Join us Saturday April 13 from 12 to 8 for the artist reception. Snacks by Taber, portraits by You As An Animal. With Support from 4Culture and The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.
April 25, Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM
Free
Eventide
Sharon Lockhart, 2022, 4K Video, 34 mins
In what is both a culmination and a departure, Sharon Lockhart’s latest film, Eventide (2022), is a meditative, non-narrative long shot that uses choreography to explore landscape, communal relations, solitary searching, psychic endurance, and the play of light moving through darkness. Locating drama in the real-time shift of evening fading into night, this is perhaps Lockhart’s most optical and painterly moving image to date, composing figures, scenography, and soundscape into allegory and abstraction. The artist’s investment in forms of dance in previous works is felt here too as the initial appearance of an individual slowly builds into a culture and a gathering. An astounding number of stars emerge bright in the dusking sky, blazing as a distant corollary to the growing constellation of roving bodies scanning the rock-strewn beach by cell phone light for what we do not know. The streaking of shooting stars and gliding of satellites throws the otherwise measured pace into relief. Shot on the Swedish coast with a close-knit group of friends Lockhart has been involved with for years, Eventide is concerned with the future and what it might hold. (Lockhart Studios)
Curated by David Dinnell, Ellen Ito, Jay Kuehner
David Dinnell is a film programmer currently living in Seattle. He is the former Program Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Film Festival and the Tacoma Film Festival. He has curated film programs for the Flaherty Film Seminar, The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires), UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (NYC), Canyon Cinema 50, among others. He is co-founder and co-curator of Mur Murs, an ongoing Los Angeles-based series presenting artists and cinema.
Ellen Ito is an artist, programmer, and curator raised in the Lower Duwamish Valley. Current projects include the exhibition Soft Power, on view at TAM through September 2024. Ellen is the Curator of Special Projects at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Jay Kuehner is an independent film critic, curator, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest whose focus is on creative nonfiction and documentary practice. His work has appeared in Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, Film Comment, IndieWire and Sight and Sound.
Image caption:
Sharon Lockhart
EVENTIDE
2022
single-channel HD video installation (color/sound)
34:32 min.
© Sharon Lockhart, 2022
courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and Gladstone Gallery
“Trash Talking” is an art show with over 100 life-size replicas of politically-charged objects made from recyclables by toy sculptor Michael Leavitt. The public reception July 13 will have free drinks, junk food and games to win free prizes, with take-away art stocked to buy off the shelf from this re-imagined corner store.
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Artist Reception March 9, 2 to 8 pm, with an artist talk at 5pm
The Illusionist, 24 x 30 inches. Hand cut, peeled and collaged digital c prints from a found contact sheet of Marilyn Monroe
On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.
February 29, Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM
Free
Garden in the Machine
A program of short films literally and metaphysically grounded in nature, taking terra firma as a point of inception and departure, of loss and renewal.
Program length 80 mins.
Yaangna Plays Itself
Adam Piron
2022 / Kiowa, Mohawk / 7 min
An anguished ode to the noble sycamore tree (El Aliso) that once stood at the heart of the Indigenous Gabrieleño village of Yaangna, from which the city of Los Angeles would grow. A sensory, profilmic blast derived entirely from elements at the original site and nearby Los Angeles River.
To Pick a Flower
Shireen Seno
2021 / Philippines, Japan / 17 min
From the image of a faded photograph a Filipina bride is seen in a white gown posing not beside a groom but rather a potted plant, an enigma investigated in this quietly composed photo essay on the botany of empire during American colonial occupation. Seno’s taxonomy of native flora – trees such as Balete, Eucalyptus, Molave – questions historical hierarchies, and resounds like a eulogy to the land and its people.
Bloom
Samuel M. Delgado Helena Girón
2023 / Spain / 18 min
An archipelagic excavation of mythic San Borondón, an island in the Canarias, submerged and reappearing through the centuries. A cinematic expedition - via otherworldly 16mm and digital footage - recovers the land-beneath-the-sea from seeming oblivion.
