12 Minutes Max: The 12 Second Edition is an adaptation of the beloved performance festival in light of COVID-19. Curated by Seattle choreographer, director and performer Alyza DelPan-Monley, 60 videos submitted by artists from around the country (and world!) will premiere on Instagram via @Baseartspace. All works run at 12 seconds or less. Join Alyza as they host from Instagram Live at 7pm (PDT) April 19 and 5pm (PDT) April 20. Each evening will present 30 works- make sure to tune in both nights to experience the full festival!
Launched by On the Boards in 1981 and currently presented by Base, 12 Minutes Max is an informal, low-tech showcase of contemporary and experimental performance works in dance, theater, music and multimedia art. This is the first 12 Seconds Max in the program’s history.
April 19, 7pm (PDT)
April 20, 5pm (PDT)
@BaseArtSpace Instagram Live
*Base is thrilled to offer this event free of charge! If you are interested in donating in lieu of purchasing a ticket, you can do so here.
A note from our curator, Alyza DelPan-Monley:
Live in-person performances as we knew them are currently impossible. But if live performance has taught us anything, it is that there is always a way forward, cultivating our changing immediate realities into opportunity for art.
Introducing 12 Minutes Max: The 12 Second Edition. It’s online. It’s a twelve second piece.
Remind us that there is something absolutely essential at the core of live performance, and show us how to translate that essence into this new platform. How do we experience the ephemeral when things can be rewatched and recorded? How do give and receive eye contact with an audience member through a screen? How do we learn to hold for laughter but to also not assume the laughs will come? How do we evoke a story that uses presence and intention while sitting alone in our bathrooms?
As Adrienne Maree Brown reminds us, “There is a conversation that only the people in this room right now can have. Have it.” We can still have that whole-hearted connection between the performer and the viewer. Let’s have it. Together. Alone. In twelve seconds or less.
(Photo by Jim Coleman of Sebastian Arredondo in 12MM Feb. 2019)