Outpost Artists Resources is a non-profit arts organization located in Ridgewood, Queens. We have been serving the arts community since 1990 providing access to video, sound services and new media assistance at well below market rates. In 2003, we began the Cuts and Burns Residency Program, which provides artists with free access to our facility including personal assistance by our staff of video editors, audio engineers, and computer programmers
Outpost Artists Resources supports new creative work through its residencies, and events – its mission is to serve artists in need of technical assistance with video, audio, and physical computing based art projects and to foster a dialogue between visual art and experimental music. Outpost hosts gallery exhibitions, artists talks, screenings and events that pair visual art, video, experimental music, and performance in an effort to bring adventurous audiences challenging interdisciplinary projects.
The end time is a future described in the eschatologies of several world religions, teaching that world events will reach a climax and cause the final events of history, the ultimate destiny of humanity…the end of the world. “I Did The Macarena But You’re Frowning Now” is the final collection of video work from this cycle of our Cuts and Burns live stream screening series. This event streamed on the Friday January 29th, 7pm EST, and was followed by a live Q&A. The on demand version of the program is available through theOutpost vimeo channelHERE.
This screening has been curated by Mikaela Lungulov-Klotz, and brings together a group of artists who were born into what feels like an ongoing climax at the verge of the end. Alanna Murray, Saradibiza, My Husband, and Hirad Sab tell us the story of the present moment through world building with an attitude that is imaginative and self aware, allowing for vulnerability that is honest in regards to it’s equal parts of desperation, poetry, tenderness and humor.
Ultimately, the end brings new beginnings; decay, redemption, and rebirth. These works have all been made through different iterations of digital image making, exploring moving image as a medium- expanding its bounds and reformulating its structures.
PROGRAM:
Alanna Murray “Delusion of Eternity“ Alanna Murray is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her experimental and fiction short films have been shown at film festivals from NY to LA. Murray’s collaborative short Paramus, NJ has been featured as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Her work often conveys feelings of alienation, uncertainty, and unsurmountable frustration. She mostly exists at night time on a couch somewhere.
“I’ve been contending with my own mortality daily, I imagine most feel this way. Anything I read or watch feels menacing, which ultimately keeps me awake until 5 AM, paranoid of my existence’s past/present/future. Delusion of Eternity is a semi-auto generated confrontation of this experience, of the indifferent void. For this experimental short, the text was either picked from auto-translated video subtitles or my own thoughts that elicited demented doom. Enjoy.”
My Husband “If You Can Only Take You With You, Who Will You Bring” & “the craziest year of my life i mean ours“ My Husband (b. 2015) is the pseudonym and collective practice of Annika Berry & Eliza Doyle. My Husband’s works are a series of slippages between author and subject, embodying both the protagonist and the other. He/we produce videos, texts, and lecture-performances in classroom/professional/art settings. My Husband is an expert in Survivalism, knows what urgency is, and incites the production of knowledge through a process of ongoing desire, projection, pleading, and responding. He/we have been invited to speak at SAR’s 11th Conference on Artistic Research in Norway, the Arlington Arts Center, the Rhode Island School of Design, École Nationale d’Art in Paris, and at multiple venues around New York. In 2019, My Husband was supported by Project Anywhere’s Global Online Exhibition platform for his/our project The Living.
If You Can Only Take You With You, Who Will You Bring (2019) is a call to write our “Post-Collapse Selves” into being – in other words, to use fiction to shape the real. Through the lens of Ursula K LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” My Husband contemplates 21st century survivalist practices of gathering, storing, and prepping. My Husband attempts to grasp matters of catastrophe and survival through methodologies of performance and narrative-building.
the craziest year of my life i mean ours is part of My Husband’s continued exploration of survivalism and interdependence. Both lecture-performance and confessional, we become a single persona addressing the audience from the position of a “woman underground” who has developed a creative practice of making her own currency. She muses on emergency preparedness, scarcity, abundance, and a return to Normal. The lecture premiered in August 2020 as part of the exhibition By Proxy at the Arlington Arts Center.
Saradibiza Paris based, born in France and raised in Morocco, Saradibiza is a self-taught CGI artist. After classical studies at the Beaux Arts in Paris, it is through drawing, painting, and photography that Sara developed her passion for technical learning serving creative purpose. Few years of experimentation, an attraction for software, and a fascination for digital, made her start a period of deep learning to enter the world of computer generated imagery and the freedom it promises. She seeks to bring us into stories, worlds, intimate moments, through creation of realistic environments and characters that do not exist in physical reality. Sara works on how emotions, memories and mental projections can be caused by the mere sight of a space, a light, an atmosphere… She puts her travels, her encounters, her collaborations at the center of her attention and considers the other and the elsewhere as the greatest inspiration.
Hirad Sab “The Fall“ Hirad Sab is an Iranian-American artist whose work explores the margins of digital aesthetics, internet culture, and technology. His amalgams occupy a precarious intersection of culture and the democratic nature of image circulation; an aesthetic trend that expands and mutates rapidly. Sab heavily features depictions of the human form, gesture, and activity in distinctly digital environments. The result is an emblematic oeuvre that resists easy classification. Born in Tehran, Iran, Sab relocated to the U.S. in 2010. He pursued his MFA at UCLA and received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah. His work has been exhibited at The Wrong Biennale, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, CHAO Art Center, and The LOW Museum of Contemporary Culture; with live visual performances at MoMA PS1 and ICA London.
The Fall is an examination of recent history, a nostalgia for the past, and hope for the future. It is a monument to the memory of those lost and those who prevailed. It is grief, desire, aspiration, and longing for those in motion and stasis.
The Cuts and Burns Online Screening Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative
