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.

Composer Jonny Stallings Cárdenas, Double Bassist Josh Lambert, and Vocalist/Writer Kiki LaPomme come together to improvise over an excerpt of the opera The Art of Something Halfway Like Flying. Exploring the space of the subconscious, reinventing mythology, and the art of improvisation — the trio will visit a portion of the collaborative work together.

Jonny Stallings Cárdenas (alias Jonny Arturo) is a keyboardist, composer, and music director currently finishing his PhD in music composition at UC San Diego. His work as a composer-improviser works between jazz, experimental music, cumbia, and synth-pop. Jonny has appeared at Sons d’Hiver (Paris), The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Los Angeles), Zebulon, Future is Color Studios (San Diego), and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, sharing stages with artists including King Britt, Tyshawn Sorey, China Moses, Eddie Chacon, and John Carroll Kirby.

Kiki LaPomme is a multimedia artist & performer whose work centers between layered texture, playful word, and visual daydreams. Art collectives to gallery, Jazz forward vocals to written word, she is currently excited to be developing a visual arts curriculum for youth while releasing a new body of songs — Oasis Hopping.

Josh Lambert is a double bassist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Formerly a member of the Helsinki Philharmonic and the 5th House Ensemble, he has appeared in performances across North America, Europe, and Asia with ensembles such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Michael Friberg will share his film You Are Here. When insurance salesman Peter Kleebold reads an article about the size of the universe, it sends him into an existential tailspin that leads him on a journey to get out of this world.

Michael Friberg is an award winning editorial and commercial photographer who somehow figured out how to make films despite the fact that the camera equipment is significantly more complicated than stills cameras. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Time, Wired, GQ and many more.

Sam Forlenza will present Time Piece/Timepiece, a performance art piece — a term he continues to find challenging to define in a few words. In this unrehearsed work, he will explore our human relationship to time. It will speak to the pressure, preciousness, and passage of time.

A multidisciplinary artist, Sam is a performance artist, visual artist, book artist, poet, and writer, in addition to being a retired clinical psychologist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Rutgers University, as well as his clinical doctorate. He has exhibited his art around the country, and his artist’s books are in university collections. A favorite performance art piece was The Palermitan (Pa-LER-mi-tan), which was transmitted from Palermo, Sicily, in 2022, as part of the 9th Annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival founded and curated by Kristina Lenzi. Sam, who has an art studio in Sugar House, has an upcoming one-person art exhibit at the Anderson-Foothill Branch with an opening reception on Saturday, March 21. All are invited.

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.

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