Lowel Nickel

Lowell Nickel

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 […]

Jacob Wolff

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 […]

Michael A. Mersereau & Marcuccio de Andreis

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 […]

Abacus

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 […]

Yadira Dockstader

Yadira Dockstader

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 […]

vvounds

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 […]

Viktor Rosas, Camilo Otero, Nguyen Ly

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. […]

Vedran Mehinovic

Vedran Mehinovic

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 […]

Thomas Miley

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 […]

The Johnsons

PARTICIPATION Performance: Across the Red Sea is a mash up of loops and live performance. The Johnsons opine about the dangers of Satan, love, and degradation. While there may be some musical aspects, much of the live musical performance is pretty noisy. Installation:Jocko’s Exploding World Imagine you are in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. Next door to your […]