Osc-Arts
Oscillator is a catalyst for the arts.
We exist to energize and spark connections in the art-worlds and the public.
Through traveling exhibitions, festivals, and experimental programming, Oscillator creates new networks to empower individual artists and their communities.
History / Timeline
Oscillator consists of people, place and experiences.
Artists, educators, printmakers, writers, musicians, performers, community builders, collaborators, organizers! We are an ever-changing experimental collective of working artists. Since 2014 we have been active, running alternative art exhibitions and programming from DIY art-spaces and underground networks to white wall galleries and museums. We play, experiment and learn through organizing exhibitions, festivals, educational programming, artist residencies and happenings. We also plan traveling exhibitions/tours annually, connecting art-worlds all over the globe. The network of creatives we have met through this work is an unfathomable inspiration to continue collaborating and working with new people.
2020
MILESTONES
new shop opens! (osc-press)
EXHIBITIONS
valley of the shrines (jenna bryan)
7D Multi-Disciplinary extravaganza (lauren penichelli)
love letters to the world (cat castle)
WORKSHOPS
woodcut relief PRINTMAKING (ERIC PIPER)
mask making (eric piper)
HAPPENINGS
rise/set print installation
2019
MILESTONES
SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM FORMS (OSC-ARTS)
EXHIBITIONS
THE HOUSE THAT ANARCHY BUILT (LAINE BERGERON)
WALLOW: EXPLORING GRIEF THROUGH HYBRID FORMS (TRACEY GREGORY )
TRANSFIXION (RACHEL STOUT)
RELATABLE TRANSACTIONS ONLY (SERENA V, GARRETT Y)
WORKSHOPS
EXPERIMENTAL PRINTMAKING (ERIC PIPER)
DANCE AND MOVEMENT (CEDAR FLOYD)
HYBRID WRITING: UNEARTHING FORM AND IDENTITY (TRACY JANE GREGORY)
LET’S GET SOCIAL (JULIUS)
RELIEF PRINTING WORKSHOP: LIGHT AND FORM FROM PATTERN (Curtis Jones)
TUESDAY PORTRAIT NIGHTS (WEEKLY PROGRAMMING)
FESTIVALS
ZINES Y’ALL / REGIONAL ZINE FEST
NEW MEDIA & VIDEO SHOWCASE / INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDIA/VIDEO FEST
PRINT PRINT BOOM / PRINTMAKING EXPOSITION
PSYCH FEST / PSYCHEDELIC ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
TRACY JANE GREGORY, SAN FRANSICO, CALIFORNIA - 2 WEEKS
TOURS
EU CIRCUIT / US -SOUTH & MIDWEST
Artist House, Parnu, EST, EU
GMT House, Toulouse, FR, EU
I-Land Sound, Saaremaa, EST, EU
Schoolhouse Cycles, Norman, OK
Hagen Hill Commune, Riga, Latvia, EU
The Nursery, OKC, OK
St. Arnold’s, Houston, TX
HAPPENINGS
HELEN: LIVE EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE
CHANNELING SPONTANEOUS NARRATIVES IN CLAY
THE HISTORY OF STICKS RADIO EXPERIENCE LIVE
NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER
INFINITE ECHOSCAPES
THE HOUSE THAT ANARCHY BUILT
MAKE BELIEVE
REALITY SHIFT: STORM SUMMONING
2018
MILESTONES
Downtown Main St Space Opens! (Resonator Institute)
Alternative Art School Opens (ALternator: Alternative Arts Academia)
exhibitions
I|( from ) me to u (Braden Denton)
Temperance (Garrett Young)
Bubble Installation (Katelynn Noel Knick)
The French Showcase (Gaëtan Larant, Adrien Hoffmann-Hervé)
Cafeteria Catholic (Lisette Chavez)
Tri-X-Noise (Bill Daniel)
Woodcut Funhouse Roadshow! (Sean Starwars)
Secondhand Ceremonies (Alicia Smith)
Keyhole Nebula (Derrick Adams)
Drawings and Prints (Tyler Krasowski)
Cat Castle (Group Exhibition)
Fire and Fury (Group Exhibition)
Interstellar Bruja Reading and Art Party (Group Exhibition)
The Punk Rock Poster Show (Group Exhibition)
Sketchy Pony Cart: 7D (Group Exhibition)
workshops
Secondhand Ceremonies: Intersectional Panel Discussion (Alicia Smith)
costume and mask making (eric Piper)
Alternator Alternative Arts Academia (4 week / 16 Course Alternative Arts academia)
Creative Discourse 1 (Eliseo Casiano, Katy Seals, Spencer Tracy)
Creative Discourse 2 (The Holey Kids, BC Summers)
Creative Discourse 3 (Daniela Magalhaes, Kelsey Karper, Katelynn Knick & Shawn J Perkins)
Creative Discourse 4 (Tye Mach, Bryan J Page, Clint Stone)
StoryTelling Meet (Monthly Programming)
