FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE || Son et Lumiere: Volunteer Park Archeologies ||| 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.

|||
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.

|||
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."

|||
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.
|

| SETUP SCHEMATIC | KEN SLUSHER | DAN SENN | INSTALLATION PHOTOS | VIDEO |

MAIN MENU