Power Animals are part of the species-queer transdimensional shift in New York City USA North America, in the 3rd dimension, around the year 2011 CE. They contacted Jason Martin and he is coming to channel them in Baltimore with your help.

Google Art Video by Christine Ferrera
During an artistic dry spell, I noticed that I constantly questioned my creative instincts and the relevance of my ideas. I fantasized looking up certain words online and receiving mystical clues containing hidden truth and inspiration. Google Art Video depicts a series of strange interactions between two women. As the women discuss art, a cryptic mini-drama plays out. Stephanie Ferrera, a brilliant Bowen Theorist and my mom, described the project as follows: “With exquisite nuance in facial expression and voice, the artist captures the painful self-undermining emotional process inherent in creative work, and mirrors the more universal tension between longing and fear inherent in human relationships.”

Gary Kachadorian – will install multiple pattern wraps on boarded doors and windows of properties on the 400 block of Howard Street.  These patterns can be installed at any dimension and are designed to create a harmonious black and white decorative effect.  There will be four patterns produced representing amenities needed in cities; transportation, parking, banking, and communications.

JOSH VAN- HORNE – The mural focuses on migration and movement and in particular, directional migration.  For years I’ve been fascinated with navigation and methods to determine your location, so this greatly influenced my design decision. I hope to instill a sense of direction and confusion in the observer.  It is a tool to assist us in our migration and settlement.

SHANA PALMER – will paint a mural in downtown Baltimore based on movement and forms of transportation.  The mural will contain many bicycles and buses to include more green means of transportation.  This piece is kaleidoscopic like the motion and patterns of humans in movement. \

JORDAN BERNIER - will create a mural that incorporate patterns typically seen in middle eastern or Islamic artwork. The final product would be a silk screened collage meant to appear as a seamless, yet repetitive tapestry.

Dan Conrad’s light installation at  MAP at 218 W. Saratoga Street

Friday and Saturday at the Current Gallery and Whole Gallery (3rd Fl) in the H&H Building

The Rooms Play, by The Copycat Theatre, is a collaborative, immersive theatrical experience that asks the viewer to become a participant in the performance. There are twenty- two rooms to walk through, and each one is directed by a different team of 2-5 local artists and musicians. Each space in The Rooms Play functions like a scene of a play, and the audience members are integral to the scene’s unfolding.
In this year’s Rooms Play immigration will act as our inspiration for movement. We are encouraging artistic meditation on what it means to be faced with the challenges of legal, ill legal, alien(nation) and othering. This year, the play will focus more specifically on issues of power, control, and choice. The theme of freedom and its guises are being explored through a re-writing of the heroes journey to reflect contemporary uses of power and control.

DAZZLESTORM! is an open-source “band”/performance collective that strives to subvert the definitions of “authorship”, “gender”, “glamour”, and “musician”. For Transmodern festival DAZZLESTORM! will perform “Make it Rain on My Parade” a roaming garment and sound-based performance that references marching bands, beauty products, strippers, Barbara Streisand, and all things fabulous and disastrous in Baltimore.

Participating DAZZLESTORM! “members” include Ryan Mitchell (aka Gravebangerz), Michael Farley (aka MC Loco Ono), Natalie Oyler (aka DJ OMJIHAD!), Sophia Park, and Virginia Rohr (Collectively DEDA & YOUNG).

Deep in the hollows of the boarded up stadium, a barkeep sets his blender to pulse, a traveling salesman hawks his popcorn, and a bird with glorious plumage gores on or two people a year, on average.  Meanwhile, an unusual young person makes plans to go underground.  Because if your world extends only as far as the scoreboard and the nosebleed seats, who will ever understand your sense of humor?  “Clamlump”, the Missoula Oblongata‘s new touring production promises the awe of misunderstanding, the privacy of laughter, and a sky dark with feathers. This one is of course complete with an original score performed live by Travis Sehorn (pebble light) and all of the puppetry, animated junk, and densely layered language that they’ve become known for.

This is an audience participation based projection performance incorporating aspects of Butoh and Noh theater practices.

It involves 16mm film projections with costumes and props that culminate as the screened space. The final outcome of the performances will be a handmade book that will serve as both a document of the performance as well as fantastical rumination on the act of reading performance as cultural debris.  INJU KABOOM

Friday at the H&H Building at Floristree

Electricity is understood by science but tantamount to magic in most of our everyday lives. Hackers and curious folk dig into the guts and wires, but for the most part we think of electronics as mysterious and untouchable metal structures shrouded within a rigid opaque enclosures. Soft circuits bring electricity into a different context, housed in flexible, touchable structures. Soft circuits seek to integrate the magic of electricity with soft squishy textiles or other unusual hosts, blurring the boundaries between you and the electronics. Soft circuits are hand made, crafty creations, boldly asserting that electricity can be manipulated with bare hands and simple tools.  Curator: Rose Hammer Burt

Artists

Deerhorn – Peter Blasser

Expecting Tomorrow – Natalie Tomoko Ishizuka

Mergatrude – Bonnie Crawford Kotula and Rose Hammer Burt

Negotiations - Kostova and Robinson

Breath of Life