Come Make with Us
August, 2019
Averill Park, NY, United States
In the shape of a festival - Come Make with Us, as the title hints, was an invitation to the community to experience and participate in the many works created during 'Summer at ALN'. Through multiple forms and medias, the works created a platform for interactions between the audience, the artists, the spaces and the continuous unfolding of the questions.
One of the hopes of the summer was to create space and time for people to really immerse in their works. The creative intensity that people brought to their works was incredible, the studios were bubbling with works and conversations between residents, thesis participants, fellows, visiting artists and community members. Over the four weeks, the questions and projects grew in depth - and it became clear that the festival had to reflect this.
The festival kicked off, in the studio space, with an incredibly powerful concert by the musicians in residents. This was the first concert held in this space and performed on the recently donated Steinway baby grand. Composer/pianist Michael Harrison, cellist Ashley Bathgate and violinist Victoria Putterman performed music by Harrison, Philip Glass and Andrew Norman; Payton MacDonald performed two original works for solo marimba.
Saturday was a daylong engaging invitation to experience works created by the artists. The day was woven with many elements: constructions, conversations, performances, explorations, dinner preparation, dinner, listening critique, creations of works, bonfire and dancing. People from five continents brought their unique voices and approaches to the invitation: Come Make with Us.
Adela Wagner | Gravity of Equilibrium | Two Thousand One Hundred Eighty Six
Adrianos Efthymiadis | The Law disappears
Alice Momm | Insect Measures
Aniebietabasi Ekong | Lati Sise
Carolina Muñoz Awad | planes, pours and peels: 3 narrators | Come peel with us | Come Eat IceCream with Us
Daren Kendall | Listen Deeply: Mercurial Pursuits | Listen Deeply: Grand Sustain | Listen Deeply: Work Song | Sustain & Flight
David Gersten | Listening Critique
Dewen Ju | Fireworks
Evan Burgess | Drawing Corner | Norah the Potter goes to visit the Oracle
Frida Foberg | Dinner Prep Studio | Neighbor Hood
Gavin Keeney | The Law disappears
Hyunbae Chang | Between Still and Life
Jennifer Zackin | Communal Vortex Weave
Jennifer Park | Dancing Columns
Josephine Saabye | Liquid Ladder | The Apple Orchard – A Sanctuary | Come Eat IceCream with Us
Leah Lin | The Hill Has an Eye III
Natasha Holmes | Testing Taste
Noah Silver | Darker Spaces
Pedro Wainer | Contorno Camera
Renee Cheesman | Voices at ALN
Rikke Jørgensen | Constellations of the Other – Drawing with Swings | Constellations of the Other – Live drawing with Rocky
Zubin Singh | Liquid Ladder
Thanks to Laughing Earth, Field Goods, Mosiac Architects, David Leckonby, Ira and Nadine Baumbarten, Robert Dalton Harris, Diane DeBlois, Crystal Waters, Bob and Renee Phaneuf, Marybeth Petit, John Butkus, Paul Benoit, Kevin Kermani, Karen and Chet Opalka, Terri Abruzzo, Karl Becker, Andrew Frishman, Elliot Washor, Bill Morrison, Michael Benson, Homa Shojaie, Tirdad Shojaie, Michael Harrison, Ashley Bathgate, Payton MacDonald, William Kennedy, Tom Teitsworth, our supporters, our communities and everyone who come to be part of this summer.
