Indivisible is an itinerant gallery in a home.
Surplus Space and Heidi McBride have done and it is common in NYC apartments.
A Living Room by Victor Maldonado is the inagural show. There are a variety of performance events and viewings planned over the run of the show. You can find out more at https://www.facebook.com/events/210390105993850/. At Indivisible indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com 2544 SE 26th 6PM-9 Free
Avalon Kalin presents his book One Hundred and Four Digitally Printed Color Photographs of Graffiti-Removal. To accompany the talk, Matt McCormick will screen his famous short film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 7:30PM Free
Thursday, March 31, 2016
April 2 Mission Statement Human Radiance
Today is Mission Statement Human Radiance Day.
Every day should be!
Mission Statement Human Radiance - MSHR - is Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy performing together.
They each have their individual art practices.
Murphy produces sculptures, prints and videos based on her electronic shapes, as well as video shot live outdoors and composited. Cooper produces electronic paintings and motion videos based on organic shapes in rainbow colors as well as building analog synths with optical and physical feedback.
Today at 2 at Upfor, Murphy gives a talk about her work along with fellow artist in the show, Alyson Provax. She has a print in the experimental printwork show up now at Upfor.
At 7 at the Projection Museum, Cooper opens a new show of his visual work, Shrine Gate Matrices. He and Murphy perform together as MSHR in the gallery.
Recommended.
Artist talk at UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 2PM Free
Shrine Gate Matrices at The Projection Museum, 53 SE 80th. 7PM=10 Free
Every day should be!
Mission Statement Human Radiance - MSHR - is Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy performing together.
They each have their individual art practices.
Murphy produces sculptures, prints and videos based on her electronic shapes, as well as video shot live outdoors and composited. Cooper produces electronic paintings and motion videos based on organic shapes in rainbow colors as well as building analog synths with optical and physical feedback.
Today at 2 at Upfor, Murphy gives a talk about her work along with fellow artist in the show, Alyson Provax. She has a print in the experimental printwork show up now at Upfor.
At 7 at the Projection Museum, Cooper opens a new show of his visual work, Shrine Gate Matrices. He and Murphy perform together as MSHR in the gallery.
Recommended.
Artist talk at UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 2PM Free
Shrine Gate Matrices at The Projection Museum, 53 SE 80th. 7PM=10 Free
April 2 End of the World
Until The End of the World is one of my favorite films. It is one of Wim Wenders' road movies, spanning continents.
It has two beautiful problems: it's too long and its soundtrack is too good.
Both problems are solved for one night only.
The film was shot in 15 cities over 7 countries. Made 25 years ago, it presages technology we have today, and some not yet invented.
It tells the story of a secret military invention which can record movies that blind people can see. A son steals the device to record visits to his parents' friends around the world and bring them to his elderly mother who is blind. A plot complication is the impending crash of a nuclear satellite to earth. Along the way he meets Claire and they fall in love. The son and Claire are chased across the world by many characters wanting the device back, chasing the proceeds of a bank robbery, lovers and exes chasing one another and chasing some rare opals. The plot is finally resolved in Australia in scenes surreal and beautiful. It's a science fiction road movie music video made by a gifted director.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozwu8XxQ-dI
Like many films, Until The End of the World has been released at various run lengths. It streams in the US at 157 minutes. It was released on VHS at 158 minutes. In Europe it has been released at 179 and 280 minutes. Janus has restored the film and worked with the director to release a 295 minute version at 4K. That shows tonight. One night only.
The film's other challenge is a sprawling soundtrack. The selections range from top pop bands, college radio favorites, to field recordings of Pygmies singing in the Central African Republic. Many parts of the film read as a very good music video. But getting worldwide musical rights for each film release is a challenge. For tonight, that problem solves as well. But there will unlikely ever be a 295 minute worldwide release.
Film Until the End of the World http://nwfilm.org/screenings/73/718/#3996 at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 5PM $9
It has two beautiful problems: it's too long and its soundtrack is too good.
Both problems are solved for one night only.
The film was shot in 15 cities over 7 countries. Made 25 years ago, it presages technology we have today, and some not yet invented.
It tells the story of a secret military invention which can record movies that blind people can see. A son steals the device to record visits to his parents' friends around the world and bring them to his elderly mother who is blind. A plot complication is the impending crash of a nuclear satellite to earth. Along the way he meets Claire and they fall in love. The son and Claire are chased across the world by many characters wanting the device back, chasing the proceeds of a bank robbery, lovers and exes chasing one another and chasing some rare opals. The plot is finally resolved in Australia in scenes surreal and beautiful. It's a science fiction road movie music video made by a gifted director.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozwu8XxQ-dI
Like many films, Until The End of the World has been released at various run lengths. It streams in the US at 157 minutes. It was released on VHS at 158 minutes. In Europe it has been released at 179 and 280 minutes. Janus has restored the film and worked with the director to release a 295 minute version at 4K. That shows tonight. One night only.
