Tense Forms is done. by Mike Piontek

Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 04:25 PM

Thank you for all of your support over these past years. Please feel free to browse our past projects. If you have a question, contact us.

We also would like to acknowledge everyone who contributed their time and creativity to our collective: Mike Piontek, Joshua Dumas, Sarah Renee Bertsch, Craig Blakeman, Elizabeth Boyne, Kirk Bravender, Domenico Ferri, Susie Harkins, VJ Hyde, Nora McComiskey, Casey Meehan, Jaime Roche, Allison Stanley, Andy Wagner

We’re less tense, and now formless, but we’re still real busy making things. We hope to see you around.

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800 Winters by Mike Piontek

Thursday, January 12th, 2006 at 10:32 PM

800 Winters is coming soon to Chicago. It’s a showcase featuring 25 visual artists, 5 musical artists, and a short play. We’ll celebrate Radiant Darling‘s new release, Cryptomnesia. The Notes and Scratches, Casey Meehan, Ben Clarke (of Lying in States), and Andy Wagner will be there too. Marika Mashburn and Chris Matthews of the House Theatre will perform Mashburn’s new play frost. There will be art all up over the place.

It’ll be awesome. Seriously. It’s Saturday, January 28th at the Subterranean. Stop by the site for more information or get your tickets online now.

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Join us for the 2nd Annual Culture of Fear

Monday, October 17th, 2005 at 04:55 PM

Join us for the 2nd Annual Culture of Fear this Saturday, October 22nd, 8:00 PM at Open End Gallery. Tense Forms and Scary Bodega present an evening of film, art, and music featuring Chris Fuller’s score for Nosferatu, pre-show music by Annie Coleman, a short film by Kate Raney, photography and paintings by Kirk Bravender and Kelly Reynolds, music by the Notes and Scratches and DJ sets by C. Israel Vines and Marcus Battista. $6 donation. BYOB. Costumes are highly encouraged—this is a Macabre Ball my pretties! Doors at 8pm, films at 9pm and music at 11pm.

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Tense Forms Summer Showcase

Thursday, June 16th, 2005 at 09:36 PM

Our big summer art, music, film, and dance party is coming up on Saturday, July 2nd! Just $8 for a full evening with 5 bands, 3 poets, 2 filmmakers, and 17 visual artists. Get all the details on the Tense Forms Summer Showcase here.

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100 Lakes Reprint Available

Monday, May 02nd, 2005 at 11:44 PM

A reprint of 100 Lakes, a book by Craig Blakeman, is now available in our store. This book compiles 100 photographs of Lake Michigan taken from early January to early June 2004. One photo was taken from the same spot, looking the same direction, at the same time each day. The cover of this printing is handprinted in violet ink and handbound in charcoal paper using glue and twine.

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Six by Five no. 3 Now Available

Sunday, November 14th, 2004 at 10:11 PM

Six by Five no. 3 is now available in our store. This issue features eight postcards, with full color pictures on one side and words on the other, packaged in a handmade folder

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100 Lakes Now Available

Monday, September 27th, 2004 at 06:19 PM

100 Lakes, a book by Craig Blakeman, is now available in our store. This book compiles 100 photographs of Lake Michigan taken from early January to early June 2004. One photo was taken each day from the same spot, looking the same direction, between ten and eleven in the morning. The book is handbound in green paper using glue and twine

Craig has also done work for 6x5, Glue, and our online postcard series

new tense print site

Monday, December 15th, 2003 at 02:29 AM

we’ve brought all of our printed works together under a new name and web site, tense print. six by five and glue: for bikes and bumpers now live there, with much more to come

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glue available at the store

Monday, December 01st, 2003 at 04:07 PM

a handbound book of 24 full-color stickers, titled glue: for bikes and bumpers, is now available at the tense forms store

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volume one, number two available

Monday, July 15th, 2002 at 02:40 AM

six by five volume one, number two is here. order it now from the tense forms store, or visit the six by five site for other ways to get it.