12 Minutes Max

12 Minutes Max is a curated monthly 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 with a short Q&A after each piece. The whole event is short and sweet, taking about an hour.

The City Library will present a live stream 12 Minutes Max on Sunday, August 15, at 2pm. Please join us using this link. The program is archived on Vimeo and can be viewed after the broadcast  as well.

Alicia Rice will screen her short film Empathy is Not a Mirror, which “uses textured, repetitive imagery of brick walls and an immersive soundscape to spark mind-wandering. While the absence of bodies in the piece might suggest little relation to ideas of empathy, the meditative space looks to create forms of empathy that go deeper than mirrored experiences.” Alicia Rice has an MFA in Social Documentary and hopes to explore how documentary can support social change outside of character driven narratives.  

Sam Stone will present four excerpts of her dance work that “map out the changing curiosities of a choreographer in the field. Present in all four pieces include questions of timing, focus, play and character and how they relate to audience engagement.” Collaborators for these works include Mark Clifford, Bianca Cabrera and Sophia Chudacoff. Sam Stone spent 12 years in the Bay Area dance scene making work, performing and teaching. She is a new MFA in Modern Dance candidate at the University of Utah and excited to join the SLC artist community. Please reach out and invite her to art happenings through samstonedance.com

Filmmaker James Talbot will bring us Song for the Canyon, a piece that he says “takes a walk in order to think about walking and a few other personal rituals. One time I heard someone say that ‘to walk is to have no place.’ I guess that makes this an act of self-preservation.” James describes his practice this way:  “Usually searching for innocuous or discreet subject matter, (my) work seeks to mythologize places of personal significance; through small visual details of colors, shadows, and other motifs, (I) hope to capture a numinous spirit that contributes to a collective memory of those places.”

This program is modeled after 12 Minutes Max, a performance laboratory originated by On the Boards in Seattle.