New Austin Arrivals - 7/30/2009

Monday Movie Nights in Houston... NASTY!

Brand X at Domy

AUSTIN -- LIBRES Y LOKAS, OTIS IKE & Ivete Lucas -- August 1

Domy Books is pleased to present

LIBRES Y LOKAS
el Espectaculo de la Pobreza

photos and video by
otis ike & ivete lucas
Plus a performance by Transgender Queens:
Nacha Type, Kelly Kline, Jame Perry... and more surprises.

Saturday, August 1, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

After party at Charlies (1301 Lavaca) with a Tranny Show, 10-2am

Exhibition runs August 1–September 3, 2009

SEE EVENT INVITE HERE

HOUSTON - Friends w/ Tim Kerr, Bill Daniel, Cynthia Connolly, Rich Jacobs & Michael Sieben - July 31

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Domy Books is pleased to present,

Friends
Tim Kerr, Bill Daniel, Cynthia Connolly, Rich Jacobs & Michael Sieben

Friday, July 31, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs July 31 – September 3, 2009

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"This exhibition was conceptualized by Tim Kerr, one of the five exhibiting artists. Simply put, we have been friends for years and our friendship was struck by the admiration of the other by the artwork they had done and the vision we each have.

I met Tim Kerr in 1983 when he came through DC with his band the Big Boys. He was the only other person involved that I knew, in the dispersed punk scene who also did art, which at the time were NOT synonymous or accepted generally.

I met Rich Jacobs in about 1997. He contacted me to include me in a show that he was curating. I’m sure that Rich knew me from the punk music scene of the tour of “People from DC and their Cars” show.

I met Bill Daniel in the mid ’90s in San Francisco as I was trying to track him down, looking for old images of a band he shot in Austin Texas hanging out with the Big Boys called Minor Threat.

Rich knew Tim through the old punk scene, and Michael Sieben through the Austin art scene. Rich says, “I had done art for a Big Boys record, “Wreck Collections” and met Tim through that, and also through Sieben’s cooperative gallery, Camp Fig. I had a show there and told him if anyone from the Big Boys came in- to tell them to take any piece they wanted... just for fun, and kind of half thinking they may never see it... but Tim did!”

Michael Sieben and Tim know each other in the Austin art scene.

Bill knows Tim from seeing the Big Boys play an outdoor show in 1980 next door to a skate shop where he was working. They became friends and Bill went on the bands first California tour.

Bill met Rich through Tim. Bill met Michael a couple years ago in Austin. Cynthia is about to meet Michael at the exhibition install. Now we are all together in a show called FRIENDS." - Cynthia Connolly

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LINKS
Tim Kerr - http://www.timkerr.net/
Cynthia Connolly - http://www.cynthiaconnolly.com/
Bill Daniel - http://www.billdaniel.net/
Rich Jacobs - http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=199&Itemid=92
Michael Sieben - http://www.msieben.com/

Show us your zits at SOFA, July 25

Drawzers Gang 10-25 @ ttweak ft. Ruff Ruzz, originally uploaded by sketch klubb.

AUSTIN -- LIBRES Y LOKAS, OTIS IKE & Ivete Lucas -- August 1

AUSTIN -- LIBRES Y LOKAS, OTIS IKE & Ivete Lucas -- August 1, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

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Domy Books is pleased to present

LIBRES Y LOKAS
el Espectaculo de la Pobreza

photos and video by
OTIS IKE & Ivete Lucas

Saturday, August 1, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs August 1–September 3, 2009

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For their second Austin installation OTIS IKE and Ivete Lucas present work culled from their experience embedded amongst Monterrey performers living in extreme poverty. Titled Libres y Lokas, the installation documents the lives of two distinct but perhaps inherently tied groups: lucha libre wrestlers and transgendered queens.

For many the figure of the Lucha is part and parcel of popular culture – brightly colored and flamboyant face masks parading on Univision. The performers documented by OTIS IKE are far away from such international fame. Instead of well-lit arenas these wrestlers spar in empty lots for a little money, which they funnel back into their art and use to buy more outfits and masks. In this context Lucha is a bloodsport, often resulting in extreme bodily harm. The stories of these men and women (and sometimes boys and girls) are fraught and often involve other performative and marginal professions – many Luchas begin their careers as body-builders and/or strippers.

Like the Lucha, the transgendered female performer is a figure known to many but understood by few. Even in the poorest neighborhoods in Monterrey these women perform a kind of opulence and bourgeois taste that belies the amount of money they make on a given night. Performing for audiences largely consisting of women and gay men, these women make themselves up like contemporary pop stars. In Otis Ike’s photographs and Ivete Lucas’s video we see these women at home and with their families, performing in the downtown Monterrey drag club Muxets, as well as in the infamous gay club Wateke.

In each world exists certain hierarchies. Within Lucha is a simulated distance between the handsome and benevolent technicos, and the fat and maleficent rudos. The exoticos, wrestlers who perform outwardly gay characters, are ostracized by rudos, technicos and the audience. Within the drag and tranny clubs there exists a less outwardly performed, yet still present, sense of division. The young and skinny inhabit the Lady Gaga-type while such performances are off-limits to the larger queens. In both the Lucha and tranny worlds the audiences are small, yet the performances themselves are large and exuberant.

