Rain Taxi Review of Books and the Southern Theater present:

APHRODITE'S BACK: A VALENTINE REVEAL

Join us as acclaimed Minnesota artists Harriet Bart, Nor Hall, and Franz Kamin offer a festive fifty-minute Valentine's Day performance, followed by wine, sparkling water, and delectable confections in the lobby.

Blending writing, sculpture, and music into a seamless whole, the three will offer a brief and scintillating semi-historical illustrated discursus on eros, featuring Nor Hall (as Professor Victoriana) on the archetypal background of Valentine's Day, a performance of "Coilular Angel" by composer Franz Kamin, and the book launch of visual artist Harriet Bart's PUNICA GRANATUM: A Symposium on the Nature of the Pomegranate & the Myth of Aphrodite. Simply put, this performance--the first time these three Twin Cities artists have appeared together--is not to be missed!

February 14, 2005, 8:00 pm
at the Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. South, Minneapolis.

Tickets for this event cost $7 each or 2/$14. Rain Taxi subscribers and Southern Theater members receive half-price tickets! Please check back for box office information.

photo by John Danielson

HARRIET BART,
visual artist known for her large-scale sculpture and installation projects, draws inspiration from her steadfast engagement with books and the written word. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the McKnight and Bush foundations. In 2002 and 2004, Bart was awarded Minnesota Book Awards for her fine press books Garment Register and The Poetry of Chance Encounters, respectively. Her work is included in the collections of many museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, and the Weisman Art Museum.

photo by Torill Edvardsen

NOR HALL,
writer and theater artist, is the author of five books, including The Moon and the Virgin: Images of the Archetypal Feminine (HarperCollins, 1980) and Irons in the Fire, a mythopoetics of molten iron (Barrytown, 2003). Practicing psychotherapist, dramaturg, and imaginal artist with a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Hall recently was awarded a Jerome Foundation grant to work on The Woman in the Attic, her seventh production with Archipelago Theater, which opens May 2005 in Chapel Hill. She serves as advisor to the Pantheater Myth and Theater project in France and to the Godiva Project in Coventry, England.

photo by Richard Gitler

FRANZ KAMIN,
pianist, writer, lyric mathematician and prolific composer, explores structural principles derived from topology, prosody, systems theory, and other esoteric/meditational processes in his work. His publications include the books Ann Margaret Loves You and Scribble Death (both published by Station Hill Press), the artists' book The Man Who Was Always Standing There (Granary Books, 1998), and the musical recordings Behavioral Drift II/Rugamool and Scribble Music Sampler. Kamin, who did graduate work in piano and composition at Indiana University, has performed over 200 piano concerts of his own work and that of other experimental composers since moving to St. Paul in 1990.