The evening brought together recent performance and video work by Vera Brunner-Sung, Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc. in collaboration with Elana Mann, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Alexa Gerrity, Joseph Imhauser, Noah Klersfeld, Julie Lequin, Benjamin Love, Susan Mogul, and Carlin Wing. The event was hosted by Side Street Projects, a non-profit run out of solar-powered mobile homes.
These artworks undermine the banality and brutality of the automobile by any means possible whether through psychedelic road-tripping, FM radio talk-shows, or love songs. Mann presented Driven by What’s Inside as a way to deepen explorations in her own work related to cars, driving, and war. This event is the second in a series for Mann, in which she attempts to redress her grandfather’s involvement in the Manhattan Project by creating a “peace bomb” with other creators and thinkers.