Category: CURRENT

Hamtramck in Translation Workshop

Sunday, July 2 , 12PM – 6PM

Hamtramck in Translation is a free, hands–on workshop lead by Juliette Pepin, current artist in resident at Popps Packing. Inspired by the variety of signs and scripts found all over the city, this workshop will explore and highlight Hamtramck’s unique linguistic and cultural diversity through the creation of unique yard sings.

This is a free drop- in workshop!

12-6PM
All Ages Welcome!
All Materials included! More than 10 different alphabets!
All projects will be digitally archived and shared with participants.

Contact: poppspacking@gmail.com
Location: Popps Packing, 12138 St. Aubin Hamtramck MI, 48212.

Juliette Pépin is a multidisciplinary designer based in Paris, France. She is a communication designer working on the positive representation of cultural diversity though modern means of communication. Her communication design and education project, M.O.T.S, won a Social Design Award in 2016. M.O.T.S is language awareness education tool in which Juliette designed school materials, games and other tools to trigger children interest in cultural diversity through language awareness. Pepin utilizes foreign alphabets that were co-created with teachers, psychologist and education counselors to help frame the activities within a knowledge and experience based context. “Hamtramck in Translation” workshop is a continuation of her interest in socially conscious locally based projects that find unique ways to highlight cultural diversity. http://juliettepepin.com/mots

Current Residents

2017 Summer Artists in Residence:

June/ July 2017

John Bianchi,  New York, USA – (Painting, mixed media sculpture and installation)

John Dante Bianchi (b.Nashua. New Hampshire) received his BFA from Cooper Union and his MFA from Yale University. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited at Galerie Derouillon in Paris, Tyler Wood Gallery in San Francisco, Night Gallery in Los Angeles, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, Signal Gallery in Brooklyn, Kai Matsumiya in New York and David Zwirner Gallery in New York. He has received press coverage in Art Forum, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Bomb Magazine, Observer, Vice’s The Creators Project, ARTNEWS, Interview Magazine, Blouin ArtInfo and Teeth Magazine.

His recent bodies of work – the Bruised Panels, Torqued Panels and Relief Panels- refer in name to the physical process of their making. Bianchi’s wall-based works are both sculpture and painting, emerging from the wall or built in many layers and exactingly constructed all the way through, from stretcher to support to surface. Much of Bianchi’s work explores the ideation of the pieces as a body (an Object), which is exposed to forces of time and events leaving their mark. The Bruised Panels, for example, are speckled with colors that directly reference skin tones and bruises: pinks and blues and creams. They are built up in layers and sanded down to reveal textures and colors beneath. Bianchi’s work encapsulates a sense of time within it, not only in the sense of process, but in some of the materials he chooses, such as recycled redwood ( the world’s largest and longest-living trees) to make his freestanding sculptures.

James Carry, Melbourne, Australia- (Drawing, painting, sculpture and site responsive interventions).

James  Carry (b. Melbourne Australia) received a Bachelor of Design in 2005 from RMIT and PHD  from the RMIT School of Architecture & Design in 2016. Carry’s creative practice research explores process-based interventions within decommissioned buildings and gallery spaces. The methodology he engages with is one of working responsively, allowing particular temporal conditions to surface within these sites and situations. The potential of these conditions are then engaged with in ways that do not seek to prescribe an outcome in advance. Sites are inhabited in time, and specific rendering techniques – such as drawing and mark making – are introduced. These situations are then reassembled through a variety of processes, and the marks made materialize immateriality, allowing the residue of particular processes to be assembled as collections of materialized and spatialized time.

Recent projects and exhibitions include between two homes 2016 commissioned by Hobson’s Bay Council and presented by Blackartprojects, sighting 2016 commissioned by MCES and presented by Blackartprojects, to wonder / to wander 2016 in collaboration with Megan Cope and the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation, Mildura Arts Centre, beginning in incompleteness: works in formation 2015 at RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, wall work[ing] 7 2015 at Kings ARI and rendering the [im]material, a visual essay published in the IDEA Journal 2012. James has been the recipient of an Australia Arts Council New Work grant in 2010 and also received an Honourable Mention at the Shanghai Biennale in 2007.

Juliette Pepin  (Paris, France)– (Social & speculative design and Installation)

Juliette Pépin is a multidisciplinary designer based in Paris. While studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and doing internships at Intégral Ruedi Baur (Communication – Fr) and Onomatopee (Editorial/Gallery – Nl), she developed skills in a wide range of domains such as communication, conceptual design, research and cultural mediation. She currently works with different institutions such as the Gemeente Eindhoven with her educational project M.O.T.S. ― Social Design Award 2016, as well as a trained communication designer for individuals and institutions.”

 

 Coming in July 2017:

Kambui Olujimi, New York, USA

Kjellgren Alkire, Lake City, Minnesota

Maisha Baddoo, Toronto, Canada

WELCOME BACK

OPENING RECEPTION, SATURDAY MAY 20
6-9 PM
SHOW RUNS THROUGH JUNE 17

Popps Packing is excited to present “Welcome Back” an exhibition of selected works by Cristin Richard (some of which have never been shown in Detroit). After 6 months away from her practice, Cristin has chosen this moment to reflect upon the existing narratives found in her work and to explore them wihtin a new context.

