Artists Archive

Barry Sanders: 2 Events; Barry Sanders holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature. He taught for over thirty years in the departments of Literature and the History of Ideas at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges, where he was the first to hold the Peter S. and Gloria Gold Chair. The author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, he has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was twice a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He serves as a contributing editor of North American Review, and writes frequently for Cabinet. His essay “Bang the Keys Swiftly: Type-Writers and Their Discontents” recently appeared in the New Museum catalog Ghosts in the Machine, published by Skira Rizzoli. He is Founding Co-chair of the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and the Ford Institute for Visual Education.
bart fitzgerald: 5 Events; bart fitzgerald (b. 1991) is a pastor, scholar, and cultural critic.
Beacon Sound: 3 Events; Beacon Sound is a record store, label, and event space located in North Portland dedicated to connecting the sometimes-disparate dots of contemporary music both locally and globally. By design, Beacon Sound is as much a cultural node as a record store: a gathering place for like-minded people, a home for all sorts of events and happenings, a facilitator/instigator of unexpected connections and modes of production.
Bean Gilsdorf: 1 Event; Bean Gilsdorf's work examines the visual traces of political histories and sociocultural narratives. Her projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and the American Textile History Museum, as well as exhibition spaces in England, Italy, China, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and South Africa. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship (2024), a Ford Family Foundation Fellowship Residency at Ucross (2023), an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2020), two creative Fulbright Fellowships to Poland (2015–2016 and 2016–2017), and a Graduate Fellowship Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts (2011–2012). Gilsdorf’s work is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Kala Art Institute, and the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bebe Miller: 4 Events; Bebe Miller’s vision of dance and performance resides in her faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and beauty. Her aesthetic relies on the interplay of a work’s idea, its physicality, and the contributions of company members to fashion its singular voice. She has collaborated with artists, composers, writers and designers along with the dancers who share her studio practice and from whom she has learned what dancing can reveal. Seeking to expand the language of dance, Bebe Miller Company’s work encompasses choreography, writing, film, video and digital media.
A native New Yorker, Bebe first performed her choreography at NYC’s Dance Theater Workshop in 1978. She formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985 to pursue her interest in finding a physical language for the human condition. Since then, Bebe has created more than 50 dance works for the company that have been performed in nearly 400 engagements worldwide. BMC has been commissioned and presented by leading venues including 651 ARTS, BAM Next Wave, DTW, Jacob’s Pillow, Joyce Theater, PICA, REDCAT, Walker Art Center and Wexner Center for the Arts. Her choreography has been performed by Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M. (Abraham In Motion), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, Philadanco, Salt Lake City’s Repertory Dance Theater, the UK’s Phoenix Dance Company, PACT Dance Company of Johannesburg, South Africa, and a host of colleges and universities.
Over the last decade the Company has produced a variety of digital archive projects that share the company’s creative practice with artists and audiences. Committed to keeping dance available to a wide spectrum of people and to further the conversation about the role of arts and creativity in our culture, BMC is dedicated to providing access to the creative process and expression to diverse communities.
Named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center in 2005, Bebe has been a Movement Research honoree, has received four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” awards, the David R. White Award from New York Live Arts, United States Artists and Guggenheim Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Ursinus College and Franklin & Marshall College, and is one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artist Award recipients. Bebe is a Distinguished Professor Emerita in The Ohio State University’s Department of Dance and lives in Columbus, OH.
Becca Blackwell: 2 Events; Becca Blackwell is a NYC based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun "they," Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D'Amour. Recently seen in Erin Markey's tour of A Ride on the Irish Cream and Richard Maxwell's Samara. Becca is a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award 2015.
Beep Beep: 1 Event; Maggie and Amelie met in the eighth grade and have been writing together ever since. Music has become somewhat of a way to say and do the things we, as sixteen-year-old girls, never felt like we could say. If we scream, we scream, if we cry, we cry. It’s just as much our poetry as it is our diary. Music is a gateway to the expression of our rage, our sadness, and everything in between, we hope we reflect that.
instagram.com/twobugsinaband
Performing at Bloom, an open-air fundraiser for PICA o April 30, 2021, as a part of Friends of Noise.
Belly & Bones: 0 Events; BELLY & BONES is the multi-medium art collaborative of Stef Choi and Tony Candelaria. Its focus moves freely in between video and illustration where fabrication and design translate into modern forms. With the intent of channeling the spirit and energy of each project and collaborating with like-minded souls, BELLY & BONES' mission is to create heart-centered, powerful work that engages the world at its connective core.
Ben Darwish: 3 Events; Ben Darwish is a pianist and composer who has been playing music since the age of six. He attended University of Oregon and received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies. Upon graduation, he was awarded "Outstanding Undergraduate Performer in Jazz Studies." Darwish has played with many artists, including Kevin Mohagany, Rich Perry, Ron Miles, Devin Phillips, Esperanza Spalding, Alan Jones, Reggie Watts, Bill Summers (of The Headhunters), Stephanie Schneiderman, Ohmega Watts, and Ryan Dolliver. In 2009, he was nominated for “Outstanding Achievement In Jazz” by the 2009 Portland Music Awards and recently released his second album Ode To Consumerism with his band, the Ben Darwish Trio.
Benoît Pioulard: 2 Events; Since a young age, Thomas Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He began playing piano before his feet could reach the pedals, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment by combining remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard.
Beth Campbell: 1 Event; Beth Campbell is a New York interdisciplinary artist, exploring the self-conscious positioning in one’s identity and surroundings. She shows with Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York and has had previous solo shows at Roebling Hall (NY), Sandroni Rey Gallery (LA) and Sala Diaz (TX). Campbell has participated in various museum shows including And Therefore I am at the Tang Museum in 2006, Open House at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2004, Hello My Name Is... at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh in 2002, and Greater New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in 2000. She has work included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum’s Altoids Curiously Strong Collection. Campbell’s art reviews have appeared in various publications including the New York Times, LA Times, Village Voice, Art on Paper, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America and Art Index.
Beyondadoubt: 4 Events; Pulling from her Southern roots, Beyondadoubt has brought originality to nightlife for over a decade, whether in the Northwest or the deep South. DJing since ‘98, Beyondadoubt creates rhythms from her sprawling collection of vintage soul records to complement her raw, Dirty South, New Orleans Bounce, and 90s rave sounds.
I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul, her groundbreaking monthly party of rare 60s soul records, has achieved legendary status with soul heavyweights and “beautifully ecstatic dancers” around the country. Beyondadoubt also hosts MRS., a monthly queer dance party with friends and guest DJs, where she packs the house with true queer culture. Her sets get the already flamboyant and beautiful queer community out on the dance floor and shaking ass to real underground queer music.
Big Art Group: 3 Events; Big Art Group is a New York-based experimental performance ensemble founded by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson in 1999. The company pushes the formal boundaries of theater, film, and visual art through the use of technology and experimental methods of communication. In its history, the company has grown from an underground performance group to an internationally recognized ensemble with invitations from leading festivals and presenters including Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Festival d’automne à Paris, La Vie de Festival Rome, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and The Kitchen in New York.
Selected Press
10 years of Big Art Group, Justin Bond, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2010
Big Art Group: 'The People' Shaped by Local Views, Nirmala Nataraj, San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 2011.
Big Terrific: 2 Events; Big Terrific is a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, and Max Silvestri. It started as a project between three friends: a free, low-key event where they could try out new material and perform regularly in front of an audience who’d be up for the experimentation. Before long, the show’s reputation grew, and it became the go-to stage for innovative comedians and comedy fans who’d rather see something new than the regular two-drink-minimum acts.
The big concept behind the show is: let’s just be friends. The idea that you might get made fun of if you sit too close to the stage is the antithesis of what Gabe, Jenny, and Max set out to do. On any given Wednesday in Brooklyn, you can show up at Big Terrific to hear personal stories from people who love to tell them, see short films by up-and-coming directors, and laugh along to stand-up curated carefully by Gabe, Jenny, and Max.
Big Terrific has been proud to host Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman, Nick Offerman, Janeane Garofalo, Aziz Ansari, Reggie Watts, and many other comedy superstars over the years. The show was also awarded the prestigious “Best Of New York” by New York Magazine.
Because Jenny Slate Proved There's Life After SNL, Andrew Marantz, GQ, August, 2011.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Jenny Slate, Ellen Killoran, The L Magazine, May 25, 2011.
Biljana Kosmogina: 2 Events; BILJANA KOSMOGINA is an avant-garde writer, performer and multimedia artist from Belgrade. Her stories are included in three anthologies of Serbian prose, translated into Italian, German and Albanian. Kosmogina is a writer and performer who forcefully deals with women’s questions, sexual and gender discourse and roles, as well as social disorders. She is subversive and politically incorrect towards all existing values!
Bill Jenkins: 3 Events; A continuation of Jenkins’ experiments with light and architecture, this installation work is constructed and composed using a system of tarps and ducts to effect and capture the light. The installation evokes mass infrastructures but is made of readily available materials and deployed in contradictory spaces. They raise questions of individual agency in relation to the complex historical, financial, and social structures that form spaces for living and working.
