Outpost Artists Resources is a non-profit arts organization located in Ridgewood, Queens. We have been serving the arts community since 1990 providing access to video, sound services and new media assistance at well below market rates. In 2003, we began the Cuts and Burns Residency Program, which provides artists with free access to our facility including personal assistance by our staff of video editors, audio engineers, and computer programmers
Outpost Artists Resources supports new creative work through its residencies, and events – its mission is to serve artists in need of technical assistance with video, audio, and physical computing based art projects and to foster a dialogue between visual art and experimental music. Outpost hosts gallery exhibitions, artists talks, screenings and events that pair visual art, video, experimental music, and performance in an effort to bring adventurous audiences challenging interdisciplinary projects.
Our second Cuts and Burns Screening was curated by Muyassar Kurdi, and is titled Body Poetics, featuring work by MV Carbon, Muyassar Kurdi, Art Jones, and Eryka Dellenbach. This screening streamed on Sunday november 15th at 7pm through the Outpost Vimeo channel.
This series brings together a group of interdisciplinary artists whose works in video and analog filmmaking explore: relationships between the body and the camera, the queer gaze, boundless landscapes, and the transformation of self. A ritualistic quality is present throughout, and viewers cannot help but travel to unknown and anonymous places at the intersection of poetry, painting, and dance. These works depict new explorations in embodiment and moves toward unifying modalities.
MV carbon MV Carbon’ is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompasses live performance, sound, film, sculpture, and multi-media installation. She embraces sonic space, utilizing techniques such as tape delay, feedback, and re-amplification. Carbon forms dense orchestrations, using extended techniques, conjuring sounds from amplified objects, stringed instruments, magnetic tape, gongs, electronics, and artifacts. Carbon’s intention is to heighten our sensory awareness, while amplifying the level of ritual, rhythm, and momentum in sound and movement. Her current work explores concepts such as interchangeability, the human mechanism, perceptive states of consciousness, shape shifting, and perpetual motion. Fear Implantation Vapor Theory (2003), 16mm, 5:00; Emerald Fix’s paranoia, mistrust and fear drive her into a mental feedback loop where she is forced to confront the Bandit who co-exists within her subconsciousness. The Pillow (2019), 16mm, 9:00. This short takes an intimate look at the transformative processes that occur as one allows themselves to drift off to sleep.
Muyassar Kurdi Muyassar Kurdi (b. 1989 in Chicago) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, analog photography and film. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She currently focuses her attention to interweaving homemade electronic instruments into her vocal and dance performances, stirring a plethora of emotions from her audience members through vicious noise, ritualistic chants, and meditative movements. Field Dances is a dance film exploring space, scale, micromovements, and anatomy. (16mm, 9:17 minutes, 2019) ألوان”) colors”) is a dance towards liberation dedicated to the Palestinian people. Movements to the cornet and voice ‘play’ amidst a vast industrial landscape in Brooklyn. Centered on embodiment, scale, subtlety, space, color, and visual rhythm, ألوان celebrates awareness through movement. (digital & 35mm, 6:38, 2020).
Art Jones Art Jones works with moving images, photography, sound, and objects, often using original and found media as raw material to be sampled and re-combined in order to examine implicit cultural meanings or suggest new ones. Jones’ films and media art projects have been presented internationally, most recently at Times Art Center Berlin, Roulette Intermedium, and Mana Contemporary Art. Dronography, 2016, 5:36, Sensual connections between insects and mammals seen through the privileged human gaze. Sweet, 2018, 3:40- A meditation on a repressed history of an American celebration, and all that’s left behind. Empathy Test, 2019, 4:17- A letter to a nationalist by the last undesirable departing for the planet Jupiter.
Eryka Dellenbach Eryka Dellenbach (she/they/creature) is a filmmaker and performance artist from Chicago freshly based in the East Bay. At the heart of her directorial work is a strong belief in the lived-in reality of creative production and thoughtfully designed sensation for performing agents. Her choreographies in film and live performance pursue psychophysical thresholds, and mine the complexities and contradictions of power, sexuality and relationships. Her work has been presented throughout North America at Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research at the Judson Memorial Church, Links Hall, Virginia Commonwealth University, Thalian Hall, Cucalorus, Anthology Film Archives, No Nation, the Green River Cemetery and in Russia at the Shiryaevo Bienalle of Contemporary Art. She has worked with and performed the works of artists across mediums including Atsushi Takenouchi, Blair Thomas Puppet Theatre, Tino Sehgal, Matty Davis and Amanda Gutierrez. She is a HEKLER collaborator and works as an instructor of 16mm filmmaking at MONO NO AWARE. Nola, Apt. features two segments of a solo Eryka witnessed Nola performing when they first met. Partially influenced by visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2013, the solo explores the act of private ritual put on public display, and inversely, the individualization of codified ritual. There is a lasting practice of kissing the surface, placing notes, or whispering into the crevices of this wall by visitors. The wall is also strictly divided by gender – women are allotted about half of the space devoted to men – though it is easy to peer through the fencing to witness the practices of those on the other side. Bringing Nola’s performance to a private, domestic setting shepherds the work towards a confrontation with its own vulnerability. Adding a third layer of celluloid film documentation creates a new, fragile dynamic between performer and viewer.
The Cuts and Burns Online Screening Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative
