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Artist, educator, curator in Chicago 🪶
@___murmuration_____

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Into the Well, Concrete Horizon

Thanks for everyone for coming and joining to the orbit screening last Friday @walnut.well
🌱🍿🌕

Works by:
Ali Amiri @araniom
Kat Bawden @bawdenka
Kaya & Blank @kaya.blank
Sophia Leitenmayer @sophia.fngr
Naoto Nakamura @naoto0_0
Lydia Nsiah @_lydiansiah
Sorn Patharakorn @sornr
Tian Skultan @tianskultan
Thi Hong Linh @lintendooo
Ping Ho — Curatorial Reflection @pingho.art
with
Iikkamatti Hauru @iikkamattihauru
Iza Koczanowska @islaparadis
Rachel Jungeun Oh @racheljungeunoh
Hesam Salehbeig @hesam_salehbeig
Tzu-En Wu (Theo) @tzuenwu_theo

Curated by Rio Usui / orbit
@rio.usui @orbit_platform

Walnut Well – Experiencing and Sensing Spaces
Fabrik 1230 (Courtyard), Kunst- und Kulturareal Breitenfurter Str. 176, 1230, Vienna
@walnut.well
@hanakogeierhos
@florianschmidt_artist

Photo: @florianschmidt_artist @fabianreetz @igigo.wu @sophia.fngr @saffi_adler

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🌱Upcoming orbit screening:

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻

Friday 16.10.2026 / 8:30pm
hosted by @walnut.well

Works by:
Ali Amiri @araniom
Kat Bawden @bawdenka
Kaya & Blank @kaya.blank
Sophia Leitenmayer @sophia.fngr
Naoto Nakamura @naoto0_0
Lydia Nsiah @_lydiansiah
Sorn Patharakorn @sornr
Tian Skultan @tianskultan
Thi Hong Linh @lintendooo
Ping Ho — Curatorial Reflection
@pingho.89 @pingho.art

Curated by Rio Usui / orbit
@rio_usui @orbit_platform

The screening concept takes the well as a starting point, thinking through its vertical and horizontal associations. Vertically, it considers the well as a space of depth, descent, and looking inward. Horizontally, it follows the concrete surface of a well, on the former Nuss Brunnen Feld, and the flow of water extending toward the port, the sea, and the horizon beyond.

The works in the program engage with these relationships through different distances between the body, nature, objects, and architecture, as well as through different ways of looking and sensing space. The screening will take place within the space of Walnut Well itself, so the site and its architectural surfaces will also become part of the viewing experience.

orbit is an international and interdisciplinary platform for exhibition and publication, extending across conversations, interviews, research, and other forms of exchange, founded and directed by Rio Usui.
From autumn 2026, orbit will be hosted by Walnut Well, where it will develop and present a series of activations and cultural events.

Address:
Walnut Well – Experiencing and Sensing Spaces
Fabrik 1230 (Courtyard), Kunst- und Kulturareal Breitenfurter Str. 176, 1230, Vienna
@walnut.well
@hanakogeierhos
@florianschmidt_artist

Accessibility:
S-Bahn or U6 Meidling, change to Bus 62A, Bildungscampus Atzgersdorf
Entrance: gate to the inner courtyard / between the pharmacy and the fitness center

We are looking forward to welcoming you! 🍿

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La Comedie Italienne - The Italian Comedy on view in Moderately and with Great Boredome.

Sound by Anna Johnson and the Visual by Kat Bawden, 16mm film exposed with bathwater, hibiscus flowers, epsom salt, mold, skin, sweat, and sunlight, 2026 and Performance: Rex Delafkaran (on 10/25/26)

Curated by Lauren Sudbrink @laurencsudbrink

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PUSS IN THE CLOSET

THREE HOURS OF ACCORDION DRONES!

