Projection Booth – Video Exhibit at BrainMind NYC 6/1 - 6/3/2024

Projection Booth / the mind reels — an Aureola production

Projection Booth is an exhibit that animates and explores the nature of projection within the mind, not merely in psychological terms, but also as it relates to aspects of neuroscience, healing and tantalizing postulates of how consciousness may emerge within the brain

Our series of video projections, interactive and illuminated effects represent our vision and interpretation of how the mind changes over time (neuroplasticity) and how harnessing that ability to change may heal and reveal proposed neural correlates of consciousness. Memory reels screen in our personal projection booth, and we ‘project what happens next’ — this projection directs our actions. Through dynamic immersive light, we invite visitors to contemplate not only why and how we think and act the way we do, but how our thought patterns change over time. Our installation will make this process visible using light, sound/poetry and two videos: one projected on a wall and another projected onto the geometric form. We hope to start a conversation about how the ability to ‘change our minds’ heals and helps reveal truths about how consciousness may arise

we are deeply grateful to Hugh Rogovy, Lulu Parent and Asher Rogovy of the Rogovy Foundation for their generous support of Projection Booth

Lin Jingjing is an internationally recognized installation performance video conceptual artist who’s work is frequently on display in New York and Hong Kong. In April 2024, Jinging was listed one of the top 10 artist participating in Art Basel Hong Kong. Profiled in the Tate and highly regarded, Jingjing describes herself as a multimedia conceptual artist who frequently employs experimental narrative techniques to present a possible future infused with absurd imaginings and humor. How perfect for us!

  the world is a kaleidoscope of Maya (illusion), where our senses paint a picture of reality that veils the eternal truth – Hindu precept

private event exhibit, NYC June 1-3 2024

image © Lin Jingjing 2024

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Fish Have No Psychiatrists – Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2024

Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a Day in the Life of Andrei Codrescu

a documentary film by Julian Semilian – Codrescu as subject

Julian Semilian’s film Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a Day in the Life of Andrei Codrescu is officially an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2024, and had its premier at the River Run Film Festival in Winston-Salem NC on 4/20/2024.

You can stream it for a limited time as part of the festival here

WFDD Public Radio affiliate provided a lovely interview with Julian. WFDD Interview with Julian 4.18.204

Here is an earlier interview with UNC School for the Arts regarding in independent film funding

Julian Semilian – Director & Producer Julian is an experimental filmmaker, film editor, teacher, poet, translator, and novelist. Aside from bing a well respected author and translator, he is an exceptional film editor –– who won’t tell you – until you’ve known him for years – that he learned his art from none other than Reginald Mills. Mills edited a number of the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger films, including The Red Shoes. Julian is very modest. He’s a fantastic experimental film maker and an extraordinarily well loved professor of film

Julian and Andrei met in Italy in 1966 as both fled post WWII Romania – they actually arrived together in the US. If you get them together and give them a drink – they’ll regale you with stories of jumping from bridges, seductions by princesses and appearing in Pasolini films! I can’t wait to see how these two avant-savants meld on screen – Lynnea

learn more here

Source: https://riverrunfilm.com/events/fishhaveno...

The Second Oswald – a podcast & stage play

The Second Oswald

podcast & stage play – release and play date 11.13.2023

Written and Narrated by Andrei Codrescu | Produced by Ram Devineni, Rattapallax Inc

Kerry Thornley tried to reveal the American mind-set towards conspiracies in the 1950s, but soon became enveloped in the greatest American conspiracy of the 20th Century through his friendship with Lee Harvey Oswald. THE SECOND OSWALD is an episodic podcast that explores the strange relationship between Thornley and Oswald, and how a conspiracy can send an individual and a society down the rabbit-hole

To celebrate the launch of THE SECOND OSWALD – Andrei will narrate a stage play featuring poet-emprisario Bob Holman as Kerry Thornley. One night only at Bowery Poetry NYC - TICKETS HERE MORE INFO HERE

Ram Devineni – Producer Ram is the filmmaker who produced The Russian Woodpecker – winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and nominee for an Independent Spirit Award. He produced, edited and directed the feature documentary, The Karma Killings. Recently, he created the interactive social-activist comic books, Priya’s Shakti, for which UN Women named him a “gender equality champion”

Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-second-os...

A Journal of the Plague

Beginning March 19, 2020 Andrei Codrescu started a visual/audio record of his quarantine in Queens. Mid-plague, the streets of America exploded in anger. The sirens of ambulances merged with those of police cars. The music of New York in the CoVid age.

Installments several times per week may be followed on codrescu.com or on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or linked from twitter

Source: https://www.codrescu.com/my-news