Coaxial is thrilled to announce LA based transdisciplinary artist Shelly Badal as our February 2024 Artist in Residence.


Aerial Ears - Feeler’s Whip is a site-specific installation and group activation materializing the flight experience. It sets out to colorize the liminal - peaceful, chaotic, mundane, reflective - aspects accompanied with being in transit. From within the plane Shelly & Co will host a game-esque multimedia performance addressing recent city-swapping trends, yearnings, and resistances.

Installation Opening & Show
Saturday, Feb. 24th | 6:00PM to 10:00PM
Show — 8:00PM

Pastport Sessions & Gallery Hours
Sunday, February 25th | 12:00PM to 5:00PM

For the week leading up to the show, the build will coincide with inviting collaborators for guest frequencies: recording soundscapes & travel testimonials in addition to compositing tape and digital archives. Attendees of the Pastport Workshop will leave with a pocket-sized travel companion granting entry to a grounded self in any territory- physical or otherwise. Through individual exploration we will apply letter writing, word association, and prompt-generating techniques to uncover symbols unique to each person’s page. For folks interested in utilizing metaphor as a discovery tool for charting life paths or renewing perspective on systems of any scale.
AEFW’s communal, interactive elements and recording capabilities will still be available for play during gallery hours on the 25th.

Read the full Press Release: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MSU1aYH59QaBlcH9Czed6oDcgYZgaEFR/view?usp=sharing

View More of Shelly's Work: https://shellybadal.com


Shelly Badal works within a sensory practice to cultivate relatedness and presence via performance, sound, language, and visual art – engaging in ritual, somatics, relational aesthetics, and experience design – studying prosocial behavior, motivation, and nonlinear expressions of time. She uses academic research as the basis for exploring and responding to theory in an experiential format. Her A/V works blend color abstraction with vérité footage using analog and digital processes. Bridging her backgrounds in psychology and film she looks at depictions of connection and change in the natural and mystical for parallels in aiding limitations across internal and external relationships. She has worked in film, radio, and event production in Los Angeles and Berlin.


This residency is supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, mediaThe Foundation, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles.

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