New Year 13
Eli Hansen, Anna Linzer, and Oscar Tuazon
All Programs Subject to Change
July 15 — 31, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
6pm staged reading of A River Story
The 13th and final installment of New Year, Western Bridge’s series of two-week projects, brings the trio of Eli Hansen, Anna Linzer, and Oscar Tuazon for a collaborative project, All Programs Subject to Change.
Hansen and Tuazon, brothers who have collaborated on projects for years, here will work with their mother, Anna Linzer, on a staged reading of a play adapted from her novel A River Story on July 24.
A River Story is a pair of interlocking monologues told by a ten year old girl and a man in his seventies, set in Fishtown, an artist community which emerged in the 1970s amid fishing shacks on the Skagit River near La Conner. Anarchic, scruffy, inventive, and drenched in alcohol and drugs, Fishtown remains a totemic presence in the history of art and community in the Northwest.
Tuazon and Hansen, artists from the peninsula whose work often draws from the ferment of worlds like that of Fishtown, will work for two weeks at Western Bridge to create a setting for the reading of A River Story. The adaptation is by Linzer and theatre artist Elizabeth Huddle.
Oscar Tuazon lives in Paris and the Northwest. He is an artist, writer, and curator whose work in metal, concrete, and wood is large scale and architectural. His recent solo exhibitions include the ICA London, Kunsthalle Bern, Standard (Oslo), and Castillo/Corrales, Paris.
Eli Hansen is an artist working in Tacoma and New York. A skilled glassblower, he also works in photography, sculptural installation, and distillation. His work has been the subject of recent exhibitions at Maccarone, New York, the Company, Los Angeles, and Lawrimore Project, Seattle.
The brothers’ collaborative installation Kodiak appeared at the Seattle Art Museum in 2008. Their collaborative work has been or is currently being shown in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and France.
Anna Linzer is a poet and novelist living on Puget Sound. Her novel Ghost Dancing (Picador) received the American Book Award in 1999. Her poetry and stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies including Kenyon Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Blue Dawn, Red Earth.