By My Own Hand, Part 2 & Part 3
Credits: Photo by Chelsea Petrakis

By My Own Hand, Part 2 & Part 3

Allie Hankins

Allie Hankins’ By My Own Hand is a 5-Part series of performances that began in 2022, culminating with Part 5, which will be presented during PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in September 2026. PICA will be hosting a series of free screenings of Parts 2–3 leading up to the live premiere. 

By My Own Hand, Part 2: TRANSPARENCY

Allie Hankins’ performance series, By My Own Hand, threads together ideas of manipulation, suicide, sleight of hand, and self-reliance, and queers notions of autobiography and self-reflection.  Part 1: GHOSTING (2022), was an excavation and repurposing of the performance’s shadow or ghost. In Part 2: TRANSPARENCY, this excavation continues as a series of solos choreographed by Linda Austin, claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim, and performed by Allie. Each of the five solos is composed of elements (choreography, props, songs) from Part 1, and each solo may replicate, distort, or exaggerate any parts of Part 1 that the choreographers wish. Through the slippery processes of deconstruction, distillation, resurrection, and re-membering, Part 2: TRANSPARENCY reveals an aftermath of contending methods of makers and shared histories of friends and colleagues and confronts notions of finality, authorship, and perception of self.

By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE, 2023

A three-channel video installation made in collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE is a tapestry of Allie’s process over the course of five years. It features video collages of Allie’s rehearsal footage, her B-reel, and performance documentation, alongside pre-existing and newly configured compositions from her vast archive. Part 3: THE ACHE existed as a video exhibition, a zine publication (with layout by Wes Mueller), and a series of free intergenerational art-making workshops taught by Portland artists dee bustos, Ralph Pugay, Muffie Delgado Connelly, and Midori Hirose. Captions for the video by Marion Storm.

Please join us for this screening on Monday, June 29, 2026, at 7:30 PM at PICA. Allie Hankins and her collaborators will be in attendance. Videos of Parts 1-4 are also available for viewing on https://www.alliehankins.com/performance.

Save the date for the screening Part 4 on Sept 12, 2026.