Thank you to videographers: Jan Andrews and Bruce Caldwell.
Moments from House Of Apocalypse 2016! /
Thank you to everyone, who came out to support NOW-ID at our second annual House of Apocalypse! The event was a huge success and very much due to the hard and inspired work of our Gala Committee, Board and collaborators... but also very much the efforts of attendees too! Enjoy a glimpse below of what went on at Addictive Behavior Motor Works on September 24, 2016. THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Above images by Emiley Golie, Josh Scheurmann, Todd Erickson and more and, below, video of Genevieve Christiansen with Kate Crews Linsley in their stunning dinner interruptionperformance. Video captured by DJ Jesse Walker.
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House of Apocalypse Gala Celebrates The End Of The World – Salt Lake Magazine /
APOCALYPSE GONE WILD! FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT AND MORE! /
The HOUSE OF APOCALYPSE is NOW-ID's excuse to say Hell Yes! Below are a few of the sensory and sensual wonderments you can expect this 24th of September. Get your tickets here.
QUARTER BLOOD MOON
Weaving myth, magic and ritual, the Apocalypse will include Tarot Readers Amie Tullius, Sara Caldiero and Melissa Bond; 'Whiptress' Melissa Blazen as metronome of the Apocalypse; The Litas... engines roaring; along with performances by NOW-ID's Kate Linsley, ritual theatre from Trisha McBride, and San Francisco's 'Willard' as the Queen of Gasoline.
YOU
Bring your krewe! And think about what you might do/wear if it were indeed the end of days… Have fun with friends? Laugh? Cry a little? Break out those heels, or that tux you’ve been saving up... maybe wear ‘em at the same time? That said, nobody's expecting you to wear anything you don't want to. Just come join the fun.
MUSIC
DJ Jesse Walker and special guests Emanon. Do you love the sound of napalm in the morning?
Surprises await.
KOOL AID
There will be an OPEN BAR, with donations courtesy of Squatters/Wasatch Breweries, Dented Brick Distillery and more under the direction of Water Witch Scott Gardner.
MORE! MORE! MORE!
The joy and pain of the End Times is made easier with gratitude for—and with—you, and for the amazing crew of people who are bringing the Apocalypse 2016 together… Gary Vlasic, Jesse Walker, Amie Tulius, Chantelle Bordeaux, Kim Fearick, Leta Baker, Karl Nelson, Cole Adams, Rose Maizner, Scott Hinton and many more.
In Love and In Horror,
– Nathan, Charlotte + the NOW-ID gang.
Heartfelt thanks to our friends at CityHome Collective for a killer preview on House of Apocalypse /
Read the article here >
APOCALYPSE FASHION, FIERCENESS ENCOURAGED. /
One of the many surprises at our inaugural HOUSE OF APOCALYPSE! was the enthusiasm attendees brought to dressing up.
The array of wicked looks was incredible! We saw chain maille, faux fur, innovative head pieces and masks mixed with spiked hair and well, everything else you can attach spikes to. The attitude was infectious and we're hoping to see it again on September 24th. This year we are conjuring up a supermoon over moss covered swamps inhabited by the modern day Mistress Marie Laveau in the spirit of True Detective (Season One of course).
Visit www.now-id.com/gala to see our mystical mood board, to buy tickets or tables. We hope you'll join us for a very special end time!
DATE: September 24, 2016
TIME: 6:30PM-10PM
LOCATION:
Addictive Behavior Motor Works
454 South 500 West
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE!
For information and table rates contact:
Kim Fearick
Hear Nathan, Amie and Jesse on KCPW with Jason Mathis >
Space is limited. We will sell out!
The Unveiling! /
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
NOW-ID Inivites You to the Second Annual
HOUSE OF APOCALYPSE!
Don’t miss the party to end all parties.
