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Son et Lumiere: Volunteer Park Archeologies
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March 20 thru April 8, 2001, Volunteer Park Conservatory
1400 E. Galer St., Seattle, W||A 98112, 10a-4p daily, free
Son et
Lumiere: Volunteer Park Archeologies is an exhibition of multichannel video
and kinetic instruments presented by photographer Ken Slusher
(Seattle) and sound artist Dan Senn (Tacoma). At timed intervals,
16 video monitors, accompanied by Senn's elegant sculptural instruments,
will come to life in a spatial composition of story telling and
light percussion amidst the beautiful greenery of the Conservatory.
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Over the past 6 months, the artists have gathered the stories
of eleven gardeners, ages 35 to 95, who carefully explain their
methods of gardening, canning, and general frugality-methods and
stories which reach back to the 19th Century. Those interviewed
are Catherine Armstrong (Boise), Helen Forsyth (Seattle), Ed and
Keith Keener (Boise), Arleta Sanders (Tacoma), Fred, Barbara and
John Engsfer (Orting), Lois VanMeer (Federal Way), Minne Holzmeyer
(Portland), and Jacki Evans (Tacoma). More information about the
artists and exhibition is available at: www.newsense-intermedium.com/EXHIBITIONS/VPA01/VPA.html.
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Dan Senn is a sound sculptor, composer and video artist with an
international record of exhibitions, performances and radio broadcasts.
Senn's work is currently on show as part of an international Fluxus
show at Gallery 400 in Chicago. In 1998-99, he was the first artist-in-resident
for the UW-Tacoma which included commission of a permanent sculpture
for Tacoma's new campus. In 1998 he was awarded the first prize
at the Papier 7 Festival in Düren, Germany, just one of four
1998 European exhibitions which included the Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam. In 1997, he was presented the President's Award
from the Artist Trust for his contribution to the arts of the
region. In 1995, he was awarded the McKnight Composer-in-Residence
Award for the State of Minnesota where he was responsible for
the rural cave installation, The Catacombs of Yucatan. Much of
Senn's work in the 1990s has focused on the problem of elitism
in contemporary art culminating in his recent article from Cambridge
University Press titled "Pendulum-based Instruments, Percussive
Video, Sound Art, and the Permanence of Ephemeral Public Art."
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Ken Slusher is a collector, curator, gallerist, gardener, folk
musician, photographer and budding video artist. Known for his
large format black and white photography, which he has used to
document much of high rise construction work in downtown Seattle,
his work includes Northwest landscapes and an ongoing series of
innovative artist portraitures which document regional artists
within their work environment. As an art collector for the past
32 years, Ken has developed extensive collection of antiquities
from the Orient, New Guinea and Africa that balance a broad collection
of contemporary art. In 1999, he was recipient of a Project Grant
from the Tacoma Art Commission to photograph the rebuilding and
renovation of the Thea Foss Waterway. His work has been exhibited
at the Penelope Loucas Gallery and the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma,
at the Community Art Gallery in Ellensburg, the Blue Heron Gallery,
Vashon and at numerous other regional venues. Ken owns and operates
Open Mondays, a Seattle gallery. His work can be viewed at www.openmondays.com.|
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