On Wednesday, Nov. 27th – despite a pelting cold rain, more than 100 artists, filmmakers, writers, radio producers and SWF residents joined November Guest Artist, Peabody-award winning artist Dmae Roberts, in the AiR studio for the screening of her new flash movie. Created as part of her SWF project – “Can I Tell you Something?”, this “radio with pictures” montage included the writing and voices of over 30 particpants from Dmae’s month-long series of writing workshops exploring secrets – how we hold them, why we tell them and what role they serve in our lives. Dmae also screened – Secret Asian (passing), her personal flash movie addressing this topic, which was created with project grant support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Each a little more than 5 minutes in length, the movies are available for viewing anytime in the AiR studio and are available for web screening by following these links: Click here to see the Secrets flash movie: . To see Dmae’s personal piece, Secret Asian (passing), click here. Or, drop by the studio to view these works, as well as projects by Tim DuRoche (September/07), Dana Lynn Louis (October/07) or Tahni Holt (December/07).
Monthly Artist: November 07
Dmae Roberts is an award-winning independent radio artist and writer who has written and produced more than 400 audio art pieces and documentaries for National Public Radio and Public Radio International programs. Her work is often autobiographical or about cross-cultural peoples and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary Mei Mei, a Daughterís Song is a harrowing account of her mother's childhood in Taiwan during WWII. Her most recent three-year project has been Crossing East, the first Asian American history series on public radio. The eight-hour series ran on more than 210 stations around the country. Roberts has also produced the 13-part Legacies: Tales From America and the 3-part Legacies, Faith Hope and Peace series, Sorting Through Shadows, and the Breast Cancer Monologues.
Awards and grants include the Peabody, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award, the Casey Medal, the United Nations Silver award, the Clarion Award, two Heart of America awards, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Award, two Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards and an Achievement in Radio award for innovation and excellence.
Kartz Ucci is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Oregon. She received her MFA in 1995 from York University in Toronto, Canada and has been teaching at the University of Oregon since 2004, prior engagements include York University, McMaster University and Ryerson University in Canada.
A central metaphor in her work is the ‘location of desire’ and the ‘pursuit of happiness’. She has an unabashed interest in the romantic and prefers, though not exclusively, to work with the merging of two conceptual strategies. In working with contemporary notions of appropriation, she re-authors and recodes existing texts, musical pieces and films. In addition to the use of an imposed algorithm, another common element in the work is the recursive relationship between the original and its recoded meaning. Relevant texts, ideological statements and specific substrates or visual representations (imagined or real) expand the context and content of her subject matter, either physically and/or philosophically. Her work is produced with the medium that best conveys its conceptual content and is actualized through light, sound, video, performance, photography and text.
Exhibitions for 2010 include OPTICA, Montreal (Canada), Linfield Gallery, McMinnville (Oregon) and inclusion in the upcoming Oregon biennial titled Portland 2010. To view her work visit her web site, http://www.uoregon.edu/~ucci/kartzucciwork/a>.
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Dmae Roberts First Saturday Salon
November 8, 2007
Informal Writing Salons with Dmae Roberts:
T/Th, 3-5p; Sa, 11a-1p
AiR Studio Storefront – 3623 SW River Parkway @ Gaines off the John Ross Plaza
Free and open to the public
Culminating event: Soup and Movie Night, Wed., Nov. 28th, 6:30-8:30p
When two-time Peabody Award-winning Writer/Radio Producer Dmae Roberts (center in photo) began shaping her November Guest Artist project for the SWF - “Can I Tell You Something?”, I realized that I had not spent enough time considering how the stories I share and the secrets I reveal shape and inform all of my relationships – how they draw the like-minded close, how they repel those who do not relate, how they seduce those intrigued with the adventure or encounter or experience shared. It is something I took for granted, perhaps because my own creative work does not directly spring from the narrative – at least so far. Of course, one can argue that everything is essentially story, but I was just not tuned into soft vulnerablity and intimacy of it all – that stories are the highways, roads, lanes and back alleys that connect us to people.
I so appreciate that Dmae has chosen to manifest this particular project at the SWF as part of this program. It is profoundly relevant and timely in this place right now.
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August 15, 2007
Our monthly guest artist series continues with Dmae Roberts in November 2007. Join the discussion as she writes about her experiences in creating art that celebrates the South Waterfront community.
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South Waterfront Community Relations will host four different artists through 2009 - 2010 from the University of Oregon Portland Campus. For the spring, Kartz Ucci, Assistant Professor of Art at University of Oregon, will be living in South Waterfront and creating in the John Ross Plaza Studio.
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