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Nemahsis is a rising Palestinian-Canadian singer-songwriter who crafts private tunes about identification that teeter-totter from acoustic indie folks to anthemic rock (à la Phoebe Bridgers and Ethel Cain). Her debut album, Verbathim, has been praised by well-known followers like Stevie Surprise, Elton John, Lorde, and Imogen Heap, amongst others. I extremely advocate catching her on this tour, for I see a lot bigger venues and dearer tickets in her future! AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
READINGS & TALKS
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Sure, the truth that we nonetheless must advocate for abortion rights in 2025 is devastating past measure. However that is the nation we reside in—one by which a wave of backward coverage has stripped tens of millions of reproductive healthcare. The least we will do is get on board with writers like Renee Bracey Sherman, who’re doing their finest to struggle for the way forward for reproductive healthcare entry. Sherman will talk about her new e book, Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our Historical past, Sharing Our Tales, and Constructing the Reproductive Future We Deserve, with Angela Garbes, former Stranger author and creator of Important Labor: Mothering as Social Change. LC
(Third Place Books, Seward Park)
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SIFF’s For Your Consideration collection provides an opportunity to make amends for Oscar contenders earlier than the large evening. Now that the noms have been introduced, we all know that Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino was short-changed, regardless of giving us not one however two movies in 2024. Challengers follows Zendaya as Tashi, a prodigy tennis player-turned-coach whose coaching remodeled her husband right into a nationwide champion. Issues get bizarre and perhaps sexy when she forces him to play a pro-tournament “Challenger” occasion alongside her former boyfriend. Do I care about tennis? No, after all not. However I do not ask for a lot—Zendaya and a psychosexual plotline are sufficient for me. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown)
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Certain, David Lynch’s misty, autumnal masterwork Twin Peaks is the quintessential Pacific Northwest noir, however a lot of his filmography centered Los Angeles. In Mulholland Drive, a healthful, perky Naomi Watts lands in Hollywood with desires of changing into a star earlier than assembly an odd lady with amnesia. In Misplaced Freeway, a Los Angeles saxophonist and his spouse obtain creepy VHS tapes, and issues spiral right into a neo-noir internet of homicide and deceit. Even Eraserhead‘s alienating panorama was impressed by Lynch’s time dwelling in La-la-land. In different phrases, this screening makes excellent sense—present as much as see considered one of Lynch’s “most ethereal works” and help the American Purple Cross of Higher Los Angeles, which is working to supply catastrophe aid for these affected by the LA fires. “This may also be the final time you may get to see considered one of [Lynch’s] works in our present area, surrounded by the cinema’s iconic pink curtains; our very personal Purple Room for greater than 50 years,” the Grand Phantasm states. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District)
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Jacques Audiard’s newest movie Emilia Pérez appears to be on everybody’s thoughts recently, and largely for the more severe; the Oscar hopeful is a no-go on Letterboxd and was deemed dated by The Reduce. The movie’s problematic rep is sufficient to make up my thoughts to not watch, however if you happen to’re , the Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez-fronted musical-thriller—which additionally stars Karla Sofía Gascón, the primary trans actress to win the Cannes Movie Competition Award for Finest Actress—will display screen as a part of SIFF’s For Your Consideration collection, which provides an opportunity to make amends for Oscar contenders earlier than the large evening. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown)
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When she is not on stage performing electropop bops beneath her pseudonym YellaCatt, Seattle-based renaissance lady Daniella White is a usui reiki grasp, sound healer, floral arranger, painter, and headdress designer. All of her inventive and religious endeavors shine via in her music and efficiency model with ethereal electronics, opulent costumes, and empowering lyrics. Sonically, YellaCatt is form of just like the PNW’s response to Kylie Minogue—danceable, horny, and timeless. She’s going to carry out latest singles like “Dreaming Sky,” “ABRACADABRA,” and “Orgasmic Matrix” after opening units from fellow pop queens Avery Cochrane and Chelle. AV
(Excessive Dive, Fremont)
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Smarty-pants humorist John Hodgman will hit the stage alongside bailiff Jesse Thorn for this reside version of Decide John Hodgman, a Webby Award-winning podcast of pretend authorized knowledge and comedic shut calls. LC
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
