Seattle Art Museum: Press Release

SEATTLE, July 21, 2009 – The Seattle Art Museum will keep the Olympic Sculpture Park open until midnight for a special, summer SAM Remix event on Friday, August 7. From 8 pm until midnight, attendees can dance to a lineup of internationally renowned DJs and experience the sculptures on view through unconventional and highly opinionated tours of the park. SAM Remix offers a unique addition to the late-night Seattle scene by integrating the best facets of SAM into one extraordinary summer outing. Attendees can enjoy art, performances and music among the dramatic setting of the Olympic Sculpture Park.

The sculpture park’s PACCAR Pavilion will showcase internationally renowned electronic music and video projections curated by Seattle’s Decibel Festival. Featured artists include Rena Jones (Portland), Filastine with DJ Collage (Barcelona), and Lusine (Seattle).

SAM Remix’s distinct blend of art, music and performance will extend throughout the entire sculpture park through flashlight art tours, spoken word performances, break dancing and other spontaneous performances. For example, special “My Favorite Things: The Park After Dark” tours led by writers from The Stranger, members of SAM staff, and Remix co-hosts will offer party-goers the chance to experience the park in new and unexpected ways. Friends of the Nib will host a comics drawing rally in the Alvord Art Lab, where visitors can participate alongside a cast of Seattle’s noteworthy comic and graphic artists – an interaction that promises to inspire anyone’s creative side.

A FULL EVENT SCHEDULE FOLLOWS

TICKETS
Tickets may be purchased at the Ticketing Desk at any of SAM's three sites or over the phone with a credit card by calling the Box Office at 206.654.3121.Prices are $5 (SAM Members), $10 (Adults), $8 (Students with ID and seniors). This event is open to guests age 18 and over only, and the first 100 guests at the door get in FREE.

SAM REMIX
Part of SAM’s diverse After Hours programming on Thursday and Friday nights, Remix brings turntable artists to the stage for a wide variety of musical sounds. Geared toward adults age 25–40, SAM’s happy hour atmosphere and unique artistic setting help visitors end the week with lots of down-tempo beats, fresh new mixes and friendly, art-loving faces.

After Hours print sponsor: SeattleWeekly.SAM is a recipient of The Wallace Foundation Excellence Award, created to support exemplary arts organizations to pioneer effective practices to engage more people in high-value arts activities.

SAM REMIX FULL SCHEDULE

MAIN ENTRANCE – 8-10 PM
Breakdancing Ninja Clan performs innovative street moves on the PACCAR Pavilion's south terrace.

PACCAR PAVILION – 8 PM-MIDNIGHT
DJs and live performances
8:00 PM DJ (TBD)
9:00 PM Rena Jones (Portland) – Downtempo / Ambient
10:00 PM Filastine (Barcelona) featuring DJ Collage (Seattle) – World Beat / Dub
11:00 PM Lusine (Seattle) – Techno / House

ALVORD ART LAB – 8-11:45 pm
Comics drawing rally with the Friends of the Nib

Z-SPACE – 8:00-11:45 pm
DJs: Colby b and DJ Freddy, King of Pants

8:30 pm Sunset spoken word and music performance with Roberto Ascalon and Paul Rucker

ELSEWHERE IN THE PARK
8:15 pm
”A walking tour of the Park” with PDL (the Seattle-based art-making trio comprised of Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren)

9-11 pm
My Favorite Things: The Park After Dark tours Participants include The Stranger writers (Bethany Jean Clement, Paul Constant, Jen Graves, Charles Mudede and Jonah Spangenthal-Lee), SAM staff, and Remix co-hosts

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Breakdancing Ninja Clan
www.breakdancingninja.com
A group of Seattle Based Breakdancers who want to share their passion for the dance form. They perform wherever they are wanted and they teach whoever wants to be taught. The posse of dancers has been breaking for over five years.

DJ Colby b
http://www.myspace.com/colby_b
Colby Bartrug, or DJ Colby b, is known in Seattle for spinning many different genres of music. Her influences include Fischerspooner and Ladytron. Originally from Bremerton, she has been coming to Seattle for the music scene since she was 15. Since then she has established herself as one of the most prominent DJs in Seattle, and has done sets in New York City and Paris.

DJ COLLAGE
Ninja Tune / Masse-One
http://www.myspace.com/djcollage
Since early 2002, the ragamuffin voice of Mr. Chatman has been a rising sound within the global music community worldwide. His vocal performances have been featured on top releases by artists such as: Dehli2Dublin, Ghislain Poirier, Machinedrum, Filastine & several others. And as a live performer, he has performed alongside many top names in the reggae world. With his recording collaborations and performances, he has been able to bridge the sounds of reggae dancehall to various forms of music such as Dubstep, Electronica, Hip-Hop and Bhangra.

