The month's remainder brings a great variety of curious things. And Thanksgiving, the last pure holiday.
November 6
Artists' Lecture @ Reed
Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell have a show at Reed College: "I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMEWHERE." In 1970 [2006] opposition to the Vietnam [Iraq] War had grown. Although a majority had concluded the war pointless and wrong, a strong pro war minority accused doubters of the war of being unpatriotic and not supporting the troops. There was also a military draft [volunteer army] making all college students [jobless military age people] targets, except for those with powerful family connections or wealth. Against this backdrop, students across the country protested the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia [Iran]. [Let's hope the story ends here...] On May 4, the Ohio National Guard shot 4 at Kent State University. Artists Hadley+Maxwell, working from photos of the time restaged the events on the Reed Campus with students alternating roles as the dead students and those around them in shock. In the gallery, the artists project the photos and draw over the projections. Lucien is a social artist, perhaps similar to Harrell Fletcher. He will engage gallery visitors personally in 100 photographs from his collection of 300,000 and produce more material from the interaction.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Lecture Vollum Hall 7:30 Free
November 8
Drift + Sonic Youth Shorts @ Holocene
You can read the Holocene calendar http://www.holocene.org/calendar/ for a description of live improv to film and experimental videos with Sonic Youth. 8 $5
Lecture-review of new Portland Parks @ Historical Society
The chance to design large is rare. In Portland, though, 3 new/redo downtown parks in the park blocks are in design. The excavation between the Guild and the Fox Tower will be a park. O'Bryant Square, sometime needle park or panic park. Ankeny Park by Lit. The designers seek public review of their designs at sessions 11:30AM-1:30PM and 6-7:30PM then lecture from 7:30-8:30PM at the Historical Society building.
http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=43212
November 9
Art on Pirate Radio Opening @ Henry in Seattle
Artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, neuroTransmitter, operate in the realm of transmission arts, analog. Their installation at the Henry delves into pirate radio as one manifestation of of the phenomena. Up until December 31. http://www.henryart.org/ex/neurotransmitter.html
Landscape Architect Peter Walker @ UO Portland Center
Peter Walker is one of the world's leading landscape architects. His work creates the physical architecture upon which the cultural anthropology of moving through space, or just contemplating it, happens. He and his firm are known for their urban planning, university campus, city park and public space designs. His firm is responsible for the William Jameson Park, NW 11th and Johnson, with it's brilliant fountain-wading-pond. 722 SW 2nd Ave, 4th Floor Review Room Noon Free
Time Based Art Show of Artists' Clocks @ Local.35
Local.35 clothing store has great synergy with the Portland art community. They've commissioned murals for their walls and dressing rooms and have consistently represented a Hawthorne second Thursday art opening night. Tonight they have a group show of clocks by artists Miss Libby Ann, Damon Ayers, Kendra Binney, Tim Brenner, Rik Catlow, Claudia Drake, Lyla Emery Reno, Michael Fields, Chris Haberman, Shauna Haider, Jennifer Mercede, Ashley Montague, Bruce New, Derek Olsen, Casey Rae, Jesse Reno, Reuben Rude, Thinkmule, Daniel Damocles Wall, Joshua Williams, Wendy Stillwell Wise, Cathie Joy Young The show was wrangled by Black Market Culture which puts Portland artists on the web and arranges brick and mortar shows too. DJ and libations and nifty clothes. http://www.local35.com/ 3556 SE Hawthorne Blvd 6-9 Free
November 10-12
Food and Shelter Festival @ Center Space & Goldsmith Building
The Food and Shelter Festival explores improvised music and movement through workshops and performances. Workshops on the day. Performances evening.
Their website has all the details: http://foodandshelter.blogspot.com/
November 10-18
The Film Center hosts the NW Film and Video Festival, a juried show of short, medium and long work from the NW bioregions. You can scan their website for a myirad of details and find what sounds interesting to you. http://www.nwfilm.org
November 11
Residence show-buy-party @ Homeland
All those free art shows with free drinks need money and you need art. Inviting artists to visit and make work or show our work in the world outside Portland requires fundage too. So 50 artists: Nicole Amore, Holly Andres, Josh Arseneau, Joe Beil, Troy Briggs, Chris Buckingham, Sam Coomes, Brent Comstock, Bruce Conkle, Tim Dalbow, Marguerite Day, Nick diSessa, Fred Fliesher, Liz Haley, Kim Hamblin, Meg Hanson, Jimmy Hatch, Scott Wayne Indiana, Ryan Jeffery, Chris Johanson, JoAnn Kemmis, Kendra Larson, Erin Letterman, Amy Lincoln, Karl Lind, Gabriel Liston, Kurtis Lofstrom, Marne Lucas, Betty MacEntire, Mary Mattingly, Zak Margolis, Lisa Maurine, Paul Middendorf, Chelsea Mosher, Charles Moss, Tj Norris, Lauren Obenour, Tracy Olsen, Louise Osborne, Eugenia Pardue, Ethan Rose, Adam Ross, Paige Saez, Joe Spangler, Cynthia Star, Amy Steel, Jeremy Tucker, Max Turner, Annette Thurston, Joe Thurston, John Vitale, Vicki Lynn Wilson and Jim Wood have contributed small works to make it happen. Buy them for $20-200
Opening party 6-11PM. Show all month Saturday and Sunday 12-5 until December 2.
