Artists Archive

Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco is a New York-based writer and interdisciplinary artist. She has performed, published, lectured and curated throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America and South Africa. Her most recent work includes STUFF, a performance collaboration with San Francisco-based artist Nao Bustamante, which premiered in the fall of 1996 at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow; Better Yet When Dead, a recently completed solo performance installation which will premiere at YYZ in Toronto in 1997; and Corpus Delecti, a retrospective of Latin American performance art which she organized for London's Institute for Contemporary Art which took place in November, 1996. Her latest video project Pochonovela, a parody of Latin American soap operas, received an Honorable Mention at the 1996 Cinefestival in San Antonio and was recently broadcast on KCET (Los Angeles). Her collection of essays on art, media and cultural politics, entitled English is Broken Here, was published in 1995 by The New Press.

Between 1989 and 1995, Fusco created a series of collaborative works with Mexican artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña. They include Norte: Sur, an interdisciplinary arts project involving installation, multi-media, audio art and performance, which was presented at San Francisco's Mexican Museum as part of the Festival 2000; La Chavela Realty Co., a complementary performance to Gómez-Peña's 1991 performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival; 1992: The Year of the White Bear, about the so-called "Discovery of America" which premiered at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and Mexarcane International, a performance designed for shopping malls, which premiered at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow. The Couple in the Cage, (1993) a documentary of their caged performances, aired on KCET and WGBH (Boston). It was also selected for the 1993 New York Film Festival and was named Best Performance Documentary at the Atlanta Film & Video Festival. Fusco and Gómez-Peña's work was also selected for the 1992 Sydney Biennale, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, and the 1995 London International Theatre Festival. Their collaborative radio pieces have been aired on National Public Radio through the Crossroads and The Territory of Art series.

Fusco's writings have appeared in such publications as The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Nation, Art in America, Afterimage, Frieze, Screen and Third Text (Britain), and La Jornada (Mexico). She has also curated numerous international media exhibitions, including Young, British and Black: The Works of Sankofa and Black Audio Film Collective (1988); Internal Exile: New Films and Videos from Chile (1990); The Hybrid State Film Series (1991) and The Robert Flaherty Seminar (1991).

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Colin Self

Colin Self (b. 1987 Oregon, USA) is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based between Brooklyn, NY and Berlin, DE. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit across a spectrum between the living and deceased. Their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities and envelop collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. 

www.colin-self.com

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.Compost Cooperative

.Compost Cooperative takes the tossed-out leftovers from digital culture and breaks them down to grow a more lush virtual landscape. In the ease of mass consumption and the gold rush for the supposedly infinite space provided by the Internet, much of our digital infrastructure and the tools used to make it go disconcertingly unexamined. We believe that through cultivating a biome of thoughtful appropriation, re-design, humor, and the surreal we can begin to glimpse a microcosm of new possibility and the recipe to get there. Together we make websites, video games, educational materials, and a range of other media that playfully percolates on our ever-decaying/blossoming digital world.


.Compost Cooperative is: Tabitha Nikolai, Myra Lilith Day, garima thakur, Zan Kerrigan, and Carly Barton. Our work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the Maine College of Art and Design in Maine, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Oregon, and the Utkal University of Culture in Odisha, India.  

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Container Corps

Container Corps is a publication design studio, printshop, bindery, and exhibition space that serves as a platform for the creation, distribution, and discussion of new arts publications. We publish books-as-projects, or books-as-works in themselves, or primary sources. Our publications use the means of their production as an avenue of expression. The books we publish are collaborations between artists and their ideas and our skills as editors, publication designers, and printmakers. They are works of art in themselves, rather than documentation of works in other media.

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COOL ART

Cool Art is a project by Rob Halverson, an artist and curator whose exhibition Space is a Place was presented at PICA's 2007 Time-Based Art Festival. Cool Art will be on view and for sale at Stand Up Comedy. Future presentations will be held at Art Since The Summer of '69 in New York later this year.

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Cornell Alston

Cornell Alston is a long time member of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a not-for-profit that uses the arts as a springboard to teach life skills to individuals both inside and outside of state correctional facilities. He initiated the Youth Empowerment Through the Arts initiative that launched in Queens NY, and he continues to work as an arts-in-education advocate. He is the recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital Award. Alston performed and collaborated with Kaneza Schaal on PLEASE, BURY ME at Baryshnikov Arts Center and GO FORTH during a Performance Space 122 RAMP residency. Other performance highlights include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 12 Angry Men, and the title role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

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Cory Arcangel

Cory Arcangel is a Brooklyn-based fine artist (b. 1978, Buffalo, NY) who makes work in a wide range of media, including composition, video, modified video games, performance, and the Internet. During the past two years, Arcangel has completed several diverse projects. He worked extensively with a team of computer experts from the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club, in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum, and the Carnegie STUDIO for Creative Inquiry to unearth and preserve Warhol's lost digital experiments, which he wrote about for the summer edition of Artforum. This past May, he launched a publishing and merchandise imprint, Arcangel Surfware. In July, he released his debut novel, Working On My Novel, published by Penguin. Recent exhibitions include “Masters” at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012–13), “Pro Tools” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011), “Beat the Champ” at the Barbican, London (2011), and “Here Comes Everybody” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010–11). Recent performances include “Dances For The Electric Piano” at the ICA London, and “Selected Notes on Creativity” at nyMusikk, Oslo, Norway. His work is included in many public collections, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MoMA in New York, the Tate in London, Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C. And the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.

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Courtenay Collins

Courtenay Collins is the owner and Executive Producer of Dirty Angel Entertainment. The company currently produces The Real Comedy Spot Open Mic at Eastside Bar and Grill on Tuesday’s. DAE also produced an open mic at Harvey’s Comedy Club in Portland, OR. The company has produced showcases at Triple Nickel in Portland, Oregon and Pub 26 in Welches, OR. It also produces the NW Black Comedy Festival which is in its fifth year. The company manages comic The Real Hyjinx, who has appeared around the country and hosts all Dirty Angel Entertainment productions. He’s been on AMC and also co-produces the Festival. She also performs as DJ Wildchild and is the resident DJ for all Dirty Angel Entertainment Productions including The Real Comedy Spot Open Mics and the NWBCF. She also co-hosted the Portland Radio Project show Soulfull Saturdays.

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Craig Stephens

Craig Stephens was born in Sacramento, California in 1963. He grew up in the foothill town of Weimar. He attended American River College and later transferred to UC Davis where he received his B.A. in art studio in 1993. During his undergraduate years he had the privilege of taking classes from Gary Pruner, Roy DeForest, David Hollowell and Wayne Thiebaud. In 1996 Mr. Stephens began teaching high school art classes at Chana High School in Auburn, California.

Since 2006 he has completed a small painting on a nearly daily basis, which he shares through Instagram feed. He has found that the practice of completing a painting a day suits his disposition and aesthetic.

Mr. Stephens currently resides in Auburn, California with his wonderful wife and amazing children. His works can be found in private and corporate collections throughout North America and Europe.

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C. Riley Snorton

C. Riley Snorton is a scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender, sexuality, and race. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (U Minn Press, 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (U Minn Press, 2017). Snorton is Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago.

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Crispin Spaeth

Crispin Spaeth offers private coaching, workplace trainings, and group classes that champion the beauty of our human design and its intrinsic relationship to confidence, connection, and freedom. 

Her work is deeply informed by Integrative Alexander Technique (IAT), an experiential learning process that allows you to access your natural coordination so that you can move, think, and communicate more effectively and in line with your true wishes.

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Cristina Lucas

Incorporating irony and humor into her work, Cristina Lucas focuses on the irrationality of human actions and ethics within contemporary aesthetics. She was born in Jaén, Spain, and earned her BFA from Complutense University, Madrid, followed by an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Lucas has recently participated in Dominó Canibal II Bienale PAC Murcia and the Liverpool Biennial. Her work has also been seen in solo exhibitions such as Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Móstoles an Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF; Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands; and Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; as well as in group exhibitions at NMAC Foundation, Cádiz; Aldrich Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; 28 Bienal de Sao Paulo; and X Istanbul Bienale. Lucas lives and works in Spain, where she is represented by Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid.

