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On view May 27–August 29, 2022 at Squeaky Wheel: Jenson Leonard: GLAND PRIX. More info here. 

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Opening at Squeaky Wheel on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, on view through February 14, 2022: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY: i would’ve said goodbye if i thought you loved me back . See the project at Squeaky Wheel or online. More info here. 

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Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time is touring to SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME), on view May 20–July 2, 2021. With work by Betty Yu, Cecilia Vicuña, Charlie Best, Eniola Dawodu, Kite, and Sabrina Gschwandtner. More information here. Installation photographs by Carolyn Wachnicki.

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Johann Diedrick: Dark Matters, an online project, exhibition in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery, and series of events, opens June 18. More information here.

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On Monday, April 14, 6 pm ET, I’ll be speaking about my curatorial practice and recent work in Squeaky Wheel’s exhibitions programs as part of the PLASMA speaker series at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo SUNY. PLASMA is curated by Paige Sarlin. More info here.

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Excited to have a provided a tale for Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar, edited by Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann, assisted by Julia Tulke, and published by Indiana University Press. Nice sharing pages with so many lovely and amazing people.

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Public Visualization Studio: Passing through the Heart is on view at Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery through April 3, 2021. Passing through the Heart is a multi-media installation and series of virtual events by Public Visualization Studio that focus on immigrant and refugee family and knowledge-sharing through cooking. Members of Public Visualization Studio (PVS) cook recipes from their heritage that are recorded through traditional and emergent technologies. Non-optical motion capture, photogrammetry, videography, and audio recording come together to create a dialogue about migration, community, political conflicts, mourning, healing, and transformation.

Installed as a synchronized multi-screen work in Squeaky Wheel’s window gallery, Passing Through the Heart features four interactive, virtual, multi-media cooking shows, with members of PVS cooking traditional recipes provided by local and international guests, who will be in dialogue through the event. Playing on traditional cooking show tropes, the events are documented through a seven-screen set-up in PVS’ studios. The conversations in the cooking show prompt how we can acknowledge the formation of transnational identities within North America while asking critical questions on data visualization. What are the recipes that preserve our stories through generations and migration? What does it mean for these gestures to be so precisely captured through data visualization? How do our stories live where we are? For more info, including virtual events as part of the exhibition, click here.

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“On letting things grow over time” an interview with me by Sara Wintz appeared in The Creative Independent on March 16, 2020.

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“On Common Field and Local Concerns: A Three-Way Conversation between Rachael Rakes, Ekrem Serdar, and Carol Zou” appeared in Practice Space, edited by Jo-Lene Ong and Rachael Rakes, co-published by [NAME] Publications (USA) and DeAppel (NL). 

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Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time  September 20, 2019–February 7, 2020

Drawing from the little-known but expansive history connecting media arts and textile production, the exhibition features artists invested in the material, critical and liberatory politics of their intersections.

From the Lumière brothers taking the intermittent motion of a sewing machine to create the cinematograph, to the punch cards of the Jacquard loom forming the basis of modern computation, and the role of sewing and gendered labor in jobs like editing and dyeing in film production, textile production remains an essential, but insufficiently unacknowledged formal and social influence on media arts. These underpinnings aim to not only explicate an alternate history, but are meant to find ways to speculate new futures for media practice.

Consisting of three exhibitions and public programs that weave into each other, audiences will engage with artworks exploring a wide range of practices including, trans fashion and domesticity; gendered and immigrant labor under global racial capitalism; Gelede women’s commemoration, protest and power as represented in textile work; speculative future-casting through Oglala Lakota knowledge systems, and more.

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, screenings of work by Jodie Mack, Sabrina Gschwandtner, and Wang Bing, and guest speakers such as Amy Sall, Jasmina Tumbas, and Jolene Rickard. Punctures design by Kelly Walters.

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Opening January 25: Black Quantum Futurism | On the Edge of the Bush / A Long Walk into the Unknown With a public conversation between Camae Ayewa, Rasheedah Phillips, and Ineil Quaran at 7:30pm.

The exhibition features a newly commissioned essay by Rasheedah Phillips, and several public programs that will take place through the duration of the exhibit.

On view through April 20, 2019 at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. Image courtesy Black Quantum Futurism.

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I’ll be joining artist Jodie Mack for a post-screening Q&A at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC) for her screening Posthaste Perennial Patterns, featuring work by the filmmaker and Helen Hill. The screening is presented as part of Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro. May 31, 2018, 6:30pm. Still: Jodie Mack, Blanket Statement #1 (still), 16mm film, 2012.

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Excited to be speaking with artist Oraib Toukan during the Images Festival, and on the occasion of her exhibition When Things Occur at YYZ Gallery. The talk will take place Sunday, April 15, 3pm at the Commons of 401 Richmond Street West (Suite #405-448). See the full Images Festival program here. Image: Oraib Toukan, When Things Occur, desktop video, color, sound, 28 minutes, 2016

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As part of the Images Festival (April 12–20 2018, Toronto) I’ll be leading the Images Research Forum. Open to emerging artists, scholars, curators, and writers. Participation in the forum is free. The deadline is March 23; click here for more information and the call for applications. Tell your colleagues + students.

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I’ll be speaking as part of the Digital Humanities Speaker Series at Canisius College on Thursday, March 15, 4pm in Lyons Hall 418. Topics include Squeaky Wheel’s recent efforts, curatorial approach, community building, ways to be involved, along with a couple upcoming projects. Image: Installation documentation of belit sağ, aşırı pozlanmış (overexposed), Netherlands/Turkey. HD video with sound, 4:20min, 2017/2018. Part of belit sağ: Let Me Remember, Jan 19–April 14, 2018 at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.

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Opening January 19: belit sağ : Let Me Remember With a public conversation between the artist and Jasmina Tumbas at 7:30pm, and featuring newly commissioned writing by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Yang. On view through March 23 @ Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center

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November 18+19 @ Frank E. Merriweather Library: To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre Two days of discussions, screenings, performances with Karima Amin, Max Anderson, Ephraim Asili, Elisa Peebles, Brett Story, and the project Reviving Sostre by Paris Henderson, Savion Mingo, and Obsidian. Also featuring Frame-Up: The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre by Pacific Street Films.  More information about Martin Sostre here.