Acid Rain

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New exhibition opening this Friday

Our big end of year rooftop screening. Comprising work from the last year or so of exhibitions. Pencil us into your calendar ! Doors and music at 7, screening at 8. Music performance by . More info soon.

Video still (cropped) from piece “The Lingerie Show”. Come by tonight to see this work plus “Wealth Redistribution” group show at , and Attic AIR Resident artists. And as always goodies from the

So nice to have Acid Rain get a mention in the article about the arts grant we received from . Their support means that for the first time ever we are able to pay our artists AND we’ll be doing a one night screening of ALL the videos from the last year of exhibitions.
If you don’t know Acid Rain is a space for film+video+Art located at in downtown Chapel Hill.

David Joselit reviews Jordan Strafer’s “PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure)” for . We exhibited this piece at back in February.

I feel like for the most part Acid Rain is entirely overlooked in this area, even by the folks that are supposedly in to video/film elsewhere. It’s a humble project but we try to bring quality artwork to the area like this piece that was curated by — I generally don’t know that the project is engaging anyone in the area other than in a passive way. I hear zero feedback from shows. The goal has been to present video work IRL instead of on social media, etc. Is the mic on? Sorry just venting.

Opening Friday night:

“Blossom End Rot”
Marit Liang
3:33 min
2020

Blossom End Rot stages semi-figurative, miniature ceramic ‘actors’ and ‘set pieces,’ reminiscent of traditional Chinese gongshi (scholar’s stones) as well as modernist sculpture of de Kooning, Bourgeois, Hepworth, and Arp, within the framing techniques of cinema (shot composition, lighting, focus pulls, camera movements, etc.). Audio assemblage or pastiche samples clips of Asian and western classic films and art films evoking the dangerous liaisons of film noir – voices and music that seem to emerge from or speak to the ceramic figures. Meanwhile, a latex-gloved hand manipulates a milkweed pod, and low-resolution DV footage captures the traces of a mare in a field at dusk. Fertility and abundance conspire with decay and dissolution to evoke the endangered yet generative qualities that flow across nature, bodies/objects (animal, vegetable, and mineral), sexualities, affects, cinematic time, and transcultural memory.

Marit Liang is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City. She completed her MFA at Bard College in December 2020. Her work has been shown at Other Subjects, 182 Ave C, Plexus Projects and Aeon Books, NYC, as well as numerous film festivals around the country and world.

Stop by 2niteeee

Stop by tomorrow night 6-9 to see “otherness” by Missouri-based Chinese artist . 😷 required.