Free and Open to All {No Registration}
The Swannatopia Experimental Art Club will host a FASHION / PUPPET show on Friday, March 14th at BMCM+AC, featuring an improvised live scored orchestra, “river runway,” and a lineup of wearables exploring the theme: “How can we disappear but still be seen?”
This closing party will celebrate the exhibition DEER FREAKS…and decoys, located downstairs at BMCM+AC. DEER FREAKS…and decoys is a multi-media, multi-layered project of Swannatopia responding to The Farm at Black Mountain College exhibition. The installation at BMCM+AC explores the hyper-natural forces of attraction and repulsion informing our interactions with the landscapes we inhabit. From fence rows to scare-crows, DEER FREAKS documents the creative ways people propagate, shape, lure, and protect in their environments.
Bring binoculars and sunglasses to participate in “birding” during the show. Wear your finest deer / duck / turkey / moth / forest outfits and accessories. Want to join the runway and become part of this fashion experiment? Reach out to Swannatopia at swannatopia [@] gmail, or via their Instagram.
About the Artists:
Swannatopia is a group of experimental artists headquartered in Swannanoa, NC and residing throughout the Southeastern United States. Over the past decade, they have set out to blur the lines between “artist” and “participant”, to defamiliarize the familiar, to nurture an immersive, whimsical, thoughtful, experience of empowerment and offer a glimpse of what is possible. To this end, Swannatopia’s “Experimental Art Club” launched in 2021. An experiment in and of itself, the Experimental Art Club aims to facilitate the free exchange of knowledge, experience, tools and materials, while bringing the people together to “make stuff for fun!”. Today, the group’s multigenerational list of collaborators totals 50+. Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club has presented numerous installations locally and regionally, including at BMCM+AC’s annual {Re}HAPPENING.