House of Apocalypse will once again serve up a bazaar of radical, poetic layers and surprises, including live musicians, dancers and fortune tellers, video projections, bold cocktails, bespoke catering by chef Evan Francois and one uncommon auction, all culminating in a DJ dance party befitting the end times. The funds raised will go toward artistic and educational programming that will invoke further creativity and develop future performances encompassing the fields of dance, design and architecture. Learn more and buy tickets at http://now-id.com/gala
+ OOZE & BOOZE PROVIDED +
TIME: 6:30PM-10PM
LOCATION:
Addictive Behavior Motor Works
454 South 500 West
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
21+ ONLY, TICKETS: $125
SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE.
For information and table rates contact:
KIM FEARICK
See a video of last years exceptional event >
Hear Nathan, Amie and Jesse on KCPW with Jason Mathis >
Buy tickets soon. Space is limited. We will sell out!
NOW-ID in Denmark /
All but one of us are back in Salt Lake City - Charlotte has stayed on for a couple of residencies - and we need to note just how much fun it all was to bring our little Exodus project and crew back across the Atlantic to perform both at the Copenhagen Opera Festival and at the Odense Fynske Opera. Our delayed flight and a notably cool and damp northern summer didn't slow us down, not much, as we performed to a sold out and overflowing crowd just 4 nights after our last show in SLC, and then again three more times.
We are blessed with memories of the amazing people we worked with, especially our show crew: the Figura Ensemble's Jesper, Anna and Frans, singers Nana and Jakob, and dancers Tara, Katherine and Adrian, but also for the people of the Opera Festival and Odense Opera House, our attendees, the friends and family who hosted and came (and yes, our board chair Elpitha Tsoutsounakis flew in with her family from Crete!) and so many more.
And Copenhagen. We from Salt Lake loved the city's magic... the food, the bikes, the harbor, the food... the design and the architecture of course. So much. I think Tara is already looking into immigration. There are too many stories to tell here really, so I will just leave you with a selection of photos, and repeat my thanks to all!
Thank you to all who came to our Exodus after party. /
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our after party at Art Haus post Exodus last night and a big thank you to our phenomenal Board member and collaborator Gary Vlasic for organizing the evening and to our sponsors: Dented Brick Distillery and Squatters for their donations and to @artehauscollectif for providing their beautiful space for the event.
7. The Fairest Tree (HOPE/CRISIS) /
In the end, home is the story you tell yourself
In the end, you must let go of what got you there
to be where you are.
This is how we build the new story
This is what love is:
Letting go of the heady illusion of hope,
to allow the new story your life tells you every day.
In the end, maybe you can love what is unknown--
maybe even more because it is unknown.
In the end you will love what you have chosen
--or you won’t--
but either way, in the end, you will have to let the story go.
6. Border Crossing /
In this new place, your body’s roots are exposed. You ripped them from home, and have yet to find suitable soil at first, on arrival.
It is the strangest place, arrival,
when the two places you have been coming toward overlay one another:
The place that you’ve been headed toward, which is not at all the place you’ve arrived.
And the place that is --which you entered-- but don’t yet understand.
It’s disorienting, this layering of expectation and reality: the place you hoped you’d find, and the place you actually arrived. You have to walk through one to find the other, which is not the one you want.
Your body is still adrift, in two places and also in no place. But you walk through the gate.
Because you are there.
This is the most difficult border to pass through.
Excerpt from EXODUS -- Libretto, below,
by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, 2016
“Walk through the gateway of iron-- built into the breast…
You simply walked through me, you, I walked from the gateway in the breast, both ways…”
5. WAVE/FLIGHT /
How do you keep yourself a “me” when those who are telling your story would have you a “they?” Or worse, not have you at all? Tell nothing, see nothing. Turn you invisible with their “they.”
How do you keep yourself a “me” when you are in a wave of “they?” You long for the arrogance of those who retain their “me,” who get to tell the story of you. It is tempting to turn the others around you to “others,” if only to try to find your “me” within the throng of “them,” forgetting you are both “me” and “them.”
Do you find yourself through separation or connection?
Do you find yourself at all?
Excerpt from EXODUS -- Libretto, below,
by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, 2016
“Let the one who is unclean
wash him- or herself no let the
one who is unclean be bound
hand and foot far from
the wash-basin.