When Light is Displaced
Zaina Bseiso
2021 / Palestine, US / 6 min
A simple orchard in Los Angeles is subtly transformed into an arena of multigenerational memory, as a filmmaker draws parallels with the fate of the Jaffa orange and stories of Palestinian diaspora.
Tutto qui
Anna Marziano
2022 / France, Italy / 12 min
A film mulched from 16mm compositions, inspired by Charles Darwin’s final text on the evolutionary debt to the industrious earthworm, trained at micro-level: a poem of decay and regeneration.
COP26FILM
Luke Fowler
2023 / Scotland / 7 mins
Shot in the director’s home city of Glasgow during the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021, the film prowls the periphery of official proceedings to disclose counter-narratives on display, including the presence of La Minga Indigena - a collective of indigenous peoples from across the American continent staking their claim to representation.
End of the Season
Jason Evans
2020 / US / 13 min
A stark portrait of seasonal matsutake mushroom foragers - primarily immigrants of Southeast Asian descent - seeking to unearth the last treasures in an exceptionally dry year in South Central Oregon. A contemplation of nature, consumption, labor, displacement, and shelter.
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Mar. 28
April 25
See you soon!
Curated by David Dinnell, Ellen Ito, Jay Kuehner
David Dinnell is a film programmer currently living in Seattle. He is the former Program Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Film Festival and the Tacoma Film Festival. He has curated film programs for the Flaherty Film Seminar, The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires), UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (NYC), Canyon Cinema 50, among others. He is co-founder and co-curator of Mur Murs, an ongoing Los Angeles-based series presenting artists and cinema.
Ellen Ito is an artist, programmer, and curator raised in the Lower Duwamish Valley. Current and upcoming projects include the exhibition Soft Power, on view at TAM through September 2024, the curation of Future Forward (Jan. 2024 at MMCP), and the documentary Following Gordon. Ellen is the Curator of Special Projects at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Jay Kuehner is an independent film critic, curator, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest whose
Future Forward is a juried regional group exhibition open to emerging artists with a connection to the Greater Duwamish Valley. The second annual exhibition at Mini Mart City Park will explore interaction between humans and the environment. It includes social, cultural and economic dimensions. Priorities will be given to artists that are working in the themes of social and environmental justice.
On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.
February 1, Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM
Free
At Sea
Peter Hutton
16mm, 2007 60 min
Peter Hutton drew on his years of experience as a merchant seaman to create this large-scale, compressed epic, voted the best avant-garde film of the preceding decade in a 2011 Film Comment poll. Shot in a series of steady, meticulously composed takes, At Sea follows a massive container ship from its construction in South Korea to its lifetime out on the water to its final dismantling in Bangladesh. Taken as a wordless critique of modern global capitalism, an elegiac reflection on the passing of time, or an exercise in pure sensory immersion, the film is an overwhelming experience, in keeping with its epigraph from Joseph Conrad: A man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea…. (NYFF, 2013)
Presented on 16mm
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Feb. 29
March 28
Trying To Reach You
New Work by Hannah Pierce and Michael Hernandez
December 29 to January 20
Join us for an artist reception and artist talk on January 6th from 2 to 8pm
Trying to Reach You is a two-person show featuring solo and collaborative works by Hannah Pierce and Michael Hernandez, including sculptures and installations engaging glass, neon, and ceramics.
Hannah Pierce is a ceramic and mixed-media artist at Nottingham Center for the Arts in San Marcos, CA. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Edinboro University of PA and her BA in Studio Art at Humboldt State University of CA. Hannah has exhibited her work in galleries and museums around the world. She is currently Assistant Professor of Fine Art in Ceramics and 3-D Design at San Diego Miramar College.
Michael Hernandez is an artist and educator working in sculpture and installation. He earned a BFA from Emporia State University (KS) and an MFA New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. His works utilizing processes of glassblowing, kilnforming, and neon have been shown at galleries, museums, and alternative venues across the US and abroad. Michael is currently Professor of Art and Head of the Glass Program at Palomar College.
On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.
December 14
Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM
Free
A Common Sequence
Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser
HD, 2023 80 min
Within the human struggle to live and work on a changing planet, questions of value, extraction, and
adaptation echo across seemingly disparate worlds. A Common Sequence examines shifts of life and
labor via a critically endangered salamander and plant patents in the apple industry. Weaving the stories
of Dominican nuns running a conservation lab, a group of fishermen attempting to live off of a depleting
lake, engineers developing AI-driven harvesting machines, and an indigenous biomedical researcher
resisting the commodification of human DNA, the film becomes a meditation on the shifting border
between the natural and unnatural world, and the dynamics of power at play. (Mike Gibisser, 2023)
Upcoming January 25
At Sea
Peter Hutton
16mm, 2007 60 min
SAVE THESE DATES for forthcoming screenings here at MMCP
Feb. 29
Mar. 28
April 25
See you soon!
Curated by David Dinnell, Ellen Ito, Jay Kuehner
David Dinnell is a film programmer currently living in Seattle. He is the former Program Director of the
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Film Festival and the Tacoma Film Festival. He has curated film
programs for the Flaherty Film Seminar, The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires),
UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (NYC), Canyon Cinema 50, among others. He is co-founder and
co-curator of Mur Murs, an ongoing Los Angeles-based series presenting artists and cinema.
Ellen Ito is an artist, programmer, and curator raised in the Lower Duwamish Valley, residing in Tacoma
and Seattle, Washington. Current and upcoming projects include the exhibition Soft Power, on view at
TAM through September 2024, the curation of Future Forward (Jan. 2024 at MMCP), and the
documentary Following Gordon. Ellen is the Curator of Special Projects at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Jay Kuehner is an independent film critic, curator, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest whose
focus is on creative nonfiction and documentary practice. His work has appeared in Cinema Scope,
Senses of Cinema, Film Comment, IndieWire and Sight and Sound.
ABOUT MESTIZO:BREAKING THE CASTE
MESTIZO: Breaking the Caste is a multi-disciplinary evening of collected stories of the Mexican-American experience. MESTIZO is a Mexican term for a “mixed” person. It was a term used to devalue people whose ancestry includes Indigenous bloodlines. As Mexican people, our histories are painfully entwined with both our Indigenous ancestors and our Spanish colonizers. So much of our Indigenous history was stripped from us through centuries of cultural erasure and genocide. MESTIZO bravely reclaims our Indigenous heritage and reframes Mexican history as one that is rich with an abundance of ancestral knowledge, resilience and imagination. The evening features visual artists, filmmakers, animators, dancers, musicians, and indigenous healers from Mexico, Texas, California, and The Pacific Northwest!
ABOUT EL SUEÑO
EL SUEÑO is an arts organization founded by Mexican American Indigenous artist Alicia Mullikin. El Sueño, meaning the dream, is named for the collective pursuit of the American dream. They use arts engagement as a tool to uplift and empower marginalized communities and weaponize their art against systems of oppression to bring el sueño to life for all of their future ancestors.
Create your own bandanna using kakishibu paper stencils and indigo dye
Come learn the process of using kakishibu (persimmon tannin paper) stencils and make your own unique cotton bandanna!
Bio:
Erika, the maker behind Kimagureya, is a Bremerton, WA based textile artist and hedge witch. She mainly works with katazomê, a type of Japanese dye method that involves the utilization of hand-cut stencils, rice paste resist, and mud and botanical dyes. Her work is inspired most by her bicultural roots, her ancestors, and the forest that surrounds her home.
Organized by Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland in partnership with Mini Mart City Park
Fri, Sep 1, 12:00 PM — Sat, Sep 30, 2023, 5:00 PM
Weaving Pavilion is a multi-sensory artistic initiative examining weaving as a collective generative process and form of social reproduction. The project asks, What kind of labor is it to work with our bodies, movement and unique expressions within a communal setting? Does transforming oneself with others create infrastructure? And if so, how might we better understand the cultural force of such practice? In this project the community is invited to learn weaving. While in residency at MiniMart City Park the artist will build on past weaving-gatherings with a focus for participants to collaborate on a large-scale installation generated by the woven textile.
