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MOMM and POPP Residency!

Popps Packing welcomes Marion Neumann (filmmaker and cinematographer), Isamu Krieger (visual artist), and 5 year old daughter Frida from Geneva Switzerland, our first Momm and Popp Residents thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation!!

For the month of August, Marion Neumann (filmmaker and cinematographer), Isamu Krieger (visual artist), and 5 year old daughter Frida will be in residence at Popps Packing as part of our new Momm and Popps residency program for parent artists. Marion will be developing a project focused on mycology and how the highly resilient life cycles of fungi can serve as a powerful learning tool for how humans can relate to each other and protect the world they live in. Her residency kicks off with a Myco Remediation Workshop with mushroom guru Geoffroy R. Grignon on Friday August 5th, (Details below). Meanwhile Isamu, whose work explores the absurd aspects of a paradoxical world with a deep sensitivity and respect for nature, will be working on a live drawing installation in one of Popps gallery spaces. The Momm & Popp Artist Residency is a pilot program designed to cater to national and international artists with families. The program explores hybrid forms of life and work and provides opportunities for artists, families and neighbors to exchange ideas about art and life in order to learn and inspire each other.

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. For more, visit knightfoundation.org.

Franziska Klose (Photographer, Book Artist),Leipzig, Germany.

Franziska Klose works explore postindustrial nature and landscapes within a social-historical context. Her works include photography, artist books and field recordings. She returns to Popps for the second time to photograph and research for her new book „ The New Wild–Detroit“.

The book 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.

More about Franziska Klose’s work here: www.franziskaklose.de, www.frzkrzl.tumblr.com

Yi Zhou (Artist and Designer), Beijing

Yi’s projects are drawn from sociological angles, and focusing primarily on the interrelation between human relations and behavior.

At Popps she will continue to develop her performative and intimate project “Body Memory” A project based on the hypothesis that the body itself is capable of storing memories, as opposed to just the brain. YI will be setting up a Pop Up Body Memory Clinic at some point during her residency and will be looking for stories in exchange for castings. We’ll keep you posted on the details.

To learn more about Yi’s work here:

http://cargocollective.com/BodyMemory,

http://cargocollective.com/yizhou

Join us Friday August 26 from 6-10Pm for a special residency exhibition around the Popps compound.

NOMAD CARAVN

Saturday July 23, 3PM- 11PM

A Gathering of Mobile Art Projects, Conversations, Skill Sharing, Art, Performances and Good times!!

Grease up your gears and ride on over to Popps for an afternoon of bazaar exchanges, performances, demonstrations and much more. All the NOMAD mobile cart projects will be activated with performances and demonstrations and a series of swap stations will be set up by other makers and community members. Come join the fun and help us celebrate all things mobile in our community!!

NOMAD Caravan will feature:
1. The NOMAD Mobile Cart projects: Reeel n Wheel Moibile Movie Theater, WIege Folk:Land Survey Tool-Kit, “Chirpy” an edible bug cart, Left Handed Branded, a Metal Forging Demonstration station by Fortress Studios, the Kamishibai Story Telling theater, a Mobile toy Box, The Snack Shop Radio Station and Who’s The B.O.C.S.? a mobile carding station. to learn more about the mobile cart, the artists, and about the NOMAD project click here. Or visit our facebook page.

2. Music Presented by Detroit Folk Workshop

6:00pm -EASY LIFE ENTERTAINMENT
If you missed Sunny Ade at Concert of Colors, now is your chance to hear the Juju sound by local Detroiters! Lead by Eziekiel Hosu (of Odu Afrobeat Orchestra) Easy Life Entertainment brings us African Juju High Life Music / Juju Gospel Music with Talking Drum, Omele drum, Conga, Agogo, Sekere, electric guitars and keyboard.

5:00pm – LAC LA BELLE
Local musicians Jennie Knaggs & Nick Schillace create music that blends history with the present via accordion, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, harmonizing vocals, and fingerpicking resonator guitar. With their separate experiences learning folk and blues in Appalachia, American roots bind Lac La Belle’s compositions with a heavy thread. For this performance enjoy some of their favorite old time, bluegrass and western swing favorites, alongside their original tunes.
www.laclabellemusic.com

4:00pm – NICK STERNBERG
NIck Sternberg is a former songwriter from Detroit; currently a songsinger of emotive, ethereal selections from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s, with piano accompaniment.
His latest project is the Real Life Concert, an exploratory series of impromptu battery-powered performances in exotic Detroit locations.

3. Barter and Swap Stations: records, plants, clothing, sewing, seeds, books and a Barter Consultant to answer all your barter and swap questions.

4. Workshops, Demonstrations: Live T-shirt printing by One Custom City, Motown Movement for Kids with Torri Lynn.

5. DJ George Rahme from 7-9PM

6. “Reel N Wheel”, a mobile movie theater and one of the featured NOMAD projects will be screening: Quick Draw McGraw & The American Astronaut.

If you want to set up a swap station or host a workshop or skill share during the event please contact Faina at nomad@poppspacking.org.

#nomaddetroit, #poppsevents

POPPS PACKING WELCOMES NEW ARTISTS IN RESIDNECE!!

LIZA DIECKWISCH, AE RAN KIM, JUNGWOON KIM, KLARA PATEROK

Liza, Aeran, Jungwoon and Klara are four artists living and working in Düsseldorf (GER) and Vienna (AT). They met during their studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where they first started to collaborate on projects. They are using their 6 weeks at Popps for research and to devolope a larger collaborative work based on their individual and shared interests.