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I’ve lengthy mentioned that if you happen to spot a mortar and pestle in your host’s kitchen, you’re about to be served an unbelievable meal, so I used to be instantly intrigued by the title of Mortar & Pestle, a vibrant and playful new primer on fashionable Indonesian delicacies co-written by seasoned creator Pat Tanumihardja and her mom, Juliana, a local Javan who opened considered one of Seattle’s first Indonesian eating places (Julia’s Indonesian Kitchen, which she offered in 2011). Get able to roll up your sleeves and grind up fragrant toasted spices, chiles, and herbs—this e book guarantees a hands-on cooking expertise that can have interaction your whole senses and lead to uniquely flavorful dishes. JB
(Guide Larder, Fremont)
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From the voluptuous imaginative and prescient behind What the Funk?! An All BIPOC Burlesque Fest, this “all-fat burlesque competition” will return for its third yr to proceed disrupting fatphobic nonsense and emphasizing physique positivity. Get down for thick liberation on January 31 and revel in performances by licensed babes. You will spot Mx. Pucks A’Lots, the “They/Them Yas Queen of Burlesque and Seattle’s Personal Mxtress of Thiccness,” and Stormy Probability, the fest’s sickening co-producer. LC
(Triple Door, Downtown)
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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From the Solar Ra-penned pioneering science fiction movie House is the Place to the Reagan-era area oddity The Brother from One other Planet and Saul Williams’s punky imaginative and prescient Neptune Frost, Afrofuturist works have constructed imaginative worlds with Black freedom entrance and heart. This celebration of Black contributions to sci-fi cinema will embrace a pop-up exhibition, a screening of Males in Black, and a chat on Black science fiction with “tradition firestarter” Ashanti Davis. LC
(MoPOP, Uptown)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you’ll be able to strive beating SAD with SAM once more this yr. The artwork museum will supply free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self off the bed and head to Olympic Sculpture Park for an intriguing menu of choices, together with workshops and reside performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown)
LUNAR NEW YEAR
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Cofounders Raymond Kwan and Barry Chan named their Ballard craft brewery Fortunate Envelope for the colourful pink envelopes historically filled with cash and given out on Chinese language New 12 months to carry success, so it stands to motive that it is the excellent place to ring within the 12 months of the Wooden Snake. This yr, they will host a kick-off occasion on February 1 with 4 new beer releases, together with Sesame Warmth (a sesame chili cream stout brewed in collaboration with Halcyon and Ladd & Lass Brewing), 12 months of the Snake Honey Amber Lager (brewed in collaboration with Highland Brewing), Pomegranate Hazy Pale Ale, and 2025 Double Happiness Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout (brewed with China Mist tea). Panda Dim Sum will sling Chinese language delicacies from its transformed faculty bus from 3-8:30 pm. JB
(Fortunate Envelope Brewing, West Woodland)
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Rejoice the knowledge that the 12 months of the Wooden Snake holds with Seattle Asian Artwork Museum’s cultural Lunar New 12 months choices, together with reside performances by the Lieu Quan Lion dance workforce and Mak Fai Lion Dance, illustrator Julie Kim’s holiday-inspired storytime, and neighborhood sculpture-making with native artists Monyee Chau and Jae Eun Kim. Hope you are hungry—Shooby Doo Catering will serve up drool-worthy dumplings and edamame. LC
(Seattle Asian Artwork Museum, Capitol Hill)
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As soon as upon a time, I used to be purchasing at a Portland report retailer once I requested the person working behind the counter if they’d any data by the Gits. The person obtained proper up into my face—his breath stale with cigarettes—and shouted, “No, you are going to must GITS it someplace else!” So, once I noticed that Sub Pop was reissuing the Seattle punk band’s 1992 album, Frenching the Bully, I used to be deeply relieved that followers would not be bullied by that comedian e book villain-of-a-man. This weekend, the Vera Challenge will have fun the reissue with a screening of the brand new brief movie The Gits Stay at RKCNDY adopted by a vinyl signing from the band’s surviving members. Plus, the Vera will host an artwork exhibit of work by dearly departed frontwoman Mia Zapata. KEXP will host a 21+ model of the identical occasion at 8 pm with a bar on website. AV
(Vera Challenge, Uptown)
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Even if you happen to missed final weekend’s Lunar New 12 months Honest, there’s nonetheless loads of time to have fun the 12 months of the Wooden Snake at Wing Luke Museum. First, slide over to New 12 months’s All 12 months Spherical: Meals, Household, and Enjoyable, which options contemporary shows on lion dances, New 12 months’s demonstrations, and meals traditions. Then, try this considerate exhibition, which “explores the complicated relationship between place and belonging via the lens of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) identification.” Artists Eric Chan / 陳志宇 / 진지유, Lauren Iida, Ravleen Kaur, and Kyler Pahang will search to outline “residence” via portray, video, and installations. LC
