Join us on a tour of Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center and Boren Banner Series: Samantha Wall with local poet and event organizer Eric M. Acosta. For this iteration of Unpoetry, local artists will create written pieces and performances based on current exhibitions, with the goal to inspire deeper engagement with the museum space and the artwork it holds.

About the Program

This quarterly program features a new lineup of artists for each event, providing a unique opportunity to experience the current exhibitions through their eyes, and the various ways one can approach, think, or feel through art.

About the Presenters

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Casey Adams is a Seattle-based drummer, builder, and creator of electro-acoustic noise. In his work and research, he is interested in the de/construction of sound and space, and the exploration of the ambience that exists between. As a performer, Casey attempts to fuse disparate and peripheral sounds while exploring movement, tension, intensity, and the materiality of auditory experience; pursuant of a moment that never arrives.

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Seattle-based performance artist, dancer, and experimental synth song composer Changing Bodies (Madhava) creates multi-disciplinary presentations that enmesh the artist’s lived experiences with an ardent desire for personal integration and collective transcendence. Their sensory-rich performances are an organic assemblage of movement and gesture, sound, objects, and settings intuitively woven into a colorful, dramatic and moving multifaceted offering

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Emily J. Mundy is a Seattle-based poet who believes in writing as a force that heals, transforms, and illuminates. Her work reveres the mystical nature of language and often explores spirituality. Emily is the creator of the Poetry Séance—a quarterly performance and workshop series curated to enliven poetry shows and embolden local writers, each season at a time. Her debut manuscript of poetry, What Blooms in the Dark, is forthcoming with Moon Tide Press in October of 2024. She shares a realm with her two cats and one beloved typewriter. Find her on Instagram @emily_j_mundy.

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Hannah Rice and Alia Swersky are dance-based performance artists living and making in Seattle. Their work is heavily based in the living sculpture of the human form. Surreal imagery, unpredictable movement phrasing, touch, weight sharing, height extremes, and gender morphing costuming are all a part of their repertoire. In past work they have used images of giant balloons, stilettos, primary solid colors, flight suits, giant swaths of fabric, tiny chairs, men’s suits, and glittery cabaret attire. They've incorporated these contrasting elements to animate the extremes of being, the frailty and exuberance that transpires in relationships, in mundanities, in chapters of a life. Their work has been presented at Base: Experimental Arts + Space, The University of Washington, The Good Shepherd Center, CO- Show 6, Mad Art, Casa Del Xolo, 12th Ave Arts and the Cornish Playhouse. Their work has always prioritized the use of live sound, working primarily with musicians Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj. They are very excited to be working with sound artist Casey Adams for their work with Unpoetry at Frye Art Museum this year.

Eric M. Acosta is a poet living in Seattle. He runs the curated twice-monthly performance / reading / whatever series Unpoetry. His debut collection Motion Flesh (2023) is out now through Chat Room Books. His follow-up Underbelly is forthcoming through Carbonation Press. Find all of his work at www.printcopiesavailable.com. Find more info on the performance series at unpoetry.net