pr0xy-fl3$h: requiem, organized by Alex Jacobsen and Lauren Simpson, explores the relationship between nonverbal communication and consent. To mark the closing of the exhibition at Generator Space on Friday, June 14th, Rainy M., Lee Emma Running, and Lauren Simpson will sit down for a conversation, punctuated by interactive Contact Improvisation and Deep Listening exercises, that considers approaches to interrogating the boundaries of direct and implied consent between artist, materials, and audience across disciplines.
After the discussion, small groups of five to ten people will be guided through performances of pr0xy-fl3$h: requiem every fifteen minutes from 7:45pm - 9:00pm.
pr0xy-fl3$h: requiem Interactive Panel Discussion and Performance Schedule:
6:00pm: Doors Open
6:30pm: Interactive Panel Discussion
7:45pm: pr0xy-fl3$h: requiem Performances Every Fifteen Minutes Until 9:00pm
Free and open to all. Please register in Eventbrite for the panel discussion portion of the evening to help us plan. Registration is not necessary to participate in a performance of pr0xy-fl3$h: requiem after the discussion. Those who would like to participate in a performance will be welcomed in small groups of 5 to 10 people on a first come, first served basis.
Generator Space is wheelchair accessible and located on a fairly busy street with a decent amount of traffic. Please use crosswalks for safety. Unmetered street parking is available on Vinton Street, 18th Street, and neighborhood streets to the north and west of the space.
Alternate Currents programming is presented with support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About the Panelists:
Rainy M. (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Pittsburgh, PA. She holds a Master's Degree in Painting and Sculpture from California State University, Northridge. She is best known for her noise projects; farrah faucet, disappearing, and Piss Fits. Through the lens of their own sick, queer body, Rainy uses sound and video to create healing rituals, performances, and objects that examine concepts of identity, modes of relation, permanence and decay.
Lee Emma Running is an artist creating arresting sculptures with roadkill animal bones, kiln-cast glass, and precious metals. She also fabricates monumental public installations on windows. For the last 15 years, she has been using this work to engage audiences in conversations about the impact of human-built systems on the natural world.
Lee is a 2023 Resident in the Arts/Industry program at Kohler and a 2022/23 Artist in Residence with Opera Omaha. She was also a 2017/18 Iowa Arts Council Fellow.
Permanent installations of her work can be viewed at the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, the Bernheim Arboretum, and Upper Iowa University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, and PACE Gallery, Council Bluffs, IA. She has also been a speaker with TEDx, Omaha.
Lee was a Professor of Art at Grinnell College from 2005- 2021 and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, and a BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work is represented by Olson-Larsen Galleries.
About the Moderator:
Lauren Simpson is an Omaha-based choreographer and educator. She created Moving Truck, a mobile and socially-distanced show performed on front lawns at residences throughout Omaha in 2020. Recent projects include Smithereens, a site specific performance in Joslyn Art Museum with music by Omaha musician Miwi LaLupa, Celestial Real Estate, a collaborative performance at Generator Space gallery featuring local artists Nick Miller (painter), Celeste Butler (textile designer), and Dereck Higgins (musician), and Self-Leveling a performance at ODC Theater San Francisco in collaboration with dancer Galen Rogers and visual artist Emma Strebel. Collaboration across disciplines is at the heart of her art making.
About pr0xy-fl3$h: requiem Artists
Erin Brandt, an Omaha native, began dancing as a student of classical ballet and pointe through Ballet Omaha from elementary through college. In 2013, Erin began to explore modern dance. Since then, she has had incredible opportunities to study with Bandaloop in Oakland, CA & Gaga technique with Margarida Macieira. Performance opportunities including guest artist spots in both live and film production with tbd an Omaha based dance collective. Choreographic,film and performance opportunities with Fortuna Producción Escénica in Jalisco, Mexico, Andre VanderVelde and Karla Adolphe. Erin considers it a great honor to continue down her path as an artist, working alongside the incredible artists of Vōx Dance Collective.
Natalie Hanson/Facade Queen is a multidisciplinary music, theater and movement artist from Tacoma, Washington residing in Omaha. She came to Omaha in 2014 to study Musical Theatre and Dance and is also a self taught musician and producer. In Omaha, Natalie has performed with the Bluebarn Theatre and The Rose Children’s Theatre, where she recently served as a full time company member and Associate Director of Early Childhood Education. Her solo project “Facade Queen” was nominated for Outstanding New Artist and Outstanding Pop from the OEAA awards and her duo project “Twin Pages” was recently nominated for Outstanding Alt/Indie. Natalie has performed professionally in Chicago, Illinois with Comedy Dance Chicago and Teatro Vista Theatre. Natalie has also collaborated with her sister, Emilie and local artists on their experimental music duo “Court The Muse” and has been a past recipient of Amplify Arts Generator Grant Series. Natalie is interested in exploring many topics in her work including mixed race identity, art for the very young, food, dance accessibility and connecting the community.
Alex Jacobsen explores concepts inter-related to memory and somatics with sound. Their work often incorporates haptic technology and psychoacoustics, encompassing performance essays, radio art, soundwalk, and installation. His performances typically involve feedback, synthesizers, and personal recordings. Alex's work has been performed and exhibited in various parts of the United States, Mexico, and Europe, including ESS's Quarantine Concert Series, KANEKO, Ex Nihilo Festival, The Radiophrenia Art Festival, and Konvent Puntzero. Extending beyond his solo endeavors, Alex has contributed to many collaborative projects, including Movement5 for tbd dance collective and the films These Bodies and Violent Textures of Nature and Flesh, directed by Matthew Strasburger. Alex has previously worked as an event coordinator for the Omaha Under the Radar festival and continues to curate shows that showcase diverse and experimental art forms in the Great Plains region.
Casey Albert Welsch is a working class writer, cook, journalist, and organizer. Born and raised on a dryland Nebraska farm, he now lives and works in central Omaha. As a multimedia journalist in southeast Nebraska, Casey started a community news service at KZUM radio in Lincoln, was a founding member of the Dandelion Network mutual aid group, and was a regular contributor to Hear Nebraska and Perfect Pour magazine. These days he is focusing on his other life's work as a cook, working at Methodist Hospital, feeding the sick and those who care for them.