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In a noon interview at Java Joe’s on August 13, 2008, I had the opportunity to discuss the goals and future of High Mayhem (HM) with co-founder, board member, and performing artist Carlos Santistevan. Always aware of its function as a performance space of emerging and experimental artists, I was eager to learn the genesis of the organization and High Mayhem’s artistic philosophy and goals.

Carlos takes a long historical perspective on what High Mayhem is attempting to do. He believes that a major misconception about HM is that it is too outré and not “rooted in the same essence of...

Friday, September 5, 2008 at 11:21 AM
by Jeffrey Laing • SantaFe.com

Alchemical Burn (Albuquerque, NM) – Alchemical Burn explores the power and grace of pure sonic ferocity within the realms of analog noise and multi-textural soundscape. From guerilla style street performance to art galleries across the Southwest Ab seduces aural pallets and turns listeners on their ears at once!

Al Faaet (Santa Fe, NM) – Al Faaet will be doing a short, solo percussion project. This will NOT be a trap set.

Atmospheric Diver (Santa Fe) – Jordan glazer and Spencer Neale form the video/sound art collective Atmospheric Diver, which is based primarily in live performance,...

Friday, September 5, 2008 at 11:21 AM

6:00 pm
Audible Whispering 1/2 Quartet

7:30 pm
Pillars and Tongues

8:30 pm
Al Faaet

9:00 pm
I Heart Lung

10:30 pm
WATIV

11:30 pm
Novasak

12:00 am
Author and Punisher

3:00 pm
Atmospheric Diver

4:30 pm
Miss Ginger

6:00 pm
Simulate Sensual

7:30 pm
Elizabeth Lord

8:30 pm
page 27

9:00 pm
We Drew Lightning

10:30 pm
Nox(0) and Gang Clan Mafia

11:30 pm
Alchemical Burn

12:00 am
Atomic Bomb Audition

3:00 pm
Persephone

4:30 pm
Bull Seal!

6:00 pm
Scott Moore

7:30 pm
ēsthöm

8:30 pm
Drawing Conversation with Max

9:00 pm
Idris Goodwin

10:00 pm
DNA

10:30 pm
Occasional Detroit

Friday, September 5, 2008 at 11:21 AM

Shirley Klinghoffer was never the kind of little girl who sat at her grandmother’s feet knitting skeins of yarn into doll dresses. How times change. A Santa Fe conceptual artist known for bronze flowers cast from vulval imprints, Klinghoffer is wielding needles and cord to create a mammoth “tea cozy” fit for a Humvee.

Opening in the Muñoz Waxman Gallery at the Center for Contemporary Arts, the “Love Armor Project” involves at least 50 fellow knitters looping enough yarn to knit a house. They’re transforming a war motif into a symbol of peace. It all began a year ago as Klinghoffer grew...

Friday, September 5, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

Devotion to creating fine art that is also functional characterizes the work of three master potters featured in a show opening today at Santa Fe Clay. The sturdy but alluring stoneware works of Mary Barringer, Matthew Metz and S.C. Rolf open with an evening reception and run through Oct. 4 in the pottery studio-cum-gallery in the Railyard.

Barringer, who works in a small town in western Massachusetts, has been making pottery for a little more than 35 years, she told the Journal. “I got into it a little bit by accident,” she said. “I was in college, and thought I was going to do...

Friday, September 5, 2008
by Kate McGraw • Journal Santa Fe

The popularity of organic produce is due, in part, to the rise of genetically modified (GMO) foods over the past decade. In a country like the United States, where labeling of GMO foods is not required, it is likely that all but the most diligent organic consumers in America are buying and swallowing GMO products every day.

Genetic engineering has allowed scientists to create plants that produce human insulin and soybeans that won’t die even when drenched in Roundup. Charles Amtzen at Cornell University is working on “edible vaccines” placed genetically inside of bananas.

Friday, September 5, 2008
by Kim Russo • Journal Santa Fe

“The only difference between a Rottweiler and Georgia O’Keeffe is that the Rottweiler lets go eventually,” said Arlyn J. Imberman.

And how does Imberman know that? It’s all there in the artist’s handwriting , said Imberman, a “graphologist” and author of “Signature for Success.”

On Sunday’s rainy afternoon, Imberman was holding forth on artists and their personalities to a dozen hardy souls gathered at Casa Contemporary Fine Art.

It was a typical Santa Fe group — locals and tourists, a skeptic and a psychic, a few seeking both nibbles of food and a respite from the rain, and others hoping...

Monday, September 1, 2008
by Polly Summar • Journal Santa Fe

The difference between Modern and Contemporary, LewAllen Galleries spokeswoman explains tactfully, is that the Modern period generally ran between the Impressionists and the early 1970s and its artists are usually, well, dead.

Except when they’re not.

Audrey Flack, Diane Kell says happily, is very much alive and still working. But Flack has been concentrating on sculpture for 30 years, so the paintings that are opening today at LewAllen Modern are from the right period.

In the next department, LewAllen Contemporary, a show of Beverly McIver’s vivid expressionistic paintings, “Coming...

Friday, August 29, 2008
by Kate McGraw • Journal Santa Fe

Imagine being a 14th-century monk traveling across the country. At each stop along the way a temporary temple will be set up, including all of the ritual paraphernalia and everything needed for an altar. Today we have 18-wheeler trucks for fancy road shows, but centuries ago, everything was transported on foot and by horseback.

Welcome the thangka. Originating in India, thangkas, or scroll paintings on fabric, were used by religious pilgrims when giving talks on the basics of Buddhist philosophy. Nomadic Tibetan monks adopted the thangka as an alternative to the temple fresco. Once...

Friday, August 29, 2008
by Kim Russo • Journal Santa Fe

Carpe Diem! Seize the Day! Live for the Now! Embrace life! Dwight Hume is the exemplary reflection of “Being It and Living It” and he shares his inner-most experiences with his latest sculpture exhibition.

Dwight’s latest show, Transformation - Spiritual Expression through Sculpture, reflects his epic journey this past year with the passion to create uplifting and spiritually-inspired sculpture. Moved by his favorite poet, the Sufi mystic Rumi, Dwight’s piece entitled Tears of Separation gracefully expresses the ache and longing for the sacred within us. As Dwight explains, “We feel so...