Featuring the timeless girl gang classic: “The Yo-Yo Gang” (1992) by: G.b. JonesPlease Join us to celebrate the launch of Chromavision with fresh live music and video that’ll make your head spin! Chromavision’s own Black Jeans and Natural Curves headline this jam packed night to heat up your summer. D Tiberio makes a special appearance coming all the way from LA with brand new material for your dancing pleasure! Rxcxxns quenches our thirst with a live performance after a year long break! And Soft Drink melts our souls with their mind-numbing textures.
Refreshments provided by Lone Mountain.
Chromavision is an independent record label and video production house based in San Francisco, California committed to examining the creative process and serving as an outlet for quality music.
Goldwave Studios Inc. is a multimedia production house and app development
company dedicated to exploring the many realms of creativity and revitalizing the way music is made. We are based in the heart of the Mission District of San Francisco where we produce Chromavision, an online video series and blossoming record label.
Black Thorns in the Black Box is a touring screening of experimental film and video by eleven contemporary artists whose work resonates with the heavy, dark, and mystic obscurity of Black Metal music. Its screening in Chicago coincides with the gallery exhibition Black Thorns in the White Cube—on view March 16 through April 14 at Western Exhibitions.
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Based throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating artists include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle (London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Brooklyn), Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton, England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat (Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati (Brussels, Belgium), and Michaël Sellam (Paris, France). This screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three parts—the underground, the earth, and the heavens—according to the three branches of Medieval concepts of music—musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis—to explore how Black Metal has permeated all known spheres of creation.
Curated by Amelia Ishmael & Bryan Wendorf
Amelia Ishmael is an artist whose practice includes critiquing, historicising, teaching, and curating other artists’ practices. Her current projects include the traveling art exhibition “Black Thorns in
the White Cube” (currently on view at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, MO) and co-editing and curating pages for the academic journal Helvete. She studied studio art and art history at the Kansas City Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has published articles on contemporary art with The WIRE, Art21.com, ArtSlant Chicago, and Art Papers.
Bryan Wendorf co-founded the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 1994 and remains its Programmer and Artistic Director. He has served on the board of directors of IFP Chicago and has curated film programs including Conversations At The Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), Transmediale (Berlin) and the Revelation Film Festival (Perth). He studied fine art at Columbia College Chicago, and has written articles about film, music, comics and popular culture for a variety of publications including New City, Indiewire, It’s Only A Move!, and Wormwood Chronicles.