Artists Archive

Mia Habib: 2 Events; Mia Habib (b. 1980, Houston, Texas) is an Oslo-based dancer, performer, and choreographer working at the intersection of performance, exhibitions, publications, lectures, teaching, mentoring, and curating. Her work is described as holding a critical cultural perspective on body, identity, society, and dance. She engages in labs and research with a variety of specialists including artists, scientists, and political activists.
Habib has collaborated internationally with Jassem Hindi, Guilherme Garrido, Steinunn Ketilsdottir, Julie Nioche, Rani Nair, Brynjar Bandlien, Monica Gillette, keyon gaskin, Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson, and Tommy Noonan. She danced with Carte Blanche, The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance, from 2017-2018, for whom she also made the commissioned work, Gjallarhorn (2016).
Habib has been an associated artist of Dance House Oslo, co-initiated the artist network Sweet & Tender Collaborations, and is a former member of the board of The Norwegian Opera and Ballet. She holds an M.A in Conflict Resolution and Mediation from Tel Aviv University, and a B.A. in Choreography and Dance Pedagogy from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Habib’s work has been presented: LaMaMaMoves!, Tanz im August, Dance House Oslo, Aerowaves 2015, Black Box Theatre Oslo, BIT Teatergarasjen, Theatre Freiburg, Tanzhaus nrw Dusseldorf, Spielart Festival, Gotheborg Dance and Theatre festival, On Marche Festival Marrakech, I'TRÔTRA Festival Antananarivo, and Keðja Reykjavík.
Mia Imani: 2 Events; Mia Imani is an international interdisciplinary artivist (art + activist) and arts writer based in Berlin, Germany. She creates and curates liminal spaces that invite Black and Brown communities to heal individual and communal trauma through conscious (daydreaming, visualization) and subconscious (lucid, REM sleep) dreaming. These works aim to center the agency of marginalized communities and use dreams as a portal to manifest alternative past(s), present(s), and future(s). She received her BA in media communications studies from the University of Washington and is completing her master’s degree in North American Culture and Literature studies at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
https://www.miaiharrison.com/
Mic Capes: 2 Events; Mic Capes is a hip hop artist from Portland, OR that represents the North Portland neighborhood, St.Johns. Capes is known for having vivid story telling ability, raw lyricism, and thought provoking social commentary as key components of his music. He released his debut solo album "Rise & Grind" and made a huge impact on the local hip hop scene and now gearing up for his highly anticipated sophomore offering "Concrete Dreams", slated to drop in 2015. He is a member of the Portland hip hop supergroup The Resistance of FRSH TRB.
Michael Crowe: 1 Event; Michael Crowe is a writer and an artist. His diverse work has been featured in press internationally including Associated Press, BBC, the New Yorker, The Smithsonian and Financial Times Deutschland. He has exhibited in galleries including FRAC Paris, Simultanhalle in Cologne, Nottingham Contemporary and Kunsthalle St. Gallen in Switzerland. He's given talks at the New Museum New York, BFI London and taught at Tate Britain and the Camden Arts Centre. Michael's most frequent collaborator is Lenka Clayton, with whom he writes Mysterious Letters, an attempt to write a handwritten letter to everyone in the world.
Michael Reinsch: 3 Events; Reinsch is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon, where he earned his MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2009. His work incorporates performance and activated sculptural props to explore human connection and disconnection, often through themes of celebration and melancholy.
Michael Rohd: 0 Events; Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, a sixteen-year old ensemble-based company and a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. He devises and directs new work around the nation and is on faculty at Northwestern University, where he helps lead the MFA Directing Program. He wrote the widely translated book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue (15th printing, Heinemann Press, 1998). He leads the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, an ongoing body of activity comprised of research, programs and projects that aim to make visible the power of the arts to demonstrably increase civic capacity.
Rohd's work with the Center, Sojourn, and in non-arts sector settings around the nation focuses on social practice and civic practice cross-disciplinary projects through collaboratively designed arts-based engagement and participation strategies. He is the 2013-2016 Doris Duke Artist-in-Residence at Lookingglass Theater Company in Chicago. Recent/current projects include leading a two year Sojourn Artist-in-Residence collaboration with Catholic Charities USA poverty reduction sites around the US; a Sojourn partnership with Planning Commissions around the country utilizing civic practice in public engagement settings to help communities deal with difficult conversations and resource allotment; and collaborating with theaters and universities around the country to mount locally specific projects based on Sojourn's model performance/engagement process/production How To End Poverty in 90 Minutes.
Michel Groisman: 3 Events; Groisman integrates visual art and physical games, devising wearable equipment to be used in various performances and interactive public encounters. He attended Uni-Rio Music College and has received art research scholarships from several Brazilian institutions, including Rioarte (2004), Vitae (2002), and Uniarte da Faperj (2000). His work has been shown in both performance festivals and museum settings, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; II Bienal, Lima, Peru; Festival de La Batiê, Geneva; and the In Transit Festival, Berlin. Since 2004, he has partnered with artist Gabriela Duvivier to develop collaborative projects.
Michel Groisman’s presentation was made possible by the Performing Americas Program (PAP), a partnership between the National Performance Network (NPN) and the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean (La RED) designed to increase artistic exchange in the Western Hemisphere. Performing Americas Program is supported by the NPN with funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Michelle Boulé: 5 Events; Michelle Boulé is a NYC-based dance artist. Her work explores the intersections of traditional and contemporary healing practices with dance and aesthetic form, to create aesthetically enlivened experiences for the potential of what and who we are.
Boulé has received commissions and presentations from The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Triple Canopy, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Summer Stages Dance @ICA Boston, River to River Festival, American Realness, The Met Breuer (with Okkyung Lee), and ISSUE Project Room. Recent awards include: Distinguished Legacy Award from the University of Illinois, New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, Boekelheide Creativity Award, Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant, and residencies from LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program, MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center, Movement Research, and Dance Ireland. She is a “Bessie” Award winning performer, having collaborated with Miguel Gutierrez (2001-16), Bebe Miller, John Jasperse, and Deborah Hay. She teaches internationally and maintains a healing practice.
Michelle Ellsworth: 4 Events; Michelle Ellsworth co-mingles technology, carpentry, and quilting with dance in an attempt to choreograph high-functioning coping strategies for geopolitical (and personal) phenomena. Ellsworth is currently making a 7-inch recording with drummer Sean Meehan, creating a new dance for wood camera and starting her next quilt, Quilt Complex #9. Among her honors are a Doris Duke Impact Award (2015), Creative Capital Fellowship (2013), Doris Duke Building Demand for the Arts Grant (2014), a NEFA National Dance Project Grant (2014), and an NPN Creation Fund Grant.
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Michelle Handelman: 1 Event; MICHELLE HANDELMAN uses video, live performance and photography to make confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. Her background is a study in opposites – raised during the late 60s/early 70s, Handelman split her time between Chicago, where her mother was a fixture in the art world, and Los Angeles, where her father was a player in the counterculture sex industry. Over the years Handelman has voraciously traversed both these worlds, developing a body of work that investigates ways of looking at the forbidden and revealing dark, subconscious layers of outsider agency.
“My work can be best described by theorist Helene Cixous’ ideas of Visceral Feminism: aggressively traversing the corporeal landscape in its various forms of excess and undress, while simultaneously giving it up for the viewer in an overflow of visual and psychological sensations.”
–Michelle Handelman
In the mid 90s Handelman directed and produced the feature documentary BloodSisters (Bravo Award 1999), an in-depth look at the San Francisco Leatherdyke scene that has just been re-released by the Tribeca Film Institute’s Reframe Collection. Her videos have screened internationally including Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; ICA, London; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Guangzhou 53 Art Museum; American Film Institute and 3LD Art & Technology Center, NYC. Her performances have been featured at Participant, Inc., NYC; Exit Art, NYC; Performa – the first biennial of visual performance; 3LD Art & Technology Center, NYC and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Recent projects include Irma Vep, the last breath (forthcoming to Broad Art Museum); Dorian, a cinematic perfume (touring); The Laughing Lounge (Performa 05); This Delicate Monster (2004/07); Passerby <ghost sites> for the show public.exe: Public Execution (Exit Art 2004) curated by Anne Ellegood and Michele Thursz; and DJ Spooky vs. WebSpinstress M (2002) an animated collaboration with Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky. In 2007 Bloomingdale’s chose Handelman’s work for their Fall Art Campaign.
Before moving to New York in 1999 Handelman collaborated for many years with Monte Cazazza, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene in San Francisco. Their explicit film Catscan broke into the art world through a series of guerrilla actions and together they built several bodies of work including The Torture Series, the video Hope (1995 Sony Visions Award) and the essay The Cereal Box Conspiracy Against the Developing Mind, published in Apocalypse Culture 2, by Feral House Press. While in San Francisco Handelman collaborated with Eric Werner, co-founder of the industrial performance group Survival Research Laboratories, performed in several pieces by Lynn Hersman- Leeson, and worked on Jon Moritsugu’s production “Terminal USA“.
She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and has been awarded grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Cultural Agency, MAP Fund and the Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund among others. Her fiction and critical writing appear in several anthologies including Inappropriate Behaviour (Serpents Tail, London 2001) and Herotica 3 edited by Susie Bright (Plume Books, SF 1994). Her work is in the collection of Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art; Kadist Art Foundation SF/Paris; di Rosa Foundation and Preserve, Napa, California; and Zabludowicz Art Trust, London. Handelman is an Associate Professor in the Film and Media department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City. She lives in Brooklyn.
Michihiro Kosuge: 0 Events; Michihiro Kosuge echoes both architectural and organic forms in his work, creating sculptures that are at once playful and meditative, but always in conversation with their context. Kosuge emphasizes the surfaces of the different types of stone he uses by contrasting textures: he leaves some areas quarry-rough, others he polishes to glassy smoothness, while sometimes he adds simple and evocative color. Born in Toyko, Japan, Kosuge received his MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. A past professor of art and chair of the art department at Portland State University, he has exhibited his work in the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, California; the Oakland Art Museum, California; the Seattle Art Museum, Washington; and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Major sculpture commissions include the Little Tokyo Mall, Los Angeles, California; Highline Community College, Des Moines, WA; the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon; Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon; Department of Motor Vehicles, Salem, Oregon; and the Oregon Department of Transportation, in both Salem and Portland, Oregon. Kosuge is represented by Laura Russo Gallery.
Selected Press
Review: Painter and sculptor Michihiro Kosuge at Laura Russo, The Oregonian, DK Row, April 20, 2012.
