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SUMMARY:Miko Revereza’s No Data Plan
DESCRIPTION:Online Screening | Wednesday\, March 25\, 7 pm\nLive Q&A at 8:30 pm.\nFree or suggested donation. Click here to get tickets.\nA private link will be sent to your email account upon registration.\n \nClick here to view the introduction to the film by curator Ekrem Serdar and Justice for Migrant Families’ Anna Porter \nClick here to view the post-screening Google Docs Q&A with Miko Revereza \nMiko Revereza’s acclaimed feature documentary No Data Plan features a narrator rehashing details about his mother’s affair as he crosses America by train. “Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her Obama phone. For that we use the other number with no data plan.” Taking place entirely within a three day trip upon a train—including a tense stop near Buffalo—Revereza’s film evokes images and thoughts from far away\, illustrating an undocumented subjectivity\, a site of precarious movement\, migration\, and fugitivism in the United States. \nThis screening is co-presented with Justice for Migrant Families. JFMF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice for migrant families by providing support to individuals in the federal detention facility in Batavia\, information and resources to families in the community\, and advocacy both within and beyond the local community.\nJFMF is currently seeking donations to allow detainees in the Batavia Detention Center to make phone calls to their loved ones as all visitations have been cancelled due to COVID-19. Find out about JFMF current activities on their Facebook page and donate to them here. \nBiography of the filmmaker\nMiko Revereza (b.1988 Manila\, Philippines) is an experimental filmmaker and undocumented immigrant. Since relocating from Manila as a child\, he has lived illegally in the United States for over 25 years. This life long struggle with documentation\, assimilation and statelessness informs his films\, DROGA! (2014)\, DISINTEGRATION 93-96 (2017) and his debut feature\, No data plan (2018). Miko’s films have been widely screened and exhibited internationally at festivals such as\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen\, True/False Film Festival\, Images Festival\, and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. DISINTEGRATION 93-96 was featured and streamed on MUBI.com. He is listed as Filmmaker Magazine’s 2018 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema. \n\nImage: Miko Revereza\, No Data Plan\, 70 minutes\, digital video\, 2019. Courtesy of Sentient Art Film.
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SUMMARY:Representation in Filmmaking with Caleb Abrams
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 11\, 7–9 pm\nFree and open to the public \nAs a filmmaker\, what does it mean to represent a community? How do you impart the emotion of another person’s experience? Join filmmaker and Spring 2020 Workspace Resident\, Caleb Abrams for a conversation on the questions above through a behind the scenes look at his practice. \nCaleb Abrams is an Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) filmmaker and multimedia artist based out of what is currently considered Buffalo\, New York. Raised on the Seneca’s Allegany Territory\, much of his work emerges from the social\, historical\, and cultural background of the Seneca. Abrams has written and produced multiple independent short films and videos for the Seneca Nation\, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum/Onöhsagwë:dé Cultural Center\, and Odawi Law PLLC. He has also produced work in collaboration with PBS-WNED-TV\, Vision Maker Media\, Skipping Stone Pictures\, and Toward Castle Films. Lake of Betrayal (2017)\, the award-winning national public television documentary on which Abrams served as the associate producer\, examines the impact of the Kinzua Dam on the Seneca Nation – a topic much of his work has explored. Abrams’ films have been presented at universities\, historical societies\, libraries\, museums\, high schools\, and community and cultural resource organizations throughout Haudenosaunee Territory and the Northeast. \nThe Spring 2020 session of Workspace Residency is sponsored by Hostel Buffalo-Niagara. \nImage: Caleb Abrams\, The Burning of My Coldspring Home(in-progress)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/representation-in-filmmaking-with-caleb-abrams/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Data and Human Rights: Open Source Research Tools
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 19\, 7–9 pm\nFree; ages 18+ \nThe Syrian Archive develops open-source tools to document human rights violations around the world. Learn about the organization’s practice through a hands-on workshop introducing you to online research techniques. Facilitated by Lead Researcher Jeff Deutsch. A limited number of computers will be available for use\, and we ask that participants bring their laptops if they have one. \nAll participants should download Google Earth Pro and the following image below ahead of the workshop. \n\n \nThe Syrian Archive aims to support human rights investigators\, advocates\, media reporters\, and journalists in their efforts to document human rights violations in Syria and worldwide through developing new open source tools as well as providing a transparent and replicable methodology for collecting\, preserving\, verifying and investigating visual documentation in conflict areas. \nCo-presented with PLASMA at the Department of Media Study\, SUNY University at Buffalo.
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SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings
DESCRIPTION:Special Event | Friday\, February 14\, 7–10 pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\nAges 18+ only. Please review our community guidelines.  \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual Valentine’s day event celebrating intimacy and sexuality returns with a special auditory edition. Listen to headphones filled with ASMR and other tracks by artists Erin Gee and Hope Mora; create a live soundtrack to a new film by Caroline Doherty; sing along to karaoke films by Michael Robinson\, and Wayne Yung\, and enjoy a performance by lyricist and hip hop artist Desiree Kee\, and much more! \nProgram\n7–8 pm: Listen to artist made audio tracks by Hope Mora and Erin Gee on remote headphones\, and sing your heart out with karaoke! \n8 pm: Come together in the microcinema to watch\, listen\, sing\, and vocalize to films by Caroline Doherty\, Dina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, Jess Dobkin\, Lauren Fournier\, Michael Robinson\, Thirza Curthand\, and Wayne Yung! \n9 pm: Gather in the gallery to listen to a performance by lyricist Desiree Kee\, followed by more karaoke! \nAudio Works\nChannel 1\nErin Gee\, of the soone\, 18:39 min\, digital sound\, 2019\nErin Gee leads the listener in a first-person roleplay as a specialist of a new experimental neural treatment: language processing and deprocessing. After a brief testing of equipment and EEG monitoring\, Gee reads out the processes of a long-short term memory algorithm as it “learns” language from the classic book of passions gone awry\, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. This exposure to machined-evolution of linguistic patterns is intended to reset or recalibrate human linguistic patterns in your brain\, offering a form of abstracted\, deep tissue neural “massage”. \nChannel 2\nHope Mora\, Sex With Harmony\, 1:48 min; Basic Need With Dajah\, sound\, 1:21 min; My Neck My Back\, Bell Hooks Love\, and Magic Booty\, 5:03 min\, digital sound\, all 2020 \nScreening program\nThirza Curthand\, Helpless Maiden Makes An “I” Statement\, 6 min\, digital video\, 1999\nBy using clips of evil queens/witches this video plays off the sadomasochistic lesboerotic subtexts commonly found in children’s entertainment. A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual s/m relationship with her lover\, and “evil” queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. This video was inspired by the artist’s own childhood “kiddie porn”\, Disney movies which turned her on to no end and kicked off many a prepubescent masturbation session. \nLauren Fournier\, Sex and Death\, 4 min\, digital video\, 2015\nThe performer re-frames the Freudian tension between eros and thanatos using the feminist tradition of performance for video. She repeats the locution “sex and death and sex and death and sex and death” aloud as she shimmies across the screen. The formal integrity of the loop meets the failures of the body\, as the performer playfully moves across the screen\, trying to catch her breath to continue the spell-like invocation. Sex and death— the drive toward binding (eros) and the drive toward destruction (thanatos)— are configured by Freud to be the two fundamental drives behind Western civilization. In this video\, the Freudian tension is taken up through a floundering\, vaguely sexual performance. The function of humour is something which has been increasingly (re)claimed by Canadian feminist video and performance artists in recent years\, and is something that I find both politically efficacious and formally refreshing. \nJess Dobkin\, It’s Not Easy Being Green\, 3 min\, digital video\, 2011\nA heartfelt and provocative rendition of Kermit the Frog’s melancholic It’s Not Easy Being Green\, where the artist\, in the role of Kermit the Frog\, is fisted by a woman in drag in the role of Jim Henson. Together\, as human puppet and puppeteer\, they lip sync the much loved song. This film is a for-camera version of a performance previously presented to live audiences. For mature audiences. \nDina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, In Queer Corners\, 6 min\, digital video\, 2013\nIn Queer Corners is a collaborative video by Dina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat. The video examines the ways in which archives harbour stories\, those that are spoken\, and those left unsaid. Based on serendipitous encounters\, and employing the language of dreams and desire\, Georgis and Bamboat narrate each other’s stories and address the complications of queer re-tellings. In Queer Corners explores the limits and possibilities of the archive through the theme of narration and storytelling. Working with a found object from the dusty and neglected corners of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archive\, this work explores how archival objects can come to life through their encounter with the present\, with other desires\, and with unexpected responses and meanings.\nThe archive\, if left unexamined\, works authoritatively to construct and stabilize knowledge. Though it selects and gathers signs unconsciously\, what is held within its walls is neither arbitrary nor innocent. In resistance to interpret archival objects into a synchronized story of the past\, In Queer Corners looks to its archival object as an affective placeholder from which new meanings and new stories can be made. The narratives recorded in this work respond to the found image in narrative accounts where the line between dream and reality is distorted. They speak a non-literal truth about desire\, insecurity\, despair\, sex\, race and class\, and the difficulty of uttering and representing these very things. Knowledge itself is vulnerable\, made in relation\, and articulated in broken stories. Reaching for some thing or some place\, the bodies represented tell unfinished narratives. Though the bodies stand alone\, the line between self and other is obfuscated and they depend on each other to tell their stories. \nWayne Yung\, One Night in Heaven\, 5 min\, digital video\, 1995\nIn this queer Asian spoof of karaoke\, a new boy in town discovers the dark side of the big city. The story follows his adventures to an underground club where sex and murder are in store. \nCaroline Doherty\, Rock\, Soft Place\, ~5 min\, digital video\, 2020 \nMichael Robinson\, Hold Me Now\, 5 min\, digital video\, 2008\nPlagued by blindness\, sloth\, and devotion\, a troubled scene from Little House On The Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism. \n \n \nDesiree Kee \n \nDina Georgis and Sharlene Bamboat\, In Queer Corners (2013) \nBios of the artists \nCaroline Doherty is an artist based in Buffalo\, NY. She employs multiple mediums\, including performance\, video\, sculpture\, and public projects. She has participated in residencies including the Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency in Buffalo; the SOMA Summer Program in Mexico City; Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology in Michoacán\, Mexico; and ArtPark in Lewiston\, NY. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America\, in Europe\, and in China. Caroline has been an educator for over 15 years\, facilitating art making for youth\, university students\, and adults in formal and informal settings in the US\, Mexico\, and Canada. \nDesiree Kee is a 25 year old lyricist that was born and raised Queens\, Ny. She moved from NYC to Maryland in 2002 and later relocated to Buffalo\, NY in 2011. She currently has two projects available on her soundcloud which is I AM NOT A RAPPER EP (2017) and This Mixtape Is A Cry For Help (2019) as well as 4 self-directed visuals which can be found on her youtube. \nHope Mora is a visual artist from West Texas\, currently teaching and completing her MFA at The University at Buffalo and holds a BFA from Texas State University in San Marcos. She has shown work in selected gallery and public space exhibitions in Central Texas and Western New York\, such as Mexic-Arte Museum\, Public Art San Antonio\, Anna Kaplan Contemporary\, and The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art. \nThe Love & Sex Show: Sweet Nothings is sponsored by City Wine Merchants and SE2 Silent Disco. \nBanner image: Wayne Yung\, One Night in Heaven (1995).