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Cristina Lucas, Touch and Go, 2010, Arthur Roberts and Barbara Jones, all my colours, November 7, 2010.

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Crystal Baxley & Stefan Ransom

Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom are Portland-based artists who make events, videos, sounds, posters, prints, books, blogs, sculptures, playlists, drawings, emails, and food, individually and collaboratively. In 2012 they created a compilation album of 35 songs based on Sol LeWitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art, titled Songs on Conceptual Art. It is available for free online at http://songsonconceptualart.com. Baxley and Ransom have organized events and exhibited projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Open Engagement Conference and Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, and the Kadist Foundation in San Francisco.

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Crystal Quartez (Cortez)

Crystal Quartez (Cortez) is a Portland based musician & creative technologist. Through field recording, synthesis and self-built instruments they create “Restorative Noise”; sculpting drones and rhythms of mechanical life, natural voices, and digital timbres to form a texture rich electronic dance music. The resulting sonic landscapes offer windows into shared networks of reality, often separated by borders of space, time, and perception. Recently, their work has involved the collection of live biodata from plants and static data from climate change, to translate these numbers and electrical impulses into sound.

crystalcortez.com

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CT + CR Collective

The Master of Arts in Critical Theory and Creative Research (CT+CR), the first of its kind in the U.S., is an accelerated (45-credit), seminar-based program that prepares students for opportunities at the intersection of art, theory, and research. Students admitted to the program work toward an MA, which they complete within one calendar year. Through rigorous training in critical theory, research design and methods, cultural and institutional critique, and ethics, students develop skills and modes of thinking that cross the boundaries between the visual and verbal, linear and nonlinear, digital and analog, theory and practice.

Located in the heart of Portland, a center of creative risk-taking and social experimentation, the program combines the study of critical theory as a mode of socio-political critique and creative research as a process-driven form of inquiry, pushing both theory and research in new directions within the context of a 21st-century art school. The program is devoted to people and ideas and to a rethinking of the present and future of cultural production; of arts-based research and research-based arts; of curatorial practice, documentary, and the Archive; and of social and political reconfiguration in relation to major sites of contemporary contestation. These sites range from social media to biotechnology, surveillance to sustainability, political terror to revolutionary social and economic practices.

The foundation of the program is a complex of seminars and roundtables on interlocking themes led by PNCA faculty as well as by visiting artists, designers, critics, theorists, poets, and filmmakers. Past visitors to the school include Jacques Rancière, W.J.T. Mitchell, Art Spiegelman, James Turrell, Heike Kuehn, Ellen Dissanayake, Sue Coe, Susan Szenasy, David Shipley, Kurt Andersen, Joe Sacco, Laurie Anderson, Lewis Hyde, and Mel Chin.

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cvllejerx

CVLLEJERX is the product of our multicultural inbetweenness as second generation immigrants and the violent colonization and subsequent diaspora of colombia, mexico, and africa, which informs our mestizx and black experiences in america. CVLLEJERX was born in the whitest city in america, portland, that has deep-seated white supremacist roots. with this and other historical and contemporary circumstances in mind, it is urgent for us to reclaim space in this city. we merge fashion, performance, and poetry as a form of resistance. through the engagement of voice, clothing, and physical movement, we are reclaiming authorship. Choosing what we wear, what we say, and how we move, we are amplifying ourselves with tools accessible to us.

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Cynthia Hopkins

Part country, part Lou Reed, part Patti Smith, part performance artist. —The Washington Post Cynthia Hopkins is an internationally acclaimed musical performance artist. Hopkins writes and sings songs, records albums, and creates groundbreaking multi-media performance works that intertwine truth and fiction—blurring the lines between edification and entertainment. Through the process of making performances, she attempts to alchemize disturbance into works of intrigue and hope that simultaneously stimulate the senses, provoke emotion, and enliven the mind. Hopkins has produced six performance works and eight albums of original music. Her work has been honored with many awards, including the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. Hopkins most recently premiered A Living Documentary and is currently at work on a screenplay, Alcoholic Movie Musical (a tale of self-destruction and redemption). Selected Press "In Debt to Art? So Actor’s Piggy Bank Attests: ‘A Living Documentary,’ a Solo Show at New York Live Arts," The New York Times, March 7, 2014 "Cynthia Hopkins on How to Earn a Living as a New York City Artist," The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2014

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Cynthia Lahti

Cynthia Lathi’s work resonates with honesty and reflects the beauty and chaos of this world. Lathi combines references to art of past centuries with her own personal visual language. Her work reflects a collective conscience with imagery that is deeply referential of Lathi’s own personal experience and emotions. Her sculpture, drawings and photographs become relics made from real materials, methods and symbols that hope to offer an explanation of reality. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at PDX Contemporary Art, the Laura Russo Gallery, Marylhurst Art Gym and the Nine Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She is represented by PDX Contemporary Art where she will have a solo exhibition in April 2009.

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d.a. carter

d.a. carter is a writer, teacher, and cognac sipper. He is co-editor of The Iconic Obama, 2007-2009: Essays on Media Representations of the Candidate and New President (2012). He is currently completing Obscene Material, a book examining black girlhood and scandal in 1919 Washington, D.C. and is also a member of the Queering Slavery Working Group, an interdisciplinary scholarly collective that uses Tumblr to place black queer studies in conversation with the history of enslavement: http://qswg.tumblr.com and http://qswgremix.tumblr.com. He is an assistant professor of Black Studies at Portland State University, with research interests in 20th Century African American History, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies.

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DakhaBrakha

DakhaBrakha is music quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine. Reflecting fundamental elements of sound and soul, Ukrainian “ethno chaos” band DakhaBrakha creates a world of unexpected new music. DakhaBrakha was created in 2004 at the Kyiv Center of Contemporary Art “DAKH” by the avant-garde theatre director Vladyslav Troitskyi, and given the name that means “give/take” in old Ukrainian. Theatre work has left its mark on the band performances—their shows have never been staged without a strong visual element.

After experimenting with Ukrainian folk music, the band has added rhythms of the surrounding world into their music, thus creating the bright, unique and unforgettable sound of DakhaBrakha. They strive to help open up the potential of Ukrainian melodies and to bring it to the hearts and consciousness of the younger generation in Ukraine and the rest of the world. Accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, the quartet’s powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a trans-national sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. At the crossroads of Ukrainian folklore and theatre, their musical spectrum is at first intimate then riotous, plumbing the depths of contemporary roots and rhythms, inspiring cultural and artistic liberation.

In March 2010, DakhaBrakha won the prestigious Grand Prix prize named after S.Kuriokhin, in the sphere of contemporary art, and confirmed its place in the culture once again. They have played hundreds of concerts, performances, and have taken part in major international festivals throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, Asia, Australia, and North America. DakhaBrakha has also collaborated with such international musicians as: Port Mone (By), Kimmo Pohjonen Cluster (Fi), Karl Frierson (DePhazz) (Ge), Steve Cooney (IRL), Inna Zhelannaya (Ru), Kievbass (UA), Djam (UA-Iran), and David Ingibaryan (Hu).

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Dakota Camacho

Dakota Camacho is a Matao•CHamoru multi-disciplinary artist / researcher working in spaces of Indigenous lifeways, performance, musical composition, community engagement, and education.

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Dana Ghazi

Dana Ghazi was born and raised in Damascus, Syria before moving to the United States in 2002. In 2016, Dana graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from Portland State University. She also served as the student body president at PSU from 2015-2016. Dana is passionate about informing theories of conflict resolution/transformation with hands-on practices and vice versa. She has worked with international programs focused on addressing major conflicts like the ones in Syria, Colombia and the Balkans. She has also been active locally with groups addressing structural violence and racism.

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Dana Michel

Dana Michel is a choreographer and performer based in Montreal, Canada. Her practice is rooted in exploring the disorderly multiplicity of identity using intuitive improvisation and image creation. Before  entering the BFA in Contemporary Dance program at Concordia University in her late twenties, she was a marketing executive, competitive runner, and football player. In 2011, She received a danceWEB scholarship, allowing her to deepen her research process at ImPulsTanz (Vienna, Austria).  She has been making and internationally touring work for the past nine years.

