Base Residency Entry Point with Nakisa Dehpanah

Please join us at Base on Saturday, February 28, at 4 PM for Nakisa Dehpanah’s Entry Point.
Learn more about Nakisa here.

Nakisa’s Entry Point invites the public into the research phase of her upcoming project, Suspended Selves. Six suspended prototype structures will be installed with incomplete skins, emphasizing process rather than finished work.

Visitors are invited to create small fabric pieces using prompts and a range of materials focused on memory and presence, then attach them to the structures. Through this shared act, layered skins are built collectively. Participants are then guided to move slowly beneath and between the forms, eventually standing under one, experiencing the work through both making and embodied movement.

Nakisa Dehpanah Entry Point at Base:
February 28 at 4 PM

About Entry Points:
Entry Points are opportunities for our Resident artists to share their process. They may take the form of a showing, a conversation, or another expression of the artist's imagination. It’s an opportunity for the community to engage with the deep dives the artists undertook during their Residency and, possibly, discover a new artist or deepen their connection to an artist they support.

About the Base Residency:
The Base Residency is a unique, artist-curated program offering unrestricted space; the opportunity to publicly share work; technical, marketing, and administrative support; travel and lodging for out-of-town artists; and a fee of $1,000 per residency week. Since 2016, more than 30 artists have completed Base Residencies as the program continues to evolve and grow within a national context. Meet Base Residency Alumni here.

“The Base Artist Residency was crucial to the development of RoCoCoCoCo and indeed, my continued evolution as a creative artist. Having time and space to live in the questions of my work, to listen to my body, and to be in conversation with my dancing collaborators teaches me. Base offered me enough time to let the ideas establish themselves. This generosity feels like trust - like the institution/Base trusts the artists, and this allows the artists to trust the art/themselves.”

Heather Kravas (WA) 2024-2025 Base Resident Artist

Accessibility at Base:
The Factory has a ramped entrance at the north end of the building (through the orange door); the southern entrance of the building is only accessible by stairs.

Once inside, Base is accessible by ramp through our front doors. Please note that Base is not a scent-free space. The Factory has two gender neutral multi-stall restrooms and two single-stall restrooms that are wheelchair accessible.

Because we share a building with other studios, there is often industrial noise and heavy machinery in operation, such as forklifts.

Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to aaron@thisisbase.org