Message from Cody Clark:

“Bad Art Night is moving uptown. I got tired of trying to get my stick-in-the-mud fellow suburbanites to come out to Kenny J’s to make Bad Art. I’m moving it closer to Bad Artists from all over the city.

Check it:

Bad Art Night
Wednesday, January 21st, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Tropioca Tea and Coffee Bar
2808 Milam

Yes, that’s Tropioca. You can create bad art, all the while slurping up tapioca balls through a big straw!

Bring your bad art ideas and materials to share (kind of like an art potluck). If you have neither materials or ideas, I’ll have an idea ready-made and accompanying materials to share. Just bring your bad art self.

See you there,
Cody Clark”

UPDATE 1/21/04: To see tonight’s suggested theme, click on extended entry

“And if you don’t have an art project to work on, you can have one of mine. This month’s theme – my latest art initiative – is “Signs and Wonders.” It’s another iteration in my current fixation with making art with cardboard and trash. I’ll be using carboard art to make signs. I’m making public art, “found art,” in the form of signs to post and leave around town. Signs to make people wonder. Wonder at the beauty of your art or just wonder who the hell drew that and posted that there. Whatever, as long as they wonder and, for a split moment, pierce the commercial cacaphony of the signs that constantly bombard their psychic paths through the city.

Signs are instruments of control. A one-sided conversation between the people who own signposts and the rest of us who trudge by them. They do not speak of truth and beauty. They sell things and ideas. And when we get a chance to make a sign, we speak of self-interest. A garage sale, a lost dog that needs to be found, “Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How,” that kind of thing.

Look at your average public bulletin board. The public commons reduced to the relative size of a postage stamp, and what do we do with it? Clogged and choked with clamoring commerce – business cards, flyers, pamphlets all screaming “Notice me! I need your money!” Amateur imitations of the Big Signs owned by the Big People. We’ve learned well from our masters, haven’t we?

So I say we take that voice and speak something other than greed. A simple painting, a simple truth, a bit of scrawled poetry, anything that says, “I will not waste my public voice on mammon! Wake up people!”

Or you could just come and draw things on cardbaord and drink coffee. Whatever.”

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