Like the baseball cap you haven’t worn since you were twelve, Art Pop is going to be a pretty tight fit this year. Think of those socks that print marks into your ankles by the end of the day. Or turtlenecks that leave your neck feeling restricted, gasping for air. Art Pop 2008 will be just as exhilarating, minus the risks of bodily harm.

With live-drawing show-downs, electronic carnivals, multi-touch tables (I’m not explaining that one), superheroes, digital vandalism and teenage passions (I don’t need to explain that one), the Art Pop line-up for this year’s festival will remain on your clothes like the smell of campfire and settle on your shoes like dirty snow long after its over.

SURPRISE EVENT ON THE 5TH 

Cartune Xprez, a traveling animation party

Live multimedia performance by Hooliganship followed by an animation screening

October 5th, 9:30 pm

Sport Benfica, 100 Bernard West

The multimedia dance duo Hooliganship will present the freshest incarnation of "Cartune Xprez", an 80-minute program of short animated videos and performances that celebrates the wilderness of imagination through motion pictures. Featured artists include Bruce Bickford, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad and more. Alongside this cartoon theater they will be performing their most recent piece entitled "Realer" in which audiences strap on a pair of 3D glasses to bear witness to a televised parade gone awry.

This is a one-night event that has been in the works for 2 years. It is very special program with a collective resume including collaborations with Frank Zappa and major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many other institutions throughout the world.

http://www.cartunexprez.com