Shoreline resident Jeffrey Curtis becomes the City’s first guest-curator of an exhibition at Shoreline City Hall.
Curtis responded to an Open Call for Curatorial Proposals in late winter and was selected by Shoreline Public Art Coordinator David Francis and Executive Director of the Shoreline Lake Forest Park Arts Council Fred Wong.
Curtis’ installation of five flat panel video monitors showcases the video and dance of five artists and artist teams that are unified by their interdisciplinary interest in video and dance.
Explaining that “screen dance is an integrated art form of dance, video, and visual art,” Curtis created the exhibition to elicit a “visceral response” in the viewer that will in turn inspire him or her to embrace movement as a fundamental human activity.
Curtis, a lecturer in the Dance department at the University of Washington, recently presented Sidewalk Dance Films in Tacoma.
Video art is rarely exhibited in municipal art galleries, which more often display paintings, drawings, photography, or collages.
Move or Be Moved is on view on the 4th floor during regular business hours from 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday, to October 25, 2015.
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