6th Annual Transmodern Festival - Live.Art.Action

The AVWC is an A/V “lounge” curated by Baltimore-based group Snacks.  The The lounge will provide continuous sound and video enjoyment for the Transmodern festivalgoers.

The lounge will be located on the 3rd Floor/Whole Gallery and will be open on Friday and Saturday evenings. 

Participating artists include: (subject to change)

Kristen Anchor (Baltimore)
Mitchell Brown (Los Angeles)
Chris Cooper (Mass.)
Drew Daniel (Baltimore)
Deven Green (Los Angeles)
ID M THeftable (Maine)
Hans Grusel’s KrankenKabinet (San Francisco)
Leprechaun Catering (Baltimore)
Melissa Moore (Baltimore)
People like Us (UK)
Martin Schmidt (Baltimore)
Swinging Chandeliers (Los Angeles)
Tarantism (San Francisco)
Karen Yasinsky + Snacks (Baltimore)
C. Spencer Yeh (Cincinnati) 

As “moderners”, busy people, our private times can and should be revelatory.  Rarely, if never, are our perceptions as clean, our considerations as lucid, and our inner mechanics as empty of noise as when in those moments, for most of us once per day, when we sit alone in small closed rooms, barren of nothing more than the perpetual motor of consciousness and the barely intrusive neuro-muscular activities of the viscera.  Currently there exists a crisis in utilization because most people abuse their daily sanctuary of calm by passing it’s minutes reading gossip columns, horoscopes, sporting event recaps, stock reports or other banal information that hardly ignites the tinder of the unencumbered, thoughtful mind.  And worse, they devalue the fortunate circumstance by insisting on brevity.  Likewise, the same people approach culture and art, the very nourishment of the mind, in mobs, at concerts or art openings where solitude and stillness of mind are impossible.  It could even be said that art and culture themselves lose their meanings when they are perceived in herds, wastelands of consensus mentality and gridlocks of noise that they are.

Seemingly a contradiction, the fact remains that solitude itself can be the great motivator of culture as the individual herself should use the sanctuary of daily respite to define her singularity, that perspective which distinguishes her from any living thing. In doing so the individual should unconsciously define the true mosaic that is all culture, making the parts of the whole each as glorious and the thing itself.

Consider then, that we have a responsibility as humans to refine our minds whilst alone each day, nestled into the cubicles of our private-most metabolic processes. Consider that we can use our organs and orifices in unison, and quite effectively with utmost willfulness.  Please enjoy these selected works we’ve assembled, all made by sincere artists, and please enjoy the surroundings, claustrophobic though liberating in their potential for ephemeral rapture (and base purging).  Above all relax yourself, put on the headsets, perceive things, thoughts, and of course try the complimentary snacks.