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JOHNNY’S TAVERN
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800 BLOCK BREEZEWAY
BOWERSOCK POWER COMPANY
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ART installations AND CONCERTS
PUB/ART TROLLEY ROUTE FRIDAY, JUNE 26 & SATURDAY, JUNE 27 9:00PM-12:00AM | FREE TROLLEY STOPS EVENT VENUES ART INSTALLATIONS OUTDOOR CONCERTS
AT&T TOWER LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY
LAWRENCE CREATES MAKERSPACE
ABE & JAKE’S LANDING
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KANSAS RIVER LIBERTY HALL 15
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LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY
PARKING SPACE
JOHN BROWN’S UNDERGROUND
VAN GO INC.
CIDER GALLERY
MERCHANT’S PUB & PLATE 10
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TOUR OF LAWRENCE STAGE
US BANK PAVILION
EXPLORE LAWRENCE
WEAVER’S DEPARTMENT STORE
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CIDER GALLERY
THE BURGER STAND
SEEDCO STUDIOS
800 BLOCK MASS STREET ALLEY BOURGEOIS PIG
LAWRENCE CREATES MAKERSPACE 11
TOWNEPLACE SUITES LAWRENCE PERCOLATOR
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
ST. LUKE AME CHURCH
LED SCREEN AT ART EMERGENCY
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
ART EMERGENCY
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THE GRANADA
MACELI’S BANQUET HALL
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TURNHALLE BUILDING
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826 PENNSYLVANIA
www.freestatefestival.org
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“Green Wave,” 2015. WHITE ART STUDIOS. Shannon 6 White and Darin M. White. Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27 9:30pm-1:00am / Bowersock Mills & Power Co., 500 S. Powerhouse Road
“Green Wave,” a public sculpture light installation work, will ask the scientific question “Can You Hear the Color Green?” through the visual form inspired by light waves translated into sound waves in the harmonic pitch of middle C. The lights are not always green per se, but they carry conceptual notions and cultural associations with the color green. A person who experiences language synthetically experiences each letter of GREEN in a different color and sometimes a sound and/or scent. Darin and Shannon White are artists and designers who are married and collaborate on many types of creative projects including public art, art for commercial spaces, art for residential spaces, art events/exhibitions, and general space design.
“Screen Touch Screen Touch Screen Touch Screen,” 3 15 “Rest Assured, You are under Video Surveillance,” 2015. Yuri Zupancic. Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27 2015. D. Bryon Darby, Aaron Long, Cotter 9:30pm – 1:00am / Trettel Design, 826 Pennsylvania Mitchell, and Aaron Paden.
Digits dance all day across touch screens worldwide, intersecting and interacting, shaping mental and physical spaces. This video was made by recording touchscreen use while amplifying sounds of the data being transmitted wirelessly. The only editing is the mirroring of the hands and an echo effect added to the audio. The mirrored hands suggest a multiplicity of simultaneous touchscreen users and together create new shapes, like an ever-morphing mandala or strange many-legged creature. The audio is a real time recording of the data transmissions with echo added to suggest the mental rhythms and momentum building during a web-browsing session.
11 LED Screen at Art Emergency Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
9:30pm-1:00am / Art Emergency, 721 E. 9th Street
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DIGITAL DISPLAYS
Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
9:30pm-1:00am / Weaver’s Department Store, 901 Massachusetts
Perpetually elusive moments characterize Reas’ software installations. “Process 16” uses line as a primary form. The behavior of line in these pieces is guided by the artist’s instructions. “Using grey scale and static images, the formal attributes of a system are reduced,” says Reas. “Introducing a kinetic field of action or a color representation of the system will present the viewer with higher complexity.” Running live on a computer, Process 16 (Software 3) is a highly ordered space of movement. A tense figure/ground relationship in the surface of each frame captures subtle behaviors in form. This video is courtesy of Casey Reas and bitforms gallery nyc.
“The Thirsty Bird,” 2012. Marina Zurkow.
