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Come hear our Spring 2019 Creative Exchange Lab artists present on their current practice.
Learn moreJoin PICA and Outside the Frame for a closing celebration of Abigail DeVille's The American Future, as we co-present a free screening of short films by houseless youth, including the premiere of a new project. A panel discussion with participating youth filmmakers will follow. Light snacks will be served. This event is a public program affiliated with Abigail DeVille's exhibition The American Future, on view at PICA through January 12, 2019.
Learn moreIn connection with Abigail DeVille's exhibition The American Future, PICA presents a free screening of Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2014), co-directed by Julie Perini, Erin Yanke, and Jodi Darby. Documenting the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members over the past 50 years, the film features personal stories of resistance told by victims of police misconduct, the families of people who were killed by police, and members of Portland’s reform and abolition movements. Utilizing meditative footage taken at sites of police violence, experimental filmmaking techniques, and archival newsreel, Arresting Power creates a space for understanding the impacts of police violence and imagining a world without police.
Learn moreFollowing his final performance of Some Styles of Masculinity (Part 3: “Comedian”), Gregg Bordowitz will be in conversation with Stephanie Snyder (Anne and John Hauberg Curator and Director, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College), curator of Bordowitz’s retrospective, I Wanna Be Well. Attendance at this evening’s performance is not required in order to take part in the Post-Show Conversation.
Learn moreSubharmonic: A Sonic Arts Symposium spans two immersive days of interactive workshops, thought-provoking panels, and live performances for artists and audiences of all experience levels to explore, discuss, and engage with a broad range of contemporary and experimental sound art and its influences. Programs will touch on electronic and noise music, video and light installation, film and video, space and architecture, racial and gender equity in the field, and more.
Learn moreChoreographer Faye Driscoll shares her creative process, collaboration with dancers, audience and artist co-creation, and the underlying themes and concepts that drive the Thank You for Coming series. With Rachel Carrico, PhD, Dance Faculty Fellow, University of Oregon.
Learn moreBecca Blackwell shares insights into the creation of They, Themself, and Schmerm, including themes of gender and transition, strategies of humor, and forms of comedy and personal narrative. In dialogue with TBA Guest Scholar bart fitzgerald and Shawna Lipton, Chair, MA in Critical Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Learn moreSpend an evening with PICA’s Spring 2017 Creative Exchange Lab artists!
Learn moreFor TBA:15, Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents two concurrently running video works. Within the exhibition space, each will operate independently finding moments of alignment that express a larger narrative between the two. The result is an exploration of adaptation, mediation, and the act of seeing by way of pursuing the vanishing point and the nostalgia of drive-in movie theaters.
Learn moreTHEESatisfaction are artists that blend elements of hip-hop, electronic, and dance. They’re positive energy. Black energy, black women leaping oceans and continents at a single bound. With positive strength of purpose. Even crowds with nary a right foot between them find the steps when faced with THEESat’s unorthodox but right-on-time rhythms. Synchronized, sinewy and sensuous, the regal Stas and Cat channel the higher, whipping like waves of space-borne radiation onstage, leaving a trail of glowing observers abuzz like Geiger counters. THEESatisfaction, the Queens Supreme. Bring yourself!
Learn moreUsing hundreds of Portland voices raised in song, composer Rinde Eckert kicks off TBA:07 with a joyful noise in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Learn moreA group show that brings together artists from outer space to this place. Space is a Place explores the psychological aura of an office by turning it into a gallery.
Learn moreLarry Bamburg culls images and idiosyncratic details from the natural world to produce kinetic installations.
Learn moreThe Clandestine Periphery is an invisible mural set into the wall and activated by a glance. Born from a reductive process that relies on photographic information, it is dependent on the architectural and pedestrian use of the space.
Learn moreSara Greenberger Rafferty has always worked in a performative vein: while never actually taking the stage, an absent performer has always seemingly orchestrated the objects and pictures she presents.
Learn morePICA Artist in Residence Arnold J. Kemp further pursues the psychic and political spaces that are available in abstraction by continuing his ongoing body of work DAYDREAM NATION.
Learn moreSuperNatural is an exhibition of Portland-area artists juried by Arnold J. Kemp, TBA:07 Artist and former Associate Curator of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
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