Immerse yourself in an encompassing otherworldly environment of artists performing simultaneously for the entire event.
Experience Rin Peisert’s durational live art exhibition, Relative Intensity Noise, focusing on performance, action, and sound, on Saturday, December 16th from 8-10pm.
The exhibition will feature physical endurance, interactive movement, spatialized audio, and a sculptural installation of found objects played as a massive and unwieldy percussion instrument.
This distinctive exhibition brings a non-narrative and non-singularly focused environment, allowing for challenging, sincere, disorienting, or bizarre interactions. Spend as much or as little time with the work as you’d like; moving around, sitting among, and interacting with the artists throughout the space obscuring the notion of artist and audience and dissolving established structures of time and space.
Artists:
Ben Billington
Wannapa Eubanks
David Hurlin
Amaya + Érika Ordosgoitti
Elena Katsulis + Rin Peisert
Soft Slap
RA Washington
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Soft Slap declares a space of queer trans* love and intimacy with no hierarchy between audience and performer through performing sonic scores and creating action-based sound. This ephemeral sanctuary allows for investigation of sensuality, sexuality, sound, space, and self.
RA Washington's work spans two decades and several genres, most recently the novels, CITI, FOUR INTERIORS (Outlandish Press 2017, 2018); a collection of poems, BLACK EUNUCH (Outlandish Press 2018) and two memoirs, BODY, and BALDWIN NOTES (Outlandish Press 2018, 2022). He is the co-founder/composer of the Afrofuturist music collective Mourning [A] BLKstar and is the co-curator of the longstanding futurist record label, CLEVELAND TAPES.
David Hurlin received his BFA in photography and with a minor in tabla of the Hindustani classical music tradition from Maharishi International University (MIU) including time abroad in India studying with tabla master Anup Ghosh. Hurlin is a professional drummer and percussionist. Drummer for Elizabeth Moen, Bo Ramsey, Apocalyspo Tantric Noise Choir, Soulmath and most recently with Mike Dillon Band and Nolatet. In addition to touring and recording, Hurlin is working on compositions and collaborations at the very edge of drumming, which operate at the intersection of sound art, sculpture, instrument building and performance art. Recent works include performances at Joey Fauerso's exhibition, Inside the Spider's Body, at Bemis Center in Omaha, Sound is a Body Held, a sound and movement collaboration with Tony Orrico at Signs & Symbols Gallery in New York City and Flørli, Norway, as a percussionist in the Nakatani Gong Orchestra at the Englert Theater in Iowa City, in addition to local performances at Hancher, PS1, Feed Me Weird Things Iowa City at Trumpet Blossom, Gabe's, Parking Spaces Project, Climate Fest, Sculpture & Intermedia Open House and the Visual Arts Building in Iowa City. Hurlin lives in Iowa City with his family and is an MFA candidate in Sculpture & Intermedia at the University of Iowa.
Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks is a *Butoh Artist, choreographer, Dance/movement Improviser, movement coach, and actor. Her work is also including as a butoh inspired dance performer who creates movement based interactive performances. Her work often stems from a personal experience or a specific memory that grows into a poetic image that she imbues with the memory of the moment.
More of her works, please visit URL: http://wannapa12.wix.com/wannapap-eubanks or
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wannapapeubanks
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Érika Ordosgoitti (Venezuela, 1980) considers her work as open processes; images that interest her and on which she insists. The time references, for her, are not in chronological order, nor are they sequential. Her work is related to political experiences undertaken with the body in public space; in an environment controlled by law enforcement. It is related to the propaganda and symbols used to structure a nationalist narrative, imposed with the degree of law. Ordosgoitti is interested in the repetition of the action in different historical and contextual moments. For this reason, many of her works consist of making the impossibility of repetition coincide with what is happening in that place, at that precise moment. Knowing the transience and scarcity of these events, she values them as milestones in the narrative that she is building. It is about creating a strategy by which the image is possible. The investigation and the tension are constant, and the spaces of silence are the most important thing to achieve the intervention, because it is high risk. Risk is a scar of honor. Life, as well as freedom, is an open and ephemeral process. Freedom is a way of life with a tendency to risk, built through certain acts. Acts in which a discouraging ambition persists, thus creating a space to create, to exist and to say. Not only through the actions themselves, but through the circulation of images that testify to what happened.
elena katsulis + Rin Peisert are an action art duo. Together, they use their bodies and the framework of performance to examine the social constructions of interdependent relationships and to measure the passing of time. Through acts of endurance and repetition they work in tandem; building a machine-like reliance on the other. These actions are reflections on duality, death, transformation, resilience, and the absurdity of living. Elena is a rock climber and yogi. She is a founding member of the Collective Yoga Co-op. Her yoga classes are in high-demand all over Chicago. Rin is a conceptual performance artist. She has shown work at the Power Station of Art Shanghai, Doulin Art Museum, The Momentary, and Defibrillator Gallery. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She is Artist in Residence at The Momentary and is also the Performing Arts Curatorial Resident at Elastic Arts and curating and directing his series, Relative Intensity Noise.