Mickey Pollizatto: 1 Event; Mickey Pollizatto is a queer artist, musician, sound collaborator and dancer. They spent their earlier years in Portland creating music as the drag character Cabiria Jones, in the bands caught in candy and later CJ & The Dolls. From 2004-2013, they have contributed to Portland’s TBA festival, toured Europe, and the United States multiple times and later with Portland artists Carla Rossi, The Pepper Pepper and Jen Hackworth. They also contributed to Portland’s Risk/Reward and Dance+.
In recent years, they have provided sound and stage support for The Pepper Pepper’s productions, including Diva Practice: Duet and Solo. They also contribute as a dancer and music producer for Weighted Bodies, a fat forward dance troupe. Currently Mickey cohosts, produces and edits “What The Q,” a podcast exploring queer culture by inviting queer identified guests to have open discussions about the queer identity. Moving forward they hope to collaborate more with queer, fat and femme artists, specifically in the areas of music, dance, comedy, drag & outreach.
Midori Hirose: 2 Events; Midori Hirose (b. Hood River, OR) is a Japanese American interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR.
In Hirose’s work, physical objects and materials are interchangeable with community bonds, recognizing space as a necessary part of the generative process through collaborations, historical narrative, perception (physiological and psychological), and storytelling.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, and Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (now called Oregon Contemporary) for the Portland Biennial. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Lumber Room in Portland, OR; East/West Project, Berlin, Germany; Newberg Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; and Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Miguel A. López: 1 Event; Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer, researcher, and co-director and chief curator of TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in Latin America in recent decades. He has recently curated "Cecilia Vicuña. Seehearing the Enlightened Failure" (Witte de With, 2019; and MUAC, 2020); and “The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War” (with Ruth Estévez and Agustín Díez Fischer), REDCAT, 2017. He is the author of Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (2019).
Miguel Gutierrez: 4 Events; Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, and advocate who has lived in New York for over twenty years. He is fascinated by the time-based nature of performance and how it creates an ideal frame for phenomenological questions around presence, meaning-making, and the complexity of interiority. His work proposes an immersive state, where attention itself becomes a material that can be manipulated, stretched, strained, or dived into. He believes in an approach to art making that is fierce, fragile, empathetic, political, and irreverent.
In recent years he has been occupied with thinking about how he negotiates his queer, Latinx identity within the traditions of the white avant-garde. This led to This Bridge Called My Ass, a piece that bends tropes of Latinidad to identify new relationships to content and form. The piece premiered in 2019 at The Chocolate Factory as part of American Realness Festival and tours throughout 2019 and 2020 to a host of venues.
He has been presented in more than 60 cities around the world, in venues such as at Centre National de Danse, Centre Pompidou, Festival Universitario, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, Walker Art Center, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, Live Arts Bard, American Realness, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, and Jerome Foundation. He has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Tides Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, United States Artists, an award from Foundation for Contemporary Art, a 2016 Franky Award from Prelude Festival, and four Bessies. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. Other recent work includes Cela nous concerne tous (This concerns all of us), a commission for Ballet de Lorraine inspired by the May '68 French protests. With Ishmael Houston-Jones he co-directed Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, which received a 2017 Bessie for Outstanding Revival. He has been an artist in residence at MANCC, LMCC, Centre Choréographique National de Montpellier, Centre National du Danse Pantin, Baryshnikov Art Center, and Gibney. He has created music for several of his works, for Antonio Ramos’ work, and with Colin Self for Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony. He performs with Nick Hallett as Nudity in Dance. He also currently performs a music project called SADONNA: sad versions of upbeat Madonna songs.
His book WHEN YOU RISE UP is available from 53rd State Press. His essays have been published in A Life in Dance (ed. Rebecca Stenn and Fran Kirmser), In Terms of Performance: A Keywords Anthology (ed. Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola) and his essay “Does Abstraction Belong To White People” was recently published on Bomb’s website. He is currently developing a new TV show with his sister, Margarita Gutierrez, called “Boca,” about a father’s brain trauma and its effects on his immigrant family.
He has taught regularly at a variety of festivals and intensives such as Forum Dança, La Caldera, ImPulsTanz, Camping/CND, SFADI, Lion’s Jaw, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, MELT at Movement Research, Earthdance, Danza Común, New Aesthetics, Performatica, and Ponderosa and he has been a Visiting Guest Professor at several universities including DOCH, Konstfack, P.A.R.T.S., Bennington College, Hollins University’s MFA Dance Program, School of Art Institute of Chicago’s Low Res MFA Art Program, Yale University’s MFA Program in Sculpture, RISD, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA, Princeton University, CalArts, University of Illinois, The New School/Eugene Lang, New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing, Hunter College, and many more. He is the program director for LANDING, a peer to peer network, non-academic educational initiative at Gibney. He invented DEEP AEROBICS in 2007, disseminated it for ten years, and then killed it in 2017. He is also a Feldenkrais Method® practitioner.
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: 18 Events; Gutierrez is a New York-based dance and music artist who makes solo and group pieces with a variety of artists under the moniker Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. His work has toured internationally to festivals and venues including American Realness Festival in New York; Festival d’automne à Paris; Antipodes Festival in Brest, France; Out There Festival at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; UNAM in Mexico City; and ImPulsTanz in Vienna. He is the winner of three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” awards.
Mika Tajima: 1 Event; Mika Tajima is a New York-based artist who employs sculpture, painting, media installation, and performance in her conceptual practice. In 2003, she co-founded New Humans, a collaborative group including then-artists Eric Tsai and her now-husband Howie Chen to make works involving sound, installation, and performance actions. New Humans is a moniker for Mika Tajima's projects with other musicians, artists and designers.
Mike Barber: 6 Events; Mike Barber has performed as a dancer in Seattle, San Francisco, New York and Portland. He performed on Broadway in Bill Irwin’s Largely New York, was a member of the Pat Graney Company in Seattle, co-directed Portland’s aero/betty aerial dance theater, and has also danced with the Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project, Oslund + Co/Dance, and Minh Tran and Dancers. Since 2002, Mike has produced and appeared in 35 iterations of the performance series Ten Tiny Dances, for which he is the Artistic Director and Founder. He currently works with adolescents and artists as a psychotherapist in Portland.
Mike Daisey: 2 Events; Mike Daisey has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times for his groundbreaking monologues which weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone, exposing secret histories and unexpected connections. His controversial work, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, was recognized as one of the year’s best theater pieces by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, San Jose Mercury News, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
This fall he will premiere All the Faces of the Moon, a 29-night epic monologue performed over an entire lunar month, at the Public Theater in New York City. That work will be available for free online for people around the world to listen and watch as the story unfolds. At more than forty hours, All the Faces of the Moon will be the largest piece of sustained theatrical narrative since the 13th century medieval mystery plays.
As a playwright, his transcript of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first week it was made available. Under a revolutionary open license it has seen more than sixty productions around the world and been translated into six languages. The first Chinese production opened last year in Beijing, and will tour to Hong Kong and Shenzhen this year.
Since his first monologue in 1997, Daisey has created over fifteen monologues, including the critically-acclaimed The Last Cargo Cult, the controversial How Theater Failed America, the twenty-four-hour feat All the Hours in the Day, the unrepeatable series All Stories Are Fiction, the four-part epic Great Men of Genius, and the international sensation 21 Dog Years.
He has performed in venues on five continents, ranging from Off-Broadway at the Public Theater to remote islands in the South Pacific, from the Sydney Opera House to an abandoned theater in post-Communist Tajikistan. He’s been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, the Late Show with David Letterman, a longtime host and storyteller for The Moth, as well as a commentator and contributor to The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The Daily Beast, WIRED, Vanity Fair, Slate, Salon, NPR and the BBC. In a brief, meteoric career with This American Life, his two shows are the most listened to and downloaded episodes of that program’s eighteen year history. He is currently at work on a second book, an anthology of his monologues, and he stars in the Lawrence Krauser feature Horrible Child. He has been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, two Drama League Awards, and is the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, five Seattle Times Footlight Awards, the Sloan Foundation’s Galileo Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
Mike Kelley: 0 Events; Mike Kelley was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Michigan. Major solo exhibitions include "Catholic Tastes," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1993); "Mike Kelley," Museu d'art Contemporani, Barcelona (1997); "Framed and Framed, Test Room, Sublevel," MAGASIN, Grenoble (1999); "The Uncanny," Tate Liverpool and Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2004); "Profondeurs Vertes," Musée du Louvre (2006); and "Educational Complex Onwards: 1995-2008," WIELS Centre d'Art Contemporain (2008). He died in Los Angeles in 2012.
Mike Ladd: 0 Events; Boston-born Michael C. Ladd has published his writings in the literary magazines Long Shot Review and Bostonia, in the book Swing Low: Black Men Writing, and in the anthologies Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, In Defense of Mumia, Bum Rush the Page, Pour La Victoire, and Everything But the Burden. Referred to as “one of hip-hop's most restless minds” (The New Yorker), he is a well-traveled performer and bandleader, and the writer and producer of several widely praised albums, including Welcome to the Afterfuture, The Infesticons: Gun Hill Road, and The Majesticons: Beauty Party. As a Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, Ladd produced and directed Blood Black and Blue, an audio documentary/performance about black police officers in the United States. Ladd currently lives in the Bronx.
Milka Djordjevich: 4 Events; Milka Djordjevich is a choreographer, performer, and teacher based in Los Angeles. Her work has been shown at many venues, including the Kitchen, the Chocolate Factory Theater, the Whitney Museum, the American Realness Festival, and Danspace Project in New York; REDCAT, Grand Performances, Pieter, the Hammer Museum, Machine Project, Showbox LA/Bootleg Theater, and HomeLA in Los Angeles; Counterpulse and the Berkeley Art Museum in Northern California; and internationally in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and the UK. Djordjevich was a 2006-2007 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2008/2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar, and she is currently a 2017-2018 Princeton University Hodder Fellow. Her other projects include serving as guest editor for Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence, and initiating the Monday Morning Class series at Pieter. Djordjevich has co-authored works with composer Chris Peck, choreographer Dragana Bulut, designer Samuel Yang, and artist Marcos Luytens; and has performed for Heather Kravas, Jennifer Monson, Elizabeth Ward, Sam Kim, Sasa Asentic and Ana Vujanovic, among others. She has twice served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the UC Riverside Dance Department and has taught at UC Irvine, AMDA, Pomona College, Movement Research, and PICA’s TBA:15 Festival. In 2016, Djordjevich established STANA, an organization cultivating Los Angeles, national and international dance connections.
