Tactical Urbanism in the Horizontal Landscape. "Soundscape Tapestry" PopUp Experimental Films
Renee Baker, Satellite Experimental Film Festival 2021.
The Culture Coach was integral to the Bronzeville Art District Cultural Tourism plans, presenting live music in an outdoor setting in empty lots at 47th and Vincennes and providing sound and technical support for the Satellite Experimental Film Series post concerts in 2021.
Susan Fox, Culture Coach Logistic Manager...
I met Ms. Bruton as a multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary visual artist who presented during "INTERSECTIONS" at Elastic Arts Sound and Vision Gallery, collaborating with creative musicians, using an overhead projector, transparency, and watercolor as a medium. Alpha created spontaneous drawings on the transparency as the artists began painting with drops of food color, adding drops of water to make a translucent projection of images onto the wall or surface above the musicians.
At the same time, they performed an interaction between the musicians and Alpha as the visual artist. Tempestt Hazel from the organization 60 inches from Center was at the event and interviewed Ms. Bruton as the musicians performed, and the visual artists continued to produce their transparencies.
"Chicago some of the most interesting mixes of creative forms. As part of SIFC Chicago’s Going Mobile campaign, Elastic was one of the stops because AMP-CHI, the brainchild of Alpha Bruton and Susan Fox brought together Chicago artists, musicians and poets for a night of complete sensory stimulation–words for your mind, music for your ears and art for your eyes. As Artet, the jazz trio headed by Hanah Jon Taylor, played an amazing blend of experimental jazz, Alpha Bruton created live work on a projector through a combination of illustrations on transparencies and the pouring of watercolor, which projected onto the band. The exchange of inspiration was transferred back and forth from artist to musician–it was obvious how they were reacting to one another. To learn more about how AMP-CHI came to the Elastic stage, I spoke with Susan Fox, the curator of the event, who also serves as Development & Outreach Coordinator for Elastic Arts. Published on November 15, 2010, written by Tempestt Hazelartical by Tempest Hazel.
The Culture Coach is providing technical and sound support for Tactical Urbanism in the Horizontal Landscape, "Soundscape Tapestry," presenting experimental films and paintings by Alpha Bruton and soundscape music by composer and percussionist Reggie Nicholson.
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ALL RECORDING PICTURES OF PERFORMANCES ARE PROPERTY OF PHANTOM GALLERY CHICAGO (PGCN) AND WILL ONLY BE USED AS ARCHIVAL MATERIAL OR USED IN SHORT CLIPS TO ADVERTISE FESTIVALS AND FUNDRAISING. Artist owns all copyrights. Any music or video will not be used for any purpose without permission from the artist.