MSHR & GOVERNANCE
Live cinema performance “NETWORK ENTITY” by MSHR (Brenna Murphy & Birch Cooper) and audio-visual noise project by GOVERNANCE (Quran Karriem & Rebecca Uliasz)
Suggested donation: $15
RSVP suggested / Parking limited / Carpools encouraged
Saturday
May 17, 8PM
7:30 PM – Doors Open
8:00 PM – Program Begins
10:00 PM – After Hang
Fatwood is excited to host an evening of expanded signals, improvisation across noisy circuitry and cybernetic composition by a pairing of adventurous artist collaborative dous.
NETWORK ENTITY
A live audiovisual performance by MSHR, in which sculptural and sonic shapes are formally linked in an ever-mutating composition. MSHR’s system networks Blender and Supercollider for real-time improvisation via a handmade interface.
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
GOVERNANCE is at once an collaborative audio-visual noise performance project, and an experimental tactical media collective. Through performative interventions, lectures, and multimedia publications, we view the works of Governance as an exaggeration of the performativity of knowledge production; an investigation of the gestures, affects and embodied dispositions that are culturally legible as ‘knowledge work’ and imbued with a veneer of ‘objectivity.”
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