Michel’s newest solo, Yellow Towel, premiered at the 2013 Festival TransAmériques (Montreal) to critical acclaim.  The work featured on the “Top Ten” 2013 dance moments in Dance Current Magazine (Canada) and was recently singled out as one of the most remarkable productions at the 2014 American Realness Festival (New York City) by The New York Times. In August 2014, she received the ImpulsTanz Award for artistic excellence in life.

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Dan Attoe

Dan Attoe (American, b. 1975) creates a world of teenage nihilism, fantasy, and alienated rural youth. Simultaneously sincere and ironic, Attoe’s work questions what is real and what is imagined. Operating between indeterminate boundaries between fiction and dreams, Attoe illuminates his work with text. Juxtaposing the luminous glare of neon with phrases and drawings, these works elevate doodles and notes to humorous, poignant, and sometimes perverse effect.

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Dance Truck

Atlanta, Georgia, is a hotbed of contemporary art with an abundance of choreographers and performance artists seeking affordable and accessible venues. Recognizing this scarcity of performance space as an opportunity, curator and lighting designer Malina Rodriguez founded Dance Truck: a mobile project that uses the back of a rental truck as a stage. With its inventive technical direction, diverse artistic lineup, and stunning visual platform, Dance Truck has been an enormous success in “bringing dance to the people” at festivals, museums, parks, and streets throughout the Dirty South.

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Dance Truck Pulls into the Contemporary, Andrew Alexander, Creative Loafing Atlanta, February 9, 2011.

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Dangerous Boys Club

Like an explosion, DBC unleashes on assault of screaming synthesizers, demonic beats, laser lit fog and passionate singing akin to a Black Mass given by Morrissey.

The Dangerous Boys Club is the baby birthed by Aaron Montaigne (singer), Mac Mann (Synth/electronique Organ) of the legendary 90′s harcore bands Antioch Arrow and Get Hustle. Started in the fog of Portland Oregon in 2009, DBC adopted Mark Burden (bass) of Silentist / Glass Candy and Sam Ott (electronique drums) of Year Future to create a very Unique experimental / pop / noise / dark wave inspired by Roxy Music, Soul Side, Suicide the Misfits and David Bowie.

in 2010 DBC released “VRIL” on Nathan Howdeshell of the GOSSIP’s Portland lable Fast Weapons and toured the west coast numerous times and tour of the east coast playing with bands such as Cold Cave, Salem, The Soft Moon and Bronze.

DBC’s second full release “PRIS” will be released on DAIS records in spring 2012 and will be touring the states and Europe.

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Dan Gilsdorf

Dan Gilsdorf is a Portland-based multimedia artist whose works address sculptural physicality using immaterial technologies such as digital video, sound, and language. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at Parko Gallery (Tokyo); the East/West project (Berlin); Artists’ Television Access (San Francisco); and Disjecta and Marylhurst Art Gym (Portland). Gilsdorf has been awarded grants and residencies from organizations including the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Selected Press

Interstate, Isaac Peterson, PORT, August 9, 2005.

Dark Corners: Dan Gilsdorf, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, November 26, 2008.

Selected Videos

Dan Gilsdorf talks about art and technology at DorkbotPDX (Vimeo)

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Dan Handelman

Dan Handelman is a co-founding member of Peace and Justice Works and its police accountability project group Portland Copwatch. In 1991 he also helped co-found Flying Focus Video Collective, which has produced a program on cable access every week on social justice topics. Dan attended nearly every police oversight meeting in the City since 1992 (PIIAC 1992-2001/Citizen Review Committee 2001-present). He was appointed to sit on four City commissions looking at the oversight system - Mayor Katz's Work Group in 2000, on stakeholder groups in 2010 and 2016, and the Police Accountability Commission in 2021-2023. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform.

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Daniel Barrow

Winnipeg-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written, pictorial, and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting. Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to manual forms of animation by projecting, layering, and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors. Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. He has performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), and the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago). Barrow is the 2007 winner of the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton award and the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images Prize. Barrow is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.

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Daniel Beaty

Daniel Beaty is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, composer and poet. His critically acclaimed solo play Emergence-See!, directed by Kenny Leon, ran off-Broadway to a sold-out, extended run at The Public Theater in the fall of 2006. For this production, he received the 2007 Obie Award for Excellence in Off-Broadway Theater for Writing and Performing and the 2007 AUDELCO Award for Solo Performance. New York Magazine awarded him a 2006 Culture Award for Best in Theater. He is the recipient of the 2007 Scotsman Fringe First Award for the best new writer at the Edinburgh Festival, and in November 2007, he was presented with a Lamplighter Award from the Black Leadership Forum in Washington, DC.

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Daniel Girón

Representing from Portland, Oregon (and originally from Mexico), Daniel Girón is a well-rounded dancer with a background in a few Latin partner dance styles, House, Waacking, Contemporary and Vogue. As a voguer, Daniel has won multiple trophies in the ball scene, Holding the title of Portland’s first ever vogue champion after his victory at the 2014 Black and White Ball. He is the Father / Founder of House of ADA and is on a mission to help cultivate a strong Vogue community in the North West, teaching the history and fundamentals of this style on a weekly basis at Vitalidad Movement Art Center in Portland.

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Daniel Godinez Nivón

Daniel Godinez Nivón (Mexico City) - Godinez Nivón is a multimedia artist based in Mexico City. Originally from Oaxaca, Godinez Nivón was raised in the Mexican state of Chiapas. He studied visual arts at the National Academy of Arts, UNAM, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Arts and Designs at San Carlos Academy (UNAM). Godinez Nivón has had solo shows at the Tlaltelolco Cultural Center, UNAM, and group shows at MUAC, The University Museum of Contemporary Art. Godinez Nivón participated in the print-based program, Medios Multiples, and was awarded the prestigious Jóvenes Creadores grant from the Fondo Nacional de la Cultural y las Artes for his project, Asamblea Musical, which will be exhibited in part at Galería de la Raza. In this experimental, sound-based project, Godinez Nivón studies the relationship between art and life through the Tequio, a traditional form of collective decision making.

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Daniel Granias

Daniel Granias received a BFA in Fine Arts and Teaching License in K-12 Art Education from the University of Iowa in 2009 and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Ceramics from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2012. He is a working ceramics artist in Portland, Oregon and a full-time production assistant at Mudshark Studios, LLC. His work focuses on soft and hard forms, internal anatomy, touch and intimacy, and social engagement across all age levels.

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Daniel Kok

Daniel Kok is an alumnus of BA (Honours) Fine Art & Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College (London), MA (Distinction) Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT, Berlin), and the Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (APASS) in Brussels. From 2005 to 2010, he was Associate Artist at The Substation (Singapore). In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from National Arts Council (Singapore).

His performance work deals with the relational politics in spectatorship and audienceship. Q&A (2009), Planet Romeo (2011), Cheerleader of Europe (2014), ALPHA (2014), PIIGS (2015) and Bunny (2016) have been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia, and the USA. Kok is currently researching queerness and a notion of trans-individuality.

As a pole dancer, he won the SG Pole Challenge (2012) and represented Singapore at the International Pole Championships (IPC, 2013). He also identifies as a bondage practitioner and Thai masseur.

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Danielle Kelly

Danielle Kelly is a Las Vegas-based artist and writer, who received her BA from Beloit College and her MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Working in disciplines ranging from installation to performance, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, and Portland.

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Danielle Spencer

Trained in the humanities, she got her start in the art world. After graduating from Yale in 1996, she moved to New York, where she worked for Goldin in her studio on the Bowery. Following a brief stint working at an art school in France, she returned to Manhattan where she resumed working for Goldin before departing for graduate school at NYU. In her master's program, she studied critical theory – “post-structuralists: Derrida, Baudrillard, all that kind of stuff.” In 2001, she began to work as the art director for Byrne, the former lead singer of one of the most acclaimed bands of the ‘80s, Talking Heads.

