Transmodern Festival 2008 November 3, 2008
THANKS SO MUCH BALTIMORE AND ALL OF OUR AMAZING ARTISTS!!!!!
The Festival was an enormous success!
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The 5th Annual Transmodern Festival (Live.Art.Action) will be taking place this year on April 3rd through the 6th. Baltimore’s largest avant performance festival was also named “Baltimore’s Best Art Event” by the City Paper. The 2008 festival will feature over 50 artists and transform all three floors of Load of Fun studios with installations, performance, sound, film, mayhem, ecstasy, and radical culture. The festival will also present a special Sunday event, Pedestrian Services Exquisite (PSE), including a guided walking tour of North Avenue and beyond with site-specific, roaming, uncanny, planned/unplanned, and esoteric actions along the way.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Rahne Alexander (Performance Installation)
Kristen Anchor and Andrea Shearer (PSE)
Adrienne Anemone (Performance)
David James Armacost and April Danielle Lewis (PSE)
Peter Barrickman (Performance)
Kelley Bell (PSE)
Lauren Bender (Performance)
Blevin Blectum / Kevin Blechdom (Performance)
Andrea Bocchio for Louis Vuitton (PSE)
Alessandro Bosetti (PSE)
Hannah Brancato and Alison Mazur (PSE)
Jai Brooks (Performance)
Sarah Buccheri (Performance)
Ingrid Burrington (PSE)
Carpet Baggers (PSE)
Theresa Columbus (Performance)
Dillon de Give (Performance)
DiTolvo (PSE)
Paul Druecke (Performance Installation)
Lara Emerling (PSE)
EPHKLATCHEMERAL (performance)
Lindsay Feldman (PSE)
Chris Ferrera (Performance Installation)
Fluid Movement (PSE)
GOBOLUX (Performance/Installation)
Ilana Goldszer (PSE)
The Good Taste Committee (PSE)
Dynasty Handbag (Performance)
Evans Hankey (Performance)
Nicole Herbert (PSE)
Megan Hildebrandt (PSE)
Bonnie Jones (Performance Installation)
Katastrophe (Music Performance)
Dina Kelberman (Film)
Alice Kemp (Performance Installation)
Xavier Leplae (Performance)
David London (PSE)
Magazine Stand-Baltimore (PSE)
J.W. Mahoney (PSE)
Frankie Martin (Performance/Installation)
Jackie Milad (Installation)
Kim Miller (Performance)
MVA (Performance/Installation)
David NeSmith (Performance Installation)
Ellen Nielsen (PSE)
Thach Thao Nguyen (PSE)
Anna Oxygen (Music Performance)
Natalia Panfile (PSE)
Spoon Popkin (Performance Installation)
Valeska Populoh (PSE)
Carly Ptak (Performance)
DJ Rapid Fire (Music/DJ)
Tyson Reeder (Performance)
Right-Geist Connections, Ltd., Baltimore Street Team (PSE)
Adam Robinson (Performance)
Jinnene Ross (Installation & Performance)
Ric Royer (Performance)
Randy Russell (Performance)
Melissa Scherrer (Performance/DJ)
Snacks (Installation)
Straight Punch to the Crotch
Xavier Schipani (Performance)
Smelling Salt Amusements (PSE)
Shua Group (PSE)
Theft and Rescue Society (PSE)
The Tingle Troupe (Performance)
Renato Umali (Performance Installation)
URBANtells (PSE)
Elisa Urtiaga (Roaming)
Daniel Van Allen (PSE)
Virginia Warwick (Performance)
Kathryn Williamson (PSE)
Erin Womack (Performance Installation - Going through to Saturday)
Alex Worthington (Performance Installation)
Gillian Wylde (Performance Installation)
Shannon Young (PSE)
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Andrea Shearer is an accomplished musician with 4 album credits plus a bucket full of 7″ and compilation releases. She is currently drumming with Pariah Piranha (Queer Control Records), and is a guest drummer for Brooklyn-based pop duo NA+AN. Pariah Piranha’s second album “Animus Unanimous” is in production.
Brooklyn-based artist may be best known for her musical theatrics with band the Tuna Helpers described this way by Westword in Denver, Colorado: “Operatic, piano-anchored spells of art rock that imagine Azure Ray taking up residence in a Neil Gaiman graphic novel: all mystery, melody and magic.”
