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SUMMARY:Punctures | Kite’s Everything I Say Is True
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 7\, 2019\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nPerformance artist\, visual artist\, and composer Kite will perform a piece integrating dress\, sound\, video\, and emerging technologies with her family’s ephemera and historical documents. Join us for this special performance of Everything I Say Is True\, tied to Kite’s installation in the gallery\, followed by a Q&A with the artist and Jolene Rickard. \nKite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist\, visual artist\, and composer raised in Southern California\, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition\, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School\, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance practice. Recently\, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances\, carbon fiber sculptures\, immersive video & sound installations\, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint\, Unheard Records. \nJolene Rickard is an Associate Professor in the departments of History of Art and Art\, and the Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) at Cornell University\, Ithaca. Her research and artistic practice focus on contemporary Indigenous art\, materiality\, and ecocriticism with an emphasis on Haudenosaunee aesthetics. A selection of publications include: “Arts of Dispossession\,” in From Tierra del Fuego to the Artic: Landscape Painting in the Americas\, Art Gallery of Ontario (2015)\, The Emergence of Global Indigenous Art\, Sakahán\, National Gallery of Canada (2013)\, Visualizing Sovereignty in the Time of Biometric Sensors\, The South Atlantic Quarterly: Sovereignty\, Indigeneity\, and the Law\, 110:2 (2011) and Haudenosaunee Art: “In the Shadow of the Eagle”\, Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art: A Collection of Essays (ERNAS Monographs 3) (2007). Jolene is on the editorial board of American Art\, the Otsego Institute and is part of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF). She co-curated two of the four inaugural exhibitions of the National Museum of the American Indian (2004-2014). Jolene is from the Tuscarora Nation\, turtle clan. \nThis performance is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Eniola Dawodu and Kite
DESCRIPTION:Opening\, November 22\, 2019\, 6–9pm\nArtist Talk and Q&A with Eniola Dawodu and Amy Sall at 7:30pm\nOn view through December 22\, 2019\nFree and open to the public \nThe second exhibition of Punctures features two works placed in conversation: Kite’s multi-media installation and performance Everything I Say Is True (2017)\, which considers concepts of truth in relation to Oglala Lakota knowledge systems. Eniola Dawodu’s IRAN SI IRAN (2019)\, funded by the Creative Arts Initiative\, is a newly commissioned textile work which reassembles a fragmented chorus of ancestral African women’s strategic radical overtures toward autonomy and cultural sovereignty. \nJoin us for the opening of the exhibition on November 22nd with artist Eniola Dawodu in conversation with Amy Sall (Founder and Editor-in-Chief\, SUNU: Journal of African Affairs\, Critical Thought + Aesthetics). Artist Kite will be present for a performance of Everything I Say Is True on Saturday\, December 7\, with a conversation between her and Dr. Jolene Rickard. \n \nImage: Eniola Dawodu\, Iran Si Iran (2019). Image by Kaitlyn Lowe. \nEniola Dawodu is a British-born Nigerian based between Dakar\, Senegal and Brooklyn\, NY. She is engaged in the cultural archiving of memories\, methods\, and magic concerning West African textiles and aesthetics of style + self-presentation. Her research and creative practice privilege traditional dress practice\, its motif and methodology\, as potent conduits for cross-generational communication\, situated in the liminal and powerfully charged with legacy and history. With reverence to foremothers\, Dawodu reimagines garments of power as masques within which space is held for the latent narratives of ancestral African experiences. In alliance with master artisans via ancient techniques\, past and present-day collapse into cross-dimensional expression. Woven memoirs unite; a foundation upon which truths are embroidered. \nKite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist\, visual artist\, and composer raised in Southern California\, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition\, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School\, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance practice. Recently\, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances\, carbon fiber sculptures\, immersive video & sound installations\, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint\, Unheard Records. \nA graduate from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences\, Amy Sall holds a master’s degree in Human Rights Studies\, concentrating on the right to development and youth empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. She received her BA in 2012 from The New School University in Culture and Media Studies\, with a concentration in Cultural Studies and a minor in Journalism.  Sall is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs\, Critical Thought + Aesthetics (SUNU Journal)\, a forthcoming publication seeking to amplify emerging voices and perspectives on matters and ideas concerning Africa and the Diaspora. From 2016 to 2017\, she was a Part-time Lecturer in the Culture and Media Studies department of The New School University’s Eugene Lang College\, where she developed and taught two courses: Third Cinema & The Counter Narratives\, and The African Gaze: Postcolonial Visual Culture of Africa & The Social Imagination. She is a 2016 Independent Curators International (ICI) + RAW Material Company Fellow.\nWith a keen interest in cultural studies\, African affairs and artistic expression\, Amy Sall is interested in the ways in which visual culture\, literature\, postcolonial and critical theory inform\, shape and encourage contemporary discourses surrounding the socioeconomic\, political and cultural. She consults for entities engaged in projects\, programming\, exhibitions\, and/or research relating to contemporary African and Afro-diasporic visual culture (specifically photography and cinema). Her consulting also extends to projects and research centered on African/Afro-diasporic theory\, literature and social science. Amy Sall is also a collector of vintage vernacular photography and printed matter coming from Africa and the diaspora (ca. 1950s – 1970s). These Pan-African artifacts are housed in her small\, but growing private collection\, The Sall Collection. The Sall Collection was established with the ideas of cultural preservation and cultural sovereignty in mind. Its existence serves as a means to maintain agency by pushing back against the neocolonial ways of archiving\, collecting\, and disseminating African/Black artifacts. \nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nEniola Dawodu’s exhibition is supported through a residency from the Creative Arts Initiative at the University at Buffalo. Creative Arts Initiative is a university-wide initiative\, dedicated to the creation and production of new work upholding the highest artistic standards of excellence and fostering a complementary atmosphere of creative investigation and engagement among students\, faculty\, visiting artists\, and the community. \nBanner Image: Kite\, Everything I Say Is True (2017). Courtesy of the artist.
