Скачать или смотреть Non-Event SUPPORT SERIES : BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT

An online fundraising concert for the Boston Ujima Project
featuring performances & pieces by...

ABDUL H. SHERZAI
ALEC TOKU WHITING with MATTHEW OKUN
GREG KOWALSKI
SOHIN HWANG

To learn more about the Boston Ujima Project and donate visit:
http://www.ujimaboston.com/

The Support Series is an ongoing series of online fundraisers in support of social & racial justice organizations. For this edition of the series, we're urging people to donate to the Boston Ujima Project.

Taking its name from the Swahili Kwanzaa principle for “collective work and responsibility,” the Boston Ujima Project works to organize Greater Boston area neighbors, workers, business owners, and investors to create a community-controlled economy. Specific strategies it seeks to employ include the creation of a “Good Business and Real Estate” certification, a community controlled investment fund, a worker empowerment network, and an alternative local currency.

We encourage you to learn more about the wideranging initiatives of the Boston Ujima Project and make a donation, if you can.

About the artists:

ALEC TOKU WHITING is a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Primarily a koto player, his improvisatory approach is rooted in his experiences studying modern music for the instrument while growing up in Yokohama, Japan. His technique foregrounds the manipulation of timbre and its relationship to physical gesture. As a composer Alec’s work results from the investigation and synthesis of abstract formal processes and intuitive structures in pursuit of a multiplicitous musical event. He has collaborated with musicians including Mark Fell, the Mivos Quartet, Wendy Eisenberg, Ted Reichman, Jan Williams, and Alex Greffin-Klein.

MATTHEW OKUN is a guitarist, composer, and audio software engineer. He received his B.A. in guitar performance from NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation department, where he studied with Carla Kilshedt, Anthony Coleman, and Joe Morris.

GREG KOWALSKI is a digital media artist whose work lies at the intersection of theater and performance art. His performance pieces incorporate interactive video projection systems of his own design that use movement, light or sound to create live visuals. Greg has also projected for numerous sound artists using his systems. The ability to create images through performance is essential to his concept of live projection. Greg was the co-founder of the interdisciplinary Qfwfq duo (1997 - 2010). In 2017 he filmed “7 Images”, a collection of seven performances by Peter J. Wood released by Invocation Films.

SOHIN HWANG is an artist and writer working on issues around art, technology, and society. Her recent project involves performance art and cybernetics in the mid 20th century with an attention to materiality, producer-audience relationship, and public formation. Her writing and artworks have been presented in research institutions and experimental journals. She recently finished a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar. She enjoys imaginary gardening.