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Thank you!
Annie

Synesthesic Cell Structures at The Cell in NYC

If you're in NYC this week, please check out this performance event at The Cell on Monday night. The event will include a screening of Becoming Formless among the work of several talented poets, musicians, and video artists.

The Cell
at 338 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
Monday, August 18 at 8 p.m.
$10 donation

featuring Tom Abbs (upright bass, violin, didgeridoo, and tuba), Tara Betts (poetry), Bruce Eisenbeil (guitar), Dan Godston (trumpet and poetry), Annie Heckman (video), Jayve Montgomery (video), Mikey Peterson (video), Reed Robins (piano), Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone & bass clarinet)

Find more information about the event online at thecelltheatre.org.

Six Degrees of Separation in San Francisco

Please give this beautiful show a visit if you're near San Francisco. Frances Valesco curated this among resident artists from the Hungarian Multicultural Center. Visit our projects at the City College of San Francisco exhibition website or on our blog for the show.

Airline to Heaven, Part I book available from StepSister Press in July

Annie Heckman, Matthew Dal Santo, Terri L. Russ

available July 30, 2008. pre-order online now at StepSisterPress.com

Her Shorts 2008 in Tucson, AZ

Becoming Formless (2007) will be featured among several amazing short films at Her Shorts 2008: International Women's Video Festival, taking place April 28 & 29 at the Dinnerware ArtSpace in Tucson, Arizona. This festival is coordinated by the Plugged Art Collective, a fantastic group supporting women video artists, with the help of the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. Please check it out if you're in the Tucson area!

Dinnerware ArtSpace
264 E. Congress St Street Tucson, AZ 8570
(times TBA soon)

Moreau Art Galleries installation shots

photos by Peter Clark

Airline to Heaven, Part I at Moreau Art Galleries

Screening at NY Studio Gallery

Becoming Formless will be on view as part of the MISC Video & Performance show at NY Studio Gallery this month.

MISC Video & Performance
November 29th - December 29th 2007
NY Studio Gallery. 511 West 25th St. #607, between 10th and 11th Avenues NY, NY 10001/Tel. 212.627.3276 / nystudiogallery.com, Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment

Reception/ Performance dates:
Thursday November 29th 6-8pm: Performance/ Reception: Crystal Curtis, Chloe Douglas, "The Ladies" (Amy Larimer and Debra Wanner)
Thursday December 13th 6-8pm: Performance and Opening Reception: OUI (Becca Broughton and Andy Coppola)
Saturday December 15th 6-8pm: Performance 12-6pm Reception 6-8: Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion

Featured artists include: Launa Bacon, Nicholas O'Neal Blume, Paula Brett, Wayne Brett, Karen Brummund, Laura Calhoun, Ernest Concepcion, Daniel Cordani, Crystal Curtis, Nick Demopoulos, Chloe Douglas, Tamara Erde, Mike Estabrook, Giada Ghiringhelli, Annie Heckman, "The Ladies" (Amy Larimer and Debra Wanner), Heather Levy, Lisa Leighton, Katy Malone, Robert Mead, Lindsay Napolitano, Vanessa Oppenhoff, Renzo Ortega, OUI (Becca Broughton and Andy Coppola), Andrew Poneros, Bridget Riversmith, Tim Roberts, and Oliver Smith.

Installation Image from Chicago Art Open

Here's an image of the installation from the Chicago Art Open. The installation became wider, in anticipation of its expanded version in the Hammes Gallery at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame Indiana, coming up in January 2008.

Airline to Heaven, Part I installation appears in Chicago Art Open

Airline to Heaven, Part I will be on view at the Chicago Art Open this October. This is a huge group show put together by the Chicago Artists Coalition.
The 10th Annual Chicago Art Open will take place October 4 - 27, 2007 at Iron Studios, 3636 S. Iron St., Chicago, IL 60609. Hours: 11am-5pm daily.

Curators for this year are:
Sabina Ott, Artist and Chair, Art and Design Department, Columbia College
Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
Linda Warren, Proprietor, Linda Warren Gallery

Opening Benefit of the Chicago Art Open
October 5, 2007
6pm-10pm
In keeping with the Chicago Artists' Month theme of Creative Alliances, the Chicago Artists' Coalition has invited the Old Town School of Folk Music to organize the entertainment for the Opening Benefit. Tickets are $20 per person and include food and drink. Available at the door.

Love in outer space and under water, NYC premier at Cine Capellini 2007

Love in outer space and under water, the first Heckman animation without dead animals & blood, will be screening in New York City on September 28 & 29 at Cine Capellini, hosted by Kamel Boutros & Anna Mosby Coleman. Many thanks to Anna & Kamel; this is Cine Capellini's second run, and last year's event was an amazing combination of home-cooked food & video art. Thank you to artist/curator Jason Lahr and the South Bend Regional Museum of Art for sponsoring the creation of this silent 4-channel animation and hosting its viewing at Meet Me on the Island in South Bend, Indiana earlier this year.




28 & 29 September
Cine Capellini, a performance and new media venue, provides a pasta festa along with mesmerizing film & video in a celebratory setting. Artists Kamel Boutros & Anna Mosby Coleman will host the Fall 2007 New York City event at 61 Gramercy Park on 28 September at 6:30pm & on 29 September at 2pm.

Short Films: MOST, WHILE THE WIDOW IS AWAY
Video Premiers - World/NY: HE IS NOT MY ENEMY - Boutros/Coleman, Love in outer space and under water - Heckman
Featured Guest Artists: Sarah Drury, George Ferrandi, Annie Heckman, Lemeh42, Julie Püttgen, Jeff Stark

This event is FREE, but seats are limited and must be reserved.
Email cine_capellini@yahoo.com to reserve seats.

Airline to Heaven, Part I animation

30-second preview of Airline to Heaven, Part I, 2006
Full running time 4 minutes, 20 seconds
Animation created by Annie Heckman
Music: Lóra Csikós (To Horse, Herdsman) by Muzsikás, Élô Népzene - Living Hungarian Folk Music, Released in Audio CD by Hungaroton (23 January, 2001). Used with kind permission.
Thank you to Peter Clark and Peter Campus.

ArtXposium coming soon to West Chicago

Come see the Airline to Heaven, Part I animation installation at Grobe's True Value in a huge group project put together by Anni Holm & Brian Reis. Lucky Eats the Jelly will be offered at the silent auction supporting the development of a new international artists residency project in West Chicago.

Airline to Heaven, Part I installation

Airline to Heaven, Part I installation, photographed as it appeared at 80 Washington Square East Galleries in New York, 2006. This installation is currently being expanded for a solo show in January at the Hammes Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN.

Screening at South Bend Regional Museum of Art