12 Minutes Max program for May 21, 2023 at 2pm in the Main Library Auditorium:
Our May 12MM is a collaboration with the Living Traditions Festival which happens the same weekend on Library and Washington Squares. We have selected works that specifically have a cultural perspective.
Neon Nativez is a member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation with strong San Carlos Apache roots. His sound is a blend of cultural traditional music mixed with sound bites from Indigenous activists, set to a wide variety of Electronic based beats and sounds to create an avant garde sound that is quickly becoming the soundtrack of the Indigenous Renaissance.
Steven Stallings Cardenas is an artist, musician, and filmmaker who graduated from Brigham Young University and is currently in the MFA program at Columbia University. Steven will present a new work titled “Land Escapes”
Stephanie García is a multi-awarded Mexican multidisciplinary artist. Dance, film, choreography, and, more recently, performance are the mediums García intervenes in the reality of the audiences witnessing her work. Peter Hay is a visual, installation, and conceptual artist whose artwork is woven from personal and universal narratives based on curiosity about the 'natural world,' how it became the way it is, and how we are all part of it. Garcia and Hay will present Vanished Vibrations (excerpt/2021), part of a full evening site-specific dance performance inspired by ongoing research on the embodied memory of female-gendered violence victims in the Mexican context. Music is by Bendik Giske, Bomba Estéreo and Carmen Ruiz. This project was supported by the Center of Latin American Studies at the University of Utah and the Tinker Foundation.
12 Minutes Max is a curated monthly performance series, presented by the Salt Lake City Public Library, featuring original experimental works by local artists in many disciplines, including dance, music, film, and more. Each event includes three varied performances, with a short Q&A after each piece. It is modeled after the program originated by On the Boards in Seattle.
