Squeaky Wheel offers local artist
access residencies to artists annually. Four local individuals are chosen to
receive a small stipend and equipment to create new work to premiere at Squeaky
Wheel. Aimee
Buyea, Thomas Holt, Christine David and Elizabeth Knipe have been the chosen
artists this year, and have produced a diverse set of art that will premiere at
Buyea, a self-proclaimed hoarder, has created a personal
exploration of her past and her identity using hand-processed super 8mm film,
which is accompanied by a performance. Buyea has collected ticket stubs, love
letters, postcards, bills, post-it notes and photos since her middle school
years, documenting her attempts at letting go of the past and living in the
moment, which is all portrayed through Re
(memories).
Tom Holt has strung together psychedelic, surreal clips that mesh
in an almost logical way to visualize how and where energy ultimately travels. Signals
(Skulls and Candy as Metaphor for Life) is a short animation about communicable and non-communicable
information, created using frame-by-frame manipulated photos, drawings and
paintings.
Beyond Recognition, created by Christine
David, is a short narrative detailing the way the choices we make affect our
lives.
RoomBionic II is Elizabeth
Knipe's piece that features an autonomous display system and is the second in a
series of installations that chronicle a robotic vacuum's interactions with
human life. The street-level gallery at Squeaky Wheel has been transformed into
a studio apartment patrolled by RoomBionic. Due to RoomBionic's work, the
apartment is nearly sterile, and the robot has nothing more to do than wander
around, projecting the days of dirty dishes, unmade beds and piles of laundry.
Squeaky Wheel is located at
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