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Charlie Best & Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Artist talks & Closing | Friday\, February 7\, 7 pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for the closing event of Punctures with artist talks by Charlie Best and Jodi Lynn Maracle. Best will speak about their window installation We Interrupt this Program\, made as “an invitation for confusion and joy\, full of noise\, for trans people.” Jodi Lynn Maracle will share her video work A Song to the Water from a Loving Child which explores generational relationships to and for lands and waters. The artists will be joined by curator Ekrem Serdar for a conversation and Q&A following their presentations. \nCharlie Best is an artist and seamstrix living and working in what is currently known as buffalo\, ny. Picking and choosing between fiber and textiles\, video\, collage\, performance\, and sculpture\, Charlie’s work interrupts transmissions of the gender binary\, lack of imagination\, capitalism\, and other ills lurking in common cultural forms. Richard Scarry illustrations\, men’s shirts\, catholic mass\, and network television are just some of what awaits the cut of the scissors. Charlie is committed to the joys\, lessons\, fears\, and aesthetics of nonbinary imagination practices. They received a bfa in sculpture and expanded media from alfred university’s school of art and design (2018)\, and were the recipient of a fellowship to the cite internationale des arts\, paris\, france. They have exhibited locally and nationally\, most recently at sugar city (buffalo\, ny) with “something from the basement”. The current interests of their practice include the application of anarchist tactics/thoughts/dreams and children’s stories to garment and accessory design\, and the history of VHS. Charlie and collaborator Jaz Palermo are in pre production for their first film\, titled st. tilapia’s school for gayward girls\, which they both hope gets banned somewhere. \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with sound scapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \n\nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nImage: Jodi Lynn Maracle\, A Song to the Water from a Loving Child (2020)
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Threading Histories
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 29\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for Arts Access Pass Holders \nHow do textiles and media speak to individual\, collective\, and social histories? Featuring films by Alta Kahn\, Cydnii Wilde Harris\, Eytan İpeker\, Laura Kraning\, Lesley Loksi Chan\, the Manaki Brothers\, Senga Nengudi\, and Susie Bennally\, the eight films in this group screening include a found-footage film that utilizes Gone with the Wind to explore the cotton industry and transatlantic slavery in the United States; two films made as part of the project Navajo Film Themselves (1966) by Alta Kahn and Susie Bennally; and one of the few films shot in the Ladino language by Eytan Ipeker. With filmmaker Laura Kraning in person who will be present for a conversation and Q&A for her film Language of Memory. \nProgram \nCydnii Wilde Harris\, Cotton: Fabric of Genocide\n4 min\, digital\, sound\, 2018\n“This is a video essay about slavery. Oops. I mean\, cotton.” – Cydnii Wilde Harris \nLesley Loksi Chan\, Curse Cures\n11 min\, digital\, sound\, 2009\n“The arrival of a new worker to a jeans factory causes changes to the rhythms of the workplace. This mysterious narrative integrates personal and collective history with fiction. The visuals were created with both found images and original photography reproduced on acetate sheets which were subsequently sewn together and projected onto a wall and video-taped. This mixed-media work is a reflection on the repetitive labour and materiality of textile work and the im/possibilities for resistance to challenging working conditions.” – Lesley Loksi Chan. Courtesy of Vtape. \nLaura Kraning\, Language of Memory\n3 min\, 16mm on digital video\, sound\, 2009\n“Language of Memory is a hand-processed\, optically printed film composed of rayographs of my grandmother’s still negatives from the early 1900s\, strips of her old lace casting abstract patterns on high contrast film\, and the overlapping gestures of sewing and splicing film\, related techniques historically attributed to women. It is both homage to my grandmother’s creative influence and a deconstruction of memory through fragmentation and the accretion of associations surfacing from the tactile processes of the film’s making.” – Laura Kraning \nSusie Bennally\, A Navajo Weaver\n24 min\, 16mm on digital\, silent\, 1966 \nAlta Kahn\, Second Weaver \n10 min\, 16mm on digital\, silent\, 1966 \nA Navajo Weaver and Second Weaver are two films produced in a workshop in 1966 taught by Sol Worth\, John Adair and Richard Chalfen. They traveled to Pine Springs\, Arizona\, where they taught a group of Navajo students to make documentary films\, including Alta Kahn and her daughter Susie Bennally. In her life\, Kahn was known as a renowned weaver\, and Bennally was an accomplished weaver\, having worked with her mother since the age of eight. \nThe series of films made through this workshop is known as Navajo Film Themselves. Emerging by a critique from the anthropologists that anthropological film had been “dictated by American (or Western) trained eyes and hands and guided by the emotions\, attitudes\, and values of that culture”\, the project nonetheless evinces several colonial presumptions on the part of the instructors. The two films\, which have been shown in venues such as the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Navajo National Museum\, are both depictions of two experienced and skilled weavers (Kahn and Bennally)\, but also open important questions on the nature of ethics\, aesthetics\, and pedagogy. Courtesy of Visionmaker Media. \nSenga Nengudi\, The Threader \n6 min\, digital\, sound\, 2007\n“…The Threader (2007)\, Nengudi shows the moving body actively engaged with sculptural material. Produced from a residency at The Fabric Mills Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia\, this film follows the movements of a worker carefully striding across the factory floor with a collection of threaded spools. His gestures\, practiced movements used in his daily work\, are as seamless as a choreographed dance. She cuts to close ups of his fingers delicately tying thread to a hook and of the swaying metal machinery… the artistry of this work relies on the medium of the moving image to build narrative by cutting to discrete moments\, or exploring the space of the factory itself.” – Simone Krug\, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. Digital file courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery. \nYanaki and Milton Manaki\, The Weavers (also known as Grandmother Despina)\n1 min\, 35mm on digital\, silent\, 1905\nWidely considered to be the first film shot in the Ottoman Empire\, this film shot in the city of Monastir (modern day Bitola\, North Macedonia)\, which was a economic and cultural center of the empire. Originally titled “Our 114-year-old grandmother at work weaving”\, the film and its filmmakers have come to symbolize an enigmatic moment at the turn of the 20th century\, coinciding with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire\, and emergence of the many modern states throughout the region.\n\nEytan İpeker\, Dantelacı (The Lace Peddler)\n18 min\, 16mm on digital video\, Turkish and Ladino with English subtitles\, 2005\n“Adapted from the award-winning short story by Eli Aji\, Dantelacı (The Lace Peddler) depicts traveling lace seller Yasef Efendi as he adjusts to societal changes in 1950s Istanbul.” – Eytan İpeker \n\nThis screening is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
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SUMMARY:Punctures | no idle hands and Hearts and Hands
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 15\, 2019\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nSqueaky Wheel presents an evening of two films that investigate how women have asserted and gained political and social agency through textiles. Featuring Sabrina Gschwandtner’s no idle hands (2008) and Pat Ferrero’s Hearts and Hands (1988)\, this screening coincides with the exhibition of Gschwandtner’s two works on view in the gallery: Hands at Work (for Pat Ferrero) and Hands at Work (for Pat Ferrero) II\, both of which were made with 16mm film prints of films by Pat Ferrero. Sabrina Gschwandtner will be present via Skype to introduce the screening. \nGschwandtner’s no idle hands\, shot of the string-like material of Super 8mm\, is a traveloge film taking viewers on a symbolic journey of the history of knitting. As the artist states\, the title no idle hands\, “historically referred to women pitching in to help the war movement; to the act of keeping busy to avoid unease or unrest\, and to the actions of those who want to stimulate change. This film evokes the latter meaning\, as it depicts women placing textiles within feminist\, queer\, and collaborative art contexts.” The film is followed by Pat Ferrero’s 1988 documentary Hearts and Hands\, which chronicles the lives and quilt making practices of ordinary women as well as individuals such as Harriet Tubman\, Elizabeth Keckley\, Frances Willard and Abigail Scott Duniway through the 19th century. Made over a period of ten years\, and with unprecedented access to historic quilts in both private and public collections\, Ferrero’s film traces the role of quilts in forming communities that speak to abolition\, patriotism\, social justice and settler-colonialism. \nProgram\nSabrina Gschwandtner\, no idle hands\, 9:43min\, Super 8 film transferred to video\, sound\, 