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Performance + Sound Installation

by DORSEY DUNN

April 4-June 20, 2008

Solo Performance/Opening night
Friday, April 4, 7pm

Artist Lecture
Saturday, April 5, 11am

Jack Straw Productions presents Resonances, a sound installation that begins with a live electro-acoustic improvisational performance in the gallery and continues as an extended aural ‘dying-away’ of the event itself over the course of the exhibition. Music and sound captured during the opening will slowly disappear in a long series of disintegrating reverberations, from an intense beginning to a final period that is spare and minimal.

Resonances is based upon a simple presupposition — that a space occupied for a finite period of time retains the presence of that occupation well after the space itself has been 'emptied'. This presence is a collective and individual memory; it is an energy held in the atmosphere and the material of the place. Having charged the space briefly, the slow ebb of this energy is discernable, but - as a subtle and extended process - not precisely quantifiable. Resonances seeks to bring the afterlife of an event into the realm of the perceptible.

Dorsey Dunn is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work in sound, text and image, in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works, is an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence, and the vagaries of comprehension.

Dorsey Dunn regularly exhibits and performs his sound-led installations and music in the US and internationally. He has received invitations to residencies and festivals around the world, most recently to the new media lab TESLA in Berlin; Festival International de Arte Digital, Rosario, Argentina; MusicAcoustica in Beijing; and Is Arti in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. He has scored and produced music for film, theater, and dance, as well as for a variety of multimedia performances.

Dunn earned a BA from Columbia University (NY) and MFA from Mills College (Oakland, CA), where he studied with Fred Frith.

About the Jack Straw New Media Gallery

The Jack Straw New Media Gallery opened in 1999 to support artists working with visual and installation art, with an emphasis on sound. The Gallery is one feature of the New Media Gallery Program, and is one of three residency programs at Jack Straw. The New Media Gallery exhibits artists' work through an open call process like the Artist Support Program and Writers Program. As one of a handful of exclusively sound art spaces in the world, we've been attracting applicants nationally and internationally, however Jack Straw has a commitment to local artists. Local artists who have exhibited recently include Paul Rucker (2007), Trimpin (2006), Tania Kupzcak (2005), Kristin Tollefson (2005), Iole Alessandrini (2004). Perri Lynch (2003), Kichul Kim (2006) and S. Lyn Georinger (2006), who both lived in Seattle when they applied and received exhibtions.

Gallery residencies include an exhibition of up to three months in the gallery; 20 hours of studio assistance with one of our engineers; access to Jack Straw Productions audio recording, production, and presentation equipment; and two public events - the opening and an artist talk. This residency is for exhibiting and performing artists in any medium who would like to incorporate sound into their work. Other previous gallery artists include Steve Roden, Jason Kahn, Joe Colley, David Kwan, Richard Lerman, and Joe Diebes. See below for a complete list of exhibitions.

About Jack Straw Artist Residencies

Jack Straw Productions focuses on annual artist residencies through our Artist Support Program, our Writers Program, and New Media Gallery Residency Program. These programs offer established and emerging artists an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Proposals are reviewed by an interdisciplinary peer panel (Artist Support and New Media Gallery programs) or Curator (Writers Program).

Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges the support from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, ArtsFund, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, the Washington State Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and our individual contributors for their vital support of our programs and services.

Past Jack Straw New Media Gallery Exhibitions

View archived pages of the Jack Straw New Media Gallery, as well as artists' documentation:

Wires by Jason Kahn, Winter 2008 ~ JSP Archive
Every Island Fled Away and the Mountains Could Not be Found by Jim Haynes, Fall 2007 ~ JSP Archive, Jim Haynes' website

Catalyst by Paul Rucker, Spring-Summer 2007 ~ JSP Archive

Terminus by David Kwan, Winter-Spring 2007 ~ JSP Archive

Lonely Microphone by Joe Colley, Winter 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Huldre by S. Lyn Goeringer, Fall 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Rapport by Kichul Kim, Summer 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Fences-Borders by Richard Lerman, Spring 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Archival Investigations by Trimpin, Winter 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Maps & Legends by Tania Kupczak, Fall 2005 ~ JSP Archive

The Four Dignities by Rene Yung & Janice Giteck, Summer 2005 ~ JSP Archive

Organic Plan by Kristin Tollefson, Spring 2005 ~ JSP Archive

String Quartet #2 by Joe Diebes, Winter 2005 ~ JSP Archive

YIJU: songs of dislocation by Byron Au Yong, Fall/Winter 2004 ~ JSP Archive ~ yijusongs

Untitled by Iole Alessandrini, Summer/Fall 2004 ~ JSP Archive ~ iole.org

dislocator by Randy Moss, Spring 2004 ~ rmoss.com

Searching for a Quiet Place: Turnbull Bay by Jesse Paul Miller, Winter 2003/04 ~ jesse paul miller

Precisely Known, Completely Lost by Perri Lynch, Fall 2003 ~ Velocity Made Good

Chamber Music by Steve Roden, Summer 2003 ~ inbetweennoise.com

Klavier Nonette by Trimpin, Spring 2003

Revisiting Septermber 11, 19[72] by Mark Polishook & Lisa Hutton ~ revisiting

Perfect Pitch by Jim Pridgeon, Summer 2002 ~ Press Release

and there was concrete skin for your face by Maureen Whiting, Spring 2002 ~ Maureen Whiting Company

7Ply - Plywood and Memory by Don Fels, Winter 2001/02

Soundescapes by Matthew Bauer
Salmon Song by Jim Pridgeon, Summer 2001 ~ Salmon Song

Heard Said by Stuart Keeler, Spring 2001

Uroborous - Light and Sound by Bret Battey, Fall 2000 ~ Bret Battey

Dream Time Pieces by Stuart Dempster and Renko Ishida Dempster, Spring 2000

Nearly Seen, Closely Heard by Susie Kozawa and Jesse Minkert, Winter 1999/2000

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