The film's other challenge is a sprawling soundtrack. The selections range from top pop bands, college radio favorites, to field recordings of Pygmies singing in the Central African Republic. Many parts of the film read as a very good music video. But getting worldwide musical rights for each film release is a challenge. For tonight, that problem solves as well. But there will unlikely ever be a 295 minute worldwide release.
Film Until the End of the World http://nwfilm.org/screenings/73/718/#3996 at the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 5PM $9
April 1 Sonic Potions
April 1 Sonic Potions
In a little experimental synth show has Potions from Chicago along with Antecessor, 555 and Magisterial. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 7PM-11 $3-5
In a little experimental synth show has Potions from Chicago along with Antecessor, 555 and Magisterial. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th 7PM-11 $3-5
April 1 Eastside Art Openings+
Prison Obscura is a show of photography made in prisons curated by Pete Brook. Brook is made prison photography and research his life's work. Here he gives a long talk about it https://creativemornings.com/talks/pete-brook/1 and he operates the prisonphotography.org site. The Newspace website www.newspacephoto.org/prison-obscura has a longer discussion. This is an important show and a bold undertaking by Newspace. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
The Last Glacier is a show of photography, prints and a book by Todd Anderson, Bruce Crownover and Ian van Coller. The artists have been hiking in Montana's Glacier National Park documenting its glaciers. In 1910 the park had more than 150 glaciers. Today it is 25. They are forecast to all be gone in 4 years. At Passages Book Shop www.passagesbookshop.com, 1223 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Teresa Christiansen has photography: Indifferent Horizons. This body would fall under subtle interventions into andscape. She is a professor at PNCA. Art Museum photography curator Julia Dolan speaks. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington Suite 301 6PM-9 Free
Lewis and Clark also opens their student BFA show at 5 and Eutectic has its ceramics opening. There are probably bunches of other spaces open connected with the Southern Graphics print conference http://sgciportland.com/portfolio/exhibitions/.
The Last Glacier is a show of photography, prints and a book by Todd Anderson, Bruce Crownover and Ian van Coller. The artists have been hiking in Montana's Glacier National Park documenting its glaciers. In 1910 the park had more than 150 glaciers. Today it is 25. They are forecast to all be gone in 4 years. At Passages Book Shop www.passagesbookshop.com, 1223 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Teresa Christiansen has photography: Indifferent Horizons. This body would fall under subtle interventions into andscape. She is a professor at PNCA. Art Museum photography curator Julia Dolan speaks. At Melanie Flood Projects 420 SW Washington Suite 301 6PM-9 Free
Lewis and Clark also opens their student BFA show at 5 and Eutectic has its ceramics opening. There are probably bunches of other spaces open connected with the Southern Graphics print conference http://sgciportland.com/portfolio/exhibitions/.
March 31 Weird Shift
Weird Shift is an open source artists project in Portland. It has had an exhibition space, a library and a podcast. Tonight it invites short talks - micro talks - on obscure creative and societal topics, with visuals. Bring a USB drive or laptop with your talk! Examples of previous talks are on their event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1014052341975236/. At the Compliance Division compliancedivision.org in the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett #101 - entrance on NW 6th 7PM Free
Friday, March 25, 2016
March 27 Sharing Sharing
Risks. We all take them. There are downside risks and upside risks.
(We publish on mobile. If you want just the what where when, scroll to the bottom. This is an unusually long post!)
Downside risks are when you could feel discomfort, crash and burn, be injured, or die. Upside risk is when you survive another day, succeed, make someone happy or change the world for the positive.
The world of artists is taking risks.
We usually do not - as observers of finished art work - understand the internal and continuous experience of the artist with downside risk. Artists internalize that, in every moment.
Our experience as observers of artist risk - out the other (viewer) side - is as a touchstone for our own experience of risk. That is why risk is a powerful ingredient in artworks. It is an emotional carrier in my taxonomy of art ingredients.
Portland artist Wynde Dyer is an artist who takes personal risks in art making.
Classical artist risk takers are artists like Chris Burden. He approached real body risk from a masculine standpoint. Wynde Dyer goes far beyond that in the challenges she undertakes as an artist.
Existential risk.
She has an ambitious show this afternoon, sharing the scraps. you should see, it closes April 27, today is the reception and an event to meet the project collaborators and supporters. We will return to that in a moment.
