Salaam Salon at the Memelab in Vancouver

Salaam Salon

August 4th, 2006

the Memelab

202-1814 Pandora St

9pm –

no cover; donations accepted



featuring

Society for Public Spontaneity performance
ILLUSIONS OF SPEED AND/OR GRANDEUR

In an attempt to stay focused and grasp the ever-elusive Olympic Dream, three dry ice figure skaters and one sound technician will perform skills and routines for your pleasure (and their glory). www.myspace.com/publicspontaneity

Metre sound
SITE SPECIFIC SOUND SERIES 4

Continuing with NTSC's Site Specific Sound Series, metre will be capturing audience sounds throughout the night - particularily at the refreshements table - and regurgitating them into an event-ending dance party full of digestible goodness.

Stu Hughes video
ACID BRAIN

Stuart Gregory Hughes is a tall handsome nerd. He went to art school to find a girlfriend. He foolishly tried to attract them with ingenious inventions instead of simply dating them. Now he is lonely and works as a janitor like the singer from Belle and Sebastian. He is really speedy with a mop and uses computers to make his art. Stuart's art video is called Acid Brain. Its is like swinging on a rope into a freezing lake, losing your bathing suit, realizing you can fly and also integrate your soul into the energy the universe except it is on TV. www.crystalbeard.com

Daniel Fisher installation
UNTITLED

Daniel Fisher has been a resident of Vancouver City for 11 years and finds himself influenced by the graffiti culture. He has drawn since he could hold a pencil and cites Richard Scarry as his major child hood influence. Collecting ghetto blasters and painting them with spray paint and paint pens in pop culture themes has become another one of my many past times. I like the bright hopeful colours of the nineteen eighties and find the ghetto blaster the perfect way to display this type of art form. Its discovery, recovery and refinishing that makes me feel like an antique restorer in a world that constantly throws things away.

feat.

Brothers Nodd sound
CARJACKING STOCKHAUSEN

Mad & manic electronic duo create and compile a collage of celluloid exported to cassette. www.lusive.net

Mark Dahl performance
UNTITLED

What is between this and its absence?

Bergy sound
UNTITLED

Anxiously patient floating melodies


Chad Oakenfold installation
ORB GALLERY

A novel space for artists to work in, at a certain point the image meets itself. The hope is that it will spur new forms of creative thought. Its purpose is utilitarian, much like a desk is the support for a drawing, but it is also a power play. An artist's work is embedded within another. Which is akin to infrastructure: you own a car but I own the road. www.oakenfold.ca

feat.

Travis Jones visual installation
MANIFESTATION OF TRANSCENDENCE

Those ecstatic reflex reactions of magic flight. A cross cultural rendering of the wanderings our spirits take. Travis Jones was born in a little house full of spirits. His foundational understandings were formed by a fortune teller, a bearer of arcanum, and a schizophrenic mystic.

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Ice Raja (Robert Pederson) sound
TRUMPET, TAPE MACHINE, SPHERE

in the tundra
in the bear blankets
winged wallets



olo J. Milkman installation

THE BITTER THINK TOO MUCH OF THEMSELVES, THOUGH THE JADED KNOW BETTER; WE'RE ALL LOSERS IN A COMPETITIVE CULTURE

olo J. Milkman explores the border between craft and art using goal-directed work towards better integration with reality. Milkman, a reformed sociopath, is represented by Product Of Neglect Art Collective Ltd., an association formed in 1988 to collect multidiciplinarian culture generators under an umbrella organization for recognition and cultural legitimation. His work is primarily in line drawing, though he has been known to participate in music, text, and psychic dentistry based art projects. In 1993 religious leaders told him he was key to the advancement of human existence, though to this day he does not believe it, and plans to prove them wrong. He also acts as the only public spokes model for Product Of Neglect Art Collective Ltd. Mission Statement: With mittens on our hands, disciplinary deviance, and one-eyed development, we harbour a crew who missed the boat which was lost at sea. We strive to write like painters, draw like writers, dance like lovers, and love like fools. www.productofneglect.com