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Sandra Sheehy Untitled, 2012 Mixed media/ Fabric 22.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches 57.2 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm SSe 75

(photos by Brandon Jardine)

Honor Fraser Gallery in conjunction with Commonwealth & Council present ATTACK, SUSTAIN, RELEASE, DECAY, a performance collaboration joining performance and media collectives Mutant Salon, Experimental Half Hour, and Project Rage Queen.

Referencing a synthesizer’s parameters of the sound­shaping envelope generator, ASRD uses a diagrammatic score to orient sound, movement, voice, and video amidst a ritual of preparatory beautification. The sound­ enabled tools used by the performers to apply makeup, cut hair, and otherwise beautify themselves are such that each transformative gesture undertaken by the performers triggers different sound effects and affects, highlighting the body as a ritual site of transformation. ASRD also incorporates chromakey (“green screen”) technology with the performers wielding matching chromakeyed objects and costumes, reimagining the body and site in a relationship of indeterminate materiality. ASRD offers a collective vision of self care to expand parameters for synthesis: ATTACK (Identity), SUSTAIN (The Flame That Lights the Way Toward the Destruction of the Patriarchy), RELEASE (The Monster), DECAY (& Regenerate Our Bodies). Project Rage Queen: Travis D, Alice Cunt, Vik Victorious

Experimental Half Hour: Eva Aguila, Brock Fansler

Mutan Salon: Young Joon Kwak, Marvin Astorga, Elisa Harkins, Alli Miller