grassroots flomm: the 4.23 lineup

What is FLOMM to me?

text­book an­swer:     It is the cul­mi­na­tion of de­sign history. 

Be­yond,
it’s me go­ing to a par­ty that I was­n’t in­vit­ed to and sit­ting at a ta­ble with John Baskerville and George Bick­ham with Wass­i­ly Kandin­sky and El Lis­sitzky sit­ting at their own ta­ble on the oth­er side of the room. I end up at de­fend­ing my pres­ence by choos­ing work over sleep.

I’m al­ways go­ing to choose things the hard way. That means learn­ing to make things. Not just de­sign, but build, weld, en­grave and print. Print things I’m afraid to say out loud and put on a poster I’ll con­vince some­one to buy.

FLOMM is punk at its best. 

It’s evok­ing the spir­it of Mar­cel Duchamp and piss­ing off your bet­ters by us­ing a Sharpie in a museum. 

Be­ing a FLOM­MIST means learn­ing my emer­sion. It’s say­ing yes to art forms that you haven’t mas­tered yet and brush­ing up on your gold leaf­ing skills be­cause ‘you think you can nail it.’

4.23 is the FLOMM mou­ve­ment’s first BIG event in an un­ex­pect­ed place. And we’re all vol­un­teer­ing to make this happen. 

Here’s who will be there – and what every­one will be doing:
 

1.   RYAN OUZTS
hands on SILKSCREEN WORKSHOP
Ryan is a true crafts­man in the sense of what craft is all about. As own­er of STOKE PRINT­ING, Ryan uses tech­niques that go back to to the an­cient guilds. Re­al­ly. His work looks like butter. 

We’ll have shirts and MOR to screen on — your en­trance fee pays for this work­shop AND you get to take home what you print!

You can also SCREEN our im­ages on YOUR stuff – just bring what you have and we’ll see what’s possible.
 

2.   BRETT De­BOER
hands on TY­POG­RA­PHY MARK­MAK­ING WORKSHOP
Brett runs the Graph­ic De­sign pro­gram at PA­CIF­IC and has an in­cred­i­ble back­ground in de­sign his­to­ry. He also once built a full-sized MERZBAU from card­board. He’ll be pre­sent­ing an in­cred­i­ble mark­mak­ing work­shop, just pull up a chair and explore.
 

3.   STEVE MEHAL­LO
FLOMM! THE BAT­TLE For MOD­eRN 1923
FLOMM’s own founder will, of course, be demo­ing the FLOMM game and talk­ing about what’s in store for the up­com­ing ver­sion. If you haven’t al­ready, PLAY the ART HIS­TO­RY game app / art project that’s be­hind all of this.
 

4.   AARON WIN­TERS
rare POSTER EXHIBITION
Aaron has been a friend of FLOMM be­fore FLOMM even ex­ist­ed. He’s a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, an ex­pert in street art, and col­lect­ed poster artist in his own right AND will have on hand – plus speak­ing about – his pri­vate poster collection.
 

5.   BILL MEAD
ex­per­i­men­tal NEW MEDIA
The 4.23 mi­crosite – co-de­signed by STEVE MEHAL­LO – is an ex­ten­sion of Bill’s Art, Na­tive to the Web Brows­er project: ‘can pro­gram­ming lead to art?’ Bill will be go­ing over his use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to cre­ate dy­nam­ic art com­po­si­tions that live – and grow – in your web browser.
 

6.   CAR­LO CYPHERS
FLom­mist around town Car­lo will be paint­ing and draw­ing and be­ing Car­lo. Be­cause Car­lo.
 

7.   BWARGH von MODNAR
Reg­u­lar der­Tung con­trib­u­tor and per­for­mance artist at our last FLOMM event – Bwargh will be em­cee­ing the OPEN MIC por­tion of 4.23 – AND has helped with the ED­I­BLE ex­hi­bi­tion that will be the FOOD por­tion of 4.23.

Ex­pect a line­up of FLOM­MISTS with things to say:
BLU, RONE, BRIT­TKNEE, AL­LEY SCHEF­F­KI, and a few MOR. And maybe a spe­cial lo­cal celebri­ty guest (work­ing on that part). 

Stand up, say stuff, sing karaoke, there’ll be a band:
 

8.   VAN­I­TY NIGHTS
4.23 will be the first Nor­cal per­for­mance of DAN PARK­ER and TYLER DRINNEN’s new EDM project VAN­I­TY NIGHTS. 

Find them and their mu­sic here, here, here, and here!
 

9.   KIM­BER­LY STONE
Look­ing for a great tat­too artist? Kim­ber­ly has been prac­tic­ing ink for about 5 years – with a steady hand and in­cred­i­ble let­ter­ing skills. 

She’ll be sell­ing (bring a de­posit) drawn markups at 4.23 – with the ac­tu­al ink­ing (will take awhile) done later.

Here’s some of her work:

 

10.   LAU­REN RICHARDSON
The own­er of Lau­ren Artistry: Make­up by Lau­ren Richard­son brings more craft to our event. 

Lau­ren will be paint­ing faces us­ing new fash­ion-for­ward tech­niques as well as FLOMMESQUE ref­er­ences to avant garde make­up tech­niques of the past. Get some colour!

Here’s our look­book and here’s some of Lauren’s work:

 

11.   clas­sique AVANT GARDE FILMS
We’ll have a line up of ear­ly avant garde mo­tion pic­tures pro­ject­ed through­out the evening.

 

12.   BRIT­TKNEE, KRISTIN VALEN­TINE BUECH­LER and CAR­OLYN SELF
hands on COS­PLAY LIFE­DRAW­ING WORKSHOP
Tied into every­thing will be a draw­ing work­shop with still lives, not so still lives, and a bunch of art supplies.

Some of the sup­plies do­nat­ed by the Vi­su­al Arts De­part­ment at PACIFIC

Brit­tknee

DAN­GER Holly

Ryan

Blu and friend

Louis, Mehal­lo

13.   LOUIS HER­NAN­DEZ
And there’s me! As a FLOM­MIST I habour a sense of all-in­clu­sive­ness. Any­one can learn from my craft and I will preach the gospel of LOREM IP­SUM un­til you love wood­cuts as much as I do. 

See you at 4.23. I’ll be the guy with black ink on his hands.
 
 

—louis her­nan­dez

Floor plan, Jean­nette Pow­ell Art Cen­ter, con­vert­ed for 4.23

Flom­mist Louis Her­nan­dez is ob­sessed with go­ing Bauhaus and be­com­ing The Ma­chine. Prefer­ably a drill press. Copy­right © 2016 Louis Her­nan­dez. Top foto: Michelle Richard­son by Shelly Lange Pho­tog­ra­phy. Oth­er im­ages are from mul­ti­ple sources re­lat­ed to the 4.23 participants.

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