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SUMMARY:We Tell: Environments of Race and Place
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 23\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess Pass holders \nWe Tell: Environments of Race & Place is a screening of short\, community made short films focused on issues surrounding immigration\, migration\, and racial identity unique to a specific environment. Including films by Outta Your Backpack Media\, Third World Newsreel\, among others. Don’t miss the Buffalo stop of this nationally touring screening series\, with co-curator Patricia Zimmermann in person for introduction and Q&A. \nProgram \n91 minutes \nSan Francisco Newsreel\, Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)\, black and white\, 15 minutes\, 1967\nBlack Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)\, also known as Off the Pig\, documents the Black Panther Party in 1967. It was one of Newsreel’s most widely distributed films\, made and used by members of the Black liberation movement. It contains a prison interview with Black Panthers’ Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton\, an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver\, footage of the aftermath of the police assault against the Los Angeles Chapter headquarters\, and political demonstrations supporting Huey Newton’s release from jail. \nMimi Pickering\, Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man\, black and white\, 39 minutes 1975\nOn February 26\, 1972 in West Virginia\, a Pittson Company coal-waste dam collapsed at the top of Buffalo Creek Hollow\, leaving 125 dead and 4\,000 homeless. Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man juxtaposes interviews with survivors\, union and citizen’s groups representatives\, and company officials. Pittson executives knew of the hazard in advance of the flood and that the dam’s structure violated state and federal regulations. Nevertheless\, the Pittston Company denied any wrongdoing\, maintaining that the disaster was an act of God.\n\nMichael Siv and Aram Siu Wai Collier (Spencer Nakasako\, facilitator)\, Who I Became\, color\, 20 minutes\, 2003\nWho I Became is the story of Pounloeu Chea\, a first-generation Cambodian American. In the early 1980s\, he and his family escaped from Cambodia and settled in San Francisco. In 1998\, his father returned to Cambodia\, leaving behind his wife and three sons. In 2002\, his mother joined his father. Since her departure\, Pounloeu was found guilty of driving stolen cars intended for export\, and placed on parole. About to become a father\, he must hold a job and obey the law to avoid being sent to jail or deported to Cambodia.\n\nYusi Brieland El Boujami\, Ned del Callejo\, Ariane Farnsworth\, Shyanna Marks\, Shelby Ray\, and Amber Vigil from the Outta Your Backpack Workshop with Indigenous Youth (Klee Benally\, facilitator)\, Legend of the Weresheep\, color\, 2:45 minutes\, 2007\nIn this short animation\, a sheep drinks water from a toxic factory and turns into a zombie. Legends of the Weresheep was made with hand-drawn images that feature a river next to a factory spewing out black smoke. A herd of sheep graze next to the river. When they drink the polluted water\, toxic symbols are emblazoned on their fur. The film was produced by Indigenous youth participating in a Fall 2009 Media Workshop in Flagstaff\, Arizona conducted by the activist media collective Outta Your Backpack. \nChristi Cooper\, Katie Lose Gilbertson\, Kelly Matheson\, Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery: TRUST Alaska\, color\, 8 minutes\, 2011 \nStories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery is a ten-part series about youth\, law\, and justice. These short documentaries feature the voices of daring youth from across the country who went to court to compel the government to protect our atmosphere in trust\, for future generations. In TRUST Alaska\, seventeen-year-old Nelson Kanuk explains why erosion\, floods\, intense storms\, and permafrost melt\, threaten their homes\, communities\, and culture. Nelson’s story unfolds the human and environmental damage caused by climate change. \nMyron Dewey\, Digital Smoke Signals: Aerial Footage from the Night of November 20\, 2016 at Standing Rock\, color\, 7:06 minutes\, 2016\nFrom April 2016 to February 2017\, Standing Rock Indian Reservation members and environmental activists protested Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline—built to move oil from the North Dakota Bakken oil fields to southern Illinois—with an encampment to protect water\, land\, and Indigenous sacred sites. Myron Dewey of Digital Smoke Signals (DSS) describes drone footage that captures the North Dakota State Troopers\, the National Guard\, and private contractors committing human rights violations against the Indigenous Water Protectors. \n\nThis screening is part of We Tell: Fifty Years Of Participatory Community Media: On the Frontlines of Politics and Place\, 1967-2017\, a nationally touring\, curated screening series that explores and unearths the fifty-year history of participatory community documentary in the United States. It focuses on place-based documentaries that situate their collaborative practice in specific locales and communities. These works embrace and enhance the micro rather than the macro\, moving away from the national to the local and from the long form theatrical feature to the short form of documentary circulating within and across communities and politics. The exhibition of comprised of six thematic programs that probe salient topics emerging in participatory community media. Exhibitors and programmers may select among these different programs\, depending on their needs and programming space. Curated by Louis Massiah & Patricia Zimmermann. \n  \nImage: Christi Cooper-Kuhn\, Katie Lose Gilbertson\, Kelly Matheson\, WITNESS\, Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery: Alaska (2011).
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/environments-of-race-and-place/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scary-oke!
DESCRIPTION:October 19\, 2019\, 8pm–1am \nMarket Arcade (617 Main Street)\nSlasher Ticket $15 | Pre-sale $20 | Door $25\nGet tickets here* \n  \nScary-oke is back! \nSqueaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center’s popular Halloween Karaoke Party returns! This 8th edition of our legendary fundraiser\, Peepshow\, Scary-oke takes on the theme of “Haunted Futures”.  \nThere’s something for everyone at Scary-oke! Karaoke lovers: hop between three haunted movie-themed karaoke rooms designed by local artists Obsidian Bellis\, Charlie Best\, and Brian Milbrand accompanied by karaoke jockeys Incognegro\, Holly Johnson\, and Rick Vallone. Dance partiers: project your moves into another world using our green-screen backdrop\, boogie through the haunted halls with Silent Disco\, or dance the night away with DJs @ABCDJ. \nArt lovers: bid on exciting work by local and regional artists in a special silent Art Auction. Gamers: get spooked with a creepy survival horror game by Buffalo Game Space’s Wase Qazi.  Exhibitionists: pose for photos on the silver carpet\, indulge yourselves in multiple selfie spots\, or enter for your chance to win amazing prizes in the Costume Contest hosted by Grovey Cleves. \nBe sure to stick around for performances by Cat & Cat the Incredible Conjoined Stripper Clowns\, Max Darling\, Fifi Laflea\, and Vidalia May. And you won’t want to miss the Epic Song Sing-a-Long to cap off the night!\nProceeds help benefit Squeaky Wheel’s award-winning youth and adult media education programs\, along with our low-cost equipment access and exhibitions. Don’t miss the biggest karaoke event in WNY and help make a difference! \nThis fundraiser is made possible by the generous support of the following sponsors\, to date: Clover Management\, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria\, Buffalo Rising\, Buffalo Spree\, Allen Street Consulting\, Challenger News\, Cheryl Lyles\, Quick Brown Fox Labs\, Half and Half Boutique\, Shea’s Performing Arts Center\, Yelp\, Putman Insurance Agency\, Bluebird Transportation\, LLC\, 2FilmCritics.com\, Café 59\, Block Club\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Lumiflux Media\, Catherine Linder Spencer\, Andrews\, Bernstein\, Maranto & Nicotra\, PLLC\, Mister Goodbar\, Allasen Carpet\, Fry Baby Donuts\, Mohawk Cryo\, Renoun Creative\, UB Dept of Art\, UB Dept of Media Study\, Savoy Buffalo\, Paranormal Club @ Medaille College\, Interdisciplinary Studies Dept. Medaille College\, DeBellis Catherine & Morreale Corporate Staffing\, and John McKendry. \n  \n*Before purchasing a ticket please review our community guidelines
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SUMMARY:Buffalo International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 12\nTickets: buffalointernationalfilmfestival.com \nThe Buffalo International Film Festival returns to Squeaky Wheel for its thirteenth year\, with a special showcase of films by students in our youth education initiatives and a juried selection of films with regional and global perspectives. \n11:30am: Ovacık\n1:30pm: Youth Program\n3pm: Spiral Farm \nThe Buffalo International Film Festival is the region’s premiere celebration of the moving image. BIFF is one of the largest film festivals in New York State outside of New York City\, and is the longest-running film festival in Western New York. BIFF champions local\, national\, and international films that test the limits of independent cinema. Every year\, we present top selections from thousands of submissions to WNY’ers and travellers seeking to explore the great food\, nightlife\, history and adventure that defines Buffalo. BIFF also proudly supports local filmmakers by offering workshops\, seminars\, panels and fiscal sponsorship on a year-round basis.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/buffalo-international-film-festival-4/
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Wang Bing’s Bitter Money
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 25\, 2019\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nWang Bing’s celebrated Bitter Money (2016) follows a handful of workers in the city of Huzhou\, home to 18\,000 clothing factories. Capturing them both at work—where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day—and in their off-hours\, this demanding\, rewarding film incisively captures the conditions of the contemporary textile industry. \nWang Bing\, Bitter Money\, 152 minutes\, digital video\, 2016 \nBing has an unreal talent for finding precisely the right way to frame candid moments. —Hyperallergic \nWang’s camera captures the relentless hopelessness of the Chinese low-income working class\, not for us to gawk at\, but for us to experience\, to become a part of it\, and to maybe also understand it.—Frameland\n\nThis screening is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nImage: Wang Bing\, Bitter Money (2016). Special thanks to Icarus Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/punctures-wang-bings-bitter-money/
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SUMMARY:Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time
DESCRIPTION:September 20\, 2019–February 7\, 2020 \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to announce Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Drawing from the little-known but expansive history connecting media arts and textile production\, the exhibition features artists invested in the material\, critical and liberatory politics of their intersections. \nFrom the Lumière brothers taking the intermittent motion of a sewing machine to create the cinematograph\, to the punch cards of the Jacquard loom forming the basis of modern computation\, and the role of sewing and gendered labor in jobs like editing and dyeing in film production\, textile production remains an essential\, but insufficiently unacknowledged formal and social influence on media arts. These underpinnings aim to not only explicate an alternate history\, but are meant to find ways to speculate new futures for media practice. \nConsisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, audiences will engage with artworks exploring a wide range of practices including\, trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. \nThe exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing\, and guest speakers such as Jasmina Tumbas and Jolene Rickard. \n Additional Punctures events in 2020 to be announced. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. See the schedule below. \n \nFriday\, September 20\, 2019\, 6–10 pm\nPerformance at 9pm\nOpening | Punctures: Cecilia Vicuña and Charlie Best\nCecilia Vicuña on view through November 8\, 2019\nCharlie Best on view through February 7\, 2020 \n \nWednesday\, September 25\, 2019\, 7 pm\nScreening | Punctures: Wang Bing’s Bitter Money \n \nFriday\, November 22\, 2019\, 6–9 pm\nOpening | Punctures: Eniola Dawodu and Kite\nOn view through December 21\, 2019 \n \nSaturday\, December 7\, 2019\, 7 pm\nPerformance | Punctures: Kite’s Everything I Say Is True \n \nWednesday\, December 11\, 2019\, 7 pm\nScreening | Punctures: Jodie Mack’s The Grand Bizzare \n \nFriday\, January 10\, 2020\, 6–9pm\nOpening | Punctures: Betty Yu and Sabrina Gschwandtner\nOn view through February 7\, 2020 \n \nSaturday\, January 11\, 2020\, 12–2 pm\nSpecial Workshop | Punctures: Threading Roots with Augmented Reality \n \nWednesday\, January 15\, 2020\, 7 pm\nScreening | Punctures: no idle hands and Hearts and Hands \n \nWednesday\, January 29\, 2020\, 7 pm\nScreening | Punctures: Threading Histories \n \nFriday\, February 7\, 2020\, 7 pm\nArtist Talks & Closing | Punctures: Charlie Best and Jodi Lynn Maracle \n\nPunctures is made with generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, the Creative Arts Initiative at the University at Buffalo\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. The curator would like to thank 5harfliler\, Independent Curators International and the SAHA Foundation\, Aily Nash\, Claire Schneider\, Elisa Auther\, Faraz Anoushahpour\, Herb Shellenberger\, Patrick Friel\, Rachel Adams\, RAW Material Company\, Steve Polta\, and Tina Rivers Ryan.
