SHADOWS

A live-art Installation October 7, 2011 7, 8, & 9pm (with reception and discussion at 9:30pm)
Vashon Island First Friday Gallery Cruise
The vacant Island Variety Store (next to Vashon Auto Parts) 17647 100th Ave SW Vashon Island, WA 98070
Info: artscrush.org

With the audience watching from the street, I project historic photographs of the 1950’s Civil Rights Movement onto vacant storefront windows, and climb into them as a shadow, highlighting stories of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks and Little Rock Nine. The performance runs between 20-30 minutes and will have three showings at 7, 8, & 9 pm with a reception and discussion to follow. The event is free to the public and open to all ages with parental discretion due to subject matter.

I am presenting SHADOWS during Vashon’s First Friday Gallery Cruise, a popular monthly Island Event. I have always felt the need for more ethereal art to adorn that “cruise”. Too often art means something hung on a wall and it is my intention to, not only highlight other art forms, but to show that we can interact and expand the definitions of art walks and the definition of ‘theatre’. We live in a global media of 24-hour news, instant mobile uploads and history boiled down to simple sound bites. Stories of Emmet Till, Rosa Parks and Little Rock Nine are fading. I am bringing these iconic images out of their thumb-sized confined, computer-boxed forms into a larger format to allow the impact of history and innovative thinking to resonate deeper into our bones and inspire all of us. And as with the movement itself, the performance is experienced on the street and will happen rain or shine so please dress appropriately.