wat! the 2017 4.23 lineup

COUNT­DOWN to 4.23.
NEXT WEEK­END.
SAT­UR­DAY NIGHT 22 APRIL 2017.
STARTS AT 8.

AD­VANCE TICK­ETS AVAIL­ABLE thru EVENTBRITE
door tick­ets will be cash only, sor­ry
 

And
I spent most of this week – so far – field­ing texts, emails and just talk­ing to a lot of peo­ple I do not know. Yet.

And some­how,
from all of this, we’ve cob­bled to­geth­er our deS­TI­JL-in­spired line­up for next SAT­UR­DAY. Here’s a looook:
 

1.   GER­RY O. SIMP­SON, a.k.a. GOS”
FASH­ION RUN­WAY
I’ve known Ger­ry for about a dozen years and we’ve talked de­sign and fash­ion and art and de­sign and fash­ion, what is so­phis­ti­cat­ed, what isn’t and what’s go­ing on on the run­ways RIGHT NOW – to­day, and in the past. What IS fash­ion?

And Gerry’s been work­ing on his GREEN and RED ART WEAR col­lec­tion for about a year – of which we’ll have a se­lec­tion that will walk our Run­way Sat­ur­day night at 9 p.m.

Gerry’s art gallery is lo­cat­ed in Up­town Sacra­men­to.
 

2.   BRETT de­BOER and CLAU­DIA OR­TIZ
hands on LET­TER­PRESS PRINT­ING
Mas­ter and Ap­pren­tice: This year, Clau­dia Or­tiz will be print­ing along­side Brett de­Boer on a vin­tage press.

And … so will you!

Clau­dia has de­signed a spe­cial FLOMM/deSTIJL to­tal­ly us­able keep­sake that you get to work with – us­ing PACIFIC’s col­lec­tion of an­tique met­al and wood type.
 

3.   BILL MEAD
DE STI­JL, NA­TIVE TO THE WEB
An up­date of last year’s web pro­gram­ming show, in­ter­ac­tive ME­DIA X FLOMMED deS­TI­JL or­thog­o­nals gen­er­at­ed by pure html and css.
 

4.   DANIELLE STEERS, MON­I­CA ODEH, CLAIRE CARR with LOUIS HER­NAN­DEZ
STU­DIO PHO­TOG­RA­PHY
Stand in the light!

Danielle pho­tographed our event last year – and she’s team­ing up with Mon­i­ca and Claire to TAKE YOUR PIC­TURE in PACIFIC’s new­ly up­dat­ed pho­tog­ra­phy lab.

Ex­pect a few sur­pris­es from Louis, FLOMM and deS­TI­JL props will be on hand.
 

5.   AARON WIN­TERS
PRO­PA­GAN­DA WORK­SHOP
What’s your cause? Aaron’s hands on crash course work­shop will take you through the ins and outs of be­ing a con­tem­po­rary pro­pa­gan­dist.

Your en­trance fee pays for all our work­shops AND first 100 at­ten­dees take home free ZINES.
 

6.   LAU­REN RICHARD­SON of Dolls Kill
BUILD­ING A LOOK WORK­SHOP
WAT is in right now, do­mes­ti­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly: Lau­ren will bring us fash­ion for­ward with the lat­est trends in fash­ion, make­up and be­yond.
 

7.   DOREL RO­TAR
ART OF ACUPUNC­TURE
“If you want to un­der­stand the Uni­verse, you have to un­der­stand en­er­gies, fre­quen­cies, vi­bra­tions.” —Niko­la Tes­la

Get a quick look at how the en­er­gy in your body (mi­cro­cosm) bal­ances with the en­er­gy sur­round­ing us (macro­cosm) as we ex­plore the art of en­er­getic heal­ing.

Lit­er­al­ly, hands on, li­censed acupunc­tur­ist Dorel will be of­fer­ing Chi­nese Pulse Di­ag­no­sis, get some in­sights into your en­er­gies.
 

8.   JU­LIA ALL­GRET­TI
DeS­TI­JL POR­TRAITS
Por­trait artist Ju­lia has been study­ing and prac­tic­ing por­traits a la deS­TI­JL. Wat will you look like once deS­TI­JLLED?
 

9.   CAR­LO CYPHERS of efrtt
LIVE PAINT­ING
Flom­mist Car­lo will again be Car­lo – LIVE PAINT­ING his way thru the evening. WAT will deS­TI­JL look like once put thru the Car­lo fil­ter?
 