In Libres Y Lokas the artists will build a series of immersive environments mimicking and confronting the built and found environments that contain these dynamic performers. The installation includes a series of large-format photographs set in hand painted frames, a series of wall sculptures that quote vernacular styles of mask display, a double-channel video, a group of personal photographs from some of the performers they met along the way, along with silkscreened glass and cinderblock architectural elements. The show will be accompanied by a handmade catalogue made in the style of Lucha autograph books that will feature real photographs from Otis Ike’s travels and an essay by art historian Andy Campbell.

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OTIS IKE is most noted as a roving builder, photographer and video maker living and traveling in a Volkswagen RV with two dogs, 6 cameras, tools and an archive of Art Bell radio programs. He has exhibited photography across the US, Art Slant in Madrid, Spain and was an installation builder for Clare Rojas and Barry McGee. He now resides in Austin, TX and be studying a masters in Sustainable Design at UT in the fall.

Ivete Lucas, born in Brazil, is a photographer and filmmaker who moved to Austin from Monterrey, Mexico. In 2007 she was awarded a grant by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) to produce and co-direct her first short film, Asthma, an amalgamation of moments in the lives of the tenants of a beat up apartment building. She is currently working on a documentary with OTIS IKEon Vietnam War reenactors. She will be attending the Radio, Television, and Film graduate program at UT in the fall.

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LINKS
OTIS IKE: http://homepage.mac.com/patrickxavier/PhotoAlbum125.html

Dash Snow R.I.P.

... didn’t know the dude personally, but have been looking at his graffiti and art for the last few years... R.I.P.

Domy announces our Summer Anniversary Sale:

Come check it out. Starts Friday. Great deals on books, zines, toys and more. See staff's picks on earlier posts today.
love from Domy.

What's on sale?? Here's one more staff pick.

Coming of Age in Second Life
anthropologist Tom Boellstorff explores the virtually human

Karen says: "This book digs into the cybersociality of the Second Life phenomenon -- the author conducted his ethnographic research entirely INSIDE of the virtual world, really taking it seriously, evaluating it as a functioning society, smartly recognizing its relevance in our web-obsessed age. Anyone really interested in the new frontiers of social interaction should give this a look. It's academically sound and still manages to be a fascinating read, especially if you've never really been acquainted with this strange world on the web."

Domy's Summer Sale runs July 17-24 in Houston + Austin. 40% off a bunch of stuff. Check it out dudes.

What's on sale?? Here's another staff pick.

Also Known As V.1
published by http://www.12ozprophet.com/

Russell says: "12 Oz. Prophet, a website 'established with the goal of raising the bar for the graffiti world', published this back in 2006. It's an incredible collection of photography, interviews, stickers, posters, etc. all dedicated to the art of the tag. The design of the book is over the top... lots of love was put into the production. Hidden glossy tags over photos of secret
spots all around new york city... a design/type/graff-junkie wet dream..."

Domy's Summer Sale runs July 17-24 in Houston + Austin. 40% off a bunch of stuff. Check it out dudes.

What's on sale?? Here's a staff pick.

Art Brands: When Dogs Eat Beuys
a collection by Michael Klant

Alison says: "Art Brands has everything that I want in an art book. It's beautifully put together with a nice balance of images and thought-provoking essays; it's streamlined, clean and frivolous at the same time. In it Michael Klant, an artist and art historian, has collected a variety of products, some uncommon and some familiar, that share their names with famous artists from the Western European Canon. Did you ever want to see a Giotto glue stick? Okay! It's funnier than you might think."

Domy's Summer Sale runs July 17-24 in Houston + Austin. 40% off a bunch of stuff. Check it out dudes.

The Solitary Arts in Domy.

The Solitary Arts is a skateboard company out of LA. It is run by one of my favorite artists/designers, Geoff McFetridge and his partner Yong-ki Chang. Domy isn't carrying any of their boards (although we might at some point), but the newspaper that they publish is in both stores and it's great... fold out McFetridge posters, awesome skate graphics and fun, fun, fun. Pick one up in the store. They're free!

AUSTIN -- Thor Harris reads An Ocean of Despair -- July 14

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Domy Books, in association with Monofonus, is pleased to present

An Ocean of Despair
A reading by Thor Harris

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7pm, FREE ADMISSION

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LINKS

Shearwater: http://www.shearwatermusic.com/
Thor Harris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Harris
Thor on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE-cpzTmetU

Multiforce!!!! ... will be in Austin on Monday, Houston soon after...

I've been waiting *years* for this to come out. Mat Brinkman is great.

HOUSTON -- The Dollar Store Summer Tour -- July 6

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Domy Books, in association with Featherproof Books, is pleased to present

The Dollar Store Summer Tour

An evening of readings and performances
given by some of Chicago’s top literary talents,
monologists, performers, and drunks.

Monday, July 6, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
730pm, FREE ADMISSION