Steph Patsula
Kezia Dorsey Swann
Carissa Lee
We’re happy to present the first Elastro Series of the year featuring Kezia Dorsey Swann, Carissa Pinckney, and Stephanie Patsula.
Artist Bios
Stephanie Patsula is an interdisciplinary artist, living between Terrace BC and Chicago IL,
The projects she creates are focused across a variety of processes coalescing in a union of somatic experiencing, experimental sound creation and lens based ephemera. Patsula’s work prioritizes the creation of immersive art installations and live-performance which explore bodies as beacons and receptors in relationship to each other. Her processes embrace the unpredictable dynamics of working with new materials, spaces and bodies by corresponding with them improvisationally. A technique that reflects a personal desire for reciprocity and intimacy through an attentiveness to collaboration and adaptability.
Kezia Dorsey Swann:
'“I would define myself as a Multidisciplinary Artist. Having been influenced by my Theatre Arts background I value the importance of storytelling and dialogue. I do not see dialogue as being limited to things that are audibly stated but what the work sounds like in between the pages of performance. My work leans heavily into sonic performance, I like the idea of deep listening for understanding, incorporating body and emotional intelligence as strong values. Things are repeated, chopped, elongated, reduced and expanded based on how I feel within the immediacy of a moment. Time Traveling is not only a subject matter in most of my work but a method of creation/ a praxis/ a pedagogy. I push against, overlap and reject syncopation often. Growing up in The Black Pentecostal Church traditions, despite my queerness, I think of my work as trying to find that which is holy, whole, holistic and/ or holds within Black and/or Queer functionality. I do this often through spiritual surrealism and traditional folkloric techniques.”
Carissa Lee
Carissa Lee is an artist that works in performance, public intervention, workshops, video, and sound collage. She uses noises, writings, conversation, her Black southern family archive (that includes medical histories, stories, and music) and voice to materialize emotions, and synthesize her desires for tomorrow. She is currently a second year MFA candidate in the performance department at the School of the Art institute Chicago.
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door