“Death Disco”
Installation
Welcome friend. Feel free to make yourselves at home in this evolving assemblage of entities to interact with. This is a Self-Guided Zone. Please do whatever might help you meet your needs here, perhaps remembering that you are always free to ask for support from people nearby or any other beings your Inner Guide would like to.
This space invites you to experience your Relation-Ship with your Body. You have done a courageous thing, perhaps, coming to this Being Edgy art exhibit. Here, at the Death Disco Installation, you are free to relax & explore how being in a Body might help you feel whatever is emerging-- or just decompress from the need to do anything.
You can do that by interacting with the entities you find here… soft blankets that might wrap you in weighted comfort… instruments that emit gentle sound by the way you duet with them… pastel crayons that might help you express what you sense in your body or imagination onto the body of a piece of paper…
Straight ahead is a Threshold, where you can receive further invitations, if you like. From there you might choose to explore the Sanctuary, an inner sanctum where you can feel & express while tasting solitude. You might also choose to explore the Stage, an open container where you can express with movement and/or stillness while being visible to others in the gallery. In between, you might find the mysterious Swamp, where one may express via shadows.
You’re invited to explore the possibility that there is no wrong way to do this. This is an opportunity for you to be true to You.
Thank you for however you choose to do That.
Artist Bios
Noam Paco Gaster
Noam Paco Gaster has been moving and sounding for approximately 55 years. They have extensively studied intuitive improvisation with Stu Phillips, physical theater with Ruth Zaporah, and dance with a wide variety of teachers, including Karen Nelson and Nancy Stark Smith. As the artistic director of Bee Hear Now Productions, they have seeded diverse participatory geographies throughout North and South America. They love co-creating spaces that accentuate access to liberating expression and authentically inclusionary connection. They are currently working as an Occupational Therapist for the Washington Elks Therapy Program for Children and are additionally especially excited to begin developing a private practice that empowers individuals and groups to heal their relationships with Wilds without & within.
Rae Faer
Rae Faer is a storyteller reborn through Olympia’s arts scene. Trained in public speaking from age four in the Mormon church, Rae learned how to engage an audience early on—but it wasn’t until leaving the church and connecting with Olympia’s creative community in faer 40s that Rae began sharing stories that were truly faer own.
Reclaiming voice and body through open mics, dance floors, photography, and the StoryOly stage, Rae weaves grief, joy, and becoming into both performance and visual art. As proven in The Otherside Cabaret (curated by Raemonn James), Rae’s work bares all in a raw, relational commitment to authenticity.
Rae is also a devoted parent, partner, ever-curious friend and mental health counselor. Faer specializes in trauma integration, reunification, and support for children who are neurodivergent.
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Sandy Joclynn
Sandy Joclynn is an enrolled Citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a multidisciplinary artist committed to cultural revitalization through education, visual art, and movement. Her work explores the resilience of Indigenous identity and generational healing through expression. Crafting bold aesthetics to challenge colonial narratives and natural materials that channel the forces of Mother Nature. Her work is not just seen — it is felt — vibrating with unapologetic reclamation of vitality. With a deep passion for equitable education, Native sovereignty, and the liberating power of dance, Sandy brings radical joy and fierce embodiment to every space she occupies — from classrooms to galleries to dance floors. Her presence is more than artistic…it’s insurgent. It’s a ceremony. It's a revolution in motion.
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