WORKSHOP with Karn Junkinsmith: How to make a One Minute Sculpture
Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
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FREE with Museum Admission
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Join Seattle choreographer and experimental dance filmmaker Karn Junkinsmith for an afternoon workshop to be held in conjunction with the Henry’s presentation of Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures. Throughout the duration of this presentation visitors will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of participatory experiences designed to explore the concepts introduced in Wurm’s Sculptures and question definitions of sculpture by encountering their own unexpected relationships with everyday objects.
Utilizing the four elements of dance, time, space, energy and the body we will play with an object (a book) to construct and witness our collective one minute sculptures. Relax into present moment, breathe, dream, imagine, remember, stretch, reach, spin, jump, ask, open heart, receive, give, move with feeling. This workshop will utilize everyday objects so be sure to bring your own object (book) to work with.
Karn Junkinsmith is a Seattle choreographer and experimental dance filmmaker. Karn’s dance film work began in 1990, when she collaborated with Lena Sharpe on GIRLS FIND WAYS TO GET THERE, a dance of three female archetypes: Joan of Arc, witch and pregnant virgin. Her directorial debut, the whimsical DAY OFF, produced in association with Northwest Film Forum and shot by Lynn Shelton screened at Lincoln Center, BUS STOP screened at the Red Cat in Los Angeles, and ALCHEMY OF THE ORACLES screened at Local Sightings. THE CHRONICLES OF CLEO & JACK shot on 16mm black & white is a story told with pictures, music, skateboarding and dancing screened at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings and the Sans Souci Film Festival in Boulder Colorado in 2010. Her most recent film NIGHT FALLS ON JACK AND CLEO shot by Ben Kasulke on super 16 screened at Local Sightings in October of 2011.
See her films at karnjunkinsmith.com.
Test Site: How to Make a One Minute Sculpture