AA Records is a noise record label from Detroit. A collaborative project initiated in 2005 by multimedia artists Alivia Zivich and Nate Young. They present non-traditional forms of sound and visual art through alternate economic models of art production and exhibition. AA records does this in part through their operation as a small imprint offering editions of hand-made objects at reasonable prices.
All photo installations by Jossi Bieber
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AA Records show at Exilo Studio was scheduled for the weekend after Thanksgiving, known in the US to be the biggest shopping weekend of the year. With a department store in mind, AA records continue to work with sheets as a large format of choice for wall-scale graphics of blankly staring faces. To these were add intricate digital drawings of hot dog characters printed on blankets, one ebullient, the other a skeptical smoker. Ceramics by Crystal Palmer are middle fingers poking up from clouds, bursting forth from black confetti and lava rock.
In the alternate room projections bend space and a head shoppe vibe pervades, the synesthetic conditions suggest shifting states of perception. Home-wares move beyond the familiar when covering hidden shapes or covered in anthropomorphic figures, hinting at a narrative. The story progresses when a purchase is made, the characters finding their real context in the buyer’s home.
