On Saturday, October 30 at Colab join MASS Gallery at the Vortex Brainsaw Massacre. Come see how MASS does nasty, gory, shocking, confusing, awesome, scary, hairy, D.A.R.E-y, brainy, Halloweeny insanity!!!!

To gear up for such a deprivation, MASS Gallery will present two horror classics The Tenant and Suspiria outside on the grounds of Co-Lab, 613 Allen. BYOB, Free and open to all!

For the second of our 2 Thursday Horror Movies at CoLab we’ll be screening Dario Argento’s 1977 ode to witchcraft, bloodbath Suspiria.

Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a still-uncompleted trilogy (the luminously empty Inferno was the second), is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the director or his genre. The convoluted plot follows an American dancer (Jessica Harper) from her arrival at a European ballet school to her discovery that it’s actually a witches coven; but, really, don’t worry about that too much. Argento makes narrative subservient to technique, preferring instead to assault the senses and nervous system with mood, atmosphere, illusory gore, garish set production, a menacing camera, and perhaps the creepiest score ever created for a movie. It’s essentially a series of effectively unsettling set pieces–a raging storm that Harper should have taken for an omen, and a blind man attacked by his own dog are just two examples–strung together on a skeleton structure. But once you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget it.

The movie will start at 8pm, BYOB.

For the first of our 2 Thursday Horror Movies at CoLab we’ll be screening Roman Polanski’s 1976 psycho-suspense-thriller-chiller The Tenant.

After the triumph of Chinatown, Roman Polanski’s The Tenant marked an unsettling return to the horrifying psychodrama of Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby. As in those previous films, Polanski explores a descent into madness with subtle, deliberate pacing and keen attention to accumulating details. Cannily casting himself in the title role, Polanski plays the mild-mannered occupant of a Parisian flat previously rented by a woman who committed suicide by leaping from her upper-floor balcony. The woman’s leftover belongings and the harsh attitudes of disapproving neighbors (including Melvin Douglas and Shelley Winters) begin to grate on the new tenant’s psyche; his paranoia shifts from simmering anxiety to full-blown psychosis, until fate itself seems to run in a complete, tragically tormenting circle. Polanski masters the material as only he could, and despite some critical drubbing at the time of its release, The Tenant has earned a place among Polanski’s finest films.

The movie will start at 8pm, BYOB.

On view at CoLab by appointment Oct 8th – Oct 15th 2010
Opening: Friday, October 8th, 7-11PM

Hours:
Open Wednesday, October 13th, 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 15th, 7-11PM

MASS and CoLab present a new installation of drawings by Anthony W. Garza.

CoLab is located at:
613 Allen St
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 300-8217
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Thursday, September 9, 2010 7:00 – 10:00pm
in the TACC Visualization Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin ACES Building 2.404a

The exhibition presents digital and interactive artwork from local and national artists, including:
Leigh Brodie, Sam Sanford, Ali Miharbi, exCorporation, Duncan Malashock, James Willard Pierce, Robert Boland, Jeanne Stern, and Jenny Vogel, in TACC’s Visualization Laboratory, a new venue for digital art in Austin.

Meet the artists, view their work, and enjoy light refreshments.

Please RSVP to rsvp@tacc.utexas.edu OR on the Facebook Event Page!

Totally Wreck Production Institute: IN SCIENCE, THE LION SLEEPS WITH THE LAMB

Opening with Special Performance: Saturday, June 5, 8-11 PM
Show Dates: June 5 – 26, 2010

MASS Presents at Big Medium

Opening with Special Performance: Saturday, June 5, 8-11 PM

Gallery Hours: M, T, TH, F 10 AM-4 PM, W 7-9 PM, SA 12-5 PM

In the years 2009-2015, the Totally Wreck Production Institute conducted a series of experiments investigating the qualities and curiosities of technological foreplay. Visions of progress and product were set aside, and instead, the identity of failure was sought out as a milestone containing shrouded and inherent success. Inconclusive dilemmas became holy events with hidden meaning and techno-spiritual meditations. The romance of technology within the members of the institution shed the layers of traditional clinical procedure, and instead, anarchic and unorthodox practices became felicitous excursions. Investors quickly ceased their funding of these experiments, based on an overwhelming fear that the institute’s pursuit of scientific conquest appeared to be slipping deeply into the palms of the psychotic/avant-garde.

However, in the eyes and brains of the institute, the reward of failed experimentation unveiled the antithesis of post-evolutionary change, as well as the capacity of love to undue ones’ own estate. “This is the foreplay of our own cognitive architecture,” declared one of the institute’s head scientists.

Alas, The Totally Wreck Production Institute is proud to present evidence of failure in these technological dark ages. The findings in these experiments were varied, but one fact remained consistently clear: IN SCIENCE, THE LION SLEEPS WITH THE LAMB.

light lodge show day 2
(originally booked @ cube valley universalist church)

Come out and join us for some awesome bands!!!

how i quit crack 12:00
eternal tapestry 12:45
corporate park 1:30
george quartz 2:15
psychic violence 3:00
survive 3:45
vulgar fashion 4:30
sewn leather 5:15
picture plane 6:00
tearist 6:45
medio mutante 7:30
twisted wires 8:15