Dyer moved to Portland and opened Golden Rule, a collaborative art vintage shop. Each month she invited an artist to make an installation in the shop. Dyer then selected vintage clothing items to be sold in the shop to accompany the art.
In the 1970's to 1990's her mother, with a fabulous fashion sense, acquired clothes. Many. Incredibly all one size. But she never discarded any.
Her single mother died alone in Wynde's small California childhood home. Wynde was called to remove her mother's every possession from that childhood home.
It became Wynde's burden to return each piece of clothing to the world.
Over several years, she returned those clothes through art exhibitions in the Golden Rule store, in itself a social practice art project, though that term was not yet common.
Her work has continued.
She reprinted her mother's letters to a lover inmate for an installation, 2010.
She constructed a 1/2 scale model of her childhood home in 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner, 2011. She spent weeks at night alone constructing it along with many volunteers at other times throughout.
She shredded her family photographs and then meticulously sorted the shreds by color, in Sorting Things Out, 2012.
She engaged in performances recreating intensely physically sickening experiences from childhood phobias - Things That Aren't Safe, Are, 2013.
She created the very, very intense Frantic Efforts to Avoid Real or Imagined Abandonment in 2013. The work included a cycling show in images of her mother's many lovers. Those mother's lovers competed (successfully) for her mother's attention; her child was emotionally abandoned, and they did bad things to that child growing. The work covered every wall with a list of the first names of every of the artist's crushes densely inscribed by hand on the gallery walls in metallic leaf, paired with her name. Trying to figure out adult relationships with imperfect models. It is a meditation on personal value when we are small, but when we need to be large, in relation to parental and personal crushes.
She has worked with Chinese artists recreating past living space illustrations.
She is a social activist. She is an accomplished organizer for taxi drivers facing exploitation and extinction.
In comparison, Burden is a poseur. We believe Dyer will be recognized as surpassing him and surviving too.
Dyer returns with a deep-rich project in Sharing the Scraps. She has engaged houseless-homeless individuals to create designs. She has sewn them in the manner of quilts along with her own designs from colored poly tarp material. Poly tarp - blue is common and you know. It is a common Chinese-manufactured import available in many primary colors. Each work is for sale to benefit rent support for individuals about to be made homeless by Portland's changes.
For the reception, Dyer has invited individuals from Hazelnut Grove, a self-organized houseless community in North Portland to help out. A displaced Portland chef, Amanda Luna, will be cooking tasty food for the event. Our Olivia Darlings provide movement performance about 5:45PM. Music by Brendan Hanna. Special dranks by New Deal+Stumptown; chocolate+coffee is A-OK.
More information at www.wyndedyer.com/sharing-the-scraps.html. At Stumptown Coffee Division, 4525 SE Division 4PM-6 Free
(We publish on mobile. If you want just the what where when, scroll to the bottom. This is an unusually long post!)
Downside risks are when you could feel discomfort, crash and burn, be injured, or die. Upside risk is when you survive another day, succeed, make someone happy or change the world for the positive.
The world of artists is taking risks.
We usually do not - as observers of finished art work - understand the internal and continuous experience of the artist with downside risk. Artists internalize that, in every moment.
Our experience as observers of artist risk - out the other (viewer) side - is as a touchstone for our own experience of risk. That is why risk is a powerful ingredient in artworks. It is an emotional carrier in my taxonomy of art ingredients.
Portland artist Wynde Dyer is an artist who takes personal risks in art making.
Classical artist risk takers are artists like Chris Burden. He approached real body risk from a masculine standpoint. Wynde Dyer goes far beyond that in the challenges she undertakes as an artist.
Existential risk.
She has an ambitious show this afternoon, sharing the scraps. you should see, it closes April 27, today is the reception and an event to meet the project collaborators and supporters. We will return to that in a moment.
Dyer moved to Portland and opened Golden Rule, a collaborative art vintage shop. Each month she invited an artist to make an installation in the shop. Dyer then selected vintage clothing items to be sold in the shop to accompany the art.
In the 1970's to 1990's her mother, with a fabulous fashion sense, acquired clothes. Many. Incredibly all one size. But she never discarded any.
Her single mother died alone in Wynde's small California childhood home. Wynde was called to remove her mother's every possession from that childhood home.
It became Wynde's burden to return each piece of clothing to the world.
Over several years, she returned those clothes through art exhibitions in the Golden Rule store, in itself a social practice art project, though that term was not yet common.
Her work has continued.
She reprinted her mother's letters to a lover inmate for an installation, 2010.
She constructed a 1/2 scale model of her childhood home in 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner, 2011. She spent weeks at night alone constructing it along with many volunteers at other times throughout.
