IN CINEMA

MIXED POETICS II: NONFICTION TEXT & TRANSMEDIA 
Tickets: $20 General Admission / $10 Reduced Price 
Sunday, April 21st at 5PM

Please join us for the second installment of Mixed Poetics, produced by Miah Artola. Mixed Poetics is invigorating and genre-bending group show that pushes the edges of documentary expression in digital and embodied forms. Come by for an evening of live music, moving images, poetry, sculpture, projection, and virtual reality – together creating a vast, multidimensional, and expressive showcase of nonfiction text and transmedia.

Featuring work/performances by: Muyassar Kurdi, Jean Carla Rodea, John S. Hall, Duston Spear, Shayma Aziz, Rae C Wright, Tamara Yadao, Kevin Shea, Chris Jordan, Paul r. Harding, Takuma “amukaT” Kanaiwa, Marta Grasso, Kevin Ramsay, Alessandra Zeka, Sam Baumel, and Miah Artola.

PROGRAM

A SONG FOR MANY WOMEN 
Muyassar Kurdi, 2018, 9 min.
A Song for Many Women is a short 16mm experimental dance film exploring gravity, perception, and subtlety. A woman’s dance in the aftermath of war and destruction. (a reflection of Audre Lorde’s poem called “A Song For Many Movements” written for the South African freedom fighter Winnie Mandela). The screening will be introduced by Muyassar's recitation of her poem "My Name" which was recently on display at LaMaMa Gallery as part of her solo interdisciplinary exhibition titled Love is Blue.

CURRENT TIDES SOUND ESCAPES
Jean Carla Rodea
This video/sound work was filmed/composed during a two-term residency with Works on Water in Governors Island. I registered different tides at the same location (Buttermilk Channel), bearing witness and weaving an ongoing asynchronous multilogue with land, ancestors, and legacies. 

THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES
John S. Hall
Recent poetry (written within the last week or two) and older songs.

THE VISITING ARTIST: A READING
Duston Spear
Taken from a longer work of fiction published in the Spring 2024 edition of Stone Canoe Review, about Cornelia Warren, a beaten-down performance artist, when she visits her friend’s class of incarcerated women, and finally finds her audience.

BETWEEN LAND AND SKY
Shayma Aziz
Between Land and Sky is an experimental semi- biographical animation that moves between several visual mediums, including live video and stop-motion animation, to tell a story of dreams lost and estrangement while invoking ritual music and body dance gestures of the narrator’s homeland in the south of Egypt. 

AS LONG AS 
MEMORY SERVES 
ME. . . 
Rae C Wright 
Musings on certain memorable moments, I’ve a burning desire to speak of tonight! 

*** INTERMISSION ***

Light refreshments will be served!

BIRDS, BREATHS AND UTILITY 
Tamara Yadao and Kevin Shea
Using a combination of ChatGPT, self-reflexive prompts and free verse, Birds, Breaths and Utility explores the nature of birds through musical / sonic improvisation with field recordings, synths, drums and the reading of poetic results from these experiments.

WALKING WITH SHIMLA 
Chris Jordan
A short story about a walk in the Himalayas.

LAY ME DOWN
A collaboration between a poet Paul r. Harding and guitarist Takuma “amukaT” Kanaiwa. 

KARKINOS: RESONANCE
Marta Grasso and Kevin Ramsay
Derived from the ancient Greek word for cancer, Karkinos symbolizes the early understanding and perception of this formidable disease. The sculptures, meticulously crafted in terracotta, embody the physical manifestation of cancer cells. Their intricate details and organic forms aim to evoke a simultaneous sense of fascination and unease within viewers.

The sculptures are brought to life through the integration of exciters, which emit subtle and haunting sounds. These sounds, carefully designed and curated, represent the inner turmoil and hidden fears.

NUENO NUEVA YORK
Alessandra Zeka and Sam Baumel
NUEVO NUEVA YORK (visions of the new asylum seekers) is a VR documentary that leverages the Apple Vision Pro's advanced capabilities to offer a unique immersive view into the everyday life of Luis and Tomas, (father and son) who arrived recently to NY with the hope of a better life. This first-person documentary highlights the many facing challenges in a system lacking clear support and the realities of the day-to-day they must navigate to achieve their goals.