At Gallery Homeland World Headquarters 916 SE 34th Ave.
Classical Indian Music @ Lewis and Clark
All cultures seem to have a sandwich. Tasty breadish things with fillings. The Indian version might be the samosa. So this evening, if you are in the mood for and Indian sandwich consider this. Kalakendra presents North Indian vocalist Aarti Ankalikar-Tikekar accompanied by Milind Kulkarni on harmonium and Ramdas Pulsule on tabla. You can get in for free if you are a member and you can join at a prorated rate anytime. Then maybe take in an Indian dinner. Finally there is DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid's Atlas, Asian fusion dance music at Holocene.
Indian concert $15 advance, $20 door, free members details at http://www.kalakendra.org/flyer.html 7:30PM Lewis and Clark Evans Auditorium
Magnetic II @ Seattle Science Center
A dance party in a science center. Science experiments 10-11. The butterfly room, planetarium, dinosaur room, the robotic insects, an ocean petting tank, and other exhibits are open until midnight. Four rooms of DJ's until 4AM. Breakfast at the Hurricane?
Details http://www.infiniteconnections.org
November 12
Crafty Wonderland @ Doug Fir Lounge
Take in the church of craft, talk to the crafters, learn a new one at the DIY table. 11AM-4PM. http://www.craftywonderland.com at the Doug Fir Lounge Free
November 13
Valentines in launching a film night. This Monday they show Godard's Pierrot Le Fou. I have a feeling that the opening of Until the End of the World may homage this film. Admission includes snacks. They are also preparing tapas, which knowing the place should be tasty. Valentines 232 SE Ankeny 7PM $5
November 14
Cello+ @ The Artistery
Zoe Keating performs cello with looping. Joined by the Golden Arm Trio who scored the film A Scanner Darkly and Privacy of Marriage Records. http://www.myspace.com/zoecello Sounds good to me. 4315 SE Division St 7:30 $5
November 15
Art Conservation Now Lecture @ Reed
MOMA Director of Conservation, Jim Coddington, speaks on conserving today's contemporary art. Given electronic media and materials that aren't archival, plus all manner of installations and wild sculpture, it's a non trivial challenge.
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/ Reed Vollum Hall 7:00PM Free
November 16
What's the point of copyright? @ PSU
You may be wondering. Many people are thinking deeply on this. Author, EFF'er and coeditor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow speaks on the topic. Details and bio at http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ Smith Hall Vanport Room 338, 1825 S.W. Broadway 5PM Free
First VJ Night @ 911 in Seattle
VJ's mix video samples live to music. They work harder than DJ's, mixing sometimes hundreds of samples per minute while the DJ manages transitions every few minutes. Their method is more like a producer, but they do it live. It's been going strong in the UK for over 20 years, lead by Coldcut's Matt Black. RISD students the Emergency Broadcast Network pioneered political cut ups using videotape and many videotape players live. Seattle's 911 Media Arts Center, with no analog in Portland, catches up tonight and presents a night featuring VJ's Killing Frenzy, scobot with DJ Hyasynth.
http://www.911media.org/events/vj-night.html 402 9th Avenue N between Belltown and Lake Union 7:30-10:30PM not sure of the admission
November 17
3 on 3 Bboy Bgirl Battle @ Reed
6 years, this spot has hosted battles. It's a friendly fierce night including some insane out of towners. It's no joke with a $300 first prize. Door is $5 with all the money going to support Ethos http://www.ethos-inc.org/, schooling the next generation.
Soundz - Ohmega Watts: Lightheaded (PDX). Judges - Jyant: Moon Poon Platoon, Dialog: Ninja Cipher Brigade, Big Sid: DefCon5. Hip hop is life. Reed Union. Doors 6, battles 7. $5
Odds and Ends Film and Animation @ Gallery Homeland
courtesy of our friends at Urban Honking: http://www.urbanhonking.com/supercal/archives/2006/11/odds_and_ends_g.html
3 Artists Open @ Small A Projects
Small A Projects, which has been making a great name for Portland lately by presenting artists' first solo shows, opens Green Light Green Light, Jamie Isenstein, Anissa Mack and Josh Shaddock. Anissa has done performances, such as Pies for a Passerby, in which she baked apple pies at the Brooklyn Public Library then placed them on the windowsill of a purpose built cottage for passerby's to steal.
