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Online Premier and Conversation: The Great Acceleration by Victoria Keddie

TRT 13 min; color Directed, Sound Design, and Produced by: Victoria Keddie This work looks into the media ecology of the late Anthropocene with a focus on technological systems of looking, paired with human ways of seeing, memory, and neurological response.

Victoria Keddie (b.1980) is an artist working in varying media and broadcast. For over a decade, Keddie has been the Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a 501(C)3 nomadic TV studio, and episodic cable access serial, that hybridizes technologies to realize synthetic environments and deconstruct the televisual for live performance. For over three years, the Co-Founder and Director of Poet Transmit, a project developed to explore the connections between poetry, transmission, and performance. Keddie teaches Advanced Televisual Broadcast and has written on pioneering/contemporary artists using televisual language within their work. She has lectured extensively as a guest artist exploring topics of polymedia, immersive worlds, and in identifying broadcast as a medium., Keddie has been an invited resident artist at the Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York/US); Recess Gallery (New York/US); AZ Wagon Station Encampment (California/US); Signal Culture (New York/ US); Pioneer Works (New York/ US); WaveFarm (New York/ US); and Yaddo Artist Residency(New York/ US); Saari Fellow with The Kone Foundation (Mynämäki, Finland), and The Drawing Center from 2018-2020 (New York/ US). Some projects explored on these particular residencies involved the building of a physical studio environment to produce and document live performance; the re-appropriation of a retail storefront into a simulated environment for free exchange; immersive mapping and sounding space debris, and generating musical responses to brain activity in unconscious states.

Performance by STEFA*

We hope you will join us for a special performance by STEFA* (This performance is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) A VOCAL ARTIST BORN, RAISED AND CURRENTLY LIVING IN QUEENS, SHE CONSTRUCTS VOCAL UNIVERSES WITH TRACES OF CHORAL MUSIC, CLASSICAL MINIMALISM, AND ELECTRONIC BEATS. Inspired by STEFA*’s family and secrets that are still only partially revealed, Sepalina tells the tale of a native alien and how she came to inhabit this planet, washed up on shore in the present, stripped of her memories and her language. “My mother recently uncovered things about my grandmother’s life that has shocked the entire family – she’s become this mystery character who can't speak for herself because she’s gone, and so everyone is trying to piece together her story. I was told my indigenous side comes from her, so I started researching the tribe she was from, the Emberá-Chamí.” She describes: “I felt I had to go back in time in order to begin to understand my present. I started looking up anything I could find online of the Emberá people — chants, songs — I found one and tried transcribing what they were singing, listening and writing down whatever vowel sounds and phrases I could hear forming – and so I transcribed ‘Sepalina’.” “THE TITLE TRACK ‘SEPALINA’ IS MY PROTEST SONG, MY SONG FOR THE REVOLUTION. I WAS LIVING IN BUSHWICK WHEN I WROTE IT, AND SO MUCH WAS HAPPENING AROUND ME – VIOLENT GENTRIFICATION, POLICE BRUTALITY AND COUNTLESS PROTESTS AGAINST ALL THAT. "There’s this Pablo Neruda quote that translated into English says: You can cut all the flowers but you can’t keep Spring from coming.’ I thought of all these uprisings around the world and the fact that we are no longer okay with being oppressed or marginalized. "We have enough language, knowledge and ways to spread information around that we’re becoming stronger – that’s what they’re so afraid of, the governments and these powers. And so that was the connection that I made between those worlds – and Sepalina – but I don’t know what it means. I haven’t given it a direct narrative.” Growing up, STEFA* sang in choir and had profound experiences blending her voice with groups: “I’d sing these very epic pieces as a 15 year old girl. When I started going into my solo work, I wanted to replicate that feeling I had when I was in a chorus and I was singing one harmony line and there were four other lines around me and 80 other voices and yet, it felt like one voice. So that’s how I got into looping and harmonizing with myself. I thought, how do I just rely on myself and how do I become this chorus and this orchestra of voices? With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports both local and national artists while enriching the Tulsa community. Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a George Kaiser Family Foundation initiative.

