Media Live Ypsi (MLY): October 10-11

Members of the Stamps community are at the center of Media Live Ypsi (MLY), a two-day live art festival launching this week in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Connecting two venues, Riverside Art Center and C.Y.N.K. Studios — directed by Sally Clegg (Stamps Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator, MFA​’20) and Abhishek Narula (MFA​’20) — MLY brings together experimental works in audio, video, projection, and performance. 

The inaugural festival, taking place on Friday, October 10 – 11, will feature artists from Southeast Michigan and beyond, creating a network of one-time-only installations. Learn more about the festival in a profile by Martin Slagter for Pulp.

“to care for ______, &”

Friday, October 10, 6 — 9 p.m.
Hosted by Riverside Arts Center, 76 North Huron Street, Ypsilanti
Curated by Emerson Granillo (MFA ​’23) and Chelsea Koga (BFA ​’25)

“to care for ______, &” invites you to an evening of care-focused durational performances. Through repetition and touch, each performance offers the chance to notice what shifts, to discover an alternative. In repeating and returning, we learn what holds, what transforms, and what grows — in ourselves, our bodies, our communities. As Hiʻilei Hobart writes, ​“care constitutes a feeling with, rather than a feeling for, others.” In sustaining these interventions, we create an experience of time with the audience, to be shared rather than simply handed off. Care returns, again and again, to one person, to a group — to a community. These performances are mediations of time transformed into acts of care.

Artists include:

• Sky Christoph (BFA ​’23) and Chelsea Koga (BFA ​’25)
• Jessie Karlsberger (MFA ​’24), Stephanie Tyson Osorio, and Tobias Haus
• Erica Mooney
• CG Pierce
• Kara Roseborough
• The Consulting Team
• Gray Snyder (BFA ​’23)

Bring Your Own Beamer

Live Projection (byob​world​wide​.com)
Saturday, October 11, 7 — 9 p.m.
Hosted by C.Y.N.K. & Sometimes Space at @ C.Y.N.K. Studios, 216 West Michigan Avenue, Ypsilanti

Artists include:

• Nathan Byrne (Lecturer I and director of Sometimes Space, MFA​’21)
• Sky Christoph (BFA ​’23)
• Ruby Clay
• Sally Clegg (Stamps Lecturer III and Student Exhibition Coordinator, MFA ​’20)
• Paul Echeverria
• Sam Griffith (MFA ​’25)
• Liz Guilmet (Stamps Lecturer II)
• Avery Lawrence (Stamps Lecturer I)
• Jennifer Metsker (Stamps Lecturer IV and Writing Coordinator)
• Ben Michalsky (BFA ​’25)
• Abhishek Narula (MFA ​’20)