Friday, November 17th, 2006
at Nexus Gallery

located at 137 North 2nd Street (between Arch and Race)

Featuring
ELYSA VOSHELL (Writer & Book Artist; Philadelphia)
JACK OHLY (Musician; Philadelphia)
ELAN/A. MARGOLIS (Filmmaker & Performer; New Jersey)

ELYSA VOSHELL’s fascination with the interplay between image and text has developed into an interdisciplinary practice centered in book arts. Elysa holds an MA in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and a BA in English Literature and Creative Writings from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work internationally at such venues as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Seoul International Artist’s Book Fair; and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. The artist’s imprint, After Nostalgia Press, is based in Philadelphia.

JACK OHLY is a multi-instrumentalist, song-writer who moves, in his own particular way, through a varied landscape of deep-rooted traditions and open-ended experimentation. He mainly performs on the upright bass, drawing on the wide tonal range of the instrument, from sparse plucked lines to ghostly harmonic bowing. In among his own songs, he often includes his interpretations of traditional ballads, mostly from the American south and the dry northeast of Brazil, where he has lived on and off over the last seven years. He is currently living in West Philadelphia and working on his first album.

ELAN/A. MARGOLIS is a performer, video maker, aspiring Yiddishist and general rabble rouser. Elan/a. takes special pleasure in embodying and exorcising personae of the perverse, delirious, schizophrenic, hysterical, haunted, and excessively verbose creation. Elan/a. will be performing an altered excerpt from Mame Loshn**: A Shtetl Spectacular, created in collaboration with Finley Kipp.

** Mame Loshn: {pronounced: mah-meh los-shun} Yiddish: Mother Tongue **