On March 22, 2021, artist/organizer Angela Beallor officially joins MDOCS as the new Documentarian in Community Co-Creation (DCC)! As the DCC, Angela will coordinate the programming for, and serve as a creative principle of the MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative, funded for 4 years by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, Co-Creation Initiative

In 2017, my video work I Want a Baby!, ReVisited (lecture) was awarded First Prize in the Sofia Queer Forum International Video Contest. The catalogue has just been released and is available for download here!

MYCO-CRYSTALINE IMPROVISATION::
Nathalie Dubois Calero and Michelle Temple

This installation investigates the relationship between audio signals both audible and inaudible to humans as they are transduced through the concurrent growth of bacteria and Potassium Sodium Tartrate (the crystal utlized in audio equipment such as crystal radios/microphones/turntables). Sound and its physiological effect on materials could possibly illuminate areas of sensitivity between living and non-living systems. 

A DRAWING OUT :: LACTIC ORCHESTRATION 
Performance @ 7PM
Angela Beallor and Michelle Temple with Vicki Kereszi, Heather Marsh, and Chanda Lindsay

This performance centers on an amplification of the pumps’ machinations. The rhythmic sound of the extractive forces as well as the erratic sound of body and milk. Pumping is a task, a chore, a necessity. That which extracts and collects milk. That which tethers pumper to machine. Tethers feeder to eater. That which nourishes a baby.

Sponsored by the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Special thanks to Kathy High

Please join us for the exhibition opening on Sunday May 6th, 2018.
Graduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Department of the Arts will present their annual exhibition– entitled PLEASE. PEOPLE. PLEASE. –at Collar Works, in downtown Troy, NY.

The opening will take place from 1-5 pm; the exhibition will be on view through May 12. This group show promises audiences an eclectic array of projects that reflect current trends in contemporary art, and will feature works ranging from performance to installation. 

Performances will take place from 2-5 pm, schedule below:
2 pm: Jeremy Stewart
2:30: Ezra Teboul
3 pm: Diana Alvarez
3:30: Eric Miller and Patrick Quinn
4 pm: Javier Molina

Come hungry because FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED!
Catering from Shalimar in Troy!
We hope to see you there!