{"id":67350,"date":"2023-03-29T07:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=67350"},"modified":"2023-04-05T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:03:58","slug":"gordon-matta-clark-spiral-jetty-carter-denos-rdt-link-series-the-melancholy-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/gordon-matta-clark-spiral-jetty-carter-denos-rdt-link-series-the-melancholy-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Matta-Clark, Spiral Jetty, Carter Denos, RDT Link Series, The Melancholy Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>3\/28 SLUGMAG: A Portrait of Humor and Sadness in The Melancholy Play<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wasatch Theatre Company\u00a0presents a charming and eccentric look at mental health at the\u00a0Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center\u00a0with the latest show in their season,\u00a0The Melancholy Play\u00a0by\u00a0Sarah Ruhl<\/b>.<\/p>\n

A bank teller named Tilly (Ariana Farber)<\/b>\u00a0journeys to find happiness as she experiences deep melancholy\u2014not sadness, but melancholy. The show introduces us to a therapist from a non-specified foreign country (Barett Ogden<\/b>), a tailor named Frank (Amona Faatu<\/b>), a physicist turned hairdresser named Frances (Sam Torres<\/b>) and Frances\u2019s British partner, Joann (Ashley Wilkinson<\/b>). Each of these characters feel drawn to Tilly\u2019s profound, \u201csexy\u201d melancholy and fall deeply in love with her. That, however, completely changes when Tilly embraces their love and remarkably begins to feel happy again.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/22 CITY WEEKLY: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: Film version of 1974 performance art piece explores the ephemeral nature of “home.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1974, artist Gordon Matta-Clark set to work on a performance art piece. He took his chainsaw to an abandoned house in New Jersey and carefully, deliberately, cut the home down the middle. Once that was finished, he chiseled away at the foundation until one half of the bisected structure tilted out, leaving the home cracked open like a book.<\/p>\n

“The way that I’d think about [Gordon Matta-Clark’s] work, or the way that I’d describe his work, is that he considers architecture sculpture,” says UMOCA Curator of Exhibitions Jared Steffensen. “He really uses architecture as a material to make sculptures.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/20 SLUGMAG: Carter Denos: Finding a Voice Through Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visual artist Carter Denos\u2019 work takes on the daunting task of embodying multiple emotions in a single painting.\u00a0In his winning design for<\/a>\u00a0SLUG\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0most recent t-shirt competition\u00a0(available for pre-order through April 17)<\/a>, Denos\u2019 angular faces explore the vastness of human emotion. Each face explores a different realm of sensation such as contempt, fear, sorrow, and joy. Each makes you lean in a little closer, craving to know the meaning behind the expression.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/18 DESERET NEWS: What is the Spiral Jetty without the Great Salt Lake?<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the northeast side of the Great Salt Lake, a little over a hundred miles from Salt Lake City, lies perhaps the most notable piece of land art ever made, and due to\u00a0record-low water levels<\/a>\u00a0caused by a drought that threatens the very existence of the lake, the Spiral Jetty is more visible than ever.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/15 CITY WEEKLY: Dance Preview: RDT Link Series’ Matriarch: Reimagining who we might see on stage\u2014and in the audience\u2014for a dance performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like institutions of all kinds, arts organizations are asking themselves questions about inclusion\u2014what kind of voices, or bodies, have historically been prioritized, and how to shift those paradigms. For dancer\/choreographer Jaclyn Brown, that idea extends from those we see on a stage to those we might see in the audience.<\/p>\n

As part of Repertory Dance Theatre’s Link Series, Brown is presenting\u00a0Matriarch<\/i>, an evening-length work addressing themes of maternity. In part, it’s an opportunity to reimagine the notion of what a dancer looks like, beyond historical expectations for a very specific body type, born out of Brown’s own experience as a dancer and mother.<\/p>\n

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3\/28 SLUGMAG: A Portrait of Humor and Sadness in The Melancholy Play Wasatch Theatre Company\u00a0presents a charming and eccentric look at mental health at the\u00a0Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center\u00a0with the latest show in their season,\u00a0The Melancholy Play\u00a0by\u00a0Sarah Ruhl. A bank teller named Tilly (Ariana Farber)\u00a0journeys to find happiness as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed_media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-05-at-8.01.53-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 12:08:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67357,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67350\/revisions\/67357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}