Antenna::Signals Issue.003:
All the Pretty Horrors

Tuesday, October 4, 6:30-9pm
@ Three Keys at Ace Hotel New Orleans | 600 Carondelet

Issue::003 of Antenna::Signals traverses the haunting crossroads of beauty and horror, featuring Antenna 2016 National/International Open Call selection Doreen Garner. Garner describes her work as identifying, extracting, and exploiting the tissues that bind the Sexual and the Grotesque, specifically in regards to the black female body. Her sculptures formulate a material mush of beads, Swarovski crystals, silicone, rubber, teeth, condoms, teddybear stuffing, vaseline, etc., held together by glass walls or latex membranes.

Doreen Garner will headline the evening. Additional featured Antenna::Signals presentations will probe subjects of exquisite ghastliness, including leaky cemeteries, transcendent funeral traditions, toxic beauty treatments, and predatory flowers.

Featuring:

Doreen Garner, visual artist, Antenna 2016 Open Call Selection
A special screening of The Propeller Group’s “The Living Need Night, the Dead Need Music”
Nathaniel Rich, novelist, author of “Bodies” in “Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas”
Owen Ever of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
William Parker of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston, LA
Ian T. Snyder, aka Wolverine, arborist and gem enthusiast
Austin Hannah of the New Orleans Audubon Insectarium
& music by My Graveyard Jaw

Banner Image by Owen Ever, The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum