Threads of Assumption: The Biases You Weave
a multimedia performance installation
June 24-27, 2021
Percussionist, composer, public artist and educator Maria Finkelmeier finds music, narrative, and collaboration in unexpected places and creates large-scale multimedia events in public spaces. Her Studio 170 multimedia project, created in collaboartion with artists Sofie Hodara, U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo und Martha Rettig, explores and exploits day to day learned sexist behavior though the guise of A.I., asking “if a robot can learn to be sexist, can a human unlearn?”
Gathering
exhibition and performance with publication
December 2-12, 2021
Interdisciplinary artist Shane Charles Smith creates textile, performance and installation work that deals with themes of generational inheritance and loss, body presence and absence, and the mapping of histories. In the context of Studio 170, he presents a multi-media installation that meditates on the space of absence and culminates in a live choreographed performance and publication.
