Celebrate Thanksgiving Eve with artists, poets and musicians from Erie, Buffalo, Chicago, Boulder and New York. Projections and performances fill FEED with 7000 square feet of immersive experiences in a century -old anchor building in the heart of Erie's Downtown ARTs District. Food and drink and more delights for your pre-holiday pleasure!
lonesav * Todd Paropacic * ( ) aka Jeremy D. Slater * Mary Elias Letera * Stephan Moore + Jen Boles * Liquid Light Factory * William Laziza * a. Ilyas Abukar * Anisha Baid * Ate Von Hes * Erie African Dance * STIM CITY COLLECTIVE
Catered by Chef Justice Korbie chefjkorbie.com
Pop up bar by Cellar 54: non-alcoholic drinks gratis, wine by the glass or bottle for purchase cellar54wines.com
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Stephan Moore + Jen Boles: Westinghouse
Guests are invited for scheduled viewings of our visiting artists' work in progress. Westinghouse is a sensorial multi-channel sound and video installation that combines actuality films of Westinghouse Works factories from the early 20th century, spatialized sound, and an interactive environment. Reanimating the archive 120 years after their original exhibition at the St. Louis World's Fair creates an immersive yet otherworldly encounter that questions the “past” as past and asks viewers to consider their relationship to time, technology, resources, and ways of seeing as embodied and transhistorical.
Jen Boles is a filmmaker and artist whose work bridges experimental, documentary, art installation, and history and examines connections between archives, landscapes, time, labor, extraction, and ecology.
She received a Ph.D. in History at Indiana University in 2015 and an MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern University in 2019. She is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University where she teaches photo history, film studies, history, and theory, and documentary and experimental film production in the undergraduate program and the MFA Program. https://www.jenboles.net
Stephan Moore is a sound artist, designer, composer, improviser, programmer, engineer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvisational outbursts, sound installations, scores for collaborative performances, algorithmic compositions, interactive art, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. He teaches in the Sound Arts and Industries program at Northwestern University. https://oddnoise.com
Mary Elias Letera will perform a live audiovisual set using synthesized sounds, beats, and projection for an ethereal experience.
Mary Elias Letera (Boulder, CO) is a Lebanese-American artist who came of age in the rust belt during the time of 9/11. With no clear identity owing to her mixed-race background, she explores with her work the themes of identity, alienation, finding belonging, and dissolving the perceived boundary between Self and Other. She is a music producer, visual artist, programmer, esotericist, and dancer who merges these art-forms into multi-sensory experiences inviting audiences to get lost and found again.
a. Ilyas Abukar is a Somali-born artist and scholar exploring the intersection of technology and culture through the medium of new media. His work is deeply informed by his firsthand experience of statelessness and the role technology played in everyday life in the camps after the Somali Civil War and his subsequent resettlement in Pennsylvania as a refugee, developing a life-long fascination with technology's profound impact on daily life. As the current Feed media gift-shop artist in residence, Abukar presents "TV Repairman," a project that probes the cultural assumptions embedded in our technological landscape.
TV Repairman is a functional website built entirely from scratch – no templates, no platforms, just pure code and design. Over 30 days, the artist embarked on a journey of exploration, utilizing AI assistants, books, and conversations to inform the process. This website, created within the constraints of everyday life and obligations, serves as a commentary on our often superficial and misunderstood relationship with technology. We interact primarily with inputs and outputs, remaining oblivious to the complex inner workings and the effort required to create it. This can foster uncritical reliance on technology and a lack of awareness regarding its potential consequences. By acknowledging the complexities and limitations of technology, we can become more discerning consumers and engage with it in a more informed and equitable manner.
FEED Gift Shop AIR a. Ilyas Abukar curates an installation of Anisha Baid: Self Portrait As Tech Support and Two Clicks
Anisha Baid: Self Portrait As Tech Support, 2022 (Silicone Mousepads, edition of 50)
An artist-made product where a webcam photograph is reproduced on a series of editioned foam mouse pads designed to help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and wrist pain. The work appropriates a digital vernacular culture of anime characters’ bodies appearing on similar ergonomic mouse pads, replacing it with a low-resolution image of the artist in her studio, as her practice attempts to investigate the interface through the lens of computer pain. The mousepads are available for purchase.
Anisha Baid: Two Clicks, 2019 (Video, 4:22)
Two Clicks is a found footage video, tracing the gesture of clicking across various media and cultural associations. The “click” functions firstly, as an onomatopoeic word, being applied to various events and situations that involve the click sound. Using the form of a click – a touch that transforms its object into another surface, the video work unfolds in layers of clicks. The video starts with Miriam Makeba's iconic 'click' song as a representation of resistance to racial violence and ends on a clip from the 1962 film, “The Longest Day” where an American soldier is fooled by the sound of a locking gun. Viewed today, on the surface of the interface, the click carries this poetic and immediate symbol of the socio-political histories of many common-place technologies.
