Kamau Patton: The Sky Above
@ Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Apt. A, Chicago IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 26th, at 7PM
The Sky Above: a video work and experience by Kamau Patton
Saturday, October 26, 7 PM
Suggested donation: $7-$10 (cash only)
(2014, US, digital, 66 min total)
Artist in attendance!
In Partnership with Machine Project as part of the Getty initiative “Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.”, Machine Project asked artists to take on the whole environment of Los Angeles and create performances shot on video and edited into short experimental films in response to notable architectural sites throughout the city.
As part of The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture, artist Kamau Patton engaged with a series of buildings in Los Angeles via a chartered helicopter, while performing a sound work composed for the flight. Accompanied by a cameraman and sound engineer, the entire flight was streamed live to Machine Project’s storefront space and the web.
Kamau Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator. His work is an examination of history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories and sites. His research focuses on questions of human ecology, environment, memory, cyberspace, telematics, and transmission technologies. Patton’s projects take form as expanded field conversations, always becoming, continuing and undergoing transformation.Patton received his MFA from Stanford University in 2007 and his BA in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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