I started the Instagram page @rude_oil_pipeline in late April 2019, around two years after discovering alternative, feminist meme pages like @gothshakira and @goldnosering. Their ability to merge autotheoretical analyses with political discourse and personal details is really inspiring to me. While neither of these pages are very active right now, they both continue to inspire a new wave of memers. Characteristic amongst these meme creators is the central presence of the personal and the political implications of this fact. Memers share and hash out their stances on political, social, and cultural issues. People develop unique styles while also feeding into each other’s aesthetics, often collaborating through group chats. Memes can be cute and funny, but they can also be used to come out, critique capitalism, call for police abolition, or do all these things at once. Meming has become a processing tool through which I work out emerging elements of my identity, delve into my past, vent about daily grievances, and continually confront and renegotiate my conception of the world.
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September - October 2021
In September and October 2021, the AIM-Lab hosted a three part online workshop on Audio Description (AD) led by Cheryl Green and Thomas Reid. Beginning from a place that centers the experiences of those who are blind and recognizes the art in audio description, the workshop invited participants to reflect critically both on visual information and to view it as more than mere access. The resulting series of works engage with AD in innovative and creative ways, exploring sound, text, movement, and their mixtures. From an audio-logo to a binder that comes to life to a sci-fi meditation to a lusty afternoon brewing mead to a video game adventure to artistic critiques of colonialism to glittering light that turn windowpanes into jellyfish, the collection of pieces in this online exhibit engages with the creative potentials of access.
How is it possible that a painting can sit so still, yet demonstrate so much noise and movement? Artists Nicholas Goberdhan and Piper Curtis weave together linguistic and sonic poetry to transport listeners into the oil-paint world of Mark Tansey’s Forward Retreat. Goberdhan’s cadence and tone set the pace while Curtis’ lush soundscape fully engulfs listeners within the story of the piece as it unfolds.
Cooked Raw Live @ “Home”
Sunforger
December 30, 2021
FROM OUR MINDS TO YOUR LIVING ROOM
FEATURING:
SUNFORGER
A COUNTRY WESTERN
MAH KEE OH
BUG EATER
PRODUCED BY COOKED RAW
FEATURING:
SUNFORGER
A COUNTRY WESTERN
MAH KEE OH
BUG EATER
PRODUCED BY COOKED RAW
Music video for “Sign of Life” by Dykea, produced for the Demo Fest x Suoni TV Telethon.
Listen to the album and buy it here: Dykea - Demo 2
All proceeds are going to Solidarity Across Borders
Dykea is Piper Curtis and Mackenzie Smedmor.
Animation by Piper Curtis.
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.
Listen to the album and buy it here: Dykea - Demo 2
All proceeds are going to Solidarity Across Borders
Dykea is Piper Curtis and Mackenzie Smedmor.
Animation by Piper Curtis.
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.
TÉLÉ SUONI TV: Nennen & Sunforger from Suoni Per Il Popolo
Sunforger is Spencer Curtis, Piper Curtis, and Chris Hauer, featuring Scott Cuzner on drums
Set dressing for Sunforger by Piper Curtis
Directed by Stacy Lee
Sunforger is Spencer Curtis, Piper Curtis, and Chris Hauer, featuring Scott Cuzner on drums
Set dressing for Sunforger by Piper Curtis
Directed by Stacy Lee