Saturday May 24 2025
MSHR
Cal Fish
Shane Riley
Nick Shadle
Rust Promoter
Doors 8 pm
15$
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon.
Joined on the bill by Cal Fish, a cross disciplinary non-binary artist from Sea Cliff, New York currently based in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Their work is multi-modal and immersive, often employing interactive sonic tools/sculptures, experimental pop music, video, sewing soft and social sculpture. Cal has performed and shared work all over North America, in parts of Europe and often organizes multi-media events in New York. Since 2015 Cal has built projects focused on making connections between ecologies, public spaces, and empathy audible via collaboration, performance, and public installation. This work can use electromagnetic fields, sounding utilitarian objects, fm hijacking, oral histories, resonant frequencies, up-cycled quilts, interactive websites, archive building, and conductive thread. Cal uses familiar comforting objects and public settings combined with deep social archiving and sonic tools perceived as magical to create environments for critical play and technological ecological discovery.