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Cecilia Vicuña & Charlie Best
DESCRIPTION:Opening and performance: Friday\, September 20\, 2019\, 6–10pm\nCurator’s talk at 7:30pm\nPerformance by Charlie Best at 9pm.\nCecilia Vicuña on view through November 8\, 2019. Charlie Best on view through February 7\, 2020.\nFree and open to the public. \nThe opening exhibition of Punctures features installations by Cecilia Vicuña and Charlie Best. Vicuña’s lyrical\, three-channel video La Noche de la Especies (2016) on the extinction and rebirth of life is emblematic of the legendary artists long-standing practice in text\, textiles\, and media. Best’s We Interrupt This Program (2019) creates an invitation for confusion and joy\, full of noise\, for trans people. The opening will conclude at 9pm with a performance by Charlie Best\, with performers Amy\, Harper\, Kalub\, Lux\, Robbi\, Seth\, Tabia\, Taylor\, and Vivian. \n \nInstallation view\, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, Contemporary Arts Center NewOrleans\, March 16–June 18\, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin\, New York\, Hong Kong\, and Seoul.Photo: Alex Marks \nIn the gallery\nCecilia Vicuña\, La Noche de la Especies\, graphite on paper with three-channel video animation\, 60 minutes\, sound\, looped\, 2009 \nIn the window gallery\nCharlie Best\, We Interrupt this program\, four digital videos installed on crt monitors\, mixed media\, 5 minutes\, sound\, looped\, 2017–2019 \nCharlie Best is an artist and seamstrix living and working in what is currently known as buffalo\, ny. Picking and choosing between fiber and textiles\, video\, collage\, performance\, and sculpture\, Charlie’s work interrupts transmissions of the gender binary\, lack of imagination\, capitalism\, and other ills lurking in common cultural forms. Richard Scarry illustrations\, men’s shirts\, catholic mass\, and network television are just some of what awaits the cut of the scissors. Charlie is committed to the joys\, lessons\, fears\, and aesthetics of nonbinary imagination practices. They received a bfa in sculpture and expanded media from alfred university’s school of art and design (2018)\, and were the recipient of a fellowship to the cite internationale des arts\, paris\, france. They have exhibited locally and nationally\, most recently at sugar city (buffalo\, ny) with “something from the basement”. The current interests of their practice include the application of anarchist tactics/thoughts/dreams and children’s stories to garment and accessory design\, and the history of VHS. Charlie and collaborator Jaz Palermo are in pre production for their first film\, titled st. tilapia’s school for gayward girls\, which they both hope gets banned somewhere. \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world\, including ecological destruction\, human rights\, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating “precarious works” and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile\, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.” Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem\, an image that morphs into a film\, a song\, a sculpture\, or a collective performance. These ephemeral\, site-specific installations in nature\, streets\, and museums combine ritual and assemblage. She calls this impermanent\, participatory work “lo precario” (the precarious): transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her paintings of early 1970s de-colonized the art of the conquerors and the “saints” inherited from the Catholic Church\, to create irreverent images of the heroes of the revolution. A partial list of museums that have exhibited her work include: The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; Art in General in NYC; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA\, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. \nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nImage: Charlie Best\, We Interrupt This Program (2019). Special thank you to Lehmann Maupin Gallery and Seneca Lake Wine Trail.
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel’s 16th Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 6\, 7:30pm\n@ Albright Knox Art Gallery\nFree as part of M&T First Fridays \nShowcasing animated shorts\, including 3D animations\, crayon kaleidoscopes\, and more this 16th edition of our annual Animation Fest is curated by Leanne Goldblatt\, and features films by Amanda Bonaiuto\, Cassie Shao\, Evan Tapper and Scott Sørli\, Hallie Bahn\, Kristjan Holm\, Krystal Downs and Alex Krokus\, LIZN’BOW\, Lori Malépart-Traversy\, Tammy Renée Brackett\, and Vanja Andrijevic. \nProgram ~47min \nOrbit \nTess Martin\n7 min digital file\, 2019\nThe Sun’s energy circulates through the Earth\, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop\, which repeats\, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess\, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily stopping the circulation of energy in nature. The natural cycle can and will continue\, only without the human race in the mix. Submitted by Vanja Andrijevic. \nThe Clitoris\nLori Malépart-Traversy\n3 min\, digital file\, 2016\, subtitled\nWomen are lucky\, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary\, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory. \nHEDGE \nAmanda Bonaiuto \n6 min\, digital file\, 2018\nA singularly comical/surreal vision of a family visiting a funeral home. \nnée Rabbit \nHallie Bahn \n3 min\, digital file\, 2018\nnée Rabbit confronts the mind’s struggle to maintain a true identity even as our memory begins to fade. Can we continue to know ourselves when we have no recollection of our past actions and reactions? Do we adapt our identity to incorporate this loss into our life’s story? Or do we resign ourselves to wake up each day anew and if so\, who are we? \nYour Black Friend \nKrystal Downs and Alex Krokus \n3 min\, digital file\, 2018\nBen Passmore‘s necessary contribution to the dialogue around race in the United States\, Your Black Friend is a letter from your black friend to you about race\, racism\, friendship and alienation. \nAll Your Photos \nTammy Renée Brackett \n2 min\, digital file\, 2019 \nA photo booth that promises to deliver ALL your photos for a quarter. \nThere Were Four of Us \nCassie Shao \n7 min\, digital file\, 2019\, subtitled\nIn a room\, there are four people. \nLife24 \nKristjan Holm \n9 min\, digital file\, 2019 \nConfirmed bachelor Einar Jernskjegg wins the lottery. \nGay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!)\nEvan Tapper and Scott Sørli\n5 min\, digital video\, 2018\, subtitled\nGay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) was created for Nuit Rose\, Pride Toronto\, 2017. The previous year\, Black Lives Matter – Toronto intervened in the Toronto Pride parade\, resulting in significant changes to Pride 2017. Among the most controversial of BLM-Toronto’s demands was the removal of police floats in Pride marches and parades. The artists were disturbed by the negative response to this demand from gay cis white men that the artists encountered on social media and in person. These men had no memory\, nor understanding\, of the long history of police violence against the LGBT+ communities\, and especially against People of Colour\, a history that continues today. In solidarity with BLM-Toronto\, the artists animated a satirical Shame Parade in another world\, composed entirely of floats that document police violence against the LGBT+ communities in the greater Toronto area from the 1940s to the present day. \nFlowerbombs \nLIZN’BOW \n2 min\, digital file\, 2016\nFlowerbombs is an infomercial made during a 6 week new media feminist workshop series in partnership with Breakthrough Miami outreach program. \nBios of the artists and curator \nAmanda Bonaiuto (b. 1990) is an animator and artist originally from Massachusetts. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival\, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Ottawa International Animation Festival\, Slamdance\, Pictoplasma\, and more. She is a 2017 Princess Grace Honoraria in Film. She graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2018. \nCassie Shao is an Animation Artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of SAIC and Hench-DADA School of Cinematic Arts at USC. She works across the field of independent films\, music videos\, projection mapping\, advertising as well as animated television series. Her last short film Synched screened at festivals such as MIAF\, LIAF\, Athens Animfest and Anim!Arte\, and received two awards. Her collaborative project Black Bird with live action director Haonan Wang screened at Ars Independent\, Cucalorus and KLIK etc. It also won several awards including Best Animation at Ibiza Music Video Festival. She recently completed her MFA graduation film There Were Four of Us and is sending it worldwide. \nEvan Tapper received a BFA Honours from the School of Art\, University of Manitoba and a MFA from the School of Art\, Carnegie Mellon University. His multimedia work has been exhibited throughout Canada\, the United States\, Europe\, South America\, the Middle East\, Australia and Asia. He has received grants and awards from such organizations as the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the Manitoba Arts Council\, and the Toronto Arts Council. Evan has held academic appointments at the State University of New York Fredonia\, McMaster University\, the Ontario College of Art and Design University\, and the University of Toronto. To view Evan’s work\, please visit: www.evantapper.net. \nHallie Bahn is an interdisciplinary artist working in stop-motion animation. Through her narratives and handcrafted sets\, Bahn’s practice explores themes of time\, memory\, and self-preservation. Bahn is currently completing her MFA in Visual Studies at Minneapolis College of Art & Design. \nKristjan Holm was born in 1976 in Tallinn\, Estonia. Graduated Estonian Academy of Arts in 1999 as an interior designer. In time the understanding that a room is limited to four walls\, started to trouble him though. An unexpected discovery that also film frame has four walls\, gave him the final impulse to change the subject and dedicate his life to investigating the ties between frames and walls. \nDoggo Studios is Krystal Downs and Alex Krokus. We freelance out