Artists & Models 2011 - RAPTURE/RUPTURE

Rock Harbor Yard - 57 Tonawanda St. Buffalo (Near intersection of Niagara, Rt. 198, and Forest)

18+ to enter, 21+ to drink
Parking available onsite!

Join us for Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture – a night of interactive art, dance music, live performances and all-out fun in the euphoric style for which Artists & Models is known. It's a journey to the exquisite, the ecstatic and the unrestrained, possibly to the point of implosion — and all with a celebratory air as more than thirty artists and performers interpret the theme and invite us into their revelry.

Buffalo's longest-running and most outrageously fun arts party — set in a giant creekside warehouse — Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture is an opportunity for everyone to enjoy as barriers between artists, models and audiences explode, leading to a frenzy of creativity and all-out surprise.

It's Artists & Models: Rapture/Rupture and it's happening only once, on Saturday May 21. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and are available at the outlets listed below. Cash bar (note: no ATM is available onsite). Must be 18 or over to attend. Must be 21 or older and have proper ID for beer and wine.

Over 30 Art Installations by:

Debora Bernagozzi - a large scale projection loop called Night Walk 4, experience a walk through the night in a small central NY village.
Jason Bernagozzi - a projection of mass media news pundits, rupturing and pixilating the too common news media manipulation.
Seth Tyler Black - Rupturing the body of canvas in 7 parts with throbbing lights.
James Boatwright, John Fink, Isaac DV Johnson, Anna Scime & Neil Terry - will absorb audience members into their "PIT" of mash-up media spewing vog with TV culture.
Michael Bosworth - Trebuchets gone wild, launching rubber balls through out the evening for patrons to catch in the patio area.
Victoria Bradbury & Mark Hursty - Metabellum - huge white inflatables, videoography, choreography, musicology, all come together.
Nelson Bradley - Barnum - a funny funhouse façade with viewfinders to see the hidden world behind the façade.
Scott Bye - Rapture/Rupture is a large scale sculpture made from multi-cube painted wood creating a stairway to the sky.
Justin Chouinard - The Amazing Exhibited Newborn - performers and video addressing the foundations of film combined with found footage.
Josh Cleminson & Monte Burman - Iceberg/Ice-cave-esque monuments, building up suspense as the night proceeds glowing and pulsing.
Kelly Cornelius - cocooned in a shell of white, dreaming, waking, sleeping symbolized through sound and image.
Cosmic Horses (Julia Prudhomme & Bethany Scholl) - Not the fort you made as a child, this large scale version will allow the audience can explore the space through visual, auditory and the sense of taste.
Katherine Gaudy - Rapture & Rupture experienced through the creative process, rupturing the audience from the world of subjective knowledge.
Jody Hanson - Bubbles and water cascading through light, fluid movement in real-time.
Paul Kochmanski - Lie on the couch and pour out your artistic soul to Dr. Kochmanski, he can cure you of your creativity.

Hacker Space/Buffalo Lab - James Andrix leads this troop of artists practicing experimental workshops for electronic, robotic & mechanical antics.
Jeffrey Lane - Recycled nightclub installations to wow us all.
Jeff Maciejewski - Grim House - a semi-apocalyptic miniature house no one can enter, but it will shake, talk and glow.
Jim McLaughlin - Jimyn the singing mime - need we say more.
Brian Milbrand & Jan Nagle - Daymares: Vignettes of the Prepocalypse - Two-screen video installation chasing 2 characters and their avatars.
Esther Neisen & Allie Brady - Art Gallery/Museum re-enactment of post binge curator - audience members make art in 5 minutes or less to fill empty frames for the "exhibit".
Nancy J. Parisi - Rapture/Rupture photo booth. Three large panels that revelers may stick their faces through to pose for and/or purchase Fuji Instmax pictures the size of a credit card.
Lee Somers & Elisabeth Pellathy - A circular room and a spinning mirror create an immersive environment
Real Dream Cabaret (John Carocci, Holly Johnson, Liz Knipe, Brian Milbrand) - Battle of the Raptures - Two competing religions and only one rapture, come and feel the spirit of a Real Dream tent revival.
Timothy Scaffidi, Alice Alexandrescu, Marc Tomko & Kevin O'Keefe - Punch Option 4 - a mixed reality fighting video game where participants control real people through game controllers.
Eric Souther - The Phonic Chorale - voices scrambling through a 576 LED board all the vowels and consonants in the English language prompting random light shows.
Susanne Stefanski, Scott Ries & Kristy Warmus - Posers: Keep the Change - backlit flickering images that audience members can be interact with.
Peter Tucker - an homage to Rev. Jesse Jackson's reading/preaching of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs & Ham, kneel at the kiosk and become an ordained minister too.
Goda Trakumaite - Become Debbie Harry for a moment.
Kit Young - News with melting talking heads, Action, chase, catastrophe, violence, Sexy, advertisements and melting pop stars.
On Site Artists Painting: A.J. Fries, Joyce Hill, Candace Keegan, Gennifer Felicity Krupper, Sarah Sutton, Chuck Tingley