ArtMod 2014

Sound Cloud Intersections

JOSHUA PERALTA and JACOB PECK

Spoken word with soundscape

The majority of these words come from a book-length poetry project I’llbe finishing soon called 3rd & Orange, which takes its name from an intersection I lived at in Long Beach, CA. This intersection represents a significant nexus for me for all sorts of reasons that I try to characterize over the course of the book. For this collaboration, I selected a few medium length narrative poems that give a sense of the trajectory of the book, and stitched them together with portions of a longer, repetitive poem to provide a sense of cohesion to the grouping. As this reading was undertaken as a collaboration, it will be obvious to any listener that Jacob Peck’s instrumental work furnishes another, perhaps more immediate sense of cohesion. Jacob captures the mood of each individual piece and enhances the whole in a way that might interest a passerby into listening longer. This is the magic of a good musician. Lastly, Tracy Schafer joins us to breathe life into voices that populate some of the poems. In this regard, Tracy provides an important third dimension to the collaboration.

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Sonic Space

AVA ROSEN, BEN SALOMON, and ZELDA HAZEL

Concertina book 10”x10” when closed

Words by Ben Salomon; Drawings by Zelda Hazel, Book by Ava Rosen.

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Queer Collections

ZOE ROSENBLUM and COLLECTORS

The following are excerpts from Queer Collections, a series of interviews conducted by Zoe Rosenblum examining the seemingly eccentric and highly specific manners of collecting within Bay Area queer communities. Many of these collections register as art–a practice of home curation through organized and stylized accumulation. Queer Collections aims to explore and celebrate the cultural significance of this practice by interviewing participants whose experience spans a variety of ages, races, genders, sexual identities and socio-economic backgrounds. Hopefully this will not only shed light on the delightful intricacies and idiosyncrasies of distinctive queer fringe communities but lead to the answers of such questions as, What characteristics make up the perfect plastic dinosaur? The ideal bread tag? or The most desirable Santa ornament? Queer Collections is forthcoming from Timeless, Infinite Light in 2015.

Dinosaurs / Quarters /Lint Interview

Boxes /Flowers /Jars Interview

Lunar Tide

JOSH CASEY Soundscape

This piece is a snapshot of the development of several digital instruments that explore ways of layering complexities through synthesized tones. Overlapped with a reading by LARA DURBACK

Stealth Jasmine

LARA DURBACK Reading with soundscape

Leak

KATE ROBINSON and NICK TISO

Letterpress on drawing paper 15.5″ x 23.5″

Leak is a broadside collaboration created in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Nicky Tiso culled the text for a poem from BP’s press releases about the leaking pipeline, and Kate Robinson translated the text into a plume shaped oil slick broadside.

The Original Worker’s Holiday

BECK LEVY and AUDIENCE

Live-printing and noise

May Day is internationally recognized as a celebration of organized labor and worker power. It has its roots in anarchism, particularly the Chicago Haymarket riots of 1886. The American September Labor Day was formalized in order to diffuse the significance of those riots and of the Haymarket martyrs. The holiday also has roots in other organized labor movements, and also in pagan springtime festivals. The phrase I will be printing, “THE ______ & THE ____ HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON” is a play on a Wobblie axiom–Wobblie refers to the IWW, International Workers of the World, a solidarity-based decentralized union (rather than the common employers-based model). The axiom “The Worker and the Boss Have Nothing in Common” references the diametrically opposed interests of the class that owns the means of production and the class who labor yet cannot access the value their labor generates. I love this phrase because of its stark extremism. How can any two things have nothing in common? Yet the phrase provokes a sense of inherent truth along with inherent falsehood. What are the opportunities for solidarity and common ground that emerge from a recognition of severe inequality?

Trigger Point

BILL BAIRD, RACHEL ANGEL, and BEN SALOMON

Spoken word, video, and electronics

Folio

NICK KANOZIK, MARTHA COATES, SOPHIA KLIEN, ADRIENNE SWAN, NAVA DUNKELMAN

Three dancers, gong, conductor

This is My Body/ We Are Incredible

THREE SISTERS DANCE COMPANY, AVA ROSEN, MACKENZIE PIERSON, and SHARMI BASU

Dance by Three Sister’s Dance Company: Adrienne Swan, Martha Coates, and Sophia Klein with special participation from Mackenzie Pierson and Ava Rosen. Video by Ava Rosen. Music collaboration with Sharmi Basu.