TIME STEREO                                                     
presents
PRINCESS DRAGONMOM'S
"UFO FACTORY" installation
part of the "CONSIDERING DETROIT" artshow
at The MUSEUM of CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT (MOCAD)


May 10-July 27, 2008

(See below for ARTIST STATEMENT)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                           mocad detroit time stereo ufo factory

UFO FACTORY at MOCAD
2008
Schedule of Events
& new pictures UPDATED!!!
(just click on the title to look at all the pix...)


MAY 2-9  BUILDING THE CARDBOARD UFO FACTORY
               
MAY  10  OPENING RECEPTION
                featuring the time stereo deejays and showing PDM: THE ROBOTS video

MAY  24  BLACK & BLACK
                art opening featuring all-black artwork by TIME STEREO artists

MAY 29  
PANEL DISCUSSION: CONSIDERING DETROIT participating artists
                    moderated by Jerry Herron and featuring Davin Brainard, Warren Defever, Maurice Greenia Jr.,
                    Allie McGhee, with Considering Detroit curatorial committee member John Corbin.      


JUNE  6   ? & THE MYSTERIANS
                 w/ F'KE BLOOD
                 concert (mocad stage)

JUNE 14  WOLFMAN FREEDOM RALLY
                featuring ONE WOLF and the WOLFMAN BAND

JUNE 15 ELECTRIC KALIMBA
                CONFERENCE

                kids conference

JUNE 28  SUPERNATURAL LAW
                PDM performance
               
ELECTRIC BEAR APPRECIATION NITE
                video premiere

JULY 11  INFINITY PEOPLE VS. FROG PEOPLE
                concert
                SUZANNE WALTERS "CANADA PROJECT"
                artshow

JULY 19  ROBOT HEART
                art opening & PRINCESS DRAGONMOM performance

Contact davin <at> ufofactory.com for more details


TIME STEREO ARTIST STATEMENT:

UFO FACTORY is the third in a projected series of architectural models which feature a highly theatrical element. UFO FACTORY in MOCAD is produced from a small five inch tall cardboard replica of the original UFO FACTORY, a brick and mortar art-space located in an undisclosed industrial area of Eastern Market, New Detroit, less than a mile away from MOCAD.

The underlying organizational rationale is that we are re-constructing a full-size (800 sq ft.) art gallery / performance space / nightclub entirely out of cardboard. We work not from memory, photographs, or detailed diagrams, instead we follow the example of a tiny cardboard model which lacks all but the most basic details or fixtures.

We believe community is an important issue in our work. Our use of "common" materials, spray paint, cardboard, and glue, is not only a textural component that is easily recognized and afforded by all artists working in a economically depressed area but also may be seen as a rejection of so-called "high" art tradition.

As UFO FACTORY continues to evolve in its three months of interactive events, audiences seeking to lose themselves in real and fake art exhibits, ufology, abnormal animal and human curiosities, flippancy, insane melodrama, man transformed into wolf, sophisticated novelties, life, action, abduction, magic, movies, and suprise can respond emotionally, individually and collectively, to the curious wedding of realism, romance, innocence, and silver spectacle.