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MARCH 2025
Reciprocity | Collaboration between Emily Longbrake, Christine Sundly & Momentum Dance Collective

In a world where we are all connected, the exchanges and cooperation we have with one another through time are a critical piece of the human experience. Reciprocity is a month-long performance and visual art installation that brings together work from Emily Longbrake, Christine Sundly and Momentum Dance Collective. The work explores the relationships between time, memory and the dualities that are constant in all phases of life.

During the gallery's regular hours, the community was invited to experience the art installations and video projection. There were also four live dance performances by Momentum Dance Collective.

About the artists

Emily Longbrake is a freelance artist from Anchorage, Alaska, blends craft and technology across various media. Her art is inspired by the patterns, connections, and constant change found in nature, particularly the mountains and plants surrounding her home.
https://emilylongbrake.art/

Of the Menominee Nation, Christine Sundly is an Alaskan-based artist with an emphasis on creating abstract art. She has an absolute love of color and patterns as shown in experimenting both digitally and in mixed media. Through both education and working experience, Christine maintains strong bones in pushing her limits and asking the big “why” questions when creating.
https://sundly.blogspot.com/p/about-artist.html

Momentum Dance Collective is a contemporary dance company in Anchorage, Alaska that delights in activating possibilities through collaborative partnerships and in unusual spaces.
https://www.momentumdance.org/reciprocity

MAY 2023
CENTER GALLERY
2000 Journals: Filling the Void | Diane Dunn

I am a self taught multi media artist. Acrylic painting, collaging, book making, photography and sculpting are some of the creative roads I explore. I am drawn to installation and performance art as it incorporates the audience as a medium with which to complete the piece.

I have had my work shown at the Kerf International Exhibits, Seattle, Anchorage Museum, International Gallery of Contemporary Art under the mentorship of David Felker and Studio Works, in Portland, Oregon.

I call Kenai, Alaska home.

Artist Statement
My work was once described as having the flavor of Horror Vacui. A latin-derived term meaning “fear of emptiness”. I find great comfort in surrounding myself with a multitude of found or created objects. This body of work pushed me to great limits creatively, physically and emotionally. The images that fill this room are an outpouring of my thoughts and feelings.

The 2000 Journals: Filling the Void project was a year in the making. The mono printed images on each marks a moment on my life’s timeline during that 12 months. I can look at a journal cover and tell you how I was feeling and what was happening in my life in that moment.

The Performance and Your Participation

I will be taking up my own 500 page journal and begin the process of writing. I will be “in residence” during gallery hours for the duration of the show. I will record the thoughts and feelings that come to mind from the visual cues that surround me.

You are invited, one at a time, to come into my journaling space, look over my shoulder and read my journal entries. I ask that you do so in silence. You the observer become the observed.

You may write in the journals, but you must return them to any square in the grid. You the observer become my collaborator in this performance.

www.darkfruitfly.com