Performance artist and poet MIMI ALLIN uses walking as a way of investigating new places for her work. Mimi frequently walks 50-100 miles weekly, often as part of the “ritual of entering a project.” Starting each project with a question, Mimi invites the public into her work, knowing the parameters but not necessarily the outcome for each piece. 

Currently in Seattle, Mimi shares the challenges of funding, documenting and scaling her performance work in contrast to the daily demands of her self portraits and video work. 

Find Mimi:

 Website:  akmimiallin.weebly.com
Instagram:  @akmimiallin

 Mentioned:

• Poetess of Green Lake, project (read)
• Sonnets in the Sand, project (read)
• Tender Mountain Poems, video interview with Edition Production la Bergere in the Alps (watch) 
• Mark Baumer, poet, blogger and barefoot walker (learn) 
• Tahoma Kora, project, “The Woman Who Drew a Line Around Mountain Rainier with her Body," Jen Graves (read)
• Jacques Lecoq Physical Theatre (“clown school”), Paris, France (learn) 
• PAF (Performing Arts Forum), artist residency, St. Erme, France (learn) 
• Massia, art residency, Estonia (learn)  
• Love Line, Greensboro, NC (read)
• Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC (explore)
• The Nap Ministry, explores the liberating power of naps  (@thenapministry)
• "The Hunger, of the Artist" Interview with Emily Batlan for Stance Magazine  (read)
• "Tree," collaborative video artwork with Darryl B. Rogers (watch)
• “Song of Tent City,” a 3-month, self-assigned, winter artist residency in a homeless camp in Seattle (read)

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
Website:    https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram:  kristybattaniart
Facebook:  kristybattaniart

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