Performances by Variant State and Isaac Roth Blumfield.

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Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm

Variant State is a project originally instigated by Howard Martin (reeds), Jesse Kenas Collins (trumpet, reeds, feedback objects), and Michael Rosenstein (amplified surfaces and objects, modified field recordings.) Now primarily working as a duo, Collins and Rosenstein explore the interactions of acoustic instrumentation, electronics, multiphonics, abraded and degraded recordings, and feedback within performance spaces. Process is central to their approach. This includes building and modifying instruments, both traditional as well as those assembled from every-day objects, and investigating their use and misuse in open-form sonic investigation. They have performed for over a decade in spaces around New England.

Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments, exploring resonance, materiality, and affect through expanded approaches towards instruments, objects, and electronics. His music looks for uncanny places and expressions that embrace the beauty, pain, and strangeness of life.

His music has been influenced through work with performers such as Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, SWR Symphonieorchester, Yarn/Wire, Ensemble Multilatérale, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Darmstädter Fereinkurse, Klangspuren Schwaz, Impuls, the Banff Centre for Creativity, New Music on the Point, and Ticino Musica Festival. His music has been broadcast on Swiss, Austrian, and Southwest German public radio and has received scholarships and residencies from the Hirschmann Stiftung, Fondation Nicati- De Luz, and the SWR Experimentalstudio. In addition to instrumental music, he is active as a performer of improvised electronic music, performing in duos with Rebecca Lawrence, Alec Toku Whiting, and as a solo artist. He studied composition and electronics in Boston, Basel, and Vienna with Stratis Minakakis, Timothy McCormack, Caspar Johannes Walter, Svetlana Maraš, and Clara Iannotta. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.

A conversation with Kal Hart regarding their exhibition what could have flickered (on the cusp of a verge of a reality). Moderated by Jessica Hernandez.

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Kal is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice serves as the artist's own navigation. Their work aims to identify and reconsider what is the norm and open alternative possibilities of defining oneself in the existing system that we inhabit. To do so, they dissect, collect, and assemble familiar object(s) and graft the components together to a theme to create objects that are reminiscent of the original. These seemingly absurd objects—which are often humorous in nature—serve as a playful invitation into systemic disarray. These reconstructed objects are situated within a new system that is unfamiliar, creating a narrative that is continuously fluctuating. These narratives elude conclusions, asking the viewer to reconsider assumptions.

Kal is a Korean artist currently living in Boston. They moved to the U.S. in 2019 for their bachelor's degree, which they completed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are currently based in Boston, where they are in the process of obtaining their MFA in Sculpture at Boston University.

Jessica Hernandez (she/her) is a DJ, sound artist, and curator. In terms of visual art, her interests include sculpture, installation, and textiles. She is also drawn to work that relates to archives, engages with text, and explores the ontology of objects, Blackness, and the Caribbean. As a musician and sound artist, her practice relies on the heavy processing of found samples and field recordings, often utilizing the sounds of industrial objects and materials for their sonic depth, brooding character, and conceptual resonances. In 2024, she and Aaron Michael Smith founded Transporter, an experimental music series located at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. With Lori Martinez, she organizes WWL — a working group for queer and non-binary musicians. She runs Project One, a mix series mostly dedicated to techno. She graduated with a B.A. in Peace Conflict Studies in 2020 and an M.A. in History at the University of Virginia in 2022. She began working with UVA in 2022 and became Managing Director in 2024.

what could have flickered (on the cusp of a verge of a reality) is a collection of seemingly innocuous objects that evoke curiosity; one that lingers into uneasiness. The effect of these objects becomes a needle to poke at the gaps of normalcy, disrupting the accepted societal constructs. The logic of these individual objects question what is the norm, perceived information, and established value — introducing a queer reading.

