"an excerpt of Resilience (Suns)" is a meditation on time, spheres, and parabolic journeys.
"Solar Utopias" is a series of art film/videos made by 12 local film and video artists responding to the question: What is a solar utopia?
The COVID-19 pandemic, uprisings for racial justice, and growing climate emergency have thrown many of our societal systems into question; now more than ever, it is necessary to envision possible futures.
This project was commissioned with Seattle City Light % for Art funds and administered by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
2018. Favorite's Favorite's Favorite. Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University
Community Portraits / Yesler Terrace (selected photos), 2016-2018, digital photography. As part of a 2-year artist residency at Yesler Terrace in Seattle, I conducted 15 studio photo sessions for the residents of the neighborhood and surrounding communities, and printed selected photos for each person; over 20,000 photos were taken. The project serves to bear witness of the residents living an area undergoing rapid redevelopment.
Yesler Terrace Tree, 2016, video. As part of the Yesler Terrace artist residency, 2016-2018, I went to the neighborhood every day for a year and filmed on location with the GPS coordinates embedded in the footage, of which this video is first in the series. This project served to bear witness to the rapid redevelopment and loss of the nation's first integrated public housing tract.
2017, video submission for online marriage proposal contest, 4 min.
2017, collaboration for Genre Bender presented at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle, 20 min.
2016, video installation on High Wall at Inscape Arts (formerly U.S. INS Building), Seattle, 3 min 40 sec.
2016, collaboration with Abigail J. Swanson, single-channel video, Out Of Sight, Seattle, 5 min, video/social practice. An anthology and process centered on performed acts of asking for alms, as metaphor of stigma in a flower, wherein each person was given $20 in exchange for performing this gesture. The sited body in city streets serves as critique and conscience; perceived emptiness or need as grievance - gratitude and grace are offered as gifts revealed in vulnerable actions, in engaged encounters.
2016, 30 min.
2015, single-channel video, audio, 39 min. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation. Presented as part of "Genius / 21 Century Seattle", Frye Art Museum, Seattle. A journey down the West Coast of the contiguous US from June to August of 2015 in order to create a video survey of the coastline. Utilizing the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Tsunami Capable Tide Stations as the framework for the project, land-based observation of the locations were filmed, each surrounding area at sunset. The final video is a collection of one-minute impressions of the 38 tide station sites of the West Coast. The project serves as a poetic document of place; as well as a commentary on climate change and a homage to communities vulnerable to rising seas and water levels. This project was made possible with the support of NOAA’s Tides and Currents Program, Friday Harbor Laboratories, Greater Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association, and the cooperation of federal ports and Coast Guard Stations.
2015, skywriting project - video documentation sourced from social media, 2 min. Presented as part of NEPO 5K Don't Run 2015, Seattle. Funding provided by 4Culture On August 26, 2015, above the skies of Seattle, a skywriting of "TIME IS MEMORY". The poem is an articulation of time's value outside of monetary meaning - as a response to the oft repeated axiom, 'time is money', a homage to time's passing, the importance of considering memory and loss, and an impetus for reflection on the temporal. The project involved planning, design, and working with a pilot to execute the vision. The intervention is a reminder to the rapidly developing city, to reflect on the meaning of community and our shared history and place.
2012, presented at Genre Bender, City Arts Festival, Seattle, 2 min 45 sec.
2008, featuring NAHA, filmed at Tubs, Seattle, 5 min.
2004, presented as part of "My Mother My Father", Soil Gallery, Seattle, 14 min.
2018, Sound Transit construction wall in the University District aka Gold Wall. Seattle.
The project is entitled, 36 Views of the Sun, the installation is an arrangement of 36 12-inch convex mirrors which utilize un-contracted Braille to spell out “TIME IS MEMORY”. The title is inspired by Henri Rivière's 36 Views of the Eiffel Tower (which was influenced by Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji), referencing the 36 dots (mirrors) of the Braille sentence. The mirrors are acid-etched with images referencing alchemical/elemental/planetary symbols and the raised fist design inspired by Emory Douglas.
2018. Favorite's Favorite's Favorite. Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University
2018. Favorite's Favorite's Favorite. Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University
2015, as part of a 2-week residency on Violet Strays - violetstrays.com, a re-visitation of all the places called home in Seattle; every location marked with a stenciled poem, ensuing photo document accompanied with the GPS coordinates of the sited work.
2015, 2 different posters which were designed and distributed as part of #CapHillPSA, a curated street campaign in response to the rapidly changing Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
2015, red stenciled letters on red wall, Sound Transit Art Program Capitol Hill Wall Project, Seattle.
2014, collaboration with MKNZ, stick n' poke tattoo session for Blood Moon publication, Seattle.
