06/20/2025
MSHR, POD BLOTZ, PURE RAVE at JUNE 21st. Doors 7pm. Screening 8pm. Music at 9pm-11pm.
SMASHISM is a multimedia event series that explores the connections between video art, live performance, music, and immersive environments. It began in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles around 2011. This event at Trinosophes marks MSHR’s first-ever performance in Detroit. MMSHR’s performances revolve around their handmade electronic instruments in feedback systems of light, sound, and movement. The duo acts as elements within the system, navigating its visceral audiovisual environment through a tangle of agency and circuitry. Pod Blotz audiovisual set that mixes datamoshing video with moving mirror sculptures, live electronics, crafting a future-facing experience. Pure Rave will set up an intricate display of layered turntablism and broken electronics with polyharmonic and polyrhythmic effects.
The video art showcase features work from artists across New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, New Mexico, and Texas. Video artists include Will Lawson, Bryan Dulaney, Shana Palmer, Yoshi Sodeoka, Network Glass, Scott Kiernan, MSHR, Destroy All Monsters, Kamau Patton, Sara Ludy, Cryborg, Nicola Kuperus, Alex Pelly, Zozo, Jenny Sayaka Norris, Danny Perez, Rolan Vega, Matt Rozensky, Andrew Charles Edman, and interference//. Art prints by W.C. Bevan, Kyle Pryce, and Suzy Poling will also be on display. The event is curated by Suzy Poling, with installation support from Matt Rozensky.
