5th Annual Transmodern Festival. Live. Art. Action

Andrea Shearer is an accomplished musician with 4 album credits plus a bucket full of 7″ and compilation releases. She is currently drumming with Pariah Piranha (Queer Control Records), and is a guest drummer for Brooklyn-based pop duo NA+AN. Pariah Piranha’s second album “Animus Unanimous” is in production.

Kristen Anchor is a Baltimore video artist and musician. Her goofy, political videos have screened all over the U.S. and appeared on several independent film compilations. She’s the drummer for The Degenerettes, Baltimore’s all-girl underground garage group.

Project Name: Monster Drummer Thunderupagus
Project Description: Monster Drummer Thunderupagus is an unlikely untenably metal-head drummer from another dimension. Thunderupagus is not cute; it is fierce, jamming on its sweet fifteen-piece monster drum kit. Thunderupagus will be on Earth for one show only, Sunday, Apr 6th for Pedestrian Service Exquisite.

David James Armacost and April Danielle Lewis met in 2006. Since then they’ve exhibited their artwork and curated shows in Baltimore, at Large Glass Project Space; Sub-Basement Gallery, and Spin Alternative Art Space ; in Annapolis, at the Maryland Federation of Art ; in Wilmington DE, at the Lo-Fi Gallery; and at the University of Delaware. Armacost, who received his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art in 2002, is a native resident of Baltimore Lewis recently earned an AA in visual art from Anne Arundel Community College and is pursuing her BFA in printmaking at Towson University. By subscribing to contemporary art on a local, regional, and national level, David James and April Danielle both remain committed to enriching the arts in Baltimore.

Project Name: Spring Promenade 2008
Project Description: A passerby encounters the ’surreal moment’ of a red carpet photo shoot-everyone is encouraged to participate, either stand in front of the logos, or take pictures. Professional photographers will also be photographing whoever is in the photographic area. The bright colors and flashing strobe lights will capture the attention and imagination of all those nearby.

Kelley Bell is an Artist, Animator, Designer and dilettante extraordinaire living and working in Baltimore city.

Project Name: Hydra
Project Description: A very large talking monster: when one addresses the Hydra through a microphone, it repeats what you said back to you: although each of the Hydra’s nine heads regurgitates your speech in a different distorted way. The hydra says a lot of things all at once; each of its heads has its own nuances, its own way of speaking, in an effort to please everyone. A hydra does not lie, but the truth that emerges from the Hydra’s lips is a definite departure from the original.

Andrea Bocchio is a Peruvian artist, graduating from MICA in May with a degree in Fiber and Art History. She studied Fashion Knitwear in London and has been working in knit and print fashion collections. She is interested in the cycle of luxury, the real and the counterfeit, roles of bodies and identity in fashion.

Project Name: Andrea Bocchio for Louis Vuitton
Project Description: Bocchio has created this 18 look collection based on fake Louis Vuitton bags and her re-interpretation of the classic monogram LV fabric. All the looks also feature fur head dresses that veil the identity of the models. For this festival, she was inspired by the idea of the tableau with models posing in a space and interacting with props to create a narrative and a guerrilla fashion show where high fashion can be brought back to the streets, the original source of the fakes. Moving luxury from the elite to the masses is paramount for Bocchio’s work, bringing the cycle of luxury full circle.

Alessandro Bosetti is a composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. In 2006 he\’s been living and working in West Africa, China, Taiwan, Holland, Scandinavia, United States , Germany and Italy.

Project Name: I am still asleep
Project Description: It takes place in a hotel room and in a bathroom. In the hotel room Bosetti is in the bed, still asleep or sort of and dreaming.

Hannah Brancato is an artist and textile designer who researches how lifestyle is affected by décor. A graduate from the Fiber Department at the MICA, she is based in Baltimore, where her work is currently on view at the Pinkard Gallery. She is the founder of The Doll Project at the House of Ruth and was co-curator of Made Home at the Current Gallery.

Alison Mazur is an artist whose work explores the dynamics of imagery and material to better understand the pursuit of happiness. Her work yields a positive recollection, approaching various mediums in a manner that places less significance on symbolic content, and more emphasis on stimulating a collective pleasure.

Project Name: Curtain Walk
Project Description: Passersby’s will be confronted by a maze of printed silk and woven industrial textiles in the alley way behind Load of Fun. The manipulated space will redefine the everyday experience of the otherwise neglected aesthetics of North Howard Street. Our interests are in creating a communal installation that is made functional by stimulating pleasure and initiating interaction.

Ingrid Burrington is from California, and has made terrible mistakes. Her website is www.lifewinning.com.

Project Name: Memorial For Everything That’s Ever Happened Ever
Project Description: “A public gathering to recall the vastness of history and the loss of our sense of it.”

Capet Baggers are Owen Brightman and Hermonie Williams

Owen Brightman - Artist, Independent Curator. His work includes performance, video, and instigation. Fronts as a migrant, a mime, or a muscle-man. Brightman creates an odd couple with and within himself and his audience. Some people become incredibly stimulated.

Hermonie Williams - Artist. Baltimore resident. Aesthete. Epistemological Liberal. Favorite color(s): Primaries. Aries. Subject matter of work includes but is not limited to: LOCATION, MOVEMENT, MASS, & PRESENCE.

Project Name: Rock Paper Scissors
Project Description: The audience will be confronted by a militia of mimes signing Party affiliations: Panther, Nazi, Hippie. In actuality these mimes will be playing Rock-Paper-Scissors. These gestures have simultaneous significance. The mimes will form a gauntlet, so that pedestrians can be trafficked between the two jeering, taunting, and provoking rows of rabble-rousing mimes.

DiTolvo and her accordion are recent transplants to the Baltimore area from Seattle. DiTolvo was the ringmistress for three years for Carnival Reverie, played percussion for carnies in The Bad Things, and is otherwise associated with several other dark characters.

Project Title: Roaming Accordion Player
Project Description: DiTolvo will be playing accordion for people as they go on tours throughout the day.

Lara Emerling is an interdisciplinary artist who produces work in drawing, sculpture and video. Her recent work comments on contemporary cultures constant ability to grow and collapse at the same time. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and will continue her studies there in art education. Emerling has shown her work at Current Gallery, Load of Fun, Maryland Art Place, Not Just Another White Cube, Substation Gallery, and Whartscape.

Project name: Walking Sticks
Project description: Lara Emerling will distribute walking sticks to pedestrians wandering near the corner of North Avenue and North Howard Street. These walking sticks will be made out of fallen tree branches and other various recycled materials such as fabrics, paint, tape, etc. Each walking stick will be an explosion of energy, which will happily be given to anyone walking through the festival that day. The walking sticks serve as a prop for pedestrians to think through and consider the idea of slowing down while walking through Baltimore.