12 Minutes Max

Local artists perform or present short works in a variety of media, including music, dance, film, and spoken word. Held the third Sunday of each month.

This is a special 12 Minutes Max guest-curated by Yardwork Presents! Three original pieces, each lasting 12 minutes or less, will be followed by a brief Q&A session with the artists. This program is modeled after 12 Minutes Max, a performance laboratory originated by On the Boards in Seattle.

Briana Gillet is a French-American artist and musician with a doctorate in Trumpet Performance from the University of Utah based in Salt Lake City, Utah. A fervent advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration, Briana seeks to create transformative performances that redefine how audiences and performers experience music and the arts in cross-medium. Briana is a founding member of the Bridger Brass Quintet and performs with NYC-based Chrysalis Rock Orchestra. In 2023, Briana competed in the National Trumpet Competition's Graduate Solo division. As a member of the Bridger Brass Quintet, she also performed as a guest artist at the 2019 International Women's Brass Conference and achieved national recognition as a finalist in the 2018 MTNA Chamber Music Competition.

The project integrates music, circus arts, and cinematography into a live performance setting, serving as an artistic platform for environmental activism. It highlights the impact of the drying of the Great Salt Lake and features selections from Meg Bowles' Places Where Rivers Meet written for trumpet and pre-recorded synth. Collaborators include: Briana Gillet (trumpet/director), Carina Gillet (circus artist), Sean Bartholomew (videographer/editor), Erik Klein (videographer), Alan Chapin (juggler/flow artist).

Ryan Ross will be presenting his film, Armilla. This film is a screendance abstraction of a section of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, filmed beneath the water pipes rising from the ground in City Creek Canyon, featuring recordings of these municipal infrastructures, the creek, and its falls.

Ryan is a gently experimental interdisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City, UT. He holds a BA in Media Arts Production from Emerson College and an MFA from the University of Utah in Film and Media Arts. Ryan has been a go to documentarian for much of the movement arts scene in Salt Lake City. His documentary Night Audit premiered at True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO in 2024.

Signpost (2022) explores the profound effect one can have on another’s life, and the lasting effects of being forever changed. A heartfelt reminder that human interactions are simultaneously indications of where we are and also where we are going. Conceived and re-staged by freelance artist LeGrande Lolo, and performed by Shain Salmon and Cassidy Blackham.

Yardwork Presents hosts monthly(ish) DIY music and arts programming throughout the Salt Lake Valley. They present exciting, exploratory, and expansive music, movement, installation, etc. performances, pairing international and national touring artists with local artists, often in collaboration. Open Minds, Open Doors, Open Hearts.

12 Minutes Max is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Paul Reynolds: artist, librarian, and patron of the arts. The 12 Minutes Max program is a curated monthly performance series featuring experimental short works by local artists in many different disciplines, including dance, music, film, and more. Each piece is followed by a Q&A with the artist.  12MM is modeled after the program originated by On the Boards in Seattle.

This event takes place on the third Sunday of each month.

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