Black Aesthetic Studio: 2 Events; The Design Collaborative know as the Black Aesthetic Studio (BAS) is led by artist duo Cleo and Kayin Davis, in conjunction with Professor of Architecture Robert Alexander Clarke, and historian Kimberly Moreland. They will investigate policing through the lens of Oregonian historically anti-black urban politics and policies. And how these systems of policing affected Black Folks' ways of living, being, and seeing throughout time.
BAS aims to uncover how past, present, and future policing histories have imprinted African Americans' psychology and aesthetic throughout time. They will construct temporal gateways that will encapsulate specific periods which will draw the audience into black space, thus illuminating the user on how we see our histories and futures which has been policed by white authorship from the founding of our nation. These constructed visions will be critique on Oregon racist history and policies, allow one to understand how migration and oppression has transforms black identity and its expressions.
Cleo Davis started his education in architecture at the University of Oregon further changing to industrial design at San Jose State. He is an artist whose work takes a critical view of the social, political and cultural issues and through his work, he continues to reconstruct the cultural view modernizing while also highlighting traditions. Although he engages with multiple subjects and mediums his methodology remains consistent. He also has started the screw loose Studio the Mayo House project and most recently, the archives project in collaboration with Kayin.
Kayin Talton Davis started off in an artistic direction from a very young age, but later learned her love for math and science and pursued a Bachelor's in mechanical engineering at Portland State University. Her design projects were always influenced by a drive to be accessible to all. She started the soapbox theory in 2001, as a way to express herself creatively. And through these mediums, her interest is always in creating something that is positive, helpful and accessible to all but especially children from culturally underrepresented communities.
Robert Alexander Clarke is a designer, educator, and theorist practicing at the intersection of culture, identity, and architecture. His work aims to develop and canonize black aesthetics, thus authenticating it as a lens through which to practice architecture. His design office, BAS (Black Aesthetic Studio) was founded by Clarke, Cleo Davis and Kimberly Morland; their studio explores how to unearth new aesthetics that are immensely specific to African American culture, experience, and identity. Before joining as Activist in Residence at UCLA’s City Lab, Clarke held posts as a Wilson Smith III Design in Spatial Justice Fellow at the University of Oregon’s College of Design. As well as Research Fellow at Newlab under the supervision of architect and New York University Associate Professor of Practice Mitchell Joachim. Before opening his practice, Clarke worked for many years at architectural firms across the globe, including HOK, Terreform ONE, Gensler, and Archi-Union.
Kimberly Stowers Moreland, MBA, MURP, is wife of Michael L. Moreland and the mother of four amazing young adults: Katherine, Mike Jr., Kristen, and Karina. She owns Moreland Resource Consulting and has over 25+ years of experience in the public sector, urban and historic preservation, community development, and urban planning in Portland, Tacoma, and Salem.
Moreland serves as the President of the Oregon Black Pioneers, and their mission is to preserve the history of Black Oregonians. On behalf of the Oregon Black Pioneers, she authored Images of America: African Americans of Portland (Arcadia Publisher). She is the Vice-Chair of the Portland Historic Landmark Commission and a member of the Portland Landmark Commission.
As a community historian, Kimberly began documenting Portland's Black history for over 30+ years. As a city planner with the City of Portland, she worked with the community advisory committee and local historians to produce the History of Portland's African-American History (1805 to the Present). She was on the project team that produced Cornerstones of Community: The Buildings of Portland's African American History, published in 1995. She was subsequently involved in the Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) history project, which builds on the Cornerstones research to produce African American Resources in Portland, Oregon, from 1851 to 1973. This research brings attention to sites related to Portland's Black history so they can be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
As owner of Moreland Resource Consulting, Moreland worked with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and Home Forward, former the Housing Authority of Portland (HAP), to better understand how their past policies unjustly impacted African Americans. Since, 2021, she has teamed with the City of Portland and Architectural Resource Group (ARG) on successfully approval of four National Historic Landmark Register nominations significant to Portland's Black history, including Dean's Beauty and Barbershop, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Golden West Hotel, and Dr. John D. Marshall Building. In 2023, with Constructing Hope, Moreland co-authored Building Legacy: BIPOC Construction Trailblazers in Oregon, which highlighted twenty-three construction trade pioneers.
In 2023, she partnered with Robert Clark and Cleo Davis to establish Black Aesthetics Studio LLC (BAS). The firm explored how to unearth new aesthetics specific to African-American culture, experience, and identity.
Black Feast: 1 Event; Salimatu Amabebe (they/he), is a Bay Area-based chef, multimedia artist and the founder/ director of Black Feast. Amabebe's work focuses on the intersection of food and art, drawing from family memories, Nigerian recipes, and Black culinary history.
@salimatuamabebe

Intisar Abioto is an artist working across photography, dance, and writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer to the living breath/breadth of people of African descent against the expanse of their storied, geographic, and imaginative landscapes.

Akela Jaffi is a writer and dancer living in Portland, OR. A graduate of Jefferson High school, she is the founder of Black Artists Summer Showcase. Dance has been her method of expression and healing, and her greatest contribution to the Portland art world. She is grateful for her role in building community, and the dedication of others seeking equality and change.

Annika Hansteen-Izora (she/they) is a queer Black poet, designer, and writer from Palo Alto, California, based in Brooklyn, New York. As a multimedia artist, Annika uses poetry, design, and performance to explore themes of healing, Black liberation, afrofuturism, and queerness. She is a creative contributor at Black Feast and the head of design and UI at Ethel's Club and Somewhere Good, a to-be-released social media platform that connects people of color to each other and the things they love. Annika believes in the sacredness of Black joy, and uses her work to explore tenderness as a liberation practice. annikaizora.com @annika.izora

Jasmine Beach (she/her), is a multidisciplinary artist, skilled tradesperson, and autonomous organizer. She is currently studying environmental policy and constitutional law with aspirations around advocating for environmental equity, mutual aid, sustainability, and decolonization.
Ariel Myles Hernandez (they/she), is a Black and Xicanx queer person raised in the PNW. Their interior and exterior landscapes inspire them to dabble in spaces of creativity expressed through food, visual art, poetry, music, and community organizing. After completing degrees in Black studies and Chicano studies, Myles Hernandez now focuses on creative and educational programming, project coordination for Black youth, art curation, and working as a core contributor to Black Feast.
Blackfish: 2 Events; Multi-instrumentalist/composer James Everest is based in Minneapolis and has worked on a variety of musical projects, including Lateduster, Neotropic, Sans Le Systeme, Roma Di Luna, Vicious Vicious, and with Walter Kitundu and Eduard Nesterenko. Since 2002 Everest has been a close collaborator with choreographer Emily Johnson, writing and performing original scores for several performances. Since 2005, he has hosted and curated the Making Music conversations series at the University of Minnesota's Whole Music Club and the Walker Art Center.
Joel Pickard is based in Portland, OR and works as an improviser and composer creating music for dance, theatre, video, commercial advertising, and performance. In 2003 he collected all of these various projects under the Hatfarm label. Pickard has an MA in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, CA, where he studied with Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, and Pauline Oliveros. Pickard plays guitar in Jigsaw and pedal steel guitar in Mire.
Blossom: 3 Events; Trini soul singer with a passion for rhythm and the underground
Blue: 1 Event; JaJa PDX is a performance art space, wood shop, ceramic studio, healing space, and a collective of creatives.
We have formed a group of diverse, like-minded individuals who come together to share ideas, learn from each other, build community, and create a new reality for artists in the Pacific Northwest to cement the bases for the future of Sustainable Arts Collectives.
Our 20,000sf warehouse is housed in the Central East Side Industrial sector of Portland. We are comprised of makers and creators of all types.
We have formed a partnership with The Haven, an incredible artist collection, who joined us and moved their community inside the walls of JaJa PDX.
Through this partnership, we are striving to build unity within the creative community of Portland. We are encouraging people to live outside of their comfort zone. JaJa PDX is rapidly morphing into a factory of peoples' dreams.
Blues Control: 2 Events; Blues Control is Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, a shape-shifting pair of musicians who channel Debussy via Guaraldi qua Bley qua Hornsby pianisms, alongside the playful juxtapositions of a full spectrum of rock colors: stadium, industrial, psych and prog (to name just a few). Their music spans spacey guitar leads, clarion synth, and the punch of real drums, only to suddenly veer into world music and mellow drug-mospheres, blending exotic and classical, Western and Eastern, and the widest spectrum of sounds available. Their latest album, Valley Tangents, was released in 2012.
Selected Press
"Blues Control: Interview," John Crowell, Tiny Mix Tapes, June 2012.
bobbevy (Suniti Dernovsek & David Stein): 5 Events; Choreographer Suniti Dernovsek and visual artist David Stein began making work together in 2004 under the name Hot Little Hands, which, in 2011, evolved into the Portland-based contemporary dance company bobbevy. In addition to 18 shorter works, Dernovsek and Stein have produced six evening-length shows: This is how we disappear (2013); Palace of Crystal (2011); ill-starred (2009); Lawn of the Limp (2008); Avian Fable (2007); and Marionette (2004). They have been presented by Conduit Dance, Reed College Arts Week, Danspace in NYC, Velocity Dance Center, Northwest New Works at On the Boards, Ten Tiny Dances’ South Waterfront Project, and PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival. They have received several grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, as well as the Dance New Work Award from UWM.
