EVENTS | POPPS PACKING

Residency Exhbition,

The Big Art Show

with current AIR, StudioPlusminusnull
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

7-10PM

ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Saturday, June 11 2016.

Gallery hours 12PM-5Pm

Last chance to see “In The Wake of The Bind” by David Trautrimus.

We often speak of old, neglected buildings in anthropomorphic terms as having “good bones”. As such, the spectre of death already haunts the language we use to describe these forgotten places. What if, in their final demise, buildings were released from their foundations? What new forms would they take?

David Trautrimas (Toronto) digitally excavates and reassembles source material to create portraits of structures that exist somewhere between the real and the completely imagined. Roofs collapse and funnel in the elements, walls crumble allowing unencumbered access into the interior and otherwise dark passages reveal themselves to the light. Brick, mortar, wood and stone – once the building blocks of civilization – are reassembled here to present a vision of a world bereft of humanity and one in which architecture experiences an afterlife.
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David Trautrimas is a visual artist whose work explores themes related to architecture and the built environment. He received a diploma with honors from OCAD and a multi-media technical certification from Fanshawe College. Recent solo exhibitions include Eidolon Point at the Prince Takamado Gallery, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo (2015) and Spyfrost Industrial Habitat at Hartell Gallery, Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. (2014). He has participated in numerous museum exhibitions including Imagine Earth at the Korean Arts Center, Seoul Korea (2011) and Empire of Dreams at MOCCA, Toronto (2010). His first major public art installation Ramps & Tread will be installed in 2016 as part of the public art program at Ice Condominiums, Toronto.

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.

DAVID TRAUTRIMUS

IN THE WAKE OF THE BIND

May 21-June 11

Opening Reception Sat. May 21, 7-10pm

“THE WAY IS NOT THE WAY” – Meandering through process with Matthew Bandsuch” by Sarah Rose Sharp, The Detroit Art Review

Matthew Bandsuch @ Popps Packing

JONATHAN RAJEWSKI, RYB

New work in red, yellow and blue

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 2016

7PM-10PM

Performance at 8:30pm

Jonathan Rajewski (b. 1986, Bismarck, ND) lives and works in Hamtramck. He received a degree in philosophy from Michigan State University in 2009. Selected exhibitions include the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit, MI), Simone DeSousa Gallery (Detroit, MI), Jack Hanley Gallery (New York, NY) and Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI). He is the Director of Klinger Studios, a co-founder of the Hamtramck Free School, and co-facilitates visual art and creative writing workshops in Michigan prisons. His writing has appeared in Mousse Magazine and The Exhibitionist, and in 2015 he received a Kresge Fellowship in Visual Art.

Warning: This exhibition contains flashing lights which may not be suitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

Show runs through May 14th.

Gallery hours: Saturdays 12-5PM and by appointment

www.jonathanrajewski.info

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The Way Not The Way: New Works by Matthew Bandsuch

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 26, 2016, 7PM-10PM

Show runs through April 16th

“The Way Not The Way” is part of a larger ongoing linear narrative conveying the slow and sometimes intractable struggle of transformation and permanence. With the drawing process at it’s core, overlapping and interrelated images spawn a generation of continually changing adaptations. Pieces inherit elements from others, producing a synthetic lineage.

Matthew Bandsuch was born in Raleigh North Carolina but grew up in the Detroit area. He has a BFA from The College for Creative Studies(’95) and continued to live and work in Detroit until relocating to Chicago in 2001. His paintings have been exhibited throughout Detroit and Chicago and his Illustrations have been published in Hour Detroit Magazine, The Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, The New York Times, and The LA Times. Popps Packing is excited to welcome Matthew back to Detroit.

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