Duck trapped under shack.
  • Courtesy the artist
  • Duck trapped under shack.
Tomorrow is Art Walk in Pioneer Square. Make a note of it. One of the shows I won't miss is Brent Watanabe's This Heavy Load at Gallery4Culture, an installation he created during a recent residency at the Macdowell Colony.

Watanabe pops up here and there all over the city, but he hasn't headlined a show in two years. His installations are interactive, game-like sculptures that are always darkly comical. Right now at Cornish, he's set up what looks like a "thermostat" on the wall. But it's connected to a pair of speakers that enact a shootout across the gallery every half hour or so. The "thermostat" tallies the dead. You may be among them.

This new installation includes a duck, a shack, a cat, a mouse, and I don't know what else. More on Watanabe's web site, Creepco, here.