Right now CIA has agents in Cuba ... really ... we have three intrepid travelers visiting the island nation in search of a future artist-in-residence for the Institute. Its a research trip that's being supported by a Creative Fusion grant from the Cleveland Foundation. Next spring they'll be giving a talk on their adventures so look for an announcement of that coming up.
But currently the scene in Cleveland proper continues to heat up. Thursday night there's the upcoming Manjello performance at CIA's VATe Coventry Center (see below for details) and then this weekend there's The Unsung Torsos Event at MOCA - Cleveland. That's on Saturday the 30th from 7 pm until 10 pm - tickets are just $5.
Unsung Torsos - MOCA - Cleveland
One of the most remarkable performances you will ever witness:
Manjello performed by Canadian artists - Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker
Thursday, October 28, 7 pm
CIA’s VATe Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd.
Free + Open
Collaborators Crocker and Kelly will create a real-time drawn-on-film animation with accompanying soundtrack in front of a live audience. Kelly will create evolving imagery on a loop of clear 16mm film, progressively building visuals with inks and with each subsequent pass of the film loop through the projector. Crocker will respond to the developing animation with an array of digital and analogue noisemaking devices. This work creates a transitory footprint of the visual and auditory mark-making journey taken by Kelly and Crocker.
On Friday the pair will appear as part of the Lunch on Fridays Series, giving their audience an overview of their careers and insights into how they make work.
A Canadian and Newfoundland-born media artist currently living and working in Alberta, Calgary, Kelly has made a number of films that have received international awards. He works primarily with film, and has completed and screened ten films on super 8, 16 and 35mm formats. He also creates film and video-based installations and has shown all across North America, from Halifax to Victoria, all over the United States, and in Europe and Asia. His work has been featured in the following festivals: Images, Black Maria, PS1, and Ann Arbor.
Joe Kelly's Website
Jay Crocker is a musical explorer, multi-instrumentalist, analog recordist/producer, and general creative wunderkind. Over the last decade Crocker has been relentless in his contribution to both the Canadian independent music scene as well helping to put Calgary's avant-guard and noise scene on the map. He is best known for his work as a leader, as well as being a full time member in both the trash jazz noise group Nomoreshapes, and the progressive experimental pop outfit Ghostkeeper. His work has received critical acclaim in such publications as the New York Times, the Paris Transatlantic, exclaim! Magazine and countless others. Always searching for new sounds and ways to conceive and perform his work, Crocker is boundless as an artist and performer.
Jay Crocker's Website
These events are made possible by The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Visual Arts and Technologies Environment, CIA’s Sculpture Department and CIA’s George P. Bickford Endowment for Visiting Artist.
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