SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
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SPACENESS is a celebration of time, space and the unknown through experimental art, media and performance. Each year SPACENESS takes over the Sou’Wester Lodge in Seaview, WA, as well as the adjacent forest, seashore and wild spaces.
The next celebration of Spaceness is MARCH 2-4, 2018. Spaceness is FREE and welcoming to people of all ages. We recommend attendees secure lodging at one of the many comfortable establishments in the nearby towns of Astoria (OR), Ilwaco, Seaview, and Long Beach (WA) to enjoy the entire weekend of programming.
Follow @spacenesss ( ⏎ 3 s’) on Instagram for updates and special information about the event.
SPACENESS 2018 SCHEDULE
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Spaceness begins at 7pm Friday March 2nd and winds down at noon on Sunday March 4th. The event is comprised of performances and ongoing installations.
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Printed schedules and merchandise can be found at CABIN 8 during the event.
See the ARTIST ROSTER for project descriptions.
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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY MARCH 2ND, 2018
Sunset 6:04pm
7pm: Spaceness begins! Ongoing installations are open. (See ONGOING list below)
8pm: Earth Babies perform in the Lodge
9pm: Space Karaoke at Rod’s Lamplighter
SATURDAY MARCH 3RD, 2018
Sunrise 6:49am
11am: rise x fall // jaleesa johnston, rubén garcía marrufo & maximiliano perform in the Pavilion
1pm: Imprint // Sarah Brahim in collaboration with Brett Van Patten in the Pavilion
3pm: War of the Worlds // Spaceness Radio FM listening party in the Murphy Room in the Lodge
Sunset 6:06pm
6:30pm: Space Champion III opens;
I am every age I ever was by Julia Barbee will be on view
7pm: Old Unconscious play DestinationMusic in the Lodge
8pm: STATIC PASSENGER // Michelle Kline, Nick Bindeman, Matt Henderson, Kathy Duffy, Sara Paradis & William Rihel
Pavilion
9pm: Space Kareoke Rod’s Lamplighter
SUNDAY MARCH 4TH, 2018
Sunrise 6:49am
10am: Coffee Jazz in the Lodge
ONGOING INSTALLATIONS
The Cosmic Labyrinth // David Worthington, Cabin 10
Body in a Coma Riding on Beasts // Shay Myerson, Cabin 7
Infinity Hole // Sam Wildman, Trailer Courtyard
Spaceness Radio FM // William Rihel, frequency TBA, based in the Murphy Room
The Healing Machine // Earth Babies, the Woods
Manifesto 4: A Signpost | A Warning | A Way Home // Daniel Glendening, the Woods
TDRS-B // Matt Emmons, the Lodge
Untitled (the sound of a motor, running) // Lisa Ward, **limited capacity, sign up required, occurs in Art gallery Trailer
EncounterZ // DaVideo Tape, Cabin 9
Conspiracy Theories About Conspiracy Theories // Lauren Moran & Derrick Spotts, Typewriter Room in the lodge
UFOregon // Dominic Brown, jin camou, Sara Schultz, & Dana Weiss, location TBA
I am every age I ever was // Julia Barbee, upper balcony of lodge after sunset
Space Champion III // Samuel Farrell, Cory Gray, Nicky Kriara, Jason Tschimperle, recording studio trailer
SPACENESS RADIO FM // William Rihel, radio station based out of Murphy Room in the Lodge, frequency TBA
Open Signal student animations, Cabin 8
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Spaceness was founded by Portland artists Julia Barbee, Matt Suplee, and Alison Jean Cole and has been awarded funding by the Precipice Fund, Calligram Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Portland chapter of the Awesome Foundation.
SPACENESS 2018 will be accepting proposals from Sept 20, 2017 to Nov 1, 2017.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Entering the twenty-first century we have myriad human theories and logical arguments that explain the existence of our galaxy, the heavens, and the universe; however, that pool of knowledge is insufficient in addressing what we still do not know – the things that baffle and confound our species – truths that may evade us for eternity. These are the concepts that fall under the definition of “spaceness’.
Opening Reception Saturday April 14th, 5pm-7pm
for exhibition
“what the world needs now is LOVE“
by Larry Yes
April 14 – June 24, 2018
This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.
