UNILALIA
UNILALIA LIVE!
UNILALIA LIVE! is an ongoing underground exhibition and necessary interruption of routine – in a selection of local venues, performance artists are invited to participate in this event series. Our goal is to engender a culture of community oriented pragmatism in regards to the efficacy of the performer’s role in transforming spectators into participants.
UNILALIA LIVE! was initiated in 2019 as an event hosting service facilitated by the Unilalia Group, an artist collective operating in the Puget Sound region.
UNILALIA LIVE! performers include:
CARTER WILSON @CARTERINUNILALIA, ISADORE NOIR @ISADORENOIR, SKULLY VEGA @SKULLY.VEGA, MAX MOODIE @MAXMOODIE, SNCLRE @SNCLRE, COLDBOULDER @COLDBOULDER_, KYLE KAMPPI @SKRRSKRRINGTON, MOIA BRI @MOIABRI, OHJMARIE @OHJMARIE, THAD WENATCHEE @THADWENATCHEE, MADSHROOM @MADSHROOMMC
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UP NEXT: DECEMBER 13:
7PM • UNILALIA LIVE! will be hosting a preview show for Seattle-based singer snclre’s debut EP at Cafe Red,
7148 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, WA 98118. $5 entry, all ages.
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If you are a talented performing artist looking for booking opportunities, contact our event coordinator.
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SEATTLE ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
When you think of consciousness as a form of real estate, using this metaphor, consider the colonial project of land acquisition and property development – the more real estate an institution possesses, the higher its marketshare. Now, scale this model to the macro level of cultural, political, and social institutions like Boy, Girl, Man, Woman, Black, and White... these are all part of a larger taxonomical system that is integral to the machinery of colonization: “You are what I say you are”, the colonizer says to the colonized.
This is the maxim of the old world, wherein your identity and the world in which it operates is handed down and prescribed to you by an authoritative institution under threat of violence, social destitution, or death – play this role, read this script, act this part or be discarded and erased. In the case of the African Diaspora, the erasure of the slave’s native tongue happened in tandem with the renaming of their reality: the slave is coerced into describing their universe using the master’s vocabulary and through this coercion, the master consequently mediates and arbitrates the slave’s self-concept, which in turn dictates the content of the slave’s reality.
A similar program of domestication can be observed in childhood socialization – children learn to define themselves and others using words that don’t belong to them, words that they didn’t create like Boy, Girl, Man, Woman, Black, and White. Remember, we are talking about land acquisition, consciousness treated as vacant space, fertile soil on which self-limiting structures like Boy, Girl, Man, Woman, Black, and White are to be developed and installed as 1) monuments to the colonial paradigm and as 2) the means through which these roles may be embodied to reproduce the content of the colonial narrative.
— from an anthology and guide on decolonization & deinstitutionalization
+ thesis behind our practice as artists.
Just in the horizon.
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Inspired by the Japanese concept of “Ma”, Carter Wilson’s NGTVSPC dances between the presence of absence and the absence of presence. Within that moment exists a particular equilibrium, a type of joy. Finding this place is the listeners challenge.
FOWLER'S SNARE
- ELLIS WILSON
While race related instances of PTSD are consistently ignored and overlooked, the consumption of racial violence as entertainment has become a lucrative industry – trauma sells; thus, the daily oppression of black and brown people has become a commodity, a cornerstone of popular culture. From a safe distance, white consumers (the primary demographic which directly benefits from and reproduces structural racism) are able to grab a box of popcorn and get comfortable in the theater of American society, watching the drama of black oppression unfold before them, whether it be in the form of music, film, television, news, or any other kind of media. As spectators, white people will never be able to appropriately leverage their privilege to dismantle institutionalized racism; in fact, choosing to be a spectator and consumer of racial trauma only translates to complicity.
!!!!! (DELUXE EDITION)
- CARTER WILSON
"Carter Wilson is heating the region up with his new album titled !!!!!. His album is packed full of bangers that effectively present his diverse yet developed sound. One of the highlights is the production of his vocals. With this project having a wide variety of beat selections, it can be easy to have the cohesiveness slip. That doesn’t happen in this case, as his vocals are the cohesive glue throughout. This can be heard with his layered vocals that are packed full of punchlines and creative lyrics."
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– Cole Holland for
Respectmyreigion.com
GIFT MAKES ROOM
- CARTER WILSON
A man’s gift makes room for him.(Proverbs, 18:16)
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Another name for a gift is a natural ability. In theory, the actions associated with doing that which comes naturally will always make room or create space for this process to continue to manifest.
TO UNILALIA: OFFICIAL TRAILER
- ELLIS WILSON
All vocals were written, arranged, mixed, and recorded by Ellis Wilson, conforming to the restrictions of Dogma 19. This art work is intended to be listened to in one sitting, as one whole, uninterrupted. this is not rap music, nor is this r&b or soul – instead, listeners will encounter a fusion of all three woven into a narrative record.
THIS & THAT
- CARTER WILSON
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This and That is a pair of EPs released in 2018, one of which features vocals from Tacoma-native Skully Vega.
