801 Salon x Yardwork Presents: Great Salt Lake

featuring

A Specific Gravity
photography and installation
by Alexandra Fuller

and

Lake Bodies
live dance performance and film premiere
by Kara Komarnitsky, Veronica Harvey, Severin Sargent-Catterton, milo, and Nathaniel Woolley

Presented by 801 Salon & Yardwork Presents
Hosted by Atellier Mill
244 W 300 N, SLC

Exhibit opens at 7pm
Live immersive performance at 8:20pm
Lake Bodies film premieres at 9pm

$15 Suggested Donation
All donations will be split evenly between Boa Ogoi and Grow the Flow

Atellier Mill is an ADA accessible venue and comes equipped with a wheelchair lift. If you need access to the lift, or have other specific access requests, please send us an email: [email protected]

About A Specific Density and Alexandra Fuller:
Alexandra Fuller (@alexandrafuller) is a self-taught visual artist based in the rural Utah desert. While she now works primarily in photography, installation, and poetry, she also has a deep background in narrative and documentary filmmaking. The relationship between people and place, the idea of impermanence, and the drive to make meaning influence her art practice in every medium. Alexandra’s films have premiered at Sundance, won a special jury prize at SXSW and a Vimeo Staff Pick, and screened at dozens of festivals worldwide. Her recent visual artwork—often combining photography, installation and poetry— hangs in numerous private residences and businesses, and has been exhibited in recent group shows at UMOCA and Modern West Fine Art, and in solo shows at CityHome Collective's Underground Gallery and the Boulder City Hall. Her series A Participatory Universe will open in a solo show at Salt Lake City’s Finch Lane Gallery in October. Two different bodies of her work will be included in the Salt Lines show at the Southern Utah Museum of Art in October.

"My artwork explores the relationship between resilient people and places on the edge, as well as the changing nature of both. Coincidence, damage and imperfection are essential elements in my work. At a time when the image has become infinitely perfectible and reproducible, I experiment with the photograph as a unique object that—much like the places and people I portray— is subject to the forces of change and decay.

A Specific Gravity is a series of photographs with a collaborative installation and performance that celebrates the dense beauty of Great Salt Lake, even during a time of climate crisis.. For the 801 Salon, the photographs in this series are printed on translucent linen tapestries, which give a sense of fluidity and allow the tapestries to be changed over time by the same elements that change the lake itself: light, temperature, air, human contact. The installation involves the temporary projection of these abstract images onto a shallow pool of water that further conveys the temporal and fluid nature of the work. In a special collaboration with choreographer Kara Komarnitsky and dancer Severin Sargent-Catterton, , the 801 Salon will feature an immersive performance around and in this pool."

About Lake Bodies and the artists:

Lake Bodies is a dance film centred around Great Salt Lake. A creature of grief emerges from the phragmites – their changing form holding hundreds of years of death and loss. An eared grebe wanders the d(r)ying mudflats – tracing the pattern of salt the only way they know how, wondering how much of a home will be left in their lifetime. A body communes with the lake – worshiping, offering, surrendering.
This evening will feature live performamce and the premiere of Lake Bodies, co-produced by Artists Climate Collective (@artistsclimatecollective) with support from the Salt Lake City Arts Council (@slcartscouncil)
Kara Komarnitsky (@krakomarreallylong)is a freelance intermedia artist, dance performer, and yoga teacher who grew up between Great Salt Lake and the Lone Peak Wilderness. Her work approaches the complex relationality of inter-being with human and non-human communities, drawing inspiration from landscape, spirit, and local breathing bodies.

Veronica Harvey (@vlhdances) is a dancer, filmmaker, and photographer currently creating in Salt Lake City. Her creative work is clean, sentimental, and vividly expressive. She has a special love for the Great Salt Lake and has used its unique beauty as the location of multiple film and photo projects.

Severin Sargent-Catterton (@insert_sev_here), of Ellicott City, Maryland, grew up immersed in various western dance techniques before setting sights on modern dance. She has performed with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, RDT’s Emerge, sonderIMMERSIVE, Interdisciplinary Arts Collective, Myriad Dance, and Deseret Experimental Opera.

milo (lakewords.com) is a post-binary being and investigative poet with a fierce love for great salt lake. as a queer anarchist, their rage burns hot - as a meditator, they know love is at the center. their art originates from this place.

Nathaniel Woolley (@lilacccigarette) is a Salt Lake City based performing artist. Nathaniel primarily works in the mediums of voice, dance, film, and theatre. He also involves himself in every aspect of theatrical production and enjoys choreographing and directing, and frequently costume designs for dance projects around town.

About 801 Salon:
is a 501(c)3 non profit dedicated to making art accessible to the community. We produce multidisciplinary art exhibits and performances around SLC, providing a platform for local artists to show their work ✨ If you're interested in supporting our work, drop a donation in our Venmo @slc801salon

About :
Presenting a curated monthly(ish) series of explorative, provoking, immersive & engaging music, arts, movement and food programming in Salt Lake City, UT. In and with community and community building at the forefront of our ethos. A space for artists to explore and audience to participate.

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All admission donations will be sent to organizations chosen by the artists who are doing work to support Great Salt Lake.

About :
In 2019, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation began fundraising efforts to build a cultural interpretive center on recently acquired land adjacent to the Bear River Massacre site. Fundraising is still ongoing, but the pieces are in place, and the tribe anticipates breaking ground in 2024. This project will improve the water quality, remove invasive species, and restore native plants and animals as well as construct an amphitheater and walking trails, and build a cultural interpretive center. This work will return water to Great Salt Lake and contribute to land back efforts that need to lead our relationship to landscape going forward.

About :
Grow the Flow is an initiative of Conserve Utah Valley, a 501(c)(3) organization focused on conserving land and water, forever. Over the past few years, Conserve Utah Valley has successfully helped protect Bridal Veil Falls, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Slate Canyon, and Utah Lake. Conserve Utah Valley is now partnering with BYU’s Ballard Center for Social Impact to help our community face the challenge of a drying Great Salt Lake.

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