Details below for a really fun and eclectic reading series that I’ve worked with in the past.

—Val

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Imagine women standing with their hands on their hips. Imagine men dressed like the Fonz. Picture a women sneezing, or a man repeatedly pushing the gas pedal. Visualize a women making dinner, then dumping it on the floor and walking through the mess.

Does any of that turn you on?

If so, you’re not alone. Google “weird fetishes” and you’ll come across some of these specialized “porn” sites right away. Even if they haven’t made a site for your favorite stimulus yet, chances are you’ll find something titillating at rec room this week. Join us at black rock Wednesday July 16 as our curator, Olivia Cronk brings us Erotics for Weirdos: The Aesthetics of the Everyday in the Erotic Imagination, which she describes like this:

This show will feature several pieces that gesture at a theory of erotics rooted in the odd detail: the smeared eyeliner, the broken spectacles, the chunk of carrot stuck so sweetly in between two teeth. Pieces will include performance-art, poetry, stories, and other sexiness. With performances by: Meg Barboza, Olivia Cronk, Liz Cross, Allison Gruber, Megan Martin, Kathy Regina, Erin Teegarden, and Melissa Walker.

See you then!

July 11th 2008 (7pm – 2am)
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St

We are having a birthday party for the long running counter culture magazine, Lumpen.

Come celebrate 17 years of publishing, mayhem and action with us at the Co-Pro Sphere. We will release #109, the 1968-2008 redux issue and have a little celebration.

We will be exhibiting some 1968 ephemera, posters and art. Poster art from the Paris May 1968 uprising, the Lumpen 1968 issue and other Lumpen stuff (like the Boring Theoretical Party history) from the archives will be on view. You can even take some of this stuff home with you.

In the infinity room we will be featuring a solo show of recent works by Rand Sevilla, noted pioneer of weirdness.

And the rest of the evening features:

Food: 8pm
Korean Polish Bar – B Q til around 9pm….

Karoake!: all nite
the WOR team is going to man the best karoake lounge yet in our secret room right near the bathrooms.

Videos: all nite
Back in the 90s and the earl 2000s they made DVDS. We will screen some old compilations that we made.

Performances: 10pm on..
Pure Magical Love
Michael Perkins
Fought
Hunter Hussar and Daniel Q livin it

Membership and Sign Ups : all nite
In this year of getting active we will encourage You to sign up to various projects and stuff at the Membership in Something table! For one you regiser to vote this year with The Artists For Change Group. You can become a card carrying member of the New! Boring Theoretical Party, a Lumpen organization back in the revolutionary 90s that put out the Workers Newspaper.

a $5 donation will go towards the bands and the New Boring Theoretical Party Fund

Thanks for joining us on this auspicious occasion.

make it happen.

find yourself!!