Dialect Meditates w/ John W. Love. Jr.

If you haven't heard: John W. Love Jr. holds a guided mediation at Dialect every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. To join you can contact him through our website at dialectdesign.com or his contact info below. But whatever you do, please make sure to read his latest email invitation. And just to let you know they are this juicy evvery single week: >> MONDAY - Dialect Design TUESDAY - Dialect Design WEDNESDAY - Dialect Design FLY When Despair arrived...this time she was already standing at the door with a mantra on her lips and a sachet of silky and crystalline vision tucked behind her third rib; standing at the door clothed in nothing but her radiance and her highest heels. "Everything I do brings me joy and I enjoy everything I do...I bring joy to everything I do...I bring joy to everything I do...", she murmured. Then bolted. "So you're running now.", Despair spat into the wind. "You're running from me but what are you running towards, LaDonnia?! Who's your lover now, my desperate dearest?" "Perpetuating joy, I bring joy to everything I do...I bring joy to everything I do...", she whispered over a bare shoulder. "It is with pleasure that I'm leaving your vile ass you intoxicating sonuvabitch. I am my lover now! I am running into the tear stained face of Bliss! I am running into the ceaseless embrace of The Lovely! I am running into the endlessness of The Yummy! I am running into the endlessness of The Yummy! I am running into the endlessness of The Yummy!", and without warning she took flight startling even the wing-ed ones charged to accompany her on her journey. Take unabashed flight and let all of existence catch up with you. Take unabashed flight and look back only to entertain yourself with how pretty your ass continues to look. Take unabashed flight and apologize for nothing. Your current has arrived. Your winds should be picking you up right about...now! Breathe. Fly into your Yummy. Breathe. Fly into your Yummy. Breathe. Fly. Breathe. To CONFIRM attendance: EMAIL me by 10AM THE DAY OF THE MEDITATION CALL OR TEXT by 12 NOON THE DAY OF If I don't hear from anyone, the evening's session will be canceled. If I do hear from you, you know the times and places... 6:30p MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY Dialect Design 3204-C North Davidson Street Charlotte, NC 28205 [Between the blocks of 35th and 36th, Across the street from Cabo Fish Taco and Dolce Vita Wine Bar, To the right of the fire station, Above the old Center of the Earth Gallery, Upstairs and to the left!] $15 or WHATEVER YOU'RE MOVED TO DO donation/love offering Bring a cushion, blanket, or pillow if you'd like the floor. We also have very limited chair options! If you're interested in private sessions or group sessions on other days, speak it! L 704 807 1110

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Dialect Night "T2 - An Exhibition Of 3D Animatioin & Sound Artwork

Come on out to our next Dialect Night, this Friday, February 11th, from 6 to 9 pm. We will be exploring art through digital media:

Tohm Judson and Thomas Tucker will talk and showcase their collaborative experimental drawing/sculptural/animation/sound artwork on Friday, February 11, 2011. Tohm will talk about his approach toward electronic sound design using software created with Max/MSP/Jitter. The sounds created for this project are derived from the visual forms and structure created in the 3D space, tracking both the real-time video and the permanent piece and using it for sound creation. Thomas will talk about the collaborative process and the different uses of 3D animation using particle systems, 3D printouts, layered drawing and laser cutting.

See our invitation on our Dialect Design website, or on our Dialect Night facebook page!

John W. Love Jr. in Charlotte's Creative Loafing

Read a wonderful article on John W. Love Jr. in Charlotte's Creative Loafing:

<< "All the labels don't really mean anything to me, but they help people in terms of figuring out a place to put me," he said. "For me, it's all about creativity; it all comes from the same place. It's all rich expressions of this crazy imagination of mine, and I will use whatever medium is at my disposal."

Love, a Charlotte native, has traveled the world performing and showing his work, which has appeared in exhibits, on stage and in public spaces across the globe — from the bright lights of New York to Sweden. He has a strong drive to create and finds the beauty in the simplicity of everyday life.
"Everything is an influence," he said. "I'm inspired by the poetry of life ... by the poetic moments of existence. That can be the way an elderly person is walking down the street or it can be something gorgeous that I just read or witnessed." But Love is quick to point out that he doesn't draw his inspiration from other artists.
"As a creative, I've never been one to emulate others," he said. "I've never been one to sort of look for myself in somebody else's work. I don't get my validation creatively from that or get my validation as a human being that way."
As all over the place as Love is with his artistic pursuits (he even teaches a meditation class three times a week at Dialect Design), there is structure in his madness. A trained dancer, singer and actor, he takes his work seriously. "A lot of people think that artists just do what they feel, which makes me chuckle — because the reality is, even if you're doing what you feel, there has to be a level of craft and discipline to bring what you feel to life," he said. "I'm incredibly analytical when it comes to my work, and I think that shows." >>

Read the whole article and find a video clip at Creative Loafing.

