Dark Circles – Paulette Perhach

November 4, 2021

Paulette Perhach’s project for the 2021 Jack Straw Writers Program is an exploration of mental health, anxiety, and addiction. In her conversation with curator E.J. Koh, they discuss meditation practices, the influence of research and travel on writing, and the vulnerability that writing can demand. “There’s a kind of nudity in writing. . . . […]

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Neil Welch – Concepción Picciotto

October 27, 2021

Jack Straw Artist Neil Welch will celebrate the release of his new album, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, with a concert at the Chapel Performance Space in Seattle. More details on the concert below. From composer and soloist Neil Welch: “This work is titled, composed and dedicated to the activist Concepción Picciotto, […]

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Con*cep*tion* – C.R. Glasgow

October 20, 2021

2021 Jack Straw writer C.R. Glasgow’s poetry project was born from the desire to be in communication with the stories of West Indies ancestors through an intersectional lens. In C.’s conversation with curator E.J. Koh, they discuss the link between sound and memory, the relationship of time to place and culture, and the transformative power […]

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Bill and Naima Lowe – 97 Days Between

October 13, 2021

Bill and Naima Lowe‘s 97 Days Between is the third and final installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear the whole series and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.

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Mythlets – Abi Pollokoff

October 6, 2021

Abi Pollokoff’s project for the 2021 Jack Straw Writers Program is “a collection of poems that is a womaning, a reclaiming of agency and voice.” In her conversation with curator E.J. Koh, they discuss reclaiming what it means to be a woman, the relationship between sound and language, and the reckoning occurring within the literary […]

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Nat Evans – Gradient

September 29, 2021

“Gradient,” by Nat Evans with Will Hayes, guitar, and additional improvisations by the artist, was played using the sonic sculptural systems Andrew Fallat created for his installation Timbre, on view in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through November 5th.

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Lori Goldston – Miasms

September 15, 2021

Lori Goldston’s “Miasms: For three instrumentalists, one audio technician, and piano that’s been dropped (min. 20’) and left to sit (min. 20 years),” performed by Lori Goldston, Alan Jones, Greg Kelley, and Austin Larkin, was created for the 2019 Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Piano Drop, which commemorated the 1968 dropping of a piano […]

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