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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Ajunie Virk\, Arielle Knight\, Jason Rhee
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed due to unforeseen reasons. The new date is Friday\, April 24\, 7 pm ET\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel and online\nFree or suggested donation; get tickets below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Spring 2026 Workspace Residents! Ajunie Virk\, Arielle Knight\, and Jason Rhee will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Catering from Ali Baba Kebab\, with vegetarian options\, will be provided. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nAccessibility: If you’d like to request ASL interpretation for either in-person or the online viewing\, please contact ekrem@squeaky.org by April 2. You can view additional information on Squeaky Wheel’s accessibility information here. \nAjunie Virk will be working on A Foot Off the Windowsill\, a feature length experimental film which follows a recovering addict whose fragile first relationship and year of sobriety collide as she scours her house to destroy a shadow she judges to be a cockroach. The roach—an insect often seen as toxic\, despite its essential role in ecosystems to break down remnants and waste—enters the character’s pristine home\, disrupting their curated world and forcing a reckoning with societal expectation\, relinquishment\, and authenticity. The film blends the use of  3D animation\, green screen performance\, and motion capture to highlight the inconsistencies in the personas we build to dodge the shame inherent in pursuing perfection. \nArielle Knight will be working on an installation version of And Counting… a hybrid documentary and fiction film that conveys the fractured experience of “carceral time”. The film follows a mother and her formerly incarcerated son’s journey home\, confronting their wounds and their hopes to rebuild their bond. Knight’s approach draws on the power of hybridity not as artifice\, but as a means of approaching reality more truthfully. During the residency\, the filmmaker will repurpose and recontextualize materials that did not make it into the short film—outtakes\, archival footage\, and experimental sound pieces—integrating them into an immersive multi-channel environment. \nFilmmaker Jason Rhee will be working on The Untitled EJ Lee Documentary\, an intimate feature-length film  that goes beyond basketball to unveil the untold story of Eun Jung “EJ” Lee\, a diminutive but powerful figure in the world of women’s basketball. The film tells a basketball story that’s never been told before: a female Asian immigrant in the southern U.S. who reached enormous heights on the biggest stages as a player and attempts to do the same as a coach. Following sports narratives  such as Last Chance U\, The Heart of The Game\, and Hoop Dreams\, the film showcases intimate verité footage of EJ and the players on and off the court\, the societal issues that they faced\, and the historical journey of EJ becoming one of the best basketball players in the world. In a society that tends to worship male sports icons\, The Untitled EJ Lee Documentary  seeks to inspire young women\, girls\, members of the AAPI community\, older adults\, and sports enthusiasts at large\, ushering a resilient and awe-inspiring woman into the pantheon of American sports heroes. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiographies of the artists\n \nAjunie Virk is an Indian-American writer-director and animator whose work investigates the relationship between surveillance\, identity\, and paranoia in a diasporic middle-America\, conjuring up narratives that force viewers to face uncomfortable truths only apparent after objects of nostalgia are stripped of their familiar contexts. An alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University\, Virk was an artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects\, Brew House Arts\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. A recipient of the Anne Dowden and Samuel Rosenberg awards\, she has recently screened works at the Coaxial Art Foundation\, Roski Mateo Gallery\, and Light Matters Festival\, among others. \n \nDirector and producer Arielle Knight is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of GoodKnight Films Inc.\, acclaimed for her innovative storytelling that illuminates untold narratives across the Black diaspora. Working at the intersection of documentary and hybrid forms\, her films and collaborations examine how communities navigate social\, economic\, and embodied precarity. She draws on surreal interpretations of political\, social\, and domestic realities\, blurring boundaries between nonfiction and fantasy to create cinematic spaces of escape and freedom. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute\, Southern Documentary Fund\, Catapult Film Fund\, and the Ford Foundation\, among others. Through intimate\, personal narratives\, Knight continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary cinema with a vision rooted in Black futurity\, imagination\, and experimentation. \n \nJason Rhee (Director/Producer/Cinematographer) is a Korean American filmmaker with a passion for telling stories centered around his childhood and the AAPI community. Jason spent a decade in comedy prior to working on his feature film at institutions like The Onion and Conan. With a background in screenwriting and comedy\, he helped produce three one- woman shows with comedian Kellye Howard\, including directing a sold-out run at the Steppenwolf Theater as part of its 2022 LookOut series. Jason recently served as a cinematographer for PBS WTTW’s Firsthand webseries on migrants\, unhoused Chicagoans\, and peacekeepers.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-ajunie-virk-arielle-knight-jason-rhee/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Building Trust On and Off Camera: Ethical Practices with Film Participants with Jason Rhee
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 21\, 6:30–8:30 pm\nFree or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.\nLimited seats available; register below.\nTrust is the foundation of ethical and effective documentary\, participatory\, and community-based filmmaking. This workshop by visiting filmmaker Jason Rhee equips filmmakers\, media artists\, and researchers with practical strategies to build\, negotiate\, and sustain trust with participants—especially those from marginalized or vulnerable communities. Drawing on the themes of informed consent\, accessibility\, privacy\, and reciprocity\, participants will explore how transparent communication and mutual accountability can transform the filmmaker-participant relationship. \nThe filmmaker will introduce topics and facilitate discussion on power dynamics\, long-term relationships\, and anonymized case studies where trust broke down\, and also provide participants with toolkits such as sample consent forms and checklists for informed consent. Optionally\, participants are also welcome to introduce specific trust challenges in their own projects and workshop them with their peers. \nAttendees: Notebooks and pens for the workshop will be provided\, though participants are welcome to bring their own. We’ll be ordering a pizza to share. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiography of the artist\n \nJason Rhee (Director/Producer/Cinematographer) is a Korean American filmmaker with a passion for telling stories centered around his childhood and the AAPI community. Jason spent a decade in comedy prior to working on his feature film at institutions like The Onion and Conan. With a background in screenwriting and comedy\, he helped produce three one- woman shows with comedian Kellye Howard\, including directing a sold-out run at the Steppenwolf Theater as part of its 2022 LookOut series. Jason recently served as a cinematographer for PBS WTTW’s Firsthand webseries on migrants\, unhoused Chicagoans\, and peacekeepers. \nBanner image: A still from Jason Rhee’s in-progress The Untitled EJ Lee Documentary. Untitled A petit young Asian woman wearing a burgundy red jersey and dribbling a basketball in front of an opposing tall player in a white jersey\, all within the backdrop of a crowded arena.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/building-trust-on-and-off-camera-ethical-practices-with-film-participants-with-jason-rhee/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Autotheory and the Poetics of the Self: Storying the Personal with Arielle Knight