Miracles Club: 2 Events; The Miracles Club is a performance art and music group from Portland Oregon. Members Rafael Fauria, Honey Owens and Ryan Boyle explore the relationship between sound, movement, audience and artist.
Selected Press
Miracles Club, “A New Love”, Michael Manheimer, wweek.com, January 11, 2010.
Miranda July: 4 Events; Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. Miranda July’s most recent film is The Future (2011), which she wrote and directed and stars in.

Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty countries. Her latest book is It Chooses You (McSweeney’s, 2011).

July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel); the work is now in collection of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden she designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale, was on view in Union Square in New York in the summer of 2010 and is currently being presented by MOCA in Los Angeles. Raised in Berkeley, California, she currently lives in Los Angeles.
Miwa Matreyek: 2 Events; Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multimedia artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate projected animation and live performance/installation. Matreyek is interested in how animation, when combined with body and space, takes on a more physical and real aspect, while body and space acquire a more fantastical quality.
Selected Press
Miwa Matreyek: Illusion and Non-Illusion, LA RECORD, August 9, 2010.
MK Guth: 1 Event; MK Guth is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work frequently has an element of audience participation at its heart. She appropriates archetypal characters and stories from fables and mythology in order to examine contemporary human issues and concerns. Guth has received a Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award administered through Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA) and an Award of Merit from the Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA). MK Guth was featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), and has exhibited with numerous other galleries and institutions, including Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, OH), Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID), A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Melbourne International Arts Festival (Melbourne, Australia), Nottdance Festival (Nottingham, UK), Swiss Institute (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), Artists Space (New York, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA) and most recently had a solo exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum (Salem, OR).
Mobile Projection Unit: 2 Events; Mobile Projection Unit (MPU) is a roving studio that presents new, experimental, site-specific outdoor video projections throughout Portland, Oregon. Our work focusses on spatializing video through projection mapping, and live interactive video performance through creative coding. Founded and directed by Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino in 2018, MPU is also a curatorial project, putting the tools of production into the hands of artists. MPU has worked with media artists Sharita Towne, Sabina Haque, Ruben Garcia Marrufo, Jaleesa Johnston, Craig Winslow, Megan McKissack, Victoria Wells, and Hasan Mahmood. MPU received a 2020 Northwest Film Center commission to create “Phases of the Moon” for the Portland International Film Festival. Recent projects include “been there,” a series of experimental works by Black filmmakers curated by Ariella Tai and presented as a drive-in movie, and screenings with Snack Bloc in support of BLM. MPU is funded in part by the Precipice Fund through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Calligram Foundation, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council. Sarah Turner is an artist, new media curator, creative producer, and art director. Fernanda D’Agostino is an interactive video installation artist, public artist, and creative coder.
Mohamed El Khatib: 1 Event; Mohamed El Khatib is an author, director, performer, and is based in France. His work has garnered success in such important arts events as the Avignon Festival. He attempts to confront drama with other media (films, installations, newspapers) and to observe the friction they produce. After literature studies, and time at the CADAC (Dramatic Art Center of Mexico) and a Ph.D in sociology about “the critique in the French press,” he co-founded in 2008 the collective Zirlib on a simple premise: aesthetics aren't devoid of political sense. He has started with “Nowhere to Hide,” a reflection on the notion of grief, which will last for the next 15 years. Since 2011, Mohamed El Khatib has been supported by the L’L in Brussels—a place of research where he has been developing research around the writing of the intimate and attempts to explore, to the point of exhaustion, different modes of anti-spectacular exposition. In 2014–2015, he as an associate artist at the Centre Dramatique National Orléans/Loiret/Centre.
Mohammed Murshed: 1 Event; I was born and raised in Sana'a, Yemen; it's a country right below Saudi Arabia. While living with my parents and my little brother in my childhood, the neighborhood was lively and full of friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, many of them died because of the civil wars in Yemen and the Youth Revolution in 2011, especially the devastating civil war since 2015. I moved to the states in 2012 during the Arab Spring. Saw many of my closest friends killed in front of me before I left. I consider myself one of the lucky ones able to escape war before it was too late for my family and me. I graduated with a Bachelor of Art and Technology and now a Master's (MFA) degree at PNCA in Visual Studies 2020. The mediums I use are painting, textile, sculpture, video art, sound, programming for art, and video games. I am interested in challenging myself and in trying things that I haven't done before. I try to bring awareness to Yemen's issues and help unpack my Trauma layers in my art. Yemen, a third-world country with backward traditions with no fundamental human rights, has caused many people mental anguish. PTSD keeps me in chains, but within my process, I break one ring at a time from the strings of my Trauma.
My name is Mohammed Murshed, a Yemeni American Visual Artist that investigates colonialism, imperialism, sexism, and racism; I also incorporate/highlight the microaggressions and racism I experience as an immigrant. I try to capture my memories in Yemen. The didactic of war showed us that war doesn't discriminate. Often affected by conflict are women and children—sharing knowledge about Yemen and the humanitarian crisis with integrity. Using different mediums encouraged me to push my experience to a different level without being labeled a political activist. I use art as a tool to visualize my Trauma by creating art in various mediums to heal my PTSD from the mental wounds that I inherited due to war in Yemen.
Links:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mnmurshed/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/mnmurshed
Website: www.mnmurshed.com
Apple music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mohammed-murshed/1495458761
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Molissa Fenley: 0 Events; Born in Las Vegas in 1954, Molissa Fenley grew up in Nigeria, lived in Spain, and returned to the US where she received a degree in dance from Mills College in California in 1975. In 1977, she moved to New York City and formed Molissa Fenley and Dancers. Fenley's choreographic works for her company include: Energizer (1980), commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop; Hemispheres (1983), commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival; Cenotaph (1985), commissioned by Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; and Esperanto (1985), which premiered at The Joyce Theater.
Since 1988 Ms. Fenley has concentrated on choreographing and performing solo works, including State of Darkness (1988), commissioned by the American Dance Festival; Provenance Unknown (1989), a co-commission by The Kitchen and Dance Chance; The Floor Dances (1989), commissioned by Dia Center or the Arts; Bardo (1990), commissioned by Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Place (1992), commissioned by The Joyce Theater; and Witches' Float (1993) commissioned by the University of Illinois. Recent works include Channel, Sightings Nullarbor and Tilliboyo (1993) and Sita (1995), all of which premiered at The Joyce Theater.
Ms. Fenley has also choreographed works for the Ohio Ballet (Feral, 1986), the Australian Dance Theater (Descent Into The Maelstrom, 1986) and for the Deutsche Opera Ballet of Berlin (Bridge of Dreams, 1994). Her work has been performed by Bill T. Jones/Arnie ZaneCompany, Elisa Monte & David Brown, Dance Alloy (Philadelphia) and Peggy Baker. Ms. Fenley's work has presented throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Asia. Television credits include a commissioned collaborative work with John Sanborn and Mary Perillo for PBS' "Alive from Off Center," "Molissa Fenley at the Blackie" for Granada TV's "Celebration," and a music video for VH-1 of "Metamorphosis" by Philip Glass, directed by Scott B.
Molissa Fenley awards include eight NEA Choreographer Fellowships, a Beard's Fund Fellowship, a CAPS grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her work has also been supported by the Asian Cultural Council, The Jerome Foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program. She was an artist-in-residence at the Harkness Ballet Foundation from 1984-86, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Dia Center for the Arts since 1986.
Mona Superhero: 4 Events; Portland, Oregon based artist Mona Superhero’s work is comprised entirely of duct tape and masking tape. Each piece of duct tape art is crafted from layers of duct tape and masking tape, hand-carved to reveal captivating, often provocative Pop Art inspired imagery with eye-catching color and attitude.
Superhero spends her days creating new art for gallery shows, client work and for her line of prints and post cards.
http://www.monasuperhero.com/
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor: 2 Events; Mona Vatamanu (Romania) and Florin Tudor (Switzerland) live in Bucharest, Romania, where they have been working together since 2000. Their practice spans film, photography, painting, performance, and installation, and reflects the social upheavals of post-communist Eastern Europe. The duo has had solo exhibitions throughout Europe and North America, and has been featured in the 2008 Berlin Biennial and in the Romanian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Vatamanu and Tudor have had residencies at Basis Voor Actuele Kunst in Utrecht, AIR Vienna, and Project Room at Ludwig Museum in Budapest, among others. They received first prize in the 2006 Fair:Play Video Festival in Berlin. Vatamanu and Tudor are represented by Lombard Fried Projects, New York.
Peripheries
Moscow's Poplar Curse, New York Magazine, April 17, 2011.
Moonyeka: 0 Events; Moonyeka is a nonbinary Filipinx femme interdisciplinary artist with a specialty in dance and movement-based storytelling. Moonyeka is one of Velocity Dance Center’s Creative Residents for 2022 where they will be diving into a performance research that centers QT + POC show girl histories, performance intelligences of working girls, and so much more. Moonyeka’s dance and movement centers in freestyle forms such as Popping, Tutting, Animation, while also being informed by modern dance, improvisational methods, sensual movement practices, and their QT Filipinx background.

Amongst many projects and collaborations, Moonyeka is a co-curator for NIGHTLIGHT, a Velocity Dance Center program, where they invite a roster of dance/performing artists and live musicians to create unique performances that explore the spectrum of dance party and ritual.

Moonyeka is also one of the vocalists and lyricists of The Gender Tender Experiment, led by Fox Whitney.
www.patreon.com/moonyeka
Moorea Masa: 1 Event; Songs have always been there for Moorea Masa (pronounced More-ray-uh Mah-sa), being raised in the musical mecca of Portland, Oregon. The daughter of an Italian immigrant father and an African-American mother born abroad, this singer/songwriter/guitarist has been making music for as long as she can remember. At fifteen, she was already looking for chances to perform by sneaking into local clubs, where she was lovingly adopted into the vibrant community of Portland musicians. Moorea then left to study at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in England, and spent time living in a cave and soaking in flamenco music in Granada, Spain.

Returning home to the Pacific NW, Moorea began her music career in earnest. Not just writing and performing her own original material, she recorded with El Vy, The Decemberists, sang with soul legend Ural Thomas (who appears on her her last album), and toured with Big Wild, and Allen Stone. As a solo artist, she's garnered major praise from Emily King, Corinne Bailey Rae, Bernhoft and many more. Moorea has been touring with legendary singer KD Lang, and released her debut album to much praise May 2018.

