Category: EVENTS

A SHAMEFUL ENLIGHTENMENT

Opening Reception Sat. March 11th,
6-9pm
Show runs through April 8th

This is an exhibition and book release occasioned by the publication of “BLACK EYE No. 3,” the final and timely volume of “Black Eye,” the anthology of humor and despair published by Rotland Press. This all-comics issue compiles 136 pages with a jaundiced eye on the zeitgeist. Subtitled “A Shameful Enlightenment,” it is a riff on the absurdity of our times, as charted by a coterie of 36 international cartoonists. “Black Eye No. 3” will thrill, sicken, amuse, titillate, horrify, and fortify.

The event is an opportunity to bring together five of the contributing artists who are based in Detroit: Lucy Cahill, Mark Dancey, Francis Kulikowski, John Maggie and S. William Schudlich. Each artist will be exhibiting recent work made for Rotland Press. “Black Eye No. 3”, a limited edition companion book “The Sightseer’s Complement”, and “Rotland Dreadfuls: The Most Frightening Hole” by John Maggie will all be available for purchase.

“Ryan Standfest brings together an exquisitely curated collection of funny, dark, and beguiling comic art for Black Eye No. 3. I’m going to read my copy by a roaring arson blaze.” —Kaz, Creator of the comic strip “Underworld”

The contributors to “Black Eye No. 3” include: Alexis Beauclair, Tom Bunk, Andy Burkholder, Max Clotfelter, Mark Dancey, Kayla E., Vincenzo Fagnani, Penelope Gazin, Julia Gfrörer, Anna Haifisch, Corinne Halbert, Eric Haven, Ian Huebert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Clara Bessijelle Johansson, Francis Kulikowski, Meghan Lamb, David Lynch, John Maggie, Nicolas Mahler, Jérôme Mulot, Erik Nebel, Paul Nudd, Onsmith, Pierre La Police, Helge Reumann, Josephin Ritschel, Martin Rowson, Florent Ruppert, Johnny Sampson, David Sandlin, S. William Schudlich, Santiago Sequeiros, Sammy Stein, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Chris Wright The cover is by Joan Cornellà. The book is edited by Ryan Standfest.

Founded in 2010, ROTLAND PRESS is a small publishing house located in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is a publisher of printed projects that promote subversive humor— be it black, dark, gallows, satirical or absurd. ROTLAND PRESS aims to occupy a place between the mainstream and the avant-garde, the philistine and the genteel, industriously manufacturing the finest in despairing entertainment. Ryan Standfest in the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief.

Visit rotlandpress.com or follow Rotland Press on Facebook

Monica J. Brown (Chicago) and Talel Dayekh (Sweden)

March/April

Monica J. Brown (Chicago) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersections between visual art, sound, movement, poetry, prose and performance. Her visual art has been exhibited widely throughout Chicago, including ARC Gallery, the DuSable Museum, and the Museum of Science and Industry. She has also exhibited nationally and internationally including Juijiang University in China. She received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; and a MA from Columbia College Chicago. Monica has participated in performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and presented her solo performance “Branch & Bough” at Prop Theatre in Chicago and the Columbus Performing Arts Center in  www.monicajbrown.net                                                    Ohio.

March 15- May 15

Talel Dayekh (Sweden) is a visual artist working with painting.  He graduated 2015 from the Fine Arts program at Valand Academy in Gothenburg Sweden. Talel Dayekh

Untitled Experiment of the Modern Gaze

Popps Packing is excited to present  a new video installation by Oren Goldenberg utilizing 360 degree video, featuring Biba Bell.  

Untitiled Experiment of the Modern Gaze is a contemporary approach to depicting the gaze of the viewer.  Appropriating new Virtual Reality technology, Goldenberg is utilizing video to create an immersive environment that explores how we gaze, and how we are seen gazing.  Through camera and body movements, a contradictory relationship is born between the viewer and the subject.  

Oren Goldenberg is a producer and video artist living and working in Detroit where he uses video to explore the dismantlement of the public sector, subvert the assumed and create catharsis. His work captures society’s effect on the spaces around us, as well as, on the body.  Selected projects included: Art as Ritual Conference, A Requiem for Douglass; and Detroit (Blank) City, to name a few.  He is a 2016 Bernard L. Mass Prize for Fine Arts recipient and 2013 Kresge Artist Fellow.  