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 16\, 6:30–8:30 pm\nFree or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.\nLimited seats available; register below\nJoin Squeaky Wheel and visiting artist resident Arielle Knight for a short form writing workshop! This skill share invites participants to experiment with autobiographical storytelling and the practice of autotheory—the blending of lived experience and critical thought—to create new forms of narrative that collapse the boundaries between personal and intellectual inquiry. Drawing from practices in experimental film\, performance\, and essay-making\, this session will guide participants in transforming fragments of memory\, personal archives\, and embodied experiences into generative creative material. \nParticipants will engage in short writing and reflection exercises that explore how personal narrative can serve as both evidence and theory\, as well as how storytelling becomes a method for survival\, healing\, and critique. Examples of artists and thinkers who employ autotheory to reframe vulnerability as a tool for intervention will be presented\, including excerpts from texts by bell hooks\, Audre Lorde\, and Maggie Nelson. \nThrough group discussion and individual exercises\, participants will learn strategies for translating autobiographical material into multiple media forms—moving image\, sound\, installation\, and text—and discuss the ethics of working with one’s own story and the stories of others. By the end of the workshop\, each participant will have developed a short creative concept or fragment that reflects their own approach to merging self-experience and theory in creative practice. \nThe filmmakers presents this skill-share as an offering; centering on creating a supportive and exploratory environment\, where storytelling becomes a form of research and resistance\, allowing each participant to reimagine how the personal can illuminate the collective and the political. \nAttendees: Notebooks and pens for the workshop will be provided\, though participants are welcome to bring their own. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiography of the artist\n \nDirector and producer Arielle Knight is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of GoodKnight Films Inc.\, acclaimed for her innovative storytelling that illuminates untold narratives across the Black diaspora. Working at the intersection of documentary and hybrid forms\, her films and collaborations examine how communities navigate social\, economic\, and embodied precarity. She draws on surreal interpretations of political\, social\, and domestic realities\, blurring boundaries between nonfiction and fantasy to create cinematic spaces of escape and freedom. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute\, Southern Documentary Fund\, Catapult Film Fund\, and the Ford Foundation\, among others. Through intimate\, personal narratives\, Knight continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary cinema with a vision rooted in Black futurity\, imagination\, and experimentation. \nImage: A still from And Counting\, a film by Arielle Knight. Two Black people laying on a wooden floor\, their heads next to each other. One of them is smiling while gesturing and talking\, the other has their eyes closed\, their head resting on their hands. The sun beams on them from a window.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/autotheory-and-the-poetics-of-the-self-storying-the-personal-with-arielle-knight/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sound in the Margins: Drawing audio on 16mm film with Ajunie Virk
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 14\, 6:30–8:30 pm\nFree or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.\nLimited seats available; register below\nJoin artist resident Ajunie Virk for a workshop that teaches participants how to create experimental audio by drawing directly onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film\, a technique the artists uses herself to personalize sound and generate abstract audio layers within her own video works. \nThis hands-on workshop methods in mark-making\, sound reading\, and editing to craft unique sonic textures. Participants will be introduced to historical and artistic antecedents\, including the work of Daphne Oram and Arseny Avraamov\, and learn analog and digital tools – including 16mm projectors\, the Photosounder software\, among others. \nAttendees: Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops\, but can also request one in the registration form. You can install the Photosounder software here. Additional materials will be provided. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiography of the artist\nAjunie Virk is an Indian-American writer-director and animator whose work investigates the relationship between surveillance\, identity\, and paranoia in a diasporic middle-America\, conjuring up narratives that force viewers to face uncomfortable truths only apparent after objects of nostalgia are stripped of their familiar contexts. An alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University\, Virk was an artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects\, Brew House Arts\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. A recipient of the Anne Dowden and Samuel Rosenberg awards\, she has recently screened works at the Coaxial Art Foundation\, Roski Mateo Gallery\, and Light Matters Festival\, among others. \nBanner image: A still from an animation by Ajunie Virk of a group of people crawling along the strings\, dampers\, and hammers of the inside of a piano.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sound-in-the-margins-drawing-audio-on-16mm-film-with-ajunie-virk/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Info-session: Workspace Residency\, Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 3\, 2026\, 7 pm ET\nVirtual on Zoom; register here\nJoin us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The curator will go over the program\, the application questions\, how panels rating criteria\, and answer questions from the audience. Click here to learn more and apply to the residency. \nBanner image: A GIF of Jaehoon Choi working on a 3D mapped projection project in a dark room.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/info-session-workspace-residency-summer-2026-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Info-session: Workspace Residency\, Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, January 26\, 2026\, 12 pm ET\nVirtual on Zoom; register here\nJoin us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The curator will go over the program\, the application questions\, how panels rating criteria\, and answer questions from the audience. A recording of the info-session will be released on the residency page a week after the event. \nClick here to learn more and apply to the residency. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is made possible with support from Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nBanner image: A GIF of Jaehoon Choi working on a 3D mapped projection project in a dark room.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/info-session-workspace-residency-summer-2026/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workspace Residency\, Summer 2026
DESCRIPTION:Application period: Opens January 26 2026. Deadline Friday\, February 27\, 2026.\nResidency dates: August 14–September 5\, 2026 (three-weeks)\nSupport provided: $1400 stipend\, $300 artist fees\, additional $500 artist fee for Silo City resident\, accommodations\, up to $400 in travel support for non-local residents\, up to $1400 optional financial assistance for childcare and/or disability support.\nNotification date: May 15\, 2026\nClick here to learn more and apply\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to share the open call for the Summer 2026 residency program. The short-term residency is open to applicants from Buffalo and across the United States who are seeking resources\, time\, and support for ongoing projects or the creation of new work. \nResidents have tailored access to facilities\, equipment\, technical consultation\, from Squeaky Wheel\, as well as our partners Buffalo Game Space\, The Foundry\, Mirabo Press\, and Silo City. Residents present on their work together in a public event\, present a workshop for the Squeaky Wheel community\, and participate in tailored activities\, such as field trips\, critiques\, among others. \nWe aim to support our residents’ careers and continue our relationships after the residency has concluded. Former residents have been invited to present exhibitions\, performances\, screenings\, among other activities. \nBanner image: A tour of Silo City with their Director of Ecology Joshua Smith\, and Squeaky Wheel residents Ahmed T. Ragheb\, Lily Ekimian Ragheb\, and Kathryn Ramey and her son. Behind them is a large grain silo\, Marine A.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-residency-summer-2026/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Found-Footage and Archival Experimental Filmmaking with G. Anthony Svatek and Kaija Siirala