Bob Nickas: 0 Events; Bob Nickas has organized more than ninety exhibitions since 1984, and earned a reputation for an individual style that transgresses the accepted. Nickas was Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1/MoMA in New York between 2004-07, where his exhibitions include Lee Lozano: Drawn From Life; William Gedney—Christopher Wool: Into the Night; Stephen Shore: American Surfaces; and Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom From The Known. He served on the team for the 2003 Biennale de Lyon, contributed a section to Aperto at the 1993 Venice Biennale, and collaborated with Cady Noland on her installation for Documenta IX in 1992.
His books include Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting, Theft Is Vision, Live Free or Die: Collected Writings 1985-1999, and The Dept. of Corrections. He is one of the authors of Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years In 200 Pivotal Artworks, and of No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989. 30/130, a survey of his books, catalogs and zines—130 produced over the past 30 years—as well as records, editions and ephemera, was presented at White Columns in 2015.
BodyCartography Project: 4 Events; As co-directors of the BodyCartography Project, Olive Bieringa (NZ) and Otto Ramstad (USA) investigate empathy and the physicality of space in urban, domestic, wild and social landscapes through dance, performance, video, installation work and movement education. Their works range from intimate solos for the street, stage, or gallery, to large site-based community dance works, short experimental films, to complex works for the stage. They have created performance works, short films and installations across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America and were recently named “Dance Company of the Year” by the Twin Cities City Pages. They are featured artists in the first book about site dance in the USA published by University of Florida Press entitled Site Dance, the Lure of Alternative Spaces.
For greater context and a more in-depth exploration of BodyCartography Project and their work, click here to view a PDF of collected reviews, interviews, articles and links. A great resource for those who really want to dive into the Festival!
Body/Head: 2 Events; Body/Head are an electric guitar duo comprised of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc.). They began working together in various loose formats a few years ago, but the Body/Head concept evolved more specifically in early 2012.
Body/Head have also worked with guest artists since their inception. An early session with Michael Morley of The Dead C resulted in the Body/Gate/Head LP Glare Luring Yo, and live collaborations with Ikue Mori. Ikue has been focusing on electronics as her primary instrument in the decades since the end of her groundbreaking trio DNA, but Kim was able to talk her into trying drums again, and the results have been astounding. Ikue’s percussion grounds the spirals of guitar and vocals with its strong central pulse, allowing everybody to achieve greater heights of musical/visual disorientation.
Body/Head have thus far recorded a single for Dennis Tyfuss’ Ultra Eczema Editions, a tour EP for Nace’s own Open Mouth Productions, and released their collaboration with Morley through Feeding Tube Records. Their next release, Coming Apart, will be issued as a double LP /CD/digital album by Matador Records on September 10 (September 16 in the United Kingdom and Europe)
Selected Press
"Q&A: Kim Gordon on Body/Head's Coming Apart and Life After Sonic Youth," T. Cole Rachel, Stereogum, June 26, 2013.
Bogosi Sekhukhuni: 0 Events; Lender and designer Bogosi Sekhukhuni (b. 1991, South Africa) offers considerations on cultures and histories of technology and science. Since 2013, Sekhukhuni’s work has been featured internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, with institutions that include MoMA, Foxy Production, Fondazione Prada, Tate Modern & Kunsthalle Bern. They have been awarded the Prix Net Art Award. Sekhukhuni is a founding member of the artist group NTU and is co-founder of the design firm INFANT.
Bogosi is a 2023 Golden Spot Residency awardee.
bone lattice: 1 Event; bone lattice is the quiet side project of performance artist SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY and composer Antbohony A. Dunn. After a decade of collaboration on paintings, illustrations, and theatrical soundtracks, they are dedicated to working together through sound and image to confront contradictions, intensities, violence, and darkness as they also navigate these themes in their own, very different, practices of the digital arts. Both artists are concerned with poetry and sound as material. Chicago’s Wish Fulfillment describes b o n e l a t t i c e as “Thrumming engine-room ambience suffused with foreboding, while refusing to even acknowledge the Halloween-store cliches of so much "dark ambient." Instead, [b o n e l a t t i c e ] inhabits that same greyed-out zone where Jeff Greinke and others have played, juggling texture, harmony, suspense, and wonder with equal aplomb…”
https://www.bonelattice.net/
Bouchra Ouizguen: 7 Events; Born in Ouarzazate, Morocco, and educated in France, Bouchra Ouizguen has been performing in Marrakech and France since 1995. In 2002, with Taoufiq Izeddiou and Saïd Ait El Moumen, Ouizguen founded ANANIA, a contemporary dance company in Marrakech, and created the On Marche dance festival. She also collaborated that year in forming the Al Mokhtabar contemporary dance company. Her choreographic works include AnaOunta (2002); Fina ken’ti (2002); Mort et moi (2005); Déserts, desires with Taoufiq Izeddiou (2006); Aïta with Naïma Sahmoud (2007); and Madame Plaza (2008-2009). Ouizguen has performed throughout Morocco and France, including at the prestigious Montpellier Dance Festival, and in New York at the 2010 FIAF Crossing the Line Festival in NYC. Since 2007, Ouizguen has been a co-organizer of the annual festival Recontres Chorégraphiques in Marrakech.
Selected Press
"A Moroccan Tradition in Full Cry," Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times, September 23, 2010.
Boxer Milner Tjampitjin: 0 Events; Jaru language. Born c.1935. Died 2OO9.
Like many of the senior men and women at Wirrimanu (Balgo), Boxer Milner began painting in the late 198Os, following the establishment of the Warlayirti art centre. His early works were tentative experiments in form. But buried within their restrained palette and restricted formal syntax were the early signs of a matchless mastery of geometry and form. It was not until the mid-199Os, when the artist began tempering these rigid structures with high-keyed color contrasts that the singularity of his talent became unmistakable. In his mature works, Milner revealed himself to be that rare breed of artist adroit at perfectly manipulating both color and form. This balance was the evidence of a lifetime’s observation of the natural world. Milner was born around 1935 at Matwanangu, on the banks of Sturt Creek, south west of Bililuna in Western Australia. Working as a stockman, his life was defined by majestic natural cycles of this ancient country. A senior lawman, he drew his artistic and spiritual sustenance from Purkitji, a major floodplain for the Sturt. It is the ebb and flow of these life-giving waters that shape the idiosyncratic iconography of Milner’s work. In his jostling angles, or flowering ringlets, Milner offers the hieroglyphs of nature’s transformational hand. Rendered in a measured architecture of lines and dots, they are the astute record of an intimate knowledge of place. Milner’s work was included in the exhibitions Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberly and Color Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984 at the National Gallery of Victoria. He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Boyzie Cekwana: 2 Events; Boyzie Cekwana (Durban, South Africa) is a performing artist and choreographer. Along with some of his continental peers, he is part of an artistic noise for developing a voice for contemporary dance practice and scholarship in Southern Africa. Together with Desiré Davids, he founded The Floating Outfit Project in 1996, where he remains Artistic Director, Choreographer and performer. He works across disciplines and his work has been shown across various platforms around the world. He is part of the on-going African guerrilla thought-factory, developing and shaping ideas for artistic self-expression in the Southern African region.
Brad Adkins: 1 Event; Brad Adkins was born in Kalispell, Montana. Adkins' individual, collaborative, and curatorial work has been presented at The Art Gym, Consolidated Works, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery, The Portland Art Museum, and PICA; and has been noted and featured in ArtNews, Artweek, Modern Painters, Punk Planet, and The Independent. His work is represented by PDX Contemporary Art (OR). BIG RED, an audio cd that documents an afternoon conversation between Adkins and Curtis Knapp on the subjects of performance, imitation, and close-up magic, was produced by Marriage Records in 2004.
BRAINSTORM: 1 Event; BRAINSTORM is a music group from Portland whose ecstatic art-pop shines with inescapable melodies, polyrhythmic singing, thunderous drumming, and shimmering guitar lines. With influences ranging from African highlife to soulful AM-radio nostalgia, the result is a music experience that is energetic, eclectic, and undeniably engaging.
Brandon Harrison: 2 Events; Brandon Harrison is the founder of the PDXBall. He is also the founder and father of the Kiki House of Flora. Over the past few years, Brandon has helped grow the ballroom scene in Portland, Oregon. He also helps mentor the growing Kiki ballroom scenes in Boise, Denver, and Salt Lake City where he is known as their Fairy Godfather. Brandon performs in drag as Hydrangea Strangea, and also goes by Hydrangea 007 in the mainstream ballroom scenes around the world. A former member of the Legendary House of Mizrahi, his new 007 title means he is not currently in a major house but is up for grabs!
Brede Rørstad: 1 Event; Brede Rørstad is the co-founder of No More Mondays and Fiol. No More Mondays is a creative studio bridging luxury fashion, object design, interiors and digital spaces. Rørstad is passionate about story telling and the user journey in luxury fashion.
