PARTICIPATION Fever Dream II invites the viewer into a vibrant, multisensorial and emotive exploration of climate change, climate anxiety, environmental phenomena, sense of place with relation to land and water, perception. Julia Edith Rigby has performed at LEAF Festival in Lafayette, Colorado (2024), LOW End in Omaha, Nebraska (2023), and the Atlantic Center for the […]
PARTICIPATION Culkinator This piece explores the engineering of child celebrities through the eyes of an alien observer. Johanna Hauser grew up in Austin, Texas. After studying German literature at Bard College, she pursued a Masters in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. A collage artist at heart, Johanna’s practice hinges on working with […]
Johanna Hauser grew up in Austin, Texas. After studying German literature at Bard College, she pursued a Masters in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. A collage artist at heart, Johanna’s practice hinges on working with what’s available, be it good, bad or ugly. Her work renders problematic characters through a haphazard but […]
PARTICIPATION Points Becoming is part of an ongoing series of animations that feature simple shapes and stick figures that when seen together form a larger dream-like narrative about the trials and tribulations of life. These animations explore the relationship of an imagined past and future, taking into consideration the years of the pandemic and the […]
PARTICIPATION Brief:case James Allen 2024The performance involves a salvaged brief case that has been modified into a battery powered glitch instrument.The hardware application was initially used for outdoor cassette recordings that were a short duration from two to five minutes long.The case has been outfited with a two perforated steel cheese plates for mounting FX […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: Insufficient Despair This performance will explore the use of multiple speakers and sound sources to create a multimedia experience. Ryan Gan aka Insufficient Despair is a noise/experimental sound project centered around repurposed and modified media and mediators (no-input mixer, modified turntable, and 16mm film and projection). Gan is influenced by feedback pioneers such […]
Ryan Gan aka Insufficient Despair is a noise/experimental sound project centered around repurposed and modified media and mediators (no-input mixer, modified turntable, and 16mm film and projection). Gan is influenced by feedback pioneers such as Nakamura Toshimaru and David Tudor, the turntablism of Otomo Yoshihide and Hong Chuki, and his use of 16mm film by […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: This Statue Contains a God will simulate an encounter with a trapped magical being, one who when free would be able to create mountains or bring down the moon, but appears before the viewer trapped and powerless within a corporeal form/prison. The statue will look somewhat like a damaged antique Roman statue or […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: Proper Etiquette You can’t have peace without power and you can’t have power without electricity. They laugh when they spin the wheel of death and cry over TV monologues. I sit here amused by the sound of ignorance and anxious at the sound of spiritual. Flutes, hardware and my guitars sneezes gently. grump is […]
PARTICIPATION Worked landscape Hearing in open and small spaces – hypersensitivity & amplification, nature & mechanical noise. Sounds from bathrooms, rivers, meetings, woodlands. Grace Shannon is a musician based in San Pedro. She is studying Environmental Science & Policy at California State University Long Beach with interests in geology, sustainability, and environmental justice. Her […]