GHOST WARS
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Saturday, June 25th, from 8PM - 11PM
Join us for a night of audio/visual improvisations with ghost wars in town from Madison, Wisconsin! They will be live mixing film in person with live audio scoring from a stellar band. Not to miss! The trio of Emily Beisel, Molly Jones, and Erica Miller will kick off the evening.
ghost wars
america is a ghost in a void bent into the sum of our mistakes
where shadows wander in the darkness unseen
teetering on the edge of chaos
merchants of certitude deliver holy capitalism
— where war follows money and money follows war… endless wars
this is the business that is our america
[excerpt from america is a ghost_thomas ferrella]
a film_handcrafted in real time by aaron granat + thomas ferrella music by you of all people – ed ahrens_kevin schaefer_nick orlowski_phil redman_steve tyska_thomas ferrella
thomas ferrella
untethered, auto-didact, visual and performance artist resides in madison, wi, he has participated in a carl wilkens fellowship, nominated by TIME for a “can’t miss” photography show at the gage gallery
[chicago] in 2016, won a NBC award for his 30 year photo-documentary work of roadside memorials titled not forgotten, premiered his 1 world project in cuba in 2017 and is known in small circles for running bluestem jazz, ghost wars is his third film with granat and you of all people
aaron granat
Aaron Granat is a video artist, cinematographer, editor, and teacher of media production. Spanning live, multi-media performance, documentary, screen dance, experimental, and dramatic narrative, his work has been exhibited in museums, film festivals across the world, music venues large and small,
planetariums, and billboards in city centers. Unbound by traditional forms and structures, Aaron seeks the interdisciplinary merging of practices, aestheticizing the creative process and the phenomena of reality in thought-provoking ways.
you of all people is a sonic frontier collective
ferrella.com
@artistthomasferrella
@adgranat
youofallpeople.studio
$15 – Tickets Available at the Door
All proceeds will go to Friends of Ukraine, Madison. If interested in additional contributions, please send via paypal to Margit Gundlach at margit3099@aol.com
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Tags: aaron granat, Chicago, ed ahrens, Elastic Arts, Emily Beisel, Erica Miller, GHOST WARS, kevin schaefer, Logan Square, Molly Jones, nick orlowski, phil redman, steve tyska, thomas ferrella
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