PIFAS PLACE

WEDNESDAY JULY 22 8PM SHARP!

2009-07-21T17:02:00.000-07:00

THIS SATURDAY JULY 18

2009-07-16T21:42:00.001-07:00

TONIGHT!!!

2009-07-12T06:53:00.001-07:00

Lance Simmons

2009-07-02T09:24:00.000-07:00

Headbangers Crypt
Philadelphia dungeon purveyor of absurd/undead/pointless culture.
distributing tapes, records, cds, and cdrs from tiny bizarro/undergound/noise labels.
releases from breathmint, cephia's treat, malleable, ijustlivehere, ranky tanky, mark price is a factory, etc. etc. etc.
come get gore charm.

EVENT CALENDAR

2009-07-01T08:57:00.000-07:00

7/10 @ 9pm
PIFAS PLACE & THE QUEUE OPENS!!!

7/12 @ 9pm
FRUIT ON THE BOTTOM (a gay club complete with Aztec ritual) @ LIV2SERV

AND...

Show:

Russian Tsarlag
Matt Franco from Air Conditioning
Secret Boyfriends
Weyes Bluhud

7/14 @ 9pm
Show:
Super Sargasso (wv)
Good Weather (nj)
Cars Will Burn
HNY

7/15 9pm
Show:
GRAPHS,Extreme Fishkin/Gun Muffs
PIFAS GALLERY- PICA OPENING!!!

7/18 @ 9pm
"Get Up Stand Up Comedy"

Andrew Jeffery Wright,

Gavin Riley

Frankie Martin (via skype)

Brian Belott

Laris Kreslins

Annie Pearlman

Leah Shuchter

Margaret Stevens

Brina Thurston
AND...

PERINEUM (a casino gamble to the death with cigarz and booze set somewhere in Africa) @ 2 LIV2SERV

7/19 @ 9
Show:
Magnet City Kids
Akasha Blade

Dick Neff

GDFX

7/22 @ 8

PIFAS Cinaplex presents...

Videos and animations by
Alex Gorzynski
Erin Dunn

Ted Passon

Liz Rywelski

Annie Pearlman
Ashiq Khondker
Lindsay Kovnat
Leslie Rodgers

Andrew Jeffery Wright

Nina Schwanse and Matt Satvisky

Genevieve Belleveau

AND...

BIRD BASH (a foam party in the back with a nude baby powder photo shoot)

7/31
CLOSING PARTY
Show
Mirror Mirror
Private Time
Raxtsfk n' Jag
Nathan Whipple
Tayisha Busay

James Weissinger

2009-06-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

In his book "Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age," Jeff Gomez writes that "In journalism, content really is king; what matters is the information. Few would argue for the aesthetic merits of an average newspaper. The cheap pulp is simply a vehicle for transporting the news and events of the day, a vessel into which is poured 'all the news that's fit to print.'"

Gomez's bold and perhaps misguided denunciation of medium aside, he inadvertently points toward the soon-to-be discarded aesthetic form of the newspaper, one thus ripe for exploration. If a newspaper is no longer good at conveying timely news, what is it good for? The PIFAS PLACE POST prods the corpse of print culture with a stick in an attempt to answer this question, presenting award-winning news coverage, comprehensive events listings, personal ads, and tasteful comic strips. "Bomb your blog to hell" and keep up on what's going down in PIFAS PLACE.

Ben Phelan

2009-06-25T10:15:00.000-07:00

Cool Devices: Dream Machine 3

Dream Machine 3 deploys vivid multi-phasing LED color strobes, programmed to pulse at speeds ranging beyond visual perception, within a theatrical fog theater. A structure in the visual cortex of the brain is excited by high frequency color shifting, inducing hallucinations of aura-like flowing geometric light patterns within the volume of the fog chamber. The illumination technologies of electronic signage systems amplify individual light therapy technology into a site of group hyper visual entertainment.

Audrey Culp and Katie Miller

2009-06-23T10:08:00.000-07:00

PIFAS OBSERVATORY

Installed behind the front windows of the Observatory, Audrey Culp’s dioramas, figure 1 and figure 2a,b, narrate the origin of life in fictional time and space. These dioramas represent the first pair in a continuing series of dioramas dedicated to the creation of new life, each work representing chronological leaps in a fictional evolution. Drawing from scientific visual languages, each object/life form within the piece is assigned behaviors, preferences, repulsions, and potentials. The full characters created for these life-units inspire a visual event that is carried out within the diorama. In this way, much of the composition is informed by the motivations and physical characteristics of the object/life forms themselves, rather than the original creator. As the series progresses, the narrative becomes more complex and the relationship between author and subject, god and his/her creation is redefined.

As you move through Observatory doors you will find Katie Miller’s proposal for a more unnatural creation of life- a biogenetic incubation tank. This large scale diorama serves as a look at one possibility for future procreation- a new genesis, where humans are not created by the miracle of natural procreation but by a biochemical process called “Invent-a-Child.” It could be the birth of a new species, the second coming with a new Adam and Eve awaiting the birth of their baby created by science and the creativity of the human mind.

Brandon Joyce

2009-06-23T09:13:00.000-07:00

A question... What do style, sense, innovation, passion, quality and luxury all have in common?

They are all essential ingredients of the world’s most elite consumer products. Unique Concepts® has built its reputation on this idea, offering its customers only the best products that meet this sterling set of standards.

A Unique Concepts® product is something that you never knew existed until you saw it. And once seen, you had to own it, hold it, and cherish it forever. Unique Concepts® products excel at providing unique, conceptual, real-world solutions that span numerous lifestyle categories, including health and wellness, beauty, home, recreation fitness and travel, just to name a few. Whatever the category, however, you have our money-back guarantee that the results will be consistent with our values, principles, and near-totalizing Weltanschaung.

Visit our new kiosks at Pifas Place
and Philadelphia International Airport,
opening this July 10th.

April Glaser, Lindsay Kovnat, Brian McKelligot

2009-06-23T08:51:00.000-07:00

Head Shop Lounge

Climb the stairway to heaven and take a seat next Alice in her exploration to a land of contentment. "Give the gift of head" is our motto to find out what this entails follow the trail of fragrant smoke to the rear end of PIFAS. There you may find cheap hair cuts, cheap thrills, and highflying with your feet placed firmly on the ground. See what can be done using simple objects such as apples and water bottles. For all you Eves out there don't take a bite out of this apple or you'll probably vomit and pass out.

Tova Carlin and guest faculty Luke Stettner

2009-06-19T08:28:00.000-07:00

'A Dark Room' is a roving photo studio and collaborative force between Tova Carlin and Luke Stettner. Subjects are led into a dark room to dress themselves with props and costumes and are photographed.

This project will open for one night only on July 10th.

K-Fai Steele and guest faculty Lauren Manooigan

2009-06-16T21:09:00.000-07:00

PIFAS Temple

A Place of worship in the Hindu aesthetic, PIFAS Temple is an investigation into the practice of housepet ownership as sublimated ritual.

2009-06-16T19:29:00.000-07:00