Sunday March 30, 7pm
1:AM Poetry Journal – Issue N.2: Bones that Howl
With: David García Casado, Ka Baird, No Land, and video by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola
In-person & live-streamed
Microscope Gallery is very pleased to welcome back to the gallery David García Casado on the occasion of the publication of the second issue of 1:AM Poetry Journal.
The evening will include an introduction of the new journal by García Casado along with a live performance by Ka Baird featuring No Land as special guest, as well as a screening of short films by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola.
From David García Casado:
“The second issue of 1:AM Poetry Journal is titled Bones that Howl. This title reflects an understanding of poetry as an energetic force—a primal howl that resonates deep in the bones, awakening a heightened awareness of the world beyond the confines of brain-centered reasoning. The form of written poetry included in this issue consists of images that evoke and provoke this awakening, not merely through reading but through the experience of the work itself. With this in mind, 1:AM seeks to give poetry a tangible physicality in a printed form—an object that engages not only the mind but also the senses through sight and touch.
As with previous issues, this edition emerges from a conversation with the two artists featured on the cover: Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola and No Land. This issue includes the full conversation with them, alongside poetic/visual contributions by Laura Duval, Mark Borthwick, Sarah Riggs, Esperanza Collado, and Chris Rubino. The cover photograph featuring Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola and No Land is by Leila Jacue.”
1:AM Poetry Journal is edited by David García Casado.
Program:
David García Casado. General presentation of the project 1:AM and introduction to all the participants.
Approx. 15 minutes
Short Films by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola
“Archivo aerolito (emerge de la tierra)”
“Incesantemente”
“Tepalcates Telaraña Huamelulpan ritual”
“Dream sequence – teaser (with Louise Landes Levi)”
Approx. 20 minutes
Ka Baird´s performance featuring guest artist No Land.
Approx. 30 minutes
General Admission $8
Member Admission $6
Please note: Tickets for online admission will become available on this page starting from 6:30pm ET on the day of the event.
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David García Casado is a Spain-born visual artist, essayist, art critic, and editor based in NYC. He has a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla La Mancha specializing in Conceptual Art and Language Arts. Initially connected with the emergence of Net Art he participated in different online projects and his project Appendix was included in the Rhizome Artbase. He has participated in and curated art shows and as an author and has published the book of essays “Buscando Invisibles” where he reflects on the invisible, the fleeting, the silence, echo, melancholy… that barely perceptible place where the artistic experience becomes present. He is the editor-in-chief of 1:AM Poetry Journal.
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist, poet and editor working with language in a variety of ways. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, fusing her poetic practice with sound, film, drawing and installation to explore the materiality and transmutation of language, archive, memory, and the ecology of sound. Her work also explores the somatic and improvisatory aspects of performance as a collective and collaborative practice. She has recently exhibited & performed at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Ex-Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City); Pequod Co. (Mexico City); Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City); The Poetry Project (NYC); Microscope Gallery (NYC); among others. She is the author of O (Cielo Abierto) and The Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons) and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial platform from Mexico City.
Ka Baird is a performer, sound artist, musician, and composer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have worked/collaborated with many other musicians, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, both in structured compositions and in their dedicated practice of improvisation and interdisciplinary work. Their solo releases include “Sapropelic Pycnic” (Drag City 2017), “Respires” (RVNG Intl 2019), “Brooding Exercises” (Longform Editions 2021), and “Vivification Exercises” (RVNG Intl 2021). In March 2024, they released their most recent solo record entitled “Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos” through Brooklyn imprint RVNG Intl. Recent national and international engagements have included performances at Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), Lampo (Chicago, IL), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), The Kitchen (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), TUSK Festival (Newcastle, UK), Incubate (Tilburg, NL), KRAAK (Brussels, BE), Le Guess Who (Utrecht, NL), and the Festival Of Endless Gratitude (Copenhagen, DK). They have been artist-in-residence at We Jazz Festival (Helsinki, FI), Sonoscopia (Porto, PT), Inkonst (Malmo, SE), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL), and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY). They have been a recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Art’s Emergency Grant, a Jerome Foundation Artist-In-Residence at Roulette Intermedium, and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow through 2023-25.
No Land (NYC) is a poet, artist and filmmaker whose work continues in the lineage of the downtown NYC avant-garde— honoring an intuitive vow towards creation. As a poet & vocalist, and often as a bandleader. No Land has performed at The Whitney Museum, the William Burroughs Bunker (Giorno Poetry Systems), Rewire Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Crossing Borders Festival (The Hague), Enclave Festival (Mexico City), Roulette, LaMaMa Galleria (NYC), The Kennedy Center (DC), The Poetry Project, Pioneer Works, Fotografiska NY Museum, & on NYC street corners. In 2024, No Land was a performance artist-in-residence at La Casaforte in Naples, Italy.