(Wing Luke Museum, Chinatown-Worldwide District, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Gong Xi Fa Cai! Wing Luke’s New 12 months’s All 12 months Spherical exhibit is again within the Uwajimaya & Moriguchi KidPLACE Gallery, slithering into the 12 months of the Wooden Snake with contemporary shows on lion dances, New 12 months’s demonstrations, and meals traditions. LC
(Wing Luke Museum, Chinatown-Worldwide District, Wednesday–Sunday)
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I will begin this blurb with some brutal honesty: I discover the trailer for A Full Unknown to be corny, annoying, and undoubtedly angling to snag Tiny Tim an Oscar nod. Is that this partially as a result of once I was a teen, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Assume Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Possibly!! However perhaps you like Bob Dylan, by which case A Full Unknown may enchantment to you. The biopic is ready in NYC’s ’60s music scene and follows Chalamet because the snarky, mysterious Dylan. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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I’ve lengthy lamented the shortage of cinema set within the Center Ages. Certain, we have movies like Braveheart and Excalibur and Andrei Rublev, however the folks want extra medieval storytelling, dammit! (That is why I am so enthusiastic about Robert Eggers’ subsequent challenge.) Anyway, the Beacon appears to agree with me—they will display screen tales of unicorns, dragons, and the Knights Templar to “interrogate the load conferred upon the grandest of all legends within the Darkish Ages and past: King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail.” The collection begins this weekend with Robert Bresson’s chivalric quest Lancelot of the Lake. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Sunday)
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If you happen to do not wish to be the one that’s like, “Wait, what’s that?” when you’re watching the Oscars this yr, now could be the time to meet up with all the award frontrunners. One apparent decide is the stacked-cast drama The Brutalist, which follows visionary architect László Toth’s (Adrien Brody) postwar arrival in america. He settles in Pennsylvania, the place the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Man Pearce) notices his expertise. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Monday–Thursday)
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Thinkpieces be damned—we nonetheless do not perceive a lot concerning the oeuvre of surrealist auteur David Lynch. He famously did not clarify his movies, leaving us all at midnight as to their true meanings. Such is the mark of an artist who was fully devoted to originality and curiosity; an artist who meditated, recited optimistic affirmations, made cool furnishings, and actually, really needed his viewer to come back to their very own conclusions. Maybe it is extra enjoyable that Lynch’s motivations stay a thriller. I am actually nonetheless studying new issues about him, and by no means extra so than prior to now week, after his dying at 78. The Beacon’s assortment of “Lynch’s best interviews, oddities, documentary items, brief movies, music movies, rarities, and secret mysteries” provides a chance to ruminate on, and maybe complicate, the director’s story. It is a collection of works that’ll develop even essentially the most atrophied, cobwebbed elements of your consciousness. Within the phrases of Lynch himself, “Repair your coronary heart or die.” LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Monday–Wednesday/Friday–Saturday)
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How a lot do you actually learn about Charlie Chaplin? If you happen to’re on the youthful facet, you may say one thing like, “He did slapstick and had a mustache,” and to be truthful, you would be proper. However the Little Tramp was additionally an enchanting man with fairly radical views for his time, and his movies are extra complicated than they may appear from a distance. I like to recommend Fashionable Occasions, which is basically a plea for staff’ rights disguised as a collection of humorous mishaps. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Monday–Wednesday)
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If you happen to requested me what I did on December 25, you may count on my reply to be “Christmas stuff.” And you would be partially proper. Like, I undoubtedly did Christmas stuff within the morning. However come afternoon, I had one purpose. Notions of tinsel and mistletoe pale from my consciousness like so many ephemeral snowflakes. The sky darkened. A fanged creature launched untold terrors upon nepo child Lily-Rose Depp. And I, pricey reader, was seated for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Take into account such a plan for your self this week. When has Eggers ever disenchanted you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
