INSIDE COVER TEXT:
The THIRD ANNUAL MISS AMERICA SPECTACLE took place at PMVI last September 9 with multi-activities, including 15 T.V.'s, music, and prizes. JACK HARRIETT snapped the lovely cover shot while the history of MISS A. flashed on the screen and the real show was broadcast on the tube. It (the evening was truly a spectacle. The significance of our culture was made plainly apparent by a handful of electron guns scanning the 525 line of our teleprompter existence. If you did not receive and invitation to the event, submit your pedigree--you may be invited to the next one.
The "TWO EVENINGS" event will be a time for everyone to simply explore, view, and produce various visual works. We will have a the Institute two SCM photo-copying machines (#1200 and #152) which are capable of reproducing half
-tones (photos). The purpose is to allow as many people as possible to create there own works and to put that on our official Institute walls. Come prepared with a box full of two-and tree-dimensional objects to copy.
Under the auspices of KEITH JOHNSON we will have a "T.V. ELIMINATION HOUR". for a nominal donation (10 dollars). PMVI will provide a portable or console T.V. sledge-hammer, and a photograph of the devious act. (Upon special arrangement the smash can also be videotaped.)
PMVI recognizes that we all live in a transient commodity culture. The necessity to capture or comprehend something before it disappears is a trait not peculiar to America. We produce it, sometimes use it (not always), then discard it in a not so-fashionable manner. Why the obsession with producing so much of everything? Is there a segment of the commercial we're missing? Are we only looking at bits of a story and not looking at the whole one? Come to one of the "TWO EVENINGS' and observe the bits and pieces that make up a transient story in video, music, photographs, sculpture, film, and a performance, including "T.V. GUIDE POETRY".
The space at 133 HAMILTON STREET is being used to occasionally stage relatively small events and /or transient exhibitions. The traditional support system (galleries, museums) is abysmally limited and tends to separate the artist from the public. PMVI is part of a system that will help change attitudes about the "passive recipient of art" problem. The methodology is participation, art is not necessarily a spectator sport.
Our next event will be slides that tell stories, Anyone possessing a slide or slides that visually or verbally conveys a thought should submit work by January 20, 1979. Showing: February 3, 1979, 8pm.
Paul Rutkovsky
Special Thanks to:
BEVERLY RICHEY
JANIELLE FINCH
SERMISAI SNIDVONGS
PUBLISHED BY PAPIER MACHE WORKS
A SUBSIDIARY OF PMVI
133 HAMILTON ST. NEW HAVEN, CT. 06511 USA
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Hamilton St. is east of I-91 between Grand Ave. and Chapel St. ,
diagonally across from the Coup DeVille. The Institute is in the
back courtyard on the fourth floor of the old Hamilton
Clockworks bldg. Watch for PMVI directions
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