2008\nPat Ferrero\, Hearts and Hands\, 60min\,16mm film transferred to video\, 1988 \nPat Ferrero is an independent filmmaker whose work as a producer/director includes Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World\, Hearts & Hands and Quilts in Women’s Lives. These films have won numerous awards\, been screened nationally on cable and PBS\, and have been exhibited at national festivals including Sundance\, New York Film Festival\, National Educational Film and Video Festival\, the Hawaii and San Francisco Internl Film Festivals\, as well as international festivals in Asia\, Latin America\, and Europe. \nSabrina Gschwandtner’s artwork has been exhibited in the United States as well as internationally at institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times\, Artforum\, Modern Painters\, Frieze\, Photograph\, Cabinet\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, Der Standard\, INCITE Journal of Experimental Media\, and on NPR\, among other media outlets and scholarly publications. She has been awarded residencies at Wave Hill (2012)\, the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS\, 2009)\, the Museum of Arts and Design (2009)\, and the MacDowell Colony (2004\, 2007\, and 2016). She recently received a 2019 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; the Mint Museum; Philbrook Museum of Art; Boise Art Museum; Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College; Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation\, and the RISD Museum\, where a series of 12 film quilts is currently on permanent display. In 2015 she was awarded a NY Public Art Project commission for her first public art project\, a large scale photographic collage printed on glass\, which was installed permanently at an elementary school in the Bronx in 2017. She was born in Washington D.C. in 1977 to an Austrian father and American mother. She received a BA with honors in art/semiotics from Brown University. She studied video with VALIE EXPORT in Salzburg\, Austria\, and received her MFA from Bard College. She lived in New York City from 2000 – 2015\, and currently live in Los Angeles\, CA\, where she is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery. \nThis screening is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nBanner image: Sabrina Gschwandtner\, no idle hands\, 9:43min\, Super 8 film transferred to video\, sound\, 2008
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SUMMARY:Threading Roots with Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:January 11\, 12–2 pm\nOpen to youth ages 14+\nFree\nClick here to register \n\n\nThis special youth workshop with visiting artist Betty Yu will encourage the exploration of personal stories and roots in a collective story-telling circle. Participants will learn how to use augmented reality to animate those stories\, and will have the choice to have their works be part of her work\, The Garment Worker\, in the exhibition Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time that is on view at Squeaky Wheel through February 7\, 2020. A limited number of iPad’s will be available\, and we ask that participants bring a smartphone if they have one. \n\nBetty Yu is a multimedia artist\, filmmaker\, educator and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu is a socially engaged multimedia artist integrating documentary film\, new media platforms and community-infused approaches into her practice. Her community-based arts projects have fused together video\, photography\, interactive mapping\, new media\, installation\, augmented reality\, 3-D elements and live projections. Ms. Yu’s documentary Resilience about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Yu’s multi-media installation\, The Garment Worker was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive. She worked with housing activists and artists to co-create People’s Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing that was featured in the Agitprop! show at Brooklyn Museum. Betty was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident and received the 2016 SOAPBOX Artist Award from Laundromat Project. In 2017\, Ms. Yu has been awarded several artist residencies from institutions such as the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Skidmore College’s Documentary Studies Collaborative and SPACE at Ryder Farm. In 2015\, Betty co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade\, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. Betty won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Award for her film Three Tours about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq and their journey to overcome their PTSD. Ms. Yu is a 2017-18 fellow of the Intercultural Leadership Institute. Betty recently had her first solo exhibition\, “(DIs)Placed in Sunset Park” at Open Source Gallery in September 2018 in New York City. This work was also included in 2019 BRIC’s Biennial where her project received an honorable mention in the New York Times. \nThis event is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Betty Yu & Sabrina Gschwandtner
DESCRIPTION:Opening: Friday\, January 10\, 6–9pm\nConversation with Betty Yu and Jasmina Tumbas at 7:30pm\nFree and open to the public\nOn view January 10–February 7\, 2020\n \nThe final exhibition of Punctures brings together two artists in collective considerations of gendered and immigrant work. Betty Yu’s The Garment Worker (2014) is an interactive installation that focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships they encounter working in a sweatshop\, through the integration of a sewing machine\, video\, audio\, and ephemera. Sabrina Gschwandtner’s Hands at Work (for Pat Ferrero) and Hands at Work (for Pat Ferrero) II consist of two of her acclaimed film quilts–gorgeous 16mm film strips sewn\, installed on lightboxes\, and depicting hands at work. \nBetty Yu\, The Garment Worker (2014) \n \nSabrina Gschwandtner\, Hands at Work (for Pat Ferrero)\, 2017. Documentation by Joshua White. \n  \n\nBetty Yu is a multimedia artist\, filmmaker\, educator and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu is a socially engaged multimedia artist integrating documentary film\, new media platforms and community-infused approaches into her practice. Her community-based arts projects have fused together video\, photography\, interactive mapping\, new media\, installation\, augmented reality\, 3-D elements and live projections. Ms. Yu’s documentary Resilience about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at national and international film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Yu’s multi-media installation\, The Garment Worker was featured at Tribeca Film Institute’s Interactive. She worked with housing activists and artists to co-create People’s Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing that was featured in the Agitprop! show at Brooklyn Museum. Betty was a 2012 Public Artist-in-Resident and received the 2016 SOAPBOX Artist Award from Laundromat Project. In 2017\, Ms. Yu has been awarded several artist residencies from institutions such as the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Skidmore College’s Documentary Studies Collaborative and SPACE at Ryder Farm. In 2015\, Betty co-founded Chinatown Art Brigade\, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. Betty won the 2017 Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Award for her film Three Tours about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq and their journey to overcome their PTSD. Ms. Yu is a 2017-18 fellow of the Intercultural Leadership Institute. Betty recently had her first solo exhibition\, “(DIs)Placed in Sunset Park” at Open Source Gallery in September 2018 in New York City. This work was also included in 2019 BRIC’s Biennial where her project received an honorable mention in the New York Times. \nSabrina Gschwandtner’s artwork has been exhibited in the United States as well as internationally at institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times\, Artforum\, Modern Painters\, Frieze\, Photograph\, Cabinet\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, Der Standard\, INCITE Journal of Experimental Media\, and on NPR\, among other media outlets and scholarly publications. She has been awarded residencies at Wave Hill (2012)\, the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS\, 2009)\, the Museum of Arts and Design (2009)\, and the MacDowell Colony (2004\, 2007\, and 2016). She recently received a 2019 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; the Mint Museum; Philbrook Museum of Art; Boise Art Museum; Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College; Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation\, and the RISD Museum\, where a series of 12 film quilts is currently on permanent display. In 2015 she was awarded a NY Public Art Project commission for her first public art project\, a large scale photographic collage printed on glass\, which was installed permanently at an elementary school in the Bronx in 2017. She was born in Washington D.C. in 1977 to an Austrian father and American mother. She received a BA with honors in art/semiotics from Brown University. She studied video with VALIE EXPORT in Salzburg\, Austria\, and received her MFA from Bard College. She lived in New York City from 2000 – 2015\, and currently live in Los Angeles\, CA\, where she is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery. \nJasmina Tumbas (PhD\, Art History\, Duke University) is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History & Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her teaching and research fields focus on modern and contemporary art history and theory\, histories and theories of performance\, body and conceptual art\, art and activism\, feminist art\, critical theory\, and contemporary East European art history. She is currently finishing her first book\, “I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism\, and is also working on a second manuscript\, On Gender Violence and Nationalism In Europe: Feminist Art and Resistance Beyond Citizenship. Her research has appeared inArtMargins\, Camera Obscura: Feminism\, Culture\, and Media Studies\, Art Monthly\, Art in America\, ASAP Journal\, and Art and Documentation\, and in the anthologies Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance\, Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere\, Making Another World Possible – 10 Creative Time Summits\, and Aktionskunst jenseits des Eisernen Vorhangs. Künstlerische Kritik in Zeiten politischer Repression. \nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Jodie Mack’s The Grand Bizarre