Shine A Light, the new record from Masa, comes from the depths of a sometimes-troubled childhood and expresses a belief that the unexamined life is not worth living. "I'm really sharing my whole heart in this album," says Masa. "This year I've really been digging deep into my history, my own learning lessons, and the state of the world. I feel like I took a light and shined it into all the darkness and beauty that I was too scared to look at." At times bright and hopeful, other times dark and mournful, the record (co-produced by Jeremy Most of Emily King fame) is an exquisitely-crafted gem that reveals a new gleaming facet upon every listen. Topics such as love, loss, hidden pain, and the politics of being a woman are all explored with deft musicianship, clever production, and Masa's flawless voice carrying the songs into our hearts and souls.

"Irresistible and staggeringly beautiful, Masa displays a delicate balance of restraint and raw power."- The Oh Es Tee
http://www.mooreamasa.com/
Morgan Bassichis: 4 Events; Morgan Bassichis (they/them) is a comedian and writer who has been described as “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. They are the author of The Odd Years and co-editor with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, both published by Wendy’s Subway. Recent shows include A Crowded Field (Abrons Arts Center, 2023), Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue, 2022), and Don’t Rain on My Bat Mitzvah (Creative Time, 2021). Morgan’s exhibition, More Little Ditties, was co-presented by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Morgan Ritter: 4 Events; Morgan Ritter has a BA in Intermedia from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (2011). Her visual and written work has been exhibited through institutions such as the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), the Henry Art Museum (Seattle), LUMA Foundation (Zurich) and Centre Pompidou (Paris). She has been awarded residencies in New Mexico, New York, Washington and Colorado. Ritter has published three books and is working on a new book of poetry to be published by Ambient Press (NY) and a multi-media release with Musical Archive (LA).
Morgan Thorson: 4 Events; Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis, MN) is a dance-maker. Morgan’s recent work addresses how the body shapes time; and how time influences our perception and expression of the body in spaces where labor, coordination, identity, movement and image can flourish and decay as well as redefine our notion of dance, sexuality, belonging and life. Morgan has received support from The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (2009, 2011 and 2015), and The National Dance Project (2008, 2012, and 2015). She is a United States Artist (2012), Guggenheim (2010), and McKnight (2002, 2009) Fellow and has received multiple Sage Awards for Outstanding Choreography. Currently, she is a Creative Campus Fellow at Wesleyan University.
morher: 1 Event; Oz Halo is a multimedia artist building synesthetic language to heal colonial trauma and ancestral memory carried in the body as a mixed Rroma and desendent of Quileute, and a multigenerational sex worker and survivor of sex trafficking, homelessness, and domestic violence. Their soundwork falls under the name Morher.
Moya Michael: 2 Events; Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Moya trained in ballet under the direction of Dianne Sparks. She studied contemporary and African dance at the Tswhane University, and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. In 2003, she was nominated for a best dancer award at the “ITS” festival, and was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for dance at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. In 2005, Moya became a member of the ROSAS Dance company. Moya has worked on commissions in India, China, Germany, South Africa, and Austria. Her latest work includes “Darling,” in collaboration with Igor Shyshko which premiered at Stuk Leuven, and “A_part” which premiered in Sommerszene Salzburg in 2015. She currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
MPA: 1 Event; MPA promotes the body as a paradoxical site tethered to the social and political exchanges that distinguish a space. Enriched by ritual and contradiction, her performances and installations depict power as an embodiment of these relations. These works have been seen in the U.S. and abroad at venues including the Swiss Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACE, the Stedelijk Museum, and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca. Her body of work Directing Light onto Fist of Father (2011) at Leo Koenig Inc. combined 16mm film and a plaster cast of her father’s fist in an installation inciting three durational performances. Trilogy (o) (2012) centered photographs of Nike war missiles as an orbiting moon calendar at the arts cooperative Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA. A frequent collaborator, MPA is a visible muse in many works by contemporary photographers, painters, and performers. After receiving a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2013, MPA relocated from NYC to 29 Palms, CA to research somatic practices. She is a frequent visiting art lecturer in New Genres at UCLA.
MSHR: 5 Events; MSHR is the collaborative project of Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy from Portland, OR, USA. The duo formed in 2011 during their involvement in the art collective Oregon Painting Society. MSHR explores ceremonial, cybernetic and cyborgian realms through interactive installation, analog synthesizer design, and ritualistic performance. Using blind probe-heads for hands, they feel out the space of the hyper-object chamber, exploring textures and searching for new hallways.
Muffie Delgado Connelly: 1 Event; Muffie Delgado Connelly (she/her) is a dance artist, movement researcher, teacher, and somatic practitioner in Portland, Oregon. Her work as a performer and choreographer has been presented across the United States at Links Hall (Chicago), Packer Schopf Gallery (Chicago), The Art Institute of Chicago, Movement Research Festival (New York), The Gibney Dance Center (New York), and in Portland at White Bird, Performance Works Northwest, and the Newmark Theater. She is the recipient of awards from the Ford Foundation (New York), Illinois Arts Council’s Community Arts Assistance Program, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Portland). She has previously choreographed for Portland Center Stage in Earth Without Borders/Tierra Sin Fronteras as well as tick, tick..BOOM! She is the recipient of awards from the Ford Foundation (New York), Illinois Arts Council and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Portland). Currently, Muffie teaches at Bodyvox and is a yearly guest teacher at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is one of five artistic leaders of the FLOCK Dance Center. IG: @muffiedelgadoconnelly
Music Population Orchestra: 2 Events; Music Population Project is an effort to bring chamber music back to the people, invoking times when performances were public spectacles, when operas were performed in front of enthusiastic audiences, when uprisings followed premieres and classical music was pop music. The MPP germinated in Portland, Oregon under the direction of Brede Rørstad, working closely with the Music Population Orchestra, a chamber music ensemble created to fulfill the mission of The MPP. Operating more like a band than a traditional orchestra, the ensemble performs with and without electronics in configurations varying between four and twenty musicians in bars, clubs, galleries, and more traditional concert venues. Looking back to his native Norway for inspiration, Rørstad combines classical and electronic influences in what he deems klatronic compositions for chamber ensembles, commercials and short films. Rørstad is currently working on bringing the MPP to Europe and establishing an Oslo-based Music Population Orchestra.
MX. DAHLIA BELLE: 2 Events; Mx. Dahlia Belle can be seen hosting her monthly stand-up showcase THE AFTERMATH at Alberta St Pub. She is also a frequent host of The Moth StorySLAMs.
Mx Justin Vivian Bond: 1 Event; Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a singer, painter, performance artist, and author of the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels and Susie Says…, a collaboration with Gina Garan. V’s debut CD, Dendrophile, was self-released in 2011 and was followed by Silver Wells in 2012. In 2011 Justin Vivian’s art exhibition The Fall of the House of Whimsy was presented at Participant Inc. in New York City. Mx Bond was nominated for a Tony Award for Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway in 2007. Other notable theatrical endeavors include starring as Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis in Scott Wittman’s production of Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis, originating the role of Herculine Barbin in Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking play Hidden: A Gender, touring with the performance troupe The Big Art Group and appearing in John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus. Other films include Sunset Stories (2012), Imaginary Heroes (2004), and Fanci’s Persuasion (1995). Mx Bond is a recipient of The Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award for Performance Art/Theater, an Obie, and a Bessie.
Selected Press
Justin Vivian Bond Preps 'Snow Angel' Show For New York's 54 Below, Curtis M. Wong, Huffington Post, December 7, 2012.
"Justin Bond: 'I think everybody's trans'," Hermione Hoby, The Guardian, June 28, 2011.e
Myint Mo: 0 Events; Myint Mo currently lives in Yangon, Myanmar, working as a freelance dancer (a rarity in Myanmar traditional dance). He is currently working with Wally Cardona as assistant to Saya Lei, who is unable to travel outside of Myanmar.
Mykele Deville: 2 Events; Mykele Deville is an actor, curator, poet, and rapper from the West Side of Chicago. He most recently appeared in Octagon at Jackolope Theater. He performs poetry all over Chicago. His style has been described as lo-fi liberation raps, the personal, and storytelling on his 3 recently released mixtapes Super Predator and Each One, Teach One and Peace, Fam. He is also a member of the music based poetry collective, Growing Concerns.
Myles de Bastion: 2 Events; Myles de Bastion, Artistic Director, Musician, and Creative-altruist who develops technology and art installations that enables sound to be experienced as light and vibration. His work has appeared in the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland Art Museum and on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! Show. He has built large scale installations for music festivals and Grammy-award winning jazz artist Esperanza Spalding.
A dual citizen of the UK and the United States, Myles grew up in England where he obtained a BA from the University of Teesside (UK), focusing on computer science & animation, and was the chairman of the Musician's Society for two years. He has taught at Austine School for the Deaf (VT) and at the world's first Deaf Music Camp (MI), where he developed the curriculum and was responsible for the music and sound program. In 2012 Myles moved to Portland OR and founded CymaSpace, a non-profit that facilitates arts & cultural events that are inclusive of the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing, where Myles further develops his technological artistic works that translate sound into visual mediums. In 2015 Myles took his concepts into the commercial sector and founded Audiolux Devices, a technology company that now produces professional products featuring the synergy of light and sound. Myles continues to live in Portland with his partner Kimberly and CODA daughters Zebra & Juniper.
Myles de Bastion / CymaSpace: 2 Events; Myles de Bastion develops technology and art installations that enable sound to be experienced as light and vibration. His work has appeared in the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland Art Museum, and on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! Show. He has built large format installations for music festivals and Grammy-award winning jazz artist Esperanza Spalding.
Myles is the founder of CymaSpace, a non-profit that facilitates cultural events inclusive of the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing; and Audiolux Devices, which produces products featuring light and sound synergy. 2018 Director of the first Northwest Deaf Arts Festival. Myles mentors Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing youth, has developed curriculum, and taught workshops in music and sound for Deaf schools, camps, and communities.
A current project, The Ikigai Machine, is a multimedia visual narrative with interactive installations and live performances that he is developing into a feature-length, touring production for disability hubs and art institutions. Myles has received support from Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Cultural Foundation and Randall Charitable Trust.
