Studies in Monk, Mompou & Melancholy

STUDIES IN MONK, MOMPOU & MELANCHOLY
18 artists undertake Studies in Melancholy (performance, dance, butoh, textiles, collage, text and voice) while pianist Kristine Thomas, recreates the melancholic landscapes of Monk, Mompou & others.

Multiple studies take place simultaneously during this 3.5-hour event, some lasting 10-minutes, others the duration of the event.
The viewer is invited to move in close or relax on pillows. There’s even an opportunity to sit beneath the baby grand! This is an open door, come & go, event.

Saturday April 10th at 1-4:30pm
Fremont Abbey Arts Center | Great Hall
4272 Fremont Ave N, Seattle http://www.fremontabbey.org/
No registration required / Donation requested $5-15
For more information Contact: mimiallin@gmail.com.

There’s even an opportunity to sit beneath the baby grand! photo by Denae Clark

WHY MELANCHOLY?
“I can now add another threat, perhaps as dangerous as the most apocalyptic of concerns. We are possibly not far away from eradicating a major cultural force, a serious inspiration to invention, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are wantonly hankering to rid the world of numerous ideas and visions, multitudinous innovations and meditations. We are right at this moment annihilating melancholia.” –Eric G. Wilson, from Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Studies in Everything

Studies in Monk, Mompou & Melancholy is part of a larger project called Studies in Everything which began in January 2010 with Studies in White. Studies will continue to present quarterly events in public and private venues across the Pacific NW. Our aim is to collect artists and present unique studies that, taken together, explore select topics, moods, colors, places and ideas. A study is not an endeavor in a finished, choreographed piece. It is about the artist’s process. It is a preparation for something else.
Artists should not spend vast amounts of time preparing for a study, but should spend time undergoing the study. everywhere to envision and set into place parameters for studies and to spend time exploring their study publicly.