Flanks and Slopes is a new show by Zachary Davis, coprincipal of Appendix Project Space. The event also wins our copywriting award: "Form is a voracious concept, beginning somewhere in the front of my brain, where teams of cells replace flat swaths of stimulus from the back of the eye with semantic notions like edge, texture, and depth. In schematic, these transmuting units are funnel- shaped, and zooming out, the shape remains a funnel, with sensory overload crashing against the wide end and a thin stream of physical actions on the other.
Along with other perceived objects, this funnel-form guides my actions on a field of possibility with its own contours. If the shape of tomorrowʼs weather forecast has enough reality to guide my actions (rainfall by time by latitude by longitude), or the upward trajectory of food prices (by time by latitude by longitude), then the correlation of many such forms (food price by rainfall by time by latitude by longitude) is similarly real. Pull in enough metrics, and we find ourselves on a landscape of goals and dangers, shrouded in fog.
An amorphous body of accidental but durable forms is sprawled across this landscape, and we are a single branch probing outward, a little less blind than the others, generating variety at an unprecedented rate and sharing what we learn. I am interested in a feedback loop between speculative and physical form – in objects tuned to a stable state for their context, but engaged in the dimensional play of observation, cognition and navigation. I imagine a map fused with the territory, adding its own bright forms to the general mass."
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Disjecta has done well with great guest curators. And it has been a mini-PICA, but finding artists at earlier stages in their careers. Tonight curator Wyatt Schaffner teams with Experimental Half Hour for a night of performance, installation and beautiful visual-aural mayhem. The show, Techne Rendered False Dawn, has films by Liz Harris & Taryn Tomasello and installations by MSHR plus John Rau & Olivia Erlanger.
There will be performances by The Tenses, MSHR, Future Death Toll, Matt Carlson and Jason Urick which will be remixed live by Experimental Half Hour.
DJ's Sahel Sounds and Citymouth dance out the evening.
Oregon Painting Society offshoot MSHR is not to be missed in the last slot of the evening. Their Appendix residency performance was stunning.
So tonight you can experience a TBA quality+ event for the amazing price of free. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11 Free