Portrait Painting Nights (Weekly Programming)
kick it and create (weekly programming)
festivals
Independent Publishing Fest / Local Independent Publishing Fest
Alternator: Alternative Arts Academia / Alternative Arts Camp 4 weeks 16 courses
Diverse Universe / International performance festival
print print boom / printmaking exposition
artist residencies
Gaëtan Larant, Adrien Hoffmann-Hervé - Paris/Toulouse, France - 1 month
tours
South-East Circuit / us-South & East-coast
Resonator Institute, Norman, OK
Notsuoh, Houston, TX
Praying Mantis Grove, Beaumont, TX
Space Mountain, Miami, FL
Caught Looping, Shantytown, Jacksonville, FL
The Bakery, Atlanta, GA
Treehouse Collective, Roanoke, VA
Last Frontier, Brooklyn, NY
Wild Embeddings, Brooklyn, NY
Happenings
Emma Lee Toyoda / The Lamps and Tamagochi Teenage Dirtbag
C.J. Boyd & No Holds Bard Rhythm
Trying Science (TX) / Local Man Ruins Everything / Cryptogram
Bowlsey, Yazan (NYC), Magnificent Bird
DJ Electro Showcase
Serial Experiments
DJ Happy Hour
Party of Life!
Maddie Razook / Cocordion (CO) / Audrey Oden
Annabelle Chairlegs / Rotten Mangos / Masterhand /Bronte
Tri-X-Noise: Bill Daniel w/ Bad Athlete/ DJ Sub/ Harold Bear
Patriots Opera / Forced into Femininity / Blair Summers
Mess (KC) / Speak, Memory / Giant Stride / Tom Boil
Speak, Memory; Origami Ghosts; Young Readers
Young Readers vinyl release with Origami Ghosts & Speak, Memory
Rainbow Disco
Regulus w/ Bad Athlete, Men Of Action, & Plain Speak
Zigtebra//Maddie Razook//Gall//Ppoacher Ppoacher
Resonator TV Season Release / Norman Film Fest
Painterly Saints: Video Shoot
Alex Cunningham, The Dang OlBand and Alexander & Epona
Me Oh My / Comeback Halloween
The Sweet Talkers /One Two Ten /Don't Tell Dena
Doom Lagoon, Autopilot, Part-Time Savants & Useless Randy
An Evening with Riley Harmon - A Method for Blue Logic
Advance Base (Chicago, IL)/w Nova & The Nobodys
Poppies (NYC), Maddie Razook & Analgesic
Thollem's Electric Confluence + ACVilla's videos
Wild Pink/w Anvil Salute Lung/w The Gilded Heart
2017
MILESTONES
First Screen Printing Press! (osc-press)
Experimental Video Team Forms (Resonator TV!)
exhibitions
The Queen of Texas (Eliseo Casiano)
Bront! (Nick Lillard)
Soul Long (Ricardo Ruiz)
Happiness Is What You Make It (Laramie Fain)
"Who Else If Just Not Us?" (Zachary Carlisle Davidson)
A Diamond in the Wilderness (Katy Seals)
Residue of Performative Acts (Ajay Sharma)
QUIZ SHOW (Melissa Jacobs)
Sour Mash Menthol Horror (Amazing Hancock Bros, Birdbonez)
Coalescence Coalition (Group Exhibition)
Collective Frequencies (Group Exhibition)
Cat Stickers: Graphite and Ink (Group Exhibition)
Cat Castle Collective (Group Exhibition)
The Dark Book Arts (Group Exhibition)
REBEL REBEL (Group Exhibition)
workshops
costume and mask making (eric Piper)
DIY Screenprinting (Curtis Jones)
Monotype Workshop, Exploring Opacity (Michael Wilson)
Woodblock Relief Printing (Eric Piper)
Figure Drawing (Craig Swan)
Food as Community Practice (Ajay Sharma)
Vegan Cooking (Andrea Duran-Carson)
Paper Lithography (michael Wilson)
Long Form Drawing (Craig Swan)
movie screening (monthly programming)
Punk rock 101 (Monthly Programming)
StoryTelling Meets (Monthly Programming)
festivals
Interstellar Bruja / Sci-Fi magic surrealist writing/performance/art fest
March to SXSW / Music Festival
Resonance / performance festival
Fragmented Reality / experimental music composer showcase
Anarchist Print/Perf Fest / international performance
Resonator Zine Fest / printmaking exposition
Sweetheart Market / Print and Small Art Exposition
artist residencies
Ajay Sharma - Dehli, India - 1 month
tours
Latitude Circuit / midwest, south
Resonator Institute, Norman, OK
East Central University, Ada, OK
Voertman, Denton, TX
DfbrL8r, Chicago, IL
Happenings
Jane Cordiko Tape Release
Beat Bums (TN), Jarvix, Lazy Ear, DJ digital scraps
Ether 03: Gelisol
DEath Marches
Alt Shift Dance 04
Comin’ For You
Ether 04: Air
Alt Shift Dance 05
Ultimate Day of Games II
Ether 05: Water
Alt Shift Dance 06
Ether 06: Fire
Ether 07: Earth
Ether 08: Air
Signal Flare BBQ!
