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THE AUGMENTED LANDSCAPE AT SALEM MARITIME N AT I O N A L HISTORIC SITE 5/27 - 11/30
This summer, the Nation- As
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newly-elected al Park Service’s Salem French President Maritime National Historic Emmanuel Macron Site is home to eight Aug- promotes his counmented Reality (AR) sculp- try internationally tures for The Augmented as a haven of inLandscape, an outdoor ex- novation and crehibition presented by the ativity, the Boston Boston Cyberarts Gallery. French Film FesThe sculptures for The Aug- tival offers Amermented Landscape were commissioned from icans an artistic four internationally acclaimed artists; John state of the union. Craig Freeman, Kristin Lucas, Will Pappen- Long considered one of the heimer, and Tamiko Thiel. Inspired by Salem’s best French film festivals here T H E unique history and ecology, these works con- in the states, this year’s eclectic catalogue of features insider issues as diverse as East-West relations, B O STO N 3 American idealism, piracy as warfare, and the cludes films that have already effects of climate change and global warming. made their way through the F R E N C H In augmented reality artworks, comput- U.S. circuit of limited releas- F I L M er-generated sound, video and graphics are es (including Olivier Assayas’ layered into a real-world environment. Sited Personal Shopper) and a few F E S throughout the park, on the land or in Sa- that are making their Amer- TIVAL lem harbor, the sculptures are positioned ican debuts (such as Lucas via GPS, each in a specific place on the Sa- Belvaux’ This is Our Land). THURS 7/13zon Hosted by our very own Mu- SUN 7/30 @ lem campus, and are viewable by using the çois O ir. Fran 016) d (2 seum of Fine Arts, the Boston Z T augmented reality app ‘Layar’ (free for iOS FRAN MFA and Android) on a smartphone or tablet. French Film Festival will run oceanographer Jacques CousThe experience of viewing augmented reality from July 13th until July 30th, teau. All of the featured films artwork is a strangely physical one. The sculp- kicking off with a free outdoor are presented on DCP in tures convinc- screening of Martin Bourbou- French with English subtitles ingly feel like lon’s Divorce French Style out included. Don’t miss out on this they are ‘situat- on the Huntington Avenue awesome opportunity for cineed’ in space, and Lawn and concluding with philes and Francophiles alike. while the float- The Odyssey, Jérôme Salle’s RDANO IO ing works drift biopic about world-renowned --ANDERS CROFT G A R O IA N W/ SOPH around you, your mind is tricked really hate summer. Apinto thinking that Tamiko Thiel, Gardens of the Anthropocene, 2016. parently it's so hot in ArizoW/ GABRIELLA BARROSO you can reach out and touch them at any time. na that recycling bins are I first got my glasses when --MARYAM YOON melting in the streets. I'm he Revere Beach I was 9 years old. I reglad I don't live in Arizona. welcoming commitmember being propped Anyway, even if you love summer, here's a good reason to look fortee is a bug-eyed up on a big medical seat ward to the fall: the next three Black Markets! Mark your calendars chihuahua, slamming and having different lights for September 17th, October 29th, and December 9th. It's probably its head against flashed into the corners not fair of me to say that Black Market is my favorite event since I'm the roof a car and of my eyes while the opthe vendor manager, but it is how I got involved with Boston Hassle. yipping with almost tician searched for whatever optical misplacements were there. no Approximately every two months, we collect a whole mess of cool rabid intensity. An one in my family ever had a problem with their eyes, and the thought artists of every kind and vendors with vintage clothes and records old man sits nearof being the only one sporting stylish lenses seemed really cool. and books, shove them in the Elks Lodge, and invite everybody to by, hunched in statAfter what seemed like hours of closing one eye for inspection and reading come shopping with us. Like everything else we do it takes a whole uesque stillness, different charts, my mother and I received news on my issue. It was simlot of work and cooperation, and it’s always thrilling to have so watching the sea. ple nearsightedness, nothing serious, but I was ecstatic to find out—I finally many volunteers and vendors get together and make it happen. Eventually Cujo’s had an accessory unique to me and only me. Choosing from a plethora of And it’s not like there’s nothing to look forward to this bite-sized spasms beMassHealth friendly frames, all gorgeous in their own sense, I left with a summer until then. As we continue our programming for 2017 we come impossible to tiny pair of purple-black glasses with lenses less than two inches in height. would like to thank the Boston Foundation and the Live Arts Bosignore, and the man, Sitting in the car home was an experience unlike any other. The bricks on ton team for their support of our efforts. This month, thanks to LAB turning down his buildings, leaves on trees, and people walking by were all painted with a new we’re bringing Lydia Lunch, spawn of NYC’s ‘70s No Wave scene. handheld radio, rewith Madeline G. brush of intricate details. No more squinting, no more fuzzy images in the disIt's very empowering to trieves “Betsy” from tance. As the years have progressed, my eyeglass preferencBugeau-Heartt have grants to make experthe car. He cracks a grin at us. es have as well, my eyes weak as ever from accidentally makimental and all ages events “Yaaaaaaaaaaak! You want to keep her?” (I do!) ing them dependent, but framed now behind funky and bold happen in Boston! We can’t I come to Revere Beach to lose myself in the sensation of a by- big lenses. My journey with eyewear has always been and wait to announce the rest gone era. America’s first public beach remains as gritty as ever: always will be ever changing, but each prescription, stronof the shows for this year! jacked-up seagulls haggle over a used condom, families lap at beer ger than the last, brings an even greater moment of clarity. -SOPHIA NORA GIORDANO and ice cream cones, a hint of menace jags over the parkway. The
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ydia Lunch, the maniacal mechanic behind mid-70’s No LYDIA LUNCH R E T R O V I R U S Wave progenitors Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, is W E A S E L coming HERE to the Elks Lodge 1 W A L T E R , to gingerly place a stick of dyTIM DAHL, namite into the mouth of music F T. + BOB BERT, as we know it. ConfrontationDOOMSDAY al audience-testing outbursts S T U D E N T, and gnarled sonic facsimiles of (NEW ENGLAND) broken glass bar fights come toPAT R I OT S , gether to form something punker P E A C H than punk itself. Accompanied Y A D R R I N G by Weasel Walter (Lake of DracSATU 15 ula), Tim Dahl (Child Abuse), @E L K S LO D G E , and the inimitable Bob Bert JULY 7PM, ALL AGES $15 (Pussy Galore / Sonic Youth), This show was made possible by the Lunch’s current outfit RETROVIcommunal efforts of BrainArts and RUS is prepared like no other to by the generous grant funding of pummel us all with their infecthe Live Arts Boston (LAB) program tious pandemic. Accompanying these revolutionaries are Providence’s jaggedly hypnotic Doomsday Student, whose heart-attack-inducing sets are nearing legendary status. Local cats (New England) Patriots will weave us all in and out of their measured yet rambunctious noise puzzle, and Peach Ring will set the stage for this dream (or nightmare?) with stripped down audio assemblages and Ari Ratner’s scathing orations. You wanna talk nostalgia? Screw that. This shit is as real is it ever was—and as heavy as it ever will be. --MICHAEL ACHILLE
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air feels electric: green with suspense, as if a storm was coming. Though the rains never come, the silent, shifting communication between men’s eyes—as if they’re waiting for a sign to spring into action—sets the tone. As I try to make out with my boyfriend, a dude on a bike hocks a loogie with remarkable aim just inches from my ankle. It may not be glamorous, but it’s real, and in an age where corporatization and gentrification have flattened some of our best spots, it’s the places like Revere Beach, unrelenting in their character, that inspire me as an artist the most.
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