Sound/Art Event

Sound/Art Event
May 8
Chapel/Zelnick Pavilion

Poster by ?

Submission by Eric Paul

Caution Curves, Hand Fed Babies, Death Stud

Caution Curves, Hand Fed Babies, Death Stuff
Nov. 4
Eclectic

Poster by ?
Submission by Eric Paul

Drawing II One Night Stand

Drawing II One Night Stand
May 4, 2011
Drawing Studios

Poster by ?
Submission by Anwar Batte

Help me out if you know who made this!

V-Day 2008

V-Day 2008 - I Want You, We Can Do It
February 2008

Poster by ?
Submitted by Anwar Batte

Recollections:
"I've had the vagina posters for about a week, but never got around to scanning them until now. They were on the wall of a storage room in Film Hall, and the friend and Film Hall resident I was with assured me it was alright if I took them for this purpose (the archive). They're amazing, and I'm glad they lasted this long. [Unfortunate addendum: the poster that looks like Rosie the Riveter had some text in purple ("USDAN Tables", "VAGINA", the text torn off at the bottom which I just realized says "WEEK" and got stuck to the bottom of the other poster. Oops?), but I scanned these in grayscale." - Anwar

White Mice, Disappearer, Kentucky Fried Doom, Jock Jams, 2008

White Mice, Disappearer, Kentucky Fried Doom, Jock Jams
April 17, 2008
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Mary Longley

Recollections:
WestCo Cafe has this special reverberatory quality that makes certain kinds of loud live music performed in it have these strange high-pitched noise fragments that sound like little battles occurring right in the little canyon of your ear. Whenever I did loud shows here, lots of people would watch from outside because they didn't like this effect.

Zs, Omnitards, Dogs of War, Balloon, 2007

Zs, Omnitards, Dogs of War, Balloon, 2007
Fall 2007
Eclectic

Poster by Will Hood

The Moody Wallen Band, The Fok Police 2006

The Moody Wallen Band, The Folk Police
December 1, 2006
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Chris Santiago

Recollections:
Thursday nights in WestCo there were usually lots of party people wandering around, and a bunch of them wandered down into this concert. When they heard the Moody Wallen Band, I think they were scared and confused.

Dan Deacon, Alexis, Middle of the Road, Red Sweatpants Blue Sweatpants, 2007

Dan Deacon, Alexis, Middle of the Road, Red Sweatpants Blue Sweatpants
December 6, 2007
Eclectic GOTE Room

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Recollections:
Memorable Middle of the Road lyric:
"We're not here to offend or shock you, we're just here to moderately rock you!"
Memorable Red Sweatpants Blue Sweatpants lyric:
"Oh shit, my elastic's too tight, it chafes on my tummy it doesn't feel right"

Gergely and the Balkan Situations, The Fags, Death Stud, Folk Police, Omnitards, 2007

Gergely and the Balkan Situations, The Fags, Death Stud, Folk Police, Omnitards
Spring 2007
Well-Being House

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

The USAISAMONSTER, 2005 (?)

The USAISAMONSTER, Kites (I think?), 2005
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Jean Pockrus

Every one of these posters got ripped down, except for one that had been sneakily hidden inside the PAC phone booth.

Oneida, Ex-Models, Andrew Boatti, The Set of Red Things, The Hipster Youth, 2006

Oneida, Ex-Models, Andrew Boatti, The Set of Red Things, The Hipster Youth
Spring 2006
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Nautical Almanac, Athletic Automaton, Les Angles Morts, 2005

Nautical Almanac, Athletic Automaton, Les Angles Morts
October 9, 2005
WestCo Cafe

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Magik Markers, Bunnybrains, Jock Jams, 2006

Magik Markers, Bunnybrains, Jock Jams
Spring 2006
Multi-Purpose Room

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

Having some noisy, strange bands perform in the Multi-Purpose Room made for an extremely awkward interaction. I remember Elisa from Magik Markers pouring jug wine down the throats of somewhat willing audience members. Also my Sociology professor came!!

Japanther, 2006

Japanther
March 9, 2006
Eclectic

Poster by Nina Macintosh

Zombie Art Collective, 2004

Zombie Art Collective meetings
Fall 2004
Old Squash Courts

Top Poster by Mattio Montesano
Bottom Poster by Steph Carlisle

Recollections:
The only student group to hold meetings in the old squash courts. I'm not sure how to describe Zombie Art Collective, does someone else want to try?

Steph, founder/Zombie/etc. says:
"The ZOMBIE ART COLLECTIVE is about resurrection.
We’re brewing up a refined mixture of creativity, spontaneity, madness, wild abandon, and injecting it into the COMMUNITY we mistake for Wesleyan.
We are awakening the dead.
We too are ZOMBIES. We are conditioned by our environment, by society and culture and structure.
We are strange in behavior and appearance.
We control nothing at all. Yet, we act.
For most, art is a LUXURY. It is EXCLUSIVE, it is SHELTERED, it is EXPENSIVE and it is THEORETICAL. Here at ZAC, we believe in cheap art & collaborative laughter
We believe that everyone can and should make art, that we can be drenched in it.


