"Co-op Cohort!" is a black box exhibition curated by Artist Barron Sherer at Oolite Arts, opening November 19th at 6 pm. "Co-op Cohort!" runs through Miami Art Week and is on view until January 18, 2026.

Made in 1995 for the Alliance Film/Video Cooperative’s “60 Second Film Festival,” the 16mm “Party Trick”features improvised music by Bill Orcutt. Sherer and Isaza rephotographed VHS clips, single-frame style, with a Bolex and cable release, as the clips were projected onto an art gallery wall using a handmade copy stand and a technique Sherer calls a “jackass kinescope method.” Randomly selected noir, samurai, and New Wave scenes collide in a rapid, one-minute montage—an analog precursor to the YouTube “Supercut.” Edited on paper and in-camera, the piece takes its title from an insult shouted at André Breton during a Dada reading, embracing chance, play, and critique equally. Originally screened once on 16mm with cassette audio.

Rey Parlá, Sporadic Germination (1994) is a silent Super 8 “scratch film” in which Rey Parlá layered graffiti footage from 1990s Miami with hand-painted scratches, inks, and collage on the filmstrip – creating a pulsing, abstract portrait of urban art’s transient marks, like graffiti writ in light. It was initially a silent film, later enhanced with a collaged soundtrack made from vinyl records borrowed from the Miami-Dade Public Library. Viewers see paint and ink literally dance over scenes of Miami’s graffiti-laden ruins. As critic Michael Betancourt noted, Parla’s hand-painted films become “documents of the process of their own creation,” building up diverse marks that never fully erase the past layers.