Filmmaker Ben Russell & musician Joe Grimm (a.k.a. The Wind-Up Bird) perform "Mazes," a double 16mm projection that uses photo-sensitive electronics and film loops to produce a transcendent barrage of flickering white light and audio signals.

Grimm & Lauren Carter perform "Mirror Phases," an exchange of feedback and exercise in boundary loss.

Lichens performs a song cycle for one vocalist.

Beer generously donated by Kelso.

Press release
Participants
  • Ben Russell is a media artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances engage with the history and semiotics of the moving image. He has had solo screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts, threewalls and the Museum of Modern Art. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, he began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, was co-director of the artist-run space BEN RUSSELL in Chicago, IL and performs in a double-drum trio called BEAST.
  • Joe Grimm is a composer and performer based in Chicago. He has collaborated with Lucky Dragons, Glenn Branca, and Alvin Lucier, among others. His most recent record is Brain Cloud (Spekk).
  • Lauren Carter is a Chicago-based sculptor and installation artist. She works in sound, film, and video.
  • Lichens is Rob Lowe. His most recent record is Omns (Kranky). He lives in Brooklyn.