October 13, 2012–January 20, 2013
Frye Art Museum
704 Terry Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101 USA
Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday 11–5pm,
Thursday 11–7pm
Mw [Moment Magnitude], currently on view at the Frye Art Museum Seattle, is a cross-platform project of visual art, performance, production, rehearsal, specially commissioned artworks, music, dance, literary events, design, and arts engagement programs showcasing exceptional artistic practice in Seattle. Conceived by a curatorial collective of artists, musicians, writers and curators—Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Joshua Kohl, Ryan Mitchell, Doug Nufer, and Yoko Ott—Mw [Moment Magnitude] takes its name from the scale used by seismologists to measure the size of earthquakes in terms of energy released and work produced.
Artists participating in Mw [Moment Magnitude] are Leo Saul Berk, Jherek Bischoff, The Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes), Samantha Boshnack, Rebecca Brown, Matt Browning, Cris Bruch, Jason Conger / The Four Hoarse Men / Interrupture / Kjell Hansen, Anne Fenton, Evan Flory-Barnes, Wynne Greenwood, Tad Hirsch, Eyvind Kang, Robb Kunz, LILIENTHAL | ZAMORA, Jeffry Mitchell, Charles Mudede, The People’s Grand Opera, Perfume Genius, Charlie Schuck, Buster Simpson, Vis-à-Vis Society, and zoe | juniper.
“Mw [Moment Magnitude] has no limiting paradigm,” collective member Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker explains. “It is an experiment, an experiment in uncertain outcomes and in creativity under conditions of extreme constraint. It relinquishes the idea of an exhibition that does not change, that has a beginning and an end. Instead it embraces the idea of a living exhibition that is in constant transformation. It imagines and makes real a museum that supports the production of art, as well as exhibits it.”
Upcoming in Mw [Moment Magnitude] are three days of public rehearsal with “pop polymath” (The New York Times) composer Jherek Bischoff and a thirty-five-musician orchestra; a sonic and kinetic ritual by The Black Constellation; performances by composer and trumpeter Samantha Boshnack; new compositions by charismatic bassist and composer Evan Flory-Barnes; sonic installations designed by youth in collaboration with the Yesler Community Center; the premiere of new work by noted avant-garde composer Eyvind Kang; a lecture by writer and filmmaker Charles Mudede; concerts and new compositions by The People’s Grand Opera; performances by Vis-à-Vis Society, poets of the everyday; and a four-day-long on-site dance/video rehearsal and production by zoe | juniper.
Newly commissioned artworks by Leo Saul Berk, Rebecca Brown, and The Black Constellation; the graphic musical scores of Eyvind Kang; and objects and paintings by Matt Browning in constant transformation by nature of their materials, are being presented along with original and reconstructed iconic works by leading Seattle artists Cris Bruch, Jeffry Mitchell, and Buster Simpson.
Mw [Moment Magnitude] is organized by the Frye Art Museum and curated by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Joshua Kohl, Ryan Mitchell, Doug Nufer, and Yoko Ott. The exhibition is funded by the Frye Foundation with the generous support of Frye Art Museum members and donors. Sponsored by Frank Stagen, Nitze-Stagen, and Riddell Williams, it is supported by the Washington State Arts Commission, with funding— in part—by The Wallace Foundation, and by 4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. Seasonal support of the Frye Art Museum is provided by Canonicus Fund and ArtsFund. Media sponsorship of Mw [Moment Magnitude] is by KUOW 94.9FM and The Stranger. Opening event sponsorship is by The Boeing Company.
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