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How do we relate to images of the self when the self is in a state of breakdown? This question is one of the concerns at the heart of the Cooley Gallery exhibition No Face, No Case: Portraiture’s Breaking.
Learn morePortland-based curator and writer Ashley Stull Meyers facilitates a conversation with Garrick Imatani and Travis Stewart (Chinook, Kalapuya, Rogue River) about The Drift, the culmination of their multi-year project that engages questions of repatriation, healing, and Indigenous futures through virtual reality, publication, digital fabrication, and photography. Imatani and Stewart will be joined by special guest Dr. Brook Colley (Wasco, Warm Springs, Eastern Cherokee; Enrolled: Eastern Band of Cherokee), Assoc. Professor & Chair of the Native American Studies Program at Southern Oregon University.
Learn moreTHE BLUE WALK is a spectacle of LOVE. It activates RAGE, TENDERNESS, REST, RHYTHM and THE HOLINESS OF THE BLACK BODY ON THE LIVING PLANET as a healing channel of release and power.
Learn morePICA Artistic Director & Curator of Public Engagement, Roya Amirsoleymani, joins Javaad Alipoor to discuss the many layers of Alipoor’s Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, a groundbreaking work of live theatre adapted to the digital realm. Structured through interactive multimedia, driven by a compelling narrative, and embracing of internet-aware art and web culture, Rich Kids offers sharply nuanced critical commentary on geopolitics and the social conditions of our time. This conversation will unpack this multifaceted work, its cultural influences, and Alipoor’s broader practice in experimental theatre-making.
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Learn moreRe-Sette the Stage brings together members of the Let ‘im Move You project with members from the Meet Me On Da Floor community in an exploration of the vastness of the Black queer majorette dance community.
Learn moreRe-Sette the Stage brings together members of the Let ‘im Move You project with members from the Meet Me On Da Floor community in an exploration of the vastness of the Black queer majorette dance community.
Learn moreA Letter from Souls of The Dead will be presented at PICA from July 10, 2021 to September 4, 2021. On the opening day of the exhibition Saturday, July 10, there will be intermittent performances by Aki Onda and Portland-based sound artist Marcus Fischer.
Learn moreOn Saturday, February 13, 2021, PICA will present We Didn't Arrive Here Alone, a virtual, live-streamed program of readings and discussion among renowned US-based undocumented writers and poets on the topic of mental health. Guest curated and moderated by poet and speaker Yosimar Reyes and featuring Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, this event is presented in connection with PICA's current exhibition, We Got Each Other's Back, by Carlos Motta in collaboration with Heldáy de la Cruz, Julio Salgado, and Edna Vázquez. The event will be ASL interpreted and captioned, and a recording of the livestream will be available on-demand for later viewing.
Learn moreThe music, artistry, and personal story of celebrated singer, songwriter, and guitarist Edna Vázquez (Portland, Oregon) fearlessly crosses genres, cultures, and borders. /// La a música, el talento artístico y historia personal de la celebrada cantante, compositora y guitarrista Edna Vázquez (Portland, Oregón) cruzan géneros, culturas y fronteras valientemente.
Learn morePart of a long-term documentary project by interdisciplinary artist Carlos Motta— in collaboration with artists Heldáy de la Cruz, Julio Salgado, and Edna Vázquez– We Got Each Other’s Back is a three-part, multi-channel video installation featuring portraits of queer artists and activists in the United States who are or have been openly undocumented, and who are producing work to denounce historic and present-day broken US immigration policies. Free and open to all / masks required
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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 moreCONVERSATION with Dao Strom and Elisa Harkins with Pablo de Ocampo
Learn moreLa Luz De La Esperanza is a musical telenovela that tells the tale of Dolores, a poor yet elegantly dressed domestic worker who falls in love with a rich man named Salvador. The story follows the abusive dynamic between Salvador and Dolores, leading to Dolores eventually finding true love with Esperanza, a genderless spirit.
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).
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