“Sometimes things happen in life that force you to change the ways of which you would have typically operated. It takes a good period of observation and discovery to find your new way.”

Through an interdisciplinary approach, Cristin leads an in depth reflection around the notions of the body and identity. She examines the human condition and the fact that the body is physically and mentally determined in this condition.

In her artistic practice, installation and performance hold an essential place. Particularly interested in the manipulation of organic matter, these materials build a dialog of what it feels like to be human. The human being is like nature. It transforms and regenerates in poetic and unpredictable ways. In the majority of her work, she reconstructs animal intestines into tangible objects. Playing upon the ambiguity created by the presence of this material, she develops metaphors loaded with complexities, and also explores the experience of the body in its perception and transformations. Her most recent works take the form of a participatory performance, where the audience unconsciously becomes an active part of the project.

Cristin Richard was born in Detroit, and currently lives and works in the city. She received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies
and has exhibited her artistic work locally, as well as in New York, Paris and Iceland.

A SHAMEFUL ENLIGHTENMENT

Opening Reception Sat. March 11th,
6-9pm
Show runs through April 8th

This is an exhibition and book release occasioned by the publication of “BLACK EYE No. 3,” the final and timely volume of “Black Eye,” the anthology of humor and despair published by Rotland Press. This all-comics issue compiles 136 pages with a jaundiced eye on the zeitgeist. Subtitled “A Shameful Enlightenment,” it is a riff on the absurdity of our times, as charted by a coterie of 36 international cartoonists. “Black Eye No. 3” will thrill, sicken, amuse, titillate, horrify, and fortify.

The event is an opportunity to bring together five of the contributing artists who are based in Detroit: Lucy Cahill, Mark Dancey, Francis Kulikowski, John Maggie and S. William Schudlich. Each artist will be exhibiting recent work made for Rotland Press. “Black Eye No. 3”, a limited edition companion book “The Sightseer’s Complement”, and “Rotland Dreadfuls: The Most Frightening Hole” by John Maggie will all be available for purchase.

“Ryan Standfest brings together an exquisitely curated collection of funny, dark, and beguiling comic art for Black Eye No. 3. I’m going to read my copy by a roaring arson blaze.” —Kaz, Creator of the comic strip “Underworld”

The contributors to “Black Eye No. 3” include: Alexis Beauclair, Tom Bunk, Andy Burkholder, Max Clotfelter, Mark Dancey, Kayla E., Vincenzo Fagnani, Penelope Gazin, Julia Gfrörer, Anna Haifisch, Corinne Halbert, Eric Haven, Ian Huebert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Clara Bessijelle Johansson, Francis Kulikowski, Meghan Lamb, David Lynch, John Maggie, Nicolas Mahler, Jérôme Mulot, Erik Nebel, Paul Nudd, Onsmith, Pierre La Police, Helge Reumann, Josephin Ritschel, Martin Rowson, Florent Ruppert, Johnny Sampson, David Sandlin, S. William Schudlich, Santiago Sequeiros, Sammy Stein, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Chris Wright The cover is by Joan Cornellà. The book is edited by Ryan Standfest.

Founded in 2010, ROTLAND PRESS is a small publishing house located in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is a publisher of printed projects that promote subversive humor— be it black, dark, gallows, satirical or absurd. ROTLAND PRESS aims to occupy a place between the mainstream and the avant-garde, the philistine and the genteel, industriously manufacturing the finest in despairing entertainment. Ryan Standfest in the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief.

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Untitled Experiment of the Modern Gaze

Popps Packing is excited to present  a new video installation by Oren Goldenberg utilizing 360 degree video, featuring Biba Bell.  

Untitiled Experiment of the Modern Gaze is a contemporary approach to depicting the gaze of the viewer.  Appropriating new Virtual Reality technology, Goldenberg is utilizing video to create an immersive environment that explores how we gaze, and how we are seen gazing.  Through camera and body movements, a contradictory relationship is born between the viewer and the subject.  

Oren Goldenberg is a producer and video artist living and working in Detroit where he uses video to explore the dismantlement of the public sector, subvert the assumed and create catharsis. His work captures society’s effect on the spaces around us, as well as, on the body.  Selected projects included: Art as Ritual Conference, A Requiem for Douglass; and Detroit (Blank) City, to name a few.  He is a 2016 Bernard L. Mass Prize for Fine Arts recipient and 2013 Kresge Artist Fellow.  

Biba Bell (b. 1976, Sebastopol) is a writer, dancer, and choreographer based in Detroit. Her work proposes a modernist threshold between between architecture and dance, and is more recently focused on social dance. Bell’s performance work has been seen at JACK (Brooklyn), Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami), Kunstlerhaus (Bremen, Germany), Cranbrook Art Museum, and in a Mies van der Rohe apartment in Detroit. Bell is a 2016 Kresge Fellow in Live Arts, is an Assistant Professor in Dance at Wayne State University, and she earned her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University.

