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Joel Parsons: You Are the Hole, An Exhibition in Four Acts

Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 6 – 9 pm
Performance: Sunday, October 25, 2 pm

You Are the Hole is the theatre of desire, abstracted. By presenting the self as something constructed and performed, Joel Parsons gently prods the human dichotomy of yearning to divulge and yearning to conceal.

Using the structural components of a theatre, he establishes an installation space that is simultaneously formal and intimate. Occupying the transformed stage are sculptures in voluptuous pinks and nudes, a flesh-like latex curtain and dozens of small drawings. Parsons has made a zine to accompany the exhibition, which will be available in the gallery.

The culmination is Parsons’ performance of his originally-choreographed piece, “Beholding and Being Held.”

Joel Parsons is an artist, writer, and curator based in Memphis, TN. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, co-director of Beige, an otherwise space for art and performance, and a founding member of the ArtsMemphis Artist Advisory Council. A graduate of Rhodes College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has exhibited his work in Memphis at the Powerhouse, Material, and Southfork Gallery, as well as at Western Exhibtions in Chicago, and venues in Peru, India, and South Africa.

 

Zine-Making Workshop

Artists! Writers! Photographers!

You are cordially invited to attend a FREE zine-making workshop, where you can connect with other artists in the area and work on your own zine in a positive and welcoming environment.

***Materials provided***

Don’t know what a zine is? Never made a zine of your own? No problem! Brush up on a little zine history and learn some DIY techniques so you can get started on a zine of your very own!

Participants and other local zine-sters are invited to display and sell their final works at the Zine Fest Fair on Friday, July 24th from 4-6 PM. Please contact Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) to reserve a table space.

Deadline for submissions is July 22nd, 2015

Submissions should be sent to
Story Booth
422 N. Cleveland St.
Memphis, TN 38104

summer workshop: zine & bookmaking

Inside story booth

2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14

this workshop gives participants the chance to write and self-publish an original “zine,” and then also to collaborate on an original story to be professionally published into a finished book. both of these projects allow participants to develop their creative writing and understand the elements of DIY and professional publishing, and each participant will leave with a finished zine and book in hand.