ATOMIC CULTURE PRESENTS
ENCODING: A FUTURE SETTING PT2
Organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardees Atomic Culture
In partnership with Circle Cinema & Tulsa Artist Fellowship
FILM SCREENING
12341 Branford St, Sun Valley by Kim Gordon & Manuela Dalle
EARTHBODY(S)_BIOME(TRICS) by mirrored fatality
Born With An Extra Rib: The Film Co-Directed by Stefa Marin Alarcon & LILLETH
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 7 pm
Circle Cinema
10 S Lewis Ave, Tulsa, OK 74104
PERFORMANCES
Stefa Marin Alarcon & mirrored fatality
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 7 pm
Flagship at Tulsa Artist Fellowship
112 N Boston Ave, Tulsa, OK 74103
TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMMING IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
Encoding: a future setting, organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardees Atomic Culture, is an ongoing series bringing together the work of contemporary artists from across the Americas using visual and sound art. The series structure and the artwork are encrypted languages; together they instigate an expansion of future perspectives, speculating on the impending present with terms related to identity, home, and environment. The 2023 program features film and performance work by Stefa Marin Alarcon, Kim Gordon & Manuela Dalle, and mirrored fatality.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stefa Marin Alarcon is a vocalist, composer and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical minimalism with maximalist ethereal aesthetics and video collages, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits & displaced who are yearning for a sense of home. stefa has shared their work/spirit/song with Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, The Kitchen, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, Rough Trade, Elsewhere, Nublu, BAAD!, The Sultan Room, NUEVOFest, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Tulsa Artist Residency, Cine Las Americas, The Vienna Festival, Power of the People Combined, Body Hack, Fierce Futures, and more. They studied euro-centric classical voice (Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts ‘07, Central School of Speech and Drama ‘10), were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, Slippage Residency at Duke University, as well as a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2019), Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow (2019-2020) and Artist In Residence at The Kitchen (May 2021). Their debut EP Sepalina was released on Figure & Ground Records in 2018. Their forthcoming multi-media record Born With An Extra Rib will be released Winter 2023.
mirrored fatality is an underground interdependent Kapampangan and South Asian xenotr@nsbinary experimental noise punk farmer duo combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, sculpture, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, and healing justice practice spaces to mobilize a warrior community responding to transnational calls-to-action for mutual aid, land sovereignty, and prison abolition. They have toured across Turtle Island (United States of America), Europe, United Kingdom, Mexico, and Thailand. As farmers and artists, mirrored fatality has completed residencies with Buttermilk Falls Residency, Postcrypt Gallery, EFA Project Space, Dead Bedland, Earthlodge Center for Transformation West and South, Star Route Farm, Esalen Institute, Isis Oasis Sanctuary, AADK Spain, Calafou, Baesianz x hatezine at SET Woolwich, University of the Underground, Tour de Moon, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios, The Uhuru Dreamhouse New Orleans, Fancyland, Habitable Spaces, Prattsville Art Center and Residency, and xI20. They have taught lectures, workshops, and thesis presentations with University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), California State University of Long Beach (CSULB), University of Arizona, University of California Riverside (UCR), University of Kansas, University of Illinois, University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and Columbia University. In 2022, mirrored fatality released a remastered version of their COCOON WEBS EP with Aklasan Records, their film VALE on Get Better Records, and their film EARTHBODY(S)_BIOME(TRICS) on Tour de Moon, Nowness Asia, and screening at the London Short Film Fest at the British Film Institute and Rich Mix London. mirrored fatality released their singles “REINCARNAGE”, “VALE”, “BIOME(TRICS)”, and “PRIMALDIAL MAGMA” on their EP ECOCIDE 3URTH Cherub Dream Records on November 11, 2022. In 2023, they will release their 12-track album and will perform their multidisciplinary ECOCIDE 3URTH performance at the Outsider Art Finland Festival during their Summer Europe 2023 tour. As, Outsider Fests 2023-2025 artists in residence, they will perform a multimedia ritual theater installation performance of their entire album at Outsider Fest 2025.
Manuella Dalle studied political science and sociology before she started directing documentaries for the show “Strip tease” for the major French channel France 3. After this, she captured the world of contemporary art by directing portraits of artists ranging from photographers to street-artists to sculptors for the internationally recognized Franco-German channel Arte. In 2013, while living in Los Angeles, she directed a feature film on a French-Colombian priest that decided to create a multi-cultural church. This documentary granted her international recognition: it was shown in many film festivals around the world and was bought in several countries. She also directed some free-form videos reflecting on contemporary art and technology (“Je me souviens” for 3eme scène de l’Opéra de Paris and « Scan 1 » for Biennale de Montrouge). In 2016, she focussed on the world of young artists at the Opéra and initiated the documentary “Opéra Académie” that also aired on major French channel France 2. She moved back to Los Angeles where she made severals films about and with artists such as Ed Ruscha or Kim Gordon. She is now doing a documentary about dance in a high security men prison at Lancaster, California.
Kim Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. They would subsequently release nine studio albums on the major label DGC Records, beginning with Goo in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993. Sonic Youth released their sixteenth and final studio album, The Eternal (2009), on Matador Records before disbanding in 2011 after Gordon and Moore separated. Following the dissolution of Sonic Youth and her divorce from Moore, Gordon formed the experimental duo Body/Head with Bill Nace, releasing their debut album Coming Apart in 2013. She subsequently formed Glitterbust with Alex Knost, releasing a self-titled debut album in 2016. Body/Head released their second studio album, The Switch, in 2018. She released her first solo album, No Home Record, in 2019. In addition to her work as a musician, Gordon has had ventures in record producing, fashion, and acting, and has worked consistently as a visual artist throughout her musical career. She debuted as a producer on Hole's debut album Pretty on the Inside (1991), and founded the Los Angeles-based clothing line X-Girl in 1993. Beginning in the mid-2000s, Gordon began acting, making minor appearances in such films as Last Days (2005) and I'm Not There (2007), followed by guest-starring appearances on several television series. In February 2015, she published a memoir, Girl in a Band, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.
Atomic Culture is a curatorial platform founded by Mateo and Malinda Galindo. Our mission is to collaborate with artists on site-specific projects that reimagine the outlook of our cities. They were curatorial artists in residence at the Loisaida Center in 2017. Their exhibitions include Ojalá at the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center (2018), Entre Irse y Quedarse at Galeria Merida in Merida (2017), Mexico, and Future Now/Futura Ahora at the Loisiada Center (2017), Turn on/Take Cover, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center (2016), Shapeshifting: Towards Being Seen, Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2019), Re_, reimagine.site (2020) Site specific projects include American Ledger No.2, a score by Raven Chacon (2019), Election Night variety show, State of the Artist: We’re Only Dreaming (2020), Storefront sign by Demian DinéYazhi' Destroy the Myth (2020). Film Series Cinetelechy I, II, III. They have been guest lecturers at New School, Intro to Curating, and panelists in 2016 on Prefigurative Politics on the Eve of the Election at the Vera List Center. In 2019 they were invited to curate a booth at MECA art fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Atomic Culture is currently a 2022-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Arts Integration Awardee.
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