Fractzing the Facts
Featuring champoy and Miguel Novelo
12-1pm, Friday, October 16th, 2020
Via on-off.site/fractzing-the-facts
Bay Area multidisciplinary artist and performer champoy (MFA 2021) and experimental new media artist Miguel Novelo reimagine exhibition spaces in Fractzing the Facts, a live-streamed interactive performance that invites public participation and dialogue—and create a space that is truly built collectively.
champoy and Miguel Novelo, Fractzing the Facts, 2020. Live-streamed interactive performance.
Throughout the participatory talk show, champoy and Novelo build a communal space with the audience in real-time. An empty gallery, or “white cube,” will be filled with objects and ideas suggested by participants, who can post comments and call in to converse with the host. During the program, commercial spots feature artist perspectives on current socio-political issues.
This project investigates the possibilities of place through language—specifically centering on the invented verb “to fractz.” For champoy and Novelo, this word signifies an ever-changing concept: a means to inclusive and active world-building “free from preconceptions of history, knowledge, and trauma.”
Framed within the current discourse and calls for institutions to examine their exclusionary behavior and colonialist legacies, this time-based performance takes on a new resonance. Can museums be public spaces? Can they be inclusive? Rather than seeking definitive answers, Fractzing the Facts hopes to build new possibilities together in a generative, digital space.
About the Artists
champoy (born Janeil Sumampong Lim) is a Los Angeles-based artist born and raised in Bukidnon, a landlocked province in the Southern Philippines. Across media, champoy's work bridges the experiences that run in his bloodline, a return to ways of living as part of nature and transcending the parts within champoy that are by-products of a culture that has been strongly influenced by the colonial forces of the Church and Hollywood. champoy is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California Berkeley.
Miguel Novelo is an interdisciplinary artist from Campeche, Mexico, whose practice explores the contemporary use of language, the ambiguity of translations, the space in memories, and the aesthetics of miscommunication. Novelo uses new media, interactivity, and expanded cinema to create immersive sound and expanded image experiences that generate participatory storytelling platforms. Novelo is currently an MFA candidate at Stanford University.
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