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Danny Hoch

Danny Hoch won an Obie award for his solo show Some People at Performance Space 122 and enjoyed an extended run at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in 1994 (directed by Jo Bonney). Since then, Some People has toured over 20 US cities as well as Austria, Cuba and Scotland, where Mr. Hoch won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh International Fringe Theater Festival. The television version of Some People can be seen on HBO, and was nominated for a 1996 Cable Ace Award. Danny spent the first half of this decade bringing conflict-resolution-through-drama to adolescents in NYC's jails and alternative high schools with NYU's Creative Arts Team. Mr. Hoch is the recipient of an 1994 Solo Theater Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a 1997 Sundance Fellow. A graduate of the High School of Performing Arts NYC, he has also trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts and in London. Mr. Hoch's play Clinic Con Class appeared as part of Alma Delfina's Pieces Of The Quilt at the Magic Theater in 1996. Danny wrote and acted in HBO's Subway Stories, which premiered this past summer, and just finished shooting Terrence Malickís new epic film, The Thin Red Line. Danny's new show Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop, premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theater in October, and will tour to twelve US cities before opening in New York in the Spring of 1998.

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Dan Seward/Bunnybrains

Dan Seward, also known as Bunnybrains, is a musician, curator and promoter in Hudson, New York, where he runs the celebrated (and somewhat nomadic) record store, John Doe Records. This exhibition focuses on Bunnybrains thirty plus years as a transgressive, mutable, collaborative, performative project and what it means to illustrate the life of a true muse. From live broadcasts of Bunnybrains radio show Battlefield Earth, participatory workshops, rotating guest exhibitions, spontaneous happenings and performances, the artist shares their space with you in an effort to vivify "Bunnybrains is all".

Bunnybrains’ career highlights include a vinyl only pressing with Matador, a national tour supporting Devendra Banhart, a four CD boxset that garnered raves from the indie press, and opening for a reunited Hawkwind—a set credited with giving the many hippies in attendance bad trips.

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Dao Strom

Dao Strom is an artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, and visual—to explore hybridity and contemplate the intersection of personal and collective histories. Using practices of polyvocality, fragmentation, and (re)assemblage, Strom writes arrangements of poetry, music, image, song, and sound, to be experienced as performance, installation, multimedia, recordings, and inside the spaces of a book. Although separate, these elements are unified by a shared (under)current that transposes itself through or despite its conduits, and endeavors toward “re-membering” and attempting to synchronize the divided ‘languages’ within the self and concerning the self as placed in the world.

Strom is the author/composer of several hybrid works, including the music/poetry project TENDER REVOLUTIONS/YELLOW SONGS (2025), and INSTRUMENT (2020), which won the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and its musical companion of song-poems, TRAVELER’S ODE. She co-curated and co-edited the hybrid-literary anthology and exhibition, A Mouth Holds Many Things (2024), and released an album of ambient-folk songs, Redux (2022). She is also the author of a bilingual poetry-art collection, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else; a hybrid-form memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, with song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction. Her work has received support from the Creative Capital Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Precipice Fund, NEA, and others. She is the co-founder of She Who Has No Master(s), a collective of Vietnamese women writers and artists making polyvocal poetry-art works; and de-canon, a literary social art project centering BIPOC writers. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevadas of northern California and now lives in Portland, OR.

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Dariush Dolat-shahi

Born in Iran, Dariush Dolat-shahi entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music at age ten, where he studied the traditional Persian instruments tar and setar. He continued his studies in music and composition through the doctorate level, attending the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music (Masters work), the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, and doctoral work in composition and electronic music at Columbia University in New York. In addition to his ongoing commitment as a composer and professor of composition, Dolat-shahi has for many years traveled throughout Europe and the United States improvising on the tar and setar, creating a complex fusion of traditional Persian sounds with contemporary, Western influences.

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Darla Migan
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Darla Migan is a writer and critic based in New York. Her latest review, Brown’s a Color, Black is Not: ecofeminism(s)’s Anti-Intersectional Feminism and the Use and Abuse of Diversity was published in the Brooklyn Rail’s July/August 2020 issue. In 2019 Darla successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation, Orienting Authentic Judgements: Adrian Piper’s Contributions to Black Aesthetics, in the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University.

TBA:20 INSTITUTE

Friday Sessions with home school:manuel arturo abreu with Darla Migan

ON ADRIAN PIPER'S THWARTED PROJECTS, DASHED HOPES, A MOMENT OF EMBARRASSMENT

September 18, 2020

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Darren O'Donnell

Darren O'Donnell is an artist, writer, actor, and city planner. He is the director and founder of Mammalian Diving Reflex, and the author of Social Acupuncture (Coach House Books, 2006), a manifesto calling for a more socially and politically profound art and theater. His art is often described through the lens of relational aesthetics. O'Donnell is the Artistic and Research Director of Mammalian Diving Reflex (which presented projects for TBA during 2007 and 2014), a "research-art atelier" that produces performances, community-based events, and theoretical texts. The organization fosters dialogue and audience participation, and creates activist performance described by the group as "ideal entertainment for the end of the world." Its programs work to dissolve boundaries between art and life in an attempt to create an aesthetic of civic engagement.

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David Brooks

US/British filmmaker David Brooks is an award-winning editor whose debut film Member has won first place honors at numerous festivals worldwide.

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David Byrne

David Byrne is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.

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David Commander

David Commander’s In Flight questions the reliability of two modern comforts: airplanes and news media. Aboard a crashing airliner, a banal drama unfolds as the puppet passengers relax with daytime talk show reruns and SkyMall infomercials. In Flight mocks our cultural embrace of misinformation and our limitless potential for mass apathy, even in the face of immediate danger. Commander has been a member of Big Art Group for 12 years, working as a performer, assistant director, videographer, and miniature set/prop builder. Outside of the group, he has written, directed, and performed in his own works at the NYC International Fringe Festival, the 2007 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Toy Theater After Dark Festival in Minneapolis

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David (Dee) Yu

Dee's love of movement and music led him to experience a wide assortment of dance styles including hip-hop, house, capoeira, and his favorite, Vogue Fem. A former Burlesquire dancer and no stranger to performance, Dee is excited to share the art of Vogue Fem and its Five Elements with the ever-growing ballroom scene in PDX!

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David Eckard

David Eckard is an artist, educator, and performer based in Portland, Oregon. His practice as a visual artist includes fabricated objects, drawings and prints, installations and performances. Through these varied approaches and diverse presentational strategies, Eckard fabricates residual, fictive artifacts, creates biomorphic, sexualized schematics, assembles arrested moments and orchestrates transient theatrics and temporary monuments for incidental audiences in civic spaces. Futility, authority, theatricality and persona enter into his creative explorations as notions to investigate, critique, utilize and exploit. Solo shows include Kim Foster Galley, New York; Fassbender Gallery, Chicago; Consolidated Works, Seattle; and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland. He has performed at PICA’s TBA Festival in 2004, 2006, and 2011, and for Northwest New Works at On The Boards, Seattle, in 2005. Eckard was awarded the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship for 2010, was one of the inaugural recipients of the Hallie Ford Fellowship in Visual Arts for 2010, and was a Juror’s Award recipient at the 2006 Oregon Biennial. Selected Press David Eckard's Liveries (summer stock) at Mark Woolley Gallery, Jeff Jahn, PORT, July 28, 2007.

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David Greenberger

Since 1979, when David Greenberger first encountered the residents of Boston's Duplex Nursing Home (where he was the Activities Director), he has been illustrating the axiom, "when you get older everything will be different," in a variety of ways. Posing evocative questions such as "Which do you prefer, coffee or meat?" and "How close can you get to a penguin?" to the nursing home residents, Greenberger recorded their free-ranging responses and began publishing them in a 'zine entitled, The Duplex Planet. Eventually the 'zine spawned a book of the same name, a Duplex Planet comic series (Fantagraphics), a card set (Kitchen Sink), a CD (East Side Digital), video (Gravita International) and a theatrical work entitled 1001 Real Apes.

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⁠David Harrelson

David Harrelson is the Cultural Resources Department Manager for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. He is a Grand Ronde tribal member from the Bean-Menard-Sengretta family. He was raised by a mountaineer and grandparents who worked in education and health care. Among his lineal Oregon ancestors of recent memory he counts the owner of a logging company, a mobile butcher, chief of police, and Kalapuya headman. David is active in his community and currently serves on the Oregon State Advisory Committee for Historic Preservation (SACHP) as well as the Oregon Arts Commission. He is a former board member of the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR, and has previously been a conversation leader for Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project, where he led sessions on the topics of monuments and place. Working for over ten years in the field of cultural resources, David continues to champion the protection of archaeology sites, maintenance of ancestral lifeways, and proliferation of indigenous art forms throughout his Tribe's homelands centered in Western Oregon.