Brendan Fowler: 0 Events; Fowler has released records on Kill Rock Stars and Upset The Rhythm and he toured with Tracy + The Plastics, Xiu Xiu,The Quails, and Animal Collective. Since 2007, his output has been mostly dedicated to sculpture and installation, exhibiting in galleries and museums internationally including Rental, Rivington Arms, Untitled, and The New Museum in New York; The Aspen Museum; A Palazzo in Italy; and Gallerie Thadeus Ropac in Paris. While Fowler splits his output between performance and sculpture, one can see links between both bodies of work. Though he takes full advantage of medium specificities, both strains of his practice are formalized deconstructions of a very personal narrative. 2013 promises to be a busy year for Fowler, with major solo shows lined up in New York and Los Angeles, a new monographic book split between his studio and performance works, and a new performances as And Martin.
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/barr.shtml
Selected Press
Booking Brendan Fowler, Interview Magazine, Asher Penn, June, 2009.
No Holes Barred, +1 Magazine, Stuart Hammond. (PDF)
Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly: 1 Event; Gerard & Kelly (Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly) have collaborated since 2003 to create project-based installations and performances interrogating the formation of the couple and the critical potential of intimacy. Driven by an inquiry of their own partnership, the duo uses choreography, video, and sculpture to address questions of sexuality, memory and the formation of queer consciousness. Their work has been exhibited internationally at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; New Museum, New York; and The Kitchen, New York, among other institutions. Their ongoing performance series Modern Living, in collaboration with L.A. Dance Project, was recently presented by The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, in association with Art Production Fund. Gerard & Kelly have received numerous recognitions for their work, including the New England Foundation for the Arts (2015), Art Matters grant (2014), and the 2014 Juried Award from the New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessies. Gerard & Kelly completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2010, and received their MFAs in 2013 from the Interdisciplinary Studio in the UCLA Department of Art.
Brian Bress: 0 Events; Brian Bress is an artist based in Los Angeles, USA. Recent solo shows include: Cherry and Martin, LA; New Museum, New York, USA (both 2012); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2012); and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, USA (2011). Forthcoming exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy and Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain (both 2013).
Brian Lund: 1 Event; Lund’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues including Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York (2009); Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (2009); Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ (2008); Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2008); b42 Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada (2008); Moti Hasson Gallery, New York (2008); Josèe Bienvenu Gallery, New York (2008); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2008); The Drawing Center, New York (2008); and chashama, New York (2006). His work has been reviewed in several publications including The New York Times, Time Out New York, Art Review, and The Journal News. Lund is represented by Smith-Stewart, NYC.
Brian Rogers: 2 Events; Brian Rogers is a theater and film director, video and sound artist, and performing arts curator. Since 1997, Rogers has created films, performances, albums, and other time-based projects including Small Songs (2023-2024); Screamers (2018); Hot Box (2012, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival, PS122’s COIL Festival, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center and supported by a MAP Fund grant); and the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (2010). Rogers composed the soundtrack for Shaun Iron & Lauren Petty’s film Standing By: Gatz Backstage and has collaborated as a sound and video artist with numerous experimental dance and theater artists in New York and elsewhere. Rogers is a MacDowell Fellow and has had residencies at Yaddo and Mount Tremper Arts.
Rogers is the Co-Founder and Artistic Executive Director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, an internationally recognized venue for experimental dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performance based in Queens, NY. Now in its twenty-second year, Rogers serves as chief curator of The Chocolate Factory Theater’s artistic programming and leads its artistic and administrative operations.
Rogers has taught at Kenyon College, University of Michigan, University of Colorado, The School at The Art Institute of Chicago, St. Johns University, Carnegie Mellon University, Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, New York University, Princeton University, and others. He has served as a panelist/recommender for New York State Council on the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, Fresh Tracks, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, Pew Charitable Trust, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Yaddo, Macdowell, MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim, and others. Rogers is a graduate of Bennington College.
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Bridget Everett: 0 Events; Bridget Everett is a singing tour de force known for her funny yet gut-wrenching, outrageous and unpredictable performance work. She’s been dubbed “Wynona Judd meets Melissa Etheridge, via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks” by Michael Musto from the Village Voice. She has appeared frequently on Time Out New York’s annual list of top cabaret performers, ranking number one in 2010 on a list which included Alan Cumming and Elaine Stritch. Bridget co-hosts Our Hit Parade, a sold-out monthly revue of current pop hits, with Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) and Neal Medlyn at Joe’s Pub. She starred in the original musical At Least It’s Pink based on her life which she co-wrote with director Michael Patrick King (writer/director of hit tv series Sex and the City) and Mellman which played Ars Nova for 12 weeks. Bridget has performed at Montreal’s Just for Laughs, New York Comedy Festival, HBO’s Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival . and the Adelaide International Cabaret Festival in Adelaide, Australia. She played Lynn Chenney in Taylor Mac’s Red Tide Blooming at P.S.122, was featured in Scott Wittman's production JUKEBOX JACKIE, and was a regular on Logo’s Jeffrey Cole Casserole. She can be seen as Cathy in the Sex and the City movie and as Shonda in the CBS hit comedy, 2 Broke Girls. Bridget co-wrote and performed an evening of original music called Bridget and Neal are F*cking and Adam is Watching with Medlyn and Adam Horovitz (Adrock: Beastie Boys). Bridget can be seen in HBO Canada's Funny as Hell alongside Horovitz. and will be releasing an album of original music with her band, The Tender Moments, this fall.
Bri Pruett: 1 Event; Bri Pruett is a stand-up comic and improviser from Portland, Oregon. Willamette Week named her one of the Funniest 5 Comedians in Portland. She’s appeared at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the All Jane No Dick comedy festival, the Seattle International Comedy Competition, San Francisco Sketch Fest, and Bumbershoot. She makes regular appearances at Helium Comedy Club, Curious Comedy Theater, and other Portland showcases.
Britt Hatzius: 2 Events; Britt Hatzius works in film, video, sound, and performance, exploring ideas around language, interpretation, and the potential for discrepancies, ruptures, and (mis/)communication. Her work has been shown internationally at galleries, institutions, and performance and media arts festivals. Recent collaborations include the cinematic installation Micro Events (2012) with Tom Kok, the interactive performance This Is Not My Voice Speaking (2013) with Ant Hampton, and a sitespecific installation As Never Before, As Never Again (2014) with Ant Hampton.
Brock Monroe: 1 Event; Brock Monroe is an artist and designer, with a focus on the connection between live cinema and music. As one of the lead artists in the Joshua Light Show, Brock has collaborated with founder Joshua White on performances at Tanglewood, Mutek Mexico, Transmediale/CTM Festival (Berlin), Przemiany Festival (Warsaw), Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, New World Symphony for Performa/Art Basel Miami Beach, and the opening of Southampton's Parrish Museum, among others, with musicians ranging from Manuel Göttsching, MGMT, and Silver Apples, to The Boston Pops, Lou Reed, Terry Riley, and Oneohtrix Point Never. His collaboration with Seth Kirby, creating light art to accompany William Basinski's Vivian & Ondine has been presented at ISSUE Project Room and The Kitchen as part of Carnegie Hall's American Mavericks festival. In 2009, he collaborated with Nick Hallett on Voice + Light Systems, a four-part performance series at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Monroe and Hallett have also presented their A/V lecture opera, "Xenia," at LMAK Projects and for Art On Air/Calder Foundation, on the occasion of the 2011 Armory Show. At Mighty Robot, an underground music venue which existed in Williamsburg during the early 2000s, helping to launch the careers of bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, and Oneida, Brock served as a member of its A/V Squad, creating projections for literally hundreds of independent rock bands.
Brody Condon: 1 Event; Condon’s work is notable for its influence on the repurposing of existing computer and live games to create sculpture, performance, and software installations. Examples include Youth of the Apocalypse, a series of self-playing game modifications based on Late Medieval Northern European religious paintings, and the recent Twentyfivefold Manifestation, a ritualistic performative event with 80 players from the live action role-playing subculture held at the Sonsbeek 2008 International Public Sculpture Exhibition.
Condon was born in Mexico and received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. He attended residencies at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2004 and Skowhegan 2001. Past exhibitions include 2004 Whitney Biennial, Pace Wildenstein Gallery and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Santa Monica Museum of Art and Machine Project in California; the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh; Kunst-werke in Berlin; and the Stedelijk Museum Post CS in the Netherlands.
Brook Colley: 1 Event; Dr. Brook Colley (Wasco, Warm Springs, Eastern Cherokee; Enrolled: Eastern Band of Cherokee) is an associate professor and chair of the Native American Studies program at Southern Oregon University. Colley’s research is focused on federal Indian law and policy, Oregon Tribes, intertribal relations and conflict, and community health and healing. Her book Power in the Telling: Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era was published in 2019 by the University of Washington Press and it was a finalist for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction. In 2014, she received her PhD in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis, and is currently working on an intertribal Indigenous-led collaboration to enhance first food access and first food production in Southern Oregon. She lives in Jackson County with her daughter and two pups named Honey and Leonard Cohen.