Nacera Belaza: 7 Events; Born in Algeria, Nacera Belaza has been living in France since the age of five. Following her studies in modern literature at the Université de Reims, Belaza created her own dance company in 1989. In January, 2015 she was appointed Knight of the order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. She enters dance as a self-taught interpreter, and develops a choreography that originates in an inner progress—a sensible awareness of the body, of space and of the emptiness inside herself. Her path resembles a quest, and tends towards the enhancement of the direct bond between the dancer and the spectator, open to the sense of the infinite of the stage. Each element of her pieces—light, space, time, body—responds to each other on stage to develop their own designs. With the repetition of the gesture, its infinite slowness, the stretching out of time, Belaza's pieces all explore movement as one would explore a calm, a profound and continuous breath. Belaza's desire to share and pass on has become focused on the relationship between the audiences and their territories.
Nadia Buyse: 4 Events; Nadia Buyse is a trans-disciplinary artist and musician living in Portland. She has been in at least 30 bands she can remember. She has toured the United States and Europe, playing in a range of spaces from music festivals, punk clubs, house shows, and discotheques. She has also exhibited work internationally and nationally, including the MDW Art Fair in Chicago, Beta Spaces in New York, and dOCUMENTA (13). She has recently received an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and shortly after participated at the ART STAYS residency program in Slovenia, went on a European tour with her multimedia music project DUBAIS, and performed in the Republic of Georgia.
Nana Adusei-Poku: 1 Event; Nana Adusei-Poku, PhD, is Assistant Professor in African Diasporic Art History in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley, California. She was previously Associate Professor and Luma Foundation Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. Her book Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art was published in 2021 with Transcript Verlag and her articles have been published in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, e-flux, Kunstforum International, Flash Art, L’Internationale and darkmatter. She curated the event “Performances of Nothingness” (Academy of Arts, Berlin, 2018) and Black Melancholia (Hessel Museum Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 2022).
Nao Bustamante: 0 Events; Nao Bustamante is a performance artist pioneer who is originally from the San Jaoquin Valley in Central California. She has been living and developing her work for the past eleven years out of San Francisco's Mission District. In 1995, her America, the beautiful premiered at the improvisational festival, Engaging the Imagination and was also performed at Theatre Artaud; San Francisco Art Institute; as a part of the Post-Colonial California Exhibition at San Francisco State University; as part of Mirror, Mirror at California College of Arts and Crafts; in conjunction with Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone: A Mexico/U.S. Performance Exchange, which took place at UCLA and X-Teresa in Mexico City; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In 1994, Nao was busy with her collaborative work, performing an Asian tour with Osseus Labyrint's Omphalso Epos at the Burst the Spirit Festival in Taipei, Taiwan and the Fringe Festival in Hong Kong, and was featured in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opening festivities. Nao has also collaborated with Miguel Calderon on the Chain South, the initial phase of which was performed at The Lab in San Francisco. In 1993, Nao brought the house down with Patriarchy Blues at Theatre Artaud and the Victoria Theater. She also brought out Playball as part of the Women's Art Project at the Women's Building in Los Angeles and Highways in Santa Monica. Then there was the guest appearance on The Joan Rivers Show, which culminated in the video/performance Rosa does Joan, at Artist Television Access. That year also saw collaborations with two of San Francisco's more astonishing artists: Triagram with Chico MacMurtle and The Seventh Veil with Tracy Rhoades, both at Theatre Artaud. In 1991, she premiered her huge work, The Frigid Bride, at the Asian American Theatre; Pizen Arts and Clarinksy Cathedral of Bratislava, both in the Czech Republic; Kunsthaus Taheles in Berlin; and Los Talleres in Mexico City.
In addition to performance, Nao has guest curated the Next Time Show for the Marin Headland's Center for the Arts and el corazon me dio un salto for Galeria de la Raza. She has been a guest lecturer/presenter at San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cal Arts, UCLA, California College of Arts and Crafts, and the National Theatre School of Prague. Her writings have been published in Revista Paralax Journal (1993) and On Our Backs (1995). She has also received numerous awards including Sound Lab Residency at The Lab; Indigenous Scribe Workshop Scholarship with Cherrie Moraga; Dorothy Allison's Women Writing Workshop Scholarship; New Langton Arts Individual Grant; and Zellerbach Individual Grant. She also serves on the Board for New Langon Arts.
Narcissister: 3 Events; Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer whose work spans performance, video art, experimental music, and photography. She has presented work at The New Museum, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Abrons Art Center, and at many nightclubs, galleries, and other alternative art spaces. Narcissister has also presented her work internationally at the Music Biennale in Zagreb Croatia; at Chicks on Speed’s Girl Monster Festival; at The City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and at the Camp/Anti-Camp festival in Berlin, among many others. Her art videos have been included in exhibitions and film festivals worldwide, including on MOCATV. Her film, The Self-Gratifier, won “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at the 2008 Good Vibration Erotic Film Festival and her film, Vaseline, won the main prize in 2013. Interested in the troubling divide between popular entertainment and experimental art, Narcissister appeared on America’s Got Talent in 2011. Narcissister had her first solo gallery exhibition, Narcissister is You, at envoy enterprises in February 2013. She was nominated for a 2013 Bessie Award for her evening-length piece, Organ Player, and has received awards from Creative Capital, Theo Westenberger, and United States Artists.
Natalie Figueroa: 2 Events; Natalie Figueroa is an activist and community organizer that has addressed the intersections of art and revolution for over 18 years. Natalie, a Chicago native, has organized alongside youth of color to address issues of police brutality, segregation, access to comprehensive health education and racial injustice in public schools. Currently, she is working on building community in Portland through her art collective YGB.
Natasha Kmeto: 2 Events; Natasha Kmeto is a Portland-based singer and electronic producer who turns heads everywhere she goes. Born into a musical family in California, Natasha began to develop her talents as an artist from a young age. It wasn’t until almost two decades later, on the verge of becoming a career session musician, that she grabbed the wheel and broke out in a direction that truly inspired her. Her arrival in Portland marked a big step towards new things. The past several years as seen her growth quicken, especially after signing with hometown label Dropping Gems. The string of releases that have followed showcase Natasha in her most self-realized form, in matters of love, independence, and outlook on life.
Natasha has a long list of notable live performances under her belt, including gigs at Coachella, Bumbershoot, MusicFestNW, Symbiosis, SXSW, Low End Theory (LA and SF), and Decibel Festival. She has shared the stage with a number of talented artists as well, including Squarepusher, Emancipator, Kid Cudi, Plaid, Gold Panda, Dam Funk, Shlohmo, Shigeto, and Morcheeba, just to name a few. Her radio experience includes live performances on Boiler Room and KEXP, and her tracks have been played by numerous noteworthy DJs including Mary Anne Hobbes. She just released her LP Crisis on Dropping Gems.
Selected Press
"Natasha Kmeto: Portlandian R&B Singer-Producer Grooves at Max Efficiency," Jessica Hopper, SPIN, July 16, 2013.
"Last Time," Julianne, ROOKIE, June 13, 2013
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Nat Turner Project: 1 Event; Nat Turner Project (NTP) is a fugitive space based in Portland, Oregon. NTP enables artists of color to go beyond the usual expositions inherent in presenting the art of marginalized perspectives; dispersing funds, resources, and platforms to create or express one's own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation. NTP creates an environment of inclusivity –– a communal harbor for artists previously silenced by institutional constraints –– and actively provides them spatial priority.
https://www.natturnerproject.co/
Nature Theater of Oklahoma: 4 Events; Nature Theater of Oklahoma is an OBIE Award-winning New York-based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. Since Poetics: a ballet brut, their first ensemble piece, Nature Theater of Oklahoma has been devoted to making the work they don’t know how to make, putting themselves in impossible situations, and working from out of their own ignorance and unease. Using readymade materials, found space, overheard speech, and observed gesture, and through extreme formal manipulation, and superhuman effort, they shift our perceptions of everyday reality. Selected Press Just the Gist of a Star-Cross’d Tale, Charles Isherwood, New York Times, December 21, 2009. 'Romeo And Juliet': Just As You Misremembered It, Robert Smith, NPR, December 29, 2009. Deconstructing Romeo and Juliet, Hilton Als, The New Yorker, January 11, 2010. Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Young Jean Lee, BOMB Magazine, Summer 2009. Stage Notes: Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Romeo and Juliet, Tom Murrin, papermag, December 16, 2009.
Neal Medlyn: 4 Events; Neal Medlyn, now residing in New York City, has performed in a variety of films, bands, dance pieces and plays, designed sound scores, been a model and a go-go dancer and continues to do some of these things. But most importantly, he is a Performer who presents his programs in New York City, having at some time or another appeared in numerous U.S. cities and in Berlin Germany. He also performs as Champagne Jerry, a rapper. His performance work, primarily built around pop music, has appeared at the New Museum for Contemporary Art (THE NEAL MEDLYN EXPERIENCE LIVE! a re-enactment of Beyonce's 2007 concert DVD), the Andy Warhol Museum, the Kitchen (Wicked Clown Love), Dance Theater Workshop (...Her's a Queen), the Chocolate Factory (Brave New Girl), Joe's Pub (where he was a co-host and co-creator of Our Hit Parade, which ran for four years), PS122, Fez (Neal Medlyn, the Paris Hilton of Performance Art), Ars Nova (Neal Medlyn's Lionel Richie Opera), the Knitting Factory, Galapagos Art Space (Neal Medlyn's Coming In The Air Tonight), on tour across the U.S., Canada, Berlin, and in London as a resident performer at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. He won a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Award for his sound design for Miguel Gutierrez' Last Meadow and has also designed sound for a joint project between Gutierrez and Jenny Holzer at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. He was honored with the title of Mr. Lower East Side in 2004. He co-starred opposite Karen Finley in "George and Martha" in New York and various places across the U.S. He's also collaborated with Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys), Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman, Adrienne Truscott and has been discussed in the Onion, NPR's Here and Now, Gothamist, the Austin Chronicle, and the New York Times, in which he has appeared several times without his shirt on. His original Internet TV show NEAL MEDLYN'S LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE was a cult sensation on Nerve.com. His dance moves have been featured in the work of choreographers Adrienne Truscott and David Neumann. He has written for New York Magazine's website and Nerve.com about various things including but not limited to R. Kelly, Blind Date, bisexuality, and Days of Our Lives (with John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats and Lisa Carver) among others. His book, Sexual Buttocks and his albums have been purchased by at least 10 people.
