Displacement Replacement Pt. 2

November 28, 2024

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A comic series that chronicles displacement in the arts. Our characters visit Tritriangle, a space that engages with the potential of sound, video, language, and other performative time-based media challenging traditional aesthetic and conceptual notions.

Image: A photograph that has been edited to look like a black and white comic with three illustrated characters drawn over conversating, "How do you know about this place tío?" "I just know it! All right!?" "¿Pensé que quería ver la clausura de la Convencion Democrata?" "I hate all the sports-like intense, emotional bullshit around politicians." "Así es tío, todo el mundo olvidará sus 'political views' en un año." The title of this series is written in Blue and Red letters: DISPLACEMENT-->REPLACEMENT 2 of 3 comic created by Carlos Matallana. — Image: A photograph that has been edited to look like a black and white comic with three illustrated characters drawn over conversating, “How do you know about this place tío?” “I just know it! All right!?” “¿Pensé que quería ver la clausura de la Convencion Democrata?” “I hate all the sports-like intense, emotional bullshit around politicians.” “Así es tío, todo el mundo olvidará sus ‘political views’ en un año.” The title of this series is written in Blue and Red letters: DISPLACEMENT–>REPLACEMENT 2 of 3 comic created by Carlos Matallana.

Image: A photograph of an older masc person with a beard seated with their hands out appearing as if in mid-sentence saying, "I'm Ryan Dunn. I run Tritrangle. I drifted from poetry, when I decided that I wanted to manifest philosophical statements, compel people to have some kind of argument-not necessarily conclusive.-in the materiality of the work. Bringing people to care, bringing them to a point where they're just compelled to respond, to be engaged in a consensual way. Tritriangle gives space and voice to projects that maybe haven't had any opportunities before, it gives them space to try. things that are in the works, or they're still developing or working towards...and anything that doesn't have a home in other places because they're pushing against typical genre boundaries that certain spaces might not be able to accomodate."

Image: A photograph has been edited to look like a colorful comic with three black and white characters illustrated over having a conversation, "This space may fade away, you know!" "wdym tío?" "Nobody knows what's going to happen with this building!" "that sucks!" "They don't need your pity, this space and the visiting artists need your support." "good point tío"

Image: A photograph of someone performing and Ryan Dunn speaking has been edited as a comic with the text bubbles drown on top, "I try not to use the word 'music' since it carries a very specific connotation of Western musical scales and a framework with preconceptions about how you should present it and people's expectations. As opposed to giving people more leeway to play with notions of how we engage with our senses." "KINESTHETIC layers indulgence and disruption" "AN OVERWHELMING FEELING FOR SURE" "Refrescante, Wasabi para mis oídos." "Tritrangles keep track of every show we've had. A website that artists and audiences can refer back to. We don't keep documentation of the shows, we don't publish authoritative documentation of the shows."

Image: A photograph of a person wearing a cap performing in a red hue and a black and white photo of Ryan Dunn is edited to look like a comic with the following text written over, "I probably would never have moved to Wicker Park if it weren't for this space, the history that was already happening here. I moved from Portland, Oregon. I went to grad school at the Art Institute in the sound department. I was involved in communal housing. I think that mirrors my approach to how arts communities work. My concern is with the philosophy that's expressed through the artwork. I am against the dominance of objects, and so the space. I guess, we are all like a ghost ship, community spaces where people are doing things not geared towards building businesses, or towards capitalizing, it's just geared on things that people want to engage in, knowing that they're not popular culture."

Image: A photograph of a crowd watching a person perform edited in black, white, and red is edited as a comic with three characters illustrated over as part of the attendees. The following text is written over too, "MORTIDO, creates an environment, it announces with bells the arrival of giants that pass by us..." "We never see them but their steps fade into water"

Image: A red toned photograph of a performer with a laptop is edited to look like a comic, along with a photo of Ryan Dunn smiling and two characters illustrated over having a conversation, "Itsi Ramirez slashes with tender precision, mesmerized you realize too late that metallic insects created a buzzing helmet around your head." "Obeying the call of an invisible Fauno. Itsi brings us back too soon." The following text is written in black: Tritriangle was established with William Robertson in 2012 after the closing of Enemy, which was another media performance space where I was involved for two years. A communal living space for most of that time until the pandemic and the situation with the building became more palpable, we haven't moved anybody back in because we don't have any assurances about what's next. Eric Leonardson, a professor at the Art Institute, and an artist that runs the Midwest Society for acoustic ecology moved in in 1995 and had sound artists here for many years before it was Enemy. In 2012, Eric was using the space for a dance and theatre performance group that he was doing sound for called Plasticene (Plasticene Physical Theater.

Image: A black and white comic page showing a person playing an instrument with round audio waves expelling from the center with three characters at the bottom having a conversation, "Game Over! Let's go and watch the replay of the speech." "Tío but you said..." "I'm not a freaking facho!" The following text is written on the right side in black, "Unlike the previous performances Zach Rowden's work doesn't embrace or takes you places. With minimal variations of his drone like bass. Rowden's sets you in trance, patiently, carefully builds momentum, at first you may anticipate resolution, instead the bass lures you in suspense, with a sudden ending. If you dare to ask, what's next? Zack's response would be: That's up to you."

Carlos Matallana Portrait made by his teenage children Marcela and Samuel Matallana, 2021.

About the artist: Carlos Matallana’s (He/Him) illustration tool is ink/pen on paper, He relies on high contrast and its expressionism qualities. Like an anonymous quiet observant, he prefers to illustrate his characters from the back. He enjoys illustrating full body characters standing or in movement, revealing attitudes and feelings through posture or even clothing instead of facial expressions. He published the graphic novel Brea https://manualofviolence.org/ in 2018. Instagram @tropipunk