On Saturday, May 4, Andrei and I returned to
The Psychic Garden
in Rochester, NY to perform live video and sound as REALITY
ORP! Our friend
Anna Oxygen
(Ithaca) also performed a bumping synthwave set. Unfortunately
Dr. Hamburger
was unable to perform, but fellow Rochester locals Shonen Book
were able to hop on at the last moment with a fever dream of
feedback-laden visuals mixed with Donkey Kong. It was a
memorable night. Many thanks to
Taimur
for holding down the Psychic Garden fort as well!
Zine Club is the culmination of some ideas I've had
brewing for a while. I wanted to start making more physical
objects and mailing them to people, and I also wanted to start
something like a Patreon but without actually using that
platform. After fleshing out the details and creating a new
page on my site, it's now ready for launch! If you're
interested in receiving mysterious virtual or physical objects
at regular intervals throughout the year, and supporting my
ability to spend more time making weird art, check it out at
the link below...
On Sunday, March 3, my art collective,
Phase Shift, led an Intro to Live Visuals workshop at
The Psychic Garden
in Rochester, NY. Rochester has a strong DIY community, and
many local folks found their way to the event, as well as a
few from Buffalo and Alfred. We had a full house, but luckily
we also had a few extra helping hands from
Evan
and
Max.
The Psychic Garden is located inside a row of unmarked
warehouse spaces near the Genessee River. There were a number
of video installations in the space, so it was an inspiring
environment for people to learn about video art, since they
could see some cool applications of the medium at the same
time. After the event, we visited the space of
Rathaus Press, a risograph print studio run by Evan in an adjacent
building.
We are already planning our next visit to Rochester and
looking forward to getting involved with more of the cool
things that are happening there. Thanks to
Cameron, Evan, and The Psychic Garden for having us.
Thursday, February 29, was the opening of
Silvering Toward Invisible, a group exhibition at Speedwell Contemporary in Portland,
ME, presented by
Lights Out. The show features my audiovisual work along with
photography (often of glowing spiderwebs in the dark) by
Peah Guilmoth, minimal textured landscapes in charcoal by
Emily Nelligan, and poetry by
Kristen Case.
Silvering Toward Invisible is driven by
poetry, both visual and written. During this season the
light is changing, and the warmth of the sun is slowly
returning. We begin to hunger for spring, though it is
months away. We look for evidence of its signs, but a thick
white blanket of snow still covers the ground. We can see
the contours of the landscape through the trees. At this
time the world is at its most stark and elegant and takes on
the impressions of our imaginations. This show will harness
the returning light, the receding darkness, and the bare,
suggestive quality of the landscape waiting to undergo
monumental change. Viewers will encounter moments of
brightness, velvety darkness, and a deep poetic primality
waiting to erupt from beneath the surface.
On Saturday, February 24, Andrei and I (Phase Shift Collective) created an interactive video installation at a pop-up event
hosted by
Anna Oxygen
in a disused retail space at a dying mall in Ithaca, NY.
At the event, Anna performed an experimental run-through of
The Shapes We Leave Behind, a strange livestream performance in which she greenscreens
herself, wearing various sculptural costumes created by
collaborator
Fawn Krieger, into a surreal video-game-esque landscape filled with
glitchy 3D scanned statues of herself, while also singing and
performing electronic music.
The night ended with a dance party to 80s disco music, with
people dancing inside the video feedback loop of our
installation.
Anna was able to briefly take over this former storefront
space in a mostly empty shopping mall, inserting herself and
her artwork into an appropriately liminal venue during a
sabbatical from her professorship. Thanks to Anna for inviting
us to be a part of this unusual show.
