Agitprop's Brain Trust exhibit and schedule of events *UPDATED*
by Kevin Freitas
Agitprop aka David White, opened his entreprenurial exhibit this last Saturday night at the Art Produce Gallery in North Park. Titled Brain Trust, it is an "installation (which) addresses issues of social economics, art markets, commodities trading, and community engagement. In “Brain Trust”, Agitprop turns corporate and art world institutional conventions on their head as a method of generating support for projects based on connectivity and community at the scale of the neighborhood. Brain Trust asks people to become investors in Agitprop." More information about the exhibition can be found on the Agitprop website here.
In addition to this show, Agitprop is organizing a month long series of events that will reinforce the notion of community engagement, by offering a diversity of open public debates, tours of the North Park neighborhood, and serving homade soup. A complete calendar of these events can be found below:
Saturday, September 19:
North Park Thrift Store Bicycle Tour
12:00 to 2:00 pm
Location: Begins at Art Produce Gallery
3139 University Avenue
North Park, CA
info/contact: joyboe@hotmail.com
Join the San Diego Second Hand Shopping Society, lead by Joy and Joe, in conjunction with North Park Night's eco friendly focus theme, for our first annual North Park Thrift Store Bicycle Tour! We will leave Art Produce at noon sharp for a 2 hour pedal-powered tour of some of N.P.'s finest thrift establishments. Pump up your tires and show support of our local economy and several of North Park's non-profit organizations by filling your basket with those vintage wares you didn't know you couldn't live without! A sundown slideshow presentation with take place at Art Produce from 6-9 that evening, in conjunction with AGITPROP's current BRAIN TRUST exhibitition.
Saturday, September 26:
Meet the Press
6:00 pm
Location: Art Produce Gallery
3139 University Avenue
North Park, CA
info/contact: artasauthority@artasauthority.com
Panel discussion about how the arts are covered by the press in San Diego, what constitutes good arts writing, and how do we get more of it. Panel members include: Seth Combs - San Diego CityBeat Arts Editor, Keli Dailey - SignOnSanDiego.com, Patricia Frischer - SDVAN (San Diego Visual Arts Network), and Pam Kragen - North County Times Arts Editor. Moderator is Kevin Freitas - Art as Authority
Saturday, October 3:
Poetry Reading
Poets Frank Montesonti & Jeannine Hall Gailey will read from their work on
Saturday, October 3 at 7:00 pm
Agitprop Gallery in North Park: 2837 University Ave
(entrance on Utah, behind Glenn's Market)
San Diego, Ca 92104
619.384.7989.
This event is free and open to the public. As always, there will be a reception following the reading. Donations to the gallery are greatly appreciated.
Frank Montesonti teaches creative writing at National University. His poems have appeared in such journals as Black Warrior Review, AQR, Cream City Review, Poet Lore, Lit, among many others. His chapbook, A Civic Pageant, won the 2007 Black River Chapbook contest.
Jeannine Hall Gailey’s first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was published by Steel Toe Books. Poems from the book were featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac and on Verse Daily; two were included in 2007’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She was awarded a 2007 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry and a 2007 Washington State Artist Trust GAP grant. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, and Ninth Letter. She volunteers as an editorial consultant for Crab Creek Review and currently teaches at the MFA program at National University.
Sunday, October 4:
Residual Spaces Walking Tour
1:00 - 3:00pm
Location: Art Produce Gallery
3139 University Avenue
North Park, CA
Saturday, October 10:
Old Timey Self-Portrait and Soup
2:00pm
Brain Trust closing reception
6:00pm
Location: Art Produce Gallery
3139 University Avenue
North Park, CA