Jamie Isenstein produces installations; Josh Shaddock is the coolest of the three, sometimes working with language. Small A Projects http://www.smallaprojects.com 1430 SE 3rd Reception 5-8 Talk Isenstein-Mack 7:30 Free
November 17-19
Sprockettes International Invitational @ Disjecta
The Sprockettes are one of those things that can bring only smiles. Their precision nano bike performances are the bike version of high school's synchronized swimming with much better costumes. Or precision Zoobombing. Tonight they invite international bike stars the Clettes, girl bike performers and the Brakes, boy bike performers - all the way from Vancouver BC! Also on the bill are Kazum!, local acrobats; and electro, disco, romantico rockers, Romanteek from Olympia. Fulfill all your entertainment needs, wants and out and out lusts with drinks, a pimp your bike booth, Sprockettes calendars and official Sprockettes clothing, a silent art auction, a live stenciling wall, more art and a dance party with DJ Sniffles and DJ Puppet. Self propelled fun.
At Disjecta. Doors 7, show 8. All ages. $5-10 sliding scale
But wait there is more, a whole minibike weekend...
Saturday brunch and make tall bikes at 11:11AM, alleycat on minibikes at 3 at Mt Tabor - points for style and then see bike movies at Free Geek at 7
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Sunday bike a beer treasure hunt at noon, at 3, bike polo and learn bikedancing skills at Alberta Park then Zoobomb.
November 18
Japanese Butoh Performance Master Class @ Seattle Velocity Dance Center
Butoh is a Japanese performance form unlike other modern dance styles. Seattle Performers Haruko Nishimura & Sheri Brown present a lecture-demo-try butoh master class. The master class,4-4:45PM is an introductory movement class by
Haruko Nishimura, director/choreographer/performer for Degenerate Art Ensemble. From 4:45-6 butoh's history will be explored by in video and by demonstrations by performers Sheri Brown, Alan Sutherland, dk pan Douglas Ridings, Helen Thorsen, Kym Adams and Mish Curtis.
Instructor bios:
Haruko Nishimura- Since co-founding Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly The Young Composers Collective) in 1993, Haruko has produced a consistent stream of original and adventurous works combining physical theater and butoh dance with live experimental music. Many of these pieces are large scale works involving up to 5-15 performers and the Degenerate Art Ensemble’s 10-17 piece orchestra. Haruko’s choreographed works have been commissioned by On The Boards, City, County and State Arts Commissions, as well as a number of private foundations and have appeared in ten countries. As a performer, Haruko has appeared in as many as 60 performances per year over the past ten years, including performances in her own group Degenerate Art Ensemble, as well as in other ensembles including San Francisco/Berlin based InkBoat, Holland based R.A.M.M. Theater and others. These performances have taken place throughout the US West Coast, New York, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Netherlands and Italy.
Sheri Brown- Performance artist Sheri Brown (www.sheribrown.com) has performed extensively both as a solo artist and as a core member of the butoh-inspired troupe P.A.N.(www.prettyartnumb.org), where she began working with dk pan in 2001. Highlights from her work with the P.A.N. are the Chuncheon International Mime Festival (for which the group won the Dokkebi Award), the Overseas Korean Arts Convention in Seoul, the International Butoh Festival in San Francisco, and Spaceboat TV at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Additionally, Sheri has has performed with several other performance groups including Infernal Noise Brigade, Pyrosutra, Dappin Butoh, Kokoro, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, and TchKung. Sheri holds a BA in Theatre from Arizona State University and a Master's in Education from the University of Hawaii; her Butoh teachers include Shinichi Momo Koga, Akira Kasai, Joan Laage, Su-En, Minako Seki, Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, Jay Hirobashi, Yoshito Ohno, Kota Yamazaki. Sheri performs regularly as the angel-fairy in Bumbershoot, Folklife, Hempfest, and the Oregon Country Fair and has served on the board of directors for the Center on Contemporary Art for several years.
