Carole Kim, Carmina Escobar, Kate Morales, & Paul Chavez
Friday December 5th & Saturday December 6th
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$20 general tickets | $10 student tickets with ID
This performance is supported by BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
"Where were you where I was not?”
Steeped in caregiving, end-of-life questions and observations of how a Life lived does not seem to hold onto a sense of linear chronology, we are setting out with the intention of exploring time and space in layered depth over span where at any moment a certain layer could come to the fore while another recedes. During our residency, we will collectively and site-specifically explore the space as a container of layered experience and engagement, underlining the ephemerality and elusiveness of the here and now.
CAROLE KIM - live video installation, sound actions
CARMINA ESCOBAR - extended voice, electronics, sound actions
KATE MORALES - dance actions
PAUL CHAVEZ - sound actions & spatialization
Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multimedia installation, video projection, live and telematic performance, drawing and experimental sound. She has experimented extensively with the optical phenomena of video projection in space including intricately hand-made layered projection environments and site-specific video projection onto large scale urban architecture and natural landscapes such as the forest in Norway, the rockscapes in Joshua Tree and the old oak groves in Descanso Gardens. As someone who works extensively with technology, it is where technology meets up with the human, physical, tangible world that interests her most. Kim has a love for creating contexts that invite synergistic collaboration and co-creation.
Carmina Escobar is a Los Angeles-based extreme vocalist, improviser, performer, and sound and intermedia artist whose work explores the boundaries of voice and sound to investigate emotions, politics, alienation, and human connection. Through performances, installations, and video works, she challenges conventions of musicality, gender, queerness, race, language, and communication. As an immigrant, her practice often examines suspended states between worlds, politics, and borders. Her work has been presented internationally and supported by prestigious residencies and awards, including recognition for sound innovation and experimental art. She remains focused on creating thoughtful and boundary-pushing work while staying rooted in the exploratory and collaborative nature of her practice.
Paul Chávez is a Chicano composer, instrumentalist, and sound designer from Southern California, blending his background in architecture and engineering with a focus on sonic textures and acoustical spaces. His work, described as "deliriously original" by the Los Angeles Times, has been presented at leading institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles Music Center, REDCAT, the Architecture and Design Museum, and the Grec Festival in Barcelona. Chávez has collaborated with Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Nels Cline, JOJO ABOT, Carole Kim, The Edge, Sarah Elgart, and Morleigh Steinberg. He is also an Interaction Designer at Arup, technical director for Luminex, and an At-Large board member at Fulcrum Arts.
Kate Morales is a dancer, choreographer, and strength and conditioning coach based in Southern California. After graduating from Cal Arts in 2011 with a BFA in Dance and Choreography, she moved to New York City. Her work was presented throughout Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, largely in collaboration with Lara Mahler, a NYU Tisch grad. She became a Certified Personal Trainer and Pilates Mat & Reformer instructor through Mt. San Antonio College, and runs her own personal training business and coaches Crossfit. She currently manages a fitness facility in La Verne, CA serving people over the age of 55. Her daughter attends an arts school in Pomona where she specializes in theatre and dance.