Michael Kurt
Multi-media artist | Portland, OR
In Distance (Time Moves)
Moscow Contemporary, June - September 2023
Video Art
As part of Timescape(s) group exhibitMaterial Used: analog 35mm film scans, field recordings from Mt. Hood National Forest, slide projector. (2:43)
Presentation: IN DISTANCE TIME MOVES can be presented in one of two formats:
- 1 - as projected video with stereo sound embedded in the video file.
- 2 - as projected video with multi-channel audio (4 speaker). This would separate the audio into four distinct tracks and give the feeling of a surrounding environment: birdsongs and river, resonator (ambient tone) 1, resonator (ambient tone) 2, and birdsongs and river, plus slide projector.
Folliage
Self-published photo zine/h2>
Photography
Foliage is a collection of Fuji Instax photos taken in and around Oregon by Michael Kurt in 2023.
Featuring "Overgrowth" an essay by Portland artist and writer Hannah Krafcik.
40 pages, full color, stable-bound - First Edition of 30, hand numbered.
█████ Memory
Published in Lurch Zine 03: Time, 2024
Experimental Writing
Homebodies
Self-released on Youtube, July 2021
Video Art
“Homebodies” by Michael Kurt is a short story that has been collected in the self-published chapbook “Heaviness Leaves The Body,” available now in both digital and physical formats.
- sony normal bias hf audio cassette
- low-battery suntone RR180 personal cassette recorder
- zoom H5 recorder
- tc electronics hall of fame 2 reverb
- tc electronics dark matter distortion
- electro-harmonix canyon delay
- moffenzeef m.s.g II sound generator
- moffenzeef intensifies sound generator
Danny & Rose
Chapel Theatre Play Fest, 2024
Play
Selected to be part of the Chapel Theatre Play Fest, which was a collection of 10-minute plays by local Portland writers.
Performed by: Cecelia Shroyer and Jeremy Davis.
Directed by: Laura Handke.
Chapel Theatre | Milwaukie, Oregon
Extinction: Part 1
Performed at The James Black Gallery, 2018
Sound Art + Video
Performed as a solo artist under the name The Blood of Others. Extinction: Part 1 combined musical performance, spoken word, and field recordings to capture the tension of being both the executioners and victims of climate change.
The James Black Gallery | Vancouver, B.C.Artist CV
Michael Kurt
Portland, OR
howdy.michaelkurt@gmail.com
Biography
Michael Kurt is an author, artist, and the co-founder of Berm. From 2014 to 2021, Michael co-hosted the podcast Talking to Ghosts, which interviewed creatives about their lives and ran on a bi-weekly schedule. In 2021, Michael also self-published his first chapbook of fiction, called Heaviness Leaves The Body. After ending the Talking to Ghosts podcast, Michael and Wes went on to found Berm Magazine. In 2023, the video art piece In Distance Time Moves was selected to be shown at Moscow Contemporary, in Moscow, Idaho as part of the Timescape(s) group exhibition. In 2024, Michael’s short play Danny And Rose will be featured in the Chapel Theater Play Fest.
Exhibits
- Timescape(s) - 2023 - Moscow Contemporary - video art piece called “IN DISTANCE TIME MOVES” on display July - September 2023.
- Extinction: Part 1 - The James Black Gallery, Vancouver, BC - one-time performance
Longform Projects
- Berm Magazine - 2021-Current - contemporary arts magazine
- Talking to Ghosts podcast - 2014-2021 - 200 audio podcast episodes released bi-weekly, articles and critical reviews
Publishing
- Foliage - 2024 - 50-copy limited run photo zine
- Lurch Vol. 3: Time - 2024 - Circle Memory - experimental fiction
- Danny & Rose - 2024 - Chapel Theater - 10-minute play produced as part of the Chapel Theater 10-minute Play Festival
- Memory - 2024 - self-published work of interactive fiction
- Quotidian Volume 3: Repetition - 2023 - Readwrite Books - Two pieces published in the magazine - I’M WORRIED THIS WON’T MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE and Between Two Houses
- Heaviness Leaves The Body - 2020 - Self-published printed chapbook of fiction
- Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! - 2019 - Self-published work of interactive fiction
Performance
- Extinction: Part One - 2019 - The James Black Gallery - Sound art performance
- Performing as The Blood of Others - 2018 - Mechanismus Industrial Festival, Seattle Washington
- Performing as The Blood of Others - 2017 - P.I.G Festival, Portland, OR
- Performing as The Blood of Others - 2017 - Terminus Festival, Calgary, AB
- Performing as The Blood of Others - 2017 - Verboden Festival, Vancouver, BC
Recordings
- Scare Me - 2020 - movie soundtrack, recorded as Michael Kurt
- An Ocean - 2019 - recorded as The Blood of Others, ID:UD special cassette release
- Live at Volt Divers - 2018 - recorded as Sky Symbol Rituals, self release to digital
- Sky Symbol Rituals - 2017 - recorded by Sky Symbol Rituals, self released to digital
- I Used To Think Everything was Beautiful - 2016 - recorded as The Blood of Others, Audiotrauma Records
- Her Ghost - 2014 - recorded as [product], self release to digital
- Shallow Graves - 2014 - recorded as [product], Vendetta Music
- Awaken The Alchemist - 2013 - recorded as [product], self release to digital
- I, Omega - 2012 - recorded as [product], COP International