Marking this Moment: BOOM Capsule
KST Presents
with J. Thomas Agnew, DS Kinsel & J.L. Mallis
Saturday, September 17 – Saturday, December 17, 2022
6:00pm
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Heinz Endowments created Marking this Moment: Pittsburgh Artists in 2020, an initiative to put money in the hands of artists and document their impressions of the rapidly changing reality facing us all. Through the initiative, BOOM Concepts supported the work of artists J. Thomas Agnew, DS Kinsel, and J.L. Mallis. These artists use agitprop, surveys, and mixtape as mediums to document and share images, music, sounds, and writing from artists in the Pittsburgh community. These works can now be experienced in the Kelly Strayhorn Theater lobby from September through December 2022.
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The Lyricist’s Journey
Saturday, September 17, 2022
8:00pm
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $15 – $35
- ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marking This Moment In TIme: In Pursuit of Visual Engagement
An anthology organized by intermedia artist J.L. Mallis
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged our communities, artists were some of the very first people to feel the impacts of lock down affect their financial livelihood and opportunities for public expression. Artists were the first people whose work was canceled and have experienced a continuum of challenges since March 2020. The artists and artist collectives reflected in the anthology have demonstrated new ways of utilizing visuals, video, and visual imagery to tell their stories. The anthology highlights the renewed focus on visual media within a larger audio-visual landscape, exacerbated by COVID-19, and how the pandemic affected our experiences of interaction, engagement, communication, and the intake of media. While visuals and video art have held strong presence within creative spheres for a long time, there has been a renewed sense of importance to focus on and highlight visuals as a centerpoint of the work and not just as an afterthought.
A Moment In Time: Musicians Working In Covid
J. Thomas Agnew & Jourdan Hicks
To better understand the effects of the pandemic on the music industry in Pittsburgh, J. Thomas Agnew and Jourdan Hicks created the “A Moment In TIme: Musicians Working In Covid” survey. The survey was administered and monitored by Agnew and Hicks to accurately and honestly illustrate what life thorough COVID looked like for artists and creative entrepreneurs. The work provided clearer insight into artists’ awareness of funding opportunities, if they’ve felt supported or overlooked by the larger arts and finance entities in the city, and how they feel Pittsburgh landscape can better respond to the needs of the community going forward.
Sign O The Times: Protest Sign Reproduction Archive
D.S. Kinsel
Sign O The Times: 2020 Protest Sign and Archive Reproduction identifies and reproduces protest signs from #blacklivesmatter protest and civil actions that happened across the country during 2020. The project recreated a protest sign displayed during 2020 for every day of the year.