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Work exhibited in“The Monuments of Columbus” is both a tribute to and reinterpretation of Robert Smithson’s 1967 essay “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey”. In the essay, Smithson frames bridges, pipes, and parking lots as a series of “monuments” that structure the relaxed urban fabric of Passaic. His essay is both a tour and a curatorial endeavor that asks us to look closer at the in-between, infrastructural landscapes that support and define our cities and towns. Matthew Coolidge and the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), contemporary landscape curators operating out of Culver City, California, Troy New York and Wendover Utah, are expanding Smithson’s line of inquiry into a series of nationwide exhibitions, tours, and publications to inform the public about the“nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface”

“The Monuments of Columbus” begins with Smithson and CLUI, and digs deeply into the landscape zeitgeist of central Ohio. Work in the exhibition, produced by the community of students, faculty and collaborators of the Landscape Architecture Section of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, includes inventories, mappings, experimental geographies, sonic tours, and imagined and projected futures for the landscape of Columbus. This is the city-now: the ruins, remnants and piles, the sites unstewarded and open to interpretation and exploration. These are sites of imagination and speculation. The exhibition offers residents and visitors opportunities to position themselves in an alternative Columbus, as real as the one we inhabit daily. It is an invitation to transgress our ordinary spatial boundaries, to discover, inhabit, and imagine a city more wild, robust and full of possibility.

On the cusp of Aaron Hibbs’ 2nd attempt at breaking the World Record for Hula-Hooping, we have another fine show with an excellent line-up! Brooklyn’s Spider will be stopping through the Shelf with friends, Magdyn Osh. And straight from the 3rd floor of this here building, Nathan Snell will be performing classic country songs circa the 1940’s and 50’s this time around with a full band. Remnants of Aaron’s first attempt, and preparations for the 2nd will be display and utilized for this evening of music. Come stoke the fires and mellow out to some great music! The next attempt begins October 22nd!

June Madrona www.myspace.com/junemadrona

Couch Forts www.myspace.com/iliveinacouchfort

Stripe Light www.myspace.com/stripelight

Acoustic means no PA

I booked a Mega Big Show for July 6th, 2 days following a big American holiday. I booked 4 touring bands, more than enough for a DIY space to try to cover and find support. But I did it anyways. I was determined to bring Castanets here months ago and grabbed one of the last remaining slots they had open for their summer tour. PLUS, they are touring with my good pal M.A. Turner (and R. Clint Colburn’s Cross). It just so happened that the date was the same as the date in which I booked Dark Dark Dark and Hurray for the Riff Raff. On their summer tour, DDD wanted to play alongside their pal from Bustown,  time and temperature. I had at that point collected five acts, five amazing acts. This show is a lot for me to handle, but it will be REAL good, otherwise I wouldn’t bother. Seriously. REALLY good. We will potluck beforehand while enjoying the stellar artwork of Eva Ball. I know it is the day after a huge party-filled holiday weekend, but it will be so worth it!

Mock Syringa http://www.myspace.com/mocksyringa
Auger http://www.myspace.com/augeraffinitygroup
Civil War Generals http://www.myspace.com/civilwargenerals

Okbari www.myspace.com/okbari
Black Swans www.myspace.com/theblackswans
Nathan Snell (of Anna Ranger) www.myspace.com/annarangers