of Brooklyn\, NY and our goal is to make cartoons of incredible power. Whether that is achieved through humor\, emotional storytelling or just looking really badass depends on the project. \nLIZN’BOW is a project in which we use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. We combine social practice and technology to create empowering collaborations with people. Our work provides space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. We have worked with NSU Art Museum\, Squeaky Wheel Media Center\, The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, Domino Park\, Borscht Film Festival\, the Koubek Center\, and Young at Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale. \nLori Malépart-Traversy was born in 1991 in Montreal\, Canada. She studied in Studio Arts and Film Animation at Concordia University\, where she graduated in 2016. Her graduation film\, The Clitoris\, has since been shown in more than 140 film festivals around the world and has received 15 prizes and mentions. She is now working on a project about female masturbation at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). \nScott Sørli’s transdisciplinary practice concerns itself with the moments when form and matter engage the political and economic forces that produce the city. He has taught design research at several architecture schools and has exhibited and published work internationally\, winning several awards. He was co-curator of “convenience”\, a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages\, experiments\, and takes risks with the architectural\, urban and civic realms. GASP! is his first short film\, with best Judy and colleague Evan Tapper. \nTammy Renée Brackett creates work that poses epistemological questions regarding identity\, categorization\, and location. Brackett has an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and has exhibited work in China\, Japan\, Croatia\, Hungary\, and the United States. She is a recipient of the College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship for Visual Artists\, funded by the NEA. Her work has been included in the Albright Knox’s biennial exhibition Beyond/In Western NY\, at the Ball State Museum of Art\, and in a solo show titled Deer Dear at SUArt Galleries in Syracuse NY. Brackett is currently Professor and Chair of Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State College\, Alfred NY. \nTess Martin is an independent animator who works with cut-outs\, ink\, paint\, sand or objects. Her work often blurs the boundary between experimental and narrative\, animation\, film and art. She has received numerous grants\, prizes and artist residencies in support of her work which can be seen in festivals and galleries worldwide. Recent residencies include the Camargo Foundation (France\, 2019)\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy\, 2017) and Open Workshop (Denmark\, 2016). Filmography: Orbit (2019)\, Ginevra (2017)\, The Lost Mariner (2014)\, Mario (2014)\, They Look Right Through You (2013)\, Hula Hoop (2012)\, The Whale Story (2012)” \n16th Animation Fest curator: Leanne Goldblatt is a mother\, student\, and coach born and raised in Westchester\, N.Y.  She is currently pursuing a masters in Studio Art at the University of Buffalo.  As an interdisciplinary practitioner Leanne works primarily in the mediums of print\, sculpture\, and glass to create an autobiographical body of work.   \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is sponsored by Villa Maria College’s Animation program. Villa Maria College’s Animation Program teaches the fundamentals of animation and fine art\, and builds from there. The small classes are instructed by our renowned faculty\, and allow students to get a personalized\, hands-on education. \nBanner image: Gay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) by Evan Tapper and Scott Sørli. Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is sponsored by Villa Maria College’s Animation program. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-16th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Silo City: WHY HERE WHY NOW by Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Silo City: WHY HERE WHY NOW by Jodi Lynn Maracle\nAugust 23rd\, 6–8pm\n@ Silo City\, Marina A\nFree and open to the public \nJoin Squeaky Wheel at Silo City for Jodi Lynn Maracle’s multi-media installation WHY HERE WHY NOW\, an exploration of and inquiry into the relationship between body\, land and language. This one-day installation highlights a history that prioritizes not only Indigenous\, Haudenosaunee\, and Onöndowa’ga:’ experiences and relationships in the past\, but prioritizes the contemporary relationship of Haudenosaunee peoples to this land and the stories of this land. What does it mean to move about this land and remember what was done? What does it mean to live with the specter of “Indian” at every turn? \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with sound scapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-why-here-why-now-by-jodi-lynn-maracle/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
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SUMMARY:1988
DESCRIPTION:Premiere Film Screening 1988\nAugust 20th\, 6–8 PM\n@ Burchfield Penney Art Center \nArtist Talk following the film\nFree and open to the public \n  \nJoin us at the Burchfield Penney Art Center for the premiere of the Buffalo Youth Media Institute film 1988!\n1988 is a speculative documentary revolving around the subject of climate change. The film takes place in a dystopian alternate reality 2019 where everyone is immersed in a stream of television programming. All communications and media channels are controlled by the Obsolete Corporation\, which also produces most of the consumer products for the world. The Corporation’s signal is jammed by the Activist International\, a group of young activists fighting back against this accepted reality by calling out for change. The title of the film is taken from the year when a group of climate scientists spoke to Congress and warned of the impending climate crisis. Through a series of satirical skits and sobering interviews\, 1988 delves deeply into the complicated and urgent topic of global warming. \nThis film is made possible with support from Erie County and the Marks Family Foundation. This project is also funded by the Global Warming Art Project Grant (from Ben Perrone and the “Environment Maze” project donors); administered by Arts Services Initiative of WNY. \nBuffalo Youth Media Institute is a collaboration between Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center and Buffalo Center for Arts & Technology and is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Children’s Foundation of Erie County\, with exhibition and venue support from Burchfield Penney Art Center. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMade in collaboration with:
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/1988/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Endless Dreams and Water Between
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 14\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nRenée Green’s Endless Dreams and Water Between is a feature film with four fictitious characters sustaining an epistolary exchange in which their “planetary thought” is woven with the physical locations they inhabit: the island of Manhattan\, the island of Majorca\, in Spain\, and the islands and peninsula that form the San Francisco Bay Area. Connected through ruminations on the 17th century author George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin)\, the characters’ reflections and dreams enact what could be described as “an archipelagic mind\,” linking worlds\, time\, and space. \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 12: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area. \n  \n  \nImage copyright of the artist\, courtesy of Video Data Bank\, www.vdb.org\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/endless-dreams/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Art Summer Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 12 \n5:30 pm – 7:30 pm  \nCEPA Underground Gallery \nFree & open to the public \n  \nJoin Squeaky Wheel and CEPA Gallery for a one-night exhibition of youth-created artwork. The exhibition will consist of photography and media art created during our summer youth workshops. Come and check out the amazing work our young creatives made this summer and support young artists! \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/youth-art-summer-showcase/
LOCATION:2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Haudenosaunee Material Culture with Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 10th\, 12–3 pm\nFree and open to the public\nOpen to audiences age 12 and up\, or younger with a parent or guardian\n \n  \nSpace is limited please register here.  \nIn this hands-on seminar\, Workspace Resident Jodi Lynn Maracle will guide participants through a crash course in Haudenosaunee material culture. Participants will work on and practice different corn husk uses and various stages of deer hide preparation while learning about Haudenosaunee aesthetics\, languages\, and histories. The workshop’s goal is to have participants reimagine their relationships to land\, creation\, and shared places through Haudenosaunee languages and material culture in current and future forms. \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher\, and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with soundscapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story-making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site-specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \nSpace is limited please register here.  \n  \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/haudenosauneematerialculture/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Meet our Residents: Dana McKnight\, Dessane Lopez Cassell\, Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 9th\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin Squeaky Wheel for a chance to meet our Summer 2019 Workspace Residents and learn more about their past and ongoing projects in this evening of artist talks\, covering artistic and curatorial approaches to labor & representation as they relate to people of color\, anchored in the geography of the Dominican Republic; speculative black markets and underground communities in our cities east side; and investigations into past and present relationships of Haudenosaunee peoples to the land on which we’ve settled. A brief presentation before the artist talk will update you on how you can take part in the Workspace Residency. \nDana T McKnight is a black\, queer\, multimedia artist currently residing in Austin\, TX. Blending formal studies in Cultural Anthropology (Long Island University\, 2005) and Sculpture (Minerva Kunst Akademie\, Groningen NL) her work lies in a plethora of medium splicing: speculative fiction\, sculpture\, installation\, experimental sound and video\, performance art\, poetry and painting. At the core of Dana McKnight’s work lies a surrealist edge—the real world slowly picked apart through a lens tinted by magical realism and lived experience. Dana McKnight is a founder of Dreamland Art Gallery\, an artist-run contemporary arts and performance space in Buffalo\, NY\, and a Co-Creator for RIQSE (Radical Inclusive Queer Sex Education). In 2016\, she was selected as a Living Legacy Artist by the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She is hood-raised\, but spent several years living in London\, Kyoto\, and Groningen (NL) and travels extensively. \nDessane Lopez Cassell is a curator\, writer\, and film programmer based in New York. She has held curatorial positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem\, The Museum of Modern Art\, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. A former US Fulbright fellow\, Cassell has organized curatorial projects and screenings for Flaherty NYC\, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)\, MoMA Film\, and the Allen. Her writing has been published and is forthcoming in catalogs issued by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Studio Museum\, MoMA\, and Experiments in Cinema. Cassell has produced podcast and radio projects for Bay FM and Creative X (both South Africa)\, and Roskilde Festival (Denmark)\, and she is a 2019 Advisory Committee member at UnionDocs\, in Brooklyn. Her research interests include experimental film\, contemporary practices that draw upon the archival\, and investigations of race\, gender\, and representation. \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with sound scapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-our-residents-dana-mcknight-dessane-lopez-cassell-jodi-lynn-maracle/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Meet our Designer: Nicole Killian
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This event has been canceled. We hope to announce a new event with the artist soon. \nMeet our Designer: Nicole Killian\nFriday\, July 26\, 7pm \nFree and open to the public \nJoin Squeaky Wheel for a chance to meet the designer behind our new redesign! Nicole Killian’s work investigates how the structures of the internet\, mobile messaging\, and shared online platforms affect contemporary interaction and shape cultural identity from a queer perspective. She is interested in the repetition\, looping\, and dissemination of content. Her practice\, as well as her publishing initiative Nico Fontana\, is concerned with a queering of language\, objects\, bodies and spaces. She is currently co-director of the Design\, Visual Communications MFA and Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University. \nBanner image: video still from Nicole Killian\, Notes for a New World Order: Fountain of Crisis\, 2018. Project commissioned by Beyond Beyond\, a queer studio based in London/Milan.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-our-designer-nicole-killian/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Hale County This Morning\, This Evening
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nNominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019\, Hale County This Morning\, This Evening is composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community\, allowing the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South. A visually stunning film which trumpets the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race\, it is a testament to dreaming – despite the odds.\n \nHow does one express the reality of individuals whose public image\, lives\, and humanity originate in exploitation? Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross employs the integrity of nonfiction filmmaking and the currency of stereotypical imagery to fill in the gaps between individual black male icons. Hale County This Morning\, This Evening is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. \nIn the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy\, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance\, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. As Ross crafts an inspired tapestry made up of time\, the human soul\, history\, environmental wonder\, sociology\, and cosmic phenomena\, a new aesthetic framework emerges that offers a new way of seeing and experiencing the heat\, and the hearts of people in the Black Belt region of the U.S. as well far beyond. \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 17: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hale-county/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:RUIN'D
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: July 12th\, 2019\, 5 pm – 8 pm\nArtist Talk: 6:30 pm\nOn view through August 10th\, 2019\, Tue-Sat\, 12–5 pm\nFree and open to the public \nSystems. In our society today everything we know\, learn\, and use is controlled by some sort of system. The internet\, school\, and our jobs are determined by arbitrary systems that most of us barely understand. Ask yourself\, do you know why schools teach what they teach\, why you get ads for things you don’t know about on the internet\, and why for some does it take ages to find a job. In this exhibition\, six young media artists are exploring these failed systems to expose our attachment to their assumed order. \nThrough video and media installations\, young media artists from Squeaky Wheel’s core community-based programs West Side Studios\, Buffalo Youth Media Institute\, and Tech Art for Girls delve into system failures and the way they perceive them. The works feature a range of societal issues from active shooter drills in school\, to corporate morality\, from the failure of language to the genocide of Darfuri people in Sudan. The works aim to lead viewers into a space of questioning the authority of the status quo and leave a trace of consciousness that allows us all to think of our part in these questionable systems. \n– Zaire Goodman\, Saturday Cafe member\, and Buffalo Youth Media Institute student. \nJoin us at Squeaky Wheel on Friday\, July 12th at 5 pm for the opening reception of the exhibition and a conversation with our Saturday Cafe Members at 6:30 pm. Snacks provided thanks to Wegmans! \nThe Saturday Cafe \nThis exhibition features the work of Saturday Cafe Members; Breanna Roberts\, Dominique Scruggs\, Jolie Criscione\, Matt Dearmyer\, Raymarri Hugh\, and Zaire Goodman. Saturday Cafe is an advanced track experimental youth media education project that provides students with challenging and engaging professional development and learning opportunities. This collaborative educational experience is student lead and co-created with the program’s primary media mentors. Together they create\, work\, experiment with presentations\, and develop new strategies to engage their surrounding communities with media arts that carry their voice and reflect their world. \nSqueaky Wheel Educational Programming is made possible in part by the generous support of Adobe’s TakingITGlobal Equity and Access\, M&T Charitable Foundation\, First Niagara Foundation\, Josephine Goodyear Foundation\, Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation\, Children’s Foundation of Erie County\, Marks Family Foundation\, Margaret L. Wendt Foundation\, Best Buy Foundation\, Erie County Cultural Funding\, City of Buffalo\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and New York State Council on the Arts. \nBanner Animation: Breanna Roberts
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/ruind/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Blissfully Yours
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nThe feature debut of Thai director Apichatpong Weeserakathul\, Blissfully Yours (2002) is an enigmatic\, surprising film that charts a road trip and picnic in a jungle between three people –a Burmese national working in Thailand without documentation\, his girlfriend\, and an older woman. Gestures\, glances\, and a lush landscape  releasing emotions\, superstitions\, and eroticism. This is a transformative summer movie of pop music and naps\, sex and sun through leaves\, and launched the director to international acclaim. \nOne of the best entries at Cannes…with its languid pacing and poetic sense of quiet and gesture\, Blissfully Yours would eventually uncover a world of hope\, possibility and bliss at the crossroads of human connection and aesthetic achievement. – Manohla Dargis (LA Weekly) \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 12: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blissfully-yours/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Hands as Far as the Eye Can See
