The CLEAT Series focuses on work composed for the 16-channel speaker system in our space, allowing audiences to experience different approaches to spatial audio. At the first series event of 204 we’ll see debut work from Allen Moore and Post Consumer Material. Moore has experimented on the system a few times before, bringing his homemade records and sampled electronics through 16 channels. This time he presents a new piece titled The Black Arcade that will dive further into his exploration of historical sounds and their context in today’s social, political, and artistic climate. Post Consumer Material is presenting on the CLEAT system for their first time with new piece titled FULL-TIME. Spanning video, performance, interactive software, and spatialized sound, FULL-TIME explores the individual as laborer, subject, and ultimately human in a society dominated by the logic of production. Drawing upon Georges Bataille’s concept of sovereignty and Byung-Chul Han’s psychopolitics, FULL-TIME confronts the brittle contradictions of this system, its self-destruction already underway, and the unknown states that might follow. We’re excited to see how these two wonderful artists approach spatial audio on the CLEAT system!
Artist Bios
Post Consumer Material is the audiovisual collaboration of X. A. Li and Estlin Usher. X. A. Li (xa-li.com) is an artist and computer scientist co-opting state-of-the-art technologies to create time-based work subverting systems of power. Estlin Usher (postcapital.club/estlin) is a sound artist working with field recording, abstract synthesis, electro-acoustic techniques, and sample manipulation to create immersive and evocative listening environments. Based in Chicago, Li and Usher have presented solo and collaborative pieces across the United States and internationally.
Allen Moore is an experimental turntablist, interdisciplinary visual artist, educator, and curator. He was born and raised in the small South Side Village of Robbins, IL. Reflecting on the trauma experienced as a Black American, he utilizes graphite and organic matter to cast records and other media, often incorporating them into drawings, paintings, and sculptures. He also creates experimental music by overlaying the ghostly sounds of the hand-cast records with echoes of voices from the Black Diaspora (friends, family, and prominent Black figures) and samples of Black soul, jazz, and hip-hop. Moore’s work converses with the signifiers of Black Culture and Afrofuturism, bringing to view the history of racial and and socio-economic conditions, and emphasizing the importance of nurturing the Black Imagination. Moore works to create space for advocacy, creative representation, and healing.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door