Proteus Gowanus

Hanging Workshop, 7 – 9 pm

Sasha — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:54:59 +0000

Title: Hanging Workshop, 7 – 9 pm
Location: Fixers Collective at Proteus Gowanus
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Description: Andre Van Hoek, master carpenter, will demonstrate various ways to hang your shelves, pictures, mirrors on walls of various materials and tips like how to find the studs behind your walls. $15 fee
Start Date: 2010-02-11
End Date: 7

Travelling through Brooklyn in Search of Food with Annie Hauck Lawson and the Truck Farm

Sasha — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:11:22 +0000

Title: Travelling through Brooklyn in Search of Food with Annie Hauck Lawson and the Truck Farm
Location: Proteus Gowanus, Sunday, 3 – 5 pm
Description: Annie Hauck-Lawson, editor of “Gastropolis”, a portrait of New York life through food, will read excerpts from her chapter about a childhood journeying across the Brooklyn landscape in search of edibles. Also presenting will be Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis who will drive over in the Truck Farm, a veggie-mobile, and show a short video of the project.
Date: 2009-11-15

Launch party for two new Proteotypes publications: Blue Fire and Homomorphic Converters, #2

Sasha — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:53:09 +0000

Title: Launch party for two new Proteotypes publications: Blue Fire and Homomorphic Converters, #2
Location: Proteus Gowanus
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Description: Proteotypes, the publishing arm of Proteus Gowanus, is celebrating the publication of two new adventures: Wendy Walker’s book-length poetic nonfiction BLUE FIRE, about the famous murder case centering on Constance Kent in 1860s Britain, and Tom La Farge’s pamphlet HOMOMORPHIC CONVERTERS, No. 2 in his series of manuals for writing with constraints, 13 WRITHING MACHINES.

Start Time: 18:00:00
Date: 2009-10-24
End Time: 20:00:00

Dream Car by Allen Riley and Electric Kayak by Peter Reich

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:04:41 +0000

Title: Dream Car by Allen Riley and Electric Kayak by Peter Reich
Description: Dream Car, a sound and light installation, is a compressed copy of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House. Riley compresses the details of Dream house into the portable format of a Volvo station wagon.
Peter Reich will exhibit his design of an electric kayak and demonstrate how to build one from basic materials such as plywood.
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-10-10
End Time: 20:00

Songs of Lewis and Clark by Sara Bouchard

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:50:50 +0000

Title: Songs of Lewis and Clark by Sara Bouchard
Description: $5 admission
Sara Bouchard performs this song cycle, composed by her with lyrics drawn from the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Lewis and Clark led the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back from 1803-1806.
Start Time: 18:00 pm
Date: 2009-10-17
End Time: 21:00 pm

Dream Car by Allen Riley and Electric Kayak by Peter Reich

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:48:02 +0000

Title: Dream Car by Allen Riley, Electric Car by Peter Reich
Description: Dream Car, a sound and light installation, is a compressed copy of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House. Riley compresses the details of Dream house into the portable format of a Volvo station wagon.
Peter Reich will exhibit his design of an electric kayak and demonstrate how to build one from basic materials such as plywood.
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-10-10
End Time: 20:00

The Story of Jacquard Weaving

Sasha — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:58:44 +0000

Title: The Story of Jacquard Weaving
Description: A Power Point talk by artist Janice Everett about the history and technique of Jacquard weaving, an 18th century invention leading to the mechanization of weaving and, some argue, a precursor to the development of modern computing science. Janice will provide fabrics samples as well as images by contemporary artists influenced by Jacquard such as Lia Cook, Kiki Smith and Chuck Close.

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2009-06-21

Fixers Collective

Sasha — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:46:34 +0000

Fixers Collective
Proteus Gowanus
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Go to our Fixers Collective page and click on the Fixers Wrench to read blog posts for the session. To bring a broken object to Fixers Collective, fill out fix sheet on Fixers Collective page.
17:00
2009-05-14
20:00

The Writhing Society

Sasha — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:40:17 +0000

Title: The Writhing Society
Location: Proteus Gowanus
Description: A weekly gathering with Tom La Farge and Wendy Walker for writers and non-writers to explore writing with constraints by following the arbitrary rules invented by the French Group Oulipo and others.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-05-20
End Time: 20:30

First meeting of the Writhing Society

Sasha — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:10:04 +0000

Title: First meeting of the Writhing Society
Location: Proteus Gowanus
Description: A weekly gathering with Tom La Farge and Wendy Walker for writers and non-writers to explore writing with constraints by following the arbitrary rules invented by the French Group Oulipo and others.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-04-29
End Time: 20:30