Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
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McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Concept and Music: Red Culebra (Guillermo Galindo, Cristóbal Martínez)
Choreography: Gerald Casel
Dancers: Audrey Johnson, Cauveri Suresh
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Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA
“Post-Mexican”composer Guillermo Galindo asked me to become a collaborator in his evolving project “Sonic Biogenesis”. My work is a visual response to Galindo’s “genome scores” that consist of graphic representations of his musical compositions that merge textures of plants, animals, and microbes. These pieces illustrate, in Galindo’s unique symbolic language, how research and data have historically expressed and sustained systems of power, particularly relating to colonialism. Presently Sonic Biogenesis is a work in progress that includes instrument design, written compositions and performances by The Living Earth Show and animation by Christoph Steger. My animations are projected live during performances, incorporated into edited videos of performances and shown as standalone pieces in exhibitions.
Composition: Guillermo Galindo
Music Performance: Guillermo Galindo, The Living Earth Show
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Animate Projects, UK
Animation: Christoph Steger, artwork by Jeffery H. Marzi
Produced by: Yasmeen Ismail
Music: Vasco Hexel
Additional Editing: Tony Fish
Additional Animation: Meghana Bisineer
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Royal College of Art, London, UK
Animation: Christoph Steger
Music: Vasco Hexel
Sound: Matthew Cooper
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H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
Voice: Kim Noble
Music:John Atkinson
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The Alhambra Theatre, Russian Hill neighborhood, various locations, San Francisco, CA
The Alhambra Project combines an archive of neighborhood conversations with a series of video and performance pieces resulting from collaborations with artists from across the globe. Visitors are guided through the neighborhood with a smartphone app that activates the blocks surrounding the former Theater. The project illuminates layered site-specific history, exploring cultural patterning and visions of exoticism, while using the Theatre’s gym conversion as a locus for interrogating the shifting demographics of the neighborhood.
Geolocation App Design and Concept: Christoph Steger
Coding: Sam Elie
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