Sign-up here for dates and to reserve your loom to join the next weaving-gathering. No previous experience needed.
Weaving Pavilion premiered in 2020 in Seattle public parks with support from 4Culture. The weaving-gatherings are free to the public and take place on the ancestral land of the Coast Salish people. The project welcomes all and respects everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, race, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
Lisa Liedgren Alexandersson (b. 1966 Lund, Sweden) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Seattle. Working in a range of media, her practice investigates themes of materiality and identity through the lens of cultural language and the formation of social systems. Her recent solo-exhibition BOTH. AND. explores the overlap between abstraction and cultural language. Referencing her Scandinavian roots, Liedgren Alexandersson adapts 1960’s Swedish weaving instructions into works that blur the line between objects made for domestic use and the language of painting.
Link to weaving-gathering Sign-up form: https://forms.gle/2a17Bg6uWtVXR2zq7
Link to artist website: www.lisaliedgrenalexandersson.com
Instagram: @lisaliedal
Hidden Beauty is a a collection of charcoal portraits and photography that reflect upon our relationship to memory and time. Mounted in a narrative grid, the work surrounds the viewer with temporal associations and becomes a meditation on separation, emotional connection, and dislocation.
DeCaro’s work often blurs the line between different media with one narrative theme, she addresses issues of memory and personal identity that make connections to her forty-year body of work. DeCaro is the recipient of numerous awards including the Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Achievement in the visual arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund (NYC), a Hauberg Fellowship, Ford Foundation, and the Seattle Arts Commission.
Join us for a sculpture project using recycled takeout containers, packaging, and other kitchenware. Please feel free to bring your own small containers and plastic or silicone molds to make your own colorful “jellies”!
Workshop duration: 30–60 minutes
All ages welcome and no experience necessary.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Philippe Hyojung Kim (b. 1989) grew up in a small town outside of Nashville, TN, and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2013. He experiments with various materials and mediums, in response to his immediate surroundings to make objects and environments that exist in the space between painting and sculpture. His work often references queer identity, artificiality, and language.
In his most recent body of work, titled (Un)Earthly Delights, Philippe collages plastic casts and remnants onto paper and acrylic in configurations that read at once as painting, text, and sculpture. He molds, casts, and reappropriates plastic to create playful, neon-saturated sculptures that allude to our cultural obsession with this most ubiquitous and climate-endangering material. In this process, he elevates this quotidian material, simultaneously giving it new life and highlighting the existential danger plastic poses.
Philippe’s work has been exhibited nationally at galleries, museums, universities, and alternative art spaces across the US.
Come fill up on poems @ Mini Mart City Park
Robert Mittenthal is author of Wax World (Chax, 2011), and chapbooks: Value Unmapped, Martyr Economy, Ready Terms, and Irrational Dude. He was a curator of the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle.
https://rmutts.blogspot.com/
Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013) and a Ringing
(Goodmorning Menagerie, 2020). She is preoccupied with bugs and animals and how they might write to each other across species and time.
https://www.oxeyed.net/
Nico Vassilakis is a visual and textual poet. His recent books include Voir Dire (Dusie Press 2020) and Letters of Intent (CyberWit 2022) along with other pamphlets and booklets. Nico is a contributing editor for Utsanga and has had his work exhibited globally. He lives in the middle of nowhere in Illinois with his wife and animals.
https://staringpoetics.wordpress.com/
How would you travel to distant worlds? Taking inspiration from the NASA X-HAB competition to design living environments for Mars exploration, we’ll construct new prototype vessels in this lo-tech, hands-on workshop for exploring any world! By deconstructing cardboard boxes and found papers, we’ll tie, tape, staple, fold, twist and bend materials to design a fleet of experimental modules that may one day transport us all to other worlds. Join us on this journey to save humanity (while also repurposing all those Amazon boxes you’ve been saving). Now it’s time to build the capsule if you dare...