* * *
Someone picks all the hands
off the arms stretched out
toward them. And display them
in vases in their living rooms.
The shadows stand almost completely
still on the bare wall.
Someone picks all the apples
and chases us out of the cores.
Let the one who is unclean
wash him- or herself.”
4. The Green Green Groves /
At a certain point what is behind you has all burned.
In the middle
--always--
There is a payment you didn’t bargain for
--or--
you did.
You asked for exactly this
you promised
but didn’t realize
what it would really cost you
Dreams pry yourself from yourself. They are not wings; they are a sharpened bar.
3. Dream /
When hope is fully ablaze, all you can see is a wild and brilliant future.
When you step out of your old story, you lose your established rhythm.
In much the same way that dreams are a vivid scattering of intense images,
these early stories feel so real.
The future has no pattern.
Dreams are wings to lift yourself from your life.
Excerpt from EXODUS -- Libretto, below,
by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, 2016
“The sun smells of sun, the sky smells of sky, the sea smells of sea, the birds smell of bird, the fish smell of fish, and then you meet a person who is clad in silk, it might be blue silk, grey silk, white silk, yellow silk, red silk, violet silk, green, ALL colours, combining with ALL fruits and the palatial air of this place, and then the division of labour, the division of labour is paramount, they ALL earn the same amount of money, there is money, it is an analytical economy, but they ALL build stairways for one another, they ALL dress one another in blue satin, delight one another, and now we come to the sky-silk canopied spot used partly to catch the sun’s rays and extract its power AND to create a patch of silky soft shade for ALL, so no one will be troubled by unpleasant sweating.”
2. Home /
Reasons to Leave:
Here is unbearable
There is better
Here will no longer have you
You’re taken there
Whatever the reason for leaving, in some way, you will be broken.
Excerpt from EXODUS -- Libretto, below,
by Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, 2016
“The good life begins with a good home
A room for crying a room for laughing.
A room for loving a room for hating.
A room for war a room for peace.
A room for tearing apart a room for sewing together.
A room for wailing a room for jumping for joy.
A room for duties a room for rights.
A room for giving birth a room for dying.
A room for mourning a room for dancing.
A room for killing a room for healing.
A room for losing a room for retrieving.
A room for discarding a room for saving.
A room for sowing a room for reaping.
A room for speaking a room for staying silent.
In all: 26 rooms, 1,000 square metres
The good life means
Having enough room
For yourself
(And all of your meticulous
illusions.)”
1. The First Morning (CRISIS/HOPE) /
1. The First Morning
In the beginning, home is a story you tell yourself
Home is the story which-- in some variation-- you repeat to yourself every day.
When you have a story, you have a home.
Your story is also the story that your home tells you.
What then is hope?
Hope is the spark you touch to the center of your home
that sets the story alight.
NOW-ID's Amie Tulius is offering a series of insights into the arcs / chapters / songs of the performance EXODUS. This post is the first of 7.
Ne Plus Ultra: Holly Addi /
Holly Addi
Holly Addi (°1973, SLC, Utah, United States) makes paintings and mixed media artworks. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Addi creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
She created and runs the boutique and art gallery Arte Haus Collectif in Salt Lake City together with product designer Heidi Jube. On July 29th NOW-ID together with Arte Haus will be hosting a "meet the Artists" dinner at this incredible store in Salt Lake City - come check out the amazing art and merchandise that is on display there. This is truly a jewel in Salt lake City. Learn more about Holly and Art Haus below.
Enjoy!
Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Tell us a little bit about your background?