DESCRIPTION:April 5th \n7:30pm \nAlbright Knox Art Gallery \nFREE & Open to the Public \nJoin us at the Albright Knox Art Gallery during their ‘First Fridays’ for a screening of student works made in response to artist Htein Lin’s exhibition “A Show of Hands”. This multi-youth program project explores the work of Artist Htein Lin as a jumping off point to create multi-media works that look at the role of hands and the stories of people. Squeaky Wheel’s two flagship media arts programs\, West Side Studio\, and Buffalo Youth Media Institute produced individual works that circle around the image and performance of the hand as a common visual connection between all the works. The pieces will explore everything from personal stories\, food traditions\, and even include poems from Just Buffalo’s Writing Center’s young writers. This screening will be a series of vignettes that relate and react to the work of Htein Lin as well as highlight the depth and talent of media arts in Buffalo young makers. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with the young filmmakers. \nInformation about Htein Lin’s exhibition can be found here.  \n \nWest Side Studios \nLead Teaching Artist – Jesse Deganis-Librera \nTeaching Assistants – Raymari Hughs & Bhakti Williams-Brown \n  \nBuffalo Youth Media Institute  \nTeaching Artists – Lewgua Benson & Kevin Kline \n  \nJust Buffalo Writing Center \nLead Teaching Artist – Robin Jordan \n  \n\nThere is a free shuttle running from the West Side of Buffalo to the Albright Knox at various Locations throughout the day. Click Here for Details.  \n  \nSqueaky Wheel’s West Side Studios & Buffalo Youth Media Institute would like to\nthank our amazing supporters & partners: M&T Charitable Foundation\, First Niagara\nFoundation\, Josephine Goodyear Foundation\, Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation\,\nChildren’s Foundation of Erie County\, Marks Family Foundation\, Margaret L. Wendt\nFoundation\, Best Buy Foundation\, Erie County Cultural Funding\, City of Buffalo\,\nNational Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the Buffalo\nCenter for Arts & Technology\, and PUSH Buffalo. \nThis program is part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY at the Albright-Knox Art\nGallery. On the first Friday of every month—from 10 am to 10 pm—admission to part\nof the museum and select events are free for everyone. \n     
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hands-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see/
LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Worldline ⃝ Timeline
DESCRIPTION:With filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in-person\, and a live Skype performance by Dana McKnight\nFriday\, April 5\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\n***A limited amount of free tickets for this screening will be set aside for members of the Black and indigenous community. Click here to claim your ticket.***\n \nSqueaky Wheel presents an evening of films and performances that form a constellation of times and spaces outside of colonial thought. The screening features a live science-fiction Skype performance by artist Dana McKnight; Bryan Oliver Green’s Recurrence Plot: The Family Circle (2018)\, adapted from a short story by Black Quantum Futurism’s Rasheedah Phillips; Amanda Strong’s Mia’ (2015)\, a supernatural stop-motion film of a young Indigenous female street artist who finds ways to root herself within her ancestry; and concluding with John Akomfrah’s essential 1996 film\, The Last Angel of History\, which examines the relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. Join us for a special evening traveling through space and time\, with visiting filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in person. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. Special thanks to Vtape and Icarus Films. \nProgram \n\nMia’ (Salmon)\nAmanda Strong\n8 min\, digital\, sound\, 2015\nA young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. Lacking cultural resources and familial connection within the city\, she paints these images from intuition and blood memory. She has not heard the stories from her Elders lips\, but has found her own methods to re-discover them. The alleyways become her sanctuary and secret gallery\, and her art comes to life. Mia’ is pulled into her own transformation via the vessel of a salmon. In the struggle to return home\, she traverses through polluted waters and skies\, witnessing various forms of industrial violence and imprint that have occurred upon the land. \nMia’ is a hybrid documentary using animation and sound as a vehicle to tell the story of transformation and re-connection. Indigenous people in Canada experienced displacement once commercial trade turned into settlement. Today the urban population of Native people now outnumbers those living on-reserve. Many struggle being disconnected from their land\, rites\, and protocol. This film is not an adaptation or a re-telling of a traditional story but is based in the circular time of\, and passage of\, oral history. Mia’ challenges the notions and format of conventional documentaries and presents Indigenous oral traditions as truth and not myth or legend. (Description courtesy of Vtape.) \n\nRecurrence Plot: The Family Circle\nBryan Oliver Green\, adapted from a short story by Rasheedah Phillips\n16 min\, digital\, sound\, 2018\nA crystal\, memory-storing bracelet transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother’s traumatic death and challenges the notion that time flows in only one direction… \nUntitled live skype performance\nDana McKnight\n~10 min\, 2019 \n\nThe Last Angel of History\nJohn Akomfrah\n45 min\, digital\, sound\, 1996 \nJohn Akomfrah\, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X\, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. \nThis cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction\, estrangement\, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement\, cultural alienation\, and otherness. \nAkomfrah’s analysis is rooted in an exploration of the cultural works of Pan-African artists\, such as funkmaster George Clinton and his Mothership Connection\, Sun Ra’s use of extraterrestrial iconography\, and the very explicit connection drawn between these issues in the writings of black science fiction authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler. \nIncluded are interviews with black cultural figures\, from musicians DJ Spooky\, Goldie\, and Derek May\, who discuss the importance of George Clinton to their own music\, to George Clinton himself. Astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. describes his experiences as one of the first African-Americans in space\, while Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols tells of her campaign for a greater role for African-Americans in NASA. Novelist Ismael Reed and cultural critics Greg Tate and Kodwo Eshun tease out the parallels between black life and science fiction\, while Delaney and Butler discuss the motivations behind their choice of the genre to express ideas about the black experience. \nIn keeping with the futuristic tenor of the film\, the interviews are intercut with images of Pan-African life from different periods of history\, jumping between time and space from the past to the future to the present\, not unlike the mode of many rock videos or surfing the Internet. \nBanner image: John Akomfrah\, The Last Angel of History\,1996. Courtesy of Icarus Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/worldline-timeline/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Workshop: A Children's Book with LIZN'BOW
DESCRIPTION:1:30–3pm\nOpen to youth ages 7-12\nFree to participate.\nClick here to register. \nSqueaky Wheel invites youth ages 7-12 to participate in A CHILDREN’S BOOK with LIZN’BOW! In this new media youth workshop\, the artists and youth will collaborate on a book that expands on ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. Participating young creatives will create drawings\, portraits\, and texts\, exploring identity\, gender\, and feminism. The workshop will conclude with youth participating in a green screen recording/portrait session that will be remixed into the book. \nContact ekrem@squeaky.org with any questions. \nThis workshop is led by LIZN’BOW (Miami\, FL)\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2019 Workspace Residents. LIZN’BOW is a project in which Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. The artists start most of their pieces in a workshop setting. Our workshops focus on providing space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. They usually choose a mainstream cultural format as starting point then deconstruct and experiment from there. LIZN’BOW have worked with The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, En Residencia at the Koubek Center\, Borscht Film Festival\, and Mana Contemporary Miami. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts \, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/youth-workshop-a-childrens-book-with-liznbow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Workspace Presentations: Alison Nguyen and LIZN'BOW
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 22\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for a night of artist talks by Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2019 Workspace Residents Alison Nguyen and Liz Ferrer & Bow Tie. Nguyen will speak of her multimedia installation work which draws from home movies\, social media\, soft pornography\, and videos created by religious cults/extremists and explores the porous visual relationships between domestic intimacy\, terror and technology. Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie will be speaking on their project LIZN’BOW\, often featuring youth and utilizing technology and community building exercises to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. \nBios of the artists \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist working in video and installation. She received her B.A from Brown University\, Providence\, RI. Nguyen’s work has been screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival\, True/False Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF Cinemateque/SF MoMA\, San Diego Underground Film Festival\, Microscope Gallery\, Tai Kwun Contemporary\, Leeds International Film Festival\, Unseen Film Festival\, L’Alternativa\, Marfa Film Festival\, San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects\, Traverse Vidéo\, Palace Film Festival\, Outpost Artists\, and Zumzeig Cine. Her work has been exhibited at Centre Des Arts Actuels Skol\, The University of Oklahoma\, BOSI Contemporary\, and Satellite Art Show\, Miami. She has participated in group performances at The Whitney Museum of Art: Dreamlands Expanded\, The Parrish Museum\, and Mana Contemporary (in collaboration with Optipus). Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from NYSCA and The New York Community Trust. \nLIZN’BOW is a project in which Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. The artists start most of their pieces in a workshop setting. Our workshops focus on providing space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. They usually choose a mainstream cultural format as starting point then deconstruct and experiment from there. LIZN’BOW have worked with The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, En Residencia at the Koubek Center\, Borscht Film Festival\, and Mana Contemporary Miami.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-presentations-alison-nguyen-and-liznbow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Residencies