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David Sedaris

David Sedaris burst into the national spotlight in 1992 when he read his SantaLand Diaries, a hilarious account of his experiences as a Macy's elf, on National Public Radio. Since then, he has written three collections of autobiographical essays, Barrel Fever (1995), Naked (1997), and Holidays on Ice, which has just been released in paperback. He is also the author of five plays which he co-produced with his sister, Amy, at the legendary Cafe La Mama in New York and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He continues to entertain the nation with his wry and witty observations of American culture as a commentator for NPR. In his Portland appearance, Sedaris will read from a new collection of essays inspired by his recent move from New York to Paris.

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David Thomson

David Thomson is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice borders on choreographic situations and installations centered around questions of identity, unconscious narratives, and the expression of presence and absence as performative states. 

He has been supported or presented by The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC Arts, Performance Space NY, The Invisible Dog, Mt Tremper Arts, The Yard and Danspace Project, among other institutions.

His work has been recognized with awards and fellowships including a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Award (2022), Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018), Yaddo (2016), MacDowell (2014), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography (2013), and the US Artists Ford Fellowship (2012). 

Thomson has worked across the fields of music, dance, film, theater, and performance with Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown, Ralph Lemon, Tracie Morris, Marina Abramović, Meg Stuart, Grisha Coleman|Hot Mouth, Yvonne Rainer,  Sekou Sundiata, Maria Hassabi, Yanira Castro, and Okwui Okpokwasili, among others.  

He has served on the faculties of Movement Research, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, The New School, Barnard, Bennington, Pratt and Middlebury.  In 2017, he and Kate Watson-Wallace initiated The Sustainability Project, which serves as a platform for expanding the discourse surrounding financial, artistic, and personal empowerment within the arts community. 

Thomson received an interdisciplinary B.A. from State University of New York at Purchase.

www.davidhamiltonthomson.com

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David Wojnarowicz

Wojnarowicz was an American artist whose work provoked bigotry and sustained campaigns by the religious right to revoke funding for the arts during the 'Culture Wars' of the late 80s and early 90s. His art--and A Fire in My Belly, in particular--dealt eloquently and powerfully with the issues of being an openly gay man in America, and the harsh realities of living with HIV/AIDS. Wojnarowicz died in 1992 of AIDS-related complications.

His estate is represented by PPOW Gallery.

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Dawn Kasper

Dawn Kasper is an interdisciplinary performance artist. Kasper's work has been exhibited widely; The Migros Museum, Zurich (2005), Human Resources, LA (2011), Tramway, Glasgow (2012), 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2012) Redling Fine Art, LA (2014) David Lewis, NY (2014) Kasper lives and works in New York.

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Dayna Hanson

A multi-disciplinary artist and 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, Dayna Hanson has been creating dance, film and performance in Seattle for more than 20 years. She was one-half of dance/theater company 33 Fainting Spells and a founding member of Run/Remain Ensemble. She has performed her work at venues including Dance Theater Workshop, On the Boards, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, and ICA in London. Hanson’s award-winning dance films have screened worldwide at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Melbourne International Festival of Arts, and can be found on First Run Features’ Dance For Camera DVD.

As Co-Artistic Director of 33 Fainting Spells, Dayna Hanson co-curated New Dance Cinema from 1999–2003. With 33 Fainting Spells and independently, Hanson’s award-winning dance films have screened worldwide, including at Edinburgh International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Festival Internacional de Videodanza de Buenos Aires and Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Hanson recently directed a mini-documentary for MTV.com about Seattle band The Dutchess and the Duke and choreographed a dance scene for Korean director Tae Yong Kim’s feature film, Late Autumn.

Selected Press

A clever musing on our demise, Alice Kaderlan, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 2, 2006.

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DB Amorin

DB Amorin (b. Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an interdisciplinary media artist who explores audio-visual non-linearity as a container for intersectional experience. He frequently emphasizes the generative role of error as an opportunity for creation, resulting in media-centered projects driven by DIY methodologies, lo-fi translations, and persistent, inquisitive experimentation with available materials. 

His work has garnered awards from esteemed organizations including the Jersey City Arts Council, Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Precipice Fund grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Calligram Foundation and administered by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). His visual art, performances, curatorial & collaborative programming have been presented internationally at A4 Arts Foundation; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival; Onassis Foundation; ICA at MECA&D; Luggage Store Gallery; Soundwave ((7)) Biennial; PICA; Portland Art Museum; the Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu Biennial 2019.

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Dean & Britta

Dean & Britta are Dean Wareham and Britta Philips, formerly of iconic 90s band Luna. Started by Wareham in 1992, Luna made seven studio albums and played their final shows in 2005. Prior to Luna, Wareham fronted Galaxie 500. Philips joined Luna in 2000, before which she played in several bands, starred in the movie Satisfaction, and was the singing voice of 80s cartoon character JEM. The duo released L’Avventura, an album of covers and duets, in 2005, and Back Numbers in 2009. Dean & Britta have scored several films, most notably Noah Baumbach’s The Squid & The Whale.

Selected Press

For Warhol Visitors and Would-be Superstars, 4 Minutes of Mystique, Stephen Holden, The New York Times, January 19, 2009.

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Dean Daderko

Dean Daderko is Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. His first exhibition at CAMH, It is what it is. Or is it? (2012), explored how contemporary artists have recast the readymade to address a variety of social, political, and temporal concerns as this artistic form nears its 100th anniversary. Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane (2013) brings together a selection of works made between 1965 and 2010 by two foundational performance artists with multidisciplinary practices working in New York and Paris respectively. His upcoming CAMH exhibitions include a solo exhibition of documentary work by LaToya Ruby Frazier, which will travel to the ICA Boston. Previously working as an independent curator based in New York, Daderko has mounted curatorial projects in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montreal, Canada; and Vilnius, Lithuania, among other locations. He has also organized programming for Art in General, Artists’ Space, The Kitchen, and Visual AIDS in New York. Daderko has been a graduate seminar instructor at Yale University School of Art where he led the course Queer Strategies, and a visiting curator at Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas in Buenos Aires; Cooper Union School of the Arts in New York; the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA; and the University of Houston. He writes and speaks extensively in conjunction with his exhibitions, and his writing has been published in catalogues by CAMH, The Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Americas’ Society, and Rutgers University.

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Debbie Wooten

You seen her on BET comic view, and also she was a finalist in funny is Mom’s in America. She has been in the business over 30 years and has open for all the fellow comedians such as Jamie Foxx,Sinbad, And recently perform at the Northwest black comedy festival with Marsha Warfield that is just a few. She believes laughter is a healer and is known as comedy nurse because she knows the power of laughter, she is the diva Comedy Debbie Wooten.

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Deborah Hay

Deborah Hay is an American choreographer, dancer, dance theorist, and author working in the field of experimental postmodern dance. She is one of the original founders of the Judson Dance Theater.

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dee bustos

dee bustos is a queer, genderfluid multimedia artist living in Portland. with family roots to méxico— dee loves color, texture, sound, memory, and the vivid language of dreams. they are curious about death, grief, and the ways to creatively and compassionately tend to those wounds. their chrysalis has cracked open. 

www.deebustos.com

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Deelay Ceelay

Deelay Ceelay is a collaboration between video artist/musician Chris Lael Larson and percussionist Delaney Kelly, fusing live instrumentation with synched projected visuals. Deelay Ceelay blur the divide between music, experimental film and performance while emphasizing the creation of a two-way exchange with audiences.

The duo have performed/screened in over 30 cities across the U.S., with work appearing at the Berkeley Museum of Art, the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the Experimental Media and Movement Arts Lab, PICA and the Northwest Film Center. Deelay Ceelay live in portland, oregon.

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Dee Lyrium

Dee Lyrium is a performance artist and dancer whose work comments on the limits of bodily autonomy through physical pain. Their work features themes of pain, ecstasy, grief, and personal power.

