Apr 28, 2025

Rose Bond and Zak Margolis

 

These two long time collaborators will show a program of their wonderful animations.  The night will include their covid-canceled piece Animate Sinfonia – a work in progress, a multi-screen animation that was originally scheduled to be performed live in 2020 with the Oregon Symphony at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

 

Rose Bond expands cinema – drawing new audiences into under-explored spaces.  Her public animated installations co-inhabit a site, navigating its allegories of place, emanating glimpses of the everyday to illuminate layered accretions of memory so often overlooked.  Bond’s cinematic work spans from indie animation to installations to live projection to VR theatre.  Earths to Come, her recent collaboration with the vocal band Roomful of Teeth and composer inti figgis-vizueta, was launched from a modest, untitled Emily Dickinson poem, catalogued as “I have no life but this.”  Earths to Come premiered as a communal VR experience enveloping viewers in spatial sound at the 2024 Venice Biennale Cinema Immersive.

 

Zak Margolis is an artist and animator based in Portland, OR.  His work often explores the relationship between image and music, and how each illuminates the other.  Thus, he has been involved in numerous fruitful collaborations with all kinds of different musical artists including Unwound, Tara Jane O’Neil, Charlie Campbell, Alicia Jo Rabins, the Oregon Symphony, 45^th Parallel Universe, Roomful of Teeth, and inti figgis-vizueta. Much of his career has been in support of the vision of other artists. With Jim Blashfield he helped create animation and design for numerous public video sculptures that offer mysterious clues about the history and culture of their surrounding landscapes.  With Rose Bond he built animated environments of other worlds that form projections onto the windows of buildings, on the walls of concert halls, and in planetarium domes. His current work is an animated film with music by Vern Avola, aka Trigger Object.  He teaches animated arts at PNCA.