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SUMMARY:The Conflicted Image with Alison Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 20 th\, 6-8pm \n$10 Non-Members / $7 Members \nContact kevin@squeaky.org for registration or complete the registration form here. SPACE IS LIMITED! \n\nJoin us for an experimental media workshop led by Workspace resident artist Alison Nguyen. The workshop will explore strategies of critique\, homage\, voyeurism\, parody\, deconstruction\, and fragmentation in works that have appropriated found footage while also teaching participants how to make their own short works using found footage.\n\n\n \n\n\nA beginners knowledge of video editing is required.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe workshop will be divided equally between screenings\, discussion\, and practical explorations. Each participant will be given a thumb drive of heterogeneous found footage as a starting point\, and they will produce their own investigations through a variety of manipulations and interventions using editing\, re-filming\, and projection processes.\n\n\n \n\n\nSpace is limited please contact kevin@squeaky.org for registration.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced\, disseminated\, and consumed within the current media landscape\, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent\, she re-articulates mainstream cinematic language in unsettlingly seductive installation\, video\, and sculptural works.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlison Nguyen received her B.A. from Brown University. She has presented work at Ann Arbor Film Festival; CROSSROADS by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, among others. She has received residencies and fellowships from The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, and Signal Culture. In 2018\, Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/conflicted-image/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Gender + The Non-Binary
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 16\, 2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nCoffee\, refreshments\, research\, and guidance provided. Email ekrem@squeaky.org for childcare requests.\nRSVP Here \nJoin us for the global do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia. \nAs Art+Feminism enters its sixth year of worldwide activities\, they announce an evolution of their project: Gender+ The Non-Binary. This focus breaks apart “the myth that people are only as valuable as their adherence to gendered stereotypes – only as honorable as their ability to fit into one of two categories: assigned girl at birth or assigned boy.” \nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a day of learning\, and bringing to light histories unknown while impacting the world’s dictionary. Research materials\, coffee\, and food will be provided. Onsite childcare is available by request for those who RSVP by March 13th. \nSupported by Buffalo State University’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Departments of Art and the Department of Media Study\, and the Wikimedia Foundation. \nImage credit: Detail of Wendy Red Star\, Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance)\, 2019. This artwork was produced for the 2019 Art+Feminism Call to Action Art Commission.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-gender-the-non-binary/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Play with Me
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 15\, 7pm\nGeneral Admission: $10\n*Limited Online only* Threesome Special: 3 Tickets for $25\nFree with ArtsAccess Pass\nClick here to buy your tickets \nThis event is for ages 18+\n \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show returns\, with a special video game edition curated by Toronto-based Dames Making Games (DMG)! Featuring a lusty\, critical line-up of independent video games that include dating simulators\, coop play-a-longs\, and more\, DMG representatives Izzie Colpitts-Campbell and Jennie Faber will lead group playthroughs\, and highlight works by milkymilkface\, Maxwell Lander\, Robert Yang\, Spooklight games\, and other games that explore how we navigate and understand intimacy. Come\, play\, and flirt! \nDress up in cosplay to enter a costume contest sponsored by Evergreen Health! \nBanner image: Pretzel After Dark by milkymilkface
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/love-sex-show-play-with-me/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction\nBlack Magnolias x Black Quantum Futurism\nSaturday\, February 9\, 2019\, 2–5pm\nFree and open to the public\n \nWhat if your future dreams for society became the dominant narrative for hope in the present? How do we imagine a more liberated future for ourselves? This discussion group and creative workshop led by Black Magnolias will use speculative fiction–Afrofuturism\, science fiction and fantasy–as a tool to create new worlds of hope and change. Participants will be engaged in using ideas of limitless technology\, fantasy\, and science to rewrite the world and walk away with a sci-fi story that replaces negative narratives with possibility and power. \nResponding to a newly commissioned essay by Rasheedah Phillips written for the exhibition by Black Quantum Futurism\, this three hour workshop will be accompanied by presentations\, short films\, and free coffee. Pens and writing materials will be provided. \nInitiated by Marielle Smith and Richmond Wills\, Black Magnolias was created as a creative space to share\, build and develop a strong community of writers of color. This transient workshop series responds to a need for space for Black & Brown\, Queer and LGBT+ writers of all platforms and extend the invitation to those that belong to this community. This event is open to participants ages 14 and up. \nMarielle Smtih is a Buffalo native and mother of two\, who enjoys writing and performing poetry\, essays\, and folklore that are reflective of her life experience and ancestry as a queer Black person. Marielle has been organizing with Just Resisting since 2016\, a people of color community organization that focuses on social justice. She believes one of the greatest acts of resistance is finding healing through artistic expression. She currently co- facilitates Black Magnolias\, a Black and people of color creative writing workshop with Richie Willis. \nRichmond Wills (He/Him) is a poet\, storyteller and cultural organizer currently based in Buffalo New York. He co-founded Black Magnolias\, an ongoing creative workshop series targeting black/brown inner-city populations. He also coordinated outreach for Words on the Street\, an initiative to make literary arts more accessible to disenfranchised communities. From being a social justice activist with Black Love Resist in the Rust\, a not for profit grassroots organization currently involved in a lawsuit against the city of Buffalo over illegal checkpoints to being a sexual health advocate and tour de force for youth who identify as LGBT+\, Richmond hopes to mobilize and grow with Black & Brown communities to work towards collective solidarity and liberation. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. \nBanner image by Richmond Wills.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/futurism-now/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM
DESCRIPTION:ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\nOpening January 25\, 2019\, 7–9pm\nConversation between Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) and Ineil Quaran at 7:30pm\nOn view through April 20\, 2019\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public \nClick here to download the brochure\, featuring Activating Retrocurrences and Reverse Time-Bindings in the Quantum Now(s)\, a new essay by Rasheedah Phillips. \nHow can one examine the unknown? How is this unknown shaped by its temporal realities? How does one resist\, recover\, when facing the erasure of memory? This may involve a reinvestigation and uncovering of hidden histories\, and a hacking into future histories where they have already been erased. \nUtilizing collage\, video\, text\, and sound installations\, this exhibition by Philadelphia-based Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother\, and Rasheedah Phillips aka The Afrofuturist Affair) draws from quantum physics\, speculative fiction\, and Black/Afro-diasporan cultural traditions of observing time and space. The works aim to break free into the unknown futures of past selves\, and to honor the ritual casualties and philosophies of Black ancestry\, culture\, and spirit. \nJoin us at Squeaky Wheel on Friday\, January 25th at 7pm for the opening reception of the exhibition and a conversation with Moor Mother at 7:30pm. \nPublic Programs\nFebruary 9\, 2–5pm | Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction: Discussion and Creative Writing Workshop\nApril 5\, 7pm | Worldline ⃝ Timeline: Screening of John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History\, and work by Dana McKnight and Amanda Strong \nBios of the artists and contributors \nBlack Quantum Futurism is an interdisciplinary creative practice between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips that weaves quantum physics\, afrofuturism\, and Afrodiasporic concepts of time\, ritual\, text\, and sound to present innovative works and tools offering practical ways to escape negative temporal loops\, oppression vortexes\, and the digital matrix. BQF has created a number of community-based projects\, performances\, experimental music projects\, installations\, workshops\, books\, short films\, zines\, including the award-winning Community Futures Lab. BQF Collective is a 2018 Solitude x ZKM Web Resident\, 2017 Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow\, a 2017 Pew Fellow\, 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow\, and a 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange. The Collective has presented\, exhibited\, or performed at Red Bull Arts NY\, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion\, Philadelphia Art Museum Perelman Building\, MOMA PS1\, Bergen Kunsthall\, Le Gaite Lyrique\, MOFO Festival\, and more. BQF Collective frequently collaborates with other Black Futurists Joy KMT\, Irreversible Entanglements\, Thomas Stanley\, and Metropolarity to produce literature\, present workshops\, lectures\, and performances. \nIneil Quaran is an afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist and ghetto organizer born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Through his fine art and multimedia collages he recreates memories and dreamscapes incorporating themes of self-preservation\, Black celebration\, imagination\, and grief. He developed his skill by blocking-out neighborhood sidewalks with chalk drawings and studying digital tutorials. Institutionally he attended Buffalo Academy of Visual Performing Arts and briefly\, Villa Maria College majoring in animation. Growing up Ineil indulged in: Walt Disney animations\, climbing trees\, the epics of ancient religions and folklore\, anime\, early 2000’s hip hop and R&B\, science fiction adventure\, and his gullah/geechee heritage.