“Reflections on Water: An Evening of Storytelling and Art ”
“Reflections on Water: An Evening of Storytelling and Art.” Curated by Aliah Lavonne Tigh, this installation and event showed a multimedia ekphrastic collaboration between Aliah Lavonne Tigh and Liz Williams, and the programming featured readers Lockie Hunter, Jeff Davis, NitaJade, Keagan Wheat, and Aliah Lavonne Tigh alongside an immersive digital installation by Shani Kashani, Mik Mitchell and Liz Williams. Residency at 821. Asheville, North Carolina. June 2024
During the closing reception for this June 2024 residency, lines of poetry spread across the walls next to visual art. Poet Readings and immersive video projection, together, filled the Lamplight AVL Residency space.
While the water-filled projection filled the space with hues of blue, everyone gathered to enjoy readings by poets Lockie Hunter, Jeff Davis, NitaJade, Keagan Wheat, and Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh, and other community readers alongside an immersive digital installation by Shani Kashani, Mik Mitchell and Liz Williams.
Pictured in the white shirt, Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh enjoys the other poets as they read. New and old friends from Asheville gathered with the two visiting artists.
Multi-talented performer and artist Prince reads a poem they wrote during the conservationist film ekphrastic workshop Jahan-Tigh and Wheat hosted.
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Liz Williams-Trader, multimedia artist reading their work against the backdrop of the immersive installation they helped create with Shani Kashani and Mik Mitchell.
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The artists were lucky to have the incredible author, Lockie Hunter, join them for this reading. Hunter is also the host for Ashville FM’s literary radioshow,Wordplay.
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The exceptional poetry continued with poet Jeff Davis. Davis cohosts WordPlay on Ashville FM alongside Lockie Hunter.
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Keagan Wheat reads from his chapbook, Viaticum.
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Behind Wheat, one can see Jahan-Tigh’s poem lines and Liz Williams-Trader’s corresponding images inspired by them.
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The other walls of Lamplight AVL Residency’s became the backdrop for an Ekphrastic collaboration between Liz Williams-Trader’s visual work(in the black frames) inspired by Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh’s words.
Images of the art work wonderfully provided by Peter Speer
Group picture at the end of the night! Left to right: Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh, Liz Williams-Trader, Lockie Hunter, and Keagan Wheat
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An excerpt from Jahan-Tigh’s poem “Even if Our Life was Spent Studying Other Human Medicine” became one of the weekly Public Poetry Installations. The words floated against the video installation installed and cocreated by Liz Williams-Trader, along with artists Shani Kashani and Mik Mitchell.