Feral Frequencies: live performance and radio séance
Saturday, November 16, 2024 | 4-6pm
Location: Slash (1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco)
Free in-person event
As we enter into autumn, when the lines between the past, present, and future dissolve, join artist, writer, organizer, and coder Xiaowei R. Wang for a participatory AM radio séance performance that combines divination and computation. The performance extends Wang’s installation An Archive of Witch Fever, currently on view in Fictions of Presence, curated by Dorothy R. Santos. Using the artwork’s conductive thread embroidery as an interface and handheld radios to tune into the AM transmission, the audience and artist will work together to encode messages and questions for spirits of the past.
Stop by the gallery anytime between 4 and 6pm to participate!
*For inquiries about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email ana@slashart.org by November 6, 2024.
Xiaowei R. Wang (they/them) is an artist, writer, organizer, and coder. They are the author of the book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech In China’s Countryside, a 2023 National Book Foundation Science and Literature Award winner, and New York Times Editor’s Choice. Their multidisciplinary work over the past 15 years sits at the intersection of tech, digital media, art, and environmental justice. As of 2023, they are one of the stewards of Collective Action School (formerly known as Logic School), an organizing community for tech workers, a faculty member at ELISAVA’s Master in Design for Responsible AI, and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center on Race and Digital Justice.
Special thanks to David Rios for design and fabrication of magnetic field reader device.
Feral Frequencies is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.