The Freebiez (San Antonio) // Laine // Ugly Duck
The Verge/ Magic Munchbox / Packing for Pluto.
Hot Glory / Psychotic Reaction / Brain in the Sky / Chaos Blooms
One Night Only ~ Experimental Art/Perf ~ An Atomic Whirl (JAPan)
Imelda Marcos (CHI) / Jarvix / Astral Planes / Slick and Nixon
Haunted House Immersive Dance Party!
Come Hither
2016
MILESTONEs
First Space Closes! (Dope Chapel)
501.3c art non-profit is Founded (Resonator Institute)
Warehouse Space Opens! (Resonator ARt Space)
exhibitions
Rooted (Shawn J. Perkins)
I Am The Worst (Annavittoria Conner)
One or Several Wolves (Group Exhibition)
Mysti-Kawaii Cloud Castle (Group Exhibition)
Dope Chapel Art Space Retrospective (group exhibition)
workshops
Kick It And Create (Weekly Programming)
movie screening (monthly programming)
Punk rock 101 (Monthly Programming)
costume workshop (eric Piper)
festivals
Print Print Boom / Print Exposition
Praying Mantis Surrealist Fest / Print & Performance Fest
artist residencies
Al Paldrok, TAje Stross, Kaspar Rabby - estonia - 1 week
tours
Dixieland Circuit / US- South
Resonator Institute, Norman, OK
Art Basel Satellite Parisian, Miami, FL
Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC
Notsuoh, Houston, TX NODAPL, Edge Space, Miami, FL
Satellite, Miami, FL
Truck Intervention, Wynwood, Miami, FL
Sanctuary of the Arts, New Orleans, LA
The Art Studio, Beaumont, TX
IAO Gallery, OKC, OK
Happenings
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Alt Shift Dance 01: Which house? Witch house.
Abduction
Ether: Aqueous
Alt Shift Dance 02: These Are A Few of my Favorite Things
Immaculate Misconception
Symphony of Civilization
Myriad Construct: Fashion Show (Cody Ryan David)
Lost at Home
Alt Shift Dance 03: Increase the Delusion!
Ether: Embers
Projectors vs projection
Dråsa//O.D.D//Bleak Age//Life As One//Scum
2015
MILESTONES
FIRST International Tour! (Helios Circuit)
exhibitions
Eternal War (Alexander Heir)
other cheek (Ricardo Vicente Jose Ruiz)
holey matrimony (holey kids)
identity of torment/self restoration (Eli casiano, blake stewart)
the world is yours (Julia Curran)
Architecture of Perception (Dayton W. Clark)
What’s a Girl supposed to Do? (Mellissa Jacobs)
While I breath, I Hope (Xenia Fedorchenko)
These things don’t cut themselves (Tyler J Krasowski, Kelly Houlihan)
workshops
wheat-paste 101 (eric piper)
Movement for Musicians (daniella Magalhaes)
DIY mask making (eric piper)
social media (julius)
woodblock relief printmaking (eric piper)
W/ld t0rvs - performance lyfestile kamp (Vlady Vladstock, magneta)
Mural Making (eric piper)
kick it and create (weekly programming)
movie screening (bi-monthly programming)
field trips (quarterly programming)
festivals
ink spit / printmaking/rap festival
print print boom / printmaking exposition
diverse universe / performance festival
`•.¸¸.•´´¯`••._.• LOOPFEST `•.¸¸.•´´¯`••._.• / Experimental music fest
artist residencies
Vladdy Vladstock, Magneta - new york city, new york - 1 week
tours
Helios Circuit / us, eu, mex
Dope Chapel Art Space, Norman, OK
Universitario del Chopo, DF, Mexico
Hall of Tigers, Wichita, Kansas
Pulqueria los Insurgentes, DF, Mexico
Casa Viva, DF, Mexico
Auditorio Che Guevara, DF, Mexico
Academia de San Carlos, DF, Mexico
Hyperion, LA, CA
3rd Space Collective, Davis, CA
Brick Studio, Sacramento, CA
East-Keltic, Houston, TX
