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C'mon Language: Amber Gayle

A workshop exploring the words we use to describe the people we know, as a process to understand how we identify ourselves. Gayle will introduce the model of personality considered most useful and valid by contemporary personality psychologists, and we will use the space and each others' words to uncover how our personalities are expressed in our daily lives.

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C'mon Language: Gregory Anderson

Many thousands of languages are spoken today across the world. Each language offers a unique perspective, a world view, a window into the mind of its speakers. Language are richly varied and this variation offers insight into what is possible and what is not, and why.

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C'mon Language: Marc Handelman

The Dying Wind / A Ventriloquist’s Art / Luminist Silence and the Sublime Noise of Progress (2013) is a dual-synched video presentation that takes the form of an automated lecture.

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C'mon Language: Daniel Granias

Three activities will focus on learning through touch as a language, two with clay as a medium.

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C'mon Language: Kate Graham

A workshop comparing ancient cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and cuneiform text to modern day street art, propaganda, and graffiti.

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C’mon Language: Anne-Marie Oliver, Barry Sanders, Thomas Zummer, and with friends like you

A critical conversation on method and madness, knowledge and respect, theory and nascent wonder, ignorance and arrogance, authority and tradition, judgment and distinction, learning and the pleasing of another, sober realism and the rage for justice, in the style of G.K. Chesterton, and drawing on the work of a wide range of interlocutors, including Hannah Arendt, Ivan Illich, John Dewey, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Rancière, Bifo, and the Black Mountain Founders, to help us rethink this thing called education, higher and other.

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C'mon Language: Claire Barliant

This workshop is devoted to writing with constraints.

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C'mon Language: Margaret Matthewson

This will be an exercise in the making of a container or woven form, and also in the communication of these skills to students.

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Anna Craycroft

C’mon Language is an exhibition in pursuit of an artistic vocabulary.

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TBA:12 Laurie Anderson DIRTDAY!

Legendary musician and artist Laurie Anderson performs the third and final of her groundbreaking solo story works

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TBA:12 Akio Suzuki, Gozo Yoshimasu, Otomo Yoshihide VOICES AND ECHOES

Sound artist Akio Suzuki, experimental poet Gozo Yoshimasu, and improvisatory guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshihide present a range of performances that cross between literature, sound art, music, and improvisation.

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TBA:12 LATE NIGHT: Fade to Mind

A taste of the LA bass sound as a closing night TBA party of surreal visions, sideways club trax, and darkside R&B dubs.

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TBA:12 FOOD: Nong's Khao Man Gai

Aromatic poached chicken, fluffy rice, Thai herbs, and salty, spicy soy bean sauce—a perfect package meal!

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TBA:12 Claudia Meza LISTENING TO SPACE: SONIC CITY PDX

Over thirty local musicians, composers, and sound artists have mapped out their favorite sonic spaces in Portland, creating an "audio tour" of the most interesting naturally occurring acoustic landscapes, concluding in a one-day live concert.

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TBA:12 WORKSHOP: Keith Hennessy / Circo Zero

An accessible workshop with members of Circo Zero, exploring improvisation and movement techniques.

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TBA:12 WORKSHOP: Gob Squad

Company members from Gob Squad lead a performance workshop right in the set of Gob Squad’s Kitchen, exploring their unique blend of theater and real life.

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TBA:12 LATE NIGHT: Thu Tran

A bizarro cooking demonstration exploring the effects of black light, led by the adorable host of FOOD PARTY.

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TBA:12 FOOD: Bunk Sandwiches

Lip-smacking, filled-to-the-brim sandwiches from the crew at Bunk.

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TBA:12 chelfitsch HOT PEPPER, AIR CONDITIONER, AND THE FAREWELL SPEECH

Three vignettes track the absurd and mundane stories of a group of office employees in this stylized performance derived from everyday gestures.

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TBA:12 NOONTIME CONVERSATION: Faustin Linyekula

Faustin Linyekula discusses his bold solo dance and its themes of legacy, forgetting, and memory with Angela Mattox.

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TBA:12 WORKSHOP: Toshiki Okada/chelfitsch

A workshop led by cheltfisch’s award-winning director and playwright, Toshiki Okada, known for his stylized hybrids of oddly humorous text, distinctive lighting, and idiosyncratic movement.

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TBA:12 LATE NIGHT: Alexis Blair Penney

New York-based singer, performer, DJ, and personality Penney will travel an emotional journey in song, from childhood to first love to romantic dissolution to ecstatic hope and empowerment.

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TBA:12 Gob Squad GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN (YOU NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD)

Recreating the iconic 60s films of Andy Warhol, live actors cross in and out of the film and audience.

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TBA:12 FOOD: Portobello

Vegan Italian dishes that satisfy everyone: vegetable terrines, beet-pine nut manicotti, corn and mushroom chowder, and more.

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