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If you happen to hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re doubtless accustomed to Sigrid Nunez, whose work has inked the pages of literary powerhouses like The Paris Evaluation, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. She’s philosophical, but her prose is unadorned—it is an intoxicating combine. She’s maybe finest acknowledged for her e book The Good friend, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, sleek 2020 novel What Are You Going By means of. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal staff whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a struggle reporter. What’s going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Monday–Thursday)
FOOD & DRINK
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There’s nothing like a steaming bowl of one thing sizzling, brothy, and restorative to bolster your spirits and beat back the coolness of winter. Fortunately, Fremont eating places have risen to the event with a “neighborhood winter soup stroll” referred to as Fremont Soupocalypse, permitting diners to get their soup repair and help native companies throughout their slowest months of the yr as well. Merely amble via the neighborhood and revel in dine-in and takeout specials from Fremont Mischief, Shawn O’Donnell’s, El Camino, SWeL, Triangle Spirits, Esters Enoteca, Paseo, Kaosamai, Purple Star Taco Bar, Soul, Frelard Tamales, Pecado Bueno, The George & Dragon, Dreamland, Native Tide, and the Barrel Thief. You will gather a stamp in your “soupassport” for every soup vacation spot—if you happen to gather eight or extra, you’ll be able to redeem them at Mischief earlier than February 12 for a free tasting, shot glasses, and a seize bag of native treats. JB
(Numerous places, Thursday–Sunday)
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For the nineteenth version of Port Townsend’s proudly quirky two-day competition, over 20 brewers will flaunt essentially the most esoteric and offbeat creations they’ve to supply. (Previous winners have included Bushel & Barrel Ciderhouse’s Miso Sasquatch Farmhouse apple cider and Double Bluff Brewing’s French Onion Soup beer, to offer you an thought of what is in retailer.) A gentle lineup of native music and meals distributors will preserve vitality ranges excessive. This yr’s theme is “Las Vegas, child,” so costume accordingly in sequined jumpsuits and bedazzled mini attire. JB
(American Legion Corridor, Port Townsend, Friday–Saturday)
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Pulling inspiration from futuristic ‘70s disco, ’90s synth-pop, and French movie composers, Paris-based sextet L’Impératrice crafts a timeless sound fitted to a dance occasion in outer area or Netflix’s Emily in Paris soundtrack. (Significantly, how have they not been featured on this present but?) The band will swing via Seattle for 2 nights to help their latest album, Pulsar, which features a function from pop phenom Maggie Rogers (“Any Manner”). Do not miss a gap set from rapper Erick the Architect (of Flatbush Zombies). AV
(Showbox SoDo, SoDo, Friday–Saturday)
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“I am right here to indicate the world that I am not just a few skanky various woman from Seattle, I’m the skanky various woman from Seattle.” Beloved native diva, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 contestant, and reigning demon queen Bosco will return to her dominion and spill the 2025 tea at this gaggy bash, the place she’ll be joined by drag legends Shea Couleé and Pangina Heals, plus Seattle stars Rowan Ruthless, Ruby Mimosa, and others. Anticipate a mix of sickening burlesque, cabaret, and “efficiency artwork to your nerves” on the two-night showcase. LC
(The Crocodile, Belltown, Friday–Saturday)
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I not too long ago attended a manufacturing of The Nutcracker and located myself seated subsequent to a small little one in a tutu who spent your complete runtime coughing and hacking prefer it was her private efficiency. Even so, it was tough to not be dazzled by the surroundings and the music and the ballet dancers on stage. I used to be dazzled, rattling it! Let this be a reminder that artwork has the ability to beat all obstacles, or no matter. Here is a efficiency that I can promise will dazzle you. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “traditionally knowledgeable re-imagining” of The Sleeping Magnificence contains scenic design by Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary and costumes by Paul Tazewell (Hamilton, West Aspect Story, PNB’s Swan Lake). It is impressed by the Pacific Northwest, so I hope Aurora is sporting Gore-Tex. LC
(McCaw Corridor, Uptown, Friday–Sunday)
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As Iranian immigrant Azam Kabiri shares tales of her life with others ready on the airport baggage carousel, she begins to meditate on wider questions of “what she is bringing together with her, and what she has left behind.” The place Is Right here? / اینجا کجاست؟ is a co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble and Seattle Public Theater. The solo present, conceived by playwright Naghmeh Samini, might be carried out in English by Azadeh Zanjani and in Persian by Sarvin Alidaee in separate performances. Keen on seeing each? No sweat—the theater has deliberate “double present days” with each performances cut up by a brief intermission. LC