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 16\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Limited capacity.\nRegister below\nIn this special workshop led by G. Anthony Svatek (Brooklyn\, NY) and Kaija Siirala (Hamilton\, ON)\, participants will learn about creative approaches and strategies for making experimental films using no-cost archival\, found\, and/or reappropriated materials. Resources for both image and sound archives will be explored\, as well as examples of historical and contemporary artists who work with such materials\, including work by Bruce Conner among others. Students will also gain basic knowledge of legal frameworks for re-appropriating images and sounds\, including acquiring material releases\, credit attribution\, and frameworks such as Creative Commons among others. Open to anyone new to making artist-driven and non- commercial found-footage filmmaking. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nThis event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. \nBiographies of the artists\nHaving grown up at the foot of the Austrian Alps\, G. Anthony Svatek is awed by the living world and how it is increasingly impacted by our techno-urban lives. Anthony’s work screened at NYFF\, Intl FF Rotterdam\, Ann Arbor\, Big Sky\, Prismatic Ground\, DOCNYC\, amongst others. Supporters include NYSCA\, Simons Foundation\, Austrian Cultural Forum NY. He is the recipient of the New Visions Golden Gate Award at SFFILM. Commissioned work includes projects for NYS Parks\, BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, and Pioneer Works. He has staffed seasonally at the Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Climate Museum\, and the American Museum of Natural History. \nKaija Siirala works in documentary media as a picture editor\, sound designer and educator. She has a keen interest in process-based collaboration and storytelling that pushes against the bounds of classical narrative structures. Films she has worked on have screened at the National Gallery of Canada\, True/False Film Festival\, Camden International Film Festival\, MoMI First Look\, Hot Docs\, DOC NYC\, Big Sky\, AFI fest\, IDFA\, DOK Leipzig\, Flaherty Seminar 2023\, Prismatic Ground and as a New York Times Op-Doc. Her audio work has appeared on the BBC\, On Air Fest and in installation contexts. She was a member-in-residence of the Meerkat Media Collective in Brooklyn\, NY from 2016-2018. In May 2018\, she completed her MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College (CUNY) and is now based in Hamilton\, ON. \nBanner image: Audience of seated men attending a petroleum conference in the 1950s overlaid with a waterfall in a National Park. Courtesy of G. Anthony Svatek
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/found-footage-and-archival-experimental-filmmaking-with-g-anthony-svatek-and-kaija-siirala/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Collage Aesthetics: Working With Found Footage with Sue Ding
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 9\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Limited capacity. Open to ages 16+\nRegister below\nIn this special seminar with visiting artist Sue Ding (Los Angeles\, CA)\, participants will learn about creative strategies for working with photographic and moving image archival\, with a focus on popular media. The workshop will showcase a variety of approaches for remixing archival materials\, including stop-motion animation\, supercut editing\, and sound interventions. The artist will share clips from found footage and collage-driven works by herself and others\, followed by a discussion with participants. \nRemixing allows us to critique and contextualize popular media texts\, as well as to transform them into new creative works. This workshop aims to instill in participants a greater sense of agency with regards to media imagery and narratives\, empowering them to deconstruct and reimagine popular media in creative ways. \nAttendees: Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information. \nThis event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. \nBiography of the artist\nSue Ding is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race\, gender\, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture. In her research-based practice\, she emphasizes process\, form\, and deep readings of both media and landscapes. Sue’s work has screened internationally at venues including SXSW\, IDFA\, Antimatter [Media Art]\, and Copenhagen Contemporary\, and can be found on platforms including PBS\, Netflix\, and The New York Times. Sue’s interdisciplinary practice spans film\, installation\, and emerging media\, and she consults and lectures widely on filmmaking and media arts. In 2023\, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” \nBanner image: Collage of retro tv screens and makeover movie images on notebook paper background. Image courtesy of Sue Ding.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/collage-aesthetics-working-with-found-footage/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Somatic and Devised Performance Workshop with Kyla Kegler
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 7\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation. Limited capacity. Open to ages 16+\nRegister below\nSqueaky Wheel presents a special performance based workshop with Workspace Resident Kyla Kegler (Buffalo\, NY) based on her project Care-Core that examines self-care\, collective care\, and somatic knowledge. Participants will be guided through a series of somatic / embodiment exercises\, journaling in response to prompts\, group sharing\, culminating in the collaborative development and ultimately performance of a Sesame-Street-esque song and dance responding to what emerges from this process. The workshop is suitable for all bodies and levels of experience. \nAttendees: For the workshop\, please: \n\nWear comfy clothes / footwear you can move in\nBring a reference object: anything at all that you’re interested in looking at and thinking about\nBring a notebook + pen\nSqueaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor\, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking\, transportation\, and accessibility information.\n\nThis event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency\, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation. \nBiography of the artist\nKyla Kegler is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores desire and connection between people\, place and purpose. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls. Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of theater\, “Zuhause” (Berlin\, Germany). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me\, video installation exploring the mindfulness industry; The House on Fire Show\, teen web-drama about the climate crisis; Mountains: a tragicomedic puppet soap opera; Relationships don’t finish\, they change\, a video and sculpture installation exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College\, Ithaca\, NY\, 2024.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/somatic-and-devised-performance-workshop-with-kyla-kegler/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Silo City | Kathryn Ramey's SILVER & earth: Marine A
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 6\, 7 pm\n@ Silo City (85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203)\nFree or suggested donation; register below\nJoin us at Silo City for a projection performance by artist and filmmaker Kathryn Ramey! Made in collaboration with Noam Ramey-Winikur\, SILVER & earth: Marine A is a three projector 16mm performance which will highlight environmentally conscious artistic practices within reclaimed post industrial sites such as Silo City. The work is a holistic portrait of the site\, featuring both the site of Marine A\, and developed\, not with traditionally toxic photographic formulas\, but with Ramey’s ecological processes and plants from the grounds of Marine A. Working with the habitat-restorative approach of Silo City’s staff\, the work showcases how artists can approach the complicated legacies of 20th century industry. \nThe ~20 minute long projector performance will be preceded by an introduction by Kathryn Ramey speaking to her practice and process. Audiences will have the opportunity to closely inspect the films on a light table following the event. \nPart of a larger suite of work\, SILVER & earth: Marine A\, focuses on analogue film\, using outdated material that would otherwise find its way to a landfill through a variety of experimental gestures. These include: phytograms in which Vitamin C\, plant material and soda or wood ash is used to print onto film; burying film in compost; among other methods. Ramey’s project marks a deepening of Squeaky Wheel’s partnership with Silo City to also support ecological media arts practices. \nThe event will take place at Silo City. Entrance will be through the garden of Duende (85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203) at 7 pm. This event marks the final event with our summer residents. Special thank you to Carl Lee and our partners at Silo City. \nAbout the artist and our partner\nKathryn Ramey (1967)\, Vancouver\, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations\, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing\, optical printing\, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto\, Ann Arbor\, TriBeca\, Ji.hlava\, and 25fps\, among others. \n \nSilo City is a unique post-industrial landscape comprised of the world’s largest collection of historical grain elevators. We create and host happenings on site through our 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization that operates under the legal name Friends of Silo City. Click here to learn more. \nBanner image courtesy of Kathryn Ramey. Several strips of 16 mm film overlaid with plant clippings at Silo City.