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Elastro A/V Day 2: ‘Expanded Cinema Performances’ - Curated by Yousif Alzayed

  • Elastic Arts 3429 West Diversey Avenue Chicago, IL, 60647 United States (map)

Elastro A/V presents a 2-day festival of audio and video installations and performances from a wide range of local audiovisual Chicago artists! Tonight is curated by Yousif Alzayed. The program is titled ‘Expanded Cinema Performances’.

Expanded Cinema Performances will feature three acts of Video Projectionists combined with Musicians and Movement Artists. Each of the three acts will be utilizing the CLEAT system, along with multiple projectors, in order to activate the spatial qualities of video and sound.

Lineup:
Yousif Alzayed
Fahed Albreiki
Ruby Que
IPH
Kat Bowden
Ryan Garvey

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door

Artist Bios

Yousif Alzayed (He/Him) is an interdisciplinary artist that works with light and sound to create work for exhibitions and performances.

Photo Credits: Gordon D Fung
Social Media Handel: @yousifslens

Fahed Albreiki (He/Him) is a Freestyle Soccer Artist whose performances fuse street dance, intricate juggling, and dynamic storytelling through movement. A five-time world finalist in the Freestyle Soccer Championship, he has showcased his craft in over 30 countries across the globe. With a background in engineering, Fahed has been collaborating with Yousif for the past seven years to blend movement and juggling with multimedia arts.

Photo Credits: Lester LaVonne
Social Media Handel: @fahedalbreiki

Ruby Que (They/Them) is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on site-specific interventions and expanded cinema performance. They work with light to open portals and create hauntings. Drawing from their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find belonging in transit. They have exhibited and performed at Roman Susan, Poetry Foundation, Comfort Station, Elastic Arts (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Stove Works (Chattanooga, TN), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) and elsewhere. Que holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they currently teach. 

Photo Credits: Elaine Miller
Social Media Handel: @rubyq.ue

IPH
Social Media Handle: @iph0000

Kat Bowden (She/Her)
Social Media Handle: @bawdenka

Ryan Garvey (He/They)
Social Media Handle: @rwgarvey

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