what about worlds written by other beings, by animals, by objects. Sometimes these worlds can only be sensed through a shiver down our spine or a row of goosebumps on our thigh. Phantom Worlds play with our attraction to mirrors, our fascination with reflections, with our feelings of déjà vu, deja connu, deja trouve, something that has already happened, was already known, someone you feel you’ve already met. Phantoms are located where the familiar becomes strange, jamais vu, or within a world of slips – presque vu. We are intrigued by photography’s ability to ‘notice’ these phantom worlds and we wonder if our world is photography’s phantom, not the other way around. We think these phantom worlds might be the places of dreams. We hope to find pathways to their playgrounds, to visit them often, to share their wisdom while keeping the secrets of their most cherished tomes—The Unsayable and The Unsaid. It is said that phantoms follow us, here at the ICI, for a while yet undesignated, we will follow them.

Projects that have emerged within the Phantom Worlds theme include the 100/10 (100 days/10 visions) research-based exhibitions and Speculative Pentimenti: Painting in an Age of Endarkenment.