Ned Colclough: 0 Events; Using Bauhaus theater, Ikebana and Arte Povera as variant points of departure in his work, Ned Colclough’s sculptural assemblages encompass a visual style where formalism, minimalism, and neo-modernism are repositioned into abstract mediations. Balancing his sculptural elements--a vocabulary that includes found wood, stone, rope, and plaster--into orchestrated compositions, Colclough lends a lyrical and poetic relationship to both material and object. Colclough received his BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design in Alfred, NY. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York and group shows at Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Zieher Smith, New York; Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY; and in curated exhibitions by Apartment Show. He is a recent recipient of the 140 Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Colclough lives and works in Brooklyn, and is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.
Neka & Kahloa: 1 Event; It took the Fates colluding together for Neka & Kahlo to have a chance meeting in 2009. Their first musical collaboration was, in many ways, an effort on both their part to transgress the confines of their early upbringing. Neka, brought up in the Black Church, took to secular music in secret, falling in love with legends Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Daughter of eastern European emigrants, Kahlo took to hip-hop as means of self expression when she realized she didn't quite fit in with the rest of the Portlandians. As a youngster she took an oath of loyalty to Nas, while still indulging in the braggadocio of Jay Z. Now you can find an eclectic playlist in the duo's headphones, anything from Michael to Miguel, Chaka Khan to Kanye, 60's acid rock to Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap.
Rather than latching on to some trendy sub-genre that critics can cheaply package as “something new”, the duo like to think of themselves as a vector for the convergence of a multitude of genres and sounds, expressed through the lens of their unique experience as queer women who refused to conform to any one identity alone. As the two say, "We pray to the Goddess of many faces."
Ngarra: 0 Events; Andayin/Gija language. Born c.192O. Died 2OO8.
Ngarra was the quintessential outsider. To his peers, he was a figure of singular importance, whose knowledge of culture, law and mythology were unparalleled. To those intimate with his art, he was one of the great visionaries of recent times. In the last 14 years of his life, he had a distinguished career as an artist. He exhibited widely throughout Australia and overseas, his works were acquired by numerous public collections and he was a five-time finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. And yet, he remained something of an unheralded master in his lifetime. It is only now that the magnitude of his artistic legacy is finally coming into view. Ngarra was born in 192O on Glenroy Station in the west Kimberley. As a young orphan, he ran away from the station to join his grandparents Muebyne and Larlgarbyne. These old men had not reconciled with the pastoral industry; speaking Andayin and Gija, they lived traditionally in the Mornington Range, upholding their customs, laws and ceremonies. The education they provided set Ngarra apart from his contemporaries, most of whom were living on the cattle stations, and made him one of the most important ceremonial leaders of his generation. In 1994, Ngarra started painting, first with natural ochres, before shifting to acrylic paints when old age and infirmity made collecting and grinding ochre physically impossible. He shone as a master colorist, mixing his own palette to stunning effect. Ngarra’s paintings are a vast repository of ancient knowledge, but they are equally defined by their visual inventiveness, humor and wit. His privileged cultural position meant that he felt free to innovate and adapt his imagery for visual or allegorical effect. Working in isolation, he experimented at an extraordinary pace. He was prepared to work across numerous subjects: from designs embedded in deep, spiritual content, to whimsical images of station life. In 2OOO, Ngarra was given a survey exhibition at the Western Australian Museum. His works are held in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Museum Victoria.
NIC Kay: 2 Events; NIC Kay is from the Bronx, currently occupying several liminal spaces. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. They are obsessed with the act and process of moving the change of place, production of space, position, and the clarity/meaning gleaned from the shifting of perspective. NIC’s current transdisciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation of the body, history, and spirituality.
NIC has shown work, spoken on panels, and hosted workshops at numerous venues throughout the United States, and Internationally. In 2016, they developed a web series called the Bronx Cunt Tour around their debut solo performance lil BLK for Open TV, which premiered in April, 2016. NIC Kay was a 2017 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Van Lier Fellow in New York City.
Nick Hallett: 5 Events; Nick Hallett is a composer and cultural producer who works between the worlds of music and art. Whispering Pines 10, an opera collaboration with artist Shana Moulton, was staged at PICA for TBA:11 in addition to The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, The Warhol Museum, and Carolina Performing Arts. A new cycle of the project is currently being funded by Creative Capital. He is the Music Director and producer of the Joshua Light Show—a team of live cinema artists with roots in the 1960s psychedelia movement—which appears worldwide, and more recently has performed to Hallett’s original soundscores at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium and at the Papalote Digital Dome in Mexico City, for the Mutek festival. He has staged a diverse body of work in New York and abroad, from masterpieces of John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, and Karlheinz Stockhausen (as co-director of the Darmstadt series) to music and live cinema at The Kitchen, to his own "ever-compelling" (Time Out) media rituals of music and light, always involving the human voice, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and PERFORMA, among others.
Selected Press
The Object Whisperer: Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines, Brian Droitcour, Rhizome, April 14, 2010.
Nick Jones: 1 Event; His play TREVOR received multiple Ovation and Critics Circle awards for the 2015 production starring Laurie Metcalf and Jimmi Simpson. Other plays include the COWARD and VÉRITÉ, both produced by Lincoln Center/LTC3, and IMPORTANT HATS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, produced by Manhattan Theater Club.
In television, Nick worked as a writer and co-executive producer on the Netflix original series GLOW and ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, for which he has garnered multiple WGA and Emmy nominations, as well as RAMY, for which he served as Co-Executive Producer on its Peabody Award winning first season.
Upcoming projects include the film THE FACE OF THE KING with Sebastian Silva, and COMPLICITY ISLAND, an audio play commissioned by Audible. Nick earned his Literature/Creative Writing BA from Bard College and a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting degree from Juilliard, where he was a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, and was recently awarded the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters by Bard College. He began his career as a puppeteer and musician for the acclaimed madcap rock puppet musical JOLLYSHIP THE WHIZ-BANG, for which he also built puppets and wrote scripts. He is originally from Anchorage, Alaska.
Nic Tammens: 0 Events; Nic Tammens (Tasmania, 1989) is currently living and working within the United States as a foreign worker. His practice engages in diverse outputs, with a focus on writing and exhibition making. These activities have come to fruition as exhibitions in the United States and Australia, as writings and projects within the pages of Un. Magazine and The Lifted Brow, and as performances within Australian and American free-music communities. Tammens was a recipient of funding from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2012.
Related Thinking
Here you can view fragments from a generative research which may or may not relate to leftist politics, publishing, philosophy, local histories, conceptual art and related ephemera.
Get Rid of Yourself, Bernadette Corporation
An Historical Survey of Anarchism in Melbourne, Takver, Radical Tradition, September 18, 2002.
HONESTY, Volume 1, April 1887–November 1888.
Robert Smithson, A Heap of Language, 1966, pencil drawing.
Wittgenstein's Ladder: The Tractatus and Nonsense, Lynnette Reid, Philosophical Investigations, 21:2, April, 1998. (PDF)
Paul Feyerabend (1975), Against Method, Outline of an anarchist theory of knowledge, marxists.org
Night Shade: 2 Events; Night Shade is a group of artists rebelling against traditional flat-surface silhouettes and revolutionizing the ancient art of shadow puppetry by using light to manipulate depth and space. This art group blends hand-held lights, masks, puppets, composed music, sound-effects, and experimental storytelling into a bewitching form of cinematic puppetry that flows like film. Core artists are Alicia Cortes, Sarah Frechette, Oviedo Menendez, Jason Thibodeaux, and Alain Z, but also working under the banner Night Shade are Kevin Bouton-Scott, Michel Fiffe, Chris Rabilwongse, and Cynthia Star.
The Portland-based Night Shade collective began collaborating with Japanther back in 2005 in New York. That first show at the Arm Gallery in Williamsburg started the momentum of late night cutting and, since then, this group has performed across the US at various puppetry and art festivals, galleries, anarchist spaces, gutted bowling alleys, and pubs. In 2009 Night Shade performed their full-length epic shadow play, Night Shade, which contains over 700 intricate cut-outs, for a sold-out run at Disjecta, in Portland.
Nina Katchadourian: 3 Events; Nina Katchadourian's work, in a wide variety of media including photgraphy, sculpture, video and sound, has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PSI/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, Palais de Tokyo, and as part of the 2010 Time-Based Art Festival. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Finland featured a solo show of works she made in that country, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph, All Forms of Attraction. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a 2008 solo show of Katchadourian's video installation works, and in February 2010, as artist in residence at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, she had another solo show entitled Seat Assignment. She is currently at work on a permanent public piece, commissioned by the GSA, for a border crossing station between the US and Canada.
Selected Press
Found in Translation, Brian Dillon, Art Review, April, 2008.
Nivhek: 3 Events; Nivhek is a project by Liz Harris, who lives and works on the Oregon coast. ENGINE marks the first new work by Nivhek since the release of After it’s own death/Walking in a spiral towards the house in 2019.
Liz also records and performs under the names Grouper, Helen, Raum, et al on her own imprint YELLOWELECTRIC, and Kranky, Ltd.
Her music is at grouper.BandCamp.com
Her drawings, paintings, and publications are at repeatingpattern.com
Grouper.BandCamp.com
No Age: 2 Events; Forever cascading forward in a positive direction, gleefully instinctive, No Age erupt out of your speakers, blasting away the clouds above the smoggy cityscape to reveal a solar flaring sun. With an ecstatic force bubbling around and beyond their music, they release contagious energy like they’re main-lining a field full of whirring wind turbines, while tuned into an ancient celestial power source.
No Age is the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall, they are on a constant journey to explore the furthest reaches of sound. They set out with one particular rule in mind: To write songs that we would be psyched to listen to. On a first listen, discovering each new dose of their alchemy is exhilarating—they produce perfectly crafted songs, underpinned by infectious melodies and ear-piercing cacophony. This swirling mix of unstoppable momentum is catapulted into the stratosphere by sweeping bursts of symphonic growls. Their power is enunciated through their ability to take their core of catchy song-writing and expand its emotional influence through tone, structure and noise. Everything in Between, their third album and follow-up to 2008’s Nouns has now arrived.
Noche Libre Collective: 1 Event; DJ Mami Miami is the alias of Emilly Prado, a Chicana writer and DJ based in Portland, Oregon. As the former co-host of Is Butter a Carb? on XRAY FM, Emilly played a wide range of genres from cumbias and spanish punk rock to hip hop, neo-soul, and oldies. She plays songs of her childhood and music that she’s stumbled upon later in life. Her live sets are always mood-driven but she specializes in playing jams for perreando. In 2017, she co-founded Noche Libre DJ collective. Learn more about her at www.emillyprado.com and on Instagram at @emillyp.