RECORDED LIVE! AT @patientinfo !

now available for one dollar per hour on coreysmith.bandcamp.com

and its my birthday and its bandcamp friday ;)

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!!! @laurencsudbrink has put together a smart & funny & massive show - “Moderately & With Great Boredom” a show that’s also a song that’s also a moving image that’s also on the walls that’s also a history lesson that’s also about Erik Satie - featuring 60+ artists over a @patientinfo opening tomorrow (Friday) 9/25 6-10PM. I wrote a short essay in a takeaway book available at the opening & I’ll be performing something athletic tomorrow alongside forever favorites @marmblatt @thejacklarmer @madisonmaeparker @jannybooger @ennui2 tmr eve. Here’s a few lil sneak peek details and favorite lines from the show 👀 hope to see you! ♥️💙♥️💙♥️💙

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In continuation of last year’s Sunken Garden, INT./EXT. is a public courtyard video screening exploring the spaces that separate and connect us.

INT./EXT. is a one-night video screening taking place at sunset tonight, Friday, September 11th at 7:30pm in the courtyard of a historic 1922 Andrew Rebori-designed building.

INT./EXT. explores the porous relationship between interior and exterior through moving-image works that consider architecture as both physical condition and psychological state. Projected onto the courtyard wall separating private garden from public street, the screen becomes a threshold for looking, crossing, and inhabiting. Responding to the building’s architecture, the video works investigate windows, façades, landscapes, domestic interiors, and imagined worlds as sites where visibility, intimacy, and exclusion are negotiated. The projection transforms the screen into an architectural aperture for encounter and reflection.

Presented by Brooke Hummer and Alexis de Chaunac

Participating artists: Mauricio Alejo, Kioto Aoki, Kat Bawden, Martin Creed, Shir Ende, Silvia Gruner, Sage Lin 林書慈, Jonas Müller-Ahlheim, Maya Nguyen, Jan Tichy, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, and Naomi Uman.

Note: a few steps are required to enter the courtyard.

Still image: Kioto Aoki, Too, a System, 2021

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[2026.07.22] feedback
< image from L—R is Robbie Lynn Hunsinger,, James Connolly,, Kat Bawden,, Michael Zerang,, Hypergrace,, Avreeayl Ra >

at @elasticarts

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Kat Bawden
@school.nuit
@elasticarts

#monochromephotography
#freejazz
#neoclassical
#experimentalmusic
#improvisedmusic
contrastphotography
thespacebetween
inacertainlight
monochrome
grainisgood.
bwphotography
blackandwhitephotography
availablelightphotography
light shadow contrast
rhythm cadence form shape
grain
missedfocus
motionblur

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TONIGHT!

We’re so excited to host Night School here at Elastic Arts for the first time - excellently curated by Erez Dessel. Video artists are paired with improvising musicians, with each musician live-scoring the video for the first time. There are no aesthetic hierarchies at Night School, each show is about spontaneity and openness, you never know what you’ll see and you won’t believe what you hear!

Please join us for this excellent lineup, 8pm tonight!

LINEUP

Avreeayl Ra - sound / Hypergrace - video
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger - sound / James Connolly - video
Michael Zerang - sound / Kat Bawden - video

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This Wednesday Chicago’s dynamic audio/visual series, Night School, presents an evening of experimental video and music for the first time here at Elastic Arts. Video artists are paired with improvising musicians, with each musician live-scoring the video for the first time. There are no aesthetic hierarchies at Night School, each show is about spontaneity and openness, you never know what you’ll see and you won’t believe what you hear!

Please join us for this excellent lineup, 8pm Wednesday!

LINEUP
Avreeayl Ra - sound / Hypergrace - video
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger - sound / James Connolly - video
Michael Zerang - sound / Kat Bawden - video

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_____-_— NIGHT SCHOOL
2026.07.22

ªªªand [It] Will

1. @elasticarts at 8pm
2. Avreeayl Ra / Hypergrace
3. Robbie Lynn Hunsinger / James Connolly
4. Michael Zerang / Kat Bawden

†This project is partially supported by an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events§

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procesos en @___murmuration_____

gracias blob @bawdenka y @camillecasemier

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