Three local performance artists will be available at this carnival-style booth to answer your questions about live art, endurance-performance work and the art/life continuum. This is a friendly resource booth complete with a live artist, reference books, information on local events and an activity station where you can perform your own piece, receive a poem, send an art postcard, have an article of clothing altered or walk away with a story. The mission of this booth is to start a dialog about what performance art is, where the inspiration comes from and where to find it in our community. Come talk, the artist is in.
Amy-Ellen Flatchestedmama Trefsger
Amy-Ellen Flatchestedmama Trefsger is a performance/live artist based in Seattle, WA. In 2004, with a piece titled Commitment Ceremony, she made a "Public Declaration of Commitment" to her "Creative Self." To correspond with the Commitment Ceremony she legally adopted her artist moniker, Flatchestedmama, as her middle name. Recurring themes in Flatchestedmama's work include public residencies (40 days living in an art gallery, Domicile: A Sense of Place, 2004; and nine days living in a country-themed shopping village, Destination: Country Village, 2006), series photography and the integration of simple, self-created boundaries with daily life. Flatchestedmama is an avid mail artist and a founding member of the double dutch team OntheDouble (dutch).
A.K. Allin
A. K. "Mimi" Allin produces poetry, installations, instigations, text-art, and poetry-driven performance. She recently completed a year-long performance for which she sat outside at a small wooden desk every Sunday from 9-5 for one full year on the lawn at Green Lake in Seattle. Her mission: to interject poetry into public places and open dialog about poets, poetry and the search for the human spirit. Her work has been published on tote bags, t-shirts and matchbooks. She is currently a board member of the Washington Poet's Association, a member of the 4710 Foundry, an artist-in-residence at Studio Current on Capitol Hill, and curates a monthly event called "Untitled [Intersection]" which combines performance art and poetry. Allin lives aboard a 24-foot sailboat and works in a boatyard in historic Ballard.
Alex Martin
Alex Martin is a choreographer, performer and designer in projects that defy easy categorization. Martin's year-long solo performance, The Brown Dress, was a daily performance project from July 2005 to July 2006. Martin wore the same dress for 365 days, performed in the Northwest New Works festival at On the Boards, fueled a wide-ranging online dialog at littlebrowndress.com, rode a wave of international media notoriety that crested on NBC's "Today Show," and hosted an "Un-Dressing" Party at Consolidated Works. Martin was Co-Director of Seattle's BetterBiscuitDance (with choreographer Freya Wormus) 1999 - 2006. Her work has been presented by partners including On the Boards, Bumbershoot, UW Summer Arts Festival, Centrum Arts, Buttrock Suites, Seattle PRIDE, and Richard Hugo House, and has received support from Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, 4 Culture, Artist Trust, and Centrum Arts.