Biba Bell (b. 1976, Sebastopol) is a writer, dancer, and choreographer based in Detroit. Her work proposes a modernist threshold between between architecture and dance, and is more recently focused on social dance. Bell’s performance work has been seen at JACK (Brooklyn), Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami), Kunstlerhaus (Bremen, Germany), Cranbrook Art Museum, and in a Mies van der Rohe apartment in Detroit. Bell is a 2016 Kresge Fellow in Live Arts, is an Assistant Professor in Dance at Wayne State University, and she earned her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University.

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Time-Less, Meditations on Headlessness



Friday, November 4, 2016  7:00 PM:

Popps Packing is pleased to present “Time-less” by Jaime B. Jaime & Kath-Jazz, Meditations on headlessness. November 4-19, 2016. Opening Reception Friday, November, 4 2016, 7-10PM

About the Artists:
JAIME LUTZO managed to escape making video work for a few years by renovating old houses. Lives life intensely, not always loudly. Finds sustenance in cinema, text, music, and the company of fellow maniacs.

KATHY LEISEN is not an innocent bystander. She is an instigator and also an investigator of motivations and morality, instinct and the unknown. Her aesthetic methodology is always evolving like a snake with many skins. Looks for meaning in distractions and also loves maniacs.img_4755

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Hamtramck Neighborhood Art Festival at Popps

Qbert in the Woods, 3PM-7PM
Behind 2037 Carpenter
A communal improvositational soundscape spead out in and around the Popps Back Forty including folks like James Cornish, Chris Pottinger, Sonic Stroker, Chris Riddell, Thomas Bell, David Shettler and more!

Camp Mossandsticks, 3PM- 5PM
12147 St. Aubin ( Cactus Lots across the street form Popps)
Artist, Alex Tsocanos leads a pop-up campsite with radical arts and craft workshops for feminist revolutionaries of all ages. Spark your inner political flame at a protest sign making party and marching practice! All materials will be included, just bring your spirit and let your voice be heard!

Mounts and Marvels, open 3-7PM
Popps Emporium 2037 Carpenter
A large wall drawing installation created by August ’16 AIR Isamu Krieger.

Peaches, open 2PM -7PM
Popps Packing Gallery 12138 St. Aubin
A fabulously fun fruit shows curated by Alice V. Schneider featuring 18 Detroit artists who gathered their dirty artistic minds to celebrate the diverse juicy fruit!

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August Residency Exhibition

Marion Neumann, Isamu Krieger, Yi Zhou and Franziska Klose

Friday August 26, 2016

6-10PM

Please Join us for this special event that spans the whole Popps compound and highlights the wonderful work created by our current AIR. 

With Snacks and Refreshments

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“Mounts & Marvels” , by Isamu Krieger (Switzerland) at Popps Emporium.  

“Like an unfold origami, the flat paper that however keeps the lines of the architectural volume, offers though a new surface to write one’s tale. In front of a nearly blank page, I develop my practice of drawing and I search to combine natural elements with abstract shapes and to compose patterns of landscapes based on graphical systems. My proposal here is to play with visual tensions using optical games, illusions of crossing lines, horizontal panoramas and vertical cliffs, deep caves and a plane plateau…All of this is in order to create obviously an effect of vertigo.  A dizziness between absence and presence, between rising and falling… ”  

“Wild Plants” directed by Nicolas Humbert with cinematography by Marion Neumann (Switzerland)

Film Screening of at 9PM,

WILD_PLANTS_Kinga_HandPeople’s associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants. ‘Wild Plants’ is a film that traces these clues and takes us to urban gardens in Detroit, to Native American philosopher Milo Yellow Hair in Wounded Knee, to the wild plantations of Zurich’s legendary ‘Guerilla Gardener’ Maurice Maggi, and to the innovative horticulture cooperative ‘Les Jardins de Cocagne’ in Geneva.

