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A Durational & Isolational Birthday Celebrational, Zoom Show and Tell and Question and Answer workshop
In his project "A DURATIONAL & ISOLATIONAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONAL" for PPL's Adaptive Practices program series in Spring 2020, artist Walker Mettling streamed a 24 hour drawing session held in his front doorway to celebrate his 40th birthday. This is a recording of the following Zoom program, hosted by Providence Public Library and Mettling, in which Mettling discusses the event, it's outcome and the ways in which it was impacted by COVID-19.
Tapping Ritual film series, Part 3, with voice over recording.
In her project "Tapping Rituals" - part of PPL's Adaptive Practices series in Spring 2020 - Keri King created three films of how her tap dancing practice evolved to meet social distancing requirements during COVID-19. Each of her films include two variations - one with voice over and one without. Part three was filmed on location at Wilbury Theater and Providence Public Library. King's artistic statement noted, "When I first heard that we'd all be cooped up for a couple of weeks, I thought I'd hunker down at my drafting table and develop new illustration work. Instead, I've been out in the woods, practicing my tap exercises. I have absolutely no idea where I’m headed with this but the pursuit feels fresh and generative. For PPL, I will be sharing a series of short videos documenting tap dance practice in unexpected and isolated places. Through this presentation, I hope to invite library audiences to consider their own shifting relationships to public spaces and private rituals with a sense of power, possibility, and humor. Prompts for personal reflection will offer viewers the opportunity to share their own stories."
Tapping Ritual film series, Part 2, with voice over recording.
In her project "Tapping Rituals" - part of PPL's Adaptive Practices series in Spring 2020 - Keri King created three films of how her tap dancing practice evolved to meet social distancing requirements during COVID-19. Each of her films include two variations - one with voice over and one without. Part two debuted on 5/4/20 and was updated on 5/6/20. King's artistic statement noted, "When I first heard that we'd all be cooped up for a couple of weeks, I thought I'd hunker down at my drafting table and develop new illustration work. Instead, I've been out in the woods, practicing my tap exercises. I have absolutely no idea where I’m headed with this but the pursuit feels fresh and generative. For PPL, I will be sharing a series of short videos documenting tap dance practice in unexpected and isolated places. Through this presentation, I hope to invite library audiences to consider their own shifting relationships to public spaces and private rituals with a sense of power, possibility, and humor. Prompts for personal reflection will offer viewers the opportunity to share their own stories."
Tapping Ritual film series, Part 1, with voice over recording.
In her project "Tapping Rituals" - part of PPL's Adaptive Practices series in Spring 2020 - Keri King created three films of how her tap dancing practice evolved to meet social distancing requirements during COVID-19. Each of her films include two variations - one with voice over and one without. King's artistic statement noted, "When I first heard that we'd all be cooped up for a couple of weeks, I thought I'd hunker down at my drafting table and develop new illustration work. Instead, I've been out in the woods, practicing my tap exercises. I have absolutely no idea where I’m headed with this but the pursuit feels fresh and generative. For PPL, I will be sharing a series of short videos documenting tap dance practice in unexpected and isolated places. Through this presentation, I hope to invite library audiences to consider their own shifting relationships to public spaces and private rituals with a sense of power, possibility, and humor. Prompts for personal reflection will offer viewers the opportunity to share their own stories."
How People Talk/A Composition of Conversations, part one workshop video
"n her project ""How People Talk"" - part of PPL's Adaptive Practices series in Spring 2020 - Ericksen presented two workshops. This recording is of the first workshop which took place on Zoom, the second was not recorded by request of the artist. Ericksen's description of the project notes, ""During my PPL Creative Fellowship this year, working in the medium of sound, I've been researching something called the Linguistics Atlas Project (LAP), which was a survey conducted from 1930 to 1980 to collect information about the way English is spoken across the United States. Part of the data collected for this project includes hundreds of hours of interviews where people were prompted to say ""everyday words,” and I've been listening to parts of these interviews over and over again on my computer. For part one of How People Talk/A Composition of Conversations I’ll share recordings from these “anonymous” interviews for everyone to hear, and talk a bit about my experience of repeated listening to them, including some of the questions about the interviews and the experience of listening to them that have come up for me through the process of repeated listenings. What does it mean to record a voice? And what does it mean to be able to rewind and fast forward through that recording, and pause and play and pause and play, listening over and over and over again? What can we learn about how we use words, how we do and don't put them together in conversation, and why we make the choices we do?"" "
The first of Salkind's daily recordings sent over email to participants of PPL's Adaptive Practices series. The recording was published to Soundcloud where listeners could leave comments on the mix itself. Salkind prompted listeners, "While listening to “Tesseract," let your mind wander over the different ways that you might experience time. Can you let time float around you like a loose garment? Can you wear it like a second skin?"