Jul 11th 2015

Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney: havoc and tumbled

@ Roman Susan

1224 West Loyola Avenue, Chicago, IL

Opening Saturday, July 11th, at 8PM

On view through Saturday, July 25th

The collisions and ecstasy of 3, 2, 1 . . . and the 6,028th time it gets called. What happens in the limbs, in the gut, on the lips, when everyone in the room locks on synch? Learning To Inherit The Long Slog. In order to be ready we’re lining the windows with plants that thrive in tumult, turning on our TVs, and battening down to find a few kinds of time: 3, 2, 1. . . .

Reception: Saturday, July 11 // 8 PM
Gallery Hours: Tue, Wed, Thu 4-7 PM + Sat 12-3 PM

Please join us for havoc and tumbled, an installation featuring video, 16mm film, sound, and painting. Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney were selected for this exhibition from the 2014 ACRE Residency Program. The reception for havoc and tumbled is scheduled in conjunction with the opening of PRO BIAS at The Bike Room, featuring 2014 ACRE Resident artists Cudelice Brazelton, Zoe Berg, Tal Nisim, and Sanaz Sohrabi. The Bike Room (1109 West North Shore Avenue) will be open on Saturday, July 11 from 5-8 PM.

MacKenzie and Mausert-Mooney are artists and collaborators living in Chicago. Their projects together have explored broadcast; seams in the scenery; liveness, simultaneity and other kinds of time; the possibility and politics of making new images. Together they founded and co-direct ACRE TV, an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network (ACRETV.org).

Kera MacKenzie is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the space between moving images, photography, sets and performance. She has screened and exhibited at spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Underground Film Festival, High Concept Laboratories, Links Hall, and the MassArt Film Society. Kera has been an artist in residence at ACRE (Wisconsin) and Culturia (Berlin) and was a participating artist at High Desert Test Sites 2013 (New Mexico). She studied at Bennington College, the Art Institute of Boston, and Transart Institute and received her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Andrew Mausert-­Mooney is a Chicago­-based artist working with 16mm film, video, performance and television. Andrewʼs work has shown in festivals, galleries and exhibition series around the world including the American Film Institute, CineVegas, ThreeWalls, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Pleasure Dome, The Nightingale, and Other Cinema. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012.

For further info:
romansusan.org/havoc | keramackenzie.com | vimeo.com/amm | acretv.org | acreresidency.org or contact us via gallery@romansusan.org

Image courtesy of Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney

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