Opening Reception Thursday July 19th, 6pm-9pm
for exhibition
“Pillow Talk”
July 3 – September 23, 2018
This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.
upper left photo credit Bruce Clayton Tom
Artist Statement:
My work revolves around drawing, specifically making marks with the body. It’s about the process and physicality involved in embroidering marks to make a statement that vacillates between the poles of vulgar, violent, gorgeous. The texts come from personal musings, found internet memes and aphorisms, fragments of forgotten poetry, or the banal, pithy, heartbroken musings of cultural icons and the unknown alike.
The practice of my drawing is largely intuitive and physically demanding. In drawings up to 30 feet long, text melts into a vibrating, hallucinatory design sourced from a 1885 French wallpaper sample, which harkens to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In creating them I invoke a similar physicality to the story’s protagonist, often on my hands and knees for hours and weeks at a time, using a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil to make marks. Drawings are smudged, worn and covered with fingerprints. Many drawings comprise a palimpsest of sketches where masked figures, erased words, or traces of knotted and tangled fabric bleed through.
In installations like “Pillow Talk”, fragments of text gleaned from found sources or original writings literally pile up in soft heaps offering immersive, intimate exploration by visitors who are invited to physically embed themselves amongst the murmurings of forgotten poets and others.
photo credit Linda Derschang
Artist Biography:
I am a self-taught artist and the daughter of a Charismatic Christian minister who grew up in rural Kansas and Texas before moving to Seattle in my early 20’s. I see my work as a task of both consciously and subliminally sorting out the experience of a female trying to make expressive marks—a task that has found uncanny resonance for me with the history of female hysteria. I am fascinated by history, art, the politics surrounding the female body, and by art that borders on obsessive, meditative devotion. I sometimes have a dirty sense of humor.
Manitach’s work has been exhibited at venues including Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, Winston Wächter Gallery, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Roq la Rue and Lawrimore Project. She is represented by Winston Wächter Gallery. From 2012-2015 she served as curator of Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University. She co-founded and co-directed multiple mixed-use arts spaces in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, including TMRW Party (2014) and The Factory (2015-16). She holds a BA in Literature (2001) from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK. Her work is included in the permanent collection of Tacoma Art Museum.
Opening Reception Friday October 5th, 5pm-8pm
for exhibition
“Deep Skies“
October 5 – December 30, 2018
This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.
Please stay after the reception to enjoy live music in the lodge from 8pm-10pm by band Dizzy Nest as part of this opening celebration.
Artist Biography:
Heather McLaughlin was born next to the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore Maryland and relocated to Red Lodge Montana, on the north border of Yellowstone Park, in 1991. After high school, she continued west to Portland Oregon and continued her studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Heather completed her Bachelors of Fine Art in Printmaking in 2005. She currently serves at the print studio Manager at PNCA while also teaching printmaking and youth arts as an adjunct instructor in PNCA’s Continuing Education Program. Heather also volunteers as an art instructor at Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls and has served on the board for Flight 64 (a Member-run Print Studio). In addition to her art Heather is a musician, performer and production assistant.
4th Annual Handmade Bazaar at The Sou’wester
Kay Beizel
– wire weave jewelry
– wire weave & wrapped trees with gemstones
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– paper cards and stationary designs
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Nature Nell’s Sister
– eco printed journals
– handmade cards 100% recycled materials
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– fairy furniture
– spirit dolls
– table-top shrines
The Adrift Hotel in Long Beach, WA is having a similar sale as well on this same day so swing by to visit them 10am-4pm on Saturday! (409 Sid Snyder Dr, Long Beach, Washington 98631, 360-642-2311) Here is a list of their event on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/306163463322558/
Art Exhibit, Vertellen, by artist Andie Sterling
January 11 through February 24, 2019
A new art installation of collected sound, abstract waterscapes and drifting velella in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge
OPENING RECEPTION on Friday January 11, 6pm-9pm.
OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)
Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.
Andie Sterling is a “west Texas born and raised, westward wanderer” currently living in Astoria, Oregon. She received her MFA in Sculpture/Installation from the University of North Texas and recently completed her Residency via Astoria Visual Arts. Andie Sterling’s work includes site specific installation, space design, public art, murals and performance collaboration.
This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.
The Sou’wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
360-642-2542 9am-9pm, www.souwesterlodge.com, souwesterlodge@gmail.com