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To View the Collection go to Vimeo: Tune In To Green

Artist Highlight: the sixth film in “TUNE in to GREEN – Exhibition Four” is by Sandy Dyas @sandy_dyas_photography of Iowa, with music by Catherine Pancake. This clip is from their collaboration, "Elemental: Edgelands". Here we encounter the beauty of those places where the man-made world is decaying back towards its origin in the natural world. The illusion of our separation is laid bare. The circularity of the human condition obvious and unavoidable. “Ebbing and flowing, time just keeps moving forward. Mother Earth and Father Time – ‘life's eternal rhyme.’” To experience their full video amongst a curated selection of 17 other micro shorts, visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tuneintogreen

A video of mine is included in this Collection of Short Films -- Elemental: Edgelands (Catherine Pancake: Sound)

Elemental: Edgelands

Diorama Room, LLC was first imagined as an immersive arts space featuring works by artists whose practice is to explore a dialogue between the human and natural realms. Covid-19 rearranged everyone’s plans, but one thing that is being said often is that people are finding solace by slowing down and spending time outdoors. Therefore, for the time being, our dream of a physical space is on hold, but will exist online as a series of quarterly short film exhibitions called Tune in to Green. 

Humans have a symbiotic relationship with nature because we are part of nature. Now more than ever in our lifetimes, we are seeing the ill effects of our unharmonious disregard for the planet as a living, breathing entity. Our hope is that by offering an outlet for entrants and viewers to become more engaged with the natural world, each will develop a deeper understanding of the non-human-beings living around us. The more connected we are to our surroundings, the more we recognize that making personal changes in an effort to improve the well-being of others, improves our well-being too. We can all think of at least one way to lessen our footprint and become a step closer to creating balance between the realms of society/the manmade and the elemental/organic. Let this be a space where we interweave the surprises of what we do not control, with our own individual mark as artists. 

  See the trailer below for Exhibition Four, ending November 19, 2021. The full exhibition is 80-minutes running time including short films, artist statements, and bios from artists around the world. Featured artists include the following:

Daniela Zahlner – Vienna, Austria; Victória Okubo & Gustavo Maan – São Paulo, Brazil; Eva Klaus – Belgium; Max Schleser & Martin Koszolko – Melbourne, Australia; Jil Guyon & Chris Becker – New York City; Sandra Dyas & Catherine Pancake – Iowa;  Zoran Dragelj – Vancouver, Canada; Enrique Cabrera – Seattle, Washington; Stephanie Reid & Todd Rychener – Austin, Texas; Erika Yeomans – New York City; Alexandra Constantinou – Houston, Texas; Karim Ghonima – Houston, Texas; Deb Todd Wheeler – Boston, Massachusetts; Szabina Péter & Kristóf János Bodnár – Hungary; Lígia Teixeira – Paraná, Brazil; Joanna Decc – Tkoronto, Canada; and Mary Trunk – Altadena, California

 HOMEGROWN STORIES -- THE YEAR OF THE POET

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This is the second installment of Homegrown Stories’ Year of the Poet. We again asked Melissa Ginsburg for an inspirational poem and, with Apollo, she did not disappoint.

This collection of experimental videos is a curated group of international artists. Our ten video artists have reimagined Apollo’s birth, reign, and demise through music, image, and text.

This is excerpted from Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Melissa Ginsburg in conversation with Alexander Chee - Women's Resource & Action Center | The University of Iowa

"Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost, and two poetry chapbooks, Arbor and Double Blind. A second poetry collection, Doll Apollo, will be published in 2022 by LSU Press, and the poetry chapbook Apollo is forthcoming in June from Condensery Press. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with two dogs, eleven chickens, and the writer Chris Offutt.”