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Deep Under Ground

Founded in 2015, Deep Under Ground (DUG) is a community-based arts platform that curates intentional gatherings in support of local artistry striving to encourage young, diverse talent to change the landscape of the Portland arts community. Through organizing and making art, DUG’s intention is to uplift individuals and synchronize different avenues of expression; emphasizing artistic cultivation as an essential outlet to every individual and community.

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Demian DinéYazhi´

Demian DinéYazhi´ (born 1983) is a Portland-based Diné transdisciplinary artist, poet, and curator born to the clans Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) & Tódích’íí’nii (Bitter Water). Their practice is a regurgitation of purported Decolonial praxis informed by the over accumulation and exploitative supremacist nature of hetero-cis-gendered communities post colonization. They are a survivor of attempted european genocide, forced assimilation, manipulation, sexual and gender violence, capitalist sabotage, and hypermarginalization in a colonized country that refuses to center their politics and philosophies around the Indigenous Peoples whose Land they occupy and refuse to give back. They live and work in a post-post-apocalyptic world unafraid to fail.

Instagram @heterogeneoushomosexual

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Dennis Nyback

Dennis Nyback was an American independent film archivist, found footage filmmaker, historian and writer. Nyback operated the Dennis Nyback Film Archive, which has over 13,000 short films, from 1895 onward, mostly in 16mm. It is located in Portland, Oregon.

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Dennis Scholl

Dennis Scholl is the Vice President of Arts for the Knight Foundation. He oversees the foundation's national arts program, including the Knight Arts Challenge and Random Acts of Culture. He is well known as a collector of contemporary art for over three decades. Scholl is also the founder of a series of initiatives dedicated to building the contemporary art collections of museums, including the Guggenheim, the Tate Modern and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. He is a four-time regional Emmy winner for his work in cultural documentaries. His first feature documentary “Deep City: The Birth of Miami Sound,” premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival. Dennis is also the co-founder of Betts and Scholl, an award-winning wine project. In 2012, Scholl was a Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, focusing on the role of culture in community engagement. Dennis is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Previously, he was a practicing attorney and CPA.

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Descending Pharaohs

Descending Pharaohs is an ethno-psych project soundtracking the alleyway fight scenes to near-eastern films of the ’70s.  Half structure/half improvisation, drawing influence from Arabic/Anatolian electric music, spiritual jazz, British psych, and the heavier side of Krautrock, Descending Pharaohs is Ricardo Esway (Militant Children’s Hour, Gazillions, Gamelan Sekar) on guitar; Larold Will (Les Etrangers, Topiary Kings, Brainwarmer) on drums and electronics; and Theo Khoury (Tunneler, Gaza Tunnels) on bass, oud, and djoura.

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devynn emory

devynn emory is a mixed Lenape/Blackfoot transgender choreographer, dance artist, bodyworker, ceremonial guide, acute care and hospice nurse currently working as a COVID-19 nurse in NYC. emory's performance company devynnemory/beastproductions draws from their multiple in-between states of being, holding space for liminal bodies bridging multiple planes of transition. their formal dance training pulls on mathematical and mapped scores to support bodies decolonizing and bleeding human truths, opening peep holes and revelations for collective performers and audiences. they are currently working on a trilogy centering medical mannequins processing transitional mediumship. deadbird with it’s touring public altar can anyone help me hold this body will be first. Cindy Sessions and boiling-rain are to follow which are interactive storytelling projects with an elder mannequin holding a collection of grandmother wisdom. As a healer they have dual licenses in "western" and "eastern" bodywork and run a private practice sage-massage that offers end of life consultation, channeled counseling and hands on care modalities in conversation with thresholds. you can find their work at devynnemory.com and sage-massage.

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Dez Ramirez

Dez Ramirez is a writer, filmmaker, artist and DJ. Known as DJ La Cosmica, Dez has been a member of the Noche Libre DJ Collective since 2018, and has hosted, recorded and produced episodes of Radio Noche Libre! on XRAY FM. Currently living between the Mojave Desert, Los Angeles, and Portland - La Cosmica's style and musical curation ranges widely as she draws from the influences of dramatic wilderness, urban vibrancy, and the pulse of collective and radical liberation in the communities in which she lives and creates. Recent flavors consist of electrocumbia, electronica, house, synth, R&B, bass, reggaeton, norteno, salsa, and disco. 


Find her at:

@silver_mother

dezramirez.com

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Diana Szeinblum and Lucas Condro

Argentine director, dancer and choreographer Diana Szeinblum began her career with the prestigious contemporary Ballet of the San Martin General theatre under the direction of Oscar Araiz. On a Goethe Institute scholarship, she studied at the Folkwang Tanz Schule and danced with the FTS company under the artistic direction of Pina Bausch, where she worked with choreographers such as Bausch, Susanne Linke and Urs Dietrich, among others. Her award-winning independent dance theatre work Secreto y Malibú toured across Europe, Asia and the US in 2003 including performances at PICA, The Walker Art Center, Dance Theatre Workshop and the Fresh Terrain Festival in Austin. ALASKA, her last piece, premiered in 2007, in the Konex Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and toured through the  NPN Performing Americas Program in 2008. ALASKA will also be included in the Teatro a mil Festival (Chile) CINARS (Canada) the Feria de San Sebastian (España) and he Festival in Madrid 2009. Szeinblum is a sought-after teacher of composition and improvisation classes in Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina.

Lucas Condro began his studies in Argentina in 1997. In 1999 he was invited by the teacher and choreographer David Zambrano to take a seminar at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, where he studied for three years and received the degree of "Dance Maker."  In Amsterdam he worked with the choreographers Red Peace, Hooman Sharifi; Nicole Butler and David Zambrano. In 2004 he improved his skills in the Montpellier Choreographic Center, under the direction of Mathilde Monnier. Condro is one of the key performers of Diana Szeinblum's work, appearing  in her play 34 Metros, Homage to Kagel and ALASKA. He teaches Improvisation and technical courses in Argentina and throughout Latin America.

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Disorientalism

Disorientalism is an ongoing collaboration between Katherine Behar and Marianne M. Kim. Through live performance, video, and photographic projects, the duo explores how technologized labor, junk culture, and consumerism mediate race, gender and bodies. In character, the Disorientals expose our hapless submersion in junk culture, and our failed attempts to rationalize it by mistakenly resorting to industriousness and work. Recent exhibitions include de la Cruz Collection in Miami, the Poznan Biennial, and The Wassiac Project. Behar and Kim have individually been supported with grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund, NEA/Dance USA, Meet the Composer, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and the U.S. Consulate General in Leipzig.

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DJAO

Seattle native DJAO, aka Alex Osuch, is a producer/vocalist of electronic music: hazy bass, sung echoes, swung­out drums, zones. Alex began to produce in earnest after joining up with Dropping Gems in 2010, and his live performances have since evolved to their current state: a combination of singing, triggering, and dancing. His music covers a wide fuzzy swath of the electronic spectrum. It exemplifies the progressive tradition of mixing elements from different disciplines into a cohesive whole, all in service of a central harmonic vision. It confronts everything from sadness to relaxation to the warm revelation of a burden lifted. Behind it all is a profoundly mundane daily routine.

Selected Press:

"The Alchemist: Alex Osuch aka DJAO," City Arts, by Jonathan Zwickel, January 2, 2014

"DJAO / Running in the Fog / Natasha Kmeto - 'Bass Camp SF'," Tiny Mix Tapes, by Top Heavy, May 30, 2014

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DJ Black Daria

DJ Black Daria is a Portland-based DJ and selector of R&B, hip hop, funk, afro caribbean and latinx sounds. She co-hosts Everyday Mixtapes on XRAY.FM with DJ Shi Shi (Saturdays 5-6pm) and is a part of the Noche Libre collective. She draws inspiration from her Black and Latinx roots and brings a variety of bass-heavy, beat-laden sounds to the Northwest scene. She holds a residency at Dig a Pony and the 1905.

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DJ Klyph

DJ Klyph has been bringing the very best from the northwest and worldwide to the airwaves since ’09. Featuring hip hop, funk, soul, and providing a platform for artists that are often underserved to share exclusive content like in-studio interviews and on-air rhyme sessions. A fan of conscious hip hop with a lean towards the golden era east coast sound, Klyph utilizes the multimedia platforms of radio broadcast, podcasting, and visuals to impact the community consciousness and real good music.