Brookfield Duece: 0 Events; Brookfield Duece arrived on the hip-hop scene in the early 2000's as Duece, a 20 year old rapper whose style provided a chilled, lyrical, storytelling alternative to the rising street dance influenced sound controlling the Bay Area. With soul samples, 808 drums, and funk strings under detailed lyrical ability taught to him by his late cousin Eugene Vasquez from Rochester, NY, Duece brought a message in every song while having both a west and east coast feel. Being the best of both worlds in style put Duece on the frontline in re building an underground hip-hop subculture for the Bay Area.
In 2016, Duece moved from Oakland to Portland to engage with his heaviest fanbase area while continuing to record and build for a debut mainstream release. Continue to look for new things from this artist in 2016.
Brother and Sister: 0 Events; Katie and Michael Gaughan (Brother and Sister) play positive, high-energy punk rock with a focus on visual performance and audience participation. Star Tribune calls Brother and Sister, “A sibling duo that is part White Stripes, part Whitesnake and part white noise.”Brother and Sister have toured the Midwest and West Coast. Their most recent scavenger hunt was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.
Brother and Sister Live at the Scott county jail jan 06
Bruce Conkle: 1 Event; Bruce Conkle is an American installation artist based in Portland, Oregon. He is noted for his ecological and dystopian fantasy themes. His work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum and has shown at Nylistasafnio The Living Art Museum in Iceland and A Gentil Carioca in Brazil.
Bugskull: 1 Event; In Portland's hallowed history of rock, Bugskull is a shadowy influence. Born in 1991 as the bedroom four-track project of Sean Byrne, by the mid-90s the band had evolved into a three-piece rock ensemble—Byrne on guitar and vocals, Brendan Bell on bass, and James Yu on drums—weaving a spacy spell for the lucky attendees of their live shows, and releasing a handful of utterly unique albums incorporating elements of electronic music, raga, and alternately plaintive and poppy vocal work. Called Portland's "sleeping giants" by Snipehunt magazine, the band reforms for an evening of soulful inner space travel. Be there when the giants awaken.
After landing its first album-length cassette Subversives in the Midst (Shrimper, 1992), Bugskull produced a slew of self-released cassettes and then a 10-inch self-titled EP (Quixotic, 1993). The band continued to redefine lo-fi experimentalism with Phantasies and Senseitions (Road Cone, 1994), Crock: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Pop Secret, 1995), and Snakland (Scratch, 1995). Byrne continued producing work after the band's dissolution in 1996, including Distracted Snowflake Volume One (Pop Secret, 1997), Distracted Snowflake Volume Two (Scratch, 1997), and Bugskull vs. The Big White Cloud (Scratch, 2002). Communication (Digitalis Recordings) will be released Fall 2009.
burke jam: 1 Event; burke jam is an artist, composer, curator and educator. His recent work in performance, installation and recorded media explores sound as intervention–questioning and subverting perceptual coherence and relationships with physical place. His research engages the intersection of field recording, composition, acoustic ecology and the Anthropocene. Following the completion of his MFA in 2013 at the University of Montana, Jam received a Fulbright Grant to Iceland researching environmental sound and methods of listening. Jam performs and exhibits internationally, and works as the Director of Digital Facilities and Instructor of Music and Art in the College of the Arts at Portland State University.
Cameron Clayborn: 1 Event; Cameron Clayborn (b. 1992, Pine Bluff, AR) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, drawing and performance. Clayborn’s practice is deeply informed by their personal experiences, with much of their work addressing themes of heritage, fragility of memory, grief, and healing.
Clayborn earned their BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and their MFA from the Yale School of Art. Clayborn’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Woonhuis (Amsterdam, NL); Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago (Chicago, IL); Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, DE); Simone Subal Gallery (New York, NY); Morán Morán (Los Angeles, CA); Chapter NY (New York, NY); Emalin (London, UK); and TONE (Memphis, TN), among others.
Their work is in the permanent collections of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (Los Angeles, CA); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, DE); and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI).
Candace A. Avalos: 1 Event; Candace Avalos is a first-generation American “Blacktina”, daughter of Black Americans from the south and Guatemalan immigrants. Mi nombre en español es Candis Ávalos. Originally from Virginia, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Foreign Languages, with a focus on Spanish and Italian, and Master of Education degree in College Student Personnel Administration from James Madison University. Prior to her current career as a nonprofit executive leader, she started her career as an educator and worked at Portland State University for 8 years providing civic engagement education and advising support for student leaders. She lives in East Portland and is an active member of her community, previously serving as chair of the Citizen Review Committee and Charter Review Commission for the City of Portland, as well as currently on the boards of the Coalition of Communities of Color and Street Roots. Her hobbies include perfecting her Guatemalan recipes, reading social justice literature, playing kickball in her fast pitch league, and exploring Portland's parks.
Candace Kita: 1 Event; Candace Kita is an enthusiastic arts and cultural worker committed to connecting people of color with creative opportunities. Born in Chicago to Japanese American and Swedish American parents, she has been an artist and arts enthusiast for as long as she can remember. Her multifaceted artistic practice has spanned illustration, sculpture, graphic design, typography, book arts, writing, and performance.
Weaving her creative background with her experiences in social justice organizing and nonprofit administration, Candace currently manages cultural work and strategy at the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO). Previously, she co-founded grassroots collective Arts Workers for Equity, worked in development, marketing, and programs for the Portland Art Museum and Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, and served as Visual Art Curator for Asian American art and community space Tuesday Night Project. She has participated in multiple initiatives to empower arts professionals of color including the Western States Arts Federation’s Emerging Leaders of Color Fellowship and the Getty Multicultural Internship Program. Candace received her BA in Studio Art from Scripps College and was recently featured as one of Scripps College Magazine’s “30 Alumnæ Under 30.”
In her spare time, Candace co-manages a blog called Asians Doing Everything and reads voraciously. She is a lover of words, cities, and onigiri.
Cannupa Hanska Luger: 1 Event; Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration, and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, and cut-paper, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about twenty-first century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse publics to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring, and oftentimes presents a call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits.
cannupahanska.com
@cannupahanska
Carissa Dez: 1 Event; Carissa Dez: Dedicated advocate for social justice and policing reform. With a background in investigative journalism and involvement in community organizing, Carissa would like to promote accountability, equity, and transparency in law enforcement practices. As a panelist, Carissa brings a wealth of experience and insights to the discussion, aiming to drive positive change and foster safer, more equitable communities for all.
Website: https://carissadez.com/
Carlos Gonzalez: 0 Events; Carlos Gonzalez, 22, is a self-taught performance artist. Gonzalez was born in Portland, OR, and graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA) in 2010 with a BFA in Painting. He has performed in local project spaces including Appendix Project Space, Carhole, and Kitchen Sink.
Carlos Motta: 5 Events; Carlos Motta | Photo by Cory Rice
Carlos Motta’s (b. 1978, Colombia) multi-disciplinary art practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge dominant and normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. His work manifests in a variety of mediums including video, installation, sculpture, drawing, web-based projects, performance, and symposia.
Motta's work was the subject of the survey exhibitions Carlos Motta: Formas de libertad at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Colombia (2017) that traveled to Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile (2018); and Carlos Motta: For Democracy There Must Be Love, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2015). His solo exhibitions at international museums include, The Crossing (2017), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Histories for the Future (2016), Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami; Réquiem (2016), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano the Buenos Aires (MALBA) (2016); Patriots, Citizens, Lovers (2015), PinchukArtCentre, Kiev; Gender Talents (2013), Tate Modern, London; La forma de la libertad (2013), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico; We Who Feel Differently (2012), New Museum, New York; Brief History (2009), MoMA/PS1, New York; and The Good Life (2008), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia; among others.
In 2020, Motta will participate in the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and the Yerevan Biennial, and he will have solo exhibitions at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery—University of California Santa Cruz, and at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).
Carlos Motta’s first 20-year career monograph, Carlos Motta: History’s Back Rooms was published by SKIRA in June 2020. He won the Vilcek Foundation’s Prize for Creative Promise (2017); the PinchukArtCentre’s Future Generation Art Prize (2014); and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008).
Motta received grants from Art Matters (2008), NYSCA (2010), Creative Capital, and the Kindle Project (2012).He was appointed tenure-track Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice at Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts Department in 2019.
Carlota Ribas: 0 Events; Carlota Ribas, a native of Barcelona, Spain, manages the Client Services group at VIA, a global company focused on facilitating communication across boundaries of language, comprehension, and culture, by delivering services such as eLearning, translation, and localization. Carlota holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in translation, localization and cross-cultural studies and is interested in hybrid solutions of human and automated translation to help meet the ever growing localization needs of the global markets.
Carol Hepper: 0 Events; Carol Hepper is an award-winning sculptor who lives and works in New York. Her work evokes the landscape, wildlife, and indigenous people of the Great Plains. Her prints and sculptures have been exhibited extensively throughout the US and are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, the Walker Art Center, the New York Public Library, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Detroit Art Institute, and the Portland Art Museum. She currently (as of late 1996) has a piece on view in the Sculpture Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. Carol's sculptures often incorporate animal hides and skins stretched over a built structure or form.
