Dennis Spielman

The alternative rock band out of Oklahoma City, NøiseBleedsSøund, strives to provides its audience an experience rather than just play some music. In my video for Uncovering Oklahoma, Parker, Michelle, Jack, Jeff, and Gabe interview each other in a fast-blast game of questions and then perform their song, Hollow Kisses.

This style of fast questions was a new thing I tried out and I’m happy with the results. I don’t do band videos often–I only did four last year–but this format worked out well and I have some notes for improvement. Also, the whole music session was an extra wide 4K shot where I edited the entire camera movement in post, with the final video as 1080p.

If you want to watch/listen to just their music session, play the above video. If you like them, check out their Offical Website, Buy NøiseBleedsSøund’s album on Amazon, Stream on Spotify, Like on Facebook, Follow on Twitter, and Follow on Instagram.

I did a tour with Andrew H. Shirley as talked about his movie, “Wastedland 2,” and the corresponding art exhibit at Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery in Oklahoma City’s Film Row District. I loved the immersive film installation.

During the same night, I did an Artist Statement Minute with Nicole Emmons-Willis on “Lady Parts.” Lady Parts is an immersive site-specific installation that brings to light the overutilization of hysterectomy in the treatment of fibroids and explores the unknowns of female reproductive medicine. In this video, Nicoles shares her story behind creating the exhibit and its interactive message wall.

Both exhibits run from February 17 through March 4, 2017.

Jennifer Scanlan, the Curatorial and Exhibitions Director for Oklahoma Contemporary, takes Uncovering Oklahoma on an exclusive one-on-one tour of Jeffrey Gibson’s Speak to Me.

Speak to Me, Gibson’s first solo show in Oklahoma, features recent artworks that draw upon his Native American heritage (Choctaw and Cherokee) and intertribal aesthetics and traditions. He incorporates other wide-ranging influences including house music, modernist art, gospel, and ’80’s fashion to create objects with many stories to tell.

Gibson’s practice includes painting, sculpture, fiber, ceramics, video and performance, and Speak to Me features recent works that draw upon, among other things, his Native American heritage (Choctaw and Cherokee). Many of the pieces also incorporate texts with personal resonance for Gibson: Lyrics from pop, house music and rap and some of Gibson’s own words are beaded into the art.

In addition to the two dozen pieces in the exhibition, Jennifer shows off the Learning Gallery where visitors can interact with Speak to Me. It includes touch tiles, so that guests can explore how the materials Gibson uses in his works feel and sound, and a threading station for families to create their own art, as well as a pop-up library in collaboration with the Metropolitan Library System.

For this curator tour, I’ve upped my production values compared to my last tour video by having Jennifer on a wireless mic and the camera on my new handheld gimbal stabilizer.

Jeffrey Gibson’s Speak to Me is on display at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center from February 9 to June 11, 2017.