Base @ Equinox Studios: Very Open House

Saturday, December 14, 2024
Base: Experimental Arts + Space (6520 5th Avenue South, #122, Seattle, WA 98108)
6:00-8:00 PM

Performances by Shayley Timm, Meredith Pellon, Samantha Fabrikant, Dahlia Levine, Nat Robine, Nolan Klock, Gia Falzone, and María Dolores A. Matienzo

At Very Open House, Equinox Studios tenants open their doors and attendees get a chance to wander through its studios. There’s music, food trucks, demonstrations, art displays and more. This year, Base will open its doors to showcase local performers to show work in a casual, low pressure setting, including dancers, composers, musicians, and others.

María Dolores A. Matienzo is a composer, poet, and archivist living on Duwamish land. Her recent works explore ritual, sensory experience, immaterial labor, and memory and memorialization. She will be performing te tractas eam ad Larem, a work in development, which she describes as follows:

This is a paean to the myriad forms of queer domesticity expressed as sound, trope, and inside joke. Field recordings and percussion represent the hearth, calling forth tutelary spirits. They ask us to imagine a world where care and care work are not isolating. Our laughter echoes on the limen between kitchen and dining table as we cook dinner and tell stories. While one of us washes the dishes, another hums. We don’t have to live the joke to tend to one another. Yet we can’t help but mock ourselves as we fold the laundry: the joke still lands.

Matienzo has performed experimental music for over 20 years under her own name and as Black Tent and maría de los dolores. She publishes her work on her imprint, Imprecision Art. Her work has also been published by Travesties?!, Fantômes, and American Tapes. she’s buoyant, her first score for ensemble performance, premiered at Base in October 2024.