Lou Watson: 47° 39′ 23″ N, 122° 18′ 44″ W for Piano

Using the traffic outside the Henry on 15th Ave NE, artist Lou Watson presents her score for vehicular and pedestrian traffic to drive a musical composition. Watson reconsiders the value of being between here and there, revealing the poetics contained within mundane and everyday experience. This performance is part of  the exhibition Six Weeks, in Time.

Lou Watson received her BFA in intermedia studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2015. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Watson’s eight-movement experimental concert Suite Sandy Boulevard, which featured orchestrated leaf-blowers and Bureau of Transport statistics, premiered at The Hollywood Theatre, Portland in 2015, and earned her the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award from the 2015 Betty Bowen Committee.