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Public Works (2141 W North Ave) | April 5 | Doors Open at 8PM | Show Starts at 8:30PM SOLD OUT
A Special Program of the 34th Onion City Experimental Film Festival.
Presented in partnership with Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines (CCAM) and hosted by Public Works (2141 W North Ave). A live program combining performance, new media, and expanded cinema.
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Hosted at Public Works (2141 W North Ave).
Onion City Film Festival and Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines (CCAM) co-present a live performance program adjacent to the festival, exploring “expanded cinema” in an attempt to put cinematic art to the tasks of resistance, rupture, and reconfiguration of mediatic experience. We ask, “How can experimental modes of animating sound and moving images reconfigure the possibility of our relating to one another anew?”
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCES:
The Distance of the Moon | Ruby Que | Expanded Cinema Performance
The Moon was once very close to the Earth. Now it's straying away from us by about 1.5 inches every year. Weaving together personal memories, myths, scientific discoveries and speculative histories, this multimedia performance meditates on yearning and presents strategies to reach unreachable places.
Ritual Unbinding of Alexa | Alan Perry | Performance with Live Camera Projection
The performance uses the technics of arcane and occult ritual magic to unbind an AmazonAlexa virtual assistant from its programmed obligations.
Intermission
The Emissary | Hunter Whitaker-Morrow | Vocal Performance with Real-time Sound and Video Processing
Employing reworked footage, archival sound, field recordings in conjunction with live oration and physical performance, Whitaker-Morrow conjures the occurrence of a Black-anarchist sci-fi rally and Afrofuturist sermon thus engendering an effective call for revolution in the present.
The Question of Grief | Liyan Zhao | Performance Lecture, Desktop Performance, and Live Sound
Through an assemblage of found and original footage, audio mixes drawing from various references including accounts of the artist’s own encounters with grief, this desktop lecture explores different facets of grief before exploding out into a light-sound-olfactory space.
INSTALLATIONS:
WAVE | Kristin McWharter | 2021 | Kinetic Projection Installation | Duration Variable
Using experimental software and hardware systems, the video installation explores the emergent phenomena of ignition, provocation, synchronization, and the powerful forces that cause people to move together.
Language of Entrails | Luciana Decker Orozco | 2024 | 5-Channel CRT Installation | 3-Hour Loops
Contemplating our bodies' material essence, molded by interactions with others and our surroundings, the project illustrates the effect of the entrails as a winding and multi-plane experience of different movements that run through the bowels.
Seventy Five Threads | Andrew Wood | 2024 | Interactive 3D installation | Duration Variable
Seventy Five Threads is a digital project examining the British New Town of Peterlee. It marries moving image, oral history, architectural research, and curatorial experimentation into a now ubiquitous media form: video game.
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