On April 8, FUGUE STATE brings another night of interactive and radical media to Elastic Arts Foundation, featuring expanded cinema performances, installations, VR, shorts, and a feature film from celebrated artist, and recent Guggenheim Fellow, David Finkelstein!
Starting with one hour of interactive work, Coded Black by Maisha Wester (including VR experience and 2-D video game), will be presented alongside an installation of selections from The Octopus aka David Matthew Johnson.
Short films by Chicago locals Drew Durepos (Adjunct) and Curtis Miller (a fence is a fence but the clouds move freely) precede a live, expanded cinema and noise performance by Chicago-based multimedia artist, Dom Bonelli, all of whom are expected to be in attendance.
And lastly, the feature film presentation is a Chicago premiere of Dirt, a masterpiece work by David Finkelstein, encapsulating years of surrealist free associational performance/video practice with his most beguiling and beautiful world building in bewitched computer-generated spaces. Finkelstein, who will be in attendance, is one of the most revered underground artists and writers working in experimental medias. Stay after the feature for a post-screening question & answer event moderated by M. Woods.
Like Dirt this is a program spanning the hyper mundane (in all of its manifestations, physical and virtual) to the absurd, labyrinthine reflection of our mediated relations; in this Fugue State all media commingle in beauty through a very strange and startling stew.
Fugue State, a project of Disassociative Productions, is a new traveling festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema with previous screenings held at the NY Film-Maker's Coop, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Elastic Arts Foundation (Chicago), and Comfort Station (Chicago). While the festival keeps expanding to new cities, we are trying our most multidisciplinary format yet with our friends at Elastic Arts Foundation.
Full Program:
6:30 - 7:30PM - Interactive and installation-based work
Coded Black on Computer and 360 VR by Maisha Wester
Selections from the Octopus by David Matthew Johnson
7:30PM - Short film block 2
Adjunct by Drew Durepos
a fence is a fence but the clouds move freely by Curtis Miller
7:50PM - Live Performance by Dom Bonelli
8:30PM - Feature Film
Dirt by David Finkelstein