Master class $13, Lecture demo $5 at the Seattle Velocity Dence Center. To register and for more information, contact lizy@theparamount.com or call 206-467-5510, ext. 1171
Photographer Daido Moriyama Speaks @ Portland Art Museum
Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama is known for his grainy black and white photos lensed with dramatic camera angles. Sort of punk style, except his career began in about 1960. After a 10 minute film on the photographer, he will be interviewed by photographer Michael Kenna who is known for his nightime landscape photography. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium http://www.portlandartmuseum.org $10 general $5 members
FO(A)RM Experiment @ Portland Art Center
FO(A)RM is a yearly journal which uses metaconcepts like autonomy, topography, duals & doubles, dis/embodiment and utility to organize writings and recordings. Tonight they branch from paper and ink to sound and video referencing too the sound recordings contained in autonomy. Organizer Seth Nehil made electroacoustic music, moved to NY, started the journal and now is back making more sound visual performances.
Performers Olivia Block, Chicago; Seth Cluett, Princeton; Luc, Portland; Borborygmus, Portland; DJ P Unity, Portland provide a counterpoint to experimental video material from Zak Margolis, Holly Andres & Grace Carter, James Sumner (Dirty Projectors), Brook Hinton, David Borengasser, Melody Owen and Animal Charm curated by Morgan Currie. See also video installations by Richard Garet, Michael Bullock, Kuwayama Kiyoharu (Lethe), Elizabeth Leister, Stephen Slappe, Cat Tyc, Linda Kliewer, Phillip Cooper, Ryan Jeffrey, Mark Owen, Mack McFarland and Sue Havens.
All this takes place at the Portland Art Center http://www.portlandart.org/ 32 NW 5th 8PM $8 advance/ $10 door includes $2 off the purchase of FO(A)RM autonomy journal.
November 21
Sankai Juku @ The Paramount Seattle
Sankai Juku's elegant minimal style gets inside your head. Their relationship with the Seattle audience is special, the emotional dynamic flows in both directions. 9/10 1985, Sankai Juku performer Yoshiyuki Takeda fell to his death before the audience in an outdoor performance due to faulty rigging suspending he and his fellow dancers from a Pioneer Square building. You can get more information and a video excerpt of the current perfomance in Seattle at http://www.theparamount.com/artists/artist.asp?key=368
$32-42 Paramount Theater, Seattle 7:30PM
November 28
Cello + II @ Someday Lounge
Cellist Zoe Keating, longtime Rasputina performer is another example of international level creatives picking Portland home. Ilyas Ahmed (with Grouper) and electroacoustic ambient gypsy trio Mugwort also perform. Someday Lounge http://www.somedaylounge.com/location/ 125 NW 5th 9PM door $5
November 29
Dahlia @ DF
Dahlia, of whom we have written, performs their monthly residency at the Doug Fir. Their last residency created the good Ohm. http://www.myspace.com/dahliapdx http://www.dougfirlounge.com/$6 9PM
Flamenco Madness @ Big Stage Schnitz
Portland has a collection of flamenco dancers and their friends. After you have done, and done, and that, and the other, there now is flamenco. The big dance presenters in town are New Yorker's White Bird and tonight they present flamenco . This is for those who get hot seeing dancers in red and passionate music, this is the root passion of Spain that got all watered down in the new world. Schnitzer Hall $16-52 Student Discount Available 7:30PM
November 30
Show Closing with Music @ Valentines
Valentines has a closing reception for the show listed in the westside art openings above. OWL SOUNDS from NYC performs at 9pm probably free - check with the venue 232 SW Ankeny
Drats!!! another rock opera @ Holocene
Punkers Drats!!! release their cd Welcome to New Granada. Then they show a teen rebellion film from the 1970's, Over the Edge with Matt Dillon in his first role. The film has a soundtrack with Cheap Trick, The Cars and The Ramones! Don't leave early, though, because Drats then performs their own rock opera mashing up their New Granada songs and performing characters inspired by Over the Edge!! So !!! 8PM Free !!! !! !
World of Warcraft Gamers' Night Out @ Someday Lounge
If opera is not your cup of tea, welcome to the matrix at Someday's World of Warcraft Expansion Release party http://www.blizzard.com. From the lead game producer via www.gamespot.com: "In our next major update, we will be releasing Blackwing Lair, a 40-person raid dungeon, where you will be able to battle against the epic dragon Nefarian and his minions. We are also working on a 20-person dungeon called Zul'Gurub and the mysterious lands of Ahn'Qiraj in Silithus. Outside of dungeons, we want to continue adding new world events, such as a carnival that will take place in Mulgore and Elwynn forest." More news and a promotional video at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/. Irono-nazis, The Punk Group perform a purpose written song for the occasion. Blizzard's release date has been slipped to January to allow the beta testers to find bugs in each and every maze of twisty little passages, so check with the venue for updates. http://www.somedaylounge.com/ 125 NW 5th 9PM door $5
