Virtual Series | LIVE ART! Up Close and Digital with Transart Advisor Lynn Book and Alumni Zeerak Ahmed and Gabrielle Senza
SPRING 2021 / Tuesdays, 5–6pm EST
LIVE ART! is a Zoom series featuring boundary defying artists at the intersections of art/life/change. They will share their creative work and talk about how they are navigating current global, national, community and individual dynamics. LIVE ART! runs (almost) weekly from Feb 9 – Mar 30, and is curated and organized by Lynn Book, transmedia artist and Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University; Faculty Associate, Transart Institute, Liverpool John Moores University.
Register now for these intimate encounters – one link will get you into one or all of the sessions: https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElc-CprTwjH9QI5dAVtvWB00gZ0LCuAQxX
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Questions? Contact bookl@wfu.edu
Feb 9 - Gabrielle Senza (MA/US) / transdisciplinary artist, Invisibility Lab orchestrator
Feb 16 – Kioto Aoki (IL/US) / photographer, filmmaker, Taiko musician
Feb 23 – Spurge Carter (NY/US) / musician, DJ., writer, cross country palm tree exporter
Mar 9 – Zeerak Ahmed (Pakistan / US) / multidisciplinary conceptual, experimental music and sound artist
Mar 16 – Eli Bradley (D.C./US) / theater maker and general social gadfly
Mar 23 – Cristiane Bouger (Brazil / US) / live performance, video, poetry, and critical writing.
Mar 30 – Kaya Borlase (WFU ‘20) & Chloe Williams (WFU ’21)) / URECA-X research assistants for the Lynn Book Projects Archive
Gabrielle Senza
Gabrielle Senza is a transdisciplinary artist who exhibits, lectures, and performs internationally. Her In/Visibility Lab is an ongoing multidisciplinary creative research initiative that focuses on what - and who - is seen, hidden, acknowledged or ignored in social, political and environmental spaces. Committed to building a culture of compassion and a world where everyone can walk unafraid, Senza choreographs interactions that invite viewers and participants to question the world around them. Her immersive experiences provide opportunities for participants to feel seen, heard and celebrated - connected in deep presence - even when miles apart.
Kioto Aoki
Kioto Aoki is a photographer and filmmaker using the material specificity of the analogue image and image-making process to explore modes of perception as a politics of vision. Her work oscillates between the still and the moving image, attentive to the apparatus of the human eye and the camera; while installation and artist book works engage mechanisms of structural tangibility and site-specificity. Kioto is also a taiko artist, descending Toyoakimoto performing arts family in Tokyo with roots dating back to the Edo period. Her musical practice continues the cultural legacy of the Japanese performing arts in both traditional and contemporary settings.
Spurge Carter
Spurge Carter (WFU ’14) is a musician based in Brooklyn, New York since graduating from Wake Forest. He's worked in offices, scrubbed toilets on internships, has driven palm trees cross-country, played music around the world and still isn't sure what's next for him. However, he's sure he'll wake up tomorrow and start by playing piano. Spurge has a history of investment in music as a DJ, founding member of the band called Barrie, electronic music maker, event producer and arts activist. He currently works as an A&R for Omnian Music Group, a Brooklyn-based label conglomerate that houses Captured Tracks, Sinderlyn, 2MR and others. He founded a record label, eto ano right before the pandemic hit and is trying to practice taking risks and transparency of process, with the label’s motto: “we’re thinking!”.
https://www.instagram.com/sspurgee/
https://sspurgeee.bandcamp.com/album/fever-pitch-mixtape
Pond Mag \\ The Artistic Imperative for Revolution: Make Your Art Mean Something
Zeerak Ahmed
Zeerak Ahmed is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, who focuses on experimental music and sound art. Through sound sculptures, installations and performance works, Ahmed has been exploring the emotive and expressive qualities of the elusive medium of sound, particularly the voice. She is currently investigating the sonic and intellectual histories of female folk music from South Asia.
https://zeerakahmed.squarespace.com/
Eli Bradley
Eli Bradley (WFU '18) is a theater maker and general social gadfly. Currently serving as the Communications and Public Programming Apprentice at the Mosaic Theater in Washington DC, they have found numerous intersections between theater and service in the years since graduating from Wake Forest. Eli is a producer, dramaturg, director, and writer who sometimes acts. They aim to inspire community development through interactive performance and intergenerational theater, and by staging provocative questions about self and society as a means of building empathic conditions towards a shared future.
https://mosaictheater.org/alive
Cristiane Bouger
Cristiane Bouger is an artist working with live performance, video, poetry, and critical writing. The substance of her practice reflects on the paradoxical nature of human experience with its clash, overlapping, and intertwinement of existence/essence, immanence/transcendence, presence/absence, and biography/fiction. Her work has been presented in independent and institutional circuits in the USA, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, Romania, and South Africa. She is the co-founder of Umwelt Studio (Brooklyn/NY), and was a recipient of the Tanne Award in 2018.
Kaya Borlase & Chloe Williams on the Lynn Book Projects Archive
Kaya Borlase just received a B.S. in Statistical Math with a minor in Anthropology from Wake Forest University, and Chloe Williams will graduate in May with concentrations in Communications and Theatre at WFU. For the year 2020, both women were URECA-X Fellows, working with Lynn Book as research assistants for the Lynn Book Projects Archive, a digital site representing interdisciplinary artworks from Lynn’s corpus spanning over 40 years. This collaboration grounded by the Digital Scholarship (DISC) team in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library with significant support from the Humanities Institute and the former Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe) will officially go public in 2021. Kaya and Chloe have been instrumental in making that happen and will talk about their experience with Lynn for this LIVE ART! encounter.