Cinetelechy II

CINETELECHY is an ongoing film series curated by Atomic Culture with the support of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. The first series is co-curated by Blackhorse Lowe. CINETELECHY, observes a distinct type of filmmaker, their motivation to re-examine and re-imagine narratives, the need for self-determination; having both a personal vision and the ability to actualize that vision from within. Each night will screen a feature length film accompanied by film trailers, shorts, and video art highlighting indigenous, local, and emerging filmmakers. This screening will be free and open to the public. Youth 17 & under should be accompanied by an adult. You must have an FM Radio to hear the sound. We welcome people with disabilities. For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email [email protected] or call 918.591.2461. Requests should be made at least one week prior to the event. CURRENCY | 2:23 min loop | Dir. Crystal Z. Campbell | 2019 Performer: ANGELA RENEE DAVIS Videographer: DAVID WAYNE REED UNA CASITA | 3:48 min | STEFA* from her debut EP Sepalina Dir. Tatiana del Fuego ** PERFORMANCE BY STEFA, NOVEMBER 9TH, 8PM AT TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP ARCHER BUILDING ROOF ** MY SOUL REMAINER | 5:40 min | Laura Ortman Dir. Nanobah Becker Featuring Jock Soto EMPTY METAL | 83 min | Dir. Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer *Film will be presented by Adam Khalil EMPTY METAL reveals a political fantasy, an alternative reality whose characters teeter on the dull knife edge that is contemporary American politics, but they refuse to fall right or left. Instead, they lash out from the soul, and under the radar, in an attempt to achieve what their mainstream predecessors have yet to accomplish. EMPTY METAL is a war movie without a war, a nightmare you are ashamed to admit was actually a dream. With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports both local and national artists while enriching the Tulsa community. Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a George Kaiser Family Foundation initiative.

Bring your friends Saturday! Support the relief and recovery efforts in CDMX and Puebla. #fuerzamexico We understand there has been some controversy with Topo so we are looking for alternative organizations to donate the proceeds to. We will send information about where all the proceeds were donated to once we verify them. (at New York, New York)

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Human Nature: Sonic Botany by Guillermo Galindo. #pstlala (at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens)

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Opening tomorrow @opensourcegallery Image caption: "Ernesto Bautista, New Promises/Nuevas Promesas, 2012, intervention project on trucks crossing the U.S. border Those who left. Those who got lost. Those who arrived. Those who stayed. Those who came back." The Fire Theory presents ICE, an exhibition, residency and collaborative project curated by Omar López-Chahoud at Open Source Gallery. Immigration has been a cornerstone of the identity of the United States since its inception and the “American Dream” has been an often unattainable, yet inspiring dream for millions of immigrants from all over the world. Currently, racism and xenophobia limits the immigration that has made this country great, endangers immigrants and makes the path to citizenship inaccessible. I.C.E is the United States agency that is responsible for the border control, trade, immigration, deportation programs and as its name indicates, it generates a situation of freezing, a stand by between families, friends, on both sides of the border. The Fire Theory is an El Salvador-based art collective formed by Víctor “Crack” Rodríguez, Melissa Guevara, Ernesto Bautista and Mauricio Kabistan. During ICE, Rodríguez will open Open Source Gallery as a workspace, as well as an exhibition space for the group. Guevara, Bautista and Kabistan, whose travel visas for this exhibition were denied, will remain in El Salvador, sending their work digitally to Open Source for exhibition. Over the course of ICE, the group will work together remotely, exchanging ideas, stories and artwork, to explore immigration, both in New York and El Salvador. (at New York, New York)

