Art Video Drive-In Series
10 East Video Art Drive-In is located at 3202 E. 10th St. // 10th + Dearborn
How it Works:
The 10 East Video Art Drive-in is free and no tickets are required.
The Video Art Drive-in operates nightly from 9pm-11pm. You can pull up to the Drive-in at any time.
Videos featured each week vary in length and are on a loop.
A different artist and video is featured each week. See below for a description about the artist and video run time.
Be sure to tune your car radio to 87.9 FM to hear the audio for the video.
Initial Series // May 1 - June 12, 2020
As a response to COVID-19, 10 East Arts featured the work of video artists in the storefront window of a vacant building. Video art was displayed in a reverse video projection with audio accompaniment. Viewers could enjoy the work safely from their car and tune their car radio to 87.9 FM to listen the video installation sound.
May 1 - May 21: A compilation of video shorts (Run time: 22 minutes) by Chris Vorhees.
May 22 - May 28: Conceptual drawing videos & Fake Flyer Series (Run time: 11 minutes) by Nathaniel Russell.
May 29 – June 12: A depiction of movements in the sky, bodily gestures & sound collaged together to create an ambiguous landscape of emotional states. (Run time: 11 minutes) by Liz Wierzbicki.
SEcond Series // August 7 - September 30, 2020
View Schedule
August 7th - 13th
“XENOI” 2016 by Deborah Stratman
8:51pm - 11:00pm nightly
The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observants to our human condition.
“Xenoi” is the plural of “xenos,” an enigmatic word usually translated as “stranger”—but whether the stranger is friend or foe depends on context and interpretation. What do these geometric specters portend in a contemporary climate where consumer culture and economic austerity collide?
Run time: 15:20 minutes
August 14th - 20th
“Still Not Still, Still” HD Video 2018 by Zack Bent
8:42 - 11:00 nightly
For the past 4 years, I have been making regular trips to a parcel of land south of Cle Elum, Washington that was scorched by fire in the summer of 2014. I was enamored with the mysterious and meditative quality of the darkened and transformed landscape and employed it as a stage set for photographing sculptural and environmental interventions. At the center of these pictures are my 3 sons who activate the vast setting through collaboration, play and myth-making.
In the passage to and from this public land, the unsettling relationship between domestication and wilderness has becomes blurred so that works created on and off-site seem to fixate on unraveling loss, fear and transience. In Memoria continues the work of visiting this site and creating alignments between the experience of time and the depiction of its passage both in the land’s shift from death to rebirth and also in the subtle change in my sons as they morph from childhood to adolescence.
Run time: 2:28 minutes
“Void Contemplation Tactics 20200330” (2020) by Daniel Chamberlin
Daniel Chamberlin’s Void Contemplation Tactics 20200330 is a guided meditation featuring video of the Prairie Creek Reservoir in East Central Indiana, language from Zen Master Seung Sahn, and a soundtrack from ambient music artist PJS.
Run time: 15 minutes
August 21st -27th
Several new works 2020 by Academy Records
Dead Languages Instantly Spoken (Eternal Circle) 2020, Run time: 37:00 minutes
We Sit Here Stranded 2020, Run time: 3:54 minutes
The Pool of the Modest Woman 2020, Run time: 2:20 minutes
Dawn Brides Veil (Field and Score) 2020, Run time: 1:53 minutes
The Stars Are Falling (Drowned) 2020, Run time 1:28 minutes
Peaks Split 8 2020, Run time 1:21
"Dead Languages Instantly Spoken (Eternal Circle)" is an edited excerpt of the longer live performance piece “Amplified Heat". Loosely structured as a series of excursions into real and remembered landscapes, the 40-ish minute artwork is composed of original 16mm footage shot between 2008 and 2016 . Synced with the film’s rhythmic voiceover, the film layers in melodic electric-guitar riffs and subtle, droning sound effects. As a whole, the edited (Eternal Circle) functions like a lyric essay, poetically meditating on themes of traveling (in both what is real and imagined territories); loss of memory (both personal and collective); and decay (of landscapes, civilizations and traditions, as well as humans’ relationships to such grand entities).
The feature is accompanied by a series of thematically linked short works.
August 28th - September 3rd
“Meditation on Microcosmic Memories” 2020 by Phillip Schaefer
8:28 - 11:00 nightly
Phillip on his piece:
I remember, as a child, staring into deep puddles and being completely mesmerized by the worlds existing underneath the surface. All the blades of grass, the pebbles, the soil were transformed into a new and temporary microcosm of possibility. I gazed at ponds and creeks with minnows darting, water striders flicking over the surface, and algae swaying in the gentle current. This video is a meditation on this memory.