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: Due to the weather\, we have postponed the screening of this film to the date below. \nWednesday\, December 14\, 2019\, 3pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nJodie Mack’s feature film The Grand Bizarre (2018) investigates recurring patterns and techniques in textile production and consumption in a global economy through a collage of textiles\, tourism\, language\, and music. Join us for a screening of the celebrated film! \nJodie Mack\, The Grand Bizarre\, 60:30 minutes\, 16mm on digital projection\, color\, sound\, 2018\n“A postcard from an imploded society. Bringing mundane objects to life to interpret place through materials\, The Grand Bizarre transcribes an experience of pattern\, labor\, and alien[-]nation[s]. A pattern parade in pop music pairs figure and landscape to trip through the topologies of codification. Following components\, systems\, and samples in a collage of textiles\, tourism\, language\, and music\, the film investigates recurring motifs and how their metamorphoses function within a global economy.” – Jodie Mack \nThis screening is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/punctures-jodie-macks-the-grand-bizarre/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Kite’s Everything I Say Is True
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 7\, 2019\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nPerformance artist\, visual artist\, and composer Kite will perform a piece integrating dress\, sound\, video\, and emerging technologies with her family’s ephemera and historical documents. Join us for this special performance of Everything I Say Is True\, tied to Kite’s installation in the gallery\, followed by a Q&A with the artist and Jolene Rickard. \nKite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist\, visual artist\, and composer raised in Southern California\, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition\, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School\, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance practice. Recently\, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances\, carbon fiber sculptures\, immersive video & sound installations\, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint\, Unheard Records. \nJolene Rickard is an Associate Professor in the departments of History of Art and Art\, and the Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) at Cornell University\, Ithaca. Her research and artistic practice focus on contemporary Indigenous art\, materiality\, and ecocriticism with an emphasis on Haudenosaunee aesthetics. A selection of publications include: “Arts of Dispossession\,” in From Tierra del Fuego to the Artic: Landscape Painting in the Americas\, Art Gallery of Ontario (2015)\, The Emergence of Global Indigenous Art\, Sakahán\, National Gallery of Canada (2013)\, Visualizing Sovereignty in the Time of Biometric Sensors\, The South Atlantic Quarterly: Sovereignty\, Indigeneity\, and the Law\, 110:2 (2011) and Haudenosaunee Art: “In the Shadow of the Eagle”\, Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art: A Collection of Essays (ERNAS Monographs 3) (2007). Jolene is on the editorial board of American Art\, the Otsego Institute and is part of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF). She co-curated two of the four inaugural exhibitions of the National Museum of the American Indian (2004-2014). Jolene is from the Tuscarora Nation\, turtle clan. \nThis performance is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.
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LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Eniola Dawodu and Kite
DESCRIPTION:Opening\, November 22\, 2019\, 6–9pm\nArtist Talk and Q&A with Eniola Dawodu and Amy Sall at 7:30pm\nOn view through December 22\, 2019\nFree and open to the public \nThe second exhibition of Punctures features two works placed in conversation: Kite’s multi-media installation and performance Everything I Say Is True (2017)\, which considers concepts of truth in relation to Oglala Lakota knowledge systems. Eniola Dawodu’s IRAN SI IRAN (2019)\, funded by the Creative Arts Initiative\, is a newly commissioned textile work which reassembles a fragmented chorus of ancestral African women’s strategic radical overtures toward autonomy and cultural sovereignty. \nJoin us for the opening of the exhibition on November 22nd with artist Eniola Dawodu in conversation with Amy Sall (Founder and Editor-in-Chief\, SUNU: Journal of African Affairs\, Critical Thought + Aesthetics). Artist Kite will be present for a performance of Everything I Say Is True on Saturday\, December 7\, with a conversation between her and Dr. Jolene Rickard. \n \nImage: Eniola Dawodu\, Iran Si Iran (2019). Image by Kaitlyn Lowe. \nEniola Dawodu is a British-born Nigerian based between Dakar\, Senegal and Brooklyn\, NY. She is engaged in the cultural archiving of memories\, methods\, and magic concerning West African textiles and aesthetics of style + self-presentation. Her research and creative practice privilege traditional dress practice\, its motif and methodology\, as potent conduits for cross-generational communication\, situated in the liminal and powerfully charged with legacy and history. With reverence to foremothers\, Dawodu reimagines garments of power as masques within which space is held for the latent narratives of ancestral African experiences. In alliance with master artisans via ancient techniques\, past and present-day collapse into cross-dimensional expression. Woven memoirs unite; a foundation upon which truths are embroidered. \nKite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist\, visual artist\, and composer raised in Southern California\, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition\, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School\, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance practice. Recently\, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances\, carbon fiber sculptures\, immersive video & sound installations\, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint\, Unheard Records. \nA graduate from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences\, Amy Sall holds a master’s degree in Human Rights Studies\, concentrating on the right to development and youth empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. She received her BA in 2012 from The New School University in Culture and Media Studies\, with a concentration in Cultural Studies and a minor in Journalism.  Sall is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs\, Critical Thought + Aesthetics (SUNU Journal)\, a forthcoming publication seeking to amplify emerging voices and perspectives on matters and ideas concerning Africa and the Diaspora. From 2016 to 2017\, she was a Part-time Lecturer in the Culture and Media Studies department of The New School University’s Eugene Lang College\, where she developed and taught two courses: Third Cinema & The Counter Narratives\, and The African Gaze: Postcolonial Visual Culture of Africa & The Social Imagination. She is a 2016 Independent Curators International (ICI) + RAW Material Company Fellow.\nWith a keen interest in cultural studies\, African affairs and artistic expression\, Amy Sall is interested in the ways in which visual culture\, literature\, postcolonial and critical theory inform\, shape and encourage contemporary discourses surrounding the socioeconomic\, political and cultural. She consults for entities engaged in projects\, programming\, exhibitions\, and/or research relating to contemporary African and Afro-diasporic visual culture (specifically photography and cinema). Her consulting also extends to projects and research centered on African/Afro-diasporic theory\, literature and social science. Amy Sall is also a collector of vintage vernacular photography and printed matter coming from Africa and the diaspora (ca. 1950s – 1970s). These Pan-African artifacts are housed in her small\, but growing private collection\, The Sall Collection. The Sall Collection was established with the ideas of cultural preservation and cultural sovereignty in mind. Its existence serves as a means to maintain agency by pushing back against the neocolonial ways of archiving\, collecting\, and disseminating African/Black artifacts. \nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nEniola Dawodu’s exhibition is supported through a residency from the Creative Arts Initiative at the University at Buffalo. Creative Arts Initiative is a university-wide initiative\, dedicated to the creation and production of new work upholding the highest artistic standards of excellence and fostering a complementary atmosphere of creative investigation and engagement among students\, faculty\, visiting artists\, and the community. \nBanner Image: Kite\, Everything I Say Is True (2017). Courtesy of the artist.
