Here’s some more info about the upcoming exhibition at Lilypad. Hope you can make it!
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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
“ Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue. ”
– from Honesty, Billy Joel
“TMI,” a new exhibition by Jess Barnett
What constitutes honesty? Is it full disclosure, constantly and consistently, to all of those who know you? Is that even possible? Would this kind of honesty, were it possible, be ”TMI,” or too much information? In our socially networked world, it’s so easy to let a secret slip out and become public knowledge. Yet this world also makes it easy to create and nurture an image of yourself to the public that may be — and often is — far from the truth.
Abstract expressionist artist Jess Barnett (http://www.jessbarnett.com) explores these themes in her upcoming show, ”TMI,” hanging at the Lilypad in April and May 2010. She is joined on the exhibition’s opening night (Thursday, April 22, 7-10 p.m.) by performance artist/musician Adam Keller (http://www.adamkellerart.com), who will perform his piece An ArcEnabled Performance. Part ritual, part laser light show, this 20-minute performance follows an arc from the quiet hum of nighttime rainfall, through the cultivation of the performer’s inner strength, eventually reaching a fully enabled state of awareness, where anything is possible, and all choices present themselves at once. Electronic pulses and operatic vocal manipulation pour forth as the audience is bombarded with color and aural vibrations.
The Lilypad (http://www.lily-pad.net) is located in Inman Square, Cambridge, at 1353 Cambridge St.