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Time-Less, Meditations on Headlessness



Friday, November 4, 2016  7:00 PM:

Popps Packing is pleased to present “Time-less” by Jaime B. Jaime & Kath-Jazz, Meditations on headlessness. November 4-19, 2016. Opening Reception Friday, November, 4 2016, 7-10PM

About the Artists:
JAIME LUTZO managed to escape making video work for a few years by renovating old houses. Lives life intensely, not always loudly. Finds sustenance in cinema, text, music, and the company of fellow maniacs.

KATHY LEISEN is not an innocent bystander. She is an instigator and also an investigator of motivations and morality, instinct and the unknown. Her aesthetic methodology is always evolving like a snake with many skins. Looks for meaning in distractions and also loves maniacs.img_4755

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Hamtramck Neighborhood Art Festival at Popps

Qbert in the Woods, 3PM-7PM
Behind 2037 Carpenter
A communal improvositational soundscape spead out in and around the Popps Back Forty including folks like James Cornish, Chris Pottinger, Sonic Stroker, Chris Riddell, Thomas Bell, David Shettler and more!

Camp Mossandsticks, 3PM- 5PM
12147 St. Aubin ( Cactus Lots across the street form Popps)
Artist, Alex Tsocanos leads a pop-up campsite with radical arts and craft workshops for feminist revolutionaries of all ages. Spark your inner political flame at a protest sign making party and marching practice! All materials will be included, just bring your spirit and let your voice be heard!

Mounts and Marvels, open 3-7PM
Popps Emporium 2037 Carpenter
A large wall drawing installation created by August ’16 AIR Isamu Krieger.

Peaches, open 2PM -7PM
Popps Packing Gallery 12138 St. Aubin
A fabulously fun fruit shows curated by Alice V. Schneider featuring 18 Detroit artists who gathered their dirty artistic minds to celebrate the diverse juicy fruit!

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August Residency Exhibition

Marion Neumann, Isamu Krieger, Yi Zhou and Franziska Klose

Friday August 26, 2016

6-10PM

Please Join us for this special event that spans the whole Popps compound and highlights the wonderful work created by our current AIR. 

With Snacks and Refreshments

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“Mounts & Marvels” , by Isamu Krieger (Switzerland) at Popps Emporium.  

“Like an unfold origami, the flat paper that however keeps the lines of the architectural volume, offers though a new surface to write one’s tale. In front of a nearly blank page, I develop my practice of drawing and I search to combine natural elements with abstract shapes and to compose patterns of landscapes based on graphical systems. My proposal here is to play with visual tensions using optical games, illusions of crossing lines, horizontal panoramas and vertical cliffs, deep caves and a plane plateau…All of this is in order to create obviously an effect of vertigo.  A dizziness between absence and presence, between rising and falling… ”  

“Wild Plants” directed by Nicolas Humbert with cinematography by Marion Neumann (Switzerland)

Film Screening of at 9PM,

WILD_PLANTS_Kinga_HandPeople’s associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants. ‘Wild Plants’ is a film that traces these clues and takes us to urban gardens in Detroit, to Native American philosopher Milo Yellow Hair in Wounded Knee, to the wild plantations of Zurich’s legendary ‘Guerilla Gardener’ Maurice Maggi, and to the innovative horticulture cooperative ‘Les Jardins de Cocagne’ in Geneva.

The New Wild–Detroit“. by Franziska Klose (Germany)   www.frzlkrzl.tumblr.com,

franziskaklose-TheNewWildThe New Wild–Detroit is part of a long-term project that pictures postindustrial landscapes worldwide.  It will combine pictures of urban and industrial vegetation and various farms in Detroit with historical images and texts to describe the permanent change of Detroit’s urban and social landscape.

Klose studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, at École Supérieure des Arts Visuels Genève/CH and at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. She lives in Leipzig, Germany.  

“Body Memory Clinic”  by Yi Zhou (China)

Demonstrations from 7-9PM

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Practicing from her Pop Up,  Body Memory clinic and wearing her trademark Doctors coat, the self confessed “collector of human body parts”, takes a ‘faux-scientific’ look at body form and the role that our body parts, rather than our brain, play in storing our memories.
 

Fingers, noses, lips, ears, breasts and even belly buttons are covered with resin and then plaster bandages to create unconventional, quirky jewellery pieces and accessories.  

Mycelium Give-Away
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Marion Neumann will be giving away mycelium left over from the Radical Mycology Workshops earlier this month. She’ll show you what you need to do in order to grow your own mushrooms at home. First come first serve, so come early and get you spores!!

 

Light snacks and refreshments
Residency Exhbition,
The Big Art Show 
with current AIR, StudioPlusminusnull
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
7-10PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!
 

 

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Studio Plusminusnull is an art collective based in Northern Germany.  Tom Korn, Claudia Kulenkampff,Susanne Klingenberg, Ulli Bomans, Brozilla and Gilta Jansen have been collaborating on projects since 2014.  During their 1 month residency at Popps they have been taking advantage of the shared space and time to create new collaborative works as well as individual works that explore a range of mediums including, active media, painting, installation, urban art, object and collage.  Please join us for this one night only exhbition of new works created while in residence at Popps.