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SUMMARY:We Tell: Environments of Race and Place
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 23\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess Pass holders \nWe Tell: Environments of Race & Place is a screening of short\, community made short films focused on issues surrounding immigration\, migration\, and racial identity unique to a specific environment. Including films by Outta Your Backpack Media\, Third World Newsreel\, among others. Don’t miss the Buffalo stop of this nationally touring screening series\, with co-curator Patricia Zimmermann in person for introduction and Q&A. \nProgram \n91 minutes \nSan Francisco Newsreel\, Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)\, black and white\, 15 minutes\, 1967\nBlack Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)\, also known as Off the Pig\, documents the Black Panther Party in 1967. It was one of Newsreel’s most widely distributed films\, made and used by members of the Black liberation movement. It contains a prison interview with Black Panthers’ Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton\, an interview with Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver\, footage of the aftermath of the police assault against the Los Angeles Chapter headquarters\, and political demonstrations supporting Huey Newton’s release from jail. \nMimi Pickering\, Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man\, black and white\, 39 minutes 1975\nOn February 26\, 1972 in West Virginia\, a Pittson Company coal-waste dam collapsed at the top of Buffalo Creek Hollow\, leaving 125 dead and 4\,000 homeless. Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man juxtaposes interviews with survivors\, union and citizen’s groups representatives\, and company officials. Pittson executives knew of the hazard in advance of the flood and that the dam’s structure violated state and federal regulations. Nevertheless\, the Pittston Company denied any wrongdoing\, maintaining that the disaster was an act of God.\n\nMichael Siv and Aram Siu Wai Collier (Spencer Nakasako\, facilitator)\, Who I Became\, color\, 20 minutes\, 2003\nWho I Became is the story of Pounloeu Chea\, a first-generation Cambodian American. In the early 1980s\, he and his family escaped from Cambodia and settled in San Francisco. In 1998\, his father returned to Cambodia\, leaving behind his wife and three sons. In 2002\, his mother joined his father. Since her departure\, Pounloeu was found guilty of driving stolen cars intended for export\, and placed on parole. About to become a father\, he must hold a job and obey the law to avoid being sent to jail or deported to Cambodia.\n\nYusi Brieland El Boujami\, Ned del Callejo\, Ariane Farnsworth\, Shyanna Marks\, Shelby Ray\, and Amber Vigil from the Outta Your Backpack Workshop with Indigenous Youth (Klee Benally\, facilitator)\, Legend of the Weresheep\, color\, 2:45 minutes\, 2007\nIn this short animation\, a sheep drinks water from a toxic factory and turns into a zombie. Legends of the Weresheep was made with hand-drawn images that feature a river next to a factory spewing out black smoke. A herd of sheep graze next to the river. When they drink the polluted water\, toxic symbols are emblazoned on their fur. The film was produced by Indigenous youth participating in a Fall 2009 Media Workshop in Flagstaff\, Arizona conducted by the activist media collective Outta Your Backpack. \nChristi Cooper\, Katie Lose Gilbertson\, Kelly Matheson\, Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery: TRUST Alaska\, color\, 8 minutes\, 2011 \nStories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery is a ten-part series about youth\, law\, and justice. These short documentaries feature the voices of daring youth from across the country who went to court to compel the government to protect our atmosphere in trust\, for future generations. In TRUST Alaska\, seventeen-year-old Nelson Kanuk explains why erosion\, floods\, intense storms\, and permafrost melt\, threaten their homes\, communities\, and culture. Nelson’s story unfolds the human and environmental damage caused by climate change. \nMyron Dewey\, Digital Smoke Signals: Aerial Footage from the Night of November 20\, 2016 at Standing Rock\, color\, 7:06 minutes\, 2016\nFrom April 2016 to February 2017\, Standing Rock Indian Reservation members and environmental activists protested Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline—built to move oil from the North Dakota Bakken oil fields to southern Illinois—with an encampment to protect water\, land\, and Indigenous sacred sites. Myron Dewey of Digital Smoke Signals (DSS) describes drone footage that captures the North Dakota State Troopers\, the National Guard\, and private contractors committing human rights violations against the Indigenous Water Protectors. \n\nThis screening is part of We Tell: Fifty Years Of Participatory Community Media: On the Frontlines of Politics and Place\, 1967-2017\, a nationally touring\, curated screening series that explores and unearths the fifty-year history of participatory community documentary in the United States. It focuses on place-based documentaries that situate their collaborative practice in specific locales and communities. These works embrace and enhance the micro rather than the macro\, moving away from the national to the local and from the long form theatrical feature to the short form of documentary circulating within and across communities and politics. The exhibition of comprised of six thematic programs that probe salient topics emerging in participatory community media. Exhibitors and programmers may select among these different programs\, depending on their needs and programming space. Curated by Louis Massiah & Patricia Zimmermann. \n  \nImage: Christi Cooper-Kuhn\, Katie Lose Gilbertson\, Kelly Matheson\, WITNESS\, Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery: Alaska (2011).
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/environments-of-race-and-place/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Buffalo International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 12\nTickets: buffalointernationalfilmfestival.com \nThe Buffalo International Film Festival returns to Squeaky Wheel for its thirteenth year\, with a special showcase of films by students in our youth education initiatives and a juried selection of films with regional and global perspectives. \n11:30am: Ovacık\n1:30pm: Youth Program\n3pm: Spiral Farm \nThe Buffalo International Film Festival is the region’s premiere celebration of the moving image. BIFF is one of the largest film festivals in New York State outside of New York City\, and is the longest-running film festival in Western New York. BIFF champions local\, national\, and international films that test the limits of independent cinema. Every year\, we present top selections from thousands of submissions to WNY’ers and travellers seeking to explore the great food\, nightlife\, history and adventure that defines Buffalo. BIFF also proudly supports local filmmakers by offering workshops\, seminars\, panels and fiscal sponsorship on a year-round basis.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/buffalo-international-film-festival-4/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Wang Bing’s Bitter Money
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 25\, 2019\, 7pm\n$7 General\, $5 Members\, free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nWang Bing’s celebrated Bitter Money (2016) follows a handful of workers in the city of Huzhou\, home to 18\,000 clothing factories. Capturing them both at work—where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day—and in their off-hours\, this demanding\, rewarding film incisively captures the conditions of the contemporary textile industry. \nWang Bing\, Bitter Money\, 152 minutes\, digital video\, 2016 \nBing has an unreal talent for finding precisely the right way to frame candid moments. —Hyperallergic \nWang’s camera captures the relentless hopelessness of the Chinese low-income working class\, not for us to gawk at\, but for us to experience\, to become a part of it\, and to maybe also understand it.—Frameland\n\nThis screening is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nImage: Wang Bing\, Bitter Money (2016). Special thanks to Icarus Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/punctures-wang-bings-bitter-money/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Punctures | Cecilia Vicuña & Charlie Best
DESCRIPTION:Opening and performance: Friday\, September 20\, 2019\, 6–10pm\nCurator’s talk at 7:30pm\nPerformance by Charlie Best at 9pm.\nCecilia Vicuña on view through November 8\, 2019. Charlie Best on view through February 7\, 2020.\nFree and open to the public. \nThe opening exhibition of Punctures features installations by Cecilia Vicuña and Charlie Best. Vicuña’s lyrical\, three-channel video La Noche de la Especies (2016) on the extinction and rebirth of life is emblematic of the legendary artists long-standing practice in text\, textiles\, and media. Best’s We Interrupt This Program (2019) creates an invitation for confusion and joy\, full of noise\, for trans people. The opening will conclude at 9pm with a performance by Charlie Best\, with performers Amy\, Harper\, Kalub\, Lux\, Robbi\, Seth\, Tabia\, Taylor\, and Vivian. \n \nInstallation view\, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, Contemporary Arts Center NewOrleans\, March 16–June 18\, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin\, New York\, Hong Kong\, and Seoul.Photo: Alex Marks \nIn the gallery\nCecilia Vicuña\, La Noche de la Especies\, graphite on paper with three-channel video animation\, 60 minutes\, sound\, looped\, 2009 \nIn the window gallery\nCharlie Best\, We Interrupt this program\, four digital videos installed on crt monitors\, mixed media\, 5 minutes\, sound\, looped\, 2017–2019 \nCharlie Best is an artist and seamstrix living and working in what is currently known as buffalo\, ny. Picking and choosing between fiber and textiles\, video\, collage\, performance\, and sculpture\, Charlie’s work interrupts transmissions of the gender binary\, lack of imagination\, capitalism\, and other ills lurking in common cultural forms. Richard Scarry illustrations\, men’s shirts\, catholic mass\, and network television are just some of what awaits the cut of the scissors. Charlie is committed to the joys\, lessons\, fears\, and aesthetics of nonbinary imagination practices. They received a bfa in sculpture and expanded media from alfred university’s school of art and design (2018)\, and were the recipient of a fellowship to the cite internationale des arts\, paris\, france. They have exhibited locally and nationally\, most recently at sugar city (buffalo\, ny) with “something from the basement”. The current interests of their practice include the application of anarchist tactics/thoughts/dreams and children’s stories to garment and accessory design\, and the history of VHS. Charlie and collaborator Jaz Palermo are in pre production for their first film\, titled st. tilapia’s school for gayward girls\, which they both hope gets banned somewhere. \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world\, including ecological destruction\, human rights\, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating “precarious works” and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile\, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.” Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem\, an image that morphs into a film\, a song\, a sculpture\, or a collective performance. These ephemeral\, site-specific installations in nature\, streets\, and museums combine ritual and assemblage. She calls this impermanent\, participatory work “lo precario” (the precarious): transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life\, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her paintings of early 1970s de-colonized the art of the conquerors and the “saints” inherited from the Catholic Church\, to create irreverent images of the heroes of the revolution. A partial list of museums that have exhibited her work include: The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; Art in General in NYC; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA\, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. \nThis exhibition is part of Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time. Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other\, Punctures features artists who are invested in the intersections and history of textile practices\, media art\, and critical and liberatory politics\, including trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration\, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems\, and more. The exhibition features installations by Betty Yu\, Cecilia Vicuña\, Charlie Best\, Eniola Dawodu\, Kite\, and Sabrina Gschwandtner\, performances by Charlie Best\, Jodi Lynn Maracle\, and Kite\, and screenings of work by Jodie Mack\, Pat Ferrero\, Sabrina Gschwandtner\, and Wang Bing. Punctures design by Kelly Walters. \nImage: Charlie Best\, We Interrupt This Program (2019). Special thank you to Lehmann Maupin Gallery and Seneca Lake Wine Trail.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/punctures-cecilia-vicuna-charlie-best/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Endless Dreams and Water Between
