Boston: Performance @ Mobius 

Friday March 25th & Saturday March 26th, 2011

8pm 

$10 general admission
$8 students/seniors/BDA members/Friends of Mobius 

KNEAD 

a performance of fierce bodies  

inspired by Tim Miller

Featuring the KNEAD Ensemble:

 Lucas Brooks, Alexa Gruber, kirkdify,  

Al Lion, Katie O, Alisa Roost,  

Stephanie Skier, Chris Tyler  

& Candace M. Younghans

KNEAD was born out of a performance workshop led by Tim Miller at PS122 in New York's East Village in December 2010. Drawing together individuals with backgrounds as actors, theater directors, filmmakers, playwrights, dancers, cabaret performers, critics, and activists, Tim Miller fostered a spirit of hot, intense collaboration that has overflowed the temporal and spatial confines of that December workshop.  

In and through individual and collaborative creations of improvisational movement and words, dramatic writing and choreography emerged and crystallized into the performance art that is KNEAD. Tim Miller tasked these performers with creating works about fierce moments, "No" moments of defiance or perhaps moments of fiercely and ferociously saying "Yes."  

Under Tim's direction, performers produced "body maps": visual art works on paper that map embodiment and trace bodily topologies in all their changeability, their ephemerality and potential, their fantasy forms, as well as their fleshy materiality. These works on paper will be on display before the performance and engagement with these body maps and the artists who created them constitutes an aspect of the performance itself.  

Inspired by this series of collaborative performance experiments, members of the workshop each composed and directed an original performance art piece--some solos, some involving other performers in the group--and present these pieces in KNEAD.

Tickets available for sale at the door.

Email sskier@gmail.com to reserve tickets.

http://mobius.org/events/knead 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153516131375023 

Boston: Drawing Marathon @ Mobius 

Sunday March 27th, 2011 :: 12noon - 5pm 

Suggested Donation: $10

Drawing Marathon #11 is an opportunity for anyone to try to draw from life: using performance art as life!  Observe artists develop their performances before your eyes as you try to capture some of it as a drawing. 

Look at videos & photographs of all the previous Marathons: 

www.vimeo.com/channels/drawingmarathons 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobiusorg/sets/72157622230252173/?page=2 

There is something for everyone! Draw with a sense of energy and excitement that the performing artists generate.

Mobius is a friendly environment welcoming all levels of ability. If you would like some suggestions for your work, ask for it!

Bring your own materials.

 $10 donation to Mobius is suggested

http://mobius.org/events/drawing-marathon-11-mobius-0  

New York, NY: Concert

Wednesday March 30th, 2011

10pm :: $10

@ The University of the Streets

Sabir Mateen Ensemble

Featuring: Sabir Mateen, Raymond A King, Daniel Levin, Jason Kao Hwang,  

Michael Wimberley  

& Mobius Artist Group Member Jane Wang 

The University of the Streets

130 East 7th Street

New York, New York 10009

Sabir Mateen - Reeds

Raymond A King - Piano

Daniel Levin - Cello

Jason Kao Hwang - Violin

Michael Wimberley - Drums

Jane Wang - Bass

Sabir Mateen - Alto & Tenor Saxophones, Flute, Piccolo, Bb  

& Alto Clarinets Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Poet

The name Sabir Mateen has been one to deal with and listen to. Originally from Philadelphia (b. April 16th 1951), he moved to Los Angeles and played with Horace Tapscott and his Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and other bands. He moved back to Philadelphia in the '80's and played with two musicians he still collaborates with today, Sunny Murray and Raymond A. King, and also with Monette Sudler, Bill Lewis and many others. He also pursued studies with Byard Lancaster.

Having moved to New York in 1989, Sabir became a world renowned artist and has performed with the greats such as Cecil Taylor, William Parker Ensembles, Alan Silva, Wilber Morris, Jemeel Moondoc, Charles Downs (Rashid Bakr), Marc Edwards, Mark Whitecage, Raphe Malik, Dave Burrell, Butch Morris, Henry Grimes, Kali Z. Tom Bruno, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Steve Swell The Sun Ra Arkestra, Frode Gjerstad, William Hooker and many others.