Kal is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice serves as the artist's own navigation. Their work aims to identify and reconsider what is the norm and open alternative possibilities of defining oneself in the existing system that we inhabit. To do so, they dissect, collect, and assemble familiar object(s) and graft the components together to a theme to create objects that are reminiscent of the original. These seemingly absurd objects—which are often humorous in nature—serve as a playful invitation into systemic disarray. These reconstructed objects are situated within a new system that is unfamiliar, creating a narrative that is continuously fluctuating. These narratives elude conclusions, asking the viewer to reconsider assumptions

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

5:30-6:45 PM: Gallery Time with Guidance from the Curatorial Team & Visiting Artists
6:45-7:00 PM: Light Dinner sponsored by Bread Thyme
7:00-8:30 PM: Artist Panel moderated by Michael Maria (Director of Programming, Boston Palestine Film Festival) featuring Joëlle Tomb (co-curator, Lost Paintings Project) and 5 exhibiting artists: Khaled Jarrar (NYC and Jenin), Nora Sayyad (Helsinki), Iman Jabrah (Cincinnati), Sama Alshaibi (Tucson) and Doris Bittar (San Diego)
8:30-10:00 PM: Performances by Songs of Liberation and El Ärkitekt

Light food and drinks will be provided by Bread Thyme

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Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

2/3 members of Moon Unit (Olivia Katz and Steph Tamas) will perform a set of free improv and premiere two new works: “(un)becoming” by Dylan Dukat and “Mapped of Scars Along Interior Skin” by Dani Elizalde.

Doors: 7:30pm

Music: 8pm

Suggested Donations: $5+

This multi-instrumentalist trio (Olivia Katz, Stephen Tamas & Robert Karpay) make up Moon Unit: a genre-bending and boundary pushing ensemble that specializes in free improvisation. Moon Unit’s beliefs are based upon questioning and challenging the unspoken expectations of modern art and music by expanding sonic possibilities and reimagining stage presence. By composing in real time, ​​Moon Unit creates an intimate and unrepeatable experience among the musicians, the audience, and the space. Moon Unit is grounded in sincerity, deep and active listening, absurdity, and unfiltered expression.

dylan dukat (b. 2000) is a korean-american composer, improviser, and educator. their work has been performed by departure duo, rhythm method, eugene difficult music ensemble, and boston conservatory wind ensemble, and selected works can be found in the catalog of dulcamara press. they are currently on faculty at the boston conservatory high school composition intensive, and are former faculty at the eastern u.s. music camp, where they worked as head counselor and composition instructor. dylan also performs as part of the improvisation duo pixelated labyrinth with saxophonist ryan waller.

Dani J. Elizalde is a digital noise musician and performance artist working primarily in the Boston area. She is grown from radical cyborg and mestiza politics. Her work seeks to imagine a perverse but liberated future as it will have emerged from within the broken pieces of our shared present. By working within and between various borders policed by the agents of racial capitalism she becomes a mystic nature digitalized. Documentations of her work can be found on her youtube channel (Dani J. Elizalde) and future performances are often announced on her instagram account (@dani.the.j).

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Facilitated by Gina Al-Karablieh to accompany our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, this workshop will draw inspiration from Maroun Tomb's work and his themes of memory, displacement, landscape, and architecture. During the workshop, participants will receive an introduction to Tomb's work and recreate their own paintings in his aesthetic.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Lost Art of the Levant will explore themes of reclamation, fragmentation, and rediscovery through music, performance, and Palestinian contemporary art. The program includes:

4-5pm: Guided Exhibition Tour with the curatorial team (optional)
5-6pm: Panel moderated by Nisa Ari (MassArt Associate Professor of Arts of the Islamic World) with curator Joëlle Tomb and exhibiting artists Dina Khorchid, Noel Maghathe, Mado Kelleyan, RIDIKKULUZ, and Nardeen Srouji
6-7pm: Live Performance by local band Souq El-Jum3a

Light food and drinks will be provided.

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Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

A conversation with Indigo Conat-Naar and Ezri Horne on the occasion of their exhibition knockin’ on your screen door.

Sets by Boston-based musicians Dani J. Elizalde, Leo Martinez, and their duo Fronteriza.

knockin’ on your screen door features the work of sculptors Indigo Conat-Naar and Ezri Horne.