April 19, 3:00 PM

1219 S Ervay St, Dallas, TX 75215

The Boedeker is accessible only by stairs

Evicshen

Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicshen) is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in the Bay Area. Her work is bombastic, daring and inimitable. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality and physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body.

Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. She has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Matmos, clipping, and many more. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, ISSUE Project Room, Big Ears, Donau, Rewire, Bemis Centre, and countless others.

In the entropic spirit of the Boedeker's environment and sentiments of Pest Pest, Evicshen will perform a closing set that eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones. Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning and reinforcing the tension created by opposition.

Pest Pest

The Cedars Union and Easyside are pleased to announce Pest Pest, a collection of installations and interventions in the Boedeker by Easyside artists Francisco Alvarado Araujo, Fernando Alvarez, Sheryl Anaya, Maria Barrientos, Jesse Morgan Barnett, Carrie Iverson, Claire Kennedy, Corrie Thompson, and Adrianna Touch.

The exhibition draws on subject/object functions of the word pest; its installations act with the persistence of a pest, or appear as the site or aftermath of a pest. Many of the works activate the Boedeker's environment as a framework to prod at the residues of systemic dysfunction — personal, national, and global. Thriving on any structure available, some installations swarm and fester while others hide and dissipate, creating a network of formal and conceptual connections. All are gathered under the plague-era warning sign of XX as a meditation on societal responses to perceived threats.

Together, the two programs invite the audience to look and listen closely, and in doing so, to reconsider the accepted functions and relationships of everyday objects and systems that shape our shared realities.

Presented by

Easyside, Cedars Union, and Mortadella