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 14\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nRenée Green’s Endless Dreams and Water Between is a feature film with four fictitious characters sustaining an epistolary exchange in which their “planetary thought” is woven with the physical locations they inhabit: the island of Manhattan\, the island of Majorca\, in Spain\, and the islands and peninsula that form the San Francisco Bay Area. Connected through ruminations on the 17th century author George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin)\, the characters’ reflections and dreams enact what could be described as “an archipelagic mind\,” linking worlds\, time\, and space. \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 12: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area. \n  \n  \nImage copyright of the artist\, courtesy of Video Data Bank\, www.vdb.org\, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/endless-dreams/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Haudenosaunee Material Culture with Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 10th\, 12–3 pm\nFree and open to the public\nOpen to audiences age 12 and up\, or younger with a parent or guardian\n \n  \nSpace is limited please register here.  \nIn this hands-on seminar\, Workspace Resident Jodi Lynn Maracle will guide participants through a crash course in Haudenosaunee material culture. Participants will work on and practice different corn husk uses and various stages of deer hide preparation while learning about Haudenosaunee aesthetics\, languages\, and histories. The workshop’s goal is to have participants reimagine their relationships to land\, creation\, and shared places through Haudenosaunee languages and material culture in current and future forms. \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher\, and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with soundscapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story-making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site-specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \nSpace is limited please register here.  \n  \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/haudenosauneematerialculture/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Meet our Residents: Dana McKnight\, Dessane Lopez Cassell\, Jodi Lynn Maracle
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 9th\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin Squeaky Wheel for a chance to meet our Summer 2019 Workspace Residents and learn more about their past and ongoing projects in this evening of artist talks\, covering artistic and curatorial approaches to labor & representation as they relate to people of color\, anchored in the geography of the Dominican Republic; speculative black markets and underground communities in our cities east side; and investigations into past and present relationships of Haudenosaunee peoples to the land on which we’ve settled. A brief presentation before the artist talk will update you on how you can take part in the Workspace Residency. \nDana T McKnight is a black\, queer\, multimedia artist currently residing in Austin\, TX. Blending formal studies in Cultural Anthropology (Long Island University\, 2005) and Sculpture (Minerva Kunst Akademie\, Groningen NL) her work lies in a plethora of medium splicing: speculative fiction\, sculpture\, installation\, experimental sound and video\, performance art\, poetry and painting. At the core of Dana McKnight’s work lies a surrealist edge—the real world slowly picked apart through a lens tinted by magical realism and lived experience. Dana McKnight is a founder of Dreamland Art Gallery\, an artist-run contemporary arts and performance space in Buffalo\, NY\, and a Co-Creator for RIQSE (Radical Inclusive Queer Sex Education). In 2016\, she was selected as a Living Legacy Artist by the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She is hood-raised\, but spent several years living in London\, Kyoto\, and Groningen (NL) and travels extensively. \nDessane Lopez Cassell is a curator\, writer\, and film programmer based in New York. She has held curatorial positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem\, The Museum of Modern Art\, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. A former US Fulbright fellow\, Cassell has organized curatorial projects and screenings for Flaherty NYC\, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)\, MoMA Film\, and the Allen. Her writing has been published and is forthcoming in catalogs issued by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Studio Museum\, MoMA\, and Experiments in Cinema. Cassell has produced podcast and radio projects for Bay FM and Creative X (both South Africa)\, and Roskilde Festival (Denmark)\, and she is a 2019 Advisory Committee member at UnionDocs\, in Brooklyn. Her research interests include experimental film\, contemporary practices that draw upon the archival\, and investigations of race\, gender\, and representation. \nBorn and raised in what is currently considered Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, teacher and language learner. Jodi utilizes Haudenosaunee material language and techniques\, such as hand tanning deer hides\, and corn husk twining\, in conversation with sound scapes\, projections\, video\, and performance to interrogate questions of place\, power\, erasure\, story making\, and responsibility to the land. She has shown her work throughout Dish With One Spoon Territory in site specific installation performances such as the Mush Hole Project at the defunct Mohawk Institute Residential School (home of the Woodland Cultural Centre) in Brantford\, ON\, as well as the Gardiner Museum in Toronto\, ON\, Artpark in Lewiston\, NY\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center\, in Buffalo\, NY. Her research as a PhD student at the University at Buffalo focuses on Haudenosaunee material culture\, language\, land and birth practices. Of her accomplishments\, she is most proud to hear her son speak his Mohawk language each day. \nThis event is presented as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The Workspace Residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Open to applicants from Buffalo and across the U.S.\, the residency connects artists and researchers with resources\, time\, and studio space to support the creation of new work or to continue ongoing projects. The residency is offered twice a year: A two-week session that takes place in the month of March\, and a three-week session that takes place in August. The residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. More information about the residency\, and how to apply\, can be found here.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-our-residents-dana-mcknight-dessane-lopez-cassell-jodi-lynn-maracle/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hale County This Morning\, This Evening
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nNominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019\, Hale County This Morning\, This Evening is composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community\, allowing the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South. A visually stunning film which trumpets the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race\, it is a testament to dreaming – despite the odds.\n \nHow does one express the reality of individuals whose public image\, lives\, and humanity originate in exploitation? Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross employs the integrity of nonfiction filmmaking and the currency of stereotypical imagery to fill in the gaps between individual black male icons. Hale County This Morning\, This Evening is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. \nIn the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy\, quotidian moments and the surrounding southern landscape are given importance\, drawing poetic comparisons between historical symbols and the African American banal. Images are woven together to replace narrative arc with visual movements. As Ross crafts an inspired tapestry made up of time\, the human soul\, history\, environmental wonder\, sociology\, and cosmic phenomena\, a new aesthetic framework emerges that offers a new way of seeing and experiencing the heat\, and the hearts of people in the Black Belt region of the U.S. as well far beyond. \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 17: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hale-county/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blissfully Yours
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess pass holders \nThe feature debut of Thai director Apichatpong Weeserakathul\, Blissfully Yours (2002) is an enigmatic\, surprising film that charts a road trip and picnic in a jungle between three people –a Burmese national working in Thailand without documentation\, his girlfriend\, and an older woman. Gestures\, glances\, and a lush landscape  releasing emotions\, superstitions\, and eroticism. This is a transformative summer movie of pop music and naps\, sex and sun through leaves\, and launched the director to international acclaim. \nOne of the best entries at Cannes…with its languid pacing and poetic sense of quiet and gesture\, Blissfully Yours would eventually uncover a world of hope\, possibility and bliss at the crossroads of human connection and aesthetic achievement. – Manohla Dargis (LA Weekly) \n\nThis screening is part of our summer film series\, Three Storms for Summer Eves. These three dreamy films to provide moments to restore\, heal\, and gather strength for the months ahead. Taking place on Wednesday evenings\, we invite audiences to leave work\, join us to find relief in the dark\, and to exit and see the night anew. Feel free to bring pillows. Co-presented with Cultivate Cinema Circle. \nJune 19: Blissfully Yours \nJuly 12: Hale County This Morning\, This Evening \nAugust 14: Endless Dreams and Water Between \nCultivate Cinema Circle is an emerging screening series that aims to help foster a healthy\, fervent film culture in the Buffalo area.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blissfully-yours/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Worldline ⃝ Timeline