Run time: 10:00 minutes
September 4th -10th
Libertas” 2019 by David Ellis
8:11pm - 11:00 nightly
Ellis’s beautifully made stop motion paintings evolve mutate and flow from faces, forms and objects to places and things and back again. Scored with an original musical composition by the artist.
Run time: 9:59 minutes
September 11th - 17th
“Climbing” 2009 by Jesse McLean
A visual and metaphorical look at modern ways of searching, escaping, ascension and conquest.
Run time: 6:18 minutes
“Wherever you go, there we are” 2017 by Jessie McLean
Run time: 12:01 minutes
In this experimental travelogue, efforts to sound human and look natural instead become artificial. The scenery is provided through photo-chromed vintage postcards, displaying scenic North American landscapes and the rise of infrastructure and industry. Aspiring to look more realistic by adding color to a black and white image, the postcards are instead documents of the fantastic. The road trip is narrated by an automated correspondent (all dialogue is taken from spam emails), his entreaties becoming increasingly foreboding and obtuse, in a relentless effort to capture our attentions.
September 18th - 24th
"Walking Video" 2020 by Michael Vallera
7:36pm - 10:30pm nightly
Michael has created a new work specifically for this project titled “Walking Video”. Walking Video is a zen-like meditation on looking, seeing, listening. This piece also serves as the video for the score “Deep Sleeping Exit” from his newest LP “Window In.”
Run time: 12:30 minutes
September 25th - 30th
Document no.5 2020 by Casey Roberts
7:36pm - 10:30pm nightly
New original piece by renowned Indiana artist Casey Roberts.
Run time: approx. 30 minutes
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We would like to thank our the drive-in video curator Chris Vorhees.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Deborah Stratman
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work that investigates power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. Her themes range widely, as do the mediums she questions them with. Recent projects have addressed freedom, sinkholes, acoustics, surveillance, comets, orthoptera, manifest destiny, infrastructure, public voice, levitation, exodus and faith. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.
Stratman's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, Walker Art Center, Yerba Buena Center, ICA London, MCA Chicago, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, Museum of the Moving Image NY, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archives, Los Angeles Film Forum, San Francisco Cinemateque, REDCAT Los Angeles, Gene Siskel Film Center, Harvard Film Archives, Her work has screened extensively at Film Festivals such as Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival, and many others. www.pythagorasfilm.com
Zack Bent
Zack Bent (b. 1975, Sunnyvale, CA) is an artist based in Seattle, Washington.His art practice is interdisciplinary in approach, using photography, video, and installation to create mythic translations of his home, his family, and the things he collects. He has received grants from the Office of Arts & Culture (Seattle), 4Culture, The New Foundation and Artist Trust, with residencies through OxBow, Signal Fire, and NEPO Travel Agency. His work is exhibited and screened nationally with recent exhibits at PDX Contemporary, Whitworth University, G. Gibson Gallery, Greg Kucera Gallery, and the University of Calgary. www.zackbent.com
Daniel Chamberlin
Daniel Chamberlin is an artist, writer, yoga instructor, and meditation teacher based in Muncie, Indiana. His work combines photography, video, installation, and performance with radical mindfulness teachings. He was previously a resident of the Indianapolis Zen Center; communications director for Ballroom Marfa; medic (NREMT-B) with Marfa EMS; and contributing editor at Arthur Magazine. He’s also the host of Inter-Dimensional Music, a syndicated broadcast of “heavy mellow, kosmische slop, and void contemplation tactics” heard on WQRT Indianapolis, Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas, and Lookout FM Los Angeles. Chamberlin has participated in exhibitions, installations, and yoga sessions at Healer (Indianapolis), StorageSpace (Indianapolis), PlySpace Gallery (Muncie, IN), Penn Forest Natural Burial Ground (Pittsburgh, PA), Magick City (Brooklyn, NY), Marfa Book Company (Marfa, TX), Starlight Theater (Terlingua, TX), and Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA). https://www.instagram.com/cosmic.chambo/
Academy Records / Stephen Lacy
Academy Records is the art moniker of Stephen Lacy, who is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Academy Records has exhibited commissioned projects as part of the New England Biennial at deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum and the Whitney Biennial in New York, and presented solo shows at Actual Size Los Angeles, Greenlease Gallery, Gallery Wassermuhle, Herron School of Art, Art Gallery of Knoxville, Hyde Park Art Center, Linda Warren Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others. Academy Records projects have been discussed in Artforum, Art in America, Artnet News, Boston Globe, New York Times, NPR and WIRE Magazine, among other outlets. Lacy holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been artist-in-residence at Illinois State University’s School of Art; Can Serrat, Spain; Good Hatchery, Ireland; Center for Land Use Interpretation, Utah; and Kunstlerstatte Stuhr, Germany.
