BASE MATTER is a new event series intended to explore the intersections of transgression and transformation, an experiment of play with the void – a dive into culture’s mysterious blind spot. The title, pilfered from the writings of George Bataille, attempts to bind a wide variety of artists working in diverse mediums – music, performance art, writing, visual art – through a common theme: a desire for higher insight through shared willingness to examine what is hidden.
Future Blondes is the moniker of a Texas-based band and collective led by Domokos Benczedi which combines heavy, hypnotic aesthetics with deep, prophetic sound.
Breathing Problem has been a project of Rusty Kelley‘s for over eight years in partnership with his girlfriend and bandmate Emelia McKay. Kelley, a member of Total Abuse, is no stranger to pushing boundaries and transgressing norms through noise and performance. Together, they put on an intense and sometimes violent live show.
How I Quit Crack is the contemporary sound project of Austin’s Tina F.
Skullcaster
A relayer of spoofed zombie satellite signals, “soviet” microwave transmissions and electromagnetic
insect communications…schizophrenic ghosts and bloodborne nanobots… Continuing the compositional
theme used with Earwicker of lullabies for nascent AIs, Skullcaster seeks to provide a soundtrack for the replacement of humanity with Algorithmic Trading.
Marie Jane Segolene
Marie Ségolène C. Brault lives in Montreal, where she founded The Room 22 Collective, in 2009. She has completed and self published three chapbooks and has recently been published in the Queer Issue of Poetry is Dead Magazine. M.S.’ graduated from a B.A. in Creative Writing from Concordia University in 2013. In September, she will be completing a second Bachelors of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, from Concordia University. Her visual practice is mostly focused on performance work, video, watercolors and photography. Her work has been shown in spaces such as the City Bird Gallery, the VAV Gallery and OFF InterArts.
In addition, works from NYC-based painter, illustrator, and designer Jamie Fletcher will also be on view as part of a special one-night exhibition.
