The Oregon Painting Society is one of Portland's greatest art collectives. Many of their 2d, 3d and installation works include a sound track, some performed live. More of that is needed from all artists. Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper from Oregon Painting Society have their own unit, MSHR. MHSR taps into neo-mysticism in performance installations, combining driftwood with lasers and touch sensitive sound synths.
We do not give the copywriting of the month award to art press releases that run to academic art speak. They are like descriptions of DJ's. But we like a muscular one which is actually descriptive. Though I'm not sure what a laser feedback corridor is.
"The duo harnesses elemental forces to nurture ecstatic cybernetic ecosystems. Their sculptural human-electronic interfaces offer visitors interactive ocular/aural experiences within an augmented reality of mirrored glowing sand glyphs, sonic ancestral rainforest codes and misty laser feedback corridors. In two presentations, MSHR will ritualistically engage a trans-dimensional organic synthesizer to unfold earthly doors to terrestrial transcendence."
MHSR's work is significant in the context of Quantenexperimente by Anton Zeilinger at Documenta.
MHSR has been at residence at Appendix with their Earthly Door project and they have three readouts. Wednesday is a performance at 9 to honor the solstice. They will be open Last Thursday, performance at 9. July 1st, they will have a screening of video art influences at 9. Highly recommended.
At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 7-10ish Free
