CO-OPt: Research + Projects

Thanks everyone for coming out to the book launch of Scenarios (10,000 Years) 📡 ! The collaborative publication features work by @aaronhegert @ameenwithfilm Angela Lieber @jadon_captures @jamokry @grasslandsoutpost @mattmishevski We also celebrated two recently released publications by @everythingiscollective : WHAT’S THIS? and Reno Transcript.

Tonight @co.opt - book launch! We’ll have food, drink, and 3 fresh publications launching! Join Co-Opt for an event celebrating the release of three new publication projects by Lubbock artists: Monday May 11th 6-8pm Co-Opt Research and Projects 4202 Boston Ave, Lubbock Featured Artists: Ameen Abdallah Jadon Chesnutt Aaron Hegert Angela Lieber Joshua Mokry Matt Mishevski Kirstyn Wright + Everything Is Collective About the Books: Scenarios (10,000 Years) Scenarios is a collaborative photo book that explores the strange overlaps of reality through the landscapes of Southern New Mexico. Starting at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant outside of Carlsbad, a facility designed to store radioactive waste for 10,000 years, the artist journeyed through the weird contact zones between seemingly incompatible realities in the landscape. From the subterranean to the surface, the indigenous to the colonial, spiritual and corporeal, truth and fiction, future and past, the photographs reproduced in this book seek brief glimpses of the Real hidden beyond the narrative of reality. The book includes photographic works by seven artists, aswell as four texts issued by Sandia National Laboratories that speculate about how the present might send messages of warning into the distant future. Published by Geophased Books Artists: Ameen Abdallah Jadon Chesnutt Aaron Hegert Angela Lieber Joshua Mokry Matt Mishevski Kirstyn Wright 𝘞𝘏𝘈𝘛’𝘚 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚? 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 is a new book by Everything Is Collective, using photographs from the Bureau of Land Management archives to picture a second wave of imagined realities for the American landscape. Instead of the grand views of Yosemite or the Tetons—now preserved in a museum-like stasis—these images show what was done with the rest: energy, development, mining, irrigation, grazing, recreation. The deep weirdness and melancholy of a culture that relates to its environment as a commodity resource burns through the surface as an image of what we have lost instead of what we have gained.

@nakatanitatsuya is coming back through Lubbock on Wednesday, May 20th!! Doors open at 7, show starts at 8. Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music. Poster by @zen_monk_of_lbk • • • • • #experimentalmusic #noisemusic #lubbockmusic #jazz #newmusic

On Sunday, April 19, in conjunction with @voiceassistantsofamerica class on manifestos, @co.opt will be screening Manifesto (2015), by Julian Rosefeldt. Originally presented as a multi-screen film installation, Manifesto features actress Cate Blanchett as 13 different characters, delivering a collage of various political and artistic manifestos—from Futurist to Fluxus, Communist to Situationist. According to one IMDb reviewer: “Too artistic for me.” 📽️Screening: Sunday, April 19 ⏰ Doors at 1, film starts at 2 (running time: 94 min) #manifesto #coopt

Thanks yall for coming out to the opening of Fidalis Buehler: Along the Fence! 🏀 The show will be up through June 27. Keep an eye on our stories for when the gallery is open or dm for an appointment. @fidalisbuehler #alongthefence #coopt

Join us on Thursday, April 2, for the opening of an exhibition of works by Provo-based artist Fidalis Buehler. “My work represents identity seen through the complexity of American culture and South Pacific traditions. Image-making is an act of playful conjuring – reassembling personal histories and inventing mythologies laden with fear, anxiety, dreams, revelations, magic, and mysticism.” Along The Fence continues that dialogue, rummaging through the intersection of familial summertime experiences and the metaphysical. @fidalisbuehler #alongthefence #coopt

We are in the final days of Bláithín Haddad’s exhibition, “where the vilest worms do dwell.” 🪱 Best seen after dark. Last chance to see the show is this Saturday, March 14, at the @longitudes.lbk performance with @sandyewen ! @blaithinhaddad #wherevilestwormsdodwell #coopt

Join us on Pi Day for our next Longitudes show with Sandy Ewen! Sandy Ewen is a sound artist, visual artist and architect who has recently relocated to NYC from Houston, TX. Ewen’s audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques, improvisation, graphic scores and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements – railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool and other items become an arsenal of abstraction. • • • • #experimentalmusic #newmusic #lubbockmusic #noisemusic #diyspace

On Sunday, March 8, in collaboration with @ttusjp , @ttusilc and the Decolonial Theory Reading Group, @co.opt will be screening the classic Battle of Algiers (1966). One of the most politically urgent films of all time, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film does not reconstruct the Algerian War from a detached vantage point; it feels as though it is occurring in the present tense. Most of the actors in the film took part in the actual Algerian resistance, adding a realism to it that other war films have tried to emulate ever since. 📽️Screening: Sunday, March 8 ⏰ Doors at 1, film starts at 2 (running time: 2 hrs) #battleofalgiers #coopt

💪Thank you @art.forearm , @jenniferseasyou , @skylarperez__ , @anikatodd , @land_arts , @longitudes.lbk , and @veronica._.anne for such a great event this weekend!! #artforearm #coopt

Saturday, February 28, at @co.opt : Art Forearm Launch Party + Longitudes: Veronica Anne Salinas! 💪Art Forearm, a new biannual online publication dedicated to the labor and material intelligence of art, will celebrate its official launch with a public event on Friday, February 28 from 6–8 PM at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, Texas. This event will be followed by a performance by Veronica Anne Salinas (Marfa, TX) and LEMB (Lubbock, TX), part of the Longitudes series. Founded and edited by artist and curator Jennifer Seas, Art Forearm focuses on how artists work: their tools, processes, materials, labor, and the infrastructures that make creative practice possible in the present moment. Each issue is released over time, with new features delivered weekly to subscribers’ inboxes. The inaugural issue of Art Forearm is titled GROUND. Interpreted both materially and conceptually, the theme explores soil as substance, land-based artistic practice, ground as surface, and the conditions that support or constrain creative work. Features in the first issue include essays, studio profiles, conversations, tutorials, and practice notes from artists and other creative workers engaging deeply with labor, tools, and sustainability. 🍕The launch party will include: • A welcome introduction by founder and editor-in-chief Jennifer Seas • A live reading by Art Forearm contributor Skylar Perez • A raffle featuring limited-edition Art Forearm clothing and accessories • Iron-on Art Forearm patches available for purchase • A free patch for anyone who signs up for a paid subscription at the event • On-site patch ironing for bags, jackets, or other fabric items you bring • An anonymous question box for Art Forearm’s advice columnist, Jerry Grimes ⏰Launch party 6–8 pm, Free ⏰Longitudes performance 8pm, $5-10 (NOTAFLOF)

Join us for our next Longitudes on Saturday, February 28th! Veronica Anne Salinas is coming back through and it’s shaping up to be an amazing show! Poster by @zen_monk_of_lbk • • • • #experimentalmusic #newmusic #lubbockmusic