This Week @ Mobius & Beyond: Global Communication Fest, Ties That Bind

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September 1st - September 7th, 2011

REMINDER!

MOBIUS HAS MOVED TO CENTRAL SQUARE CAMBRIDGE!

Our new address:

55 Norfolk St.Cambridge, MA 02139

617.945.9481

Poland & The Czech Republic: Festival

Tuesday September 6th - Saturday September 10th, 2011

@ Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art &

Dom Umeni/The House of Arts

Global Communication Festival 2011

Featuring Mobius Artist Group Member Milan Kohout

Milan Revolution Recruitment

Global Communication is not just another contemporary art festival. It is not a festival if we think of a festival as a presentation. Our project is a platform through which audience is able to communicate with artists and space where they are working on. Why artists are working "on" a space rather than "in" a space? And why this "reversed" communication is so important in the relation between a space,an artist and audience? Because an idea on which the whole project is based concerns nomadic and inimitable aspects of art. What does it mean? It means that we are interested not in activity of artists but in their creativity. One can say that we are inviting them to perform as they have never performed before because we are asking them to invent a new actions; new ways of communication by their art with what sourrounds them. It is not just another "performance-art-piece" in a new space - but brand new interactive action and intervention with the people. It is why we have no "presentations" in our festival - it is almost impossible to step outside such performance; to watch it from a distance; not to take part in it. Last year those performances were presented in various spaces in and outside Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art in Radom, Poland. This edition of the festival is dedicated to an Idiom which represents a topic and main subject of the whole project in 2011: "Open space / Free space / Work".

http://www.mobius.org/events/global-communication-festival-2011-poland-and-cz

Bay Shore, NY: Exhibition

Sunday July 31st - Friday September 2nd, 2011

@ The Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery

The Ties That Bind - A Book About Death

Curated by LuAnn T. Palazzo &

Featuring Mobius Artist Group Member Jane Wang

Ties That Bind

The Second Avenue

Firehouse Gallery

17 Second Avenue

Bay Shore, New York

This show presents three important firsts:

All the new work from worldwide artists are actual book pages like Ray Johnson originally created in 1963, and NOT postcards. The pages have been bound into handmade volumes, thereby providing an omega to the alpha of the unbound book from the original NYC show curated by Matthew Rose in 2009.

Through the amazing generosity of American artist Allen Bukoff, we are proud to debut a project he created just for this exhibition. It features a body of work by Ray Johnson that has never before been seen in public. The work is entitled "A Book About Ray Johnson and Hot Dogs."

Also in this exhibition for the first time, we expand the theme past visual art, performance art and poetry, into musical performance with the introduction of New Orleans Second Line Funeral Jazz with The Joe Saylor Brass Band.

http://mobius.org/events/ties-bind-abad-23

http://abad-23.blogspot.com/

CALL FOR PERFORMANCE AND ART WORKS - Momento Mori

DEADLINE: 10/1/11

Memento mori, Latin for "Remember your Mortality" has provided inspiration for artists for centuries. Even in the twenty-first century, ways of coping with the shadow of death continues to haunt aesthetic imaginations.

We are currently seeking submissions and proposals for a performance and art event that explore the theme of mortality, mourning, remembrance, and memory. This event will take place at the Mobius Alternative Arts Space in Cambridge, MA from October 20 to 24.

More details here:

http://www.mobius.org/news/call-performance-and-art-works-momento-mori

YouTube 9.1.11

Have you checked out Mobius on YouTube? Check out the recent Boston Globe video highlighting The New England Phonographers Union & their work in sewage...

See our latest photos @Mobius on Flickr! We are listed as mobius.org & there are new photos going up all the time not to mention our extraordinary archives!

Mobius is on Vimeo! See videos posted in conjunction with our current shows... Then come see us live! Hundreds of archived videos to enjoy!

Are you a FAN of Mobius on Facebook? Don't be the last on your block!! Keep up to date on Mobius' events, photo & video updates by becoming our fan on Facebook. Our name is "Mobius, Inc." and we can't wait to see you online!

Follow Mobius on Twitter! We are MobiusCathy and you can effortlessly keep up with our every move. That includes calls for proposals, newly uploaded images & videos, reports from performances abroad & reminders about upcoming or extended-run shows, installations & more!

Check out blog entries by our various Mobius Artist Group members on our website! http://www.mobius.org/blog

and our forum, open to all: http://www.mobius.org/forum

COMING UP @ MOBIUS & BEYOND!

