@SEA 21: SUSPENSION with Lucy Kerr, Julie Murray, Steven Zultanski & Eloy Neira
The Poetic Research Bureau's Sunday matinee salon returns. @SEA ("at sea") is a live magazine of interdisciplinary arts that pivots around a one-word theme. This, the 21st issue of our magazine, is on the theme of "suspension" – pause, deferment, abeyance, the sensation of being left hanging, as many of us have experienced over the long extended winter of the pandemic.
As always, this issue includes films, music, and poetry, in loose communication with our topic. Come at 1pm on Sunday to the new venue of 2220 Arts + Archives to experience:
Films by Lucy Kerr and Julie Murray
Music by Eloy Neira
A livestream reading by Steve Zultanski
Lucy Kerr is a filmmaker, video/performance artist, curator, and educator. Her work investigates gender, media, labor, the body, and the importance of interdependence and the ethics of care. She received a dual MFA in Film/Video and Art and Technology from California Institute of the Arts on the Lillian Disney Scholarship. Her films have been presented at San Sebastian International Film Festival, FIDMarseille, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, REDCAT, Anthology Film Archives, and others. She has received grants and commissions from the Austin Film Society, California Institute of the Arts, Dance Films Association, and Mono No Aware and her work has been featured in Business Documentary Europe, ArtForum, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE. Kerr is the co-founder and co-curator of the artistic research and curation group OKTA Collective, with Alisi Telengut and Dovile Aleksaite. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Video Production in the department of Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College.
Julie Murray is an Irish born artist, film and video maker living in the US. Drawing on her background in the Fine Arts, filmmaker Julie Murray makes short experimental works in digital and film media which are poetical in nature, engaging the textural imprints and limits of the form as an essential element of pictorial content. Her film and digital works have been exhibited at numerous national and international venues including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the London Film Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Her early super-8 films were selected for a National Film Preservation Foundation Award in 2014. She is a faculty member at CalArts School of Film/Video.
Eloy Neira is a Peruvian musician and philosopher. His main aesthetico-political concern is cultural-racial diversity, and the possibilities aesthetic practices offer to build bridges among diverse people. Being a Peruvian mestizo, he pays attention to aesthetic “blends” occurring across the Americas, particularly in music. Besides his performing and teaching activities, Eloy has been doing ethnomusicological research in Peru, Bolivia and the USA appealing to a participatory-action approach. As a teacher in the USA, he is particularly interested in early childhood musical learning and children’s empowerment through the recognition of their diverse cultural heritages. As a performer, he is currently working on an album focused on electro-acoustic Indo-Afro-Latin American composers. He is also working in the remastering of Afro Peruvian composer Andres Soto’s recordings.
Steven Zultanski is the author of several books of poetry, including Relief (Make Now, 2021), On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (Information as Material, 2018), and Bribery (Ugly Duckling, 2014). Critical writing has appeared in Frieze, Art in America, Spike Art Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in Copenhagen. The poems in Relief are built from transcribed speech, malformed poetry, and sub-allegorical sci-fi narratives; the book treats health and sickness as inherently shared conditions, both interpersonal and impersonal.
Presented by the Poetic Research Bureau
This is an all ages event