You Oughta Be In Fangs May 29, 2009

You Oughta Be In Fangs

A special event party designed and directed by Death by Design.

One Night Only: May 29th, 2009
The Museum of Surgical Science
8:30-11:30 pm
V.I.P party starts at 7:30

CHICAGO: Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and free-flowing booze, head to a secret speakeasy run by the conjoined Whisper Sisters. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, the Sisters entice their guests with vampish performers, seductive strains and intoxicating elixirs. But watch your step – lest you should shimmy straight into the arms of their Vampire suitors, who slip incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to their brood.

Join us for our first artist-directed fundraiser, You Oughta Be in Fangs by Death by Design. Featuring hot-jazz by D.J. Coffin Banger, a medicine show by Sanjula Vamana, vampire bites by The Bleeding Heart Bakery, open casket portraits, a secret potion hunt, prohibition era coffin varnish (ie. booze) and much much more.

You Oughta Be in Fangs is a prohibition era meets the undead, housed in Chicago’s spectacular The International Museum of Surgical Science. Unlike any event threewalls has ever held, You Oughta Be in Fangs is our first spring fundraiser, a new annual artist designed and directed ‘experience’ where guests become ‘part of the art’.

Tickets are available online at www.three-walls.org/about/support/ at the General Admission, V.I.P and Sponsorship levels. V.I.Ps are invited for a special hour of savory foods, burlesque entertainment and unique artist multiples as part of their ticket. All funds raised go to support threewalls programs: international residencies, regional exhibition program, exchange shows, SALONS, symposiums and publishing.

Death by Design, Co., is a special effects and video-based company established by artists Michelle Maynard and Teena McClelland in May 2005. The Death by Design team constructs film sets and immersive environments at select locations where clients are invited to enter the set and engage in an in-depth conversation with life through their own "Hollywood" death. Visitors can either watch the action unfold or be part of the story-line, infiltrating the artwork as live (and dead) bodies. You Oughta Be In Fangs is their first ‘party’ environment/installation, where party-goers, immersed in the set, become characters in a speak-easy riddled with the undead.

Providing a humorous option to mundane death through extreme situations and stunning visuals, Death By Design, Co. seek to offer a safe vehicle for exploring ideas on myth, storytelling, cinematic illusion, celebrity, and our own mortality through the incorporation of the formal appeal of splattered gore with a narrative structure.

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Take a bite of the visual arts and help support threewalls support artists.

threewalls is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to increasing Chicago’s cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse, and by creating a locus of exchange between local, national and international contemporary art communities through a range of programs: threewallsresidency, SOLO, X, salons and press.

threewalls is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; by a CityArts Program I grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; ArtsWork Fund for Organizational Development; The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Richard M. and Elizabeth M. Ross Foundation; The Alphawood Foundation; The MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; and major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Official Website: http://www.three-walls.org