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Learn moreAs 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at both the spring equinox and summer solstice as original sites for universal human imagination, embedding them with historical reference points, dualities, and personal reflections.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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