Tahni Holt

updates

30 June 09

I have a picture blog.

St. Erme, France at Pa-f: go to the rest of it.

09 April 09

Streaming .event.space.

Live on April 9th and 10th at 7pm + 9pm

(United States, West Coast, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Portland)

Go to: VIEW LIVE STREAM

24 March 09

performance on April 9th and 10th:

Event_Space_Poster

Ace Cleaners event space
403 SW 10th Ave (corner of 10th and SW Stark)
April 9th and 10th at 7pm and 9pm
live web feed at www.tahniholt.com

Free to the public, donations gladly excepted. No reservations required.

created and choreographed by Tahni Holt and the performers, with an original music score with collaborator Thomas Thorson.
Performers and contributors: Sally Garrido-Spencer, Julie Katch, Suzanne Chi, Thomas Thorson, Robert Tyree, Amanda Morrison, Chane Gilbert, Nancy Ellis, Lindsey Lester, Dawn Tuman Impellizzeri, Lucie Bonvalet and Vanessa Vogel.
Lighting design by Malina Rodriquez
Set construction and design by john Bacone and Dave Impellizzeri

.event.space. ruminates on our voyeuristic tendencies in our everyday lives and how these tendencies manifest in modes of architecture and technology. The performance takes place on the inside. The audience takes place on the outside, watching experiments or scenes, unfold through the screens or windows or microscopic lenses of the performance space.

Through the use of home computers, digital cameras and video cameras most of us experience the documentation of time through a screen of some sort or another. .event.space. reclaims real time experience yet through the lens of the modern world: Transparency and technology. Using methods of technology without actually deploying them .event.space. plays with fast-forwarding, rewinding and slow motioning. Light waves are made visible. lighting plots are powered by human form, colored animation arises amidst black and white, and a song split in thirds becomes a place keeper of time. Expect it to rain but let’s hope for it to not.

.event.space. is supported in part by a project grant from RACC with sponsorship from The Ace Hotel, Nancy and George Thorn, Patty and Craig Holt, Daniel Deutsch, karen and Ron Query and Levi Query.

22 December 08

SOME NEWS

THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY:

1. Portland streets covered in snow. The police car outside my coffee shop window is stuck in the snow. I love this.

2. I received a RACC project Grant for my performance event.space happening in early April, 2009. More info to come….

3. As Oregon’s representative, I am participating in Freedom of Information, a 24 hour performance/protest/ritual of continuous movement improvisation performed while blindfolded and ear-plugged, which is intended as a contemplative act of solidarity with those displaced by the wars, created by Miguel Gutierrez. I will be performing at Performance Works Northwest (the space ever so generously donated by Linda Austin) from December 31st to midnight, January 1st. People are encouraged to visit anytime during the performance. Thanks to my friend Mathew Foster, you can also view it at your own discretion at tahniholt.com/freedom-of-information-08 (it will go live starting at midnight on December 31st.) If you would like to know more about this performance please go to: freedomofinformation2008.blogspot.com.

4. I am heading to The village of St. Erme, France for a three week residency at Pa-f (performance art forum) in February. I will be working with my dear friend Elizabeth Ward.

(and lastly) 5. My friends over a Cinco Design, in collaboration with photographer Chris Hornbecker, made a beautiful online book asking 15 different people to choose one word that tells the story of what inspires them. I am honored to be apart of it. Please take a moment to peruse: cincodesign.com/CO/stronger-together