The Cotton Room at Golden Belt
November 20, 2009
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Arts Networking Event
Parking: Main Parking Lot
Please join us for the first-ever Triangle Arts Mixer, an evening for arts organizations, arts supporters, and artists of all disciplines to mix, mingle, and find new ways to activate and advance the Triangle arts scene.
Featuring a broad network of area arts organizations and young professional arts groups.
With new artwork from elin o'Hara slavick, Hiroshima: After Aftermath , in ROOM 100, Building 3.
Held as part of Third Friday Durham, hosted by Golden Belt, CAM/now, and The Cotton Room.
Free admission and parking.
Light food provided by The Cotton Room and cash bar available.
Participating art groups include:
Carolina Ballet
NC Symphony
NCMA Contemporaries
Artspace
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Carolina Theatre
NC Museum of Art's Contemporaries
Code f.a.d. Company
Triangle ArtWorks Inc.
Arts NC State
CAM/now
Nasher Museum
The Monti
Little Green Pig
ADF
Golden Belt Artists
Archipelago Theatre
Ackland Museum
Black Poetry Theatre
Bull City Headquarters' Art Attack
Orange County Artist Guild
Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art
Center for Documentary Studies
About the featured artwork in ROOM 100:
Hiroshima: After Aftermath
This is the first exhibition of this new work by elin o'Hara slavick, curated by contemporary art historian Cary Levine. Levine has selected 35 pieces from over 100 that include cyanotypes of A-bombed objects; large photograms of rubbings of A-bombed surfaces; black and white analog photographs of the hypocenter, bamboo groves and gravestones; digital color photographs of dandelions, an orphanage and a man washing his feet in a river that once ran red from blood; and a lonely autoradiograph – an almost black image made from a sheet of x-ray film exposed from the lingering radiation in an A-bombed object.
The process and problem of exposure is central to slavick's project. Countless Japanese people were exposed to the radiation of the atomic bomb. slavick utilizes exposures to make visible the unseen, to reveal the denied or hidden results of our military campaigns and scientific studies, and to remember the dead for the living.
The exhibition opens November 20 in ROOM 100.
