echo broadcast
Sept 8-30, 2023
First Friday Opening Reception, Friday, September 8 6:00-9:00 with Live Performance @ 7pm
Practice Gallery is pleased to present echo broadcast, an exhibition exploring fear of and reverence for our complex relationship to ubiquitous technologies. The show highlights artists whose works are grounded in material reality, debunking the effortlessness of the cloud, examining techno-spiritualism, tech-capitalism, and the idea of the techno-utopian future.
Artists and organizations involved in the exhibition include: Suzanne Kite, Jenny Vogel, Meredith Heins, Joshua Marquez, Charlotte Greene, Quarantine Public Library, Iffy Books, Sound Museum Collective, and Lino Kino. The exhibition is curated by Quinton Maldonado and Jazmyn Crosby.
Related Events:
Panel Discussion, Screening and Performances
Saturday, Sept 9th, 7pm-9pm
Vox Populi Black Box, 319 N. 11th Street, 3rd Floor
Practice Gallery open: 2:00-7:00pm
Iffy Books Workshop and Open Hours
Saturday, Sept 23rd, 4-6pm
Iffy Books, 319 N. 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Participating artists include:
Charlotte G. Chin Greene (b. 1992, New York) is an artist based between Philadelphia and New York. Their work merges digital tools with body-driven practices in found object, drawing, video, installation, and performance and their research interests span digital media and virtuality, labor, ecology, psychoanalysis, and global infrastructure. Greene received their MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and BA in Art History from Kenyon College. Solo, two-person and group exhibitions of their work have occurred at Zach's Crab Shack, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NYC), Wick Gallery, Bible, and Miranda Kuo Gallery. Writing about their work has been published in Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail. They have curated exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia), KieranTimberlake, Pilot+Projects and Chinatown Soup. Greene has lectured at University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Temple University, and Princeton University.
Meredith Haines is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working with sound, installation, performance, and video. Her work engages the political capacities of sound, and explores noise as a method of social resistance. She has performed and exhibited work all over the country at venues such as No Nation, High Concept Labs, New Boone Gallery, AS220, Space 1026, and the DUMBO Dance Festival.
Kite (Dr. Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition,and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Recently, Kite has been developing body interfaces for machine learning driven performance and sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Kite has published in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis. Kite is currently a 2023 Creative Capital Award Winner, 2023 USA Fellow, and a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist with Alisha B. Wormsley. Kite is currently Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College and a Research Associate and Residency Coordinator for the Abundant Intelligences (Indigenous AI) project.
Lino Kino is a Philadelphia-based media arts collective dedicated to exploring new approaches to experimental moving image exhibition. Since 2018, they have curated a multitude of new and oft-overlooked film/video art and performance with their open-call and 16mm film screenings. They have also engaged in art-making though leading free workshops and presenting large-scale public installations.
Joshua Marquez is a Philadelphia-based Filipino-American composer, improviser, and sound artist whose music explores the liminal space between tone/noise and digital/analog as a means to investigate the complexities and duality of Asian American identity in search of connection during a diaspora. Searing a sonic imprint of cultural identity, his explorations of the noise spectrum represent alienation and assimilation through the fusion and fission of disparate timbres. Joshua’s music is described as “upsetting and calming in equal measure” with atmospheres that “sink into your skin” (Prism Reviews). Hailed as "cutting-edge" (The Gazette), “expertly crafted” (We Write About Music), "haunting" (The Daily Iowan), and "creepy" (Fanfare Magazine), Marquez's polemic deconstruction and disintegration of sound aims to present music through a decolonized lens.
Steve McLaughlin/Iffy Books: Steve McLaughlin is a bookseller at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St #2I, PHL). He runs workshops on DIY skills for privacy, activism, and expanding the commons. You can find zines he's contributed to at iffybooks.net/zines.
Quarantine Public Library is an online repository of books made by artists established by Tracy Honn and Katie Garth in July 2020. The works are free for anyone to download, print, and
assemble—to keep or give away. We published and distributed over two hundred books in this simple on-demand artists’ book format at a time when in-person art experiences were especially rare and meaningful.
Sound Museum Collective are “open source” audio visual artists. We are a women-nonbinary-trans nonhierarchical network who collaborate to reconstruct relationships to technology. We gather in curiosity around electrical, sound, visual, electromagnetic waves.
Jenny Vogel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores subjective themes as they are experienced in the digital age. She examines the anxiety of alienation, the desires of communication and a sense of be-longing in a virtual world. Her work has been screened and exhibited in group and solo- shows in numerous locations and galleries: Storefront Gallery, NYC; The Dallas Museum of Art, TX; McKinney Contemporary, TX; San Francisco Camerawork, CA; Arnolfini, UK; The Siberia Biennial, Russia; The Swiss Institute, NYC; EFA Gallery, NYC; Kunstwerke, Berlin; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC. She received her MFA from Hunter College (NYC) in 2003. She is a 2005 NYFA fellow in Computer Arts and is currently Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of Massachusetts.