Carrie Mae Weems: 1 Event; Considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Determined as ever to enter the picture—both literally and metaphorically—Weems has sustained an on-going dialogue within contemporary discourse for over thirty years. During this time, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a complex body of art employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video.
In a New York Times review of her retrospective, Holland Cotter wrote, “Ms. Weems is what she has always been, a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible."
Weems has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain.
Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the prestigious Prix de Roma, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Alpert, The Anonymous was a Woman, and The Tiffany Awards. In 2012, Weems was presented with one of the first US Department of State’s Medals of Arts in recognition for her commitment to the State Department’s Art in Embassies program.
In 2013 Weems received the MacArthur “Genius” grant as well as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also received the BET Honors Visual Artist award, the Lucie Award for Fine Art photography, was one of four artists honored at the Guggenheim’s 2014 International Gala, a recipient of the ICP Spotlights Award from the International Center of Photography, The WEB Dubois Award from Harvard University, as well as Honorary Degrees from: California College of the Arts, Colgate University, Bowdoin College, the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University.
She is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, London.
Weems has been represented by Jack Shainman Gallery since 2008, and is currently Artist in Residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She lives in Syracuse, New York, with her husband Jeffrey Hoone who is Executive Director of Light Work.
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Cartune Xprez: 0 Events; Cartune Xprez is a video label / roadshow / cartoon gang. We organize DVDs, exhibitions, and world tours with the work of many artists and performers. CARTUNE XPREZ 2010 dvd from cartune xprez on Vimeo.
Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly: 4 Events; Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at Reed College where she teaches courses on race and identity in American theatre, performance studies, and community-based performance, in addition to courses in acting and directing. Kate’s written work has appeared Theatre Journal and Theatre Annual. She is currently researching the use of food in socially engaged performance practices.
caught in candy: 0 Events; Mickey Pollizatto and Daniel Bidwell (aka DannyDamage & MikkiSpin) are the brawn and brains behind caught in candy, an electro pop duo from Portland, OR. Frequent performers with Breakfast of Champions, Sparkleheart’s Burley-Q Underground, Pho Bang, and Sissyboy, caught in candy use alter-egos and create gender bending characters to perform their music. Their most popular characters are Cabiria Jones & Maximillian Hertzalot, two retro 40’s electro-cabaret performers saturated with drugs, greed and controversy.
C Davida Ingram: 1 Event; C Davida Ingram is an award-winning artist who is passionate about beauty and social justice. Her primary subjects are race, gender, and social relationships. Ingram’s impulse is to imagine tactics to get free—not further prescribing Otherness. With this in mind, she uses unorthodox mediums—Craigslist ads, hypnosis, drones, cell phone videos among other things to reshape what is possible in her own identification with being a black queer woman. Her art has been shown at the Frye Art Museum, Northwest African American Museum, Evergreen College, Bridge Productions, Intiman Theater, Town Hall and more. Her writings have been included in Monday, Arcade, Ms blog, James Franco Review and The Stranger. Ingram received the 2014 Stranger Genius Award in Visual Arts. She is a 2016 Neddy art award finalist. She is a former 2016 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist fellow and was recently voted both one of the “20 most talented and most influential people in Seattle” by Seattle Magazine. She is recent Jacob Lawrence fellow at the University of Washington and the winner of the Museum of Northwest Luminary Award in Innovative media.
Celeste Camfield: 1 Event; Celeste Camfield is a mixed Muscogee artist living on the settled land of the Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache), Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, and Jumanos peoples, currently known as Austin, TX. She works in the mediums of movement, film, and food. She grew up dancing in Texas Hill Country and studied dance at Marymount Manhattan College. Celeste has studied modern dance in Vicenza, Barcelona, Prague, and at ImPulsTanz in Vienna, and was a participant in P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels, under the direction of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. She is a member of ARCOS and has performed with the company since 2019. Celeste has also performed original works with BLiPSWiTCH and Alexa Capareda. She has been creating and performing in experimental dance films since 2019, with screenings in Austin, Camden, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, and Portland. In 2022, Celeste co-founded Preheat Fest, a film festival that celebrates the experimental on camera.
Chanticleer Trü: 4 Events; Chanticleer Trü is a musician, performance artist who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His body of work encompasses music, theater, fringe, dance, visual installation, drag, film, cabaret, and good time instigation. When he's not turning heads the world over as front-man of "Post Phunk" dance outfit Magic Mouth, you can catch him pursuing one of his many other creative efforts. His unique brands of aesthetic storytelling, and expression have made him a mainstay on stages both large and small. His creative direction and performances are in demand across major city hotbeds of the underground and mainstream.
Charles Atlas: 5 Events; Atlas has created work for film, theatre, television, and museums including the Whitney (New York) and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville (Paris). A pioneer of integrating live video with stage performance, Atlas is best known for his acclaimed collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers such as Leigh Bowery, Diamanda Galas, Merce Cunningham, and with Antony and the Johnsons on the audiovisual performance, Turning. Atlas is the recipient of three Bessie Awards and was recently presented with the prestigious John Cage award, by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2006).
Atlas has been active as an interdisciplinary filmmaker and video artist since the 1970s. Over the years he has made pioneering media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video art works for television, and live electronic performances. In November 2006, London's Tate Modern presented a retrospective of his work, titled Hail the New Puritan.
Charles Gayle: 0 Events; A veteran of the original liberation music scene, Charles Gayle spent twenty years playing for spare change in the streets and subways of New York. Despite a reasonably successful European tour in the early 80's, it wasn't until 1988, when Gayle recorded the first of three albums for the Swedish Silkheart label, that he was recognized as a truly original voice of the avant garde. An unrepentant, out-blowing, in-your-face master of the free jazz style, Gayle attracted the attention of post-punk artists Henry Rollins and Thurston Moore who began showing up regularly at his gigs at the Knitting Factory and introduced him to alternative rock audiences who packed the house when he played. Though often compared with such free-form jazz greats as John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, the largely self-taught Gayle maintains a uniquely original style that is all his own. "Nothing is set," says Gayle. "I just go for the spirit, the Holy Ghost, and push beyond ego consciousness to blow my guts out." Gayle's recordings include Homeless (Silkheart); Spirits Before (Silkheart); Always Born (Silkheart); Touchin' On Trane (FMP); Repent (Knitting Factory); More Live (Knitting Factory); Consecration (Black Saint); Kingdom Come (Knitting Factory, ); and Testaments (Knitting Factory).
Charles Mudede: 1 Event; CHARLES TONDERAI MUDEDE (Director, Screenwriter) is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, writer, and filmmaker. He collaborated with acclaimed director Robinson Devor on the films Police Beat and Zoo, both of which premiered at Sundance. Police Beat is part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, and Zoo was presented at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. Mudede is currently the film editor for Seattle’s The Stranger.
www.thinskinmovie.com
Charlie Salas-Humara: 1 Event; Charlie Salas-Humara is a painter and musician living in Portland, OR. Self-taught, he began working with acrylic, oil, charcoal, and collage as a means of expressing his love of dance and music through art. Salas-Humara has toured extensively in the United States, Europe, Russia, and China (with The Planet The and under the moniker of Panther), and has shown his visual work in Portland, OR, Springfield, OR, Los Angeles, and New York.
Charlotte Vanden Eynde: 1 Event; Charlotte Vanden Eynde is a contemporary dancer and choreographer, based in Ghent. In 1999, she graduated at P.A.R.T.S., the renowned school for contemporary dance headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Since, she has been creating highly personal choreographies and performances, focusing on the body with a strong sculptural and imaginative sensibility. Her early works revolved around vulnerability, intimacy and femininity. In ‘Lijfstof’ she explored the body as object/matter and in ‘MAP ME’ video images were projected on the body as on a canvas. She pursued her movement research in the solo’s ‘I’m Sorry It’s (Not) A Story’ and ‘Shapeless’, and in various site-specific performances and improvisation solos. Her last work ‘Deceptive Bodies’ displayed an iconography of the theatrical body and was also shown in exhibition spaces. She often collaborates with other choreographers, theatre makers, film makers and musicians. Additionally, she gives advice to other artists and conducts workshops based on her own artistic practice.
Chase Biado: 1 Event; Chase Biado (b. 1985) is an artist based in his native Portland, Oregon. His varied output including sculpture, video, painting and writing has been exhibited at Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Ulsan; Rocksbox, Portland, OR; sophiajacob, Baltimore, MD; Appendix Project Space, Portland OR; Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR; Gaite Lyrique, Paris, FR; The Front, New Orleans, LA; among others. He received a BFA from Portland State University.
Chaz Stobbs: 0 Events; Chaz Stobbs is a multi media artist currently studying video and sound at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon. His work focuses on the interaction of synthetic and natural materials in social constructs. Along with a visual arts practice, he is the current director of Veritable Stimulation.
chelfitsch/Toshiki Okada: 5 Events; chelfitsch Theater Company was founded in 1997 by writer and director Toshiki Okada. Named after a deliberate mispronunciation of the English word “selfish,” chelfitsch Theater Company began to refine its textual aesthetic as that of colloquial language representing contemporary youth culture. With Five Days in March (awarded the Kunio Kishida Award for Best Script) the company began to juxtapose a noisy choreography derived from everyday mannerisms to the text. The works of chelfitsch have been presented at premier international theater festivals and venues throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. In 2011, Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech received the critics’ award from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre for the 2010-2011 season. The troupe continues to develop its distinct methodology, which revolves around the relationship between speech and body.
