Lake Mary (Chaz Prymek) is a Salt Lake City-based composer/improvisor, interdisciplinary artist and curator performing an excerpt of Comprovisation For Resonating Guitars. Originally premiered as long form comprovisation as a part of the Something From Everything exhibit at Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art, Comprovisation explores textures, timbres, and resonances between multiple prepared acoustic guitars and deep listening.
Gabrielle Kardon and Arthur Veenema will share their short film Through Thin Ice.
Along the shores of the Great Salt Lake, a scientist’s twilight run is upended when her dog plunges through rare lake ice, catalyzing a desperate series of choices. After an improbable rescue, she questions whether she always makes rational decisions. Told from two perspectives, the film explores how we assess risks, make decisions, and the role of chance.
Gabrielle Kardon is a professor and scientist at the University of Utah. For 20 years her lab has been researching how muscle develops and regenerates. In addition, she has been writing about film for Science Magazine. This is Gabrielle's first film.
Arthur Veenema is a director and producer known for his sci-fi films and science communication videos. His work has shown at the Austin and Woods Hole Film Festivals and Panic Fest. He was featured by the Utah Film Commission and a recipient of the Next Level Grant Program. Arthur works as the Multimedia & Event Lead at ARUP Laboratories.
Amelia Diehl, Meagan Bertelsen, and Jerald Lim will share their collaborative piece, Murmuration Magnetic. This piece originally debuted at Shoreline Swell in November 2025. With Jerald based in Singapore, our group leaned into asynchronous collaboration methods – a long distance process buoyed by the shared salinity of Jerald’s ocean shores and the Great Salt Lake’s brine. This separation also sparked reflection about migration, borders, belonging, and place.
what draws these tributaries into her lungs
pia okwai oo gwa wuda ogwa
what topographical magnetism
what voice has called the men
to her copper
wood ash
glass starter
all the minerals they claim inert
to drain her blood
to suck on her marrow
magnetism vampiric
what force has charmed
to her gardens
plastic bags
discarded fluorescent light bulbs
lithium batteries of an inconceivable obsolescence
cardboard
plastic bags
yellow blue cream
that then tousle the sage brush
that then billow from the rusted barbed fences
like flags for
a magnetism of disregard
what threads the sunlight
through the hair of her calves
what ears pull the words and songs
of her lovers
what reels the wanderer
to her feet
what charms the pilgrims forehead
to her collarbone
magnetism for rejoicing
magnetism for sorrow
and the birds
oh the birds
what winds summon them
time and
time again
murmuration magnetic
Amelia Diehl is a writer and musician who has lived in Salt Lake City since 2021. Originally from Michigan, she has a masters in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. She composes music for and co-produces the podcast Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories, and contributed compositions to Amanda Madden’s documentary A Spell For Queer Home, and Ella Warnick's forthcoming short film Imperfect Offerings about Great Salt Lake advocacy. With dancer Rae Luebbert, she co-directs Shoreline Swell, a multidisciplinary, ecologically inspired collaborative performance project. With dancers Rae Luebbert and Emily Ames, she has performed an original score for A Long Side: A Queer Double Portrait in Washington, DC and Salt Lake City. Her solo music project douze vitesses (“twelve speed” in French), which creates landscapes of sound with a loop pedal, can be found on Bandcamp.
Meagan Bertelsen is a queer florist and dancemaker based in SLC, and the owner of GALORE Floral. Whether with botanicals or movements, she creates meaning from living bodies in ephemeral forms. With a special interest in site-specific work, large-scale installation, her work often strives to build lush environments that inform improvisation and play for performers and audience alike.
Recently, she constructed an interactive 3D floral gendermap, titled Alternative Routes built for Red Butte Garden’s Blooming with Pride, costumed dancers in botanical armor for Constance Anderson’s SISSY, and created a fully-foraged floral sculpture Headwaters to How we got Here for Queer Spectra Arts Festival. She also co-organizes the series Dance Class For Humans.
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.
