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2022

Stream is the fourth offering from “…and also with you” 

STREAM

JULY 2022
EV Gallery 621 East 11th Street New York, NY 10009 Stream is an installation at EV Gallery, New York, by artists Miah Artola and Chris Jordan. Two wall-size projections merge, representing the inner and outer conditions of refugees’ experience of fleeing. Stream takes as its point of departure the journeys of three women from Honduras to Mexico, the first step in their quests for asylum.

Stream creates opportunities for multifaceted encounters with artworks, highlighting the fundamental necessities of survival, water and compassion. The ways in which the works confront various political, economic, and environmental issues encourage, through the experiential perception of the plight of three women, new mod

es of addressing this ongoing crisis. The gallery space functions as a political device, proposing a diagrammatic relationship between artist, landscape, and viewer. In this model, diverse forms of engagement can be established in relation to the use of materials, space, and the exigencies of our time.

Projection One: Miah interviewed women at a refugee shelter in Mexico City for her upcoming web-series SKY.  Through a series of animated charcoal drawings, stop motion paintings, and her films of  traveling through the mangroves and mountains of Mexico, she tells three of these women’s stories. Subtitles and headphones provided.  There is also an ambient soundscape of Mexican forests at night.

Three chairs are offered for visitors to sit on. Each chair is named for each one of these women and offers the person sitting in the chair the opportunity to read her story, which is provided next to them.

Narrations:

Mirna Osiris 

Anita Cordova

Xiomara Yamileth

Projection Two: Framing this is an assemblage of tubes and pumps, representing facts of immigrants lives physically through the movement of water. Chris Jordan has created a machine that creates projections and acts as an intersection of resources emblematic of the water they need. It describes the simple vital fact of the necessity for water we all are made of, and that sustains us. These projections will pause every 78 seconds to stop and consider the fact that as of July 2022, 1 in every 78 people is displaced.Stream is an exercise that detours from the politics of refugee law, suggesting the one and only guiding principle is our shared humanity.

 interview with shelter director

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I’M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT, part two

5-month installation at Silent Barn, August 2015-January 2016

Braille lights are projected when you walk up the stairs. The staircase is lined with canvasses of sewed braille that say” I am not telling you what to do but you have to do” which is a line I overheard in Nicaragua, a response to someone else saying “I should donate to this school”.  As you walk up the stairs, you activate the entire narrative, which discusses the role of American imperialism as creator of Central American poverty.

” I am not telling you what to do but you have to do”. Hand sewn canvass of this narration.

Silent barn, three month projection installation,  2015: audio generated braille machine. Says ““I’m not telling you what to do, but you have to do it.” 

Braille canvass

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I’m not telling you what to do, but you have to do it” part one

 “I’m not telling you what to do but you have to do it— Part 1”  

Studio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden

December 6th 2014 -January 16 2015

Audio plays when you are close to these drawings, a poem is whispered

audio-activated- whispers when approached “wing painting 5″, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, acrylic

 

audio activated- whispers when approached “wing painting 2”, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, acrylic

The Man from Eritrea

Interactive projections, paintings, and scrolling projections of a word-for-word conversation I had with Dawit Kahsay as he described his travels from Eritrea, Africa, to Texas.

Scrolling projection plays throughout the night, every night,  7 PM — 7 AM.

Physical paintings and motion-activated animations (illustrating his journey) surround the scrolling projection. EV Gallery 621 East 11th St New York, NY 10009.  July 1 2021—August 30th 2021

In May I visited Casa Marianella a shelter for refugees in Austin Texas, where I interviewed several of the residents.  Here is where I met Dawit Kahsay, a refugee from Eritrea, who was the inspiration for this piece.

Paintings, motion-activated interactive projections, and scrolling a projection (all night 7pm until 7am)narration Dawit Kahsay had with Dawit Kahsay as he described his travels from Eritrea Africa to Texas 

––––––––––––––––––––––––Two shows with Hitomi Honda

IMPROVISAION/ ETHNOGRAPHY

1. January 2018 Interactive visuals with pianist Hitomi Honda at the New York University PhD Waverly Labs for Music and Computing for AV showcase.

Un-rehearsed improvisation with only the theme of allowing for mistakes (as in the title) As well as the non-stop mistakes of humanity  excerpt

 2. Cornelias Street CafeAudio Activated projection using APE to Hitomi Honda’s piano; “Sound Traffic” 2018 show at Cornelia Street Cafe

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Photos of Events using APE

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2013, Mountain video projected on trees Ulster County, NY with Share

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Ear to Earth festival, 2014https://vimeo.com/46558865

Jan 24th 2019: Video poems featured in

“REELpoetry” POETRY WITHOUT BORDERS Houston TX

Poesía sin fronteras / Poetry Without Borders

KIRYOKU AT EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA

March 2019 Kiryoku (inner strength, willpower) Experimental Intermedia  224 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013 “Screen Compositions”  ”  My paintings, animation and video in collaboration with voice artist Ami Yamasaki and pianist Hitomi Honda.(note: the first minute is audio in blackness)

Coney Island Mandala-site specific, Coney Island amphitheater 2011 

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Tracked Pastures

Lou Rossi mix 2

Pan Am music video 

“Cloak”

 more videos 

 

“Transformer lady”2011  shown at Good bye Blue Monday

 friend of the night (shown at The Dome at PS1/MoMA) 

Bird

Bright Air, 2010 music by David McChesney

APE at old can factory 2011

Many of my projection are made using my original software “APE” ( co-created with programmer Thomas Martinez)

LAUDS, Lea Bertucci & Megan Moncrief at the “Ab Uno Pluribus” Visuals by Ursula Scherrer & Miah Artola

audio activated drawings “deerland” deers generated with traffic sounds

 

“Bird and Wolf”

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