A look at 4D MFA student X Medianoche’s solo show in the School of Education gallery
waiting room is an exhibition featuring x medianoche’s video work While We Wait (2023) ~ a reimagining of the ambient informational powerpoint on a tv screen of the common liminal waiting spaces of the hospital or the church office or the mind. waiting room is a place to sit / wait / meditate / chill / practice having a fierce heart / charge ur phone / daydream / etc. you can view the video here.
Medianoche transferred to UW Madison from Mills College in Oakland, California in the fall of 2022. After taking the course Sound Design for the Performing and Visual Arts, they have been working with UW professor Tim Russel ever since. Their work is an incredible addition to the interdisciplinary MFA program at the University of Wisconsin Madison. We are lucky to have them for a few more months before they graduate this spring.
X Medianoche (b. 1993 in South Florida) is an artist working in sound, video, installation, print and performance. Often utilizing their artwork as prayers and spells for union, X’s work confronts and suspends itself amongst their viscous relationship to technology and spirituality. X is currently at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about to complete their MFA in Studio Art this Spring 2024 where they have spent most of their time researching and making work with the organ. X’s sound design work, a quadraphonic sound installation in collaboration with Paz G for Paz G’s Bay Area Now 9 sound, sculpture & mural installation, is currently on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California until May 2024. Their work is made possible by god, spirit guides, angels, love, friends, teachers, time travel, strangers, music, mistakes, saturn, sound healing, synchronicities and probably you.
Their upcoming MFA Thesis show is April 1st – 6th, 2024 in the Backspace Gallery in Art Lofts (111 North Frances Street Madison, WI 53703). The reception is April 3rd, 7:15-9PM. Experiencing hours are Monday-Friday 7:15-9PM.