Aeran Kim accepts and respects the irony and illogicality of life. She observes the daily routine and interrupts it before it serves a purpose; in this way she eliminates the everyday occurrence. You can find the irony as concept in the details of the performance’s process. Those details change several times in the process of the work, it seems that they destroy the perfect structure, but in fact they accomplish the whole structure.

Jungwoon Kim composes psychological cities. The installations are built with everyday objects: stairways. For her constructions she employs foam board that kind of material used for the architectural models. Colors, silicone, collages and video disturb the clean white surface of the material. Moreover the strictness of the structure of the work is broken.

Klara Paterok deals with cultural objects, architectural characteristics and shapes of nature. She combines these topics and defines points of contact by alteration of materiality and form. The reference of objects to the nature and body of the human being plays an important role in this process. One of her particular interest lies in the contentual and visual overlap of cultural and natural objects (® objets ambigus, Valéry, P.)

Welcome New Artists in Residence:

Liza Dieckwisch, Ae-ran Kim , Jungwoon Kim, Klara Paterok (living and working in Düsseldorf (GER) and Vienna (AT) arrived at Popps on June 1st for a six week residency.

The four artists met during their studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where they began to collaborate on projects and are in residence at Popps until July 15 to explore their collective practices within the context of Detroit and Hamtramck.

Liza Dieckwisch is a painter. She combines her colors directly in the space, there is no canvas or other medium, her “paintings” are the colors themselves, the colors seem to be “autonomous”. Dieckwisch’s works allow a straight communication between the artist and the audience. The paintings appear like organic formations: The layers of different colors seem to spread, the paintings are always ready for a change and therefore they are always in process.

Friday, May 27 6PM- 9PM

Open Studio with Vincenzo Fagnani and Tana Santos

Please join us for an open studio with visiting artists, Vincenzo Fagnani and Tana Santos (currently living and working in Berlin). Vincenzo & Tana will present a large body of work installed around the Popps compound and beyond that focuses on the relationship between symbols, ethics and public spaces.

This works is part of a larger project titled, “The Sea After Crisis: Reality is amorphous. Ethics is graphics”.

About the “The Sea After Crisis”:

From Pre-Hellenic cultures until today humans have been determining a number of ethical geometries that survived and strengthened over the most significant epochal changes, above all the accession of monotheism. Those geometries also represent the basis of a social model which imposed its will worldwide over the past centuries.

“The sea after crisis” is a project about the dynamics of moral structures and the role of graphics in society. It is a long trip across etymology and symbology narrated through visual paradoxes, poster campaigns and art interventions to realize in three emblematic cities: Detroit (United States), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Athens (Greece). The experiences made in those cities will be then collected in a single book.

Some of Vincenzos published works can be found at Printed Matter.

“Vases” by Dylan Spaysky.

Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 7-11PM.

Popps Packing is proud to present “Vases”, a solo exhibition of recent works by Dylan Spaysky.

“Shaped by personal history, Spaysky attempts to reconcile off-the-shelf consumer product as talisman or personal artifact. He pulls material from thrift stores that trade in the excesses of comfortable suburban lifestyles, and as such, his work encourages a dual conversation about abandonment and endurance.”- PR text from current solo show at Clifton Benevento, NY

Dylan Spaysky (b. Waterford, MI) lives and works in Detroit, MI. Selected exhibitions include: Susanne Hilberry (Detroit, MI), NGBK (Berlin), Michael Benevento (Los Angeles, CA), and Cleopatra’s (Brooklyn, NY). Spaysky is Co-Director of Detroit artist-run space Cave, and has organized exhibitions around the area in venues such as Center Galleries and the abandoned car wash at Norwalk St. and Buffalo St. in Hamtramck.

http://www.spayskyfineart.com/index.html

Show runs from 12.4.15-1.2.16.Popps Packing is located at 12138 St. Aubin. Gallery is open on Saturdays and by appointment. Contact Faina Lerman, poppspackking @gmail.com

IT’S JESSERCISE TIME!

Join Jessica Frelinghuysen on Saturday, October 24th at 2:00 p.m. for an energetic participatory performance art aerobics class and check out her current show at Popps “It’s Exercise Time”- An Aerobic Art Show.

Followed by a real Yoga class with certified guest instructor, Imani Metta from Detroit Yoga Lab, at 3:00 p.m. – all welcome.

We will hydrate with champagne weights and beer.

This weeks performance will be documented, so show up with your special workout uniform and join the fun!
The more the merrier- so tell your friends!
All body types and levels welcome.

See you at 2:00 on Saturday!
“Jessercise” starts at 2:00 p.m. (class lasts about 20 minutes.)
Gallery will be open 1:00-5:00 p.m.

www.paperhelmets.com – Jess’s website

LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS AGO

AUGUST 19, 23 & 29- CLAY AND PIT FIRING WORKSHOPS

Like a Thousand Years Ago, is a project by Jennifer Bennett (Germany) in partnership with Popps Packing and FILTER Detroit. Popps Packing will be hosting a series of clay and pit firing workshops with Jennifer, who has collected and processed clay from Ohio and Detroit that will be used by participants to create small scale works such as sound balls, beads, little sculptures and vessels. All works that will be fired over night in a pit, an ancient practice still employed around the world.

These workshops are FREE and open to participants of all ages.

Clay Workshop 1- Wednesday, August 19, 5-8PM

Clay Workshop 2+ Pit Firing 1- Sunday, August 23, 2-5PM

Pit Firing 2- Saturday, August 29, 2PM

http://www.jenniferbennett.net