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MIXT: A Living Gallery 

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MIXT: A Living Gallery is a community creation event. Each venue is transformed into an interactive and immersive creative laboratory, where artists and audiences collaborate in a celebration of our diversity.  

Poets, Dancers, Painters, Musicians, Actors, Writers, Feelers, Viewers and Listeners offer curated performances, along with an original soundscape and visual elements to create a completely unique and temporary creative landscape.

MIXT is an annual production for The Why Collective, and often features excerpts from our projects in development

Artists, hobbyists, and humans of all disciplines and experience levels are invited to submit original works, to be included in the curation of our annual “A Living Gallery," each exploring a single theme. For more information, email thewhycollective@gmail.com or submit our contact form. 

Past themes:

2023 - Nature vs. Nurture

2024 - For Love is Strong

2025 - lonlieness / waiting 

Past Iterations of the Living Gallery

2023 MIXT: A Living Gallery 
Nature vs. Nurture

MIXT: A Living Gallery premiered as part of The Why Collective’s residency at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre in February 2023. After the success of our durational launch project, Vexations in Time, this model of multi-day interactive events became a welcome calling card for the collective.

 

Sold-out attendance every night Rave reviews from artists and audiences alike, with multiple people returning for a second day Featured over 100 artists over 3 days, in all artistic disciplines from musicians to visual artists, writers to dancers, and burlesque artists to ASL performers. 

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Mark Bank Dancers and Choir

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Mary Angela For Love Is Strong

Mary Angela For Love Is Strong

2024 For Love is Strong: 
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This iteration of MIXT based the entire Living Gallery around the headlining titular work by David Lang, featuring original choreography by Mark Bankin and company. Soundscape oscillated between moments of silence, whispers, laughter, crying, and of course a 12-person chamber choir performing "For Love is Strong."

2025 MIXT: A Living Gallery 
loneliness | waiting 

MIXT: A Living Gallery reclaimed its namesake in 2025. This iteration happened in two parts. First, at The Red Door (Holy Trinity Lutheran Church) and second, at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Both featured "living statues" who remained on their pedestal for the entire 3-hour event, and transformed throughout the night. 

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