Resistance
Single Channel Video Festival
February 28 - March 1, 2025
We can become part of a widening when we refuse to be narrowed. - Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Resistance is a relationship. Are you keeper or are you kept?
Resistance is geologic.
What does resistance look like when the algorithm knows your shames, your loves, your kinks, knows what you want before you want it? When the protest gets a police escort? When you buy a Starbucks afterward, because god can we just live for a minute?
At every turn you foil me. And yet through some luck/grace/will/inverse inertia we get on with it - with the spongy matter of loving.
The pitfalls are many! The vertical task of somehow having connection when the name of the game is to go untouched. A saddling of SLOW deliberate motion that must sustain a strobe light of assaults. We doom-scroll to chill out. Can I resist and still have fun?
We cannot speak of resistance without her sister temptation. And get to a salient point that yes sometimes to resist is to forgo desire, to deny pleasure - a wet with wanting and mouth full of lightning that_goes_nowhere_. Although_ must every lost hard-on become a little baby angel in heaven? Might we question the narrative that everything you’ve ever wanted is a half breath away; dreams that become landfill, become bombs, and then too become billable at $300 per hour so you can cry in front of someone who’s sworn to secrecy. Might we question the myth that accountability isn’t sexy, was never sexy.
Might we crawl toward an ethic that holds frustration and elation. Toward a field of heterogeneity, plurality, exchanges, toward dildonics (thank you, Paul). Is resistance an insistence on collectivity, on saliva vs. bleach?
We have been able to resist because we expanded our subjectivity, refusing to accept the idea that we’re all the same. - Ailton Krenak, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
We are looking for work that takes up the project of resistance, in the un/knowable breadth of what that may mean.
See Curatorial Essay here
Participating Artists: Elizabeth Shores, Laura Iancu, Jena Seiler & Nicole L. Martin, Elizabeth Schneider & Michael Covello,Tommy Hartung, Angie Jennings, Logan Dandridge, Grau Del Grau, Adam Farcus, Piper Hill, Carolyn Lambert
Images courtesy of the artist: Elizabeth Shores - still from Placing a Cube in a Canyon, Laura Iancu - still from Half Life, Jena Seiler & Nicole L. Martin - still from The Keeping Space, Elizabeth Schneider & Michael Covello - still from Becoming an Oyster, Tommy Hartung - still from Individuality, Angie Jennings - still from THE STIGMA FOG SAINT Wards Off Extinction, Logan Dandridge - still from Something Like a Sonnet, Grau Del Grau - still from Purple Cloud, Adam Farcus - still from Five Minutes to Presence, Piper Hill - still from A Deal, Carolyn Lambert - still from Clear-Cut
Artist Curated Screening with Kate Stone
Live Event
June 7, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Kate Stone works within a range of media, including sculpture, installation and animation to explore her interest in the potential of quotidian architectural structures to reveal the “uncanny” within. She writes, “Drawing inspiration from myths, conspiracy theories, quantum physics, anatomy and horror tropes, I construct liminal worlds that exist somewhere between interior and exterior, between reality and superstition, between architecture and the body. They are psychological spaces that are often in the midst of transformation, being overtaken by natural, supernatural or invisible forces. These forces serve as stand-ins for the anxiety that current world events bring into our personal lives and private spaces.”
Stone received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. She has been awarded the Tierney Fellowship, The Lotos Foundation Prize, an FST StudioProjects Grant and a Kone Foundation Grant. She has attended residencies at NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance LES Studio Program, Kone Foundation, MASS MoCA and Mudhouse Residency in rural Greece. Her work has been exhibited at 601Artspace, bitforms gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Dinner Gallery, FiveMyles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Rubber Factory, Spring Break Art Show, South Bend Museum of Art, The Museum of Broken Relationships and Transmitter Gallery, among others.
Image courtesy of the artist. Strange Loops, Animation 2022.
Not Yet
Single Channel Video Festival
March 1 - 2, 2024
Not Yet
A time uncertain
The situation is unfolding
(In, re,) actions influence the possibilities; fear, disinterest, or
exhaustion affects the shape of a storm in the making.
What are the forces pushing, pulling, twisting
a child
the uprooted or never home
an idea
This earth
Participating Artists: Lisa Blackburn - USA, Brit Bunkley - New Zealand, Wey Yinn Teo - Malaysia, Amanda VanValkenburg - USA,
Chenmo Wu - China, Dowon Yoo - Korea
Images courtesy of the artist: Lisa Blackburn - still from Here and There, Brit Bunkley - still from Natural Intelligence, Wey Yinn Teo - still from Enflightenment, Amanda VanValkenburg - still from Expansion, Chenmo Wu - still from The Lost Conversation, Dowon Yoo - still from Dongwon Kim’s Gesture
You’ve Been Had!
Single Channel Video Festival
March 10-11, 2023
Even fools like me
Even fools like me
I said you're running out of fools
Even old fools like me
the jig is up
Polonius: O, I am slain!
Babe, we’ve all been there. DEFEAT.
O how you held on. Iron on the tongue - whose blood? - every ragged fingernail, every festered wound cauterized, every sweet asshole clenched. But it’s oooovveerrrr nooowwww. The water rises; the curtain falls. The planet, your lover, the cat, roll to their side and lick themselves, leaving you to shelter on the edge of the bed. So what? Now what?
It’s the old poetry of scoundrels, cads and rogues. Ancient, moody songs that make betrayal sound as normal as fried eggs. Somehow we know the lyrics, but only as they fall out of our mouths.
I wish I could, but my car broke down, and I missed the bus, then the taxman came, and my baby left me, right after the cops pulled me over (before the car broke). The war washed it all anyway.
We regret to inform you.
Thank you for your time.
We had an incredible volume.
Your mother/father and I.
After careful consideration.
Thank you.
ASAP.
Participating Artists: Saïd Afifi - France/ Morocco, Dee Hood - USA, Zerek Kempf - USA, Shori Sims - USA, Kate Stone - USA, Ryan Muchen Wang - USA, Rebecca Weisman - USA
Images courtesy of the artist: Dee Hood - still from Realigning the Forward Back, Kate Stone - still from Insides, Rebecca Weisman - still from Tap Lessons, Ryan Muchen Wang - still from Can’t Let Go, Saïd Afifi - still from Etymology, Shori Sims - still from Two Story Home, Zerek Kempf - still from This Is How You Start the Clock
Broken Compass
Single Channel Video Festival
March 4-6, 2022
broken compass – land ho
We are thinking about visibility, vantage points and our mutualistic relationships to place: seeing and being seen within and through the reverberations of shifting worlds. Pressed against the earth, what’s under your nose? Breathe it in. Draw from memory one end to the next.
Is to be unknowable, to be free?
What would the notion of discovery look like freed from its extractive, violent history?
Where could nomadic movement guided by difference, ambiguity, and detours lead us?
Can we imagine and be in relation with what we can’t fix by name?
We are thinking about land.