TATSUYA NAKATANI and GREAT ARCHITECT and DIALECT STUDIOS' ARTISTS

We enjoyed an intriguing Dialect Night Special this Sunday at our studio gallery. Brent Bagwell had organized a performance by his free improv Jazz ensemble Great Architect and a musical percussion-sound-performance by Tatsuya Nakatani. Meanwhile the artists creatively working in our studios displayed their work.
All their efforts formed into a magical night with a lot of wonders and creative energies overlaying themselves to a sexy fabric.
Great Architect played for the third time this evening at Dialect and this time calmly and groundedly found a rhythmic base and creative interplay that showed a comfort and trust in the space and their creativity. it was their best performance yet.


Tatsuya Nakatani, meanwhile, filled the place with reverberating deep bellows and changing rhythmic overtones with gongs of different size and tonality. He squeezed and gently tickled a cacophony of sounds out of them with mesmerizing artistry. He moved on to a toolbox full of collected percussion toys and found objects that he had dance on a snare drum in an acrobatic frenzy, creating magical sounds, drawing unimaginable sound images out of his instruments, while finding percussionist vibrations with various mallets and a smoothly vibrating fluttering right foot on a base. It was mesmerizing.


If that wasn't enough, Taryn Rubin, Amy Bagwell, and Rae LeGrone showed off their visual and poetic artistry with a carefully crafted exhibition. Their work was playful, meticulous, and searching for questions unasked.
We walked away invigorated, tossed about, and greatly inspired.
Thank you!

The summer is over, folks - "Dialect Night" is back on - Sept. 10, Antoine Williams & Kirsten Hemmy

Come on out for great night with exceptional art from Antoine Williams and poetry by Kirsten Hemmy!

The Charlotte Observer - "A cabinet of curiosities and one-person shows"

This is what Linda Brown wrote in the Charlotte Observer about our current show:

"At Dialect, which functions as an architectural studio in NoDa by day, a multimedia art exhibit, Instructions for Displacements combines fiction, photography, sculpture, and sound design. Themes include "Lost children, found trash, dirt-encrusted manuscripts, secret chambers, and hypnotic soundscapes."

A free-form wall piece by Diana Arvanites, "Mister Pastor's Wall of Curiosities," constructed of string and found objects, includes a real-life cassette tape. This obsolete artifact swings indolently above a dangling plastic Batman figure. Nearby, limbs of chubby china dolls, a bottle opener, tiny vertebrae, a cicada shell, red wax lips, various knobs, spools and buttons, and a couple of 19th century silhouettes are suspended by thread.

In some ways, Arvanites' installations revisit 19th-century "cabinets of curiosities," such as the collections by the natural scientist Albertus Seba. But whereas Seba focused on things rare and marvelous, Arvanites highlights the commonplace laced with post-modern irony.

Across town on the edge of South End, Joie Lassiter has provided Barbara Schreiber and Peggy Rivers with the discrete spaces needed to showcase their very different art."

Read the full article here >>

The Battle of Algier - This Sunday in NoDa

Or in Jeff Jackson's won words:

"I wanted to let you know that I’m resurrecting the NODA Film Festival name to show THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS next Sunday at 4 pm at the Neighborhood Theater. It’s a one-off screening with the Light Factory and God City.

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS is both a thought-provoking political film and a gripping action thriller. It’s not well known because it was suppressed in the years after its release. It was initially nominated for 3 Academy Awards. The Pentagon made it required viewing for their staff before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It’s still timely and entertaining and something that needs to be seen on the big screen.

As always, this is a super-grassroots initiative"

Dialect Meditates w/ John W. Love Jr.

Dialect Meditates with John W. Love Jr. on Tuesdays. Here in our studio gallery. Read his last invitation. If you like to join, call him. Or go to our webinfo on the meditations. Or send him and email (love@johnwlovejr.com)!

TUESDAY! - Dialect Design

A SIMPLE YES

Make it as simple as possible.
Breathe yourself into yes...and enjoy.

Breathe. Enjoy. Breathe. Allow. Breathe. Flow. Breathe. Vibrate. Breathe.


To CONFIRM attendance:
EMAIL me by 10AM TUESDAY
CALL OR TEXT by 12 NOON TUESDAY
If I don't hear from anyone, the evening's session will be canceled.
If I do hear from you, you know the time and place...

6:30p

Dialect Design

3204-C North Davidson Street
Charlotte, NC 28205
[Upstairs and to the left! New Tuesday location!]

$15 or WHATEVER YOU'RE MOVED TO DO donation/love offering

Bring a cushion, blanket, or pillow if you'd like the floor.
We also have chair options!

If you're interested in private sessions or group sessions on other days, speak it!

L
704 807 1110

"Instructions for Displacements" - Jeff Jackson, Armando Bellmas, Diana Arvanites, Ross Wilbanks

See you this Friday, April 9th, for another gorgeous Dialect Night ....mmmmhh, delicious!

Bring a bottle of wine or your favorite Tea. This one is going to be off the hook. You are going to walk away loving your self, loving life, all over.

New Studio Space available in NoDa!

We have added on to our studio/gallery and are now offering studio spaces for artist or folks who need a small office space in a creative environment.
Come by and take a look!