Isa Leal

Visable: an incidental symphony

Visable is an incidental symphony made of interdisplinary artists focused on empathy. The event is a temporal experiment made by the audiences opportunity to perceive the artists intentions, illuminating there innate connectedness. The audience-witnesses are encouraged to examine each work’s affect corporeally and have the occasion to examine there sensations as individuals and as a[…]

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Pulling Out Red From My Sexe

Pulling Out Red From My Sexe is an emotionally charged tableau comprised of a video installation and interactive performance. This diptych examines various documents regarding black femininity that Marcelline used as reference points during her/their intimate process of self actualization. On the wall, a video installation composed of 12 sequences of one minute vignettes derived[…]

2015 TMOD web call

Twilight Parade Workshops

TWILIGHT PARADE WORKSHOPS Come join the 2015 Transmodern Festival at Current Gallery for 5 days of workshops, making, merry-making and collective Action! Make an illuminated headresses, lanterns, instruments and masks for The Twilight Parade – kicking off on Sunday, October 4th. This years Twilight Parade:(InThe) Aether celebrates the history of Baltimore including the ancestors whose energies[…]

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TreasuRing

Come spin our golden wheel, Ring some bells, and make some noise. DuRing Transmodern, the audience is encouraged to interact with a suspended sea serpent, while video projections produce video feedback, for a fully interactive experience. This ouroboros creature, will be guarding a golden Ring; spin the wheel, touch it, listen to it, watch it…[…]

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Nonuments

Nonument Baltimore: The McKeldin Fountain in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor Mckeldin Square is the first action in a public space of the NONUMENTS project, a long term research project by MoTA, with Martin Bricelj and Neja Tomsiç in collaboration with Lisa Moren and Jaimes Meyhew, as part of a Fellowship with the Imaging Research Center (IRC)[…]

Gospel Satellites, Michael, Mark, Liz and Don

Gospel Satellites

The Gospel Satellite Quartet plays old spirituals from the James Weldon Johnson songbook, and tunes from Blind Willie Johnson, the Carter Family, Elvis, Odetta, Charlie Feathers, Lungfish, and Alan Lomax field recordings. None of us has a background in religious music, or are even regular churchgoers, but we feel at home here because our names – Michael,(Willis)[…]

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Crypto-Stripto-Zoology

Crypto-Stripto-Zoology, a Sexy Lexicon of (A)Ethereal Animals is a Baltimore Bestiary Burlesque/Variety show.  Marvel at the Mermaid of Mt. Vernon!  Cast your glance, if you dare, on the captivating Cthulu of Canton.  Fan the flames of the Fells Point Phoenix!  Featuring Tapitha Kix (Baltimore), Maria Bella (Baltimore), Rev. Valentine (MD), Mab just Mab (DC) and[…]