#cannupahanskaluger The Weapon is Sharing (This Machine Kills Fascists) increases permanence of our contemporary stories as told through societies current throw-away technology. Phone objects recreated out of clay in a state of vitrification may last forever and relay urgent recognition of our current environment. Forcing antiquity on our modern technology through a visual approach creates accessibility for Indigenous perspective to immediately penetrate the historical record. Our contemporary tools of documenting are made out of materials which will not sustain our stories long term. And so impressing onto clay current narratives from Indigenous perspective, as documented on social media in instances such as at Standing Rock, means these stories now last forever. Creating objects of technology out of clay with a weathered finish recognizes how western society credits Indigenous narratives as historically relevant and archival primarily as artifact. These objects mirror the decayed aesthetic of the artifact to inspire institutions who collect our sacred objects to embed this narrative into their basements and cabinets, letting these pieces join our relatives, so that our ancestors may know what we as Indigenous peoples are currently experiencing. Much as we update our statuses on social media for the current world know our stories, these objects utilize a visual language from our contemporary communication, translating into a literal form of talking to our ancestors. Confined in museums and private collections, the ancestors of all nations are close to each other, communicating and creating alliance in dark caverns, as a pooling of medicines which is reflected in our contemporary gatherings such as at Standing Rock. This work aims to let them know how we are hearing them, and we are connecting. ceramic 2017

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South Talks: Act, react, decolonize. The Southern questions today

7 pm (italy - 1PM EST) | Act, react, decolonize. The Southern questions today

with Luka Bogdanic (University if Zagabria, HR), Houria Bouteldja (Parti des Indegenes de la République, FR), Gianfranco Rebucini (Effimera, I), Atomic Culture (Curatorial platform, NYC), coordinated by Francesco Bachis (University of Cagliari)

8:30 pm | Drinks and food

9:30 pm | Alfredo Jaar (RCH): The Gramsci Trilogy

10 pm | Film Screening: The ashes of Pasolini, Alfredo Jaar

11 pm | Tropical Gothic: Mike Cooper in concert (UK)

*Please note that Workshops are free and for 15-20 participants max

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ᗰʊʝɛʀ Gǟṭɦɛʀɨռg✨🌛 with Celeste Casillas of Nativa Remedies

The culture of women gatherings has been going on for eons. Being part of a community of women and sharing in our ancestral knowledge makes us happier, healthier, and more balanced. Join Celeste Casillas of Nativa Remedies and other women seeking to connect with their feminine wisdom, honor their mother energy, and share sacred space. We will discuss: -Using plant medicines to heal our bodies, balance our hormones, and ease stress and anxiety. -Connecting to the lunar calendar to understand the phases of our own cycle. -Ritualizing our life to create balance -Holistic beauty remedies The gathering will evolve based on the interest of the group and sharing is optional. Bring your amiga, sister, mother, a notebook and pen, a yoga mat or thick blanket.

Celeste Casillas of Nativa Remedies is a Chicana raised in Los Angeles. From an early age she connected to plant medicines in her family garden where she participated in growing food and traditional healing herbs and spices. She studied at The Academy of Healing Nutrition in NYC and is a practicing Nutritional Healing Coach. In 2013 she spent 8 months in Puebla, Mexico where she learned more about using healing foods and herbs in daily cooking. She believes passionately in Food As Medicine and in re-indigenizing our diets. She continues to study various healing traditions and promotes reconnecting and reclaiming our Ancestral Healing Wisdom for self-healing, creating community and as a tool for decolonization.

