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Cassandra Troyan's Your Life is Not my Playground at ROY G BIV Gallery and Eva Ball and Ian Ruffino's Delusion of Eating at The Shelf (which included an exhibition catalogue I wrote an essay for) are both on the Columbus Alive's Best of the Arts 2010 list.

Is this A: a righteous commendation or B: a wicked damning?

Another Troyan (and Jordan Castro, Sara Drake (M.I.A), Lyra Hill, Tao Lin, et al) related piece of information from Steve Roggenbuck:

Delusion of Eating Exhibition and Essay

I wrote an essay for the Delusion of Eating exhibition catalogue entitled "People Eat so They Don't Die." You can read that essay after "the jump."

The opening of the exhibition happens October 7th from 6 - 9 p.m. at The Shelf on 57 E. Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio. The catalogue is limited to 75 copies and can be pre-ordered here. It includes writing by Eva Ball and Ian Ruffino (the curators), as well as Wes Flexner, Matt Morris, and myself. In addition to the writing, the catalogue has full color reproductions of the work in the show, including pieces by Grant LaValley, John Malta, Dan Olsen, Dina Sherman, and other Columbus-related artists.

The overview of the show goes as such:

"The Delusion of Eating exhibit presents a national array of artworks that eloquently use the marketed spectacle of eating as the material to explore how capitalism creates an isolating desire.Works include video, painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and text; all creating a discourse about our lives in the contemporary situation where ideologies about eating are shifting away from science-lab food products and into marketed desires for ‘natural’ ‘slow’ food stuffs, while for the majority of Americans these ‘local’ foods are out of the question due to geography and class."

The Delusion of Eating closes November 27, 2010. 
Lecture with the Curators: Thursday November 11 | 7 to 8pm

Delusion of Eating Performances: Friday, November 26 | 9 to 11pm

For more information go to the Vince Chocolate website or the Delusion of Eating’s Facebook.

Two New Columbus Zines.

Two new zines are out in Columbus - "Black Cloud" and "Candygram." Full blogger disclosure: I am indirectly involved with both. Bret's "The Black Cloud #3" is a community affair that has a pretty classic Brian Deller story, a State of the Neighborhood address from present and future politico Miles Curtiss and contributions from Nick Crane and Meg O'Malley. Ana from Painkiller provides a sweet illustration reproduced below. There is also a reprint of my "When the Students Are Away..." poster.

More on Candygram, buttons, a bad story and something about editions after "the Jump."