Notsuoh, Houston, TX
Space Tower, Austin, TX
Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
Last Frontier, Brooklyn, NY
Ritz Theatre, Corpus Christi, TX
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
DC Art-space, Norman, OK
GAA, Vaasa, Finland
Campus Allegro, Jakobstad, Finland
La Gare Experimental, Paris, France
Pub Bastun, Aland, Sweden
El Patio de Martin...Heroes, Madrid, Spain
Prix Libre, Rennes, France Authentic Human Interaction,
Plaza Corazon de Maria, Bilbao, Spain
Plaza de los Tres Pilares, Bilbao, Spain
University of the Basque, Bilbao, Spain
La Friche de Belle Mai, Marseilles, France
Les Atelier, Clermont-Ferrand, France
ENSACF, Riom, France
Victoria House, Beaumont, TX
Happenings
Glaassss // Skeleton // Creature State
Netherfriends & Chipper Jones & The Hitt Boyz
Digital Improvisation
Land of the Free
CJ BOYD - LAVALUXE - ASKANSE
Digital Improvisation
Ultra City // Angwish (NC) // Moloko Listo // Plain Speak
Boogie Fever Saturday: FebuFunky Freakfest
***ELECTRONICHITIS***
Pollen Rx (ATX) // Sunchaser // Little Child Man
Extreme Friends day
DARSOMBRA (Baltimore) // STONE BEAR
Mental Throes
Meaningfully Meaningless
THE MYRRORS (TUSCON) // SIMILARITY // SHAMELESS FRIEND
Understanding Understanding
BURNING PALMS (TUCSON) // SHISHIO // WEAK KNEES
We, A Lens to the Eternal
OTAKUNAUTS // GLASIR (TX) // VASH
LETS BOUNCE ~SPIT SWAP EDITION
¿Que Pasa? (ATX) // Yves (OKC) // Organi5m
Labyrinth of Institution
PIZZA THIEVES (cassette release / tour kick off) // COSMOSTANZA // TRADE SCHOOL
MIKEY KEYS // SAM REGAN // CJ BOYD
RIG TIME // VASH
Stage of the Mind
ANTAGONISTAS // AN ATOMIC WHIRL (JAPAN) // DEATH MASK
CLEANUP // HEADBUTT // THE HITT BOYZ
Brain Stamping
OTAKUNAUTS // MARION WALKER (FL) // ETSYNCHROS
Authentic Human Interaction
POLLEN RX RETURNS // PLAIN SPEAK // STOOP KID // SWARMS
SUMMER DECAY// SHISHIO// CHERRY DEATH // SARDASHHH // ASKANSE // AMERICAN HATE
Zigtebra (Chicago) // Shameless Friend // Aw Cmon// Stoop Kid
COYOTE // AQUA-EROTICUM // NOWHERE SANDS // ORIGIN OF POWER
2014
Milestones
First space opens (Dope Chapel Art Space)
exhibitions
Zero = zero (anna thomas)
Existence is Violence (ross adams)
epic mundane (evan clayburg, sally hensel)
10 new commandments (al paldrok)
the language is mine! *slits throat* (group exhibition)
ink spit: printmaking/rap exhibit (group exhibition)
workshops
circuit bending (Daniel Giles Helm)
costume and mask making (eric Piper)
Weaving with reclaimed plastic bags (sally hensel)
sampling for fools, ableton 101 (ben hill)
intro to urban herbalism (jewellee collins)
performance intervention (nongrata)
kick it and create (weekly programming)
movie screening (bi-monthly programming)
field trip (quarterly programming)
festivals
we have never been modern / international experimental film & video
norman printorium / international printmaking festival
lightning rod / performance festival
#FF0000 / international performance
print print boom / printmaking exposition
artist residencies
evan clayburg & sally hensel - sacramento, california - 1 month
tours
blind circuit / us-midwest & west-coast
Dope Chapel, Norman, OK
Hall of Tigers, Wichita, Kansas
Santa Fe Arts, Denver, CO
House of BOING, SLC, Utah
3rd Space Collective, Davis, CA
J&F’s, San Fransisco, CA
The Hyena Gallery, LA, CA
BMT Parlor, Beaumont, TX
Notsuoh, Houston, TX