Hideous Beast is producing a series of activities and events as part of our residency during the month of July, 2008 at InCUBATE. Join us as we DO STUFF!!! this July. Below is a list of dates and times for planned activities, links to a description and explanation of how to participate, and a calendar for easy reference. If you would like a quick document of all the information provided here, download our DO STUFF!!! pdf.

All events take place at InCUBATE 2129 N. Rockwell, Chicago, IL (map)

– MEDIAreport // Wednesdays from 7-10 pm (July 2, 9, 16, 23)
– SWEATtime // Tuesdays from at 9-10 pm (July 8, 15, 22, 29)
– Hideous Beast makes Sunday Soup! // Sunday, July 27, 1-4 pm
– PowerPoint Extreme! Workshop // Wednesday, July 9, 7-10 pm
– PowerPoint Extreme!: Groups and Spaces // Thursday, July 17, 8-10 pm
– Mini Movie Fest Workshops// Wednesdays, July 16 + 23, 7-10 pm
– Mini Movie Fest: Entertainment? // Friday, July 25, 8-10 pm

Unfortunately we had to cancel our Mini Movie Fest. No need for details, but we will be posting the videos on our video-sharing site very soon. We’ll keep you posted. Also, we’re going to have another MMF this July in Chicago. Hope to see you then!!!

photo cred. Katie Hargrave (site)
Hope Hilton has offered us some space in SF, thanks Hope, you rock!!!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Hideous Beast (Josh Ippel and Charlie Roderick) will be traveling to San Jose, CA to participate in the Infinite Exchange Gallery and Free Soil Bus Tour in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge and Zero1 2008.

www.infiniteexchangegallery.com
www.futurefarmers.com/tour2/exchangecontent.html

We need a place to stay! We’re flying to San Francisco on June 4 and plan to fly out of SF on June 9, 2008. If you or someone you know could provide a bed, couch or floor for any or all of those nights (either in SF or San Jose) please let us know. We are very friendly and will cook food and do dishes too! Warning, we are also very energetic and might persuade you to have an ungodly amount of fun. This is by no means required.

Many thanks.

Regards,
Hideous Beast (Josh + Charlie)
info@hideousbeast.com

We met Sal Randolph while presenting Field Test at last year’s Open Engagement conference. She invited us to present the work on a blog she moderates (link) and explains thoroughly in here (see excerpt below). She rocks!

To talk outside the cube means to talk about works of art which don’t fit the confines of the object or the white room. It means talking about works which take place in more public and social space, works in which there are participants rather than audiences. It means talking about work which is relatively neglected by the current critical discourse, and finding a language for this kind of talk. It also means looking to intellectual disciplines beyond art history and criticism for inspiration in developing that language.

I invite all readers to join the conversation here — to comment on what is published if they wish to, and also to send in their own accounts, artistic statements, and analyses. Write to talk [at] intheconversation [dot] com.

Sal Randolph
New York, June, 2004
http://salrandolph.com

We’re showing Field Test as part of doublebounce, a curatorial project about collaboration over geographic distance organized by Helen Reed and Maiko Tanaka at XPACE in Toronto, Ontario, in March of 2008. Check it out!

Temporary Services | http://temporaryservices.org
doublebounce | http://www.doublebounce.org
XPACE | http://xpace.info

If you hadn’t noticed, we rebuilt our site! Check out some of the new projects we’re working on like Field Test, and look at some of the added documentation of older work. We will be adding news to this page, so feel free to RSS feed. We don’t add much, but it ’s a way to keep up-to-date with us.

Best.

Charlie + Josh (Hideous Beast)