PARTICIPATION “headless/bodyless” delves into the resonant sounds of a traditional coin belt, exploring its ancestral significance and hypnotic vibrations. Historically, belly dancers used coin belts to highlight movements and tell stories through energy work and percussion. In postcolonial Western societies, these dancers were often objectified, reduced to exoticized torsos, and stripped of their individuality.This installation […]
PARTICIPATION An extraterrestrial being collides with the political ramifications of immigration in the occupied Turtle Island. The only way to contact home, dimensions away is through shared energy sound calls. .anónimx. once again summons the .mother. realm through ritualistic and synthetic bell manipulations. Emmanuel Camacho Larios, is a first-generation, borderless queer interdisciplinary Artist residing in […]
PARTICIPATION Performance divinebrick (josie j) is a self research for the sacred primordial being. divinebrick name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and care taking the grander whole. Decolonizing the self is the remembering of the soil the self is made of. The name “josie j” is […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: soundShoppe Ensemble forms a sound orchestra, consisting of several musicians. Instruments will include circuit bent/homemade devices, accordions, bowed instruments, modular synthesizers, acoustic objects that make sounds (such as long reeds whipped into the air), gongs, percussion objects, voice, drones, guitars, whistles and other indescribable objects. Sound will range from quiet to loud, from […]
PARTICIPATION Performance. Harold Greene, the noted furniture maker, is also a multi-instrumentalist. The long time San Pedro resident plays original contemporary jazz on the Chapman Stick, a ten-stringed instrument that is played by tapping on the fret board. He accompanies himself, with the aid of a loop pedal, on the cajon (box drum), bass and […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: A sound sculpture performance, played very vigorously as a kind of mad sport, or a spoof of sport, called Creature/Craft. The original idea was a deliberately silly idea, my Quidditch, so to speak, but it turned out to be doable, and should be very crazy-lively, fun and spontaneous to watch, full of surprises. […]
PARTICIPATION Performance For about 40 years, Susan Rawcliffe researched, made and played clay musical instruments; she studied the marvelous archaic ceremonial flutes from PreHispanic meso-American cultures: West Mexico, Olmec, Mayan & Aztec. These studies informed & inspired her love of timbre, resulting in a great range of flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets, didjeridus and sound […]
PARTICIPATION Installation Phoebe Barnum was trained in the traditional studio arts. It has been clear that they were influenced by Abstract Expressionists. Initially the work focused on Painting and Drawing which has over time morphed into a wider array of medium, challenging dimensions, time, space and sound. Numerous installations have gone through various iterations based in […]
PARTICIPATION Installation Currently I am a gravity challenged geriatric trying hard to make sense of my existence. As my eyes loose focus, food smells and tastes are diminishing, conversations and sounds are often misconstrued my life is not diminished much. I have art and the art making. Mixed up (not confused) media artist, I, my […]
PARTICIPATION Process & Performance, Installation: “Handler/Builder no.1” Created collaboratively by Jacob Wolff, Julian Prins, and James McBride“HB1” is a performance created by three people working in art handling, installation/de-installation of art exhibits, and fabrication. The performance is centered around the fabrication of three sculptures, using the same tools and materials we use in our everyday […]