Lose track of time in our box office, designed by local artist Gabrielle Parish. You’ll be walking into a time melt where different timepieces will have you questioning whether time itself is real or fictional. Handmade tortoise chandeliers adorn an 11-foot-tall fabric installation, the walls are festooned with Chandra Heartland’s fantastic murals, and look up for Jonny Pez’s video installation, presenting some of nature’s timepieces.
Local time-traveling artists Madeline Carl and Ben Bushman journeyed to the future to bring back the fossils and luminous crystals that adorn the stage at Cafe Berlin; bask in their mysterious glow as you take in the fabulous busker tunes.
Don’t miss “Camera Obscure,” Chicago-based artist Duncan Bindbeutel’s larger than life camera: the magical view you’ll see inside will transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
At the Campfire Stories, Tracy Greever-Rice’s array of animals are back to sit alongside us as we listen to this year’s stories. Illuminated by Sarah Mercer’s fire, these adorable wooden critters might just get up and walk away!
Local artist Dan Goldstein brings us “Chronon” (chronon = a theoretical minimum quantum of time), which celebrates time as movement. The swing of its pendulum and the movement of the whole piece measures time as it challenges viewers’ perception of time. The materials come from Mid Missouri and the Caribbean, with bits and baubles slowed down from all over our fast paced world.
This construction is a linear segment representative of modernity. It mimics the evolving contours of riverways and floodplains, veins of resource that fertilize our region. Myths and fact duel between perceptions of reality. That which is granted historical reverence is regarded as truth. When resource drives markets who holds the future narrative? This monument is constructed with materials, “artifacts”; foraged from nearby woodlands, alleyways and box stores.
We’re excited to present Davey B. Gravey’s Tiny Cinema for the first time! This cargo trailer has been converted into a four-seat cinema; step inside this magical spot and watch short, silent Super 8 films and enjoy the live musical accompaniment. Open the following hours: Thursday 3-4:30, 5:30-7pm; Friday 11am-12:30pm, 2-3:30pm, 5-6:30pm; Saturday noon-2pm, 3-4:30pm, 5:30-7pm; and Sunday noon-1:30pm, 2:30-4pm, 5-6:30pm.
As you pass by the Globe theater, or on your way out, take a gander at the late, great Willy Wilson’s dragon, still going strong.
Tree by tree, Michael Marcum continues his metal reforestation project. Laura Haynes and her students from Mexico, MO, have created leafy garlands and woodland creatures to nestle with Michael’s trees in the Black and Gold Room. In the theater, Fran Lakatos’ shadow boxes flicker inside the APW’s infamous, moon-lit birch forest.
Chicago-based local native Duncan Bindbeutel has unearthed a mystical figure encased in a block of ice. This mysterious person could be ancient or from the far-flung future; our hope is that the gods of time will smile on us with enough sunshine to reveal this key to our roots or our legacy.
Local artists Ken Nichols and Katy Ross dug deep for their geode-inspired watercolors, adding a playful layer to the Geology Auditorium lobby.
Camellia Cosgray’s lighted megamap resides inside the theater and on the south side of the room you’ll enjoy stained-glass panels newly redesigned by a local gang of merrymakers; these glowing marvels are made entirely of tissue paper and glue. In the lobby, you’ll discover the interactive Mapacus!, created by our very own APW, and a keyed-up Barb the Buffalo returns for her fifth year.
The Great Wall is a curated series of documentaries that play on the wall of the T/F HQ building, at the corner of 9th and Broadway. See these epic snippets of film on Friday and Saturday night from 7 to 11pm.
Local artist Nabil El Jaouhari displays “Heritage”, which uses ‘the long now’ as a threshold to explore time as it relates to personal history, nostalgia and the gender binary using pattern and repeating motifs.
Artist Taylor Ross, who divides her time between Iowa and Colorado, constructed an interactive mechanical sculpture. Because this piece does not require electricity to run, Fest-goers will have the chance to run the hand-crank to get it moving.
As you enter the building that is the lungs of T/F, you’ll be embraced by “The Knacks,” an installation of over 20,000 feet of rope lovingly knitted by hand by local fiber artist Jessica Dekker and TF stalwart Tracy Greever-Rice (and their small army of knitters).