1ST MEETING:
WEDNESDAY 10PM
OLD SQUASH COURTS

We’ll talk about projects for this semester: about puppets and happenings and blood and installations and films. "

She Calls Me Daddy, 2004

She Calls Me Daddy Auditions
Fall 2004
Foss Hill

Recollections:
Absurdist a capella group She Calls Me Daddy did a memorable rendition of 4'33" as I remember.

Quintet and Projections, 2004

Quintets and Projections
December 2, 2004
Multi-Purpose Room

Poster by Carl Testa

Tim Olive, Corrie Befort, Jonathan Chen, Jonathan Zorn, Rachel Thompson, Kyle Brenders, 2005

Tim Olive, Corrie Befort, Jonathan Chen, Jonathan Zorn, Rachel Thompson, Kyle Brenders
May 3, 2005
Multi-Purpose Room

Poster by Jonathan Zorn

Mao Foam

Mao Foam
Spring 2005
WESU

Poster by Brendan O'Connell

This is the poster I made for my first show on WESU, Mao Foam.

Little Wings, Tigersaw, Paper, 2004

Little Wings, Tigersaw, Paper
November 15, 2004
1 Pearl Place

Poster by Jonah Stern

Beautiful poster, very nice music too! You gotta click on this one to see the nice details.

House of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves
October 28-30, 2004
92 Theatre

Poster by ?

I was obsessed with this poster. There were lots of them up and I thought they were really neat. I never went to the play, though.

Dumpster Diving Workshop, 2004, 2005, 2006

The Art of Dumpster Diving
October 2004
Earth House

Poster by Brendan O'Connell


The Art of Dumpster Diving
October 11, 2005
Well-Being House

Poster by Brendan O'Connell


Dumpster Diving: A Workshop
November 8, 2006
Community Services House

Poster by Jean Pockrus

The Dirty Projectors, The Set of Red Things, La Fash, Pregnant Rainbow, Dirty Art Project, 2005

Dirty Projectors, The Set of Red Things, La Fash, Pregnant Rainbow, Dirty Art Project
February 25, 2005
WestCo Cafe

Posters 1+2 by Brendan O'Connell
Poster 3 by ?

Dirty Projectors played an acoustic set with a bassist and two backup singers to about 15 people in WestCo Cafe, and it was fucking beautiful.

Chromeo, Need New Body, Jeffrey Lewis

Chromeo, Need New Body, Jeffrey Lewis
April 2, 2005
Eclectic

Poster by Brendan O'Connell
I think this show happened. I didn't go to it. I just made a poster. Anyone remember this show?

Calvin Johnson, Dylan Rau 2004

Calvin Johnson, Dylan Rau
October 1, 2004
Earth House

Poster by Natalie Gans

Earth House was the designated venue for sit-down, acoustic-y shows 2004-2007.

Crash Doug Bennet's house

Crash Doug Bennet's fancy party
September 28, 2004
Doug Bennet's house

I love posters for events that never happened! This is all that exists to document the (non)-event of a group of activists crashing Doug Bennet's house party. I love Jean's cartoon of Dougie B popping the gender-neutral housing balloon!

Poster by Jean Pockrus.

The Apes, Oneida, Dirty Faces, Trophy Wives, La Spanka, Man vs. Beast, 2005

The Apes, Oneida, Dirty Faces, Trophy Wives, La Spanka, Man vs. Beast
February 26, 2005
Eclectic

Poster by Mario Aguilar

This show featured all of Dave Kadden's favorite bands. I remember that Oneida went on at about 2am, and played one song for about a half hour.

Mario says, "This was an incredible show. I got dumped at this party. MVB wrecked the place (literally)"

Aa, Athletic Automaton, The Set of Red Things, La Fash 2004

Aa, Athletic Automaton, The Set of Red Things, La Fash
November 20, 2004
Eclectic

I love the little red area Mark colored in as a visual representation/logo for his group, The Set of Red Things.

Poster by Mark Bray.

Awesomefest 2004 + 2005

Awesomefest
October 22, 2004
WestCo Cafe

Top poster by Jack Reilly
Bottom poster by Brendan O'Connell

Awesomefest was a yearly festival showcasing bands that had been formed in the past year at Wes. It took place in November each year. Each new band could play for 20 minutes. It wasn't uncommon for people to form "Awesomefest Bands" just to play this show - you had a built-in audience of the friends of 15 other new bands.

Sociology Department, 2004

"Sociology Department/Fuck CSS" poster
Fall 2004

Poster by ?

CSS made these tacky posters in 2004 about how CSS was "more than just a major", and plastered the Wesleyan campus with them. Someone took one of said CSS posters, scribbled all over it, and made this badass response.