Anisha Baid is an artist and writer from Kolkata, India, currently pursuing an MFA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Through her practice and research, she investigates the intersection of computer interfaces, corporate culture, and gendered labor. She works with found and archival material to construct narratives that move between fiction and documentary. Her work attempts to poke at the flat-scapes of the computer screen to decode computer labor through the interface - technology that has moved most work into image space. Her work has been shown in international exhibitions including Mind Over Matter at Technical Collections, Dresden (2020), Dreams.exe at Terrain gallery, New Delhi (2021) and View India at Landskrona Foto Museum. Anisha is a recipient of the Inlaks Fine Art Award (2021) and has received the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) Artist’s Production Grant (2021), BangaloResidency expanded (2020) grant from the Goethe Institut, Bangalore as well as the Women and Intersectionality (2019) Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
Ate Von Hes: Found Family is a video portrait project that reimagines identity through a collage of diverse facial features, creating new faces from found fragments. Inspired by the notion of inclusivity, Found Family offers a pataphysical response to those who feel overlooked or left out. Merging unique parts into wholly new characters and connections, each video portrait becomes a celebration of individuality and shared human identity. Feast your eyes on a collection of faces that are both distinct and totally familiar!
Jeremy D. Slater: ( ) Instrument is an ambient/reactive video performance made with field recorded sound and video from FEED and Erie's Downtown ARTs District. Notes on the guitar trigger video clips. ( ) instrument is a reactive video system, part of an ongoing exploration of video instruments.
( ) aka Jeremy D. Slater is an intermedia artist and composer working in sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. He was born in Reading, England and a graduate of SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live video that is ambient and sometimes interactive/reactive. His sound work uses field recordings as a base to create compositions with guitar, objects, and other instruments. Video work includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He's curated numerous performance events and gallery shows in New York including “A Sound Show” at Front Room Gallery, the sound/video performance series “kere.u” and “FLOW”, “Sun Khronos” at Millennium Film Workshop, and “Video as an Instrument” at The Tank and Supreme Trading Gallery, and "sonic front", a series exploring electroacoustic improvisation, electronic music, and sound art. He has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan. http://www.jeremyslater.net
Todd Paropacic presents abstract portraiture throughout the FEED galleries. All in all, it goes back to surreality, back and back to surreality. Let it speak with silent voices, in languages which have never formed. Todd Paropacic is a multi-disciplinary artist based out of Erie, PA who works in digital painting, music, and poetry. But at FEED, he's been mainly digging into his digital painting.Toddcreates from a place of inner quiet, allowing his stylus to guide the goopy shapes that constitute his portraiture. He feels through rather than thinks through his visual work, and often does not paint with a concept other than that of abstract portraiture. In the past,Todd has branched out into figure drawing, still life, and representational backgrounds, but this residency has drawn him back into his zone; that of the abstract and indescribable.
LONESAV: WINTER COLLECTION AT FEED 2024 is comprised of 4 brand new works by Erie PA Artist, Alex LONESAV Staley. "This collection of works is inspired by a recent exhibition I saw at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles this summer. LUMEN: THE ART OF SCIENCE AND LIGHT is an exhibition that explores the ways that the science of light was studied by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers, theologians, and artists during the 'Long Middle Ages'. Artists of that time often symbolized light as enlightenment. As a media artist who primarily shows my works on projectors, a device that uses light to show images, I felt connected to this period of art."
FRACTALS, 2024 (blender) sits in the left side of the Pit Gallery at feed, a work that is only viewable from sidewalk of state street. The viewer has to look through glass, ultimately looking through a reflection of themselves to view this piece.
BABY JESUS, 2024 (blender, after effects) is an homage to religious artists of the Long Middle Ages; a contemporary take on imagery we associate with Jesus Christ. The piece towers 30 feet high above the ground to create a modern iconography.
SCAN YOUR SOUL, 2024 (premier pro, after effects) is inspired by cyberpunk and Electric Sheep. This piece challenges BABY JESUS in that it suggests souls are more digital than spiritual. This large scale work hypnotically scans the audience, inviting the viewer to reflect on their inner self.
COLLABORATION, 2024 (touch designer) uses the infrared sensor from a Kinect2 to capture the silhouette of the viewer, imposing them into the artwork and making them one with the piece. Through this process, the viewer is able to collaborate with the artist to create an always changing, live art work.
Nathaniel Hale Garnon is an Erie-born artist, active around the globe. Garnon works in many mediums; for Thanksgiving Eve, he will present an installation of his new film basementand play live violin solos. The theme of the night: "Forced Intensity".
Erie African Arts presents Erie African Dance: over a dozen young dancers from Africa performing traditional and contemporary movement.
Starting at 9PM, STIM CITY COLLECTIVE throws a DJ/VJ rave! Let's get those little turkey legs waddling and experience Thanksgiving Eve like never before!
DJs: lonesav + MoonEyes | VJ: KellyKillz
The rave will also be livestreamed at stimcity.bandcamp.com