architect + professor William Tate and musician + guitar builder Zach Minuto
A US Embassy in Poland Grant Project
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EVENT DESCRIPTION // Saturday 24 April @11am ET / 5pm CET
Join us for following Solidarity Project / Projekt Solidarność online public session: THE SLOW BUILD: Exploring Architecture in Music with William Tate and Zach Minuto.
This is our second @home | @dom: virtual artist talk series and will take place on Saturday 24 April, 2021 from 11am-12:30pm EST / 5-6:30pm CET.
The Solidarity Project is in conversation with architect and professor Wiliam Tate and musician and guitar builder Zach Minuto moderated by curatorial assistant Jack Holloway. These artists will discuss constructing the tangible and intangible through building, design, and music.
The pandemic has disoriented all of us, forcing many artists to reconnect with their artistic process in new ways. We have much to learn from artists like Zach and Tate who each invest care and intentionality in a slow, reverent creative process. Like a slow build in music, these artists believe in creating art slowly. Join us for hearing from these artists and for Q&A and discussion.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
zach minuto
an independent musician and guitar maker currently based in Boston, MA.
he built his first guitar in 2010, and has since centered instrument-making in his practice as a musician.
a self-taught luthier, his work combines visual art with instrument design, giving each piece its own unique character, both visually and sonically.
he strives to create instruments that look and sound like nothing else available.
link to music - EP release to come
link to “Pandemonia” // summer 2020 pandemic podcast
william tate
resides in the shenandoah valley of virginia. educated at wake forest university.
learned architecture at virginia tech; direct descendent of bauhaus-mind.
worked with ricardo legorreta in mexico city. met luis barragán. has never been the same.
runs summer studios in vienna + krakow. these are catapults.
teaching, work, + readings focus on puccini, fields, möglich, surges,
choreography, in-betweens, + the contrapuntal. along with questions of landscape, memory, symbol, ritual, justice, peace, and phenomenology.
all applied to moon shots + qanats.
library with 4052+ books. frequents monasteries.
sweetheart family. grandchildren in close orbit.
photography with a Leica M6. B+W. film.
amen.
SESSION SCHEDULE: Saturday 24 April 2021 // 11am ET / 5pm CET
please login promptly at 11am ET / 5pm CET
00:00-00:05 Welcome and Project / Session Overview
00:05-00:30 Zach Presentation
00:30-00:45 Q&A with Zach, moderated by curatorial assist Jack Holloway
-- 5 minute break --
00:50-01:15 Tate Presentation
01:15-01:30 Q&A with Tate, moderated by curatorial assistant Jack Holloway
01:30 Farewell and End of Public Program / Commence Private Participant Session
01:30-02:00 Closed participant session
Please note that public programming for the session will conclude at 12:43pm EST/5:30pm CET with a closed participant event session from 12:30-1:00pm EST/6:30-7pm CET. All programming will be conducted in English, but assistance in Polish is available as needed.
What is the Solidarity Project / Projekt Solidarność?
The Solidarity Project / Projekt Solidarność is a virtual artist + cross-cultural exchange project that brings together emerging Polish and American artists to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis from 2020-2021 to investigate the critical need for togetherness and unity in an age when physical proximity is eliminated, isolation is mandatory, and life as we know it is drastically changing at a rapid, alarming rate. Emerging artists are invited to participate and established artists are invited to engage as guest artists and speakers to use the universal communication form of art to bring people together. Artists are also called upon to critically question and rethink what we do, the purpose of our work, the significance of artistic creation in a time of crisis, and how art can be used as a means of creating local and global solidarity in this moment of crisis as an artistic archival process. The project includes monthly virtual sessions with discussions, cross-cultural exchange, guest speakers, artist talks, and more. Concluding programming, specifically a virtual exhibition and remote opening, will take place in October 2021. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks and months and let us know if you would like to cooperate with us!
Who are we?
Joanna Pottle, Artistic Director // website | instagram
Born in Richmond, VA, Joanna is a visual artist, researcher, educator, curator and recent Fulbright Alumnae (2019-2020 to Poland). Her studio practice combines abstract mixed media techniques of painting, printmaking, drawing, and installations. She currently resides in Kraków, Poland, as a graduate student at the Jagiellonian University, cooperating with MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, while facilitating the Solidarity Project.
Julia Leś, Poland based Curatorial Assistant // website | instagram
Born and based in Krakow, Julia is a visual artist, focusing on painting, drawing, digital art, graphic design and animation. She is a student of Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (from 2018). In her third year of studies, she is a Solidarity project co-organizer and logo designer.
Jack Holloway, US based Curatorial Assistant // website | instagram
Born in Seattle, Jack is a film director, photographer, musician, and activist. His ongoing projects include Morbid Instinct, The Heavens, and Act for Abolition. He currently resides in New York City and is a researcher and contributor to @blackwomxnmarch and is a Solidarity project co-organizer.