Selected Press
"Writing for Foreigners (Americans)," Jason Zinoman, The New York Times, May 21, 2014
"Under the Radar 2012: An interview with chelfitsch's Toshiki Okada," Jeremy M. Barker, Culturebot, December 27, 2011.
"Temp Workers Too Twitchy to Engage in Office Politics," Ben Brantley, The New York Times, January 6, 2012.
"Hot Pepper," Tom Philips, Dance Review Times, January 7, 2012.
Chiara Clemente: 0 Events; Clemente’s work revolves around questions of identity and cultural contrast. Commissions for the Rai Sat Art Channel in Italy have included documentaries on contemporary artists and architects, including Jim Dine, Frank Gehry and Brice Marden. The documentaries evolved and soon she was collaborating with artists on short art films, such as These Imaginary Boys and Know Yourself with Adrian Tranquilli.
In 2002, Clemente directed and photographed Three Worlds: A Portrait of Francesco Clemente, which premiered on Rai Sat Art and won best new documentary at Corto Circuito Festival in Naples. In 2005, she worked with Richard Tuttle and Mario Sorrenti on a short film commissioned by W Magazine for national distribution with its first Art Issue. Also in 2005, Clemente began work on her first feature documentary, Our City Dreams. After successful openings at Art Basel (where it opened the ArtFilm series), Locarno and Hamptons Film Festivals, and the Film Forum in New York, Our City Dreams will open at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
Chisao Hata: 1 Event; Chisao’s grandmother, Chisao Tajima, came to Oregon as a “picture bride” in 1890. In1942 her mother, Kasae (Kay) Tamiyasu married Tadashi (Ted) Hata in the Poston concentration camp in Poston, Arizona. Arts training and artists teachers in Iowa shaped Chisao’s early life. Moving to Oregon from Iowa, her years at the University of Oregon fueled her Asian American activism, community organizing and pursuits as an artist. Chisao connected to the Portland dance community where she eventually established a school and company. A life changing study in Japan solidified her artistic vision and commitment to exploring how artful practices could address social issues and create change. In the Japanese American community her early leadership led to the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and inspired her personal research and artmaking. Her studies in the Portland State Dance program, abruptly ended with the decimation of the program. However, new opportunities thrust her into arts in public education where her teaching philosophy as a dance educator influenced curriculum design and integrated arts programming schoolwide and impacted hundreds of students.
Her personal work incorporate community engagement, social action and includes omitted histories on themes of identity, culture, social action and legacies. DrumSouls and We Are You were intercultural and intergenerational works visioning an inclusive America. Harmos, The Human Flag project created for Hiroshima Day performed throughout Portland and Remember Us were community based performances on a citywide scale. Gambatte-An American Legacy, The Assembly Center Project and We are Still Here incorporate Japanese American history, oral histories through the fusion of text, poetry, music, dance and visual storytelling. Additionally Ms. Hata has designed and directed numerous art driven programs like Move Backs and Move On classes.
Her training in modern dance, expressive arts, physical theater, healing through the arts, community facilitation, poetry, taiko drumming and classical Japanese dance integrate with her peace and justice work in diverse communities. Her original choreo poems and artistic collaborations root her artist voice. “There's not one group she hasn’t touched with her activism through art. Her themes are exigent for our times and urge participants to ponder their worldview and take action for change.” Chisao’s vision has consistently created innovative programs, artistic works and shaped community partnerships. Chisao is also an Artist Organizing for Change with the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland where the scope of her work develops intergenerational institutes, mentors socially engaged artists, creates cross-cultural programming rooted in the philosophies held at the Dance Exchange. This work continues to inspire her work as an Oregon Humanities Conversation Leader, community activist artist serving multiple organizations throughout the city of Portland and beyond.
Chisato Minamimura: 0 Events; Chisato Minamimura is a Deaf performance artist, choreographer, and British Sign Language art guide. Born in Japan and now based in London, Minamimura has created, performed, and taught internationally and is currently a Work Place artist at The Place. Minamimura trained at Trinity Laban in London and holds a BA in Japanese Painting and an MA from Yokohama National University. Minamimura approaches choreography and performance-making from her unique perspective as a Deaf artist, experimenting with and exploring the visualization of sound and music. By using dance and technology, Minamimura aims to share her experiences of sensory perception and human encounters.
She is currently touring Scored in Silence, and her new work, Mark of A Woman.
Chloe Alexandra Thompson: 4 Events; Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree, Canadian interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection—embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create site-specific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound.
https://chloealexandra.info
Chris Riser: 1 Event; Chris Riser is a human, husband, father, and educator living and working on the stolen lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Kalapuya, Kathlamet, Molalla, Multnomah, Tualatin, and other peoples who have been here since time immemorial. He works in the field of education as a means of planting the seeds for a world that does not yet exist. He currently serves as the Administrator of HOLLA School in East Portland, with a mission to change the academic narratives for Black, Brown, and Indigenous youth.
CHRISTEENE: 2 Events; Created by performance artist Paul Soileau, CHRISTEENE has emerged as a pop music artist and anti-icon in its own right. CHRISTEENE is a shameless and sexually infused sewer of live rap and RnB, whose message challenges gender, capitalism, corporate mendacity, complacency, and false celebrity while shattering the American obsession with charm and grace. Providing a much-needed voice for a new society and posing a threat to those who support the current structures, CHRISTEENE is a new, dangerous, and unstable breed of entertainer and “Drag Terrorist.”
Attempts at gathering personal information on CHRISTEENE concerning age, origin, race, religion, and even gender have proven fruitless, leaving the public to rely on a highly stylized collection of music videos released through the singer’s collaborative efforts with award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer PJ Raval. Sightings of CHRISTEENE have been documented in Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, New Orleans, Toronto, Vancouver, Paris, Stockholm, and Berlin.
Selected Press
Don't call him queen: Paul Soileau talks about more-punk-than-drag persona Christeene Vale, Bree Davies, Denver Westword, July 19, 2012.
Christian Rizzo/ICI—CCN Montpellier: 2 Events; Born in Cannes, Christian Rizzo took his first steps as an artist in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and created a line of clothing before studying visual arts at the Villa Arson in Nice. In the ’90s, he performed with and created costumes and soundtracks for choreographers including Mathilde Monnier, Hervé Robbe, Mark Tompkins, Georges Appaix, Vera Mantero, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Rachid Ouramdane. Since founding “l’association fragile” in 1996, he has created over 30 performances and dance pieces, alternating with other projects or commissions for fashion and visual arts. He was an artist-in-residence at l’Opéra de Lille, and has performed his works around the world at the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, the Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou, deSingel, the Festival d’Avignon, and On the Boards.
On January 1, 2015, Christian Rizzo took over as the Director of the Centre Choréographique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillion-Midi-Pyrénées, which has been renamed ICI (International Choreographic Institute).
Christi Denton: 1 Event; Christi Denton is a Portland based composer and sound installation artist who works with found sounds, electronics, and homemade and modified instruments.
Christina Najera: 2 Events; Christina Najera Started her debut in the sex industry as a stripper in 2008. She has done many things and is passionate about creating true narratives of the people in the industry. She created The Stripper Project in 2016 in the basement of her home, photographing and talking to friends about their experiences in and out of the industry.
“What I love about this job, is the people I work with. I am inspired by the creative ambitious spirits that grace the dark nights and early mornings. I am inspired to create this project because I know that the workers of the sex industry are magical, and I want to help break down the stigma that is heavily piled on top of the term SEX WORKER. This industry has provided for my family. This job has allowed me to spend time doing the things that set my heart on fire and its shown me freedom. I learn from these woman, I grow with them, I cry and laugh with them. I am proud to stand with us. I am proud of the mysticism that runs through our bodies. I feel that the more united we are, the greater we become. Each event we host ties back to our foundational mission, and I consider my contributions to be my small way of helping advance our cause.”
Christopher Kirkley/Sahel Sounds: 1 Event; Christopher Kirkley is a self-described amateur ethnomusicologist and gentleman explorer of the West African Sahel. His work spans field recording, cultural archiving, experimental ethnography, and the role of new media in West Africa. Under the label Sahel Sounds, he has produced an extensive discography of record releases in conjunction with artists across six countries.

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Desert discs: how mobile phones are at the root of Saharan music, Mic Wright, The Guardian, November 1, 2010.
Christopher Miner: 4 Events; Miner was born in 1973 and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. His videos address the impact of his upbringing with regard to religion, race, family, and sexuality. He received his MFA at Yale University School of Art and his BA at the University of Tennessee. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), the New Museum (New York), and at Tate Britain (London), among other institutions. Miner is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
Selected Press
Christopher Miner, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Artforum.com, January 28, 2009.
Art in Review - Christopher Miner, Ken Johnson, New York Times, February 13, 2009.
