Fleming
Allen Moore
Sam Thousand
Sun Lynn
Zoe Butler
Andres L. Hernandez
Elastro A/V presents a 2-day festival of audio and video installations and performances from a wide range of local audiovisual Chicago artists! Tonight is curated by the wonderful Suspended Culture.
A Suspended Culture is a culture on pause, a movement interrupted, a dream deferred. As a collective of visionaries, our work together inhabits the liminal space of a dream. Time is no longer necessary here; rather, time collapses into an ever-expanding radical presence. In a Suspended Culture, we play. We rehearse the future and we invite love to bind us to what liberates us.
A Suspended Culture considers love a revolutionary practice through which it can conjure anything required, and a Suspended Culture exists in an alternative reality rooted in love. A Suspended Culture embodies Afro-surreal interpretations of Black futures, embraces the absurd, and thinks with the body. A Suspended Culture uses pleasure as its map and sinks into the portal of “Yes, and…”. A Suspended Culture is a moment of rest!
This event is made possible by the support of the mediaThe Foundation
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Suspended Culture is an emerging Black art collective based in Baltimore, MD and Chicago, IL. Founded while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 by Carissa Pinckney, sun-Lynn Hunter, Kezia Waters, and Jordan Brown, they have created and performed original multimedia performance works in Chicago, Athens, OH, and Quebec City, among other locations.
Fleming is a queer multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of somatics, politics, and new media. Throughout their multi-faceted practice they are exploring embodiment as a tool for collective liberation. They are one half of the tekno duo 404 NOT FOUND and a long term member of a network of DIY underground creative communities in the United States, in which care and organizing are an important part of their practice. They currently work and reside in Chicago, Illinois, where they are faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Allen Moore (he/him/his) is a Black Interdisciplinary Artist, Experimental Turntableist, 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. Moore has exhibited and performed across the greater midwest, including exhibitions at Tritriangle, 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.
www.allenmooreart.com
Sam Thousand (formally known as Sam Trump) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/writer, producer/composer, a Walder Platform Artist, and a 3Arts Recipient with 15+ years of experience in live performance art, curation, and self management. Since picking up the trumpet at age 7, his artistry has allowed him the opportunity to perform in all corners of North America as well as overseas.
Sam Thousand has become a fixture in Chicago’s music scene through years of performance residencies, curated events and artist showcases. In addition to performing and curating, Sam Thousand is co-founder of multiple Chicago-based organizations, and is a business owner, recent tech founder, and social entrepreneur. Sam Thousand continues to use his platform to engage and uplift those around him, while sharing the knowledge and experiences he's had throughout his 10 year career as a full-time musician in Chicago.
Sun Lynn - ‘My artistic journey is an exploration of the nonlinear human experience, and the intricate dance between loss and self-discovery. I am a performance artist & researcher. Creating live time based performances that deal with empathy & vulnerability. They usually include interactive installations, video art, sound, text, endurance, and the channeling of both known & lost ancestral knowledge.’
Zoe Butler is a New Media Performance Artist, based in Chicago, who uses abstraction to explore the relationship between material culture and embodiment. Butler’s recent work engages with both personal and museum archives to explore artifacts that resist histories of domination. Butler is a 2023-24 Fulbright Research Fellowship recipient, affiliated with The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine. Her ongoing project titled Conversations and Constellations is a body of creative research exploring Caribbean oral traditions and the histories from which they emerge, to encourage the continued exchange of oral traditions.
Andres L. Hernandez is a conceptual artist and educator who explores and offers models for imagining and existing otherwise. Inspired by the cultural, knowledge, and spatial production of African-descent peoples, his practice encompasses collaborative, socially-engaged, and independent artmaking. Hernandez records and performs sonic works as aRKMDZ, and produces site-responsive soundscapes, scores for moving image and performance, video works, and electronic music as part of the performance duo Two___Halves.