ASC 10
Art School Confidential (ASC) is a quarterly event series at MASARY Studios. We invite regional artists to share a selection of their work for informal peer critique and discussion. ASC is a derivative of the 2006 film bearing the same name, it’s a soft throwback to art school experience.
Episode 10 Artists
YANRAN BI (she / her)
YB51724
Performance, String Instrument, Light
2024
YB51724 is a self-designed and fabricated sound and light instrument. Taking inspiration from Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia Art and two traditional Chinese string instruments, the piece would trigger planetary light projections when the strings are touched. It is an exploration of the soft ambiences(sound, light, time…) in an environment and an imagination of a abstract landscape of its own.
Yanran Bi is an interdisciplinary artist and composer. Her work spans a range of outputs, including locative audio experiences, interactive installations/instruments, and performances/exhibitions. Through these mediums, she creates poetic experiences that give form/texture to the intangible/ungraspable aspects within the entanglement of culture, landscape and time. Her practice is often site-specific, immersing herself in environments to examine and extract the subtle ambiances of space—sound, light, memory, spirit—and weaving them into imagined propositions.
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kit orion (SHE / HER)
Excerpts from "Bottle Grin.”
Flicker, 2024 sound, est. 3:15 minutes
Deep Blue, 2024, sound, 3:28 minutes
Like Honey, 2024, sound, 2:34 minutes
2024
Kit Orion will be joined by Matt Freake and Iarla O'Halloran as a band in performing 3 songs off of her upcoming album, "Bottle Grin". Each song was written as a response to prompts for a songwriting club that was created by friend and collaborator, Jessica Kion (Justice Cow), during COVID. This songwriting experience fostered a safe space to experiment, to be held accountable and ultimately led to her first EP release in 2021, and now the upcoming album release in October of this year.
Caitlyn created these songs using samples, found sounds, synths, various instruments and programming drums before inviting friends into the studio to contribute additional live performances blending her soundscapes with live instrumentation.
Each song was Written, Performed and Produced by Caitlyn O'Brien.
Additional Credits: Co- Producer and Recording Engineer: Evan Murphy of Ombic Sound in Worcester, MA and Big Nice Studio in Lincoln, RI. Mixing and Mastering Engineer: Bradford Krieger of Big Nice Studio in Lincoln, RI — Vocals, Synths, Bass Synth, Samples, Drum Programming: Caitlyn O'Brien — Drums: Kyle Harris — Bass Guitar: Jessica Kion (Like Honey) — Guitar: Ben Levin (Flicker) — Grand Piano and Rhodes: Sam Taber (Deep Blue) — Viola: Laurence Scudder (Deep Blue)
Caitlyn O'Brien (Kit Orion), is a Cambridge-based genre-bending singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and DJ. Operating under her independent label, C8 Music, she showcases her work through two distinct alter egos—Kit Orion, the enchanting solo project that marked her debut album, and DJ C8. Fueled by a profound sense of community, Caitlyn regularly collaborates with local musicians, gracing stages with her own compositions and captivating audiences with her electrifying DJ performances at beloved neighborhood haunts.
Sohyoung Park (So-Hyoung Bak)
A Way of Thinking
A way of Thinking
Video 05:51The eternal watchman of the most accurate counts of space and time.
Sculpture 31x18x59 inches
Cardboard, plaster, found plastics, people’s earth week magazine, headphone, wood log, ceramic pod, oyster mushrooms.2023
Sohyoung Park is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boston, New York, and Seoul. Sohyoung has MFA in Sculpture in 2023 from Boston University. She graduated BFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sohyoung enjoys working in painting, sculpture, installation, and video. She often combines technological elements, such as mechanical movement and lights, and biodegradable materials into her work. She has been included in exhibitions in Boston, New York, and Seoul. Sohyoung is part of group artists, IC3, New England Sculpture Association, and Digital Soup, MA.
I am currently an MFA student in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design.
Ellice patTerson (she / her)
Storyline of Abilities Dance Boston's 2024 Ballet
Reading of a story concept influencing a dance piece in development
2024
Ellice Patterson is the founder/ executive and artistic director of Abilities Dance, a Boston-based dance company that welcomes artists with and without disabilities. She was an artist in residence with the City of Boston’s transportation department, using dance as a way to promote more accessibility on the streets and sidewalks of the city 2022 - 2023. Outside of self-produced Abilities Dance's shows, her choreography has appeared in the MFA, Links Hall in Chicago, Gibney Dance in NYC, The Series: Vol IV at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre in NYC, and more. She has given lectures and workshops at schools, universities, and organizations across the country, including Harvard Graduate School of Education, Fidelity Investments, Boston University, and more. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College and her Masters of Science in Management Studies from Boston University Questrom School of Business.
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