THE HISTORY OF MATRIX part 1|2|3|4|5|6

by Tony Brewer.

EXHIBITION

To fill the void left by the publication, MATRIX presented a week-long art exhibition, poetry and multi-media performance space February 14-19, 2000 at 119 E. Kirkwood.

Here we utilized every resource and contact we had acquired over the past year, and the results were extremely gratifying and successful by any measure.

Throughout the week hundreds of people came to view art work by Michael Monar, L. Christine Williams, Ruth Droppo, Dan Baucco, Greg Raisman, Susan Yount, and Amos Kennedy; to see films by Eve Hermann and Kyle McIntosh; and to hear music by Chapman Stick player Ty Connally, and poetry from Marc McKee, Paul Kirby, John Pearson and myself, special guests John Skuldt and Cynthia King, and poetry bands The Saboteurs and Coup Coup Daddy.

At last, we had provided a space -- albeit temporarily -- where we could display art for more than a couple of hours one night a month, and feature some of the newest and most unique literary performers in Bloomington. We also learned that we are understaffed to manage an event of such scope and duration.

Many details were left undone, including, unfortunately, adequate advertising. Still, MATRIX managed to bring together a wide array of artists and writers from the IU and Bloomington community. And, like the publication, we are already planning to do it again.

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