9 Hour Interludes

9 Hour Interludes is a screen-only exhibition of performances conducted live and streamed over the course of four days. Curated by Jess Allie, Richard Haley, Trisha Holt, and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan.

October 21-24, 11AM – 8PM via Zoom

9 Hour Interludes 

Featuring performances by: The Astro-Mystic Sama Ensemble, A.W.E. Society & Friends, Augusta Rose, Ava Ansari, Bailey Scieszka, Biba Bell, Billy Mark, Chelsea Flowers, Cherise Morris, Cooper Holoweski, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos, Emmy Bright, Honduras Herrera*, Jetshri Bhadviya, Lauren Kalman, Leslie Rogers, Levon Kafafian, Maceo Paisley, Marcellus Armstrong, Margaret Hull, Nicole Williams, Niki Williams, Quinn Alexandria Hunter, Richard Haley, Sheryl Oring, Stefanie Cohen and Corey Gearhart, The Hinterlands + Renee Willoughby + Shen Bolun, Trisha Holt, Venusloc, and Vie Boheme.

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Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86173474354...

Zoom Password: 9hours
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9 Hour Interludes is a performance exhibition consisting of 4 daily 9 hour live streaming sessions. Artists from across the country have been invited by 4 curators to present a performance from a site deemed safe and accessible to be live streamed for the event.  In lieu of an opening reception or after party, a virtual conversation will take place with the curators, artists and audience. 

9 Hour Interludes oscillates between explorations of the screen as private and public space. The collapse of distance, access, and points of entry blurs distinction between the two. Over the past year, the body, the camera and the screen have been imbued with new meaning and 9 Hour Interludes finds itself marooned within this seemingly ever churning moment. 

In our current temporality, the web hosted live broadcast has become a substitute for human to human interaction. Mediated screen apparitions are acting out our desires for touch and closeness. They are also spawning new reactions in our fleshed bodies to old ways of being. A cultural diary of our adjustments is presently being written in countless articles mapping historic waves of depression, anxiety, and rage.

This moment begs the question; What is happening to our bodies when our physical experiences are replaced with digital experiences? What are the ways live streaming and a sense of place connect and disconnect people during this time? How are our nervous systems and chemical reactions being altered from languishing in a burrow of our own pheromones? When this is over will we snap back into our prior place? Or will we unknowingly be changed; shifting our culture and ways of being to adapt to our mutated form? Will this slight bump in the road chart us on a new course past the present?

The works in this exhibition will probe these questions, but we are not certain if an answer will appear. We envision this work as a time capsule. We are seeking to communicate with our future selves about this moment. This moment is too large to comprehend no matter how hard we try. We will be sightlessly mapping this terrain, creating a language that we will learn to speak in a future reflective place.