Sonic Geologies
Friday, October 7, 2022 | 7:00 PM
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI 53212
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Curtains | Zebulon Zang | 2 min 55 sec |
Synopsis
Fluttering white curtains blown out the windows of a highrise serve as the starting point for a meditation on the duality of these new constructions that serve as escapes from and instigators of climate change.
Artist Bio
Zebulon Zang is an artist and filmmaker from Maillardville, Canada. He currently lives in Southern California.
Rita’s Telepaths | Alisa Vostiklap | 20 min 34 sec |
Synopsis
What does neurodiversity have to do with telepathy? And what if the skill of respectfully co-existing with other species on this planet meant to learn the basics of telepathy? Often relegated to the realm of mysticism or pathology (or both), telepathy nonetheless opens the door to extended communication, granting agency to actors outside the human sphere who become legitimate participants in political, environmental, and emotional negotiation processes. Through our conversations, my childhood friend Rita guides me through a mental domain in which she is a professional.
Artist Bio
Alisa Vostiklap was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1983 and lives in Berlin. She is interested in the life of dunes, telepathy, Messiah-Machines, and mental trapping.
Her films have been shown at the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival and FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter. She is a member of the sound scenography studio TAUCHER.
Drawing In The Future | Laura Houlberg | 4 min 0 sec |
Synopsis
The etymology of "contract" is "to draw several objects together, to draw in." 2020 broke every social contract we thought we had. Big Tech continues to insidiously draw us into a new contract that requires us to always be online. And in response to all the chaos, I contracted into myself. It made me feel weird at first, but maybe a little cool down is just what we all need.
Artist Bio
Laura Houlberg is a writer and filmmaker currently living in Portland, Oregon. Her work explores questions at the intersection of technology, media, and sociocultural movements, and their political implications. She has spent the last few years specializing in the screenlife format, writing about and experimenting with screen-based filmmaking.
Mountainsides | Zebulon Zang | 4 min 39 sec |
Synopsis
Imagination and observation collide. Explorations of the history, physiognomy, and philosophy of mountains offer a platform to expansive thoughts on memory, creativity, and the human condition.
Artist Bio
Zebulon Zang is an artist and filmmaker from Maillardville, Canada. He currently lives in Southern California.
The stars would be first and then the city would be second (Daniel) | Frederikke Jul Vedelsby | 3 min 6 sec |
Synopsis
Daniel took classes with Anna Halprin most of his senior life. In this video, he is, from his roof,through dance, attacking the new ‘tallest building’ in the city. In the second part of the video, he is driving out to the Saint Andreas fault to walk "on" it.
Artist Bio
Frederikke Jul Vedelsby (b. 1990, Denmark) lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal, and Copenhagen (DK). Vedelsby graduated with an MFA from the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2020), studied at the Maumaus Independent Study Programme, Portugal (2021), and specialized in critical writing at Biskops Arnö, Sweden (2022). Vedelsby has been exhibited at Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Kørsor, Denmark), Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden), Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen, Denmark), Heima (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland) and at The Beat Museum (San Francisco, US) among others. She works as a teacher and is a part of a feminist reading group.
Working across drawing, 16mm film, and writing, she examines access to alternative states of consciousness and constructs a visual vocabulary that investigates ways of feeling and seeing. In approaching materials as something irregular and undetermined, her standpoint allows for the unpremeditated to emerge. She refers to her drawings as complex organisms which resist the urge of analysis and are assembled by the artist through various forms of movements and repetitions. It is in their irregularities that she traces the imprints and the slippages of the forgotten, of the somatic and the verbal, of the conscious and the unconscious.
Dear Samar | Bárbara Sánchez Barroso | 10 min 2 sec |
Synopsis
A trip to Jordan to explore the country at the hand of an Arabic woman. A crisis of representation: How to show without domesticating, without handling the whims of images, without clichés? An ethnographic journey through the landscapes that saw Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell pass by.
Artist Bio
Bárbara Sánchez Barroso holds a degree in Fine Arts and in Audiovisual Communication from Universitat de Barcelona, where she also studied a Master in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. She just completed a Master in Artistic Research at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden. She has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Barcelona and holds a postgraduate degree at HISK, Belgium.
Working mainly with the moving image and video installation, she is interested in empathy and connection towards coexistence, thinking about the relations of nature-culture and agency. She is always searching for ways of connecting with the other, and exploring that otherness – human and non-human – with the camera.
Her work has been exhibited individually and in collective at Inter Arts Center, Malmö; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; La Capella, Barcelona; MoCA, Taipei; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone; MHKA, Antwerp; Naturgy Foundation, A Coruña; Center d’Art La Panera, Lleida; CAC, Quito; Sala Amadís, Madrid; B’Chira Art Center, Tunis; Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona and MUST, Lecce; among others. My videos are part of the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Naturgy Foundation collections.