Unicorns in the Snow (Julia Vering) and minthill (Angela Saylor) reunite to collaborate on a tour of their experimental works to Baltimore's Sidebar June 7th. Unicorns in the Snow is Vering’s 15 year multimedia performance project that incorporates minimal dark sounds, affected accordion, interactive projections of stop motion animation and cryptic impressions inspired by hospice social work.

Saylor’s Mint Hill utilizes samples, drum machines, tapes, keys and singing to create sparse electronic paintings of memories of a place imagined as it would like to be remembered. Founded in 2003 within an attic on yew st in olympia, wa, minthill grew from a nostalgia for a home away from home.

Unicorns in the snow: Vering’s new piece, Motherhood, is inspired by Shelly Duvall’s fairytale theater, the mundanity of domestic life and parent-child relationships. Vering sits cloaked in projections of the animated minks stoles she talks to, playing affected accordion while a smattering of samples recorded of bedtime routine with her young children rattles on. Haunting music contrasts with farcical dialogue.

minthill: Angela M Saylor continues to depict stories chronicling displaced memories, fantasies and fabrications through minimalist, classical compositions. The focus of her most current work is attempting to portray the emptiness of abandoned places: ghost towns, dilapidated funeral homes and uninhabited seaside castles.