Since childhood I have had an affinity for all things creative. I was very into writing, poetry, theatre, acting, design, costumes, and fashion. When it came to the artsy side of life I always had an opinion, I think my parents kept wondering just where I had come from. As a child I remember waiting for the Sunday paper to be delivered so I could devour the 'arts' section. I couldn't wait to see the next art news, play auditions, or exhibit. I studied psychology because I think it is fascinating. Psychology is the backbone to the artist's mind. What artist do you know that truly isn't a little bit crazy? It's kind of a necessity in this field. Shortly after I graduated from the University of Utah at the age of 22 I opened a high end floral studio and boutique named 'Artichokes & Co.' which focused on the art & composition of arranging florals and gift design, and painted as well on weekends. Artichokes was a huge success, open for 15 years. I then took my designs national when I started a catalog company and offered these designs to the entire US. However, the idea of big business and pumping out fast paced concepts as the creative director, but all based around "money", I felt like my soul was being stolen. It was at that point I decided to get back to my roots and paint full time. For me, it was a wake up call. I think it is really important as an artist to nurture your talent and not let anyone turn that light off. Art takes digging deep. I see so many talented individuals who are bought and sold, and don't let their talents truly emerge.
Have you always been interested in art and design or did something/someone ignite that interest in you?
I have always painted, and I'm captivated by good design and love working with color. I began painting when I was in high school. In my twenties I started painting more but it wasn't until my late twenties that I sold my first piece.
How did your store Arte Haus Collectif come about? Tell us a little bit about your collaboration with co-owner Heidi Jube, choosing location and shaping the design and concept of the store?
Arte Haus Collectif was a merge of my love for design and great things, and a place to flagship my art. I teamed up with Heidi Jube who has a candle line, Monokle Collection, and decided to venture in the dwell shop together and it would be a beautiful curated collection of art and objects of desire for your home to make it beautiful. Heidi sells her candles exclusively in Salt Lake at Arte Haus. Our goal is to continue curating and grow the gallery organically. There really isn't anywhere like Arte Haus in Salt Lake City.
How do you choose the designers/artists who you are interested in presenting and do you guys always agree?
We choose designers and artists that have the same philosophy as we do- clean aesthetic, great color compositions and formations, and full of soul. We feel that art should be refined, but not complicated and mindful in it's direction, but not neurotic and methodical. Letting natural talent exude in an imperfect way is showing it's true beauty. We are also very price conscious. We don't want Arte Haus to feel as though you can't afford it. Art and design should be for 'all.' People need beauty; it enhances a way of living.
There is such a unique flavor to the store – how do you walk that line of both wanting to present local work but also work from elsewhere?
We love the integration of local, domestic, and international. Being able to bring it all together and curate a space that feels right is perfection. And staying true to the philosophy is imperative to us.
I love your art – there is a real minimalist sophistication to your work – can you talk about your creative process?
My works are based on life’s imperfections and how it all relates back to beauty. Truly, life is so imperfect but there is that magical wonder how it all comes together. The good, the bad, the evil, the weeds, the flowers, all of it. My art style is 'composition of perfectionism' and how to embrace the wonder, rather than question it. And at the end, you look at it, and see beauty through it all.
Who are some of your favorite designers and artists, who you look to for inspiration?
Linda Rodin is definitely an Inspiration and role model - she is elegant and graceful. She defines herself, her style, and her philosophy. That’s my model.
What city outside of SLC inspires you?
There are so many! New York obviously but I love the way of life and aesthetic of the true Scandinavian style and smaller towns in Europe. I just love the aesthetic, my ancestors are from a little town in Italy nestled up by the Swiss Alps; maybe it's just inherent. In fact, we wanted Arte Haus to feel as though you had stepped inside a small quaint gallery and shop in Copenhagen, Paris, or Berlin.
What are some exciting things that are coming up for Arte Haus or yourself that you want to share? Heidi and I both have another passion - philanthropy. We are going to be teaming up with different foundations for 2017 and letting the art shine through these organizations and giving back. We will be hosting evenings and parties for these foundations with great hope to actually make a difference by donating a portion of the art sales!
What do you see yourself as doing and where do you want to be in 25 years?
Wow, that brings me to the ripe old age of 68! I hope to say I will have successfully raised my daughters to each become something greater than I ever was, and I will definitely not act as though I am 68. I think one thing that defines me as an artist is that I have a very child like approach to what I do. As many times as I keep falling down, I seem to always get back up.
Nathan interviewed on KUED's Contact about Exodus. /
See interview here.
