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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 moreFirst Nations Performing Arts is focused on cultural change, commissioning, touring and presenting Indigenous performance, and capacity building for the Indigenous and non-indigenous performing arts sectors.
Learn moreRich Kids is a play about entitlement and consumption, and how digital technology is complicit in social apartheid and gentrification.
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 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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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 moreIt is with joy and gratitude that we announce the launch of a new season of programming for Knowledge of Wounds 2021-22, and with it, the kindling of our evolving digital container, www.knowledge of wounds.com. In observance of the 2021 Solstice, we extend an invitation to join us by this virtual fireside for the unveiling of the full KoW 2021-22 program, a series of Indigenous-led events which will continue to unfold in this space over the course of an entire celestial year.
Learn morePICA is pleased to present deadbird and can anybody help me hold this body by New York-based artist devynn emory on May 27-30, 2021.
Learn morechekhovOS /an experimental game/ is a performance experiment in development by Arlekin Players Theatre’s founder and director Igor Golyak, who has been a leading innovator of virtual theater since the start of the pandemic.
Learn morePARTICIPANT AFTER DARK and PICA present DOOMSCROLLING, a livestream video premiere of Michelle Handelman’s THE PANDEMIC SERIES (2020-2021), with a live collaborative reading and performance between Handelman and musician/performer Shannon Funchess, co-founder of the band Light Asylum.
Learn moreBloom is an open-air, sliding scale, community-oriented fundraising event for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).
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