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Bulldog Video Blog ✰ October 15, 2025

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Illustration by Paul Peng

My work will be featured in the inaugural Bulldog Video Blog, a one-night international video art invitational organized by april april.

@ The Bulldog Pub
1818 Morningside Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Wednesday, October 15, 2025
8pm – 11pm

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april april, Pittsburgh
presenting Erin Mallea

Chris Andrews, Montreal
presenting Alli Melanson

Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City
presenting Ngo Dinh Bao Chau

LC Queisser, Tbilisi & Cologne
presenting Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili

Petra Bibeau, New York
presenting Haena Yoo

ROMANCE, Pittsburgh
presenting Jane Balfus

Tatsuro Kishimoto, Tokyo
presenting Shu Isaka

u's, Diamond Valley
presenting u's

Veronica, Seattle
presenting Vijay Masharani

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Atmospheres + Auras: Screening ✰ August 23, 2025

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Obscuring Power will be screened at ATMOSPHERES + AURAS, part of the Mattress Factory’s Summer Film Screening Series co-hosted by Pittsburgh Sound + Image and curated by Benny Shaffer.

ATMOSPHERES + AURAS features five experimental and documentary short films that will immerse viewers in sensory environments shaped by elemental forces and industrial traces. Tomonari Nishikawa’s Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke and Kathy Rugh’s Don’t Look Directly into the Sun use 16mm film to experiment with visual interference and the limits of perception. Inger Lise Hansen’s Tåke (meaning ‘fog’ in Norwegian) drifts through various temporalities, geographies, and media formats, while Sun Xun’s Coal Spell conjures a surreal, animated meditation on energy, memory, and labor in northeastern China. Erin Mallea’s Obscuring Power anchors the program in our western Pennsylvania context, revealing how landscapes and atmospheres absorb and obscure histories of extraction, pollution, and power at the community level. The films will be projected from 16mm and digital sources.

After the screening, Erin Mallea, Luke Stettner, and Calista Lyon will join us in-person for a conversation led by curator Benny Shaffer.

Atmospheres + Auras
August 23, 2025, 8-10 PM
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA