About this Event
To mark the launch of , the Henry’s new audio companion, join Kamari Bright, Jai Kobi Kaleo'okalani, Zola Mumford, Sadaf Sadri, and ralph salazar for a collective listening experience and conversation. Together, they will share original sound works created in response to and , followed by a moderated conversation. Learn how this varied group of artists, musicians, and writers collaged and manipulated sound and language to explore themes of personal history, fragmentation, landscape, and science fiction.
Frequencies is a creative audio project that invites artists, writers, and community members to contribute sonic responses to the Henry’s exhibitions. The series serves as an aural companion to the work on view and can be experienced either in-gallery or before or after visiting. In lieu of a traditional museum guide grounded in explanation, Frequencies opens space for reflection and exploration — foregrounding the idea that interpretations of contemporary art can be as varied as the individuals who encounter it.
Bios
Kamari Bright is a St. Louis-born videopoet and multimedia artist heavily inspired by human psychology and the desire to remove the vagueness of the growth and healing process. Leaning into the mechanisms of communication through the interplay of imagery and language, her works have been received at the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, the Academy Award-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Seattle Art Museum, TriQuarterly, Moss, International Video Poetry Festival of Athens, and more. The 2024 Artist Trust Innovator Award recipient is currently exploring the influence of Christian folklore on present-day misogyny, as well as the impact of the environment on collective well-being. She is a community-taught creator and advocate who lives, loves, and eats on the land of the Duwamish.
Jai Kobi Kaleo'okalani is a Seattle-based guitarist, composer, producer, and poet. Graduating in 2025 with a BM in Jazz and Improvised Music from the University of Washington, they studied with Steve Rodby, Cuong Vu, Ted Poor, and Kassa Overall. Often performing under the moniker BLUEs.WEAVE, their genre-defying work seamlessly blends the sonic worlds of the improvised Black American music traditions with experimental sound production, delivering immersive sets and compositions featuring resonator and electric guitars, drum machines, samplers, and electronics. Drawing from a deep well of ancestral approaches, their work reflects the infinite potential for Black creativity to transmute past and present pain into hope and love. Their work as a soloist began with a DXARTS commission to compose and perform the beat suite “Let Loose Thy Soul: Black Alchemy and the Upper Arcana” for the 2024 SPAM New Media Festival at the Georgetown Steam Plant. Since then, Jai has been invited to present original music, multimedia performances, and demonstrations at Town Hall Seattle, the Burke Museum, Frye Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and ARTS at King Street Station Gallery among many other venues throughout Seattle and beyond.
Zola Mumford is an academic librarian, researcher, and writer. From 2003 to 2022, she was Curator of the Seattle Black Film Festival, a program of LANGSTON, a nonprofit arts organization. Mumford has served as a Washington State Book Awards judge and continues to be a speaker and panelist on subjects ranging from archival research to film history to science fiction/speculative fiction. Her professional background also includes media and arts production; historical research; and preservation work with film and print materials in university and private film and art archives.
Sadaf Sadri makes work that explores worldbuilding that prompts reflection on gender, ideology, power, and relationality using digital technologies. Sadaf is currently a Ph.D. student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. In 2022, they initiated the SPAM New Media Festival, a platform for experimental practices in art and technology in Seattle, where they currently live.
ralph salazar is a visual artist and actress currently based in Seattle, WA. She creates assemblage sculptures and kinetic installations from video, performance, sound, and found material. With a visual language conflicted between comfort and urgency salazar investigates anxieties stemming from systemic failure. She unearths the hidden narratives of found materials that evoke notions of home, climate crisis, and the burden of labor. salazar holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle. Their work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally and she received Best Actress at the Queens World Film Festival, NY.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
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