DESCRIPTION:With filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in-person\, and a live Skype performance by Dana McKnight\nFriday\, April 5\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\n***A limited amount of free tickets for this screening will be set aside for members of the Black and indigenous community. Click here to claim your ticket.***\n \nSqueaky Wheel presents an evening of films and performances that form a constellation of times and spaces outside of colonial thought. The screening features a live science-fiction Skype performance by artist Dana McKnight; Bryan Oliver Green’s Recurrence Plot: The Family Circle (2018)\, adapted from a short story by Black Quantum Futurism’s Rasheedah Phillips; Amanda Strong’s Mia’ (2015)\, a supernatural stop-motion film of a young Indigenous female street artist who finds ways to root herself within her ancestry; and concluding with John Akomfrah’s essential 1996 film\, The Last Angel of History\, which examines the relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. Join us for a special evening traveling through space and time\, with visiting filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in person. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. Special thanks to Vtape and Icarus Films. \nProgram \n\nMia’ (Salmon)\nAmanda Strong\n8 min\, digital\, sound\, 2015\nA young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. Lacking cultural resources and familial connection within the city\, she paints these images from intuition and blood memory. She has not heard the stories from her Elders lips\, but has found her own methods to re-discover them. The alleyways become her sanctuary and secret gallery\, and her art comes to life. Mia’ is pulled into her own transformation via the vessel of a salmon. In the struggle to return home\, she traverses through polluted waters and skies\, witnessing various forms of industrial violence and imprint that have occurred upon the land. \nMia’ is a hybrid documentary using animation and sound as a vehicle to tell the story of transformation and re-connection. Indigenous people in Canada experienced displacement once commercial trade turned into settlement. Today the urban population of Native people now outnumbers those living on-reserve. Many struggle being disconnected from their land\, rites\, and protocol. This film is not an adaptation or a re-telling of a traditional story but is based in the circular time of\, and passage of\, oral history. Mia’ challenges the notions and format of conventional documentaries and presents Indigenous oral traditions as truth and not myth or legend. (Description courtesy of Vtape.) \n\nRecurrence Plot: The Family Circle\nBryan Oliver Green\, adapted from a short story by Rasheedah Phillips\n16 min\, digital\, sound\, 2018\nA crystal\, memory-storing bracelet transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother’s traumatic death and challenges the notion that time flows in only one direction… \nUntitled live skype performance\nDana McKnight\n~10 min\, 2019 \n\nThe Last Angel of History\nJohn Akomfrah\n45 min\, digital\, sound\, 1996 \nJohn Akomfrah\, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X\, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. \nThis cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction\, estrangement\, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement\, cultural alienation\, and otherness. \nAkomfrah’s analysis is rooted in an exploration of the cultural works of Pan-African artists\, such as funkmaster George Clinton and his Mothership Connection\, Sun Ra’s use of extraterrestrial iconography\, and the very explicit connection drawn between these issues in the writings of black science fiction authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler. \nIncluded are interviews with black cultural figures\, from musicians DJ Spooky\, Goldie\, and Derek May\, who discuss the importance of George Clinton to their own music\, to George Clinton himself. Astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. describes his experiences as one of the first African-Americans in space\, while Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols tells of her campaign for a greater role for African-Americans in NASA. Novelist Ismael Reed and cultural critics Greg Tate and Kodwo Eshun tease out the parallels between black life and science fiction\, while Delaney and Butler discuss the motivations behind their choice of the genre to express ideas about the black experience. \nIn keeping with the futuristic tenor of the film\, the interviews are intercut with images of Pan-African life from different periods of history\, jumping between time and space from the past to the future to the present\, not unlike the mode of many rock videos or surfing the Internet. \nBanner image: John Akomfrah\, The Last Angel of History\,1996. Courtesy of Icarus Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/worldline-timeline/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Workshop: A Children's Book with LIZN'BOW
DESCRIPTION:1:30–3pm\nOpen to youth ages 7-12\nFree to participate.\nClick here to register. \nSqueaky Wheel invites youth ages 7-12 to participate in A CHILDREN’S BOOK with LIZN’BOW! In this new media youth workshop\, the artists and youth will collaborate on a book that expands on ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. Participating young creatives will create drawings\, portraits\, and texts\, exploring identity\, gender\, and feminism. The workshop will conclude with youth participating in a green screen recording/portrait session that will be remixed into the book. \nContact ekrem@squeaky.org with any questions. \nThis workshop is led by LIZN’BOW (Miami\, FL)\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2019 Workspace Residents. LIZN’BOW is a project in which Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. The artists start most of their pieces in a workshop setting. Our workshops focus on providing space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. They usually choose a mainstream cultural format as starting point then deconstruct and experiment from there. LIZN’BOW have worked with The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, En Residencia at the Koubek Center\, Borscht Film Festival\, and Mana Contemporary Miami. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is supported by generous support by the County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts \, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, individual members\, businesses\, and supporters.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/youth-workshop-a-childrens-book-with-liznbow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Workspace Presentations: Alison Nguyen and LIZN'BOW
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 22\, 7pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin us for a night of artist talks by Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2019 Workspace Residents Alison Nguyen and Liz Ferrer & Bow Tie. Nguyen will speak of her multimedia installation work which draws from home movies\, social media\, soft pornography\, and videos created by religious cults/extremists and explores the porous visual relationships between domestic intimacy\, terror and technology. Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie will be speaking on their project LIZN’BOW\, often featuring youth and utilizing technology and community building exercises to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. \nBios of the artists \nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist working in video and installation. She received her B.A from Brown University\, Providence\, RI. Nguyen’s work has been screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival\, True/False Film Festival\, Crossroads presented by SF Cinemateque/SF MoMA\, San Diego Underground Film Festival\, Microscope Gallery\, Tai Kwun Contemporary\, Leeds International Film Festival\, Unseen Film Festival\, L’Alternativa\, Marfa Film Festival\, San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects\, Traverse Vidéo\, Palace Film Festival\, Outpost Artists\, and Zumzeig Cine. Her work has been exhibited at Centre Des Arts Actuels Skol\, The University of Oklahoma\, BOSI Contemporary\, and Satellite Art Show\, Miami. She has participated in group performances at The Whitney Museum of Art: Dreamlands Expanded\, The Parrish Museum\, and Mana Contemporary (in collaboration with Optipus). Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, Signal Culture\, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from NYSCA and The New York Community Trust. \nLIZN’BOW is a project in which Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. The artists start most of their pieces in a workshop setting. Our workshops focus on providing space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. They usually choose a mainstream cultural format as starting point then deconstruct and experiment from there. LIZN’BOW have worked with The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, En Residencia at the Koubek Center\, Borscht Film Festival\, and Mana Contemporary Miami.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/workspace-presentations-alison-nguyen-and-liznbow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Conflicted Image with Alison Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 20 th\, 6-8pm \n$10 Non-Members / $7 Members \nContact kevin@squeaky.org for registration or complete the registration form here. SPACE IS LIMITED! \n\nJoin us for an experimental media workshop led by Workspace resident artist Alison Nguyen. The workshop will explore strategies of critique\, homage\, voyeurism\, parody\, deconstruction\, and fragmentation in works that have appropriated found footage while also teaching participants how to make their own short works using found footage.\n\n\n \n\n\nA beginners knowledge of video editing is required.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe workshop will be divided equally between screenings\, discussion\, and practical explorations. Each participant will be given a thumb drive of heterogeneous found footage as a starting point\, and they will produce their own investigations through a variety of manipulations and interventions using editing\, re-filming\, and projection processes.\n\n\n \n\n\nSpace is limited please contact kevin@squeaky.org for registration.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced\, disseminated\, and consumed within the current media landscape\, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent\, she re-articulates mainstream cinematic language in unsettlingly seductive installation\, video\, and sculptural works.\n\n\n \n\n\nAlison Nguyen received her B.A. from Brown University. She has presented work at Ann Arbor Film Festival; CROSSROADS by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, among others. She has received residencies and fellowships from The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, and Signal Culture. In 2018\, Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/conflicted-image/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Gender + The Non-Binary
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 16\, 2–7pm\nFree and open to the public\nCoffee\, refreshments\, research\, and guidance provided. Email ekrem@squeaky.org for childcare requests.\nRSVP Here \nJoin us for the global do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia. \nAs Art+Feminism enters its sixth year of worldwide activities\, they announce an evolution of their project: Gender+ The Non-Binary. This focus breaks apart “the myth that people are only as valuable as their adherence to gendered stereotypes – only as honorable as their ability to fit into one of two categories: assigned girl at birth or assigned boy.” \nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a day of learning\, and bringing to light histories unknown while impacting the world’s dictionary. Research materials\, coffee\, and food will be provided. Onsite childcare is available by request for those who RSVP by March 13th. \nSupported by Buffalo State University’s Women & Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Minor\, UB Departments of Art and the Department of Media Study\, and the Wikimedia Foundation. \nImage credit: Detail of Wendy Red Star\, Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance)\, 2019. This artwork was produced for the 2019 Art+Feminism Call to Action Art Commission.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-gender-the-non-binary/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Love & Sex Show: Play with Me
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 15\, 7pm\nGeneral Admission: $10\n*Limited Online only* Threesome Special: 3 Tickets for $25\nFree with ArtsAccess Pass\nClick here to buy your tickets \nThis event is for ages 18+\n \nSqueaky Wheel’s annual erotica bash\, the Love & Sex Show returns\, with a special video game edition curated by Toronto-based Dames Making Games (DMG)! Featuring a lusty\, critical line-up of independent video games that include dating simulators\, coop play-a-longs\, and more\, DMG representatives Izzie Colpitts-Campbell and Jennie Faber will lead group playthroughs\, and highlight works by milkymilkface\, Maxwell Lander\, Robert Yang\, Spooklight games\, and other games that explore how we navigate and understand intimacy. Come\, play\, and flirt! \nDress up in cosplay to enter a costume contest sponsored by Evergreen Health! \nBanner image: Pretzel After Dark by milkymilkface