Christopher Sutton: 2 Events; Christopher Sutton is a longtime artist, musician, writer, and DJ who currently lives in Portland, Oregon. As a musician he has toured, performed, and recorded with bands such as Hornet Leg, Gossip, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Spider & The Webs, C.O.C.O., Hooded Hags, The Dirtbombs, and Chain & The Gang to name a few. His life as a writer has seen contributions mainly to self published fanzines like Shotgun Seamstress, Bumpidee, and his own zine Nigerian Triple Daisy. He currently writes a blog called Record Lections and some of his opines can be read in the online magazine called Network Awesome. Sutton also exhibits his work as a painter and designs album art for his bands Hornet Leg and C.O.C.O. Finally, Sutton is a DJ participating in regular soulful Portland dance parties like Soul In The Hole and Sugar Town and in various venue around the Northwest.
Selected Press:
"DJ Hornet Leg talks records," Nikki McCoy, Northwest Military, May 14, 2014
"Hornet Leg: Ribbon of Fear," Joe Hemmerling, Tiny Mix Tapes, 2009
Christoph Meier: 0 Events
Cinema Project: 7 Events; Cinema Project is a collectively run, non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon, and founded in 2003, Cinema Project works to promote public awareness of avant-garde cinema past and present. Featuring artists, curators, and scholars from around the world, Cinema Project’s semi-annual series of screenings, lectures, and discussions function to broaden engagement with, and deepen critical understanding of, innovative experimental film and video art.
Claire Barliant: 2 Events; Claire Barliant is a writer, editor, and teacher based in Brooklyn. She writes or has written for Art in America, Artforum, Icon, Modern Painters, the New Yorker, and other places. This coming academic year, she will be teaching in the MFA program for the Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase, and in the past has been an adjunct professor or visiting critic at Parsons, the New School, NYU, and Yale. For the past several years she has regularly participated in the Writhing Society, a writing workshop based on writing with constraints, led by Wendy Walker and Thomas La Farge.
Claire Fontaine: 3 Events; Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting, and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box—as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes—there is always the possibility of what she calls the “human strike.”
Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.
Recent shows include El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F.; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Air de Paris, Paris; Regina Gallery, London and Moscow; MUSAC Contemporary Art Museu, Castilla y León, Spain; Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, Baltimore; Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow; Mastermind, Casablanca; and Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna. Claire Fontaine is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art and Metro Pictures, New York; T293, Napoli and Rome; Galerie Neu, Berlin; and Galerie Chantal Crousel/Air de Paris, Paris. She is now preparing a catalogue with Buchhandlung Walther König.
Claire L. Evans: 2 Events; Claire L. Evans is a writer and artist working in Los Angeles. She blogs at Universe, which addresses the synchronicities between art, science, technology, and the cultural world. Her “day job” is as the singer and co-author of the conceptual, multimedia, disco-pop band YACHT. Evans has performed her earnestly cosmic PowerPoint presentations at The Kitchen and MoMA PS1, and has co-authored NA/SA: New Art Science Affinities, a collaboratively written compendium on inter-disciplinarity in the arts.
Clare Croft: 3 Events; Clare Croft is a historian, theorist, and dramaturg, working at the intersection of dance studies and performance studies. She specializes in 20th and 21st century American dance, cultural policy, feminist and queer theory, and critical race theory. In all of these areas, Croft considers how dance is a way of thinking and a mode for asking questions. What does it mean to acknowledge that people have bodies and that they use their bodies to make meaning, create community, and critique social structures?
Croft's current book project, Funding Footprints: Dance and American Diplomacy (Oxford University Press), examines the history of U.S. State Department funding of international dance tours. Croft's approach to writing dance history emphasizes the role of dancers in performance, asking how history might look differently if dancers, audiences, and choreographers were seen as equal partners in the creation of meaning in dance. Croft is also editing the anthology Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, which brings together artists and print scholars in a written volume of essays and manifestos, as well as a website of performances, documented in Michigan's Duderstadt Video Studio.
Croft's writing about dance has appeared in Dance Research Journal, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Topics, and is forthcoming in Dance Chronicle. From 2002-2005, Croft was a regular contributor to The Washington Post, and from 2005-2010, she covered dance, as well as theatre and musical theatre, for the Austin American-Statesman. Her performance criticism has appeared in other popular press venues, including The Baltimore Sun, Dance Magazine, and The Houston Chronicle.
At the University of Michigan, Croft teaches courses in the BFA and MFA dance programs, as well as in the BFA interarts program. Her courses include Approaches to Dance Dramaturgy, Dancing Women/Dancing Queer, Fantasies and Anxieties of Racial Integration in 20th Century American Performance, Problematizing Theory and Practice, and Reading and Writing Dance Criticism. She also has a keen interest in helping students develop as choreographers and dramaturgs.
Croft holds a PhD in theatre history and criticism with an emphasis in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas-Austin and an MA in performance studies from New York University. From 2010-2013, Croft was a postdoctoral scholar in the University of Michigan's Society of Fellows.
Clark Coolidge: 0 Events; Clark Coolidge (b. 1939) is a poet and experimental jazz musician. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry. Raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Coolidge, studied geology at Brown University (1956-58) before traveling to Los Angeles, Greenwich Village in New York City, and back to Providence. Among his collaborations are Supernatural Overtones (1990) with Ron Padgett, On the Pumice of Morons (1993) with Larry Fagin, and other pieces with Philip Guston, Bernadette Mayer, and Keith Waldrop.
Coolidge has taught at the Naropa Institute and the American Academy in Rome (1985-85). He has read his work locally and internationally in France, London, Scandinavia, and Russia. In 1993, he co-founded the MIX poetry and jazz group with David and Tina Metzer. After five decades of publishing poetry, Coolidge's work continues to evolve. He is the editor of Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures and Conversations (University of California Press, 2010), and Fence Books published his last two books of poetry, 88 Sonnets and A Book Beginning What and Ending Away. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Claude Wampler: 1 Event; Claude Wampler works at the intersection of art installation and performance; engages and experiments with liveness and the art object, concealment and revelation, the performance of the spectator, and the productivity of failure.
Using video, painting, photography, lighting, sound, sculpture, costume, and texts, to explore the possibilities and the value of grafting performance technique onto visual expression and vice versa, Wampler creates an experience of immediacy/excess in which the viewer leaves with a sense of mystery or magic.
Claude has had solo exhibitions and performances at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, New Museum for Contemporary Art, and P.S. 122 (New York); The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and in many international institutions including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Witte de With & Schouwburg Theater (Rotterdam), the Yokohama Triennale, Kaaistudios (Brussels), and many others.
Claudia Meza: 6 Events; Meza is a Portland-based artist and composer who studied music composition and digital music production at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She has recorded and toured with Japanther and Explode Into Colors, and has performed her own work in clubs, basements, dance halls, ballrooms, art galleries, and music festivals internationally. Meza started the young series New Musics to support new classical music and working avant-garde composers within the Portland music scene.
Clayton Lee: 2 Events; Clayton Lee is a Canadian curator, producer, and performance artist. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of Fierce Festival in Birmingham, UK. From 2019–2023, Clayton was the Director of Rhubarb Festival!, Canada’s longest-running festival of new and experimental performance, and previously served as the Curatorial Associate at the Luminato Festival. His performance projects have been presented in venues across Canada, the US, the UK, and New Zealand. He was one of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Artists-in-Residence in 2023. As part of the Living Room Collective, he represented Canada at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Cleo Davis: 1 Event; Cleo Davis started his education in architecture at the University of Oregon further changing to industrial design at San Jose State. He is an artist whose work takes a critical view of the social, political and cultural issues and through his work, he continues to reconstruct the cultural view modernizing while also highlighting traditions. Although he engages with multiple subjects and mediums his methodology remains consistent. He also has started the Screw Loose Studio, the Mayo House Project, and most recently, the archives project in collaboration with Kayin.
Cloud Eye Control: 0 Events; Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group from Los Angeles comprised of three members: Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek, and Anna Oxygen. We create original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live performance. Since our inception in 2004 we have created three original works that have been presented both nationally and internationally.
Whether through a re-imagining of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight, the discovery of powerful crystals underground, or one woman's interstellar search for a new home, a common theme in our stories is human adaptation in a technological world. To realize these stories, we project pre-rendered animation and live camera imagery onto various surfaces on the stage, and this imagery functions as scenery and virtual actor. Both high and low tech methods are used to allow the live actor to interact with the media. These methods range from custom-built interactive video software to the physical manipulation of video puppets.
Coast2C: 2 Events; Born and raised in Mexico City, Sofia Acosta's introduction to the music world started at university-based radio station Ibero 90.9 where she worked for Mercado Negro, a radio show about underground and independent music from Mexico. Her influences come from a wide variety of electronic genres including house, techno and deep basslines mixed with her favorite Latin American producers. She has been a resident DJ in many venues in Mexico City such as Cultural Center of Spain, Rhodesia, and El Imperial. In Portland she collaborates at the community radio station KBOO with “White Noise Radio” which focuses dance and experimental electronic music from around the globe as well as curating a monthly party Gran Ritmos, a night dedicated to Pan-American dance music.

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