Ontopo is an on-going series of performative and participatory projects organized by Jon Santos based on collective creative exchange. With a multi-faceted embrace of visual, culinary, design, sound, architectural, healing and performance arts, Ontopo reimagines the relationship between creating and consuming, author and audience in the age of accelerated production. At the project’s core is the gathering of participants in dynamic regional locations that range from lush rainforests to Buddhist monasteries. Each unique environment holds the promise of catalyzing a freedom from familiar constraints and self consciousness, allowing for more present participation.
This page represents Ontopo at Outlier Inn in the summer of 2015. Featured artists and workshops include the following. Kamau Patton: Acoustic Ecology. Daniel Perlin: Listening Closely. Luke Simon: Breathwork & Healing. The Jewels of New York: Bannock Bread. Huy Bui: Solar Light. Anne Apparu-Hall: Seed Ball. Ambika Conroy: How to Animal Farm. Josh Druckman: Group Song Making. Paul Jacobsen: Tiny House Raising. Sharon Dang: Screen Printing and Beads. Tara Mei Smith Extra Terrestrial Projects: Invasive Plant Harvest. James Kendi: Kubb. Shelley Burgon: Sound Chandeliers. Megha Barnabas: Movement Workshop. S10 Training: Forest Boot Camp. Dance Party: Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance, Nelleke McCowan, Jon Santos. Erik Meier: Bird Courage. Alexandra Drewchin: Eartheater Performance. Data Garden: Midi Sprout. Mombucha Kombucha Explained. Alice Schavoir: Sound Canopy. Seytenes: Sound Bath. Morgan Yakus: Group Hypnosis and Tonic Bar. Food by Anne Apparu-Hall, Ted Hall, Lovely Day & Ni Japanese Deli.
Photos by Jayne Lies
