SECTIONS:Defender PicksDIMANCHEMay 19thBayou St. John (12:15 PM-9:15 PM) A music fest on the water featuring Alexis and the Samuri, Remedy Krewe, Fleur de Tease, Hot 8 Brass Band, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and more
Bayou St. John (11:00AM-1:00PM) Pocket Aces Brass Band and Bone Tone Brass lead this year's second line, which starts and ends at Bayou Boogaloo!
Divine Ladies, Unbreakable Men Central City (1 p.m) Second lines! Won't bow down!
Mid-City (All day) Church and a parade to celebrate the club's 104th year
House of Blues (9:00 PM) The Comedy Central comedian is here for some standup!
Big Top (7 p.m.) 8-16 piece traveilling circus punk troupe. Need we say more? Is there anymore to say? with Sammy Kay and the East Los Three, Dead Legends
Tigers, Bananas, Bears... Oh Yeah! Art Klub, 513 Elysian Fields Ave (8:00 PM) An interactive and sparkling performance presented by Nari Tomassetti
Shadowbox Theatre (8:00 PM) Straightforward conversational drama explores one area's gentrification through 50 years
Joe Krown feat. Russell Batiste and Walter "Wolfman" Washington Maple Leaf (10:30PM) Weekly gig on Oak with Krown on the organ, Washington firing up the guitar strings, and Batiste on the drums.
Hot 8 Brass Band Howlin’ Wolf Den (10:00PM) Weekly gig from some of the city’s best in brass
Sunday Youth Music Workshop Tipitina’s (1:00PM) All ages workshop with Johnny Vidacovich. Bring your instruments!
Cajun Fais Do Do Tipitina’s (5:30PM) Bruce Daigrepont is playing the washboard and getting you to bed early
Krewe du Guza Le Bon Temps Roule (10:00PM) Sunday Funday weekly gig from the husband and wife duo LundiMay 20thCafe Instanbul (7:00 PM) A Japanese film about a teenager’s strange venture into a haunted house
Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00 PM) King James & the Special Men Charmaine Neville Band New Orleans Jazz Vipers Papa Grows Funk |
Voodoo Fest Interactive Art: Face Forward For the last few years, Voodoo Fest has been ramping up its arts scene, with the goal of creating an “experience” of music, art and food substance to further alter the minds of its teenagers. One of this year’s artistic contributions is Face Forward, a huge interactive metal face controlled by onlookers.
Creator Christian Ristow has taken Face Forward all over the country, from the Maker Faire Bay Area in San Francisco to Baltimore Artscape and Burning Man. At Voodoo, it sits in the “Field of Dreams,” between the Le Carnival and Le Plur stages. Made of giant shining metal strips, the sculpture’s major fascia are controlled by a series of levers some thirty feet away. Ristow invites the public (that’s you!) to move the levers, raising the face’s eyebrows, moving its eyeballs and opening its mouth in a “constant ‘river’ of facial expressions”.
Made for contact with its audience, the sculpture invites group participation, with ten or more observers working together to create a recognizable emotion or mood. Though not all of the levers seemed to be functioning when yours truly tried it, the face was still highly expressive, its reflective silver eyes gazing into the sky over City Park.
Ristow’s work includes other huge interactive sculptures, like the Hand of Man (a hydraulic hand and forearm capable of crushing cars) as well as smaller metalworks and the intriguingly named Robochrist Industries. If you’re heading to the fest on its last day, take a minute to play with Face Forward. |
Contributors:Dead Huey Long, Emma Boyce, Ian Hoch, Sarah Esenwein, Ryan Sparks, Will Dilella, Chris Rinaldi, Lianna Patch, Phil Yiannopoulos, Cate Czarnecki, Jonas Griffin, Jennifer Abbot, Mary Kilpatrick, Elaina Patton, Mike Horst, Devin Bambrick, Katherine McGuire, Norris Ortolano, Joe Shriner Staff WritersRyan Sparks, Kerem Ozkan Listings Elisabeth Morgan Puzzler Paolo Roy Art Director: Michael Weber, B.A. Assistant Managing EditorMary-Devon Dupuy Managing EditorStephen Babcock Editor: B. E. Mintz Published Daily byMinced Media, Inc. |
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