(Seattle Public Theater, Inexperienced Lake, Thursday–Sunday)
VISUAL ART
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Winter appears like the right time to view moody etchings and woodcuts by Aristide Maillol, a lesser-known French multimedia artist of the Nabis, and Francisco Goya, aka an important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early nineteenth centuries. Maillol is praised for his stylized depictions of ladies, which emphasize kind and ease in mediums starting from bronze to woodcuts. Goya’s profession is a little more dramatic—he charted an evolution from royal portraitist to pessimistic social commentator. Aspect by facet, Maillol and Goya’s works in Divergent Perceptions will make you ponder the hints of magnificence present in human battle. LC
(Davidson Galleries, Pioneer Sq., Monday–Saturday; closing)
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I have been a fan of Daybreak Cerny ever since I wrote about her pandemic-era cellular exhibition Weeping Willow Folding Chair again in 2021. “There’s suspense in suspension,” I wrote on the time. “This stress is fixed in our lives; we’re all studying to steadiness, endlessly.” This nonetheless feels true of life and of Cerny’s work—the Seattle artist’s summary sculptures really feel theatrical but humble, wavering inside terrains of artifice and earnestness with subtly humorous undertones. Exhibit A? The coupon tucked to the facet of a latest wall sculpture. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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The Frye Salon served as a strategy to beat the warmth this summer time, however spending the afternoon in an elegant (and heat) museum area isn’t a nasty follow for getting via the winter, both. Over 100 work from the museum’s founding assortment are displayed in a salon-style grasp that dates again centuries. “The set up approximates the dramatic viewing expertise loved by guests to Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle residence within the first a long time of the 20 th century,” the Frye explains. Fancy! Periodically, the museum invitations artists to “experiment throughout the conventional assortment show,” and Daybreak Cerny (whose exhibition Portmeirion runs concurrently with Frye Salon) was as much as the duty. She’ll stage her sculptures close to the Frye Salon to “take into account how we reside with artwork.” Guests will discover a window minimize into the wall between the 2 exhibitions, creating intriguing conversations between the works. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Monday–Sunday)
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In her largest solo museum exhibition but, the Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman makes use of her signature motif—closely lidded eyes—to look at how surveillance and erasure form experiences of othering. That includes work, sculptures, and a “deeply private” audio set up, the present references Kahraman’s upbringing as an Iraqi/Kurdish refugee in Sweden. Disembodied eyes act as a not-so-subtle stand-in for Western oppression, from authorities iris scans to racist plant classifications, whereas Kahraman’s marbling approach displays the unpredictability of identification, resisting pressured assimilation with each bit’s distinctive patterns. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Wednesday–Sunday; closing)
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TIMBER! is plenty of issues. Speculative? Verify. Cyborgian? Verify, examine. Boundary-blurring? That too. What it is not is an actual forest in Washington state (or anyplace else). As a substitute, artist Justin Hartunian creates a facsimile forest via robotic varieties, prompting that “if a tree falls within the woods…” query in an entire new method. “Hartunian levels an ambiguous setting, the place the glow of artificial fireflies is powered by an artificial gentle fairly than the chemical response of luciferin of their abdomens…In the meantime, a grassland grows beneath engineered suns,” the present’s promotional supplies clarify. Now this I’ve gotta see. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., Monday–Thursday; closing)
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Seoul-born interdisciplinary artist Lucy Kim has discovered to “embrace distortion” in her hybrid works. Whereas collaborating with scientists on the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Nationwide Autonomous College of Mexico, Kim helped design an enchanting new printing course of that makes use of “genetically modified micro organism cells that produce melanin straight on paper.” Okay, I am hooked already. The method reveals how melanin can kind pictures, and in Mutant Optics, guests can view examples constructed from vanilla vegetation, that are traditionally linked to colonization and international economics. If you happen to’re intrigued by the intersections of bioengineering, notion, and “social and cultural constructions of race,” this present is a certain factor. LC
(Henry Artwork Gallery, College District, Thursday–Sunday; closing)