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/love-sex-show-play-with-me/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction\nBlack Magnolias x Black Quantum Futurism\nSaturday\, February 9\, 2019\, 2–5pm\nFree and open to the public\n \nWhat if your future dreams for society became the dominant narrative for hope in the present? How do we imagine a more liberated future for ourselves? This discussion group and creative workshop led by Black Magnolias will use speculative fiction–Afrofuturism\, science fiction and fantasy–as a tool to create new worlds of hope and change. Participants will be engaged in using ideas of limitless technology\, fantasy\, and science to rewrite the world and walk away with a sci-fi story that replaces negative narratives with possibility and power. \nResponding to a newly commissioned essay by Rasheedah Phillips written for the exhibition by Black Quantum Futurism\, this three hour workshop will be accompanied by presentations\, short films\, and free coffee. Pens and writing materials will be provided. \nInitiated by Marielle Smith and Richmond Wills\, Black Magnolias was created as a creative space to share\, build and develop a strong community of writers of color. This transient workshop series responds to a need for space for Black & Brown\, Queer and LGBT+ writers of all platforms and extend the invitation to those that belong to this community. This event is open to participants ages 14 and up. \nMarielle Smtih is a Buffalo native and mother of two\, who enjoys writing and performing poetry\, essays\, and folklore that are reflective of her life experience and ancestry as a queer Black person. Marielle has been organizing with Just Resisting since 2016\, a people of color community organization that focuses on social justice. She believes one of the greatest acts of resistance is finding healing through artistic expression. She currently co- facilitates Black Magnolias\, a Black and people of color creative writing workshop with Richie Willis. \nRichmond Wills (He/Him) is a poet\, storyteller and cultural organizer currently based in Buffalo New York. He co-founded Black Magnolias\, an ongoing creative workshop series targeting black/brown inner-city populations. He also coordinated outreach for Words on the Street\, an initiative to make literary arts more accessible to disenfranchised communities. From being a social justice activist with Black Love Resist in the Rust\, a not for profit grassroots organization currently involved in a lawsuit against the city of Buffalo over illegal checkpoints to being a sexual health advocate and tour de force for youth who identify as LGBT+\, Richmond hopes to mobilize and grow with Black & Brown communities to work towards collective solidarity and liberation. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. \nBanner image by Richmond Wills.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/futurism-now/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM
DESCRIPTION:ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\nOpening January 25\, 2019\, 7–9pm\nConversation between Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) and Ineil Quaran at 7:30pm\nOn view through April 20\, 2019\, Tue–Sat\, 12–5pm\nFree and open to the public \nClick here to download the brochure\, featuring Activating Retrocurrences and Reverse Time-Bindings in the Quantum Now(s)\, a new essay by Rasheedah Phillips. \nHow can one examine the unknown? How is this unknown shaped by its temporal realities? How does one resist\, recover\, when facing the erasure of memory? This may involve a reinvestigation and uncovering of hidden histories\, and a hacking into future histories where they have already been erased. \nUtilizing collage\, video\, text\, and sound installations\, this exhibition by Philadelphia-based Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother\, and Rasheedah Phillips aka The Afrofuturist Affair) draws from quantum physics\, speculative fiction\, and Black/Afro-diasporan cultural traditions of observing time and space. The works aim to break free into the unknown futures of past selves\, and to honor the ritual casualties and philosophies of Black ancestry\, culture\, and spirit. \nJoin us at Squeaky Wheel on Friday\, January 25th at 7pm for the opening reception of the exhibition and a conversation with Moor Mother at 7:30pm. \nPublic Programs\nFebruary 9\, 2–5pm | Futurism Now: Limitless Hope through Speculative Fiction: Discussion and Creative Writing Workshop\nApril 5\, 7pm | Worldline ⃝ Timeline: Screening of John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History\, and work by Dana McKnight and Amanda Strong \nBios of the artists and contributors \nBlack Quantum Futurism is an interdisciplinary creative practice between Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips that weaves quantum physics\, afrofuturism\, and Afrodiasporic concepts of time\, ritual\, text\, and sound to present innovative works and tools offering practical ways to escape negative temporal loops\, oppression vortexes\, and the digital matrix. BQF has created a number of community-based projects\, performances\, experimental music projects\, installations\, workshops\, books\, short films\, zines\, including the award-winning Community Futures Lab. BQF Collective is a 2018 Solitude x ZKM Web Resident\, 2017 Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow\, a 2017 Pew Fellow\, 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellow\, and a 2015 artist-in-residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange. The Collective has presented\, exhibited\, or performed at Red Bull Arts NY\, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion\, Philadelphia Art Museum Perelman Building\, MOMA PS1\, Bergen Kunsthall\, Le Gaite Lyrique\, MOFO Festival\, and more. BQF Collective frequently collaborates with other Black Futurists Joy KMT\, Irreversible Entanglements\, Thomas Stanley\, and Metropolarity to produce literature\, present workshops\, lectures\, and performances. \nIneil Quaran is an afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist and ghetto organizer born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Through his fine art and multimedia collages he recreates memories and dreamscapes incorporating themes of self-preservation\, Black celebration\, imagination\, and grief. He developed his skill by blocking-out neighborhood sidewalks with chalk drawings and studying digital tutorials. Institutionally he attended Buffalo Academy of Visual Performing Arts and briefly\, Villa Maria College majoring in animation. Growing up Ineil indulged in: Walt Disney animations\, climbing trees\, the epics of ancient religions and folklore\, anime\, early 2000’s hip hop and R&B\, science fiction adventure\, and his gullah/geechee heritage.\nIn 2014 he co-owned\, graphic design business and zine distributor\, VENT. Soon after in 2015 he co-founded D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment)\, a Black youth-led anti-oppressive arts organization that aims to strengthen local resources for creative and exploited communities which resists through art forms and arts movements considered: white-washed\, extreme\, stigmatized\, political\, and/or experimental.\nIneil Quaran is now developing work for his first solo art show and is continuing to cultivate resources supporting the East Side\, melaninated creatives\, and all the black and brown *QTs! \nBanner image courtesy of Black Quantum Futurism.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/blackquantumfuturism/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 2\, 2018\n2–4pm\nFree and open to the public \nJoin members of Decolonize this Place\, Amin Husain\, Amy Weng and Marz Saffore\, along with Jodi Lynn Maracle and Caitlin Blue\, for an afternoon of discussion on the urgency of decolonization\, and exploring strategies\, tactics\, and art-making in the struggle for freedom and liberation in Buffalo. Moderated by Nitasha Dhillon. This event is presented on the occasion of The North is a Lie\, on view through December 15\, 2018. \n\nAs a historian and researcher\, Caitlin Blue is focused on making history accessible to the public. Her interests include the African Diaspora in Early Modern Europe\, decolonization\, and repatriation of historical artifacts. Studying through the lens of decolonization\, Caitlin recognizes that it is an ongoing process because colonization continues to happen today. Caitlin currently works as a Visitor Specialist at the new Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In the fall of 2019\, she hopes to be at the University at Buffalo pursuing her Master’s degree in History so she can eventually go on to get her PhD. Professionally\, Caitlin wants to end up working in a university setting. \nAmin Husain has a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science\, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law\, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. He practiced law for five years before transitioning to art\, studying at the School of the International Center of Photography and Whitney Independent Study Program. Nitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Together\, Amin and Nitasha are MTL Collective\, a collaboration that joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action in its art practice. MTL is a founder of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, and most recently MTL+\, the collective facilitating Decolonize This Place\, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, NY\, Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother\, artist\, scholar and activist currently pursuing her dreams of building her Kanien’keha language proficiency. She received her MA from the University of Buffalo while completing the first year of a Mohawk immersion program in Buffalo\, NY. As an artist\, Jodi has shown work throughout Dish with One Spoon territory working primarily in textile and earth based installations invoking Haudenosaunee material forms and language combined with modern forms of making to interrogate multiple experiential realities of specific locations and landscapes. She works as a consultant and presenter with many arts organizations and academic institutions to foster greater understanding of Haudenosaunee philosophies\, languages\, material culture and contemporary realities. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Buffalo. Of her many accomplishments\, she is most proud of hearing her son excitedly speak his Mohawk language each day. \nMarz Saffore is an artist\, organizer\, and educator born and raised in Richmond\, Virginia. In 2015\, she earned her B.A. in Studio Art and Film & Media Studies from University of Rochester\, and she earned her M.F.A. in Studio Art from NYU in 2017. Her multimedia art practice blurs the line between that which is art/culture\, political/personal\, and private/public through video\, performance\, and installation. Marz is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a group of artists\, writers\, and educators who combine research and aesthetics in political action. MTL+ Collective founded and facilitates Decolonize This Place\, a collaboration between cultural producers and political organizers across struggles and borders. This Fall\, Marz returned to New York University (NYU) for her 4th semester of teaching and her first year as a PhD student in Media\, Culture\, and Communication. \nAmy Weng has a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College\, and a M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University. While working in early childhood education\, she participated in group art exhibitions and performances in Brooklyn and Berlin through Lucky Gallery\, now known as De-Construkt Projekts. She has organized with A New World in Our Hearts\, Occupy Sandy\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Asians for Black Lives – NYC and Justice for Akai Gurley Family. She is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a f She is also a member of MTL+ Collective\, a facilitating group of Decolonize This Place\, a decolonial\, action-oriented movement that centers Indigenous struggle\, Black liberation\, free Palestine\, wage workers and de-gentrification. \nBanner image: Decolonize This Place\, Anti-Columbus Day Tour: Decolonize This Museum\, digital video\, 2016
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/decolonizing-institutions/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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