Please join us for an evening of image, word, and sound. This multi-media performance will include a hybrid performance by Sean Winters & Kevin Sweet that explores the confluence of live music & film, poetry by Carolina Ebeid from her new chapbook Dauerwunder: A Brief Record of Facts, & an experimental lecture on failed films by Laura Conway scored by Fragrant Blossom (Ben Donehower & Charles Ballas).
Light refreshments will be served, but you are encouraged to bring your own drinks or snacks if you desire.
7pm (doors), 7:30pm (event)
This event is co-curated and hosted by Joshua Ware and Sharifa Lafon
ARTIST BIOS:
From anaglyphic ruminations on parallax and jazz to improvised explorations of enjambment at play, multimedia artists Sean Winters and Kevin Sweet create audio visual performances to re-ambiguate the senses. As a sonic artist, Sean Winters has played headlining slots at major international music festivals, performed solo audio visual sets at venues across the USA, and collaborated with Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Angie Eng, and R. Luke Dubois. As a visual artist, Kevin Sweet collaborates with scholars and communities to create playful engagements with complex topics, from sonic VR planetariums to multimedia retellings of Irish history. Together they have created interactive installations and performed at shows including "Great Expectations" at GOCA 121 (Colorado Springs, CO) and "Brutal Realities" at the Dairy Arts Center (Boulder, CO).
Carolina Ebeid is the author of You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior and Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. A longtime editor, she helps edit poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the online zine Visible Binary. She teaches at the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Laura Conway is an artist from Denver, Colorado. While she primarily identifies as a filmmaker, her work hybridizes performance art, animation, documentary, music, and dance. She asks questions about systems of power in their many forms. Can the erotic, the absurd, and the sensual offer modes of resistance? Are feelings a valid critical standpoint? She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Moving Image Arts where she is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor. She is an artist in residence at the Redline Gallery in Denver and her works have screened nationally and internationally at venues such as Slamdance, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Lucca International Film Festival, Visible Evidence, The Chicago Underground Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, and the Boulder International Film Series among others.
Fragrant Blossom is the collaboration between Ben Donehower and Charles Ballas. An ongoing improvisational attempt of subtracting from the deficit. Fragrant Blossom is a treatise in letting go of what can no longer be held.