It’s time again for the monthly Capitol Hill arts walk. We’ve called out a few highlights to check out below along with a full roster of weekend activities ranging from Pink Proms to the Cannabis Freedom March. Smells arty. Smells pink. Smells like marijuana. Smells like Capitol Hill. Happy Weekend.
Tonight bring’s May’s Blitz! Art Walk. Newcomer Blindfold Gallery is exhibiting a new show, the Green Door artist studio has opened up its doors to Blitz! as well as The Compound artist studio. CHS recently spoke with Rare Medium, another collective — this one made up of transplants from the 619 Western Building.
Rare Medium, an artist collective run by Justin Mata, Cory Verellen, and Tali Edut has made settled nicely into its home here on the Hill and will be presenting the results of a recent performance/installation entitled “ENTRY” by author Ian Young. Young spent 30 hours in the studio creating a large scale written installation under the “surveillance” of passersby.
” We were interested in the performative aspect,” Mata said of the project. “We wanted to play off the fact that writing is a solitary and isolated act. We wanted to see how that could change in an environment with constant flow. This was the natural step after that.”
The piece incorporates elements of the solitary act of writing with the performative and aesthetic elements of visual arts. Young created all of the text on the spot, and incorporated a variety of inspirational objects to guide his narrative. (Among others you can find a childs glove, a fly swatter, and some “random clocks” wedged into paragraphs or placed gently to the side mimicking a footnote.)
One of the best parts about the work? Young actually slept in the gallery during his thirty hour stint. Says Mata, “That particular weekend the weather was getting nice so it was really crazy in Cap Hill in terms of night life. Really big. People were banging on the windows at three or four am trying to wake him [Young] up.”
For a full listing of the Blitz! Art Walk events, click here. Here’s the rest of this week’s On the List:
Thursday 5/10
Blitz Art Walk May Edition- BEER WEEK 2012 — Every Capitol Hill event here
- Capitol Hill Jane Jacobs walk
- Put a Bird on It: Wine that Flaps 5P at Vino Verite
- QLAW-Ingersoll Center Onsite Legal Clinics 6P – 9P at Seattle Counseling Services
- Inner Chapters Trivia Night 7P at Inner Chapters Books & Cafe
- PnB:Mowe STIFF Screening 7P at Central Cinema
- Seattle Parks Alternative Uses of Sports Courts Meeting 7P – 9P at 100 Dexter Ave. N
- ACTUAL PAIN & SECOND SIGHT PRESENTS: BRAXTON & PALMER 9P at Pony
- FRESH2DEATH presents // JACQUES RENAULT (NYC/DFA) 10P at The Woods
Friday 5/11
- “Two on Friday” @ EVS Wines 3P – 6P at EVS Wine Shop
- UCLA Festival of Preservation presents The Chalice of Sorrow 7P at Northwest Film Forum
- Punchline Fridays :::Comedy Showcase::: 9P – 11P at Jai Thai on Broadway
Saturday 5/12
- Healthy Sexuality Day 10AM – 4P at CSPC Main Space
- A Commonplace Book of High 5 Pie 1P at High 5 Pie
- Friends of the Conservatory’s Annual Spring Plant Sale – 10-3 at Volunteer Park
- Cannabis Freedom March 1P at Volunteer Park
- Broadway Veterinary Open House 1P – 4P at Broadway Veterinary Hospital
- Capitol Hill Trivia Crawl 3P Meets at Broadway and East Republican
- SLEEPY SUN / MIDDAY VEIL 7P at Barboza
- Pink Prom 8P at 500 Broadway Ave E.
- Flux 9P at Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar
- Juicebox 9P at Neumos
Sunday 5/13
- Broadway Farmers Market, 11a-3p at Seattle Central
- Run Like A Mother 8:30AM – 10:30AM at Warren G. Magnuson Park
- Mother’s Day 5K Fun Run/Walk 9AM – 10:30AM at Seward Park
- Mothers Day at the Arboretum 1P – 4P at Graham Visitor Center
