Wednesday, July 31
Smashism
Doors 8 pm
SMASHISM is a multimedia event series expanding the relationship of video art, performance, sound and environment that started in the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles circa 2011. DPSD (Los Angeles), whose video work has been seen at Black Dice and Animal Collective shows for years, will play his debut Detroit audiovisual set. Local acts Pod Blotz, RenAlien and Jimbo Easter will be doing live multimedia performances and Pure Rave will do a broken turntable DJ set throughout the night.
The video art portion of the show includes artists from New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, New Mexico and Texas. There will be video Installations in both rooms of Trinosophes and printed art on view on tables. Visual artists include: Yoshi Sodeoka, Matt Rozensky, Cary Loren, Kamau Amu Patton, Zozo, Sara Ludy, Witch Hotline, Will Lawson, Brian Dulaney, Scott Kiernan, Network Glass, Rolan Vega, Interference, Fletcher Pratt, Jenny Sayaka Nono, Alex Pelly, Mike Stoltz, Shana Palmer, W.C. Bevan, Kyle Pryce. Curated by Suzy Poling. Installation facilitation by Matt Rozenksy. Video stills by Danny Perez.
Thursday, August 1
Macula Dog, Pure Rave, Cherriel, Joo Won Park, Sarah Swillum
Doors 7:30 pm, $7-$10 sliding scale
Macula Dog are an experimental band from New York City formed in 2014 by Ben Mendelewicz and Matt Cutler. They are best known for their style of electronic music as well as their live performances.
“... a fully weird and wireless electronic audio-video duo that divvies out a flurry of wild and fun songs that’ve apparently jumped out of the same variable pitch blender as Devo and the Residents” (Courtesy UPEND)
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