Elastro A/V presents a 2-day festival of durational audio and video installations and performances from a wide range of local audiovisual Chicago artists! Curated by Ruby Que, Asya Dubrovina, and castroduperly. This festival is made possible with support from the mediaThe Foundation.
Night two is curated by Asya Dubrovina and is titled ‘Encountering You’. There will be live performances from Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson, Spectralina (Selina Trepp + Dan Bitney), Allen Moore, Nick Meryhew, and Anna Johnson.
Wading in the waves of sound and image, this group of artists points us to a new horizon line. Within a playful multi-media collaboration of moving images, video synthesizers, live stop motion, and analog and digital sound, new ways of relating emerge and coalesce. Arrive early to participate in drawing on film animation and see it projected live communally.
Doors at 7pm!
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson playfully explores the impermanence and discomfort of everyday human experience. Most of her work uses a frame-by-frame animation process, combining traditional cartoon production techniques with installation, sound, text-based art, and performance. For this performance at Elastic, she will be creating a live animation to accompany Allen Moore and Nick Meryhew. Gwyneth has presented work in the US and abroad, including at Roman Susan, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, the Chicago Cultural Center, Roots & Culture, the Experimental Sound Studio, and 6018 NORTH in Chicago; MoMA PS1 Print Shop in New York; Peephole Cinema in San Francisco; and FRISE in Hamburg. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Flower City Arts Center in Rochester, NY. gwynethvzanderson.com
Nick Meryhew is an experimental musician, arts educator, improviser, and passionate home cook. Their work explores the elasticity of time and the absurdity of the mundane through a sculptural approach to found sound. They currently perform with Paradise Complete, Tallulah Bankheist, NASDAQUIRI, and with a variety of Chicago improvisers. Nick has presented work at No Nation Gallery, Elastic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Experimental Sound Studios Audible Gallery, Roman Susan, and MCA Chicago. Nick has held residencies at dfbrl8r gallery, Mana Contemporary Chicago, High Concept Labs, Lawrence University, and Stanford University. Photo by Ricardo Adame
Anna Johnson is an experimental artist working at intersections of performance, sound, moving image and installation. Her practice explores processes of transformation through emotional and psychological landscapes, made manifest and inhabited within one’s body. Her work is oriented around immersive, embodied experience and site-responsitivity. Anna's work has been presented by venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Links Hall, Roman Susan, 6018North, the Hyde Park Art Center, Red Eye Theater and Open Eye Figure Theatre. She holds an MFA from the Performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
SPECTRALINA is the audio-visual performance project of Dan Bitney and Selina Trepp, collaborators, lovers and magicians. Working in an improvised format, Spectralina creates an image-sound relationship that treats each medium as equal, resulting in performances in which projection and sounds come together as visual music. In Spectralina Dan uses a computer, synthesizers, drums, voice and analog processors to create sounds and Selina sings, animates and plays the videolah, her instrument that creates animated projections in real-time.
Allen Moore is a Black Interdisciplinary Visual Artist, Experimental Turntableist, Sound Artist, Educator and Youth Mentor born and raised in the Historic Village of Robbins IL. Moore holds a Bachelors of Arts from Chicago State University, a Masters in Arts from Governors State University and a Masters of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University in 2016. His recent body work investigates both the audio and visual element of black death and black grief. His conceptual premise is to analyze the signifiers of Blackness through performative Improvisation and experimentation. Moore is driven to nurture and expand the agency of the Black Imagination. Currently he is a Makerspace Manager specializing in STEM/STEAM and DIY education in the greater Chicagoland area. Moore has exhibited and performed across the greater midwest, including exhibitions at Heaven Gallery, Compound Yellow, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, Threewalls, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roots & Culture Gallery, Lula Cafe, The Star Media Group, Union Street Gallery, The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, etc.