For Immediate Release

Contact: Calandra Childers, SAM Public Relations
(206) 654-3158; email: PR@SeattleArtMuseum.org

AN AUSTRALIAN SAM REMIX, FRIDAY June 1, 8 PM – MIDNIGHT

Experience an evening celebrating Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art and Theaster Gates: The Listening Room – full of music, dance and performance.

SEATTLE, May 21, 2012 – SAM Remix celebrates the opening weekend of Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection along with the last month of Theaster Gates: The Listening Room, with a late night party on June 1. The entire museum will be alive with the musical styling of DJ J-Justice, storytelling, records, and My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Tours by local artists, curators and more. Remix takes place from 8 pm to midnight at the Seattle Art Museum at 1300 First Avenue.

The night starts with DJ J-Justice spinning global beats, hip hop, soul and more to keep you movin’ all night long. Two of Seattle’s greatest performance writers go head-to-head with two actors in three rounds of competition we’re calling Storytelling Spoken Word Slam at 8:45, 9:30 and 10:15 pm. The Record Store is back with Listening Parties, special guests, listening stations and hands-on activities. And in the Listening Room Gallery with Theaster Gates’ installation, a DJ will be spinning beats from the Dr. Wax record collection as a volunteer archivist records and catalogs the mixes. Seattle Phonographers Union will be remixing ambient sounds collected throughout the museum into a live soundscape in the Native American and Aboriginal Galleries while cellist Paul Rucker creates Sonic Interpretations live in the Ancestral Modern Galleries at 9:15 and 10:30 pm. The ever-popular My Favorite Things: Highly Opinionated Tours will be lead by Brenda Croft, Australian artist and curator at the University of South Australia; Seattle-based artists Amanda Manitach, John Feodorov and Matika Wilbur; and The Librarians of the Art Lending Library, among others.

Tickets

Prices are $25 (adults), $20 (students with ID) and $12 (SAM members). SAM Remix is open to age 18 and over only. The first 50 guests at the door wearing rainbows will get in FREE.

Print-at-home ticket buyers: Enter at 1st Avenue and Union Street. Will Call ticket buyers and cash ticket sales: Enter at 1st Avenue and University Street (near Hammering Man).

Non-members can turn their Remix ticket in for $10 off a new SAM membership. Offer good on Student ($30) level memberships and higher, onsite only during Remix. Present your Remix ticket at the Membership Desk or Members Lounge to redeem this offer.

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The exhibition is organized by the Seattle Art Museum. Generous support is provided by the Visionary Circle: Jeffrey and Susan Brotman, Barney A. Ebsworth, Jon and Mary Shirley, Virginia Wright, and Ann P. Wyckoff, who have provided crucial funding to make the exhibition possible. A lead grant was provided by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne. Exhibition Sponsor is Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. Major support provided by The Seattle Foundation. Patron Support provided by Embassy of Australia, Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, and The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Additional support is provided by Alida and Chris Latham, and Contributors to SAM’s Annual Fund. Media Sponsor is King 5 Television. Official Hotel Sponsor is Grand Hyatt Seattle.