Hot August Nights
Featuring Videos By: Jordan Deal, Elicia Epstein, Dafna Steinberg, Alley Faint Wurds, Suji Kanneganti, Parker Phelps, Louis Watts, Srotoswini Sinha, Dungeon Master, Ophelia, Sarah Trad
One Night Screening
First Friday / August 5, 2022, 6-9PM
This August – for one night only – Grizzly Grizzly will screen videos selected from our open call. Works range from hypnotic animated drawings to ritual performances to mock TED talks. Hot August Nights features the work of eleven artists: Jordan Deal, Parker Phelps, Dafna Steinberg, Alley Faint Wurds, Louis Watts, Suji Kanneganti, Dungeon Master, Srotoswini Sinha, Ophelia, Sarah Trad and Elicia Epstein. Come out of the heat and join us for this one-night exhibition of magic and mischief.
2020/22 Grizzly Grizzly programming is supported by Added Velocity which is administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and funded by the William Penn Foundation.
Artist Bios
Philadelphia-based Jordan Deal uses performance, sound, and image as a conduit between the interdimensional highways that connect ancestral and spiritual knowledge with worlds of thought, ideas, and modes of understanding. Using their body as filter, mirror, and conductor between audience, sound, site, and imagery, their process is a deep collaboration between the gaze of the audience (the perception, interference, and surveillance of), the site (land), and the filters of language.
Elicia Epstein is a queer, practicing Jewitch working toward a MFA in Sculpture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She makes work across a variety of media, from sculpture and installation, to documentary photography and video, publication, collage, painting, and performance.
Dafna Steinberg is a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist, whose work examines the experiences of women and the fragmentation of the female body as well as the relationships between men and women and how these interactions play out in building cultural understanding. EGO is a video made from found television clips recorded on the iPhone. It examines the stereotype of the artist as seen through the lens of popular television, specifically with a focus on police procedurals and crime dramas.
Alley Faint Wurds writes books on the use of butoh and artificial intelligence in the occult. Her video portrays a ritual inspired by a portion of a chaos grimoire channeled via artificial intelligence. It makes use of butoh to simultaneously embody birth-decay cycles on societal and personal scales.
Suji Kanneganti works intuitively and experimentally, avoiding preconceived concepts, with the intention of channeling something deeper that exists beyond language and logic.
Parker Phelps is a Philadelphia-based photographer and artist.
Louis Watts made drawings that are composed of tiny, repeated hashtags. He then animated the images and added sound to make hypnotic videos.
Srotoswini Sinha’s works are based on real life incidents, memories and scenarios. The videos are merely documentation of mundane objects, once rearranged, it evolves into a new experience and develops into an experiment to create a more relatable state of mind.
Dungeon Master is the world's most brutal academic speed metal PowerPoint band.
Ophelia is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is methodical and ritualistic. Methods become tedious and trance-like, and these trance-like states allow me to fully delve into the moments I’m taking from. Editing audio and video footage as I play them on repeat blurs the lines between then and now, present and past.
Sarah Trad is inspired by pop culture and South Asian and Northern African pattern design. Her work focuses on how Arab identity intersects with queerness, mental health, feminism, and future alternate realities. She became interested in Arab Futurism as a way of disassociating Arab bodies from such historically orientalist representations and stereotypes.