Closing Party

Join us and some of the artists in the exhibition in celebrating the closing of our exhibition and residency at Loisaida Center. Atomic Culture is the joint cultural productions between Matthew Galindo and Malinda Galindo. Whose mission is to become a temporary geopolitical idea-space where people from all backgrounds are encouraged to learn, create, and experience art in it’s myriad forms. Loisaida’s artistic residency provides a home to develop and explore cultural work that affirms a Latinx provocative spirit to impact local and broader cultural thinking through learning as it promotes diversity, equity, solidarity and community building that strengthens Loisaida and connects it, beyond its borders and limitations, to the broader global community. Atomic Culture’s dynamic residency projects will encourage active participation by creating art-focused social and cultural programs accessible to everyone. Their opening exhibit titled; Futura Ahora // Future Now will map examples of Latinx arts and cultural practices from Southwest and New York based artists that integrate historical events and traditions to examine how futurism can be used as a decolonizing tool to reclaim land, natural resources, and ways of living that occupying forces have sought to wipe out. Atomic Culture aims to improve the outlook of our cities by creating art-focused social and cultural programs accessible to everyone, while providing an experiential learning center where artists can create and interact with the next generation of creators and the community at large. Exhibition: (1) Future Now // Futura Ahora calls to attention the movement of artists reclaiming and reconfiguring their cultural disposition and narratives with society at large. Through sound, installation, literature, and visual arts each artist presents compelling possibilities for the future by embracing and reclaiming their histories, traditions, and present-day experiences. http://hyperallergic.com/357236/future-now-futura-ahora-loisaida-center/

Discussion w/ Guillermo Gomez Pena, Balitronica, and Alex Rivera

Limited Seating Available. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE TICKETS Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Future Now, Futura Ahora Exhibition Feb. 4, 2017 to March 18, 2017 Performance: Friday, March 3, 2017 6-8PM | 205 Hudson 2nd FL Students, Free. General Public $25 Suggested Donation New York City -- Atomic Culture as curatorial artists in residence at Loisaida Center and in conjunction with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Hunter Artist Action Group, and EyeSpeak presents a two-part keynote address on artivist strategies and interventions. The evening will start with "The Future as Sanctuary" by Alex Rivera, followed by a performative talk by Guillermo Gómez-Peña aka El Mad Mex and Balitronica aka The Phantom Mariachi. In “The Future as Sanctuary,” Alex Rivera will discuss different approaches to the terrain of ‘the future’ through his science fictions, virtual realities, and drone interventions. The discussion will include clips of Rivera’s work, from the mid 1990s to the present, work that migrates from present-day crises into post-colonial imaginaries. Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitronica from international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra present a performative talk on their artivist strategies for fighting xenophobia, sexism, homophobia and racism both in the art world and larger society. Alongside their candid conversation, they will invoke performance texts, sound art and a photo slide show of recent work. This presentation is part of an ongoing exhibition and sidency Future Now, Futura Ahora curated by Atomic Culture at the Loisaida Center. Atomic Culture’s dynamic residency Future Now encourages active participation by creating art-focused social and cultural programs accessible to everyone. The exhibit and correlating programming aim to map examples of cultural practices from the Southwest that integrate historical events and traditions to examine how futurism can be used as a decolonizing tool to reclaim land, natural resources, and ways of living that occupying forces have sought to wipe out. Atomic Culture asks how are art practices used as a tool to confront neo-colonialism? Guillermo Gómez-Peñ is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 11 books have contributed to the debates on cultural & gender diversity, border culture and US-Mexico relations. His art work has been presented at over nine hundred venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). Gómez-Peña is a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency and in 2012 he was named Samuel Hoi Fellow by USA Artists. Balitronic is a performance artist, cyborg poet, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University under the guidance of Harold Jaffe, Edith Frampton, and Sydney Brown. She then relocated to Paris to study American Expat Literature and lived in a 17th century convent with Dominican nuns. Currently living in San Francisco, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory at Mills College. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra and has developed photo-performance projects with Manuel Vason, Herani Hache, RJ Muna, and Marcos Raya. She is currently working on a book titled, “A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” and touring with Gomez-Pena/La Pocha Nostra. Alex Rivera s a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. He was born in 1973 to a native of Peru and a native of New Jersey. Growing up in a bi-cultural channel surfing tract home led him to rethink some assumptions about race, immigration, identity, and the global economy. Over the past fifteen years he’s been making work that illuminates two massive and parallel realities: the globalization of information through the internet, and the globalization of families, and communities, through mass migration.

