12 Minutes Max is a monthly experimental performance series featuring short works by local artists in many disciplines.
One Sunday a month, we present three original pieces in a varied mix, chosen from music, dance, film, theater, performance art, writing, and the like — each 12 minutes or less. The whole event is short and sweet, taking about an hour.
Following each event, we serve coffee and cookies in an informal gathering, a chance for conversation with the artists.
MAY 19 PERFORMANCES
PK Opal will present music "blending guttural textures and irreverent melodies," entering "a liminal space between imagist poetry and electronic soundscapes." They "seek to fuse queer praxis, radical ideology, and unique sonic palettes into an embodied, yet ethereal experience." PK Opal is a queer musician living in SLC.
Choreographer E'lise Jumes will perform her piece Forever Fallible, collaborating on sound with Michael Clemens. This piece is "a combination of memories that move fluidly through the circuit and others that get stuck. When the circuit of memory...cannot complete the cycle, the result is a state of skewed distortion, repetitive vocal utterances, anxiety, dissonance, confusion, and a roller coaster of physical velocity and unexplainable specificity." Originally doing work in Chicago, E’lise is now pursuing an MFA in Modern Dance at the U of U, along with certification in Screen Dance. She has studied voice with Meredith Monk, movement with Ate9, and will soon study with Anouk Van Dijk of Chunky Move. E’lise focuses her work in “movement, memory, ritual and the places and spaces we inhabit”.
Performance artist Kristina Lenzi will return to 12MM with I Dreamt I Was A Suffragette, the first in a series of visual experiments speaking to our current political climate. Note that we didn’t call her a performing artist; this will be performance art: an unrehearsed action from an original idea. Kristina is the curator of the longstanding SLC Performance Art Festival at the City Library. She is also a painter, exhibiting her work throughout the US and internationally, and a professor, having taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the University of Utah, Westminster College and Weber State University. Lenzi’s work, both performative and with paint, is often sociopolitical and humorous.
This program is modeled after 12 Minutes Max, a performance laboratory originated by On the Boards in Seattle.
AGE GROUP: | Teens | All Ages | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Performances & Presentations | Music | Arts & Creativity |
NOTE: The Main Library's Rooftop Terrace is closed for renovations.
Salt Lake City's Main Library, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with VCBO Architecture, opened in February 2003 and remains one of the most architecturally unique structures in Utah. This striking 240,000 square-foot structure houses more than 500,000 books and other materials, yet serves as more than just a repository of books and computers. It reflects and engages the city's imagination and aspirations. The structure embraces a public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium.
A multi-level reading area along the Glass Lens at the southern facade of the building looks out onto the plaza with stunning views of the city and Wasatch Mountains beyond. Spiraling fireplaces on four floors resemble a column of flame from the vantage of 200 East and 400 South. The Urban Room between the Library and the Crescent Wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views.