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​DJ Lamar LeRoy

Lamar Leroy has been a music fiend from birth reared on the sounds present in 90’s era Detroit and Chicago. His DJ sets are based on a core of R&B funk and branch out in all direction imaginable. Lamar has been introducing himself and others to new musical discoveries since he got his first set of turntables in 1998. As the resident DJ and Co-founder of Y.G.B.Portland, Lamar sets the vibes for all of their events. He is also one of the most sought after DJs in Portland and plays regular gigs at Jacknife, Dig A Pony, Century, White Owl and Killingsworth Dynasty. His show Twilight Deluxe can be heard every Friday evening on XRAYfm

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DJ Mixed Messages

DJ Mixed Messages is a local Portland, OR DJ and electronic music artist. They perform at regional venues, art spaces, and events—such as the Sines and Vines electronic music series and local club sets—often supporting community groups like the Synth Library Portland or Elbow Room.

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D'lo

D’Lo is a queer transgender Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. D’Lo has performed and/or facilitated performance and writing workshops extensively (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Sri Lanka and India). D’Lo is also the creator of the “Coming Out, Coming Home” writing workshop series which have taken place with South Asian and/or Immigrant Queer Organizations nationally (LA, NY and SF). D’Lo’s work has been published in various anthologies and academic journals, most recently: Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asia America and Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic (co-edited by Sharon Bridgforth). D’Lo holds a BA from UCLA in Ethnomusicology and is a graduate of New York’s School of Audio Engineering (SAE).

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DNVN

DNVN is an alternative R&B project by Portlanders Damon Boucher and Donovan Edwards. The duo met in 2013, through mutual friend Chanti Darling. After Edwards had a particularly hard break up, the duo released first EP, "Ex-Boyfriend" on SoundCloud in 2015. Between the two they have worked with various local artists including Sassy Black, Natasha Kmeto, The Last Artful, Dodgr, Chanti Darling, and Maarquii. "SOFT PINK" the duo’s debut LP is due later this year

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Dohee Lee

Founded in 2014, Dohee Lee Puri Arts (DLPA) is the producing organization of performance artist, Dohee Lee. Our mission is to create and tour multi-disciplinary performance rituals under the direction of Dohee Lee. We utilize art to heal fractured relationships in the urban environment – relationships between humans and the land and between individuals and their communities. We say "performance ritual" because Dohee's work arises from her intensive training in the practices of mudang (Korean shamanism). This tradition combines singing, dancing, drumming, costuming into communal village healing gatherings. DLPA applies this ancient, indigenous approach to community healing to our urban village of the Bay Area, updated with modern tools of multi-disciplinary immersive art. Since her arrival in the US in 2002, Dohee Lee (Artistic Director) has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary arts landscape of the Bay Area, working with Kronos Quartet, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Anna Halprin, Amara Tabor Smith, inkBoat, Kunst-Stoff Dance. Recent awards: 2016 Alpert Prize, Music; 2016 Rainin Grant; Korean Americans for Peace, 2016 Korean American Peace Award; 2015 CCI; 2015 Doris Duke Impact, Theater; 2015 Gerbode, Choreographer; 2015 Ucross Residency; 2014 Djerassi Residency; 2014 William and Flora Hewlett Honorary Fellowship; 2013 East Bay Community Foundation; 2013 Creative Capital; 2013 MAP.

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Donal Mosher

photographer/filmmaker/writer

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Donna Uchizono Company

Hailed by Ms. Magazine’s end of the century issue as “a choreographer making great leaps forward into the 21st century,” Donna Uchizono is the Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company, a New York-based company established in 1990.  Since her choreographic debut in 1990, Uchizono rapidly emerged from the “downtown scene” as a choreographer known for her spicy movement, wit, and rich invention. Donna Uchizono Company has toured throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia and has created work for notables Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Paula Vogel, MacArthur Fellow, David Hammons, and neurologist/writer Oliver Sacks.

 

In 2011, after decades of critically-acclaimed dance works that toured nationally and internationally, Donna Uchizono was identified by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Dance Heritage Coalition as a master choreographer whose works require preservation. Donna Uchizono Company received a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts award for Phase 1 of the archival and preservation of her work. 

 

In addition to being a Unites States Artist, Guggenheim Fellow and a “Bessie” award winner, Uchizono has been recognized by many awards including United States Artist Award in dance, an Alpert Award in Dance, Rockefeller, the National Dance Project, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Capital Foundation, Altria Group, Inc., the Jerome Foundation, Dance Magazine Seed Grant, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Arts International, Foundation for Contemporary Performance, Metropolitan Life Foundation/ADF Commission, the National Performance Network, the Suitcase Fund, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Greenwall Foundation, Meet the Composer, and the Bossak Heilbron Charitable Foundation. Uchizono has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and five New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

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Dontavious Body

 Dontavious Body, Meet Me On Da Floor Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Dontavious Body is the young urban professional who had the forethought to establish MEET ME ON DA FLOOR, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit company,  as well as the courage to use his company to embark upon the journey to be a positive force of enlightenment, change, and inclusion for society.  Prior to him establishing this company, he served in corporate America for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations; most notably Microsoft and with Forever family, Inc.  While at Microsoft, Body served as the company’s Product Advisor and Community Development Captain where he was responsible for introducing the world of MICROSOFT to corporate partners and non-profit agencies, launching new product lines, and facilitating corporate education. He has earned a number of Microsoft certifications.

 

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Don’t Shoot Portland

Don’t Shoot Portland is an arts and education organization that promotes social justice and civic participation. Our year-round programming allows us to advocate for community members facing racism and discrimination by providing legal representation and direct advocacy. Since our inception in 2016, Don’t Shoot Portland has hosted its own dialogues, community forums and workshops focusing on history, archiving and social culture. The art proponent of our work acts as a communicative tool to facilitate discussions about race in America while providing educational assets to those most affected by discrimination in public policy.

As we uplift and amplify social movements around the world, your solidarity and commitment to change is the impact needed. We must continue to evolve alongside one another to extend this work. Our community action plan provides direct essential resources, legal advocacy and more to support communities that have been systemically marginalized. Our programming will remain free and low-barrier to keep our resources accessible to all.

Teressa Raiford is a community organizer, philanthropist and fourth generation Portlander. Her experiences with gun violence inspired her to demand accountability from leaders and lawmakers surrounding public safety. In 2016 Teressa established a human rights organization,  Don’t Shoot Portland, focusing on civic education, art and nonviolent direct action while providing legal access to vulnerable communities.

Tai Carpenter (she/her) is a writer, gallerist and community archivist with a passion for social impact in the realms of art and civil rights. She is also the founder of Compose Yourself Magazine, an independent online publication spotlighting music, culture and social justice. She has curated political art installations, facilitated panel discussions and organized artmaking workshops centered on civic action with Portland Art Museum, University of Oregon’s Special Collections and University Archives, Society of American Archivists, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Shift Collective and Documenting the Now, among others. 

Her work allows her to intersect two passions, art and civil rights, to create a more equitable and creative world by utilizing critical research to facilitate dialogues around art in relation to current social movements.

Tai is currently the Board President of Don’t Shoot Portland, a community-based advocacy nonprofit and Director of The Black Gallery. Most recently she was Gallery Coordinator for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Gallery Manager at HOLDING Contemporary and an Archives & Records Management Coordinator at the City of Portland Archives.

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Dorothée Munyaneza

Dorothée Munyaneza (Marseille, France) is a singer, writer and choreographer who spent her childhood in Rwanda. Her style of creating and performing on stage is directly inspired by what life has so intensely given her. Her artistic research draws from the diversity of her cultural heritage but more so by her appetite for encounters. In all her projects, the human dimension is especially of great importance. Her artistic curiosity and interest for a dialogue between music and other modes of expression blossomed through her participation in François Verret’s shows. In 2013, she created Compagnie Kadidi to start developing her own work, including “Samedi Détente,” her first work as a choreographer which has been presented 100 times touring all over Europe and in the USA.

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Douglas Gordon

The work of Glasgow native Douglas Gordon epitomizes a new fluidity between video and film in contemporary art. Gordon received the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 1997 Venice Biennale, and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998.

