For your viewing pleasure, is a pastiche of artistic activity by myself, Michael G. Bauer which includes drawing, collaboration and music.  These works often attempt to create platforms of equanimity and cooperation,  Much of the work feature the Meditational Love Drawings.  All of the Meditational Love Drawings are built on the writing of love over and over to form amorphous, spacey abstractions.  Current projects include The Historical Gift Chronology, which attempt to create an idiosyncratic history of people, places and things that could be viewed as gifts to mankind. Free is a compilation of small zines, drawings and performances which attempt to provide free art in a wide range of circumstances and communities.  Other collaborative projects include The Los Cago Bridge of Artistic Goodwill, The Cold Call Friendly Phone Book, The World’s Open House, The Confederacy of Creative Ephemera, Thank You Rosekind.  Keywords include free art, love drawings, social practice, free art, re-enchantment of art, collaboration, 

 

artist meditational love drawings, gift drawings, generosity as explored in art, performative adventures, thank tank, repetitive textual explorations, the artistic alchemists, make it all free please, free art, mantras, collaboration, los cago open house bridge of artistic goodwill, world open house bridge of artistic goodwill, the new new school.


UPCOMING INVOLVEMENT:


May 26th 2009

Ongoing class on Vagabondism through the Public School, facilitated and organized by Scott Rigby @ Basekamp, Michael G. Bauer, Robert Summers and Adam Katz. You can hear the exploratory proposal @ The World’s Open House Online Radio.


Friday April 17th, 2009

Two new websites, documenting recent collaborative activity:


THANK TANK

           

WOH



Friday April 10th, 9:30 pm EST

Cold Call Friendly Phone Book evening at Outpost, organized by Mathew Timmons, myself and InCUBATE.  There will be shared interstate group activity, and we will be making calls to friendly strangers throughout the country from the first and 2nd edition (currently in the works).  The CCFPB stems from The Los Cago Bridge of Artistic Goodwill I launched in March of 2008 at InCUBATE.






Sunday 22 March 4–8pm

ASDF

IN REAL LIFE At Capricious Space, Organized by Laurel Ptak

An exhibition that invites innovative and independent online art initiatives to each come do a 4-hour residency.


With Mylinh Nguyen sitting in the gallery and David Horvitz chatting live from Golden Age in Chicago, ASDF will make available an ephemeral show of 48 artists existing for only 4 hours. Each art work will be available, one at a time, for only 5 minutes. The works will be sized to print and available for download.



Thursday March 12th 8pm

Thank You Rosekind musical performance @ The Mitten, West Philadelphia.