Squeaky Wheel presents an evening premiere of new work made by five emerging artists in Erie County, who have just completed a 6-month access residency at Squeaky Wheel. Each year, Squeaky Wheel offers access residencies to local media makers to provide artists with access to our facilities, equipment and educational workshops.
This year's group of artists include:
Al Larsen, an adjunct instructor with the University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, who is completing an experimental narrative video that speculates on a generation of young people trying to survive on the fringes of the global economy. Al is a media artist working in video, performance, sound and physical computing. He is interested in public space, community and the populist use of media. Visit Al's site for more information about his work: http://www.propertyistheft.com/
Stella Marrs video piece pays tribute to University at Buffalo's glorious and historical literary past by featuring thirteen seperate readings of Dorothy Parker's short story "A Telephone Call." Marrs' work spans across various media and embraces inherited cultural archetypes of girlhood and female identities while posting alternative narratives to the patriarchy. Her projects have been developed for a variety of populist forms such as postcards, calendars, 'zines, t shirts, posters, window displays, short films, parade performances, slideshow lectures, online vlogging and video. For more information about Stella, visit her site: http://www.stellamarrs.com/
Illana Chlebowski's work is a reinterpretation of her own installation entitled False Papers (2007) which derives from histories, some truthful and others interpreted, often personal but compared to facts and all the while both specific and universal. Chlebowski is interested in how the act of remaking continually opens up a debate about the translation of truth that creative acts provide.
Sergio Uzurin is collaborating with Buffalo's youth to install abandoned television sets in public spaces to relay messages about important issues in the community.
Chris Svoboda is using interfaced sensors with software to allow viewers to control the time, personality and imagery displayed in an interactive portrait installation, which will remain on view in the upstairs installation gallery until April 3rd. Svoboda is a trained animator working in multiple artistic mediums and performs locally with the band Cinnamon Aluminum.
Squeaky Wheel is currently accepting applications for the next Local Artist Access Residency program!
Artists from anywhere in Erie County are encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is June 16th, 2010 and the residency lasts for 6 months. Accepted artists will gain 100 hours of free access to our film, digital and video labs, two days rental of film/video production equipment, $100 towards materials and one free workshop at Squeaky Wheel. For more information and to download the application, visit our residencies page at http://www.squeaky.org/residencies