Mateen has performed in Europe, Japan, and Africa. He is also involved in Collective bands such as TEST, The Downtown Horns, The East 3rd St. Ensemble. Sabir leads his own bands as well: The Sabir Mateen Ensemble, Omni-Sound, Trio Sabir, and Juxtapositions. Sabir also performs in solo and duo configurations with Matthew Shipp and Hilliard (Hill) Greene.

http://mobius.org/events/sabir-mateen-ensemble 

Boston: Exhibit

March 17th - April 30th, 2011

Opening: March 17th :: 5:30pm - 9pm

@ Midway Studios 

Vexed

Featuring: Liliana Folta, Michael Tyrell, Nathan Evans, Cesar Baez, Ivan Fernandez & Mobius Artist Group Member Milan Kohout 

Midway Studios

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Call for The 2011 Mobius Wearable Art Runway Show

Deadline for Descriptions:  April 30th, 2011

A Call for Wearable Art to be walked down the runway at The 2011 Mobius Wearable Art Runway Show, co-curated by Alison Safford, James Ellis Coleman and Jane Wang, which will take place at 7pm (with a possible second showing at 9pm depending on the total number of pieces in the show) on

Friday May 6, 2011 at Mobius, 725 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, USA.

http://www.mobius.org/news/call-2011-mobius-wearable-art-runway-show  

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! 

Couture or Wearable Art Word Game Design Competition

Deadline for Submissions of Designs Online:  April 1st, 2011

The winning fabricated design will be the featured "look" at The 2011 Mobius Wearable Art Runway Show which will take place on Friday May 6, 2011 at Mobius, 725 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, USA.  The event take place during the closing weekend of  "A Tool Is A Mirror" curated by Elizabeth Keithline, a group exhibition which is part of this year's Boston Cyberarts Festival (April 22nd through May 8th, 2011).

Description:

Call for best "couture" or "artistic" design using The Word Game Fabric, a 44 inch wide, 5-yard piece of cream egyptian cotton (made in Pakistan) which was stencilled using multi-colored fabric markers and 3 font sizes using words submitted through an online game called Word Game via Mobius' facebook page Mobius, Inc.

Competitors will submit their designs via online email and attached jpeg/pdf files only to:

Jane @ mobius . org (remove spaces before emailing).

The winning design will be selected by the panel of guest judges and judges, and announced on April 16, 2011.

The Word Game Fabric will be given to the designer (or his/her fabricators) and will have approximately 2 weeks (depending how far away the fabric is to be mailed) to fabricate the winning design to be worn at the Mobius Wearable Art Runway Show on May 6th, 2011.

Main Site: 

http://mobius.org/news/couture-or-wearable-art-word-game-design-competition 

Mobius, Inc.: 

 http://www.facebook.com/mobiusartistsgroup 

COMING UP @ MOBIUS & BEYOND!

Mark Your Calendar...

Saturday April 16th - Tuesday April 19th, 2011

Event Horizon @ Mobius

An Exhibition of Work by Students from Bridgewater State University

Opening Reception will be Sunday April 17 at 6pm

Gallery Hours TBD

Recommended donation: $10

http://mobius.org/events/event-horizon 

April 1st - 10th, 2011

BUMPKIN FORWARD @ Mobius

An Exhibition of the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment's 2010 Projects & Artists

Opening reception: Saturday April 2nd from 6 - 9 pm 

Gallery hours: Friday through Sunday from 2 - 5

http://www.mobius.org/events/bumpkin-forward 

Friday April 22nd - Sunday May 8th, 2011

A Tool Is A Mirror @ Mobius

Boston Cyberarts 2011 

Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat 11am - 4pm

Opening: April 30th 5-7pm

http://mobius.org/events/tool-mirror 

Sunday May 22nd - Saturday May 28th, 2011

Deferral II @ Mobius

A Performance & Video Installation by EL Putnam

http://mobius.org/events/deferral-ii 

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