Inés Paulina Ramírez- aka Lapaushi- was born in Cuenca, Ecuador. She grew up dancing to classical cumbias on cassette at her family’s parties in the Andes mountains. Her work as a DJ and visual artist engages and celebrates cultural identity. Lapaushi mixes urban rhythms that include feminist hip-hop, reggaeton, electrocumbia, a wide variety of cumbia, descarga, sonidero and chicha psicodélica. - “Pura sabrosura”.
Her selections come from years of traveling, collecting and sharing music from various regions of Latin America that explore Indigenous memory and African roots while incorporating contemporary electronic beats. Soundcloud:lapaushi IG:lapaushi
Dez Ramirez aka DJ La Cósmica is a writer, artist and DJ that’s been in and out of the Los Angeles and Portland music scene for the last decade. Influenced by the Southern California Chicanx culture she grew up in, her eclectic sets are shaped by the sounds of lowrider oldies, disco, electronic, funk, new wave, post punk, rock en espanol, reggae, hip hop, and rock & roll. The daughter L.A. disco dancers, La Cosmica’s sets often pay homage to her parents, Latin discotecas, and the eccentric, glam club scene of the 1970s and 80s. Find her on IG @silver_mother or dezramirez.com
Noel Kennon: 1 Event; Noel Kennon is a violist based in Seattle, WA. Kennon focuses on soundings involving resonance, texture, just intonation, and experimental improvisation.
Noelle Stiles: 6 Events; As a dance artist, Noelle Stiles is interested in how and where experience is held in the body. This interest provides a framework for extracting the corporeal language that both intimately connects and individuates us. Stiles has a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts and completed her graduate studies in dance at The Ohio State University. She has performed and presented work at venues such as the PICA's Time-Based Art Festival (2010), On The Boards, PWNW, Dance New Amsterdam, and Links Hall. Stiles' interest in teaching has taken her to places such as The Ohio State University, the Governor’s School of North Carolina and she co-founded the community focused dance class series Heavy Rotation with Kathleen Keogh of Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner. Her work has been supported by Caldera's Artist Residency program, PICA's Resource Room Residency, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the ACA Associate Artist Residency program and was selected by PICA and the NDP to travel to the Dublin Dance Festival as part of a pilot international exchange program. In 2010, Stiles merged her work as a graphic designer with her work in dance to co-create a dance publication entitled FRONT. Based out of Portland, Oregon, FRONT is Tahni Holt, Danielle Ross, Noelle Stiles, and Robert Tyree. FRONT utilizes the old-school tactics of the broadsheet newspaper to explore the new, current, future energy of dance theory and practices in the field.
Nollifur: 0 Events; Nollifur is an analog synth dance pop extravaganza utilizing computer technology, video clips, splits, and an onslaught of sound. This is not just another post glam affair, this is a dramatization of an epic planetary battle exposed before your very eyes. Nollifur’s soulful crooning, spastic beats and psychedelic flashing images combine to form brightly colored electro pop anthems.
Nollifur hails from Boise, Idaho, and includes a rotating cast of musicians and performers who combine music, costumes and video production to bring you an audiovisual experience with heart.
Nora Chipaumire: 4 Events; For the past ten years, Zimbabwe-born and New York-based Chipaumire has investigated Africa and her own personal iconography. Her performances complicate, implicate, and destroy the concept of the African female body as a subjugated, colonial, and tribal unknowable. Chipaumire is a recipient of the 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts, a 2011 United States Artist Ford Fellow, and two New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Awards.
Selected Press
Nora Chipaumire: Body and Soul Podcast, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Infinite Body Podcast, April 25, 2008.
Platform 2012: Parallels, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Dance Magazine, April, 2012.
Norbert Schwontkowski: 0 Events; Norbert Schwontkowski is a painter who lives and works in Bremmen, Germany. He is represented by Mitchell-Innes Nash in New York.
In Conversation: Norbert Schwontkowski with Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2009/January 2010.
nůn studios: 1 Event; nůn studios is a burgeoning member-run risograph print shop in Northeast Portland, Oregon. Launched in 2020, the studio opened as a Black-stewarded space offering production, design, distribution support, education, and studio access to counter-hegemonic artists and organizers. Today, nůn operates with two MZ1090 duplicators, 30 ink colors, and a range of DIY binding and finishing tools. As a collective, mycelial in its reach, utility, poetic, and care, the studio offers free and highly subsidized printing services for organizers, writers, and artists who work in local to global solidarity movements, community wellness, and independent publishing, among other schemes and dreams.
nůn studios was born from A Black Art Ecology of Portland (BAEP)—a transdisciplinary convener and resource mobilizer cultivating networks of creative care for Black artists and communities. Through BAEP's continued support, proceeds from the 5 & 5 portfolio, as well as prints and publications from the studio’s first five years in operation, nůn hopes to launch a transdisciplinary artist-in-residence program that focuses on diasporic voice(s) and solidarity, and supports its communities in need.
NXT LVL: 1 Event; NXT LVL is a collective that has created a social justice platform to incite change by galvanizing people to action through parties, events, and social connection. Each NXT LVL event is carefully curated to center and amplify WOC/POC/QTPOC/LGBTQIA2S+ voices and causes.
NXT LVL involves the communities in which they work, to benefit as integral collaborators in the process. They prioritize creating safe spaces for all those who attend their events, and strive to provide fair compensation for folks who contribute their skills, time, and energy to make these events possible. NXT LVL recognizes and celebrates the opportunity and ability to shine light on and uplift communities, while fostering a supported vision for social activism fundraising.
Nyokabi Kariũki: 2 Events; Nyokabi Kariũki (she/her) is a Kenyan composer and sound artist based between Kenya and the United States. Her sonic imagination is ever-evolving, spanning across genres from classical contemporary and experimental-electronic music, to sound art, pop, film, and (East) African musical traditions. She performs with the piano, voice, electronics, and on several instruments from the African continent. Her concert works have been performed by notable ensembles such as Cello Octet Amsterdam and Third Coast Percussion, and she has received commissions from BBC Radio 3, Heartland Marimba, and more. Released in February 2022, her debut EP, ‘peace places: kenyan memories’ (SA Recordings) was described as “deft” (The Quietus) and “transcendent” (The Guardian), with Bandcamp highlighting seeing her as “becoming a crucial voice in contemporary composition and experimental music.” Nyokabi seeks to create meaningful and challenging art, illuminated by a commitment to the preservation and reflection on African thought, language, and stories.
www.nkariuki.com
Occupation/Preoccupation: 1 Event; The United States has over 700 military bases on foreign soil in sovereign countries where we have no declaration of war. This project unites musicians, researchers, and music lovers to gather covers by American musicians of songs that originate from each of these places. By creating a new rendition of songs from occupied regions, these musicians enact a second (symbolic) occupation and encourage reflection on the implications of our nation’s exceptionally expansive reach and presence.
Throughout the world, music serves as a mobilizing force, from the musicians of Bolivian President Evo Morales’ grassroots campaign to actions by CRASS and other punks. In contrast to the frequent co-optation of music as entertainment or commodity, this project will focus on music’s power to transform awareness and create change. Songs in Wartime functions as a reciprocal window: we project a limited version of American culture into foreign territory with the presence of our bases, and these distant places reflect back into our territory when we cover and share their songs.
Offsite Dance Project: 5 Events; Offsite Dance Project was started in 2008 to pioneer alternative approaches to arts presentation through site-specific performance in locations such as trains, parks, and museums. Offsite also produces an annual community forum, We dance, to stimulate Japan’s contemporary dance scene by bringing artists from various genres together in unusual circumstances that generate new ways of approaching their art.
Ohad Meromi: 3 Events; Born in Israel, Meromi currently lives and works in New York City, where he is represented by Harris Lieberman Gallery. Meromi graduated from Bezalel Academy in 1992 and went on to receive his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2003. He has exhibited at venues including The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; the Lyon Biennial, France; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Magasin 3, Stockholm; De Appel Museum, Amsterdam; Sculpture Center, New York; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and Art in General, New York. He has received numerous scholarships and awards, including a Percent for Art commission (2009), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2008) Grants to Artists Award, the Fund for Video and experimental film (2004), I.C. Excellence Foundation (2003), and the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli ArtPrize (1998).
Selected Press
Ohad Meromi - 500 Words, Dawn Chan, Artforum.com, December 18, 2010.
Studio Visit - Ohad Meromi, Andrea Bellini, Flash Art Online.
Re: Diaspora - Yael Bartana, Elad Lassry, Ohad Meromi and Daniel Silver in Correspondance - Israel, Nicola Trezzi, Flash Art, October 2009.
Peripheries
Kurt Schwitters: Reconstructions of the Merzbau, Karin Orchard, Tate Papers, Autumn, 2007.
Ohmega Watts: 0 Events; Producing since 1997 and MCing since 1993 the Ohmega Watts resume includes two solo records on Ubiquity Records, The Find (2005) and Watts Happening (2007). MC/producer of the group Lightheaded (Tres Records) and a 7" under the name M64, which was comprised of Ohmega on production and Ragen Fykes on the vocals, released on Record Breakin (2009.) Ohmega is also an avid DJ who has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad including Australia, the E.U. and Japan all the while expanding his record collection, and musical influences. He's performed, DJ'd alongside and supported artists/bands including: Galactic, Lifesavas, The Breakestra, De La Soul, Quantic, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Waajeed, Ge-Ology, Kon & Amir, DJ Spinna, Bobbito Garcia, Rich Medina, Cosmo Baker, and the list goes on. He's also a freelance Graphic Designer/Photographer making him a full-time creative.
Okwui Okpokwasili: 4 Events; Okwui Okpokwasili is a New York-based writer, performer, and choreographer. Deemed “a magnetic performer” by The New York Times, Okpokwasili has worked with Ralph Lemon, Julie Taymor, Nora Chipaumire, Young Jean Lee, Richard Maxwell, Dean Moss, and others. Bronx Gothic is her second solo performance project, after pent-up: a revenge dance. Both projects are collaborations with visual designer, filmmaker, and director Peter Born. Together they create award-winning multidisciplinary experiences of raw intimacy—a collision of body, image and sound. Okpokwasili ‘s accomplishments include MANCC Choreographic Fellow; Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Park Avenue Armory, and LMCC’s Extended Life Program; Foundation for Contemporary Arts grantee. Her current work Bronx Gothic enjoyed a sold-out run in PS122’s 2014 COIL Festival and continues to tour nationally and internationally.
