Duke Coffeehouse’s Chaus Arts Showcase: Home of experimental art
(04/19/17 4:00am)
Duke Coffeehouse maintained its reputation as the place for all things weird, unpredictable and avant-garde when it hosted the Chaus Arts Showcase last Wednesday, a collection of art from some of the Coffeehouse’s favorite Duke artists. Unlike many other student arts showcases, the Chaus Arts Showcase didn’t just attract your classically talented painters and mixed-media artists. In typical Coffeehouse fashion, the showcase featured experimental music by La Plastique, a four-piece student ensemble featuring violin, electric and slide guitar, keyboard, synthesizer and percussion, and strange theatrical performances like Avant Fart’s "Dream Disposal Ceremony," in which he burned a box full of our dreams, written on popsicle sticks.