LOST FRIEND: Sound/Vision with Colin Manning, Juan josé Rivas, Heather Gray



Saturday January 19 2019

Colin Manning, collage art and projections

Music acts:

Juan josé Rivas (Mexico City)
Electronics and hacked turntables.
Visual/sound artist specializing in electronic media, Juanjosé Rivas* employs myriad techniques to give voice to the translation, error, obstruction, and interference inside artistic languages. Attempts to define the impossible, reveal the hidden, articulate the unspeakable, and evidence the truth as an instituted lie are some of the conceptual approaches used in his work.

Juan josé Rivas made a sound residence in Centre for Contemporary Creation Matadero in Madrid, Spain (2013); he was Fellow Program Development Cultural Projects and Joint Ventures 2013; beneficiary of the Board of Contemporary Art PAC 2012; and has twice received the grant from the Young Artists Program specializing in Multimedia, FONCA-CONACULTA 2005 and 2011. He was a member of the Council of Planning and Evaluation for the Festival of Electronic Arts and Video Transitio_MX 2010-2014.

Juanjosé currently is Artistic Director of VOLTA, a series of international concerts of sound art and experimental music in Mexico City and member of the the National System of Art Creators of FONCA.

Heather Gray (Los Angeles)
Heather Gray’s audiovisual performance addresses defensive structures in the built environment (walls, bunkers etc.) by sculpting field recordings made in/on these places for personal and systemic transformation of emotional states of fear and conflict.

Heather is an artist, musician, writer and producer using technology and new media to bring a critical lens to both contested sites and everyday surroundings and the social relations they produce. Her work has appeared across the hemisphere from MIX NYC Experimental Film Festival in New York, MOCA Tucson, Pan Galería in Valparaiso, Chile, Universidad ITESO in Guadalajara, a

Colin Manning (Los Angeles/Portland)
Colin Manning received his BFA in Painting and his MFA in Filmmaking, both from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998 and 2000. Through a technique of collage and painting applied "backwards" to glass and plexiglas Manning conjures up a dynamic confluence of the the transcendent and mundane. Some of these works appear as fossilized slices of the insanity of our society. While other pieces give view to a complex yet graceful subtlety laying just below surface of gross appearances. Manning is also know for his projection performances, utilizing multiple film, slide and overhead projectors loaded with handmade and hand-altered transparent materials, coordinated into an engulfing spectacle.

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