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-kathryn-rameys-silver-earth-marine-a/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Essay Filmmaking with Ahmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 27\, 6–8 pm\n$10 general | $7 members\nRegister below\nIn this one-time workshop by visiting filmmakers and Workspace Residents Ahmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb\, the filmmakers will introduce and provide a space for participants to workshop their own essay films. The pair will provide a brief introduction to essay filmmaking\, with examples of their own work and films by Chantal Akerman\, among others. The filmmakers will then facilitate a workshop space for participants to write their own treatments and loglines for their own essay films. Participants will then discuss and workshop their ideas as a group. \nThe event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Squeaky Wheel members can email ekrem@squeaky.org for their discount code ahead of checking out. \nBiographies of the residents\nAhmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb are a married experimental filmmaking duo based in Pittsburgh. Lily – American\, Russian and Armenian – grew up between Washington\, D.C.\, and Cairo\, Egypt. Ahmed – Egyptian\, Dutch and American – was born and raised in Cairo. Their films emphasize identity\, place\, feminism\, cultural dislocation and domestic relationships and are noted for their use of voiceover and mixed media. Their work has screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals including Uppsala Short Film Festival (Nominated\, Ingmar Bergman Award)\, Athens Int’l Film & Video Festival and RiverRun\, as well as the Arab American National Museum\, Pittsburgh Shorts\, and the Arab Film and Media Institute’s Arab Film Festival. Together they founded the independent production company Studio Ragheb. \nThis workshop is presented as part of the Workspace Residency program. Learn more here. \nBanner image: Studio Ragheb\, She Sings (2024). A woman\, lit in red\, holding her hand up to the lens.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/essay-filmmaking-with-ahmed-t-ragheb-lily-ekimian-ragheb/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Ahmed T. Ragheb\, Lily Ekimian Ragheb\, and Kathryn Ramey
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 23\, 2024\, 7 pm ET\nOnline and in-person @ Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation. Catering from AliBaba Kebab provided for in-person attendees.\nASL interpretation available; request by Tuesday\, August 20.\nRegister below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Summer 2024 Workspace Residents! Ahmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb (Pittsburgh\, PA) and Kathryn Ramey (Roslindale\, MA) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nAhmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb will be working on Visitor\, a short experimental essay film about an Egyptian vampire who travels to America in search of family. The film will pair a fictional voiceover narrative with docu-style video footage of the post-industrial landscapes of Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Consisting of hand-held\, point-of-view shots with no on-screen actors\, the observational style of Visitor will facilitate an exploration of Arab and Arab-American cultural identity\, immigration\, family and the changing landscape of the American Rust Belt. \nDuring her residency\, Kathryn Ramey will be working on SILVER & earth: Marina A which will be presented to the public on Friday\, September 6 at Silo City. The multi-channel digital and 16mm projection performance will highlight environmentally conscious artistic practices within reclaimed post industrial sites such as Silo City. Part of a larger suite of work\, SILVER & earth: Marina A\, focuses on analogue film\, using outdated material that would otherwise find its way to a landfill through a variety of experimental gestures. These include: phytograms in which Vitamin C\, plant material and soda or wood ash is used to print onto film; burying film in compost; among other methods. Ramey’s project marks a deepening of Squeaky Wheel’s partnership with Silo City to also support ecological media arts practices. \nBiographies of the residents\nAhmed T. Ragheb & Lily Ekimian Ragheb are a married experimental filmmaking duo based in Pittsburgh. Lily – American\, Russian and Armenian – grew up between Washington\, D.C.\, and Cairo\, Egypt. Ahmed – Egyptian\, Dutch and American – was born and raised in Cairo. Their films emphasize identity\, place\, feminism\, cultural dislocation and domestic relationships and are noted for their use of voiceover and mixed media. Their work has screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals including Uppsala Short Film Festival (Nominated\, Ingmar Bergman Award)\, Athens Int’l Film & Video Festival and RiverRun\, as well as the Arab American National Museum\, Pittsburgh Shorts\, and the Arab Film and Media Institute’s Arab Film Festival. Together they founded the independent production company Studio Ragheb. \nKathryn Ramey (1967)\, Vancouver\, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations\, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing\, optical printing\, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto\, Ann Arbor\, TriBeca\, Ji.hlava\, and 25fps\, among others. \nBanner photo: Two photographs side by side: Ahmed Ragheb and Lily Ekimian Ragheb sitting side by side in a black and white photograph. Kathryn Ramey\, a white woman in her 50’s with long gray blond hair in a bun wearing a black and white plaid mock turtle-neck blouse and a black cotton blazer and pink glasses sits smiling facing the camera in front of a white picket fence with green trees and blue sky in the background. This photo was taken at Camden Film Festival.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-ahmed-ragheb-lily-ekimian-ragheb-and-kathryn-ramey/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Plant Cinema Workshop at Silo City with Kathryn Ramey
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 21\, 6–8 pm\n@ Silo City (85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203)\n$10 general | $7 members\nOpen to ages 16+\nRegister below\nIn this one-time workshop by visiting filmmaker and Workspace Resident Kathryn Ramey at Silo City\, the filmmaker will show participants how to expose and process 16mm film with plants. Participants will use plant materials from Silo City’s environment\, that they will develop and expose with a sodium carbonate and vitamin C mixture. Ramey will then show participants how to fix their films\, upon which they’ll let them dry and project them on site. \nThe event will take place at Silo City; please gather promptly at Duende (85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY 14203) at 6 pm. Squeaky Wheel members can email ekrem@squeaky.org for their discount code ahead of checking out. Special thank you to Olivia McCarthy and Silo City. \nAbout the artist and our partner\nKathryn Ramey (1967)\, Vancouver\, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations\, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing\, optical printing\, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto\, Ann Arbor\, TriBeca\, Ji.hlava\, and 25fps\, among others. \n \nSilo City is a unique post-industrial landscape comprised of the world’s largest collection of historical grain elevators. We create and host happenings on site through our 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization that operates under the legal name Friends of Silo City. Click here to learn more. \nThis workshop is presented as part of the Workspace Residency program. Learn more here. \nBanner image provided by Kathryn Ramey. Sage leaves from a volunteer plant in the artists garden are harvested\, soaked in vitamin C and sodium carbonate\, placed on undeveloped black and white film and left in the sun. The leaves print themselves onto the film which is revealed when the film is run through a weak fixer.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/plant-cinema-at-silo-city-with-kathryn-ramey/
LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Football Practice: Speculative Football Players with Kristin McWharter