The New Wild–Detroit“. by Franziska Klose (Germany)   www.frzlkrzl.tumblr.com,

franziskaklose-TheNewWildThe New Wild–Detroit is part of a long-term project that pictures postindustrial landscapes worldwide.  It will combine pictures of urban and industrial vegetation and various farms in Detroit with historical images and texts to describe the permanent change of Detroit’s urban and social landscape.

Klose studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels Genève/CH and at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. She lives in Leipzig, Germany.  

“Body Memory Clinic”  by Yi Zhou (China)

Demonstrations from 7-9PM

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Practicing from her Pop Up,  Body Memory clinic and wearing her trademark Doctors coat, the self confessed “collector of human body parts”, takes a ‘faux-scientific’ look at body form and the role that our body parts, rather than our brain, play in storing our memories.
 

Fingers, noses, lips, ears, breasts and even belly buttons are covered with resin and then plaster bandages to create unconventional, quirky jewellery pieces and accessories.  

Mycelium Give-Away
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Marion Neumann will be giving away mycelium left over from the Radical Mycology Workshops earlier this month. She’ll show you what you need to do in order to grow your own mushrooms at home. First come first serve, so come early and get you spores!!

 

Light snacks and refreshments
Residency Exhbition,
The Big Art Show 
with current AIR, StudioPlusminusnull
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
7-10PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!
 

 

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Studio Plusminusnull is an art collective based in Northern Germany.  Tom Korn, Claudia Kulenkampff,Susanne Klingenberg, Ulli Bomans, Brozilla and Gilta Jansen have been collaborating on projects since 2014.  During their 1 month residency at Popps they have been taking advantage of the shared space and time to create new collaborative works as well as individual works that explore a range of mediums including, active media, painting, installation, urban art, object and collage.  Please join us for this one night only exhbition of new works created while in residence at Popps.

MOMM and POPP Residency!

Popps Packing welcomes Marion Neumann (filmmaker and cinematographer),  Isamu Krieger (visual artist), and 5 year old daughter Frida from Geneva Switzerland,  our first  Momm and Popp  Residents   thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation!!

For the month of August, Marion Neumann (filmmaker and cinematographer),  Isamu Krieger (visual artist), and 5 year old daughter Frida will be in residence at Popps Packing as part of our new Momm and Popps residency program for parent artists. Marion will be developing a project focused on mycology and how the highly resilient life cycles of fungi can serve as a powerful learning tool for how humans can relate to each other and protect the world they live in.  Her residency kicks off with a Myco Remediation Workshop with mushroom guru Geoffroy R. Grignon on Friday August 5th, (Details below). Meanwhile Isamu, whose work explores the absurd aspects of a paradoxical world with a deep sensitivity and respect for nature, will be working on a live drawing installation in one of Popps gallery spaces. The Momm & Popp Artist Residency is a pilot program designed to cater to national and international artists with families. The program explores hybrid forms of life and work and provides opportunities for artists, families and neighbors to exchange ideas about art and life in order to learn and inspire each other. 

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. For more, visit knightfoundation.org.

Franziska Klose (Photographer, Book Artist),Leipzig, Germany.

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Franziska Klose works explore postindustrial nature and landscapes within a social-historical context. Her works include photography, artist books and field recordings. She returns to Popps for the second time to photograph and research for her new book „ The New Wild–Detroit“.

The book is part of a long-term project that pictures postindustrial landscapes worldwide.  It will combine pictures of urban and industrial vegetation and various farms in Detroit with historical images and texts to describe the permanent change of Detroit’s urban and social landscape.

Klose studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels Genève/CH and at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. She lives in Leipzig, Germany.

More about Franziska Klose’s work here: www.franziskaklose.de, www.frzkrzl.tumblr.com

Yi Zhou (Artist and Designer),  Beijing
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Yi’s projects are drawn from sociological angles, and focusing primarily on the interrelation between human relations and behavior.
At Popps she will continue to develop her performative and intimate project “Body Memory” A project  based on the hypothesis that the body itself is capable of storing memories, as opposed to just the brain. YI will be setting up a Pop Up Body Memory Clinic at some point during her residency and will be looking for stories in exchange for castings.  We’ll keep you posted on the details.
To learn more about Yi’s work here:

 

 

 

Join us Friday August 26 from 6-10Pm for a special residency exhibition around the Popps compound.