2nd Floor Rear is happening TOMORROW! It goes without saying that we are excited. Our Kickstarter campaign exceeded its goal. I (festival producer) am putting together festival materials for participants, frantically writing emails, blog posts, and trying to find a photographer, all while watching the sun come up. We finalized and printed the festival map yesterday. It looks like this:

Printed maps will be available at all indoor spaces. You can also download a schedule of events: ghid 24h spate and a map: ghid 24h fata beforehand. With the exception of some outdoor installations that can only be located by happenstance, all sites will be marked with a dash of sparkly blue ribbon and perhaps some blue chalk markings, so be on the lookout for those things as you search out some of the more off-the-beaten path sites.

Some last-minute SOS’s: we are still looking for a photographer who can meet with the festival producer tonight and commit to documenting the festival from around 11am to midnight on Saturday (you will be paid!) and the itsa_pony! PJ Brunchfast needs some help running errands before/during Sunday morning, so if you would like to pitch in, or are interested in taking photos for money, please email itsa_pony! projects at itsaponyprojects@gmail.com.

See you Saturday!

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/445506472/2nd-floor-rear-a-24-hour-festival-of-alternative-a

What: New Wave Ladies Night
Where: Carousel Space Project, 1310 N. Hoyne Ave. Chicago, IL

2nd Wave, 3rd Wave, New Wave, No Wave…Although the current timeline for the
feminist movement may be blurry or undefined, the quality of the artwork created by
emerging female artists is clearly strong. Amid powerful movements of globalization,
eco-feminism, cyber-feminism, a return to craft movement, and even progress in female
candidates for political positions, the soil is rich for gender issue conversation and
headway.

Adding the term “new wave” to the exhibition, is both a verbal pun and a comparison to
punk music’s electronic daughter. The sub-genre of rock music that emerged in the mid
to late 1970s saw revivals in the 1990s and early 2000s. Common characteristics of
New Wave music, aside its punk influences, include the usage of synthesizers and
electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as a great amount
of diversity.

Juxtaposing an exhibition of a new wave of female artists to a background of synthpop,
draws comparisons to the similar timelines of the two movements and highlights their
repetitive persistence and evolution over the years.

Confirmed artists include:

LeeYoo Heeran
Christalena Hughmanick
Angela Marie Hoener
Michaela Murphy
Rose Sexton

Show will feature new wave music, painting, collage and performance & video art.

In 1980, the Neoists, a little-known avant-garde subculture descended from Fluxus, held their first annual “International Neoist Apartment Festival” or APT, a four-day long event complete with concerts, performances, film screenings, and installations, in the apartment of one of the members of the Neoist group. Poorly documented and marginally historicized, it is thought[1] that APT carried on annually, in various iterations, until 1988.

Drawing on the 24-hour block party model (think Chattanooga, Tennessee’s Mainx24 festival), 2^nd Floor Rear adapts the spirit of APT to a condensed, 24-hour timeline. From noon on February 4^th to noon on February 5^th, festival participants such as Pop-up Art Loop, Carousel Space Projects, Milk Gallery, the Happy Collaborationists, and individual artists such as Chiara Galimberti and Karen Faith will host pop-up exhibitions, dream yoga sleepovers, site-specific installations, and New Wave synth-pop art extravaganzas.