Don’t miss Bob Hartzell’s paper lamps high above the theater floor. These delicate yet tough creations — made of tissue paper, dowel rods, and glue — have graced the Blue Note during T/F for many years.
Ann Mehr and Gennie Pfannenstiel led their students at Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School to create the colorful geodes inside the theater space, which were inspired and guided by Katy Ross’ watercolors.
At the Ninth Street intersection of the Alley, Glenn Rice’s complex sculpture “light>l<cone” shines down with intricate light and shadows.
Darren Pearson (aka DARIUS TWIN), a west coast light painter based out of Los Angeles, brings us his in-real-time paintings, using (you guessed it) light as a medium. You’ll catch him and his equipment in the darker corners of the downtown area, creating special pieces for T/F.
With the help of Vimeo (check out Glenn Rice’s incredible signage on the marquee outside), the Columbia landmark sinks underwater again, with its the barnacle-covered walls, coral reefs, and oceanic stalactites and stalagmites, unearthed by Tracy Greever-Rice and the APW. The Blue Note is sponsored by Vimeo for T/F 2015.
At @ction, local mind-benders Gabe Meyer, Brian Doss, and Becca Sullinger constructed a menagerie of time travel. Dance your heart out as you explore their uncharted portals and doorways to who-knows-when.
Inside the theater, Nathan Truesdell, Sam Spencer, Steve Rice, Rick Agran, Nick Michael, Chelsea Myers, and the MU Micro-Doc class bring back the larger-than-life video portraits of our fellow mid-Missourians.
As you stomp your feet and shake your booty at the music showcases, check out more of Madeline Carl and Ben Bushman’s future fossils, interwoven with their gear-headed humanoids.
If the Box Office is the heart of the festival, Alley A is its main artery. Local artists Jaynell Lardizabal and Kelsie Herron worked with the Art Team to bring us their giant tortoise skeleton, “Sia”, which has made its way to the Hitt Street end of the alley. You can’t miss this massive beast, who moves slowly enough that we’re confident he’ll stick around through the weekend.
Glenn Rice, our resident sign czar, has done it again; his largest signs are more than informational: they’re works of art. Check out the VIMEO signs at the Blue Note, the Odd Fellows sign, directional signage on MU campus, and the GLOBE sign on the Cherry Street garage. Glenn almost single-handedly created every one of them.
The Hittsville gallery hosts the work of Bogdan Dziworski — renowned Polish director, cinematographer, and photographer — whose films can be seen during the Neither/Nor series just before T/F 2015. Frames for Dziworski’s work built by Chris Foley, glass courtesy Koonse Glass, matte by Michael’s.
If the Box Office is the heart of the festival, Alley A is its main artery. At the 9th St intersection, California-based artist Yulia Pinkusevich’s “Stilted” returns — this imagined city pulls in structures from all corners of the globe to create a utopia on stilts.
Local artist Britta Simpson has teamed up with St. Louis artist Leland Drexler-Russell to create a massive inflatable, “Torus Worm.” When viewed at different angles, this undulating geometric piece reveals an infinity loop, a circle, and other shapes.
The Tunnel is an APW Masterpiece that will help guide you to Cornell Hall. You can’t possibly miss this perception-distorting megalith.
Upstairs at the Blue Note, Kansas-based artist Randy Regier brings us his epic TYTON, a little-known model of a forgotten relic: the American luxury submarine.
Discover Maggy Rhein’s “Unweaving the Fabric of Time” — join the time unravel to help reveal its secrets.
On your way up to the theater, get caught in Kathrine Barnes’ “Web of Thoughts,” a string installation that gives the drawing process a three-dimensional perspective through colorful lines shifting, bending, and turning through space.
The Little Theater, renamed The Willy Wilson Theater in 2013, has been permanently transformed to honor Willy’s legacy; his most famous quote was lovingly painted on the cinder-block walls by family friend and T/F alum Jessie Starbuck, while local artist Michael Marcum has created an intricate maze of pipes and detritus, all found in Willy’s personal collection.
