Crippled Symmetry (What Would Morton Feldman Do?): New Films, Video & Installations from Squeaky Wheel's Artists-in-Residence Showing 3/14

Friday, March 13

New Films, Video & Installations from Squeaky Wheel's Artists-in-Residence Showing 3/14

Each year, Squeaky Wheel offers local artist access residencies to four exceptional local media artists. Chosen artists receive equipment and a small stipend to produce new work that premieres at Squeaky Wheel. This year’s artists, Aimee Buyea, Christine Davis, Thomas Holt and Elizabeth Knipe, have created a diverse selection of media art.

Aimee Buyea’s Re (memories) is an interactive exploration of her past and identity created using hand processed super 8mm film with an accompanying performance. Aimee is a self-proclaimed hoarder- holding on to mementos from my past including tickets stubs, love letters, postcards, bills, post it notes, photos and other ephemera- amassing several boxes collected since middle school. Aimee documented her attempt to let go of the past and live in the moment, processing her experiences through the making of this film-a film that becomes a symbol of memory and a piece of ephemera of its own.

Christine Davis’ Beyond Recognition is a short narrative about choices and how the choices we make ultimately effect our lives.

Tom Holt’s Signals ( Skulls and Candy as Metaphor for Life ) is a short animation about communication and non-communicable information. The video visualizes how and where energy travels. Signals string together surreal and psychedelic clips in a way that is loosely logical. The video is constructed from frame by frame manipulated photos, drawings, and paintings. The audio heavily makes use of a circuit-bent Casio S-K 5.

Elizabeth Knipe’s RoomBionic II is the second in a series of installations featuring an autonomous display system that projects a robotic vacuum cleaner’s interactions with human life and its detritus. In this episode, Squeaky Wheel’s new street-level gallery has been transformed into a studio apartment patrolled by the RoomBionic. The room is clean to the point of sterility and the RoomBionic has little to do but wander around, remembering the way it used to be and projecting memories of piles of clothes, dirty dishes and unmade beds.

The Local Artist Access Residency is for emerging media artists in Buffalo. Artists-in-Residence receive one free workshop, 100 hours of access to our digital and film post-production suites, two days free quipment rental, and a $100 stipend for supplies. The deadline for the 2009 residency is June 16th, 2009. The application is available online at www.squeaky.org/opportunities.

Tomorrow Night (3/14) - 8pm @ Squeaky Wheel. $6 non-members / $4 members

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Who is Morton Feldman? (And Why Should I Care)?

A towering figure in 20th-century New Music, Morton Feldman radically re-imagined the possibilities of musical form through an approach to sound correlated with abstract painting. In 1973, Feldman became the Edgard Varèse Professor of Music at the University at Buffalo, a title he retained until his death in 1987. Feldman's tenure is emblematic of a renaissance period of progressive creative activity that brought Buffalo's cultural affiliations international acclaim.

What Would Morton Feldman Do? situates its speculations on multiple levels, firstly imagining the artist as an angry young man contemplating his social calendar. But WWMFD also addresses a larger crisis of relevance facing experimental culture in the 21st century. WWMFD builds on the city's radical legacy, but views history as a challenge to the present - what are you going to do NOW? WWMFD imagines its avant-classical hero wandering the crumbling streets in search of the new and the now, not through escapist longings for another era's modernisms but in concert with the cause of action necessitated by absence.

In this regard, WWMFD begins where Basta! Or Too Much! (We Will Always Know Ourselves), an avant-pop zine published locally from 1997-2001, left the page for the "stage." Collecting de facto proposals for civic reinvention utilizing the fractured experiments of Buffalo's postmodernist cultural community as blueprints, Basta! concerned itself not with art dialogue per se, but with changing what it means to grow up in a shrinking city. From these proposals (which tended to embrace rather than resist post-industrial existential crises) emerged a series of large scale multi-media events (Murder the Word) and ultimately, the performance program at Big Orbit Gallery. Big Orbit's "Soundlab" series, for which the venue of the same name was founded, was conceived of as a multi-faceted, continuously evolving "workshop" for the exploration of contemporary post-cultural incentives. Coming full circle, WWMFD hopes to re-contextualize Soundlab's explorations, and to include other relevant local sound and performance activities in its critical orbit.

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New Films, Video & Installations from Squeaky Wheel's Artists-in-Residence Showing 3/14

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