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As part of a creative residency at PICA, Emily Johnson gathers an extraordinary group of collaborating artists to create an in-process activation and installation as part of her newest work in development, Being Future Being. Along with composer Raven Chacon, visual and tattoo artist Holly Mititquq Nordlum, and artist and mask maker Drew Michael, the group delves into the power of creation to build a visual, aural, and ancestral landscape of Indigenous power.
Learn moreGet a sneak(er wave) peek at next year's follow-up to Anthony Hudson's acclaimed Clown Down: Failed to Mount, in which Portland's premier drag clown, Carla Rossi, finds herself trapped on a rock in the ocean as the water level rises.
Learn more“The Who Cares Clock” is a time-based print project released at random over an undetermined amount of time and available only through the mail. For our second edition, Eileen Isagon Skyers looks at both the spring equinox and summer solstice as original sites for universal human imagination, embedding them with historical reference points, dualities, and personal reflections. In spite of—or perhaps in service to—the reaches of globalization, may we look to the cyclicality of seasons to locate our potential (re)emergence. This issue takes the format of a zine designed by Stephen Lurvey.
Learn moreFellow to Felt is an ongoing, multi-channel video and series that examines various aspects of Filipina/o American identity and tradition. Each short video features original and found footage, archival photographs, and obscure historical events, spliced together with pop culture and internet references.
Learn moreInside layers of oppressive weather, words fall over a city, making control concrete. An adolescent shield absorbs, distorts, purges in the night, becomes a reservoir for a death dance. Made by Hong Kong raised sister/brother artists Jennie MaryTai Liu and Simon Liu with sound by Portland raised artist Andrew Gilbert, Conviction is a video installation containing two films, force and Sistern, shot in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2021 respectively.
Learn moreThere You Are is a one-on-one, individualized musical performance piece by Holland Andrews which takes place over a phone call and text message conversation. Each participant is called and sung to by Andrews while they listen to a new original composition meant to foster expansion, presence, and self-realization from the comfort of their own sound system.
Learn moreThe Drift is a visual archive of the future, where the politics and excuses for failed Indigenous repatriation are bypassed through an inexplicable force that returns all that is lost and stolen.
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Learn moreJaamil Olawale Kosoko and collaborators Jennifer Kidwell and Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild will discuss the development and artistic process of American Chameleon: The Last Installments.
Learn moreA Movement for Black Laughs celebrates the role of Black humor in political movements, through a one-hour show that features Portland based Black comedians, and sound/video artists.
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Learn moreDao Strom will give an intimate performance of songs and visual poetry from her forthcoming hybrid poetry and music project, Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, a unique book/album release forthcoming from Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records this Fall. This event marks the Portland release and debut of the project.
Learn morePURO TEATRO: a spell for Utopia embraces the dystopian reality of bodies cannot touch one another, but, can touch a screen. This work surrenders to the magical powers given to our gadgets as amulets and portals transporting us into altered states of being.
Learn moreCONVERSATION with Dao Strom and Elisa Harkins with Pablo de Ocampo
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
Learn moreAgainst the Current is a processional audiovisual journey along the Willamette River teaming Mobile Projection Unit with three performers and two roving “guides” with “lanterns”.
Learn moreLast Audience: a performance manual is a set of performance scores for the public to enact live theater in the intimacy of their own homes. Created by the collaborative group, a canary torsi, the work—inspired by requiems—is imagined as “manuals for a collective imagination on reckoning.”
Learn moreCome celebrate the official record release of the Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ at a virtual listening party hosted by Elisa Harkins, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Zoë Poluch. Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an Indigenous futuristic concert and dance performance that features songs by Elisa Harkins, some of which are in Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek).
Learn morerise x fall simultaneously inhabits the space between the pain and fear of death, as well as the hope and growth of rebirth.
Learn moreCONVERSATION with Shawné Michaelain Holloway and Kendra Jayne Patrick
Learn moreAs a retired party host, working as a pastor and cultural critic, bart fitzgerald thinks community as spirituality. How might the practice of spirituality in community advance the work of justice, political education, and joy?
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
Learn moreTable Top Shakespeare: At Home Edition explores the dynamic force of narrative in Shakespeare’s plays. Each of the plays is intimately retold by one actor, sitting alone at a table alongside shelves lined with household objects and a collection of everyday products that become the play’s characters.
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