"Dead Languages Instantly Spoken (Eternal Circle)" is an edited excerpt of the longer live performance piece “Amplified Heat". Loosely structured as a series of excursions into real and remembered landscapes, the 40-ish minute artwork is composed of original 16mm footage shot between 2008 and 2016 . Synced with the film’s rhythmic voiceover, the film layers in melodic electric-guitar riffs and subtle, droning sound effects. As a whole, the edited (Eternal Circle) functions like a lyric essay, poetically meditating on themes of traveling (in both what is real and imagined territories); loss of memory (both personal and collective); and decay (of landscapes, civilizations and traditions, as well as humans’ relationships to such grand entities). The feature is accompanied by a series of thematically linked short works website: www.academyrecords.org
Phillip Schaefer
Phillip Schaefer graduated from DAAP at the University of Cincinnati and is a Cincinnati artist and sometimes educator constantly on the search for the sublime. His photography uses the typically passive yet enticing subject of landscape to challenge the widespread notion of photography as documentation of reality. Much like contemporary landscape photographers use composite images, focus stacking, and post-processing to create an enhanced version of reality, his photography uses these techniques to create the illusion of landscape from overlooked details of our environment - puddles, rock formations, beach sand, and driftwood - questioning the honesty of cameras and the ability of humans to accurately interpret what they see. IG: @PhillipSchaeferArt
David Ellis
In his explorations of movement, change, and rhythm, multimedia artist David Ellis effectively combines his talent for visual representation with his passion for musical expression. The confluence of the visual and the aural typifies the wide range of his artwork, from stop-motion videos to kinetic sculptures to live painting performances. By utilizing various elements of music making—collaboration, improvisation, timing, repetition— Ellis enlivens his creative process and thus his viewer’s experience. Born in North Carolina in January 1971, Ellis grew up immersed in the various musical styles practiced by several family members. Ellis was drawing sound from an early age and found ways of expressing rhythms and sounds through visual forms. The process of exploring sound is interpreted into his kinetic installations and sculptures that produce analogue sequences in rhythm; blurring the line between sculpture and music. The paintings are frequently improvised working directly on the walls of spaces that remain open to the public during installation and shares the making of the work with viewers. The experience is much like a band playing in front of a passing audience. The results are not derived using a scientific method or computer algorithms but come from an analogue practice of working daily, layer upon layer, culling the ideas from a combination of memory, observation and experimentation. Over the process of making artwork, the density ebbs and flows, builds up, is destroyed, and rebuilds until eventually a kind of truce is drawn between artist and the work. I let go and embrace the kinetic implications of moving the energy. David lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. www.davidellisstudio.com
Jesse McLean
Jesse McLean was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BA in Studio Arts from Oberlin College and her MFA in Moving Image from University of Illinois at Chicago. She is based in Milwaukee, WI, where she is an Associate Professor of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres at Peck School of the Arts, UW-Milwaukee.
She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including Projections at New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Mumok Cinema in Vienna, CPH:DOX, Kassel Dokfest, and Impakt. She was the recipient of an International Critics Prize, (FIPRESCI Prize) at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and a Jury Prize in the International Competition at the 2013 Videoex Festival. She was a featured artist at the 2014 Flaherty Seminar and a MacDowell Fellow in 2016. In 2016 she was selected for a Mary L. Nohl Individual Artist Fellowship.
A primary focus of all my work is the power-and the failure-of the mediated experience to bring people together. I am motivated by a deep curiosity regarding human behavior and the ways intimacies and connections are formed in an age of mediated experience. Recent projects explore the immersion into digital culture and the fraught relationships people have with technology we both rely on and resent, and in contrasting the finite capacities of the nonhuman with infinite human desires. www.jessemclean.com
Michael Vallera
Michael Vallera is a musician and photographer who lives and works in Chicago. Prolific as both a solo artist and collaborator, he has released sound works under his own name (on Denovali Records), with percussionist Steven Hess as Cleared (Immune Recordings), and with Joseph Clayton Mills as Maar (Umor Rex, Entr’acte). An MFA graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his visual work has been exhibited in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Michael has created a new work specifically for this project titled “Walking Video”. Walking Video is a zen-like meditation on looking, seeing, listening. This piece also serves as the video for the score “Deep Sleeping Exit” from his newest LP Window In.
Window In is Michael Vallera’s third full length offering on the Denovali label, following All Perfect Days (2018) and Vivid Flu (2017).
https://michaelvallera.bandcamp.com/
http://michaelvallera.com/
Casey Roberts
Casey Roberts was born in 1971, Orlando, Florida. He attended the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. He is a painter, sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Indianapolis. He has exhibited his work with galleries in Toronto, Canada, as well as Chicago, Vermont, North Carolina, Michigan, and throughout Indiana. His work has been included in art fairs in New York, Chicago, Toronto, and Miami. He is a proud member of both Netflix and Hulu. www.wildernessoverload.com