10.   LEILA VA­LEN­CIA, MARIA Mc­DON­ALD, ADRI­ANA FLO­RES, with AL­LEY SCHEF­F­KI
FACE and BODY PAINT
WAT WILL YOU LOOK LIKE? Get some PAINT ON – the idea start­ed with just the face, but flom­mist Al­ley (just a short time away from the launch of her FLOMM­CAST se­ries) plans to take it far­ther as a FULL BODY work of art.
 

11.   ALEX McBRIDE, JON SANCHEZ, et al
SILKSCREEN­ING
FLOMMdeSTIJL4.23SCREENS + SHIRTS, diy, make your own, wear some FLOMM!
 

12.   BRITKNEE, KYLE SAB­BATI­NO, and TONY CON­DEL­LO
HY­DRODIP­PING WORK­SHOP
Learn a bit about hy­drodip­ping, be­come your own mar­bled book­end, walk away as your own piece of art.
 

13.   EX PRESS iON ism
ART EX­HI­BI­TION
We have one big art show housed at the cen­ter of 4.23 – an ex­pres­sion­ist col­lec­tion of nieuwe works.
(Sor­ry, the oth­er ex­hi­bi­tion we’d men­tioned ear­li­er won’t be ac­ces­si­ble)
 

14.   4 LINES, FAYE MEN­NON, JES, BLU, host­ed by BWARGH von MOD­NAR
LIVE EN­TER­TAIN­MENT, MÚSIK, PER­FOR­MANCE ART
Be­fore and af­ter FASH­ION RUN­WAY, Bwargh will be per­form­ing AND host­ing 4 Lines feat. Eddy & Rose of Eddy, Rose and the For­eign Lo­cals.

PLUS, a drag lip­sync in the style of Mon­dri­an star­ring Faye Men­non and (maybe) an ap­pear­ance from flom­mists Jes and Blu. Maybe.
 

15.   MAR­CEL DUCHAMP, FER­NAND LÉGER, MAN RAY, LÁS­ZLÓ MO­HOLY-NAGY, OR­SON WELLES, HANS RICHTER, VIKING EGGELING
AVANT GARDE SHORT FILMS
Last year we show­cased long form ex­pres­sion­ist cin­e­ma and MOR – this year, we’ve got­ten our hands on a bunch of rare short sub­jects. SEE the films that deS­TI­JL would write about. In the com­fort of our very own space.
 

16.   MONDAIN
FA­MOUS DUTCH ARTIST
As elu­sive an artist as Mondain is, we’ve man­aged to cor­ral him for this evening event. His lat­est, ‘i bas­tardized baskerville,’ may al­ready be mak­ing waves amongst the Hounds.
 

17.   CULT van de YEL­LOW STOEL
YOU HAVE EGG ON YOUR FACE
Feel­ing sleepy? We have a yel­low stoel just for you. Yawn. Sit awhile. You’ll be fine.
 

18.   EAT ART
FOOD IS ART, ART IS FOOD
We’ll have a spread of lamp-lit mod­ernist noms de­signed to make you think a bit be­fore you swal­low. What oth­er foods can re­al­ly ac­com­plish that?
 

19.   STEVE MEHAL­LO, LOUIS HER­NAN­DEZ, ALYSSA RAS­MUSSEN, BRI­AU­NA RU­PERT, THE PAS­TEL LADY, KATHER­INE STAR­BUCK, et al
RARE ART and MER­CHAN­DISE
Be­cause we were asked, THIS YEAR our merch ta­ble will have a lot MOR.

BRING some SPEND­ING MON­EY, we’ll have one-of-a-kind items ONLY (most­ly) avail­able at 4.23.

AND if we’re lucky, Mondain will be in the mood to sign things. Fin­gers and eyes crossed.
 

ALSO
we’ll have a slew of DOOR PRIZES and GIVE­AWAYS from lo­cal es­tab­lish­ments

PLUS
WA­T­EV­ER ELSE
we can think of be­tween now and 8 p.m. on 22 April 2017.
 

NOTE
THIS EVENT takes place on SAT­UR­DAY 22 APRIL 2017 from 8 p.m. to MID­NIGHT.
IF you show up on the 23rd, we will NOT BE HERE.
WE will be at our homes, in our one­sies, sleep­ing all of this off.
 

See you SAT­UR­DAY NIGHT – we’ll be bathed in pri­ma­ry colours, play­ing with rec­tan­gles.
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Up top: Make­up by flom­mist Lau­ren Richard­son for Dolls Kill. Oth­er im­ages are from mul­ti­ple sources re­lat­ed to the 4.23 par­tic­i­pants. Sor­ta. Line­up sub­ject to last minute change or can­cel­la­tion.

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