Terry Allen
dal 26/2/2004 al 15/5/2004
Segnalato da
26/2/2004
Terry Allen
Santa Monica Museum of Art SMMoA, Santa Monica
'Dugout II (Hold on to the house) is a made up world, constructed and based on the true stories and lies I heard and experienced as a boy growing up on the flat sprawl of West Texas. Built very loosely on the lives of my parents, it is about baseball and music and a man and woman who play them across the endless idea of America during the late 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century.' Terry Allen
DUGOUT II (HOLD ON to the house)
AT SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART
'DUGOUT is a made up world, constructed and based on the true stories and
lies I heard and experienced as a boy growing up on the flat sprawl of West
Texas. Built very loosely on the lives of my parents, it is about baseball
and music and a man and woman who play them across the endless idea of
America during the late 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century. It
is also about the new paranoid post bomb wilderness and unexpected Outer
Space arrival of their teenage 'WHATSIT' son (WARBOY), their continuing
shock at this creature...not to mention his own shock. DUGOUT is a love
story, an investigation into how memory is invented...a kind of
Supernatural-Jazz-Sport-History-Ghost-Blood-Fiction.' Terry Allen
Santa Monica, CA, February 11, 2004-From February 28 to May 15, 2004, Santa
Monica Museum of Art presents DUGOUT II (HOLD ON to the house), by artist
and songwriter Terry Allen, and organized by Elsa Longhauser. The opening
reception is Friday, February 27, 2004, from 7-9 p.m., and is hosted by
Crystal Geyser Water Company, El Charro Tequila, and Latino Weekly Review.
The exhibition is made possible in part through the support of Murray Pepper
and Vicki Reynolds, who, together with Edmund Pillsbury, provided matching
funds with the National Endowments for the Arts. In Spring-Summer 2005, The
University of Texas Press will publish the hardcover book DUGOUT, with
essays by Dave Hickey and David Byrne and an introduction by Dana
Friis-Hansen.
Terry Allen describes DUGOUT II (HOLD ON to the house) as "An audio/visual
investigation into the End of the World, how memory blows up and changes
everything, and how Atomic monsters take over the Earth." The exhibition is
a prelude to the theater piece, DUGOUT III: WARBOY (and the backboard
blues). For the exhibition, Allen has created a deconstructed house with
suspended, separate room tableaux, in each of which a visual narrative
unfolds. The viewer is drawn into an overwhelming multimedia environment
rich with visual, aural, and sensory information. The soundtrack for DUGOUT
II (HOLD ON to the house) will be the audio
recording of the live performance from the Skirball Theater of DUGOUT III
(WARBOY and the backboard blues). Allen first began working with the themes
he explores in the DUGOUT series in the 1994 radio play DUGOUT, which he
wrote, directed, and produced on commission from New American Radio.
In addition to the exhibition at SMMoA, three other major Los Angeles
cultural organizations are participating in a celebration of the art, music,
and theater of Terry Allen, providing a unique-and the first-opportunity for
audiences to enjoy DUGOUT in its entirety: L.A. Theatre Works at the
Skirball Cultural Center presents performances of the new multimedia play
DUGOUT III: WARBOY (and the backboard blues) March 3, 4, 5, and 7, 2004,; L.A. Louver presents the exhibition DUGOUT I from March 4 to
April 10, 2004, with an opening reception on March 6; and
LACMA Institute for Art and Cultures presents DUGOUT CONVERSATION, featuring
Terry Allen, actor Jo Harvey Allen, and writer and critic Dave Hickey, on
March 8, 2004.
Artist and songwriter TERRY ALLEN was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in
Lubbock, Texas. He received his B.F.A. from Chouinard Art Institute in Los
Angeles. He works in a variety of media, including music, performance,
sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, video, theater, and radio.
Allen's eleven CDs include the classic Lubbock (On Everything) (1979). The
recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Guggenheim and
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, his work is in many public,
museum, and private collections. A member of the Buddy Holly "Walk of Fame"
since 1997, Allen and his wife, actor and writer JO HARVEY ALLEN, live in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Opening Reception Friday, February 27, 7-9 p.m.
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404
Santa Monica