The movement of a pump jack (known colloquially as a “thirsty bird”), and a public water fountain are synchronized in a delicate dance. As the pump pulls oil upward, the water fountain spurts water. An array of archetypal individuals—cowboys and Indians, a father and his son, a county sheriff, a cow, a soldier, a girl with her dog—emerge in endless succession to drink from the fountain. The graphic treatment is based on Gerd Arntz’ ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education), developed with Viennese social scientist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) as a method for visual statistics. Animation assistance: Lindsay Nordell. Video courtesy of Marina Zurkow and bitforms gallery nyc.
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“New Work,” 2015. Todd Bryant & Luke DuBois. Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
Nowhere is a motion graphic project that expresses Lee’s personal journey of pursuing happiness. To be happy or not happy: people make this choice through how they conduct their own lives and thoughts. Using Lee as an example, this project shows that positive thinking could lead to better lives.
“CRUISING.” Zachary Zezima. Based on a true story, CRUISING follows a young man through an extrovert’s dream and an introvert’s nightmare; the chaotic and cacophonous world of forced-fun aboard an insular cruise ship. His initial inability to accept his environment drives him to suicidal fantasy, where he learns to cope with his stressors, discomfort and anxieties. Zachary Zezima is a director and animator based in LA and originally from New York. He is also one third of Circle Line Projects, which produces animated music videos and other multimedia content. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural ephemera. Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his work reveals the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information. An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data. DuBois’ work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the 21C Museum, Louisville, KY; Progressive Corporate Collection, and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia. Past exhibitions of his work have included the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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“36 ventilators,” 4.7m³ packing chips, 2014. Zimoun.
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Lawrence Creates
Thursday, June 25 thru Saturday, June 27
An interactive multi-surface display that engages all ages of the public in play.
“Polynomial Artist,” 2015. Charles Henry.
An interactive display allowing people to compose animated fractals with math.
“Regeneration,” 2015. Bill Wachspress.
Passersby become participants as they disrupt a wall of video feedback.
“Narcissustronic Mirror v3,” 2015. Matthew Walsh.
An interactive 3D motion sensing, live computer processing installation.
“Video Showcase / Event Video Highlights,” 2015. Rodolfo Parisi.
A display of video art plus a compilation of videos that highlight each project’s development.
“Event Photo Booth,” 2015. Clifton Rendón.
Prop photography to capture the fun and excitement of your imagination. Receive a special keepsake image of your magical experience.
“Lazaretto” by Matthew Lepley and Joshua Browning.
A meditation on the separation between individuals participating in the same experience.
“Cool Tools and Smart Art” Friday, June 26 / 6:30-7:30 pm Open House Saturday, June 27 / 6:00pm-12:00am
Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire
This pop up art installation provides visitors a space to “relax” under the watchful eye of hidden cameras, while contemplating the comfort and simultaneous invasiveness of round-the-clock surveillance. The video feeds will be broadcast to a publicly accessible website where participants can act as both the surveilled, by relaxing in the garden, and the surveillant, by accessing the site through any browser-equipped PC or smart phone. This project is made possible by a Rocket Grant.
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“Extreme Drawing.”
University of Kansas students enrolled in Stephen Johnson’s spring semester “Extreme Art” class will create chalk drawings throughout the Cultural District during the week of the Free State Festival. All drawings will be completed by Saturday, June 27.
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Opening Reception for Artists in Residence Tonja Torgeson and Gunyoung Kim Exhibitions Friday, June 26 5:00-9:00pm/Lawrence Arts Center/ FREE
Printmaking artist-in-residence, Tonja Torgeson, and Ceramics artist-in-residence, Gunyoung Kim, will open exhibits of their new works in the Lawrence Arts Center’s front and middle galleries. Explore the work these artists have been doing while living in Lawrence over the past year.
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JUNE
8 “The Weight of an Object,” Damia Smith.