DJ Freddy, King of Pants
http://www.myspace.com/kingofpants
DJ Freddy has DJ'd for many clubs and events in Seattle and other cities including San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Vancouver BC, Canada. He lives a self-described rock n roll lifestyle and has a degree in playwrighting.

FILASTINE
Soot Records - Barcelona
http://www.filastine.com
A longtime Seattle resident (now living in Barcelona), Filastine has been a part of the hammering rhythm section of tribal-rock/performance troupe ¡Tchkung!, conceiver and founding member of radical marching band Infernal Noise Brigade, and, most recently, a sweat-inducing club DJ and composer of wildly diverse and dirty laptop music. His new proper debut, Burn It, steams with hip hop/modern R&B rhythms, South American breaks, North African trance and a grip of vocal and instrumental contributors from every corner of the world. A voracious traveler and student of various global musics, he has studied with Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, spent weeks at the feet of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, and dug deep into the ancient-to-the-future music of Brazil.

Friends of the Nib
Friends of the Nib is a weekly cartoonist’s salon founded by Jim Woodring and Bob Rini. Formed two years ago, “Friends of the Nib” meet each Wednesday at Café Racer, near Woodring’s Ravenna home. “I wanted to create an informal meeting place for young artists to draw comics and network,” he explains. “I’ve only recently met most of the artists, and many of them aren’t professional cartoonists. Anyone can participate.” Many successful cartoonists regularly attend to mentor aspiring artists.

LUSINE
Ghostly International
http://www.lusineweb.com
Jeff McIlwain’s ever morphing musical project, Lusine, has been in existence for over 10 years now. In 1998, he attended Calarts to study 20th-century electronic music and sound design for music and film. Soon after, he met Shad Scott and put out a self titled release with Isophlux. Since then, he has been releasing his music on various labels including Ann Arbor's Ghostly International, Hymen and U-Cover. He has performed around the US and abroad including a set at London's esteemed Fabric nightclub, and an ambient performance and collaboration with video artist Scott Sunn at Seattle's Triple Door in April. Jeff has recently been involved in two film projects, co-scoring David Gordon Green’s “Snow Angels” (with Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, 2008), and scoring the film "Linewatch” (dir. Kevin Bray, 2009; with Cuba Gooding Jr., Omari Hardwick) He is currently putting the finishing touches on an upcoming album.

RENA JONES
Native State Records - Portland
http://www.renamusic.com
Rena Jones slips through the veils of defined sound, weaving cello, violin, woodwinds, rhodes, electronics and sound design through unique instrumentation. Her most recent album Driftwood was given the honor of the sixth most essential album of 2006 on NPR Echoes Radio. Jones’ live sets are a potent sonic session. She orchestrates her violin over hand crafted beats melding the organic with the electronic. Her performance is a sophisticated example of the modern movement in electronic dance and ambient music. Rena Jones has released tracks with such reputable international labels as Iboga, Spun Records, Aleph Zero and Native State Records. Currently, Rena is in the studio working on her fourth solo album, which will feature the New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago.

PDL
http://www.vital5productions.com/pdl/index.html
PDL is Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren, who have collaborated on many art projects throughout the years. In 2006 they assembled themselves officially to work together on myriad art projects that challenge the way contemporary art is viewed. Their work includes public installations to performance works, and they are constantly looking to innovate. They are based in Seattle and are part of Vital5 Productions.

SAM REMIX CO-HOSTS

Pacific Northwest Ballet Backstage Pass
Canoe Social Club
Central District Forum for Art & Ideas
Decibel Festival
Experience Music Project
Girl Power Hour
Great City
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival
Northwest Association of African Fine Artists
NW NOMA-- National Organization of Minority Architects
Out for Sustainability
Sustainable Belltown
Sustainable Seattle
Three Dollar Bill Cinema

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Seattle Art Museum Presents SAM Remix at the
Olympic Sculpture Park, Friday, August 7, 8pm-Midnight

Celebrate summer at the Olympic Sculpture Park with DJs spinning dance music, performances and tours until midnight.

Seattle Art Museum Presents SAM Remix at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Friday, August 7, 8pm-Midnight

Celebrate summer at the Olympic Sculpture Park with DJs spinning dance music, performances and tours until midnight.

Seattle Art Museum Presents SAM Remix at the
Olympic Sculpture Park, Friday, August 7, 8pm-Midnight