Michael Mersereau (b. 1977) is a media and sound artist based in Oakland, California and Montreal, Canada. Mersereau’s work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries both nationally and internationally such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca in Ciudad de Oaxaca, The Diego Rivera Anahuacali Museum in Mexico City, and Maison de la Culture Claude […]
PARTICIPATION Performance & Installation: Swastikasualty Michael Mersereau’s projections and imagery for “Swastikasuality” improvise on phantasmagoric retellings of warfare and tragedy. Mersereau’s imagery is grounded in cinema and is expressed in projection mapping, 35mm slide film, and handheld lighting. As a visual collaborator with Marcuccio de Andreis’ sound and vocalizations, Mersereau will be providing the audio […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: Inspired by the rhythms of nature and the landscape that surrounds them, Abacus is currently using primarily piano and guitar to build textures and rhythms that converse with each other, creating an ever changing narrative that unfolds in a familiar yet alien landscape. The sounds should move through your body and mind as […]
PARTICIPATION Sound of War our Bodies Store War’s destruction of bodies aims to erase and silence. The observer carries choices remaining silent or sounds off the alarms.Research based sound recordings chronicle and serve as documentation.Sound compilation extracted from UNICEF and found recordings which explore the manipulation in news dissemination related weapons of war. Audio loops […]
Wes Nelson, a touring bassist/guitarist based in LA, has performed with acclaimed artists like Mike Stern, Ny Oh, Zzzahara, LP Giobbi, DJ Tennis, Bonzie, and Randy Brecker. He’s toured globally and recorded at East West and Capitol Records. Wes is also part of Indie Rock bands Lozenge and The Brainstorm. In 2023, he launched solo […]
PARTICIPATION Together We Burn With Scorched Grins We’re destroying the earth, we’re letting corporations control everything while the unhoused are ignored, and we’re STILL committing genocide. We have a love affair with the dopamine hits that we shoot up in the digital world and our attention spans have shortened to the point where it is […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: The Screaming Whales Viktor Rosas, Nguyen Ly, and Camilo Otero site specific installation utilizes the front facing windows of the printmaking studio. We will combine printmaking, collage, animation, and field recordings in this artwork and we plan to project the animation and sound from inside the studio outward. All entrances will be closed. […]
Nguyen Ly is a multimedia artist and art educator with expertise in numerous printmaking techniques (including drypoint, collagraph, and monoprint), as well as drawing, sculpture and collage. His prints, drawings, sculpture and other work have been exhibited throughout California and in locales as diverse as Springfield, Missouri, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Nguyen was born in Saigon […]
PARTICIPATION Izvorna is named after a style of folk music from the central Balkan region. “Izvor” means “source” or “spring of water” in most Southern Slavic languages. I used the Charter of Ban Kulin as the only sound source in the work, translated to Morse code. This document from August 29, 1189, represents the oldest […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: NerveTree is a collection of hundreds of sounds that form a sound particle cloud. This is analogous to the teeming biomass (largely bacteria and other microbes) that are contained by and usually outnumber a “host” organism’s cells. In human and other large-scale organisms, collectively, this microbiota has a signature, an identity, that is […]