Animated video by The Eternals, Terri Kapsalis & Rob Shaw
Prints by Damon Locks
Opening on Saturday, February 4, 2012, 7:00-9:00pm
Screenings of the animation at 7:30 & 8:30
EXHIBITION HOURS:
02.04.12–04.04.12
Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00pm-5:00pm, or by appointment
As part of our Sun Ra/El Saturn Commissions series, ESS asked Damon Locks (The Eternals) to create a new artwork responding to ESS’s extensive archive of Sun Ra recordings. In lieu of a solo work, he teamed up with writer/performer Terri Kapsalis, The Eternals’ Wayne Montana, and animator Rob Shaw to collaborate on an 18-minute video. Throughout the process, Locks has been working on a new series of related prints that will be on display in ESS’ Audible Gallery through April 4. At the opening of the exhibition of these prints on Saturday February 4th, the video—Noon Moons—will screen at 7:30 and 8:30pm.
EXHIBITION HOURS:
09.16.11-10-31.11
Saturdays & Sundays, 1:00pm-5:00pm, or by appointment
About the Artists
Damon Locks is a visual artist/illustrator and musician who received his BFA at the School of the Art Institute. His visual work often revolves around people and their landscape with narrative themes of protest, unrest, and tension woven throughout. The processes used to reach these ends enlist media such as drawing, photography, digital manipulation and silk screening. His taste leans towards the dirty, the antiqued, and the distressed, thus lending a warmth and tactile quality to both his screen prints and his digital prints. He is currently working on a project with Domestic Workers United and The Center for Urban Pedagogy to design educational material describing the Bill of Rights for Domestic Workers in NYC.
Terri Kapsalis is a writer and performer. Her most recent books are The Hysterical Alphabet and Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit. She co-curated the exhibition Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968 and co-edited two books of related material. She is a founding member of Theater Oobleck and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The classically uncatagorizable Chicago based band The Eternals performs regularly as both a trio and duo. Their latest album Approaching the Energy Field was released in 2011. Core members Damon Locks and Wayne Montana have been collaborating and performing music together since the late 80's and have steadily embarked on an exploration of the vast, mysterious musical universe. With this project The Eternals find themselves embracing the more intuitive, unconscious side of their palettes. Sometimes directing, sometimes responding. For this piece, The Eternals limited their resources to instruments and tones inspired by Sun Ra.
Rob Shaw is a director from Philadelphia, PA who now lives and works in Portland, OR. After graduating from the University of the Arts with his award winning animated short “Dirty Summer Fridays,” Shaw moved to the west coast to animate on various television shows, video games and music videos, always working on his own projects after hours. With five years experience as a professional animator, Shaw made the jump to commercial director at Bent Image Lab. There he began directing numerous animated commercials for clients like Zune, Guitar Hero, Fruity Pebbles and Verizon, to name a few. He has also directed numerous music videos like They Might Be Giant's “I'm Impressed” which won a Gold Plaque at the 2008 Chicago International Film Festival. In 2010, his film “the Machine” won best animated short at the Atlanta Film Festival. In 2009, Shaw worked with Taxi Two on the Koodo “El Tabador” campaign which Strategy Magazine named one of five Brands of the Year in 2010. Shaw has just finished an animated segment for Portlandia season two, set to air in February.
Special appreciation and thanks to John Carroll and his Mitchell Elementary after-school percussion group for their participation in this project. Poems read by Carlos Diaz and Angelina Medina.
About Audible
Audible at ESS is a public space and gallery for exhibitions, meetings, workshops, performances, and artists projects. A simple 400-square-foot space at street level, the space is not only used for ESS programs and events, but is also open to proposals by artists, organizations, and community members.
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