Visual art, experimental art, indie rock music, poetry, spoken word, experimental theater, electronic music, Surrealism, collage, dada, Max Ernst, Picabia, Tanguy, Miro, Paul Eluard, Apollinaire, Andre Breton, Man Ray, Paul Klee, Victor Brauner, Brawnyman, Kurt Seligmann, Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, Jacques Vache, Duchamp, Johannes Baargeld, Rene Char, Hans Bellmer, Leonora Carrington, Raoul Hausmann, Max Jacob, etc.....
Music
VU, Brian Eno, The Cars, Luna, Yo La Tengo, American Analog Set, Prince, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Joy Division, old school funk and soul, delta blues, Beat Happening, indie rock, Sparklehorse, Suicide, Guided by Voices, ambient, electronica, Johnny Cash, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Feelies, the list goes on and on.
Movies
The Innate's video of Big Car NYE 06
Books
Karl Blau, Drew Danburry and others playing at Big Car (you can see what the place is like)
Big Car reads books. Try Brautigan, Bukowski, Vonnegut, Kerouac, Henry Miller, Werner Spies, Kenneth Patchen and Neruda.
Heroes
Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning, the Marx Brothers, the Beatles, Marcel Duchamp ...
Karl Blau, Drew Danburry and others playing at Big Car (you can see what the place is like)
About me: Be sure to visit our official website at: www.bigcar.org!
Big Car is a non-profit 501c3 arts organization with a gallery and performance venue in the Fountain Square neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana. In our space in the Murphy Art Center, we host live music, spoken word events, and a new art show each month. We prefer work -- be it visual, words or music -- that is doing something new, that is taking a chance, that bends reality into something that wasn't there before. We like experiments. We like darkness. We like work with an edge. We like humor. We like to have fun doing something new.
WANT TO SEE PICTURES FROM BIG CAR SHOWS AND EVENTS?
Then follow this link to our Flickr account where you can view slideshows and even move the photos to your very own computer: CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS.
Coming up:
48 Hour Film Project returns to Indianapolis
Here's your chance to see your film screened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Get a team together now and get registered for the 2009 Indianapolis portion of the 48 Hour Film Project, an international competition of short films made in 48 hours, returning to Indianapolis July 31-Aug. 2. The screening of the 4-7 minute films happens on Aug. 6 at The Toby at the IMA. To register, visit www.48hourfilm.com/indianapolis. Registration is based on a first-come first-served basis and space is limited. The cost to register is $135 per team until July 6. Then it goes up to $155. Teams can register until July 31. Information about prizes can be found here: www.48hourfilm.com/filmmakers/prizes.php.
Big Car Collective is producing the Indianapolis part of the 48 Hour Film Project.
Important dates:
Best of 2008 screening and last-minute info session - 7 p.m. on July 29 at Indianapolis Central Library, 40 E. Saint Clair St.
Competition - July 31-Aug. 2 with kickoff and drop off at The Brass Ring Lounge, 1245 S. Shelby St.
Big Curiosities: A Miniseries of Mysterious Events
Indianapolis Central Library
40 E. Saint Clair St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
All events start at 7 p.m. and are free.
All take place in Clowes Auditorium.
The series is presented by Big Car Collective and the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, and supported by The Efroymson Family Fund. It is linked to the library's fall adult reading program.
Aug. 26: Local experimental music group Big Robot will provide a soundtrack to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a 1919 silent film by Robert Wiene. The moody horror film came at height of German Expressionist cinema. With its surreal sets and distorted camera angles representing madness and nightmare, this silent classic follows the story of the evil hypnotist Caligari and his unwitting sleepwalker pawn as they create fear and mystery.
Sept. 30: Jeffrey Meldrum, a prominent researcher on Sasquatch and professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University presents a talk. Also a preview of Big Car Gallery's Bigfoot-themed art show for October, opening Oct. 2.
Meldrum's interest in Bigfoot grew after being shown 15-inch footprints in a plowed field near Walla Walla, Washington. Although initially believing the tracks to be forgeries, upon further examination he noticed what he believes is evidence of a high degree of flexibility in the print and a mid-tarsal break, traits he has come to believe belong to Bigfoot. Meldrum has published several academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch and is a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. Meldrum is the author of the 2006 book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, a companion volume to the Discovery Channel documentary of the same name.
Oct. 28: Big Car Collective assembles an unusual orchestra of experimental musicians to create a spooky and spontaneous soundtrack to the 1920 silent version of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde -- just in time for Halloween. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel about the dark side of human nature comes to life with silent-era heartthrob John Barrymore as upright Dr. Jekyll and demonic Mr. Hyde. A dinner conversation on the topic of human duality at a dinner party prompts Jekyll to concoct a potion to divide the human psyche's two sides: good and evil. Soon, the dark side takes over to deadly results. All will be accompanied by a live soundtrack featuring a Tonos Triad, Shiny Black Shirt and others.
Nov. 5: UFO expert Stanton Friedman presents a talk. Also a preview of Big Car's outer-space art show for November, opening Nov. 6.
Friedman became interested in UFOs in 1958, and since 1967 has lectured about them at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, nine Canadian provinces and 16 other countries in addition to various nuclear consulting efforts. He has published more than 90 UFO papers and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs including on Larry King in 2007 and twice in 2008, and many documentaries. He is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident and co-authored "Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident." "TOP SECRET/MAJIC," his controversial book about the Majestic 12 group, established in 1947 to deal with alien technology, was published in 1996 and went through six printings.
Q: How do I get to Big Car Gallery?
A: Go to the corner of Woodlawn and Virginia Ave. in Fountain Square just southeast of Downtown. Turn right on Woodlawn (at Skip's Market) and left on St. Patrick's. Park behind the Murphy Art Center and enter through the glass back door with the Big Car sign. Or park along Virginia Ave. and walk around to the back of the building and enter. It is also OK to pass through somewhere cool downstairs (be sure to stop and check it out) and then access Big Car from the back hallway. The gallery is upstairs in Suite 215.
Big Car is located at 1043 Virginia Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46203 in Fountain Square on the south end of Downtown. Whenever we have a new Big Car event, this will be the place to find information about it. All events are free (donations encouraged) unless noted otherwise. All art shows start at 6 p.m. and fall on the first Friday of the month in conjunction with the local IDADA First Friday Gallery Tour.
Our hours are 5-7 on Fridays and 1-4 on Saturdays and by appointment each week.
