Regardless
A monologue is a "long and typically tedious speech by one person during a conversation", while a soliloquy is "the act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself... regardless of any listeners". (...says wikipedia)
4 Artists, 4 soliloquies, 4 one-week multimedia exhibitions
Artworks produced in the gallery 10-2pm,
then open to the public Saturdays 2-7pm
Exhibition produced and organized by Molly Mac
Writer in residence program curated by Natalie Martínez
Artworks produced in the gallery 10-2pm,
then open to the public Saturdays 2-7pm
Exhibition produced and organized by Molly Mac
Writer in residence program curated by Natalie Martínez
10/22- Dewa Dolma Dorje was born in the year of the fire dragon, the third and final child of Yeshe and Rigzin. Her parents were refugees from Tibet and have a long beautiful love story. Dewa was raised in Seattle, Washington and is now a mother to two children of her own. She loves comedy and writing. She can be seen doing stand-up around Seattle. She is also working on a memoir of her childhood. She is currently pondering the meaning of fortitude as it pertains to motherhood, poverty, age and gender. |
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10/29- Anastacia Renee is Writer-in-Residence at the Richard Hugo House, a home for writers in Seattle. She is a queer super-shero of color moonlighting as a writer, performance artist and creative writing workshop facilitator. She has received awards and fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Jacks Straw, Ragdale and Artist Trust and her poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been published widely. Anastacia Renee’s theatrical mixed-media project, 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show has debuted at The Project Room, Hugo House and The Twilight Gallery. She is the author of chapbook, 26 (Dancing Girl Press) and her full length book, Forget It (Black Radish Books) is forthcoming in September 2017. Anastacia Renee has been expanding her creative repertoire into the field of social justice installation art, and has exhibited her abstract paintings, and photography surrounding the body as a polarized place of both the private and political.
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11/05- Soyoung Shin is an interdisciplinary artist who is deeply curious about her heritage and the experiences of people of color within the United States. Recently, she has been staging performances, sewing garments, and enacting laborious tasks. This is all in order to revisit memories from childhood, to understand stories passed from mother to daughter, and to recontextualize family histories. She graduated in 2011 from the University of Washington, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. |
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11/12- Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs published by Stockport Flats in 2013. She grew up in Oregon and lives in Seattle, Washington. Her poems have appeared in Weekday, LVNG, La Norda Especialo and THE ARCADIA PROJECT. She's also written poems for short films and installations, and co-curated APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series, with musician Gust Burns and dancers Michèle Steinwald and Beth Graczyk, and curated IMPALA, a reading series that took place in her grandmother's car. She sometimes teaches experiential workshops meant to invoke synesthesia. Melanie was raised by a league of unusual North American marsupials. Lacking a tail, she slept in an oak knoll while the rest of her family hung upside down. Their dreams, having only one direction to go, landed in her head. She's been recording them ever since. |
Artists in the Regardless series engage with radical forms of "self-talk", either in their artwork or in their working process. Their strategies include splintering identities into several characters, addressing hypothetical others, rationalizing ad nauseum, conversing with ancestors through craft-based tasks, investigative body comedy and having an internal dialog that involves outside collaborators (real or imagined). These unique self-talk models become platforms to critique power, navigate experiences of intersectional oppression(s) and/or to embrace the ego as an ecosystem beyond a traditional performance of "the self".
Regardless installations are urgent, one-day productions. On each Saturday morning in the series the artist comes to The Alice with a prepared soliloquy. Before the Alice opens, the artist will perform the soliloquy for a camera (or cameras). After The Alice opens, the footage will play back as a 1-3 channel installation for gallery audiences.
Regardless runs in tandem with the final weeks of the presidential election. While these works may or may not address contemporary politics, this mode of soliloquy suggests radical modes of thinking and being that are directly opposed to dominant debate-style rhetoric in the media.
Regardless also runs up to the start of daylight savings time- 2am on Nov 6th- a seasonal transition that marks a loss of daylight hours and sharp turn inward for many people.