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<ENTER> Action is a co-creative exhibit from select members of Altitude 3123, a collective of creative people in the Billings area from different creative fields and encouraging more non-traditional performances, events, and exhibitions.
As part of Art Walk’s 24th season, Altitude 3123 joins the galleries of downtown Billings for a single evening exhibition hosted at 2905 Montana Ave Friday August 3rd between 5-9pm. <ENTER> Action draws on the theme of interaction. Each artist presenting draws on the collaboration of the viewer as participant.
Featured artists: Alex & Emily Tyler,, Krista Leigh Pasini & Mike Pasini with Allison Kazmierski, Michelle Dyk, Sherri Cornett, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Jon Lodge and Alex Nauman.
As part of Art Walk’s 24th season, Altitude 3123 joins the galleries of downtown Billings for a single evening exhibition hosted at 2905 Montana Ave Friday August 3rd between 5-9pm. <ENTER> Action draws on the theme of interaction. Each artist presenting draws on the collaboration of the viewer as participant.
Featured artists: Alex & Emily Tyler,, Krista Leigh Pasini & Mike Pasini with Allison Kazmierski, Michelle Dyk, Sherri Cornett, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Jon Lodge and Alex Nauman.
Collective of creatives takes collaborative ideas to new heights
by Anna Paige
Billings Gazette, August 2, 2018
"The collective has a membership that hovers around 30 and meets monthly to share successes, failures, and ideas for the future. By coming together, what initially felt like artists working in individual silos has resulted in more creative events and collaborations. “Members are flushing out what they want to do,” Cornett said.One of those creative sparks will ignite on Friday as part of ArtWalk, where several members of the collective will present <ENTER>Action, based on the theme of interaction between participating artists and the viewers."
by Anna Paige
Billings Gazette, August 2, 2018
"The collective has a membership that hovers around 30 and meets monthly to share successes, failures, and ideas for the future. By coming together, what initially felt like artists working in individual silos has resulted in more creative events and collaborations. “Members are flushing out what they want to do,” Cornett said.One of those creative sparks will ignite on Friday as part of ArtWalk, where several members of the collective will present <ENTER>Action, based on the theme of interaction between participating artists and the viewers."
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You Are Here 2018 (from Last Best Place, Conversations with Montana, 2017 - current)
Krista Leigh Pasini and Mike Pasini with Allison Kazmierski Mixed Media Mobile with Found Objects The gentle sway and spin of You Are Here accords pride of place to harmony. The fun of this piece is that it was unplanned, unexpected and constructed in the moment from start to finish. Each stone, object and photo you see hanging are mutually inclusive, with each part keeping the whole in balance. The intention was to have as little input as possible by allowing the piece to inform us. Without striving for adornment or function, it is simply a reflection of Montana and an experience. Allison is the photographer, Mike is the builder, Krista is the mover and we are all the gatherers. We set out to explore the underlying senses and creative intuition behind our roles in order to discover the similarities that influence and inspire them. You Are Here is in conversation with two other pieces during this August ArtWalk. You may pick up Field Notes from Allison at the Annex Coffeehouse & Bakery (2601 Minnesota Ave), which will connect you with a chance to meet with Krista, and guest artist Erica Gionfriddo, for interactive Field Testing at a site-specific location. |
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Just Passing Through
Alex and Emily Tyler They will be performing several semi-improvisational acrobatic flows, as well as, playing a completely improvised game with members of the audience calling out possible connections in a iterative collaboration throughout the evening. Alex and Emily Tyler are local acroyogis, aerialists, and members of Billings Alternacirque. |
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ATTENUATION
Jon Lodge with Alex Nauman Attenuation” is a site specific, sound/noise sculpture that disrupts expectations of the viewer’s audio/visual experience. Electronic signals are attenuated to a ongoing state of silence, with random episodes of .5 to 2.0 second audio fragments. Jon Lodge grew up in Red Lodge, Montana, and studied jazz performance and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the 1960s. After becoming the school’s photographer and art director, he gradually migrated into visual media. Lodge’s work fuses systems and methodologies of music and visual art with idiosyncratic materials and processes to operate in what he calls a planned system of randomness. Guitarist and experimental musician Alex Nauman has been been a regular player throughout the Rocky Mountain Gig circuit and an integral member of a long list of eclectic groups even before he could drive himself to gigs. Playing everything from straight-ahead Jazz, Bop, Funk, R&B, Reggae, Soul, Rock, Hip-Hop, Electronic, Big-Band Swing, Bluegrass, Avant Garde, Experimental Improvisations, and even a little Country, its easy to see why Alex is considered one of the most talented & versatile Musicians around. |
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Remember Me
Jane Waggoner Deschner Remember me combines vernacular photographs with statements culled from family/friend-written obituaries. Hand-embroidering text into photos intimately merges the two. The photos “read” the texts and vice versa, teasing pretension, tragi-comedy and profound truths about the human condition from sentimental artifacts. The obituaries published in local newspapers and on funeral home websites are written by those who knew and loved the deceased. The writer often includes an anecdote or two: “He enjoyed a good meal and truthful conversation.” “She accomplished all of her dreams.” Snapshots and studio portraits are taken out of love to remember people, places and times. Embroidery is a decorative technique, and, when done by hand — stitch-by-stitch — an insistent, devotional act. Obituaries and vernacular photographs have much in common. Both synopsize everyday human experiences — loving, living, making and keeping memories — and were created for personal use. While each is unique, they are generic as virtually everyone has the same life goals, aspirations, accomplishments, hopes, dreams, desires. This project, ultimately, intimately, illustrates our collective narrative. And in so doing, importantly reminds us, in this acrimonious age, of our commonalities. |
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Michelle Dyk is a visual artist, most recently focusing on collage. She will be showcasing collage works and providing the viewer the opportunity to freely explore collage on their own terms via a collage station. Collage is delightfully tactile and a highly approachable medium to people of all skill levels. Materials will be provided and people are encouraged to tap into their creativity and make something of their own.
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What [(Is It) About My] Memory
Sherri Cornett Visitors to Cornett's What [(Is It) About My] Memory installation are invited to peer into the mixed media circular Somas, symbolic of the brain's neural bodies, each with a memory theme ... family, friends, home, adventures, books, music ... surrounded by memory cards on which previous visitors and Cornett herself have written/drawn memories ... meaningful ones, humorous, intense and, most often, lighthearted and touchstones for others reading them. Visitors are encouraged to add their own memories. You can see more of her work at www.sherricornett.com. |