Conceived as a “live action arts magazine,” Antenna::Signals is a variety show-styled event with each “issue” featuring a cross discipline spread of 6-8 local artists, writers, musicians, scientists, activists and scholars whose practices relate thematically. The live magazine drops 4 times each year, accompanied by the release of two-dimensional print zines and now an online documentary series. Explore the archive below.
Signals Issue.017 :: Subsidence
In planning for 2020 programming, Antenna staff developed the Antenna::Signals thematic arc around water as it relates to drainage, subsidence, infiltration, and retention. These themes encompass our relationships living with water, including the inherent ecological, social, economic, cultural, and political…
Antenna::Signals Issue.016::Drainage
Antenna::Signals Issue.015::Extraction
Antenna::Signals Issue.014::Panoptic
Signals::Issue.013::Hues
Antenna::Signals Issue.012::Strata
Wednesday, March 27th, 6:30pm-9pm @ St. Alphonsus Art and Cultural Center 2045 Constance Street New Orleans, LA 70130 $10 (or free for Antenna Subscribers), Get your tickets now: On January 1, 1804, those enslaved on the island of Saint-Domingue officially…
Antenna::Signals Issue.011: ONUS
Tuesday, December 11, [6:30]-9:00pm @ Hermann-Grima Historic House 820 St. Louis Street New Orleans, LA 70112 $10 Tickets (Signals events are free for Antenna subscribers | Subscribe Today for just $3/month!) BUY TICKETS NOW: History has shown us that the…
Antenna::Signals Issue.010: Stand Up!
Wednesday, September 12 6-8:30pm at Rhodes Funeral Home 3933 Washington Avenue New Orleans, LA 70125 $10 Tickets (Signals events are free for Antenna subscribers | Subscribe Today for just $3/month!) BUY TICKETS NOW: Humor and activism have always existed in…
Antenna::Signals Issue.009: Cycles
Tuesday, August 14 6-8pm at ArtSpace Bell School Campus 2100 Ursulines Avenue New Orleans, LA 70119 $10 Tickets (Signals events are free for Antenna subscribers | Subscribe Today for just $3/month!) As one of the most culturally rich cities in the…
Antenna::Signals Issue.008:
Amalgamation
Thursday, July 12, 6:00pm-8:30pm @Silk Road, 2483 Royal Street $10 Tickets: (Signals events are free for subscribers | Subscribe Today for just $3/month!) As a part of Kolaj Fest, Issue 008 of Antenna::Signals will drop on July 12, 2018 and…
Antenna::Signals Issue.007:
Papers
This issue explores the myriad uses of paper – a medium at once literal and symbolic, fragile and dogmatic, portable and burdensome – to translate and regulate life, love, and legality.
Antenna::Signals Issue.006:
Street Spirit
Co-hosted with Patois Film Festival, this issue orbits around the theme of “Street Spirit”, giving voice to the art, people, and movements that breathe life into New Orleans’ streets.
Antenna::Signals Issue.005:
Loss & Found
This issue explores the loss of the wetlands and those things that we come to find or (re)discover about community, ecology and history as we face unimaginable environmental changes.
Antenna::Signals Issue.004:
(Terra)formation: Werking the Elements as Creative Practice
This issue is an investigation into humankind’s manipulation of earth, water, air, fire, and metal as a creative, architectural, scientific, spiritual, or social practice.
Antenna::Signals Issue.003:
All the Pretty Horrors
This issue traverses the haunting crossroads of beauty and horror, including exquisite ghastliness, leaky cemeteries, transcendent funeral traditions, toxic beauty treatments, and predatory flowers.
Antenna::Signals Issue.002:
Migration, Displacement, and Dissociation
This issue revolves around the themes of Displacement, Migration, and Dissociation, including explorations in voodoo, water, birds, ventriloquism, and the effects of extraction industries on southern Louisiana.
Antenna::Signals Issue.001:
Miniature
This inaugural issue of Signals explores the theme of Miniature through small art, micro organisms, short films, tiny houses, one act plays, Bonsai Trees, and micro brews.
In addition to the incredible support of our subscribers, Antenna::Signals is made possible by grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the RosaMary Foundation, the Ella West Freeman Foundation, New Orleans Arts Council, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
This program is funded under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this (publication) (program) (exhibition) (website) don not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.