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Douglas J McCarthy

Douglas J McCarthy is a founding member of NITZER EBB, formed in 1982. McCarthy has a long standing partnership with French Techno producer, Terence Fixmer as FIXMER/MCCARTHY. In 2010 NITZER EBB released their sixth studio album, ‘INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX’. Subsequently McCarthy embarked on his first solo album, 'KILL YOUR FRIENDS', collaborating with Cyrusrex for the first time. Released in 2013, it led to this new musical partnership, BLACK LINE.

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Drama Tops

Seattle’s [self professed] hottest postmodern nightlife performance duo, Drama Tops was born of the artistic partnership of Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue. They began making work together seven years ago with the creation of a solo on two bodies. The dynamic between their trans body and cis body has created beautiful moments of frustration, competition, tenderness, and comedy. Drama Tops blends the worlds of nightlife and concert modern dance to create an interesting and unique blend of accessible and funny modern dance. You may have seen Drama Tops perform their smash hit Boys! Boys! Boys!, presented by Velocity Dance Center’s Made in Seattle program, or their self-produced show, Drama Tops, this is for you at Washington Hall in Seattle. Other performances include NW New Works Festival presented by On the Boards, Seattle, WA; Family Meal and Catharsis at Kremwerk, Seattle, WA; Heels! at Cha Cha, Seattle, WA; High F@ggotry, Seattle, WA, and more.

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Drew Michael

Drew Michael was born in Bethel, Alaska, and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. He started his art career at the University of Alaska Anchorage in a carving class with Joe Senungetuk in 1997. From there, his practice has developed through the study of other artists' work and through his own experience in trial and error. He has learned under the guidance of Kathleen Carlo and Larry Ahvakana in Anchorage, AK. 

His art is deeply influenced by the people and events he has encountered in his life. Currently, his work uses imagery of religious iconography blended with traditional mask making with the hopes of bringing to light different ways of healing. His work is created with a focus on using new materials and combinations of mixed media. He uses carving as a form of expression, to draw understanding and compassion from within, and is constantly using new materials to broaden the form of his work.

"With everything I create I aim to exemplify my thoughts on how our humanity exists within this world, emotions about my relationships with others, perceptions of energy in all things and the constant acceptance into balance. As I learn about my own path I blend my traditional knowledge with everyday living experience and somehow try to connect with that ancestral wisdom that I see us all having within and around."

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Drew Pisarra

Now a resident of New York City, Drew Pisarra began performing solo works five years ago at various work-in-progress forums around Portland. His initial short pieces culminated in his evening-length work, Queer Notions. His subsequent monologue, Fickle, debuted at Portland Actor's Conservatory and toured to Highways in Los Angeles and On the Boards in Seattle as part of their Northwest New Works series. His piece, The Gospel According to Saint Genet, was commissioned as part of the Portland Art Museum's 1995 Biennial. Pisarra has also appeared in numerous productions with the Imago Theatre, and has collaborated with several local artists including Katherine Peterson, Linda K. Johnson, and Cynthia Ciamente. His poetry has been published in various magazines, and a collection of his short fiction entitled Public Spanking was released by Future Tense Press in 1996.

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Dr. Juniper L. Simonis

Dr. Simonis has a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University and is the Owner & Lead Scientist of DAPPER Stats, a Portland, OR-based quantitative ecology consulting company. They are also the Founder & Director of the Chemical Weapons Research Center, a research, education, and activism organization focused on understanding the impact of chemical weapons on people, communities, and the environment. 

When not working, Dr. Simonis plays competitive roller derby, and is a current member of the four-time, currently defending world champion and #1 ranked Rose City Rollers Wheels of Justice. Alongside competing, Juniper has been recognized for their activism and advocacy for inclusion of transgender athletes.

Website: https://www.juniperlsimonis.com/

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Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger

Miller & Shellabarger create artist books and public performances that examine queer identity, politics, and displays of affection and intimacy. They are recipients of a 2008 Artadia Chicago Award and a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. Together, Miller & Shellabarger have presented their projects at venues across the United States and at art fairs including Volta in Basel; Switzerland; NEXT in Chicago; NADA in Miami; and the Affair at the Jupiter in Portland, Oregon. The two artists also maintain separate artistic practices. Miller & Shellabarger are represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago, where they live and work.

Selected Press

Run, Don't Walk, Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Miami New Times, September 17, 2009.

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Dylan Mira

Dylan Mira is an artist moving between video and text, recording how language makes bodies within the limits of representation and the thickness of time. Her recent projects have been presented at Performa, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, and Human Resources. She holds an MFA in New Genres from University of California Los Angeles and a BFA in Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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East Rodeo

East Rodeo has recently become popular in the European experimental sound scene under the leadership of the Sinkauz brothers—Alen and Nenad—who were born in Pula and formed the band while studying musicology in Italy. Since the release of their third album, Morning Cluster, they have been noticed by important critics, and have gained the affections of their audiences. At the same time, the brothers Sinkauz also work in the theater, but all too rarely.

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Ed Bourgeois

Ed Bourgeois is a theater artist of mixed—French, Iroquois, Algonquian, Italian, Scottish, diseased, orphaned, alcoholic, KKK, displaced and runaway—heritage. His Alaska Native Playwrights Project trained 32 Native playwrights from 2010-2013. Bourgeois’ plays have been included in Native Voices at the Autry’s Short Play Festival: Trail Trees; and Backstage, Blue Moon, which won the 2016 Von Marie Atchley Excellence in Playwriting Award. River of Blood was workshopped at Autry’s 2018 Playwrights Retreat and Native Earth’s 2019 Weesageechak Festival, received staged readings at LaJolla Playhouse and Oklahoma City Native American New Play Festival, and was a Semi-Finalist for the 2019 Blue Ink Playwriting Award. Through papier-mâché, recycled cardboard, and improvisational comedy, he’s working to disrupt family trauma and pass down good stories to his grandchildren.

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Edie Tsong

Edie Tsong received her MFA in ceramics from Louisiana State University. Telecommunity Portrait was recently presented as part of Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her video Thank-you America was recently on view in April Meetings: A Festival of Expanded Media in Belgrade, Serbia. She has performed collaboratively with Pete Kuzov in the EnterActive Language Festival in Portland, Oregon, for the past three years. Tsong has held residencies at Women’s Studio Workshop in New York, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in Roswell, New Mexico.

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Edna Vázquez
Edna Vazquez | Photo credit Tania Gómez-Daza

Edna Vázquez is a fearless artist and songwriter whose powerful voice and musical talent transcend the boundaries of language with songs deeply rooted in universal human emotion. She has traveled far and wide spreading her message of light, love and cultural healing.

www.ednavazquez.com

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Ed Purver

Ed Purver, a Brooklyn-based artist who integrates digital media into public spaces, has recently created artworks for the Liverpool Biennial (UK), Seoul Institute of the Arts (South Korea), and the Manhattan Bridge.

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Edwin Culp

Culp is an associate professor in the Communications Department at Universidad Iberoamericana, and he is currently working through his PhD thesis in art history at the UNAM. He is also one of the organizer-curators of Re-positionings: Contemporary Performing Arts Forum in Mexico City. He was the assistant curator at the Mexican Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale and is one of the founding partners of Conejoblanco Galería de Libros. His publications include film criticism articles in Nexos (Mexico) and as part of the book Cine Mexico 1970-2011 (Gran NumeronceProducciones, Mexico).

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Eiko and Koma

Eiko (female) and Koma (male) began working as independent artists in Tokyo in the early 1970’s, where they met and soon abandoned their studies in law and political science. Their newfound interests in performance took them to several teachers in Japan and Europe, including founders of Butoh and then followers of the German expressionist Mary Wigman in Amsterdam, where they lived and worked before moving to the United States to become permanent residents in the mid-seventies. Eiko and Koma performed their first work in the United States in 1976, White Dance, sponsored by the Japan Society.

Their creative energy has not waned in the last 25 years, they regularly perform in galleries, theaters, universities, museums, and at festivals across North America, Europe, and Japan. The pair was honored as Guggenheim Fellows in 1984 and MacArthur Fellows in 1996, they received two Bessies in 1984 for Grain and Night Tide, and another in 1990 for Passage. Eiko and Koma live and work in New York, where their touring and individual works are regularly supported by numerous grants and foundations, including the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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