IALA Gallery News - PIRATES!

[Patrick Lichty]

IALA Gallery

355 Seyburn Drive

Baton Rouge, LA 70808

001 (255) 766-3811

http://www.voyd.com/iala

 

Sept. 20,2003

Press Release

Artists, Performers celebrate "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"
IALA Gallery Adds "Pirated Movie" to MTAA exhibition 

 

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Patrick Lichty

Director, IALA Gallery

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Baton Rouge, LA 70808 USA

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IALA Gallery is pleased to announce the success of Baton Rouge based events created by arts professionals and galleries centered on the internationally-recognized "Talk Like a Pirate Day" that was originated by John Baur and Mark Summers and made famous by syndicated columnist Dave Barry. Be

 

ABOUT THE EVENTS

IALA gallery is proud to present conceptual artists Whid and River in presenting their postcard art exhibition. This is a variation of the installation recently seen in New York's New York's 31 Grand and Rome Art galleries.  For this addition, IALA received a postcard for the MTAA installation at Postmasters entitled "Pirated Movie" which was a (re)presentation of a pirated copy of the Johnny Depp film, thus inspiring the intersection with International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

 

Furthermore, in conjunction with the expansion of the MTAA exhibition, Dr. Leigh Clemons staged a performance event entitled "Pirate Professor" for her Sept. 19th Introduction to Theatre lecture in the 1000-seat Beau Cambell Auditorium at Louisiana State University.  Dr. Clemons delivered her lecture on publicity and performance in traditional Hollywood pirate attire and brogue to uproarious applause.  To quote Dr. Clemons, "Yarr! It be a fine event, but without better publicity, I be makin' some curators walk the plank to get me some rum from Davy Jones' Locker!"   

 

ABOUT LEIGH CLEMONS, Ph.D.

Dr. Leigh Clemons is a noted theatre historian, performance artist, and cultural theorist, whose various roles, including "Lenore Stanley, Corporate Wage Slave" has brought her into contact and collaboration with numerous luminaries, including RTMark, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Holly Hughes.  She is widely published in the area of public and media performance of national identity, and is currently working on a volume on the performance of Texan identity.  She is Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Critical Theory and Dramatic Literature at Louisiana State University.

 

ABOUT MTAA

Whid and River (AKA MTAA) are leading edge conceptualists in the rising genre of technological/new media art. Their most contemporary and historically-informed works expand the critical issues relating to the nature of art in the technological age, and especially after the rise of the Internet. Their physical and virtual works are widely shown, and have been featured at numerous venues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Walker Art Center.

 

ABOUT IALA

IALA is a private not-for-profit gallery run by curator and owner Patrick Lichty, which promotes the works of experimental and new media artists through our ongoing exhibitions. Within our permanent collection are works from numerous contemporary and electronic artists, including Peggy Ahwesh, Amy Alexander, MTAA, Roman Verostko, Simon Biggs, Igor Vamos, Yael Kanarek, Barbara Lattanzi, Nancy Buchanan, Melanie Crean, BOME, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Larry Miller, RTMark, Jack Ox, Noriko Meguro, The YesMen, Patrick Lichty, Paul Vanouse, and Diamanda Galas only to name a few.

 
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