\nIn 2014 he co-owned\, graphic design business and zine distributor\, VENT. Soon after in 2015 he co-founded D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment)\, a Black youth-led anti-oppressive arts organization that aims to strengthen local resources for creative and exploited communities which resists through art forms and arts movements considered: white-washed\, extreme\, stigmatized\, political\, and/or experimental.\nIneil Quaran is now developing work for his first solo art show and is continuing to cultivate resources supporting the East Side\, melaninated creatives\, and all the black and brown *QTs! \nBanner image courtesy of Black Quantum Futurism.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blackquantumfuturism/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:POTHOLES / BACHES:  An Evening in the Swamp
DESCRIPTION:POTHOLES/BACHES: An Evening in the Swamp\nSaturday\, December 15\, 2018\n7–10pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for an interactive program that celebrates the end of the residency and the continuity of the Swamp. We begin with POTHOLES/BACHES\, a conversation between Buffalo’s East Side and Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Route that explores the possibilities between collective memory and history through film\, karaoke and participatory storytelling. This is followed by reflection\, communion\, and dancing\, as we usher the Swamp’s transition out of the physical space of Squeaky and into the lived experience of the community. – The North is a Lie \npothole: a depression or hollow in a road surface caused by wear or subsidence; a pond in a deep natural underground cavity\nbache: pequeño desnivel en el suelo o en el pavimento\, producido por la pérdida o hundimiento de la capa superficial; \nA disruption in the man-made design\, development or progress of something\nDisminución o interrupción pasajera en el progreso o desarrollo de algo \nA natural\, hidden\, sacred space\nUn lugar natural sagrado\, escondido \nA reliquary\nUn Relicario \nthere is no such thing / no hay tal cosa\nas empty property / como una propiedad vacía\nabandoned buildings / un edificio abandonado \nor vacant land / o una tierra vacante \ndrive-by relics / reliquias de paso\nthat sit in silence / que se sientan en silencio\nthunder with noise / son relámpagos\nfew choose to hear / que pocos decidieron oír \nwhat is built on the land / lo que se construyó \ndefines how we live / nos define \nbut it does not own the / pero no es dueño(a)\nstories of who we are / de nuestras historias \nThrough a swamp dream / a través de este sueño de pantano\nof present-past / de presente-pasado\nwe will fill the silence / llenamos el silencio\nof what was with the / de lo que fue \nsounds of what lives on / con el sonido de lo que es \nthrough conversation / conversando\nsong and dance / cantando y bailando \n////////// \nOn December 15\, The North is a Lie invites our friends\, families and community into the Swamp to explore the transcendent possibilities of solidarity and existence within our collective imagination\, as we meditate on space\, memory\, and identity. \nWe ask that those attending bring something special from a place that’s defined you\, but no longer exists in this current space and time. It can be a photograph\, an item from a childhood home\, a medicine or textile from where you are from\, a recipe or heirloom\, a memento or relic from an important period of time\, a natural element\, a sound\, a smell\, or anything else that feels right to you. \nThe items will be utilized during to ground the evening over the course of a three-part\, interactive program that marks the end of our physical residency at Squeaky Wheel and makes way for new existences outside the gallery’s four walls. \nEl 15 de diciembre\, El Norte es una Mentira invita a nuestra comunidad al Swamp a explorar las posibilidades trascendentes de la solidaridad y la existencia en nuestra imaginación colectiva\, mientras meditando acerca del espacio\, la memoria y la identidad. \nLe pedimos a los visitantes que traigan algún objeto o *algo* de algún lugar que te haya definidio\, pero que ya no existe en el espacio y tiempo presente. Puede ser una fotografía\, un objeto de una casa de tu juventud o niñez\, una medicina o un textil de tu pueblo o ciudad\, una receta\, una reliquia de algún periodo de tiempo\, un elemento natural y org´nico\, un sonido\, un olor\, o lo que crean que es lo correcto para contribuir al espacio. \nLos objetos se utilizarán en una intalación a través de nuestro programa interactivo de tres partes que marca el fin de nuestra residencia en Squeaky Wheel y que da paso a nuevos trabajos y existencias fuera de esta galería. \n////////// \n \n***Part I.***\nThe legacies of deindustrialization in Buffalo and Puerto Rico come to life in the sights and sounds of Buffalo’s East Side and Puerto Rico’s Panoramic Route during screenings and installations of La Ruta by Natalia Lasalle-Morillo and Home by Elisa Peebles.\nFood\, beer\, wine and coquito will be provided.\nDurante las proyecciones e las instalaciones de La Ruta por Natalia Lasalle-Morillo y Home por Elisa Peebles\, los legados de la desindustrialización en Buffalo y Puerto Rico cobran vida por las vistas y los sonidos del barrio East Side de Buffalo y la Ruta Panorámica de Puerto Rico.\nHabrá comida\, cerveza\, vino y coquito. \n \n***Part II.***\nThe artists and audience reflect on home and histories through karaoke-fueled storytelling. What’s made us\, what heals us\, what have we left\, and what do we carry? Audience participation is requested and strongly encouraged.\nLas artistas y el público reflexionan en casa y historias por medio de narración y karaoke. Qué nos formó ? Qué nos cura? Qué hemos dejado y qué llevamos? Se solicita la participación del público \n\n***Part III.***\nWe take our collective energies and memories to celebrate the Swamp\, Buffalo\, and all the possibilities of the present\, past and future through dance\, with sounds curated by DJ Chauncey Tails.\nLlevamos nuestras energías colectivas y recuerdos para celebrar el Swamp\, Buffalo\, y todas las posibilidades del presente\, el pasado\, y la futura a través bailando\, con sonidos curados por DJ Chauncey Tails. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nNatalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. 1991\, Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico ) is a theatre maker\, filmmaker\, performer and visual artist. Her work focuses on the convergence of autobiography and re-imagined history in live and permanent artistic mediums.\nShe received her BFA from the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Miami Light Project and the Miami Theatre Center in Miami\, the Fonderie Darling in Montréal and Lake Studios in Berlin\, Germany. Her work has been shown in galleries and venues in Miami\, Berlin\, Los Angeles\, New York and Puerto Rico. She is currently based between Los Angeles\, California and Bayamón\, Puerto Rico.\nNatalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. Río Piedras\, Puerto Rico) es una directora de teatro \, cineasta\, performer y artista visual. Su trabajo integra las la autobiografía y la historia re-imaginada en el teatro\, performance y video. Recibió su BFA del Experimental Theatre Wing the New York University. Ha sido artista en residencia en el Miami Light Project y Miami Theatre Center en Miami; Fonderie Darling en Montréal y Lake Studios en Berlín\, Alemania. Ha presentado su trabajo en galerías en Miami\, Berlín\, Nueva York\, Canadá y Puerto Rico. Actualmente está radicada entre Los Ángeles y Bayamón\, Puerto Rico. \nElisa Peebles is a Buffalo artist and activist currently a part of the North is a Lie residency at Squeaky Wheel.\nElisa Peebles es una artista y activista de Buffalo actualmente una parte del Norte es una Mentira residencia a Squeaky Wheel. \n– \nThis event is the closing event for The North is a Lie. On view through December 15.
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SUMMARY:The Big Picture: A Member Community Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event has been POSTPONED!!!!!!!!! \nScreening date: December 15\, 2018\, 4 pm \nJoin the creative community on Saturday\, December 15 at 4 pm for The Big Picture at Squeaky Wheel!  Producer Fred Massey Jr. will be talking about his new project Breakin’ Legs\, a video series showcasing overlooked music scenes incubating in equally overlooked cities.  The first episode focuses on Benny the Butcher from Buffalo\, NY.  Come check out the project’s progress and\, if you yourself are a maker\, how you can get your own Big Picture event here at Squeaky Wheel!\n\nThe Big Picture is an access program initiative designed to provide local artists a platform to showcase their projects and to receive feedback; to impact and be impacted by the community of makers\, viewers\, critics & supporters and to grow from the experience. So join us on Saturday\, December 15 at 4 pm and become part of The Big Picture!\n\nIf you have any questions please contact Mark Longolucco via mark@squeaky.org \n\n 
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