2013, a 10-day performance; each day artist meditated for 4 hours with an invitation for the public to join. A person hired via Craig's List wore a cloak and was the "designated sitter" for each session. Hedreen Gallery, Seattle. photo by Bruce Clayton Tom.
2013, debossed paper, Frye Art Museum, Chamber Music, group exhibition, curator - Scott Lawrimore
2013, a sculptural installation of 2 cannabis plants, sod, soil, grow light, canvas tent. As part of ONN/OF Festival, Seattle.
2012, from the compendium 'Sun Worshipers' published by Sierra Stinson.
2011, collaboration with NKO, a 7-hour performance/staged reading of Bataille’s Guilty by 4 performers. Smoke Farm Lo-Fi Arts Festival, Arlington, WA.
2009, collaboration with NKO, a 24-hour performance/reading of Murakami's Wild Sheep Chase by 3 performers - a reader, typist, writer. ArtSparks, Occidental Park, Seattle, drawing by Gabriel Campanario.
2009, Sound Transit Art Program Capitol Hill Wall Project, Seattle.
2008, “Love Song to the City”, Free Sheep Foundation, Seattle. A 3-month, time-based, site-specific storefront window installation of cinder blocks, fluorescent lights, stenciled text, and moss.
2007, “Red Room”, MOTEL MOTEL MOTEL at the Bridge Motel, Seattle. Motel room, 2500lbs of table salt, motel artifacts (letters, signs, clothing), tv monitor, single-channel video. photo by Robert Newell.
2006, “The Misadventure of Missi the Kalico Kitti”, collaboration with Jon Sim, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA. A 3-month window storefront installation chronicling the story of a teenager and her rebellion, through mannequins, various collected art objects, text, and apparel design. photo by Laura Corsiglia.
2004, "Glow Room", VAIN, Seattle. An installation featuring 3-channel video on monitors, salt, fish, grow lights, mushrooms, and hydroponic cannabis plants, Presented as culmination of a three month residency.
2005, Q-tips, salt, disused tires, plastic, Linescape at CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art), Seattle.
2004, "My Mother My Father", SOIL Gallery, Seattle. An installation designed as a 'lightbox' theater within a gallery. Featuring video projection on salt, amplified sound, tv monitor, an architectural structure, and programs of performances and videos by 15 artists.
2003, "Amnesia Afterlife: body dreams of elephants", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. An interactive installation featuring 4-channel video on 6 monitors, 6-channel amplified sound on 12 speakers, fish, salt, an architectural structure, and a nude body available for the audience to touch for duration of 6-week exhibit.
2007, “Tengu & the White Rabbit” – director/performer, cast of 5 dancers/musicians. Chuncheon Mime Festival, South Korea, in Japan at UrBANGUILD (Kyoto), K.D. Japon (Nagoya), Tsuki No Niwa (Mie), Black and Blue (Tokyo), Organ’s Melody (Yamaguchi), Keli (Kitakyusyu) Graf (Fukuoka), photo by Sung Nicholas Kim.
2005, San Francisco Butoh Festival.
2001, I-Spy, Seattle, WA
2000, Seattle International Butoh Festival, On The Boards
2000, Seattle Art Museum
2000, as part of The Whole World Is Watching", commemorating the WTO protests, CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA.
Filastine
Tess Martin
Britta Johnson
Adam Sekular, Karn Junkinsmith
Adam Sekular, Karn Junkinsmith
Natalie Holder
2010-15, "Love Loss and the Moveable Future", Lead Artist
project sign by Sign Savant.
During the 5-year interstitial time when Sound Transit was building the Capitol Hill light rail station, STart, Sound Transit Art Program, presented a series of temporary public art installations by regional, established and emerging artists exploring the ever-changing landscape of the neighborhood and the city. The light rail station site is located in the heart of Capitol Hill, a two-block stretch between Broadway and 10th Avenue. STart transformed the construction wall into a public art lab with a rotation of commissioned works from 60 artists.
video by D.K. Pan
2015-present, "Towards a Moveable City", Lead Artist,
project sign by Emily Gussin
STart, Sound Transit Art Program, presents a program of temporary public art at the future site of the light rail stations. The projects are a series of installations by regional, established and emerging artists exploring the ever-changing landscape of the neighborhood and the city.
Sound Transit is currently building light rail stations connecting Downtown Seattle and SeaTac Airport with the Capitol Hill, University District and Northgate neighborhoods. In addition to permanent sited art works in and around the stations, STart created this program of temporary projects to activate the interstitial times during construction periods when neighborhoods are affected by large-scale excavations and building. STart turns the temporary walls surrounding the construction sites into a public art lab with a rotation of commissioned works from a wide range of artists.
photo by +Russ
photo by Slightlynorth
2006, during the MOTEL MOTEL MOTEL #1 event
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2005. photo by Filastine.
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2004. photo by Tomiko Jones.
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