Name: Good Symptom
Start: 2023-09-19T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Common Area Maintenance

Good Symptom

Common AREA Maintenance

Celebrate the launch of Good Symptom with a film screening at Common AREA Maintenance!

Common Area Maintenance

Good Symptom is a showcase of literary media art experiments that push the language of poetry, autobiography, manifestos, thought pieces and hybrid literary works off the page and onto the screen. This event is free, open to the public, and welcomes an international cohort of filmmakers to share space you.We&#x27;ll preview five films and chat with the curators and filmmakers. Join us! Learn more and subscribe to the 12-installment series at the3rdthing.press.Contributing Artists Tobi Springer is a British-Dutch animator and filmmaker with a penchant for old-school and traditional animation techniques. Their work tends to explore themes of queerness and grief and the feeling of otherness that accompanies these themes. @squidzbopHannah Villanueva (she/her) is a neurodivergent multiracial experimental artist creating in the spaces of video, poetry, and photography. She is currently based in Seattle but grew up in Palmer, Alaska (Dena&#x27;ina land). Her work explores themes of interdependence, relationship, and the natural world of which we all belong.@vianuevaQuenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. Their current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Vinyl, The Rumpus and elsewhere. They are a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and the recipient of the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. They were a 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence and a 2021 NEA Fellow. They are the author of we pilot the blood (The 3rd Thing, 2021) and ballast (Haymarket Books, 2023).@poetlaureateofhellworldRoland Dahwen is a writer, visual artist, performer, and filmmaker. He studied literature and translation before starting to work in documentaries. At the age of twenty, he made his first short film, There are no birds in the nests of yesterday, about the whistling language of the Canary Islands. He then worked at a documentary film company, helping to make and distribute films about immigration and citizenship. After making short films and video installations for several years, he directed his first feature film, Borrufa. Roland Dahwen was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, US and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His primary hobby is gardening, with a particular affinity for palms and cycads.Sarah Rushford is an interdisciplinary writer, and video artist originally from Massachusetts and living with herhusband and young daughter in Portland, Oregon. She’s shown interdisciplinary work widely over the past twenty-six years. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Rubus Discolor Project and have had recent solo and group exhibitions at Grapefruits and Carnation Contemporary in Portland, OR. She’s an MFA Candidate in Visual Studies, an interdisciplinary program at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and herpoems and text-art have appeared in the literary journals Houseguest, Tuesday: An Art Project, and Mother, Mother. She’s completed residencies at Union Docs, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, and ArtFarm, Nebraska, and was recently a Co-Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn.@sarahrushford_outervoiceCurators M FreemanMedia artist, writer, contemplative guide and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. They are author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020) and creator of Cinema Divina—short films made through and for guided contemplative practice. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone and Abbey of the Arts. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide. More at marilynfreeman.com.marilynfreeman.com :: @cinemadivinaRana SanRana San is an intermedia artist, curator, and night dreamer pondering language and lineage, intimacy and interdependence. Her film poetry and analog photography meld dreamwork, movement, and word play, examining the ways we relate, where we belong, and the new meanings made in spaces where artistic mediums meet. In community, Rana crafts collective experiences that celebrate the work of artists and activists working at the intersections of media, literature, and performing arts. Rana is co-curator of the 2022-2023 Base Residency which supports the research of traditional and indigenous dance and movement practices. In 2021, she co-curated Yellow Fish Festival VI, a long form inquiry into durational performance art as a means to support methods of staying alive in our present times. Her film work has been featured most recently at North Bend Film Festival, Eugene Contemporary Art, Seattle International Film Festival, SPLIFF, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Artists of Color Symposium, Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival, and Reel Love Fest.https://ranasan.art/ :: @ranitasanChelsea Werner-JatzkeChelsea Werner-Jatzke is a writer exploring the liminal spaces of the literary arts. She is the author of the chapbooks Adventures in Property Management (Sibling Rivalry, 2017), Borough Body (Cold Cube Press, 2017), and Thunder Lizard (H_NGM_N, 2016). Her interest in how words are experienced has led to solo work and collaborations with artists across media to create gallery installations, music performances, broadsides, karaoke, and video poetry. She is co-founder and co-director of Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, the only video poetry festival in the Pacific Northwest. She also founded and was director of Till, a literary organization.She has worked as outreach coordinator for Conium Review and was previously managing fiction editor at Pacifica Literary Review. She has received support from Jack Straw Cultural Center as a writing fellow, from Artist Trust as an EDGE participant, and from the Cornish College Arts Incubator. She has been a writer in residence at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale Foundation. Werner-Jatzke has taught creative writing through Seattle Central Community College and served on the board of Lit Crawl Seattle. She received her MFA from Goddard College, where she was editor-in-chief of Pitkin Review and founded Lit.mustest, a now-defunct reading series. She moonlights as a communications professional.chelseawernerjatzke.com :: @chelseawernerjatzke

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