Featured Image is a Self-Portrait One evening in the winter of 2012, in the hills of Shingle Springs, California, this drone piece was improvised into my mobile studio. The performers are Myself, Jean-Paul Jenkins, and Megan McIsaac. We were guests in a distraught house with no running water, just electricity, and scant mobile coverage. This […]
Author: Sean Ongley
Behind the 2008 Time-Based Arts Festival
My second ever radio special for KBOO aired on the late Julie Bernard’s Arts Focus program. It is a documentary about the 2008 Time-Based Arts Festival produced by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. I would go on to produce special programs and blog coverage on the festival for six years solid. Featured image by Mega*Church. […]
This mini-documentary was meant to give a tantalizing impression of the performance by Source Material Collective, entitled “I Should Have a Party for All the Thoughts I Didn’t Say.” Headed by the young Samantha Shay, this performance represented a showcase for her vision for theater. It is an immersive experience, so we found this project […]
Analysis of the Yemen crisis recalls a lost narrative. This article was originally published at THRU.Media on June 5, 2015, as “Yemen Crisis and the Wheel of Contradiction.” It has been edited for quality without updating information or altering the original narrative. The Yemen Crisis only recently grabbed my attention during the usual morning routine […]