12 Minutes Max

Local artists perform or present short works in a variety of media, including music, dance, film, and spoken word. Held the third Sunday of each month.

Dviratana — which means "dual gems" in Pali, the language of the Theravada Buddhist scriptures — is an improvised ambient electronic project featuring SLC local musicians Danté Leraé on modular synthesizer and Jon Philpott on the electronic wind synthesizer. Their music embraces the Buddhist philosophies of impermanence, non-duality and dependent origination to bring performances that are thoughtful, ever changing, interwoven and playful.

Danté Leraé is a Salt Lake City based artist who makes textural, emotionally driven electronic music shaped by nature and quiet moments. His work grows from simple ideas that open into small, honest spaces. He creates to stay connected and leaves room for listeners to find their own meaning inside sound.

Jon Philpott is an SLC transplant coming from the UK, he focuses mainly on improvised music, combining acoustic instruments and custom made electronics in his ongoing quest to take listeners on familiar sonic journeys.

Steven Stallings Cárdenas is an artist and musician whose work drifts between film, sound, and language. He focuses on rhythm, memory, and the quiet codes that shape contemporary life. A native of Southern California and now based in Utah, he holds an MFA from Columbia University and is an incoming artist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Time’s Square is a fractured dream-film built from archives, collage, and rhythmic disruption. Advertising slips into memory as symbols split, often returning unannounced. The work moves through myth, modernity, and the unconscious, tracing lines from Prometheus to Duchamp, from Steve Jobs to Latine identity, in forms such as AI dialogues that discuss the nature and syntax of truth and love.

Franky DeMartino will be sharing her work, Going Nowhere- Excerpt, a response to the experience of being stuck in life, trying your personal best, continually trying new ways for moving forward and still not being able to move forward. A response to the judgement one faces and feels from the self and others in such situations. A heralding call to chaos, desperation, grief, being trapped, rage, exhaustion etc. of the internal world before self acceptance is found.

Franky DeMartino is the creator of Allium Movers, a pop-up collaborative troupe of independent dancers. She is also a freelance artist and a member of the Allure Creative. She graduated from Utah Valley University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Modern Dance and Bachelors of Science with an emphasis in Behavioral Science and has worked with Oquirrh West Project & Synergy Dance Company while at UVU. Additionally, her research on dance and psychology has been presented at conferences on a regional and national level. In addition to setting two full ballets, her choreography has premiered on Allure Creative, Further Movement Collective, St. George Dance Company, Red Rock Festival Gala, and Synergy Dance Company at UVU. She is currently a full-time dance instructor, performer, and choreographer who is interested in fostering community, producing intimate performances, and exploring the human psyche.

12 Minutes Max is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Paul Reynolds: artist, librarian, and patron of the arts. The 12 Minutes Max program is a curated monthly performance series featuring experimental short works by local artists in many different disciplines, including dance, music, film, and more. Each piece is followed by a Q&A with the artist. 12MM is modeled after the program originated by On the Boards in Seattle.

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