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Grageriart’s Design 4 Everyone (D4E)

created & performed by Lana Lesley & Peter Stopschinski
with Mari Akita, Eliza Renner, and Leslie Bonnell
gragerifurniture art from Aron Taylor

The Black Friday shows were shoptastic. If you missed them, you can still get in on the YouTube micro-video series – a new video premieres weekly every Friday at 10:30 a.m.

Grageriart is a band, a store, an idea, and a collaboration. A sonic exploration of mindless consumption, home shopping catalogues, and desperation. A celebration of our obsession with planned obsolescence. Enjoy vegan snacks if we make them. Browse our clothing line if we bring it. Take in a live performance of the Grageriart audio experience.

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About the Night

It’s an auditory trip down the aisle of your favorite home shopping catalogue.
It’s about robots and experts.
It’s about consumerism.
It’s about biscuits and lemon bars, coffee and avocado toast.
It’s about impermanence.
It’s about experts.
It’s about synthesizers and vocal f/x.
It’s about planned obsolescence.
It’s about Småbits.

Press

Arts Writing

With “Design for Everyone,” Grageriart adds to its shopping cart– Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Sightlines Magazine, Jul 2019

Back for Black Friday — Grageriart’s “Design 4 Everyone” – Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Sightlines Magazine, Nov 2019

Reviews & Citations

Wayne Alan Brenner’s 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019 – Wayne Alan Brenner, Austin Chronicle December 2019

Grageriart’s Design 4 Everyone at Crashbox: Math rock is hard, let’s go shopping with some robots – Wayne Alan Brenner, Austin Chronicle, July 2019

Grageriart Goes Shopping – Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Sightlines Magazine, Nov 2018

Video

There will be micro videos, but those won’t be here. They will be on https://grageriart.com

Production History

Grageriart’s Design for Everyone

created & performed by Lana Lesley & Peter Stopschinski

November 29 – December 1, 2019 at CRASHBOX
created & performed by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley
gragerieography by Mari Akita performed by Mari Akita and Eliza Renner
produced by Rude Mechs
light design by Jennifer Crump
costume design by Leslie Bonnell
furnisculpture by Aron Taylor
operator Daniel Sullivan

July 27 & 28, 2019 at CRASHBOX
created & performed by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley
gragerieography by Mari Akita performed by Mari Akita and Eliza Renner
produced by Rude Mechs
light design by Jennifer Crump
costume design by Leslie Bonnell
furnisculpture by Aron Taylor
crew Cal Ussery

Grageriart’s Garage Art

created & performed by Lana Lesley & Peter Stopschinski

Grageriart’s Garage Art was first workshopped in December 2018, January 2019 in Peter and Lana’s garage.

“A tree takes about 70 years to grow.” – IKEA catalogue 2017

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December 2018 & January 2019
8 garage performances
created & performed by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley.
Produced by Rude Mechs
Show Crew – Mari Akita & Eliza Renner
Garage Set, Light, Video Design – Lana Lesley
Outdoor furniture installation – Aron Taylor & Peter Stopschinski

Production Stills

Design for Everyone
 

Promotional Shots

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Production Support

Grageriart is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, because a great nation deserves great art.

Rude Mechs is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, and The Texas Commission on the Arts.