DÔME DO, WE (a space for reset)
After Yukihisa Isobe’s Air Dome
DAY 4: Wednesday, August 7
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DAY 4: Wednesday, August 7
All events are free. The only event that requires pre-registration is the Monarch Yoga. Please register via their website.
Monarch Yoga, outdoor yoga class Five Dollar Slow Flow (8:00-8:45 AM, 8/5-8/8)
Teacher: Alex Mello
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Join us for A Morning Reset at DÔME DO,WE (A Space for Reset). Practice meditation, journaling & slow morning movement in this one of a kind outdoor art installation located under the trees on The Oval. Class is all levels. In the event of rain, class will be cancelled.If cost is a barrier, please use the code RESET to sign up free of charge.
Class will take place in the Sycamore Grove in The Oval (2451 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy). Students should bring a mat, water, and comfortable clothes. Please note, rental mats will not be available at this location.
Self-portrait Time Lapse, in-person with online survey (3:00-6:00 PM)
Scale-model of paper-dome, souvenir activity available to all visitors
Supreme Oasis broadcast (5:00-6:30 PM)
"Nourishing the Mind: The Impact of Food on Mental Health" by Shon “Chef Sunflower” Emanuel, Founder of BTW, It’s Vegan, Executive Chef and Co-owner of Supreme Oasis Restaurant
This session explores how diet influences mental well-being, mood, and overall health. Participants will learn about the gut-brain connection, essential nutrients, and practical tips for healthier eating habits to support mental health. This session emphasizes the importance of nutrition in fostering a balanced and healthy mind.
False Friends QUAD (7:00 - 8:00 PM)
Performing under the moniker of Wooder, Carolyn Zaldivar Snow, Eugene Lew, and Aaron Igler will dive into the aqua-acoustic landscape of Eakin's Oval, focusing their observational ear(s) on the nearby fountains. Using field-recorded audio and modular synthesis the trio will explore the spectral and temporal correlations of hyper-natural turbulence, mapping it across a quadraphonic system.
Termite TV Collective video projection installation (8:30 -10:00 PM)
Inspired by our theme: Understory, the ecosystems that are unknown or unseen to the eye yet still alive. Termite TV will be projecting a video-mix of videos of nature, sky, water, understory projected onto the dome with accompanying soundscape – with video and audio material contributions from our Hive members.
Video editing and compositing:
Alan Powell
Video, and audio material supplied by:
Lee Clawson
Adam Cooper-Terán
Betty’s Eyes
Laura Deutch
Jamie Goetz
Mike Kuetemeyer
Warren C. Longmire
Mike O’Reilly
Lorne Peart
Alan Powell
Deborah Rudman
Anula Shetty
Jake Smith
Studio 190, ARC of Delaware County, NY
Joy Waldinger
Ingrid Raphaël: TermiteTV Program Manager
Artists
Shon "Chef Sunflower" Emanuel, originally a paramedic, transitioned from saving lives to transforming them through food. Her culinary journey began with a passion for creating diverse vegan options, inspired by customer requests at her family-owned restaurant, Supreme Oasis. Now the founder of 'BTW, It's Vegan', Shon handcrafts vegan meats, cheeses, and desserts that cater to both vegans and non-vegans. Her commitment to quality, innovation and creativity is revolutionizing plant-based cuisine in Philadelphia.
Carolyn Zaldivar Snow (Tangent Universes) Using field recordings, modular synths, a DIY Lyra-8, and guitar drones, Carolyn Zaldivar Snow (Tangent Universes) creates immersive compositions from her Mid-Atlantic context exploring collective memory in nature. She is a contributing writer at Tape Op magazine, and co-organizer of Sound Scene, hosted annually at Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Carolyn curates the Singles Series with Las Vegas label Mystery Circles, where she also contributes to editorial. Website: This Electric Space Instagram: Tangent Universes
Photo credit: Kelly Cobb
Aaron Igler (born 1972) is an artist with a fervent curiosity for the collection, modulation, and amplification of sound and light. Through the arrangement of field-recorded audio, electronic sounds, and video images in live performances and installation-based works, Igler seeks to create transposable spaces and experiences. In the early 2000s, he launched Lighting for Urban Rooftop Environments (LURE) to curate and produce collaborative art projects in outdoor venues. As a sonic practitioner performing under the moniker Sound Forager, Igler champions the generative potential and creative inspiration he discovers through modular synthesis. Igler is a founding Partner of the Philadelphia-based design and production firm Greenhouse Media.
Eugene Lew • HUNGRYMONSTERS
Philadelphia-based guide, producer, educator, and organizer primarily engaged in the performance, design, access, management, transformation, (attempted) capture, storage, and playback of shared IRL experiences – with a slight sound/music bias. The fleeting moment, aggregate independent decision-making, and stochastic phenomena are especially fascinating and vital to his practice and general existence. He welcomes serendipitous collaborations and treasures long-term partnerships that seek to navigate and explore the constant cycle of remembering-learning-forgetting-reconstructing. https://hungrymonsters.net
Termite TV Collective makes media to challenge rigid structures through formal disruption, experimental methods, and community engagement. Just as the subterranean termite tears away at structural foundations through ingenuity and collective practice, Termite TV Collective believes that an expanded visual language is the vehicle for imagining new futures and provoking new thinking on pressing issues of our time. We work collectively and collaboratively, encouraging the freedom to explore with a sense of playfulness, spontaneity, and discovery. Through individual expression radiating out from common themes, Termites co-create space for idea sharing and collective world-building.
This program is co-presented by Collaborative Cataloging Japan and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia in partnership with the Parkway Council and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation as part of the 2024 Oval.
The project is part of the exhibition, Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s. It is funded by the Pola Art Foundation and Japan Foundation.
Major support for the Community of Images exhibition has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s - 1970s
Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s will be an exhibition of experimental moving images created by Japanese artists in the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s, an area that has fallen in the fissure between American and Japanese archival priorities.