Closing Party for Darryl Ferrucci's art show "SHOT UP"

Thu, Mar 30
6:00 pm till whenever
free

CLOSING PARTY for Darryl Ferrucci's art show "SHOT UP":

This Thurs, March 30, 6:00 pm, at The Attic, 931 Pacific Ave, Santa
Cruz.

Featuring a live audience participation shooting range in the
gallery! 6:00-9:00 pm. With a pellet gun & qualified rangemaster.
Safety assured. Practice your aim on paper targets of old cars and
trucks.

Al Frisby on slide guitar: 8:30 pm.

PLUS: the 2nd anniversary party of the S.C. Institute of Contemporary
art.

About the project:

America seems to have given up her claim to the title "Land of the
Free"; but in certain pockets of what used to be the fabled Old West,
some Americans still perform a traditional ritual of Freedom,
Individuality, and the Right to Bear Arms, by hauling old cars and
other pieces of metal junk out to desolate areas and blasting them
full of bullet holes.

In a milieu flavored with desert dust, Jack Daniels, cold Budweiser,
and hot lead, the gun-toting American Individualist inadvertantly
creates poignant works of art-swan songs for The American Dream, writ
in holy metal. Detroit's finest American Steel, a longtime symbol of
national pride, becomes a canvas on which the shooter inscribes the
traces of his passions.

As the ritual unfolds, the atmosphere of the classic Western film is
evoked by the booming of gunfire in the wilderness, the eerie whine
of ricochets echoing through the hills, and the occasional spirited
cry of "Yee Haw!".

In "SHOT UP" I recontextualize some of the beautiful results of this
quintessentially American process-and create some new pieces of my
own, in a series of collaborative ritual enactments .

-Darryl Ferrucci

Showing March 3-30, 2006 at The Attic, 931 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Presented by the Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art.


Info on the project, with pictures:

www.ferrucci.com/shotup

Recent Good Times article:

www.gtweekly.com/arts/story.2006-03-08.5366720186

Also look for coverage in Wednesday's Metro, Santa Cruz, and
hopefully Thursday's Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Venue:

The Attic
913 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz
831-460-1800
http://www.theatticsantacruz.com

Additional Info:


http://www.ferrucci.com/shotup