Olaf Breuning: 0 Events; Olaf Breuning was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1970 and currently lives and works in New York. He studied professional photography in Zurich, Switzerland, and went on to complete postgraduate studies in photography at the HSFG Zurich. Breuning has had solo exhibitions at Metro Pictures, New York; Migros Museum, Zurich; Chisenhale, London; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; and Magasin, Grenoble. He has also been included in several international group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial 2008 at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Looking At Music at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); All About Laughter at Mori Art Museum, Japan (2007); Let’s Entertain at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
Selected Press
WHO WANTS MORE? An interview with Olaf Breuning, David Coggins, Artnet.com, November 17, 2009.
Olaf Breuning, Burkhard Meltzer, Frieze, January 2008.
Olivia Camfield: 4 Events; Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation, born and raised in Texas Hill Country. Their work finds connection to dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. They have performed and choreographed dance for much of their career, and their film work includes themes of the Alien as kin, time traveling relatives, and Mvskoke lifeways in experimental forms. They are a tattoo artist whose hand poke practice is based in Southeastern and Mississippian Indigenous tattoo traditions, creating designs for Southeastern people that imagine the possibilities of those tattoos in the future and the new shapes they may take. Olivia's films have screened internationally at Camden International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and have appeared in print and online publications such as Artforum and Variety. Olivia is a 2018-19 Alembic Artist In Residence, a CYCLE I featured artist of COUSIN Collective, a 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Non-Fiction Intensive participant, and a 2022 recipient of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists award.
Omari Weekes: 0 Events; Omari Weekes is an assistant professor of English and American Ethnic Studies at Willamette University where he teaches courses primarily on gender and sexuality in African American literature. He is currently working on a book project that thinks through the affective dimensions of sex and spirituality in contemporary black literature. Other research interests include black popular culture, black religious studies, and representations of African Americans in Latin America. His writing (both scholarly and otherwise) has appeared in Public Books and Post 45.
Omar Willey: 4 Events; Born in Seattle when the last person leaving was supposed to turn out the lights, Omar Willey has been an experimental filmmaker and photographer since 1989. He has made six feature films and a dozen shorts that have been shown locally as well as broadcast internationally. He is currently finishing up a five year project in hyperphotography dealing with the human use of public land.
In 1988 he began writing about performing arts for KCMU radio (now KEXP). Shortly thereafter he started his first magazine, Free Forum, dedicated to literary arts and cultural analysis. After this he began another zine, Lines of Sight, dedicated to photography and film and featuring interviews and articles about contemporary artists as well as photography. After this he moved on to freelance writing for Earshot Jazz, 5/4 Music, Tablet Magazine, and other local magazines. In 2010, he joined the staff of the online blog, Seattlest, where he remained till it shuttered.
For the past three years, he has been known as the publisher of the online journal of arts and culture, The Seattle Star, in which he has continued his interest in writing about performing arts, science, experimental film, and open culture.
Mr. Willey is an alumnus of both Western Washington University and the University of Washington. He volunteers time to open source software movement, Project Gutenberg, and Creative Commons projects across the country. He teaches free workshops in critical writing and photography around town. He is interested in everything.
O’Necia Ford: 1 Event; As an alumni Prancing J-Sette of THEE Jackson State University. I always stay ready, so I don’t have to “Get Ready” Hi! I’m O’Necia Ford hailing originally from Eldorado, Arkansas. In high school, I cheered all of my life and danced for the Southern Belles Dance Company where I was captain from 2014-2016. I then went to finish my matriculation at JSU where I graduated in May 2020 with a bachelor's in Criminal Justice and Correctional Services. In college I of course danced with the Prancing J-Settes along with the JSU Dance Ensemble and other organizations. I’ve participated in dance throughout my life with different genres such as tap, ballet, hip hop, jazz, and majorette. Some of my best accomplishments throughout my journey of cheering and dance have been performing on ESPN, NBA halftime games, opening for Big Freedia, and being a part of music videos that featured big stars such as Trina and Big Krit.
One of My Kind (OOMK): 4 Events; One of My Kind (OOMK) is a collaborative publishing practice led by Rose Nordin, Sofia Niazi and Heiba Lamara. Working together since 2013, they design, publish and distribute books and printed works which arise from self-initiated projects. OOMK functions as an annual publication centreing women, creative practice and activism. OOMK also commission new works by artists and co-curate DIY Cultures, one of the UK’s largest annual independent publishing fairs. Together OOMK founded and run community Risograph printing studio, Rabbits Road Press.
instagram.com/oomkzine
Oneohtrix Point Never: 1 Event; The Brooklyn-based artist has always deftly balanced the experimental with the accessible: He has released several albums under his Oneohtrix Point Never moniker on various independent labels – including the 2013 3-CD/5 LP Rifts, a compilation of his early work – as well as amassing a large catalogue of mini-album tape releases. His most recent disc, 2011’s Replica, was built around samples of television commercials; Sasha Frere Jones of the New Yorker called it “music that gently triggers a series of images and feelings, none of which you can name and all of which seem entirely common.” He has built live soundscapes at the Museum of Modern Art; collaborated with Montreal-based ambient electronic music composer Tim Hecker on the largely improvised 2012 Instrumental Tourist; and recast the title track from his 2010 disc Returnal as an elegant and emotive piece for piano, featuring the otherworldly voice of Antony Hegarty. Advertising powerhouse Saatchi & Saatchi tapped Lopatin for an installation event at the 2012 Cannes film fest and Sofia Coppola’s longtime cohort Brian Reitzell invited him to create original music for Coppola’s The Bling Ring. Said the Saatchi execs, “There’s this grandeur to his music, but it’s always counterbalanced by moments of irony and lightness.”
Selected Press:
"The Top 50 Albums of 2013," Pitchfork, December 2013
Oregon Mushroom Stories: 0 Events; Oregon Mushroom Stories, a project of Ecotrust and Edible Portland, brings the surreal, fantastical beauty of mushrooms, and the knowledge of growers, foragers and fanatics, out of the dark to a broad audience. Join PICA and Oregon Mushroom Stories for a weekend of mycological happenings at the crossroads of nature and culture, science and art, food and fungi.
Related Thinking and Artists
"Sounds and Mushrooms," Edward Rothstein, The New York Times, November 22, 1981.
"John Cage and Mushrooms," Audrey Ference, The L Magazine, September 5, 2012.
"Beard Beer: Rogue Ales Creates Brew Out Of Yeast From Brewmaster John Maier's Facial Hair," Hillary Hanson, Huffington Post, September 26, 2012.
Jae Rhim Lee's Infinity Burial Project
Oregon Painting Society: 2 Events; The Oregon Painting Society is an art collective from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2007. They have exhibited and performed at Fontanelle Gallery (PDX) and Reed College (PDX).
Oregon Symphony: 4 Events; Since the Oregon Symphony was established 117 years ago, it has been recognized for its internationally acclaimed music directors, skilled performers, diverse programs, and outstanding community services in education and regional touring. The Oregon Symphony now ranks among the largest orchestras in the nation, and the oldest west of the Mississippi.
Otomo Yoshihide: 2 Events; Otomo Yoshihide is one of the most well known Japanese musicians and composers in the experimental music field. Performing with guitar, turntables, and electronics he first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the noise rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise, jazz and contemporary classical. A pioneering figure in onkyo and electroacoustic improvisation scenes, Otomo has been featured on important records on labels such as Improvised Music from Japan and Erstwhile. He studied at the Meiji University from 1979, where he studied ethnomusicology, concentrating on the Japanese pop music of World War II and the development of musical instruments during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Samples of instruments and music from this period are found in several of his works. He played in rock bands while at college, but turned to improvisation after discovering free jazz and free improvisation musicians like guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist Kaoru Abe, and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi.
Pablo de Ocampo: 1 Event; Pablo de Ocampo lives in Vancouver where he is Exhibitions Curator at Western Front. He has curated screenings, exhibitions, and performances at galleries, cinemas, and festivals internationally. From 2006 to 2014, de Ocampo was Artistic Director of the Images Festival in Toronto, and in 2013, served as the programmer of the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, History is What's Happening. He was a founding member of the collective screening series Cinema Project in Portland, OR.
Packard Jennings: 1 Event; Packard Jennings is an American artist who appropriates pop culture symbols and references to create new meaning using a variety of media including printmaking, sculpture, animation, video, and pamphleteering. In his early career he modified billboards, a common practice of culture jammers.
Paddy Bedford: 0 Events; Gija language. Born c.1922. Died 2OO7.
Celebrated as one of Australia’s most important artists, Paddy Bedford was also a Lawman of the greatest authority amongst his Gija people. Bedford was born c. 1922 in the remote and majestic country of Bedford Downs Station in the East Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. It was from the station that he gained his surname, his first name coming from the severe Australian Station Master, Paddy Quilty, the man believed responsible for the massacre of a group of Bedford’s kin a few years earlier. This undercurrent of colonial violence was ever present in Bedford’s work. Along with artist Timmy Timms, he was integral to the development of the landmark exhibition Blood on the Spinifex, held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne in 2OO2. The exhibition brought the memory of station massacres into disquieting view, and propelled Bedford’s work to national acclaim. Bedford spent much of his life working as a stockman, or ranch hand, before starting to paint in 1998 when he was in his late seventies. His earliest works conformed closely to the East Kimberley style pioneered by Rover Thomas and Paddy Jaminji in the early 198Os. Bedford quickly mastered the style, fashioning his own distinctive blend of austerity, meandering line and stark color combinations. Bedford introduced a new expressionism to East Kimberley painting. In 2OO6, he was the subject of a major touring retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. His works are held in most major collections in Australia, as well as important collections in Europe and American. In 2OO4, he was one of eight artists invited to create designs to adorn the Muse’ e du quai Branly in Paris.
PAIGE SARLIN: 0 Events; Paige Sarlin is an artist, filmmaker, scholar, and political activist. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Film/Video/New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her feature-length documentary film, The Last Slide Projector, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2007 and screened at Anthology Film Archives in 2008. From 1999 to 2010, she was an active participant in the 16Beaver Group in New York City, a platform for the discussion of the intersection of art and politics. Her writings have been published in October, Re-Thinking Marxism, Reviews in Cultural Theory, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Framework: A Journal of Film and Culture. She is at work on a book-length manuscript entitled Interview-Work: The Genealogy of a Media Form. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study at University at Buffalo, SUNY.

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