Intersection 2024 Performance Art at Wonzimer

5PM Doors

6PM Performances Start

7PM End

In the essay “Wind Daruma,” Hijikata Tatsumi describes a figure of wind which sweeps up and through identifiable bodies, transforming, erasing, “immolating” them. The Yupik word for “Self”, “Weather”, “other”

and “wind” is the same Ella, a sort of motion that intertwines our interior space and the exterior world in an emphatic and enduring dance.

Intersection is a site-specific project dedicated to exploring the interconnectivity of painting, sound, dance, and film. The goal is to construct a non-hierarchical entwinement of these traditionally separate mediums. The entwinement prioritizes sensation, embodiment, and synesthesia. The artists rely on improvisation, play, and dialoguing, and the let’s-say-“tactile” intertwining of one’s physical being with the spatio-temporal fabric in which one exists.

Brief Bio:

*Matt McGarvey is a multi-instrumental musician, composer, and producer. He has a PhD in music from UC San Diego. His sound work includes composition for dance, live performance with

dance, painting and installation, live performance and soundtrack work with film, and regular album production. He is the founding member of Unthem Collective, and has worked extensively with painter Iva

Gueorguieva, filmmaker Jonesy, and musician and installation artist Gary Murphy. His recent work as Liquidated State is hypnotic and raw, synth-based music.*Gretchen Ackerman received her formal training from the Grand Rapids Ballet School and

Alonzo Kings’ LINES Ballet. She has danced for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, RGWW,

Mike Tyus & Co, and ZiRU Dance; performing the works of Joshua Peugh, Sidra Bell, Mark

Caserta, Laurie Sefton, Luca Renzi, Rosanna Gamson, Philein Wong, and Alejandro Perez.

Additionally, she is developing her own language of movement and creation. Discipline of the

self and deep research are at the crux of her art.

*Darrel “Friidom” Dunn, a Dallas native, graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2014 with a

degree in Arts and Technology. Known as the Willy Wonka of Movement, Friidom curates immersive worlds

of movement that bridge divides through philosophy and storytelling. Based in Los Angeles, CA, he works

as a director, choreographer, actor, and movement artist for various art and commercial projects. His

impressive resume includes collaborations with Universal Music Enterprises, Disney, WACO Theater, Tyler

The Creator, Lin Manuel Miranda, Dick Van Dyke, and more. His life’s crowning work is the "Epiic"

movement philosophy, blending Krump, Street Styles, and raw expressive movements, born from his personal struggles. "Epiic" performances are accompanied by orchestral progressions and cinematic scores. Friidom’s work challenges audiences to find the artist within themselves, revolutionizing movement, visual arts, technology, and entertainment. His mantra: “Live Frii, Be Epiic.”

*Iva Gueorguieva (born 1974, Sofia, Bulgaria) is a painter and sculptor. She has an upcoming show at

Night gallery, LA in 2024. Select solo exhibitions and projects include Benton Museum of Art, Claremont,

CA; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles; Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, NL; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles

Projects, Los Angeles, CA; ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Frederic Snitzer, Miami, FL; Pomona Museum of Art,

Claremont, CA. Notable group shows include: CAM, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Los Angeles

County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is included in the public collections of museums

including, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis,

MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA;

University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Art, Design and Architecture Museum

at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY and Benton

Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. She lives and works in Los Angeles.