Open Studio Party: August 26th

Thursday · 6:00pm - 10:00pm
1816 26th Ave. Seattle - James & Janie Washington Foundation

The James Washington Foundation invites you to an Open Studio Party Thursday, August 26th from 6 to 10 pm.  I’ll be showing some of the archive related projects I’ve undertaken since starting my residency just a few short weeks ago, which includes works that combine site-specific materials and archival data with digital tools and fabrication processes.  Live vinyl will be spinning in the side yard, culled from James Washington’s record collection.

For one of the projects I’m working on, Voicewriter, I’ve taken a collection of a texts from Mr. Washington’s library and recorded them using the most functional of his collection of Edison voicewriters.  Passages from books about Tesla and Carver, Einstein and systems of mass communication, the power of the mind and the use of sign language in ancient ritual.

The texts are not selected randomly, but respond to the very specific annotations that Mr. Washington used; underlines and stars and for the most critical texts, the phrase “important” appears again and again.  His books are full of notes on cards and scraps of papers, and often articles clipped from newspapers that relate to the author or some event in the books.