WDKYIII: Expanded Cinema w. AJ McClennon, James Connolly, and Alterotics
@ Public Works Gallery
2141 W North Ave, Chicago IL 60647
Opening Friday, April 10th, from 7PM - 11PM
Tickets can be bought through link on website!
Onion City and CCAM co-present the third annual edition of [WE DON’T KNOW YET] WHAT A CINEMA CAN DO, a night of new media live performance with the theme of Disintegrating Archives.
This event explores the resonances of “expanded cinema” today, putting cinematic art to the tasks of resistance, rupture, and reconfiguration of mediatic experience. We ask: how can experimental modes of animating sound and moving images reconfigure the possibility of our relating to one another anew? Re:: mix; vision; mediate; compile; concile; wire; work; enact.
This year WDKY features new works or reworkings by three artists developing distinct technical, aesthetic, and cultural niches: AJ McClennon’s transmedia sound and video work moves through topics of blackness, beauty, personal narrative, and the broad spectrum of femininity. The arts collective Alterotics’ moving-image art, archival research, and event hosting activates public life for trans/queer people. James Connolly’s real-time sound and media performance activates expressive potentials of technical systems sequestered behind consumer interfaces.
These three artists are also joined by special guest Aria Pedraza, who will introduce the Midwest Rave Culture Archive.
AJ McClennon works between sound, music, written, and spoken word, moving image and imagistic experimentation. They will present a new work that builds on the world-building techniques of their afro-futurist VEGA exhibition and performance project as well as their practice of engaging personal narratives.
Alterotics (Avery Jaye and Anaïs Alias) activates and reconfigures media technologies of image capture and sonic production to create windows, filters, scores, portals, and transcodings of feeling. Their assemblages of media signals (sound, video, cameras, sensors) create capacities for exchange between performers, audience, and the subjects of their archival material through gates of intimacy and distance.
James Connolly brings his custom real-time video processing systems (the CRT Flux Phaser and RGB.VGA.VOLT) to dis- and re-integrate lost privacy of personal archives in times of algorithmic extraction and mass surveillance. Connolly revives and re-purposes techniques of manipulating the electromagnetic spectrum cultivated by Chicago video stalwarts like Daniel Sandin in a post-alphabetic society.
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Tags: AJ McClennon, Alterotics, CCAM, Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines, Chicago, Expanded Cinema, James Connolly, Onion City Film Festival, Public Works Gallery, West Town
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