TONS of new performances and shows...

plan your Autumnal Art Schedule now! :-)

Friday September 9th, 2011

10 Year Bowed Metal Music Plus Metal and

Glass Plus 4 Systems by Earl Brown

@ The Church of the Advent, Boston

8pm

Featuring: Steve Norton , Junko Simons , Valerie Thompson , Tony Leva , Bill Barclay , DMC , Charles Turner , Peter Warren , Derek Beckvold , Randy Winchester , Morgan Evans-Weiler , Matt Samolis , Thadd Comstock & Mobius Artist Group Member

Jane Wang

http://theadventboston.org/geninfo/direct.htm

http://www.mobius.org/events/10-year-bowed-metal-music-plus-metal-and-glass-plus-4-systems-earl-brown

Saturday September 10, 2011

TIME, BODY, SPACE, OBJECTS

curated by Alice Vogler

Proof Gallery - South Boston, MA

with Mobius Artist Joanne Rice, Ian Deleon, Chuck Chaney, Andrea Evans, Kirk Amaral Snow, Phil Fryer, Sarah Hill, Quinn Dukes McDivitt, Joe Joe Orangias, Dirk Adams, Faith Johnson, Garett Yahn

http://www.mobius.org/events/time-body-space-objects

Friday September 16-Sunday September 18, 2011

'The Return' (a collaborative performance)

Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

with Lea Jerlagic, Mirza Dudness Redzepagic, Vesna Santak, Lejla Muhic, Elma Selman, Lejla Pirić, Duke Adi Hrustemovic, Azra Ibrahimović, Victoria Bartz, Ivana Rezek, Nathan Andary, MAGS Grant Smith, Cathy Nolan Vincevic, Jane Wang

http://www.mobius.org/events/return-sarajevo-bosnia-herzegovina

Sunday September 25, 2011

Performing on Paper @Mobius

12 noon-5pm: audience invited to draw live performances!

http://www.mobius.org/events/performing-paper

Saturday October 8, 2011

A Movement In The Wrong Direction @Mobius

with Matthew Everett and Mobius Artist Sara June

http://www.mobius.org/events/movement-wrong-direction

Thursday October 27th - Saturday October 29th, 2011

Vowel Movement @Mobius

a dialogue for video and voice, with echoes from the audience

By Tom�s Mario Kalmar (experimental yodeler and multi-instrumentalist)

$10.00 Suggested Donation

http://www.mobius.org/events/vowel-movement

Friday November 4th - Saturday November 5th, 2011

Amaranthine of Grandma @Mobius

Grandma is home...

Featuring Mobius Artist Group Members:

Mari Novotny-Jones & Cathy Nolan Vincevic

http://www.mobius.org/events/amaranthine-grandma

Thursday December 1st - Thursday December 22nd, 2011

December Art Sale @Mobius

Free and Open to the Public!

http://www.mobius.org/events/december-art-sale

ONLINE CALL FOR WORKS:
"Signs of Our Times"

-no deadline-

Signs of Our Times - Melly Shum

Cathy McLaurin :: Danville, NH, US

for details on call and entire series of images,

please visit: http://mobius-signsofourtimes.blogspot.com/

ONLINE CALL FOR WORKS and Ongoing Blog:
"The Prostitution of Art"
-no deadline-

PoA - Damien Olsen

Damien Olsen - Brooklyn, NY

for details on call and to view blog
please visit: http://theprostitutionofart.blogspot.com/

About Mobius:
Mobius (est. 1977) is a non-profit, artist-run organization, whose mission is to generate, shape and test experimental art. The members of the organization believe an effective strategy for supporting this art is to establish grounds that build relationships among fellow artists. Mobius is committed to structuring environments that foster projects incorporating a wide range of disciplines. This approach sets in motion situations where the artist's impact can be seen locally, nationally and internationally. Constructing art initiatives outside accepted frameworks and encouraging animated discourse with the public are fundamental to Mobius.

Founded by Marilyn Arsem in 1977, Mobius is known for incorporating a wide range of the visual, performing, and media arts into innovative live performance, video, installation and intermedia works. Mobius has produced hundreds of original works that have attained critical acclaim in Boston, nationally and internationally. Works created at Mobius have been presented throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

For more on Mobius click HERE.

Mobius is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the
Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor's Office of the Arts, Tourism, and Special Events; the Oedipus Foundation; by an award for artistic excellence from the Tanne Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and generous private support.

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