David James Armacost and April Danielle Lewis met in 2006. Since then they’ve exhibited their artwork and curated shows in Baltimore, at Large Glass Project Space; Sub-Basement Gallery, and Spin Alternative Art Space ; in Annapolis, at the Maryland Federation of Art ; in Wilmington DE, at the Lo-Fi Gallery; and at the University of Delaware. Armacost, who received his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art in 2002, is a native resident of Baltimore Lewis recently earned an AA in visual art from Anne Arundel Community College and is pursuing her BFA in printmaking at Towson University. By subscribing to contemporary art on a local, regional, and national level, David James and April Danielle both remain committed to enriching the arts in Baltimore.
Peter Barrickman is an artist working in Milwaukee. His videos, sculptures and paintings have been shown in the United States, Mexico and Europe. He studied at The Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, NY.
Kelley Bell is an Artist, Animator, Designer and dilettante extraordinaire living and working in Baltimore city.
Lauren Bender: 5′0″, 110 lbs, Baltimore. Editor, SUCCESS! @ 
Kevin Blechdom, born Kristin Erickson, is an experimental electronic musician/performance artist from San Francisco, California. She attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where she founded Blectum from Blechdom with Blevin Blectum, an experimental electronic group. In 2001, Blectum From Blechdom won an Award of Distinction for digital music at the Prix Ars Electronica.
Andrea Bocchio is a Peruvian artist, graduating from MICA in May with a degree in Fiber and Art History. She studied Fashion Knitwear in London and has been working in knit and print fashion collections. She is interested in the cycle of luxury, the real and the counterfeit, roles of bodies and identity in fashion.
Alessandro Bosetti is a composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. In 2006 he\’s been living and working in West Africa, China, Taiwan, Holland, Scandinavia, United States , Germany and Italy.
Hannah Brancato is an artist and textile designer who researches how lifestyle is affected by décor. A graduate from the Fiber Department at the MICA, she is based in Baltimore, where her work is currently on view at the Pinkard Gallery. She is the founder of The Doll Project at the House of Ruth and was co-curator of Made Home at the Current Gallery.
Jai Brooks is a comedic poet. With his tongue fully ensconced in her cheek, he will poke fun at all things we revolutionary artists hold dear. Jai is a core member of the Charm City Kitty Club and a grateful performer at We Are Hip Hop Too events. He has been performing for over two decades and is excited to put the “trans” in Transmodern.
Sarah Buccheri was born and raised in suburban Chicago. After living for a stint in New York City, she now resides in Milwaukee, WI. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Film from The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Aside from her film and video work, Sarah is a performer and collaboratively produces regular performance art evenings at Darling Hall, one of Milwaukee’s finest underground art spaces. She has performed at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and Galapagos Art Space. Her films and videos have screened at The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Heaven Gallery in Chicago.
Ingrid Burrington is from California, and has made terrible mistakes. Her website is 
Theresa has a warm and kooky approach to the avant garde. She debuted a short play at the Pussycat Caverns in New Orleans in 1994. She has toured with many many performance pieces and plays, often incorporating “punky synchronized movements and experimental and/or funny singing/music.” She was n.
Dillon de Give grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and studied film at Northwestern University. He presents elementary school style plays and video pieces. He has shown work at the Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Margaret Thatcher Projects, and Canada galleries NYC among others. Dillon lives in Greenpoint Brooklyn and is writing his first feature length film called “In the Shower Going Over the Waterfall”. 
DiTolvo and her accordion are recent transplants to the Baltimore area from Seattle. DiTolvo was the ringmistress for three years for Carnival Reverie, played percussion for carnies in The Bad Things, and is otherwise associated with several other dark characters.
Paul Druecke resides in Milwaukee where he’s preoccupied, dramatically speaking, with the imminent death of a very dear friend. This friend, it so happens, is the distant relation of Frank Budgen, the Frank Budgen who was a friend of James Joyce’s. And this, tangentially, has given way to thinking that spam would’ve been a great medium for Joyce — the boozed up, near-blind, randy-old-smart alec broadcasting his forcefully playful language onto a public angry at the intrusion.