Friday, June 26 / Afternoon and Evening
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Saturday, June 27 / Afternoon and Evening Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire
This project aims to enhance public understanding of how consumer goods are produced and starts a dialogue in the community about where the many objects people own originate. “The Weight of an Object” connects the human condition of people who toil in faraway countries to the objects we wear and use every day without a thought.
Monday, June 22 through Saturday, June 27
Free State Festival Lighting
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“NuPenny,” Randy Regier. Saturday, June 27 / 9:00am-5:00pm Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire
Artist Randy Regier, hosted by the Spencer Museum of Art, will work from The NuPenny Home Office outside the Lawrence Arts Center. The improvised office space, reminiscent of a bygone era, will intrigue visitors by conjuring hazy memories through the almost—but not quite—familiar sights and sounds of yesteryear. Passersby will have the opportunity to interact with Regier, who will draw maps to the art installation NuPenny’s Last Stand, a toy store located in an unexpected place somewhere in Lawrence…
THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER’S FREE STATE FESTIVAL IS A WEEK-LONG CELEBRATION OF FILM, MUSIC, ART, AND IDEAS IN THE HEART OF LAWRENCE’S CULTURAL DISTRIC T.
Interested in buying tickets to the Free State Festival? Visit www.freestatefestival.org or call 785.843.2787
Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
TI TL E S PO N S O R S
9:30pm-1:00am / AT&T Tower, 700 block of Vermont & Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont This is a one-time-only light show created by Lawrence Arts Center artists and Daybreak Production technicians.
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“Short Term PARKing,” 2015. Molly Murphy. The Bourgeois Pig, 6 E. 9th Street
Short Term PARKing is a temporary tiny park, a greenspace where there is little, offering disruption in a high traffic downtown area. The tiny park will exist within the parameters of a 9x23’ short term metered parking space. The project title, Short Term PARKing, is a play off the many current discussions of parking options due to the recent and future construction projects, and the project itself is located in what the City of Lawrence designates as a short term parking metered space.
9:30pm-1:00am / Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania
A life-sized, semi-realistic stitched horse, filled with sand, will serve as an interactive object and discussion tool. Participants are encouraged to fill in text areas on the surface of the horse with words representing grievances, concerns, and contemporary issues. Markers/paint pens provided. Participants then have the opportunity to strike the horse with a provided stick. Participants are encouraged to evaluate their thoughts and actions, considering the ritual as either a release of said grievance/concern/issue, or as a venting of same.
Artist John Sebelius and musician Chris Luxem are performing for one night only in an artistic experience inspired by the 1939 cult classic THE WIZARD OF OZ. This collaboration combines a live painting event by Sebelius and a reimagined cover of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” by Luxem. Along with the live music and art, video projections of the film will be displayed around SeedCo creating an enchanting environment.
PUB/ART TROLLEY
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9:00pm-12:00am / FREE Why walk when you can ride? Take a guided tour of the public art installations located throughout the Lawrence Cultural District and stop off at a local pub or two along the way. The trolley will be cycling along the 20 minute route highlighted on the fold-out map in this program throughout Friday and Saturday evening. Hop on! TROLLEY SPONSORED BY
721 E. 9th Street
FREE OU T D OOR CON CE RTS
“Immersive Environment,” 2015. Luke DuBois, Nick Hallett, Brock Monroe, and Zach Layton. Friday, June 26 / 10: 00-11:00 pm
SALLY HARE-SCHRINER AND DAN SCHRINER
Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
“DUN DEAL.” Erika Nelson. Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
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Friday, June 26 at 12:00pm through Sunday, June 28 at 12:00pm
512 E 9th St
“Sensory Overload: Artist Technology Exhibition” Thursday, June 25 / 6:00pm-12:00am “Lightboard,” 2015. Paulo Leal.
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U.S. Bank Pavilion / Breezeway 800 block of Massachusetts Street / 900 Rhode Island / 720 E. 9th Street/ 940 New Hampshire Street
9:30pm-1:00am / Turnhalle Building, 900 Rhode Island
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Saturday, June 27 & Sunday, June 28 /Afternoon and Evening
US Bank, 900 Massachusetts
Jake Fried (1984) began his artistic career as a painter, but as he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he realized what truly interested him was the way the images metamorphosed in the course of making a painting and he changed tracks to become an animator. In recent years, his films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern, Sundance Film Festival, and on Adult Swim.
Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. With an extreme sensitivity to location and rhythmic potential, Zimoun produces works that evoke control, humor, absence, and nature. Highly ordered systems of movement are derived from simple and lowtech means. His work has been exhibited and performed on five continents.
Cider Gallery, 821 Pennsylvania
“Headspace.” Jake Fried.
9:30pm-1:00am / Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire Bryant & DuBois will be creating new work in the Lawrence Arts Center atrium space. This new work will be projected on the West face of the building and will be viewable from both interior & exterior.
Friday, June 26 / Afternoon and Evening
“When the Men Go Off to War.” Animated by Noah Dorsey. Written by Victoria Kelly. “Nowhere.” I-Cheng Lee.
“Process 16 (Software 3),” 2012. Casey Reas.
ART & MUSIC GUIDE
A RT SI G NAT U RE SP O NSO R
Saturday, June 27 / 9:00-10:00 pm
George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic Wednesday, June 24 Gates open at 7:00pm/Lawrence Arts Center (rain venue The Granada)
Split Lip Rayfield Friday, June 26 7:00pm/8th and Massachusetts
Black Joe Lewis Saturday, June 27 7:00pm/ Lawrence Arts Center (rain venue The Granada)
Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire
These artists will create an immersive environment of prismatic, ephemeral light accompanied by music. This unique combination of artists presents a unique opportunity for collaborations in Lawrence. Between these artists, they have performed at the Lincoln Center, Guggenheim Museum, MOMA PS1, and many other notable museums and institutions. This immersive multimedia experience will explore connections between music and art.
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“Lawrence Inside Out,” Rachel Perry. Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26
4:00pm-1:00am / Weaver’s Department Store, 901 Massachusetts “Lawrence Inside Out” celebrates the city’s unique arts community and invites all who loves Lawrence arts to participate. Community based artist and photographer Rachael Perry has been gathering portraits of professional artists, new artists, artist/educators, patrons of the arts, business owners who support the arts, museum employees, kids who love to create, Final Friday attendees, and so on and so on. Through the use of black and white portraits, this project invites participates to celebrate Lawrence’s thriving artistic community and encourages everyone to see themselves as creative beings. Featuring over six hundred individuals, this participatory art project is being displayed throughout the city in spring of 2015 and is part of the global “Inside Out” Project, which aims to transform messages of personal identity into works of art.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE FOLLOWING FESTIVAL PARTNERS Alamo Drafthouse • Bioscience and Technology Business Center • Bowersock Mills & Power Company Chipotle • Cider Gallery • Coca-Cola • Crown Automotive • Flint Hills Holdings • Genovese • Hot Box Cookies Ingredient • John Brown Underground • KC Studio Magazine • KJHK • KKFI 90.1FM • La Parrilla Laugh Out Loud • Lawrence Chamber of Commerce • Lawrence Magazine • LawrenceHIts.com Maceli’s • Merchant’s Pub & Plate • Paley Properties • Port Fonda • SignUp • Social Media Club of Lawrence Sprint Foundation • St. Luke AME • The Burger Stand at the Casbah • The Pitch • TownePlace Suites Trettle Design • Weavers • Yantra • YELP • Zen Zero
FREE STATE FOOD FESTIVAL Come eat on the street with your favorite Downtown restaurants and live music. FOOD BY: Ingredient, La Familia Cafe & Cantina, Mad Greek, Mister Bacon BBQ, TCBY & Mrs. Fields, Mass Street Sweet Shoppe, Torched Goodness Crème Brulée, & Air Summer Snow Shaved Ice BEVERAGES BY: O’Malley Beverage
Wednesday, June 24 & Saturday, June 27 7:00-10:00pm/900 New Hampshire