Category: Collaboration

Centrum Residency (2015)

(2015) Centrum Residency at Fort Worden in Development of Psychic Radio Star

 

In residency at Centrum, Paurl Walsh, Anthony Rigano, Danielle Blackwell and myself worked to generate source imagery and build a sound library for use in development of Psychic Radio Star. Paurl Walsh took sine wave recordings of each unique room/space with any amount of reverberation. This allowed us to extract an exact copy of the echo of each space at Fort Worden. Photographic documentation by Anthony Rigano created the building blocks for ideas that would grow into the performance work Psychic Radio Star.

 

Photos by Anthony Rigano

Listen (2015) film

(2015) Short film (Related project with Mother Film and Performance) 

 

Listen is meant to show the feeling of isolation that can be felt when dealing with a loved one’s mental illness. 
Listen is part of an ongoing investigation in creating work for my schizophrenic mother. Footage from Listen has been meshed with footage from the 2013 performance Mother for you I made this.

 

Collaborators credits:
Filmed by Ryan Adams, Jacob Rosen and Doug Arney. 
Sound by Paurl Walsh. 
Edited by Doug Arney. 
Concept and performance by Ezra Dickinson. 

 

Screenings:
(2016) Film Installation in exhibition The Incredible Intensity of Just Being Human. ArtEast, Issaquah WA.
(2015) Film Installation. The Incredible Intensity of Just Being Human exhibition, City Hall, Seattle WA (premiere)

 

Capitol Hill Web Series (2015)

(2015) acted and created set paintings.

 

Invited by Wes Hurley to contribute to his film creations. I both painted set pieces, and had a spot appearance acting as a thief for this filmed series.

Episode 1

 

Dinosaurs And Sea Hawks (2014) film

(2014) Video, short film.

 

Sleeping under a bridge is a man and his dinosaur mask. Waking up, he walks into the heart of the city and puts on his mask. A friend, a stranger, a kindred soul emerges and the mask is passed off and traded. The man watches and then walks away with a Sea Hawks hat.
Inspired by creating performance gifts for my schizophrenic mother Dinosaurs and Sea Hawks is another story in my ongoing performance works. The dinosaur mask is intended as a reminder of childhood and quite literally a mask to hide from the harsh reality of the world through my mother’s eyes. 
Directed, filmed and edited by Linas Phillips. 
Written and acted in by Ezra Dickinson. 

Featuring Melinda Fraizer.

 

Screenings:
(2015) In Flight Film Stream, Alaska Airlines. 
(2014) Film Screening, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle WA 
(2014) Film Screening, Milwaukee Film Festival, Milwaukee WI 
(2014) Film Screening, AMFEST, Moscow Russia
(2014) Film Screening, Next dance Cinema, Seattle WA
(2014) Film Screening, Jaipur International Film Festival, Jaipur India 
(2014) Film Screening, Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival, Mumbai India 
(2014) Film Screening, Shorts Premier, Chile

ArtZoom Gigapixel (2014)

(2014) performed for photograph

 

I was one of the hundred artists performing in various ways, dispersed throughout an image of Seattle stitched together from 22,000 photos, taken atop a tall building. For this Microsoft project, I used my Allosaurus head mask, standing outside the Science Center, carnivorously perched atop a large rock.
Gigapixel link. A short video of the making of this project. 

 

Photo Anthony Rigano

projects: Tamin Tia

Tamin Totzke + Tia Kramer 

 

Both projects fall under the title Study Of Time And Motion

Connect/reposition (2015)

Dancer and movement collaborator
Performances: 
Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle WA 

City Arts Feature

Trailor

 

 

 

Rest/Forward (2015)

Dancer and movement collaborator
The Estuary/T108 Park, Seattle WA
Trailor

Photo Michelle Smith-lewis

Photo Bruce Claton Tom

projects: HYPERNOVA

HYPERNOVA (Rainbow Fletcher) 

 

Long time friend and collaborator, I have performed for Rainbow in many different forms since 2005.

 

Eleven Eleven (2018)

Dancer and movement collaborator

 

Performances: 
Northwest New Works Festival, On the Boards, Seattle WA (premier)

 

Bitter Suites (2016-18)

Dancer and movement collaborator

Performances:
YAW Theater, Seattle WA  (premier)
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle WA
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle WA

 

ONTHEFLOOR (2014-15)

Dancer and movement collaborator

Performances:

Velocity Dance Center, Seattle WA (premier)

projects: Benjamin Maestas

projects: Benjamin Maestas

 

A Meeting (2013) Choreographed by Benjamin Maestas as part of his thesis project for his masters in Architecture from the University of Washington. This short film also had a live performance component that showcased Benjamin’s ideas in alternative forms of shelter that could be used to house the homeless. This short was filmed and edited by Doug Arney.

 

Yes (2013) film

(2013) film collaboration with musician

 

I have collected hundreds of short stop motion animations since I started exploring stop motion in 2005. My aim was first to explore movement, environment, light, texture and eventually sound. This is the first, in a way culmination of these experiments. I met Rulon Brown and asked him if he would be interested in composing a little score for this short animation. I love this short animation, there are no expectations, just a moment of creativity, alive with ambiguous meaning. If you are a creator of sounds and would like to create a score for one of these animations, I have a whole basket of works yet to be paired with sounds. Send me an email: baldmanwatching@yahoo.com and let’s get this collaboration happening.