Wednesday June 14 * 7pm * TICKETS
Join us for a QU23 Video + New Media screening by local, national, and international queer artists and allies on Wednesday June 14th at 7:00PM at Rhizome DC. The evening’s featurettes cover the whimsical, abstract, meditative, and political nature of sound and vision. QUEERING SOUND is a multifaceted arts festival of LGBTQIA+ artists/allies held annually in Washington DC.
MARCUS WEBB
Marcus Webb is an American composer, soundscape designer and multi-instrumentalist now based in New Mexico. A prolific artist with a longstanding interest in transcending conventional music and instrumental approaches, Webb crafts sounds using computers, synthesizers, samplers, and various odd guitar-like instruments from around the world. Towards the end of the 2010's Webb’s musical focus re-shifted. Inspired as much by artist such as Francisco Lopez, David Torn, and Max Neuhaus, as he is by writers such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, Webb has focused on work that involves the social, political, and racial realities of sound and listening as a socio-political practice of place making through the lens of soundscape composition.
https://marcuswebb.bandcamp.com/
JAN SWINBURNE
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: gallery-oriented exhibitions and time-based experimental forms. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds. QU23 is proud to feature her newest video works, The Online Therapist and The Order of Things.
janswinburne.com
KERRI SHEEHAN
Kerri Sheehan is a multimedia storyteller. Professionally, she produces and directs videos for corporate and nonprofit clients. When she is not doing that, she is creating magical chaos with her drawing tablet and laptop, her cigar box or lap steel guitars, her kitchen, or her power tools.
youtube.com/@KerrisStories/videos
KATIE ENGLISH + MARK KLUZEK
Their video submission for QU23, Siyr Siylur, is taken from a forthcoming remix album of their individual works and recent collaborative string quartet composition BEL, based upon the Nebuchadnezzar series of paintings by Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The paintings explore the story in Daniel of Nebuchadnezzar's dream are also tied to personal themes of Boyd's, including much of what he was seeing in the news and day-to-day whilst he resided in sixties London.
isnajdui.bandcamp.com
thedoomedbirdofprovidence.bandcamp.com
IRA TATTELMAN
Tattelman’s multi-disciplinary work is an ongoing dialogue with and reinterpretation of the environs we inhabit. He observes, responds to, and interprets physical and emotional connections to the constructed environments in which he lives and travels. Since the physical world is constantly changing, he calls attention to the planned and unplanned outcomes of human actions and finds inspiration in the everyday, cluttered world, prioritizing idiosyncratic and unexpected details. His videos form connections to the time and place of their creation, whether local or international. Sites undergo transformation. I look at the spaces around us that are wounded or damaged by use as well as climate change. His contribution, The Weight of Words, finds him donning t-shirts, one on top of the other, with a voiceover/reading of LGBTQIA+ slogans. An installation of the tees featured in the video is presented in the QU23 visual art exhibit.
iratattelman.tumblr.com
K of ARC
K Craig is an artist working primarily within the field of experimental film and animation, involving multiple projections, found footage, performance, and sound. The films and installations explore themes including the body, the Sublime, nostalgia, and the unknowable, in an effort to create immersive fictional worlds. His promotional music videos for bands includes Lanterns On The Lake, Last Harbour, P.J. Philipson, Quiet Loner, BLK TAG and BLK w/BEAR.He is part of A.R.C. Soundtracks, an audio/visual project exploring the further reaches of experimental, improvised drone, and has released solo works under his K of ARC moniker
cargocollective.com/kcraig
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com
QU23 runs 01 – 17 June staged at four Takoma DC and Takoma Park MD sites and features a visual art exhibit, spoken word evening, video/new media screening and music showcases. Additional details and individual ticketing info at QUEERING SOUND on Facebook and RhizomeDC.org.