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 22\, 2024\, 6–8 pm ET\nOnline over Zoom\nFree or suggested donation; register below\nJoin us for this workshop intensive in which participants explore the cultural impact of American football and collectively contribute to a new simulation of the sport. Part performance lecture\, part interactive imagining\, participants will be given prompts to write and craft new players for the artists Football Practice simulation software. Each workshop designs and “drafts” two players into the scrimmage of the software\, directly shaping the speculative imaging of the game. Inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpses and video game sports simulations such as Madden\, this workshop discusses the importance of consent\, aggression\, and competitive drive as participants playfully imagine speculative football futures in real time. \nThe workshop is open to anyone regardless of their knowledge or interest in football. A Zoom link will be shared with your email address near the event date. \nThis workshop is presented as part of an ongoing project by Kristin McWharter. To learn more\, click here. \nBiography of the artist\nKristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Her work conjoins viewers within immersive sculptural installations and viewer- inclusive performances that critically fuse folk games within virtual and augmented worlds. Her software installations and performative objects incorporate experimental technologies and playful interaction to produce performances that speculate upon alternative forms of social behavior. Inspired by 20th century sports narrative\, collective decision making\, and technology as a contemporary spiritual authority\, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer relationships to affection and competitive drive. Her work has been exhibited at The Hammer Museum\, Walt Disney Concert Hall\, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center\, Ars Electronica\, Museo Altillo Beni\, and FILE Festival among others. McWharter received her MFA from UCLA in Design Media Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor in Art & Technology Studies at SAIC. \nImage description: Two digital avatars on a digital grassy field. The figures are wearing American football outfits. Both the outfits and the grassy field look like they were crocheted.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/football-practice-speculative-football-players-with-kristin-mcwharter/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Fuzzy Edges of Character Encoding with Everest Pipkin
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 23\, 2024\, 6–8pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+.\nBring your own laptops or computational device. Students will need a basic text editor installed. Details will be given in registration email.\nWorkspace Resident Everest Pipkin will lead a workshop on the history\, politics and computational basics of text-based character encoding. Discussions will cover morse code\, ASCII\, Unicode (including emoji)\, and alternative text encoding schemes\, as well as their social\, ethical\, and emotional stories.  The second part of the workshop will be a laptops-open play along exploration through software demos and creative exercises. What “is” a character on a computer? How can we play around with the foundational building blocks of digital materials in ways that lets us understand files as materials? How can we think about language as a type of logical encoding that makes computers work? \nBiography of the artist\nEverest Pipkin is a game developer\, writer\, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico. Their work both in the studio and in the garden follows themes of ecology\, tool making\, and collective care during collapse. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin\, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London\, The Texas Biennial\, The XXI Triennale of Milan\, The Photographers Gallery of London\, Center for Land Use Interpretation\, and other spaces. When not at the computer in the heat of the day\, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: An image from The Barnacle Goose Experiment (2022) by Everest Pipkin. An old-school text-based interface is open\, with various lists of items\, verbs\, experiments\, locations and actions available to you\, like “cry” or “eat [honey]”. Each one is a link.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-fuzzy-edges-of-character-encoding-with-everest-pipkin/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Artifacts of Identity: Crafting Meaningful Narratives with Personal Objects by Léwuga Benson
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 22\, 2024\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. All materials provided. Please bring a meaningful personal object you wish to explore!\nWorkspace Resident Lewuga Benson will facilitate conversations with participants on the transformative powers of personal artifacts and the ways they can shape personal and community narratives. This workshop will be both structured and flexible\, and participants will be encouraged to share and explore in depth the meanings of their own personal objects. Lewuga will then guide students through creative exercises in different mediums around their chosen artifact. The workshop encourages collaboration\, reflection\, and meaningful dialogue among participants\, fostering a sense of community and creative exploration. \nBiography of the instructor\nLéwuga Tata Benson: As an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker\, my work bridges cultures and explores the dynamic interplay between identity\, environmental sustainability\, and human connection. Rooted in my Ogoni heritage in Nigeria\, I draw inspiration from our tradition of repurposing to prevent waste. This ethos infuses my art\, as seen in installations like “The Land Gives Until It No Longer Can\, 2022\,” “Hang in There\, 2022\,” “Traces of Displacement\, 2023\,” “Carrying Identity\, Carrying The Weight\, 2023\,” and “Fueling Change\, 2024.” In Ogoni storytelling\, we engage all the senses\, integrating songs\, dance\, and props for a holistic experience. My artistic practice seamlessly incorporates these traditions to create immersive narratives that provoke thought\, foster empathy\, and celebrate cultural richness. My journey has been marked by awards and accolades\, including the NYSCA 2024 Grant and the Gregory Capasso scholarship for outstanding work in film\, underscoring my commitment to the arts. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Léwuga Tata Benson’s installation The Land Gives Until It No Longer Can (2022) at the University at Buffalo.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/artifacts-of-identity-crafting-meaningful-narratives-with-personal-objects-by-lewuga-benson/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Everest Pipkin\, Kristin McWharter\, Jaehoon Choi\, Léwuga Tata Benson
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 19\, 2024\, 7 pm ET\nOnline and in-person @ Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. Catering from AliBaba Kebab provided for in-person attendees.\nRegister below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Spring 2024 Workspace Residents! Everest Pipkin (Truth or Consequences\, NM)\, Kristin McWharter (Chicago\, IL)\, Jaehoon Choi (Troy\, NY)\, and Léwuga Tata Benson (Buffalo\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, including essays on video games\, and media art installations that explore notions of language and translation\, historic children’s games and locative sound\, and the devastating effects of oil extraction. Their event will conclude with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nDuring their residency\, researcher resident Everest Pipkin will be working on The Fortunate Isles: Fragment Worlds\, Walled Gardens\, and the games that are played there\, a speculative essay about the edges of space within video games. Based on a talk Pipkin gave at the 2023 Roguelike Celebration\, the essay will focus on the concept of the walled garden\, expanding it to include games and games spaces. It looks at ornamental gardens\, cloisters\, isolate spaces\, and even mythological or utopian fantasies of worlds\, and goes beyond to where the garden stops and a wildness of bugs\, errors\, logical failures and edge cases begin. The essay seeks to connect the logic of potent isolation to the games we make and play.  \nJaehoon Choi will be working on an untitled media art installation on the intermingling of translation and language through light and sound. Influenced by the work of Karen Barad\, the artist will be working with mylar film\, projection\, and audio from speech recordings in various languages. The work is latest in a series of installations that delve into the artists concern\, the first of which\, “Hello. hEllo! heLLo? hellO” was created and showcased at EMPAC in May 2023. \nKristin McWharter will be working on Marco Polo\, an interactive sound installation\, based on the children’s game where one player\, with eye’s closed\, calls out “Marco” and listens for the location of other players who call out “Polo” in response. McWharter will be adapting the children’s game in a new work that incorporates megaphones\, RF transmissions\, and a series of sculptural beacons for audiences to engage with locative sound. Noting the Italian explorer’s role in shaping racist notions of Western superiority\, the project reflects on the history of trade route landscapes and the consequences of western culture’s history of continuous evasion and pursuit. \nLéwuga Tata Benson will be working towards their exhibition Fueling Change: A Multimedia Exploration of Niger Delta’s Oil Crisis that will open at Buffalo Arts Studio on July 26\, 2024. Utilizing oil drums\, video\, and audio\, the project focuses on the oil industry’s effects upon the people of the Niger Delta in Western Nigeria and the social\, economic\, and environmental consequences of unregulated oil extraction practices. \n            Biographies of the residents                        \nEverest Pipkin is a game developer\, writer\, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico. Their work both in the studio and in the garden follows themes of ecology\, tool making\, and collective care during collapse. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin\, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London\, The Texas Biennial\, The XXI Triennale of Milan\, The Photographers Gallery of London\, Center for Land Use Interpretation\, and other spaces. When not at the computer in the heat of the day\, you can find them in the hills spending time with their neighbors— both human and non-human. \nJaehoon Choi is a computer musician / sound artist / researcher based in New York and Seoul. His practice involves embodied experimentation through a technical medium\, which involves both the process of making and bodily engagement. As a researcher\, he is interested in how a creative practice that involves embodied experimentation with a technical medium can suggest a different form of techne and contribute to technodiversity. His works have been presented at Venice Biennale\, MATA Festival\, NEW INC\, San Francisco Tape Music Festival\, NIME\, ICMC\, CeReNeM\, ECHO Journal\, ZER01NE\, Dunkunsthalle\, EIDF\, Visions Du Reel\, CEMEC\, and etc. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a Masters. \nKristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Her work conjoins viewers within immersive sculptural installations and viewer- inclusive performances that critically fuse folk games within virtual and augmented worlds. Her software installations and performative objects incorporate experimental technologies and playful interaction to produce performances that speculate upon alternative forms of social behavior. Inspired by 20th century sports narrative\, collective decision making\, and technology as a contemporary spiritual authority\, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer relationships to affection and competitive drive. Her work has been exhibited at The Hammer Museum\, Walt Disney Concert Hall\, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center\, Ars Electronica\, Museo Altillo Beni\, and FILE Festival among others. McWharter received her MFA from UCLA in Design Media Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor in Art & Technology Studies at SAIC. \nLéwuga Tata Benson: As an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker\, my work bridges cultures and explores the dynamic interplay between identity\, environmental sustainability\, and human connection. Rooted in my Ogoni heritage in Nigeria\, I draw inspiration from our tradition of repurposing to prevent waste. This ethos infuses my art\, as seen in installations like “The Land Gives Until It No Longer Can\, 2022\,” “Hang in There\, 2022\,” “Traces of Displacement\, 2023\,” “Carrying Identity\, Carrying The Weight\, 2023\,” and “Fueling Change\, 2024.” In Ogoni storytelling\, we engage all the senses\, integrating songs\, dance\, and props for a holistic experience. My artistic practice seamlessly incorporates these traditions to create immersive narratives that provoke thought\, foster empathy\, and celebrate cultural richness. My journey has been marked by awards and accolades\, including the NYSCA 2024 Grant and the Gregory Capasso scholarship for outstanding work in film\, underscoring my commitment to the arts. \n            \nImage descriptions: Four photographs in a grid\, left to right\, top to bottom: Everest Pipkin\, a white nonbinary artist\, stands in front of a cottonwood tree in a field. They have short brown hair\, glasses\, and are wearing a striped sweater. It is a sunny day. A photograph of Jaehoon Choi by Steven Pisano; a portrait of artist Kristin McWharter sitting in her studio; and Léwuga Tata Benson\, a Nigerian-born artist from Buffalo\, New York.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-everest-pipkin-kristin-mcwharter-jaehoon-choi-lewuga-tata-benson/
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SUMMARY:How to make a DIY Force-Sensitive Resistor (FSR) Sensor with Jaehoon Choi
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\, 2024\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+.\nParticipants are encouraged to bring their own laptops\nIn this lecture and demonstration\, Workspace Resident Jaehoon Choi will lead participants through the steps to make a FSR Sensor that can be used to create a range of sound production for sonic and other art performances. Jaehoon will begin the workshop by talking about what an FSR Sensor is and demonstrate to participants through the process of making and using basic materials and wiring and soldering. Students will see how to to begin to make their own interactive physical interfaces. \nBiography of the artist\nJaehoon Choi is a computer musician / sound artist / researcher based in New York and Seoul. His practice involves embodied experimentation through a technical medium\, which involves both the process of making and bodily engagement. As a researcher\, he is interested in how a creative practice that involves embodied experimentation with a technical medium can suggest a different form of techne and contribute to technodiversity. His works have been presented at Venice Biennale\, MATA Festival\, NEW INC\, San Francisco Tape Music Festival\, NIME\, ICMC\, CeReNeM\, ECHO Journal\, ZER01NE\, Dunkunsthalle\, EIDF\, Visions Du Reel\, CEMEC\, and etc. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a Masters. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Jaehoon Choi performing Brushing Improvisation – N°2\, 2023 at the La Biennale di Venezia in 2023. Photo Credit : Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia / ph. Andrea Avezzù.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/how-to-make-a-diy-force-sensitive-resistor-fsr-sensor-with-jaehoon-choi/
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SUMMARY:Postponed - How to be a Good Sport with Kristin McWharter
DESCRIPTION:Postponed – Stay tuned for the new date!\nTuesday\, April 16\, 2024\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. All materials provided.\nIn this interactive workshop\, Workspace Resident Kristin McWharter will coach participants as they design a new sport that responds to the unique skills\, attributes\, fears and desires of the collective participants. Kristin will first provide an introduction to different competitive game structures and discuss how aspects of these structures can act as metaphors for our behavior.  Students will then collaboratively design their own sport and the workshop will conclude by playing the game and crowning the created sport’s first champion! \nBiography of the instructor\nKristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Her work conjoins viewers within immersive sculptural installations and viewer- inclusive performances that critically fuse folk games within virtual and augmented worlds. Her software installations and performative objects incorporate experimental technologies and playful interaction to produce performances that speculate upon alternative forms of social behavior. Inspired by 20th century sports narrative\, collective decision making\, and technology as a contemporary spiritual authority\, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer relationships to affection and competitive drive. Her work has been exhibited at The Hammer Museum\, Walt Disney Concert Hall\, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center\, Ars Electronica\, Museo Altillo Beni\, and FILE Festival among others. McWharter received her MFA from UCLA in Design Media Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor in Art & Technology Studies at SAIC. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Screen capture of software performance RARA by Kristin McWharter. A cheerleader avatar stands in an abandoned and overgrown football field.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/how-to-be-a-good-sport-with-kristin-mcwharter/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:2D Stop-Motion World Building with Photoshop with Maggie Hazen
DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, August 24\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Computers with Adobe Photoshop provided.\nIn this hands on workshop\, Workspace Resident Maggie Hazen will lead participants as they create their own stop motion animations. Maggie will first cover the basics of world-building and the process of designing a visual language that represents the world you want to create. Students will then learn to use 2D stop motion animation and Photoshop to create unique worlds. Participants will work in teams to make short animated films\, which will be screened at the end of the workshop. Laptops or desktops with Adobe Photoshop will be provided. \n  \nBiography of the artist\nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/2d-stop-motion-world-building-with-photoshop-with-maggie-hazen/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Weaving the Magic Back into Reality: Writing Speculative Fiction for Film with Alicia Solstice Hawkins
DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 22\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Journals and writing material provided\nIn this lecture and workshop\, Workspace Resident Alicia Solstice Hawkins will present on how speculative fiction offers subversive narratives that challenge oppressive worldviews\, while reimagining powerful and liberatory counter-narratives. This will be followed by exercises on how participants can incorporate speculative fiction into their documentary or fiction film projects. \nSpeculative fiction is an umbrella term for artworks that include fantastical aspects and can incorporate sub-genres such as science fiction\, horror\, fantasy\, and magical realism. This workshop will examine speculative fiction in contemporary film\, with an emphasis on BIPOC creators. Although initially associated with works focused on Eurocentric sensibilities\, speculative fiction has become a compelling genre for filmmakers to use to offer social critiques\, reclaim spaces stolen by oppressive practices\, dismantle the logics of oppression\, and explore liberation. \nDuring the first half of the workshop\, we will watch example films\, discuss specific strategies filmmakers use to integrate fantastical elements into their films\, and analyze what critiques their narratives offer. Then\, Alicia will lead a mini-writing workshop. A discussion of some foundations for expanding a cinematic storytelling toolkit through speculative fiction will be included\, such as world-building\, structural techniques\, developing a visual language\, and research. \nBiography of the artist\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nBanner image: Alicia Solstice Hawkins standing on a beach.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/weaving-the-magic-back-into-reality-writing-speculative-fiction-for-film-with-alicia-solstice-hawkins/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 18\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2023 Workspace Residents! Alicia Solstice Hawking (Los Angeles\, CA) and Maggie Hazen (Hudson Vallery\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on media art projects with significant ties to Buffalo’s history and current landscape. Alicia Solstice Hawkins will work on Don’t Go Back to Sleep\, a a poetic and observational 15-minute documentary about Bob\, an elder\, almost 80 years of age\, who attempts to re-engage his art practice while contending with the aftermath of a major stroke. Charting Bob’s life starting from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood\, the city’s East and West Sides\, and Los Angeles\, where he resides now\, the film will follow several different timelines of his life through his poignant\, witty\, and moving voiceover paired with poetic imagery and sound. Maggie Hazen will work on Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape\, a mixed reality project made in collaboration with DW. DW\, who lives in Western New York\, is a formerly incarcerated young artist who was recently released from Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in New York’s Hudson Valley; Hazen met her while teaching art classes at the facility in 2019. Night Moth revolves around Luna\, a 3D digital avatar for DW\, and Luna’s journey of self-discovery\, liberation\, and healing. Night Moth will culminate in four artworks\, including a video installation exhibition\, a documentary\, a sketchbook\, and an interactive concept website. \nIn-person attendees can enjoy food\, including vegetarian options\, from Ali Baba Kebab. Learn how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here.  \n Online attendees can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo learn more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  \nImage description: Portraits of Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen superimposed on a blue red backgrop. Alicia Solstice Hawkins is standing on a beach in her photograph. Next to her is a portrait of Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-alicia-solstice-hawkins-and-maggie-hazen/
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SUMMARY:16mm Camera-Less Filmmaking with Dena Kopolovich
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 11\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin visiting artist Dena Kopolovich for a special workshop on cameraless filmmaking with 16mm film! Intended for ages 16 and up\, participants will learn about motion picture film\, and manipulate the surface of film using a variety of camera-less techniques: painting\, scratching\, masking\, and tape-lifting to create an original\, collective experimental film on 16mm. The workshop will culminate with a screening at Squeaky Wheel where we’ll watch the film on loop. A light dinner will be provided; you can indicate dietary restrictions during checkout. \nBio of the instructor \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, 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 the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Dena Kopolovich. Several strips of 16mm film against a lighttable. Some are in color and some are in black and white. Some of the films have hand scratched lettering on their emulsion.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/16mm-camera-less-filmmaking-with-dena-kopolovich/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 7\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nClick here for tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2023 Workspace Residents! Dena Kopolovich (Flushing\, NY)\, Elenie Chung (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Laura Jaramillo (Durham\, NC)\, and Miranda Javid (Port Ewen\, NY) will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on a variety of projects including animations\, hybrid works\, lyrical essays on cinema\, and non-fiction films. Dena Kopolovich will be working towards the completion of her upcoming short film Container Film\, an experimental essay film created in a hybrid 16mm and digital format\, that engages with Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay\, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”. Elenie Chung will be assembling All the Films in My Grandfather’s Closet a planned hybrid docu-fiction\, telling the tale of Chung’s grandfather\, a Chinese Trinidadian whose life had been defined by an early marriage\, resistance to cultural customs and the changing times in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to 2020s. Laura Jaramillo will be developing a book of lyrical essays investigating the fraught history of Colombian national cinema during the War on Drugs and global neoliberalization\, interwoven with her own biography as a diasporic Colombian and her family’s history. Miranda Javid will continue animating\, sound recording\, and editing Human Behavior\, a three-minute hand-drawn film drawn with sumi ink on tracing paper\, which asks viewers how even small gestures can impact others.  \nIn-person attendees can find information on how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\n \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nElenie Chung is a filmmaker and artist\, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago\, currently based in Los Angeles\, CA. She is interested in using female relationships as a method of illustrating cultural disconnection and ancestral amnesia. Her films have screened in international festivals and art exhibitions. Since attending the University of California\, Los Angeles to achieve an MFA in Film Directing/Production\, she has been working remotely at Women Make Movies\, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and has been contributing to film organizations in Los Angeles to amplify under-recognised films by women\, international and non-white filmmakers. \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  \nImage description: Four photographs against a graphic background. Left to right and top to bottom are: a portrait of Dena Kopolovich\, gazing off to the left and smiling\, wearing a light brown turtleneck\, with curly long auburn hair that is styled down. The background is a brick wall painted two different shades of red; A close up of Elenie Chung\, a young woman of East Asian descent wearing glasses and with short black hair. She is wearing a green and pink checkered wool scarf; Laura Jaramillo\, a woman in a black dress stares off to the right of the frame. There are trees and foliage behind her; and Miranda Javid\, a femme iranian woman in her mid-thirties stands in front of lush trees.