**updated** link for tickets in bio. Join us on Friday March 3rd! In “The Future as Sanctuary,” Alex Rivera will discuss different approaches to the terrain of ‘the future’ through his science fictions, virtual realities, and drone interventions. The discussion will include clips of Rivera’s work, from the mid 1990s to the present, work that migrates from present-day crises into post-colonial imaginaries. Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitronica from international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra present a performative talk on their artivist strategies for fighting xenophobia, sexism, homophobia and racism both in the art world and larger society. Alongside their candid conversation, they will invoke performance texts, sound art and a photo slide show of recent work. This presentation is part of an ongoing exhibition and residency Future Now, Futura Ahora curated by Atomic Culture at the Loisaida Center. Atomic Culture’s dynamic residency Future Now encourages active participation by creating art-focused social and cultural programs accessible to everyone. The exhibit and correlating programming aim to map examples of cultural practices from the Southwest that integrate historical events and traditions to examine how futurism can be used as a decolonizing tool to reclaim land, natural resources, and ways of living that occupying forces have sought to wipe out. Atomic Culture asks how are art practices used as a tool to confront neo-colonialism? (at New York, New York)

Link in Bio for tickets In “The Future as Sanctuary,” Alex Rivera will discuss different approaches to the terrain of ‘the future’ through his science fictions, virtual realities, and drone interventions. The discussion will include clips of Rivera’s work, from the mid 1990s to the present, work that migrates from present-day crises into post-colonial imaginaries. Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitronica from international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra present a performative talk on their artivist strategies for fighting xenophobia, sexism, homophobia and racism both in the art world and larger society. Alongside their candid conversation, they will invoke performance texts, sound art and a photo slide show of recent work. This presentation is part of an ongoing exhibition and residency Future Now, Futura Ahora curated by Atomic Culture at the Loisaida Center. Atomic Culture’s dynamic residency Future Now encourages active participation by creating art-focused social and cultural programs accessible to everyone. The exhibit and correlating programming aim to map examples of cultural practices from the Southwest that integrate historical events and traditions to examine how futurism can be used as a decolonizing tool to reclaim land, natural resources, and ways of living that occupying forces have sought to wipe out. Atomic Culture asks how are art practices used as a tool to confront neo-colonialism? #NYC (at New York, New York)

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Installation, "Storefront Sign for the Ungovernable City" by Scott Williams now on view in Future Now, Futura Ahora at the Loisaida Center (710 E 9th Street). Open tomorrow & Saturday 12-6PM and next week Thursday - Saturday 12-6PM or by appointment. To make an appointment email [email protected] #futurenow #futuraahora #nyc #southwest (at New York, New York)

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@zpvisual River ≠ Border on View in our exhibition Future Now Fitura Ahora @loisaidainc.center This artwork explored the impact of the border military wall on the river ecosystem and the transnational communities of the El Paso del Norte Region including El Paso/Ciudad Juárez/Ysleta Pueblo and the surrounding area. This simple graphite drawing on fabric focuses on the river as public space and how border policy and militarization have had a significant impact on the communities access to it. The concepts and images in this drawing are informed by oral histories from people of the region who have lived through the changes in the river’s course. You can listen to some excerpts of the oral histories and a score produced by Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez (Eureka The Butcher) who used field recordings from the banks of the river. This work is part of a series of ongoing community projects featuring multidisciplinary exhibits about the river, border and transnational community. Participants are invited to engage the work by helping erase the borders in the drawing and reflect on the borders in our everyday life. #futurenow #southwest #nyc (at New York, New York)

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Thank you everyone who came to the workshop today @loisaidainc.center ! @nativa_remedies killed it! We can't wait for the next one! 🔮✨ (at New York, New York)

@culturalworkers made black bean burgers, participants were asked to answer "What should the rights of undocumented workers in the United States be?" giving the answer back in their ToGo containers. They also spoke on the history of the Agave and mezcal tasting. Special thanks to @casamezcal for the Mezcal sponsorship #losamantes #futurenowfuturaahora (at New York, New York)

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