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dombrosky (he/him) lives and works in Tacoma, WA. His multidisciplinary practice often involves the salvaging and reconstitution of everyday objects and documents into new forms and constellations, constructing fragmentary narratives. His work is represented by
Platform Gallery and will be included in Soft Power, opening October 2023 at Tacoma Art Museum.
Red May Seattle presents Michael Hardt and Alberto Toscano in conversation as part of a translocal Lecture Series on the Political Philosophy of Toni Negri.
We want to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th and 21st century with a translocal series of lectures.
From the early writings in the frame of Operaismo and Autonomia to the broadly discussed books written with Michael Hardt, the Italian philosopher Toni Negri has explored multiple fields of thought and forged crucial concepts with the aim to understand the reality in order to transform it toward communism. In so doing he has contributed to the project of rethinking revolution in the present. The lecture series is meant as a collective embrace to Toni Negri and his living thought, affirming, showing and preserving the situated importance of his work for an uncertain future.
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/hardt
https://www.sfu.ca/communication/people/faculty/Alberto-Toscano.html
http://www.euronomade.info/?p=15501
Featured artist Rodrigo Valenzuela
Food by Windward Adventures
Music by DJ Zwickelicious
Tons of artists and vendors
I construct narratives, scenes, and stories which point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. I utilize autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience. Gestures of alienation and displacement are both the aesthetic and subject of much of my work. Often using landscapes and tableaus with day laborers or myself, I explore the way an image is inhabited, and the way that spaces, objects and people are translated into images. My work serves as an expressive and intimate point of contact between the broader realms of subjectivity and political contingency. Through my videos and photographs, I make images that feel at the same time familiar yet distant. I engage the viewer in questions concerning the ways in which the formation and experience of each work is situated—how they exist in and out of place.
http://www.rodrigovalenzuela.com/
Join Roquin for a weaving project rooted in Pasifik traditions and make your own pandanus bracelet. You’ll learn about Roquin’s interdisciplinary practice while making a staple accessory for any outfit!
All ages welcome and no experience necessary.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco is originally from Yigu, Guåhan (Guam). They are a multidisciplinary artist that draws from their Chamoru heritage and Queer experiences. For Roquin, it is imperative that their work honors cultural customs that have survived throughout generations, and has been persevered in the face of colonial erasure. Without acknowledging these international practices and learning where they come from, their work would not hold the solid foundation it maintains as contemporary Pasifika art.
Esmerelda Vasquez & Julie Schulman
“Things that Talk” is a series of works born out of the promise I made to myself in December, to spend the next four months making work based on intuition. The results are humanoid but not figurative sculptures that ponder, visualize, and play with the experience of being a woman while rejecting traditional expectations of womanhood. In this series wood, bee pollen, milk powder, poppy seeds, vinyl, fabric, hide, ceramic, and glass lend their intrinsic qualities and associations to create meaning.
https://www.annamlasowsky.com
@annamlasowsky
Kerry Sutton & Ashauntie Monique
Artists will be working with refurbished materials to make an expressive art piece. Each artist will specialize in a different medium of repurposed supplies. This art piece will be created on 12x16 canvas.
Featuring large scale contemporary collage artwork- which explores historical themes and classical compositions.
http://www.alexishilliard.com/
Ode - K’an is an evening length immersive dance performance created for Mini Mart City Park, designed for an intimate audience in the winter. This installation of works by local movement and other media artists investigates themes of water, depths, navigation through darkness, sincerity, and resoluteness. The featured artists in this project are Abdiel, Cypher Queenz, Dani Blackwell, Hannah Simmons and Alethea Alexander, Lucie Baker and Connor Walden, Maia Melene Durfee, Nahaan, and Undercurrent. Together, we look at our relationships to water, winter, plunging inward, and light contained in restriction and create an experience of our literal, figurative, and conceptual waterways through dance, movement, and mixed media performance.
Can't come but still want to support the show? Select the first show date (from 7-8) and select Donation to contribute. All proceeds go to pay artist wages and 10% of total sales will be donated to Real Rent Duwamish. Thank you for supporting the dance community and helping make productions like this possible!
Abdiel will be performing March 30th and April 1st - Nahaan will be performing March 31st.