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SUMMARY:Visual Media for Poets with Laura Jaramillo
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 5\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nIntended for all audiences\, visiting poet and researcher Laura Jaramillo will lead Visual Media for Poets\, on how to use visual media to write poetry\, even for people who have never written it. \nWhile many assume poetry is incomprehensible or not for them\, almost everyone has a favorite television show or movie that makes them feel things. This workshop takes those feelings as the material of the poem. \nParticipants will look at and discuss samples of written poetry that are in dialogue with the moving image such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence. We will pay special attention to how these writers use movement between image and text to draw out questions of biography and identity. \nSqueaky Wheel will provide journals and writing tools; bring your laptops\, but laptops can also be requested from Squeaky Wheel. Just bring yourselves! \nBio of the instructor \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry\, Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, 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 the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Other Things Seen\, Other Things Heard (Ailleurs)\, 1978\, documentation of performance (rehearsal) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, 1978. A woman is seen with her back turned against us\, holding two rope like objects going down to the floor. In front of her is a wall with a projection on it that says “Redemption.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/visual-media-for-poets-with-laura-jaramillo/
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SUMMARY:Animation on Paper with Miranda Javid
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 4\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a special animation workshop with visiting artist Miranda Javid! Based on the artists own way of working using translucent paper\, participants will learn how they can quickly and intuitively create their own animations with a smartphone\, a free app\, some tracing paper\, and drawing materials. This workshop is intended for participants 16 and up\, and is open to all experience levels. \nParticipants can bring their own smartphones or request an iPad from Squeaky Wheel. You can download the Stopmotion app to be utilized in the class here. \nBio of the instructor \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, 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 the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Miranda Javid. Black ink on crinkly paper. The image is a drawing of a loosely drawn hand holding onto a leaf. Previous frames or past moments of the movement fading in a trail behind the hand.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/animation-on-paper-with-miranda-javid/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:(Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory with Muse Dodd
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 23\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nInstructor: Muse Dodd \nHow can we tap into ancestral ways of re-memory? (Re)mnants: The Anatomy of Memory will explore Black people’s relationship to memory and time focusing on alternative ways of knowing and the questions; How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? \nIn this workshop intended for Black and brown people of African descent\, ages 16 and up\, Workspace Resident Muse Dodd will guide participants in dissecting the components of memory through meditative exercises\, collage\, sound\, and smell. There will also be a screening of (Re)mnants\, the short film by Muse Dodd\, and a sound bath meditation. Participants will leave with new perspectives on memory making\, a collaborative collage and some journal prompts. Free notebooks and pens will be provided. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available. \nBio of the instructor \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage: Muse Dodd\, Kendi (2018). A young Black child rests their head\, eyes closed on their bike in a field of overgrown grass. The American flag is propped against a rust colored storage unit and blows gently in the wind.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/remnants-the-anatomy-of-memory-with-muse-dodd/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Muse Dodd and Rob Cosgrove
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 19\, 2022\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here for tickets\nFor in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. \nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents\, Muse Dodd (Atlanta\, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside\, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their residency\, Muse Dodd will be utilizing the facilities of Squeaky Wheel and our Workspace partner The Foundry to build models and sets for their installation and performance work Black in Both Directions that supposes that Black people invented time travel. Their project will utilize projection mapping\, draw on Afro-diasporic notions of time using oral testimonies\, and images created by the artist and archival video footage. Rob Cosgrove will be utilizing the space and resonance of Silo City to work on Floaters\, a networked sonic performance in Silo City Marine A\, performed live for the public at the end of his residency. Inspired by the floating grain elevators used in the First Ward of Buffalo\, and drawing on the artist’s own family history in the area\, Cosgrove’s work contemplates the shifting networked relationship between the industrial and social communities in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. \nThe event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents \nMuse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist\, Curator and DJ from Severn\, MD based in Atlanta. Their work centers on the questions\, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering\, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with\, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement\, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory\, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed\, Mabou Mines Theater\, and Dixon Place. Muse has also screened and exhibited work at Lincoln Center\, The BWI Marshall Airport\, Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center\, The DC Arts Center\, and The Flux Factory. Through their work\, Muse hopes to create space for Black bodies to be free\, if only for a frame.  \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  \nImage description: Two photographs side by side. On the left is Muse Dodd\, a brown skinned\, Black\, non-binary person with blonde eyebrows\, wears a red camo durag while gazing at the camera and stands in front of a mustard backdrop. Their photograph is by Landon Spears. On the right is a photograph of Rob Cosgrove\, looking down surrounded by trees.
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SUMMARY:Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance with Rob Cosgrove
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 17\, 2022\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nInstructor: Rob Cosgrove \nRob Cosgrove will lead Sonic Links: An Introduction to Networked Performance\, a workshop on how to utilize the internet and other networks for sound production. Intended for participants both new and with intermediate experience in broadcasting online\, the workshop will prepare participants for high-fidelity sound-based networked performance and live-streaming over the web using free\, open-source softwares.  \nUp until recently\, tools for networked performance could be expensive\, difficult to use\, and limited to institutions with access to high-speed internet. With the rise of residential internet speeds\, the development of more user-friendly networking applications\, and increased public access to technology\, networked performance has become available for many. \n* Workshop space is limited. Masks required. Free masks are available.  \nBio of the instructor \nRob Cosgrove is a percussionist\, composer\, and artist interested in creating embodied sounding through intermedia installations and performances. His works explore the feeling of a sound as a tactile\, visual\, and visceral entity by investigating the peripheries of sonic experience and the ways these contexts affect our perception. Rob has exhibited / performed at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)\, Harvestworks (Manhattan)\, Chicago Design Museum (Chicago)\, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)\, Coaxial (Los Angeles)\, Eastern Bloc (Montréal)\, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague)\, and KM28 (Berlin). Rob is a member of Ensemble Decipher and most recently completed residencies at Practice Gallery (Philadelphia) and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy). \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is a residency open to artists and researchers working in art and technology\, and provides support for new or ongoing projects in collaboration with our partners. Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, 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 the office of governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.  \nImage: Rob Cosgrove\, Broadcast presence (2021). Two silhouettes of drummers illuminated in windows of a building at night.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sonic-links-an-introduction-to-networked-performance-with-rob-cosgrove/
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