She shredded her family photographs and then meticulously sorted the shreds by color, in Sorting Things Out, 2012.
She engaged in performances recreating intensely physically sickening experiences from childhood phobias - Things That Aren't Safe, Are, 2013.
She created the very, very intense Frantic Efforts to Avoid Real or Imagined Abandonment in 2013. The work included a cycling show in images of her mother's many lovers. Those mother's lovers competed (successfully) for her mother's attention; her child was emotionally abandoned, and they did bad things to that child growing. The work covered every wall with a list of the first names of every of the artist's crushes densely inscribed by hand on the gallery walls in metallic leaf, paired with her name. Trying to figure out adult relationships with imperfect models. It is a meditation on personal value when we are small, but when we need to be large, in relation to parental and personal crushes.
She has worked with Chinese artists recreating past living space illustrations.
She is a social activist. She is an accomplished organizer for taxi drivers facing exploitation and extinction.
In comparison, Burden is a poseur. We believe Dyer will be recognized as surpassing him and surviving too.
Dyer returns with a deep-rich project in Sharing the Scraps. She has engaged houseless-homeless individuals to create designs. She has sewn them in the manner of quilts along with her own designs from colored poly tarp material. Poly tarp - blue is common and you know. It is a common Chinese-manufactured import available in many primary colors. Each work is for sale to benefit rent support for individuals about to be made homeless by Portland's changes.
For the reception, Dyer has invited individuals from Hazelnut Grove, a self-organized houseless community in North Portland to help out. A displaced Portland chef, Amanda Luna, will be cooking tasty food for the event. Our Olivia Darlings provide movement performance about 5:45PM. Music by Brendan Hanna. Special dranks by New Deal+Stumptown; chocolate+coffee is A-OK.
More information at www.wyndedyer.com/sharing-the-scraps.html. At Stumptown Coffee Division, 4525 SE Division 4PM-6 Free
March 27 New Tube
Getting To Know You(Tube) changes venues this month to the Cleaners at The Ace Hotel. The curators of their favorite videos this month are Kathryn Knowlton, Antonia Pinter and Lisa Ward. 7:30PM Free
March 26 Spring Caldera Patch
Caldera Arts is a Summer arts immersion for at risk youth. In Winter, guest artists visit for an uninterrupted residency in a beautiful setting. Today is an open house to see the work and meet the last artists in the cycle.
This residency has artists Amory Abbott, Visual Arts—Illustration, Portland; Turiya Autry, Literary Arts—Poetry, Portland; Sash Bischoff, Literary Arts—Fiction and Playwriting, New York; Kristina Marie Darling, Literary Arts—Poetry and Fiction, Ballwin, Missouri; Alex Hirsch, Visual Arts—Painting, Portland; Annie Varnot, Visual Arts—Sculpture and Installation, Brooklyn; and Lu Yim, Performing Arts—Dance and Choreography, Portland.
Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.
Arrive at 1PM sharp for presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.
Most years, the camp gets snow. But now we have global warming. You might check the Santiam Pass and road cameras on Tripcheck.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free
Control Voltage is a musical synth store. You can try instruments in ear person. You can't do that at Amazon or the synth warehouse! They are one of the nodes of Portland synth community and well worth meeting up with, including at their free events. And you can stop by anytime to try and learn about synths.
This afternoon they give a free introduction to two things you would do with modular synthesizers. They will give an introduction to voltage controlled oscillators and frequency modulation. If you don't know what that means, you should come. If you do know what that means, you should come. And bring your ears. Because at the end of the talk, and some hands-on experimentation yourself, your ears will understand too!
Patching your musical ear vision https://www.facebook.com/events/1699247557016810/ at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 1PM-2 Free
This residency has artists Amory Abbott, Visual Arts—Illustration, Portland; Turiya Autry, Literary Arts—Poetry, Portland; Sash Bischoff, Literary Arts—Fiction and Playwriting, New York; Kristina Marie Darling, Literary Arts—Poetry and Fiction, Ballwin, Missouri; Alex Hirsch, Visual Arts—Painting, Portland; Annie Varnot, Visual Arts—Sculpture and Installation, Brooklyn; and Lu Yim, Performing Arts—Dance and Choreography, Portland.
Full artist bios: www.calderaarts.org/caldera/arts-in-residence/current-roster/.
Arrive at 1PM sharp for presentations by the artists, then visit the studios.
Most years, the camp gets snow. But now we have global warming. You might check the Santiam Pass and road cameras on Tripcheck.
At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 1PM-3 Free
Control Voltage is a musical synth store. You can try instruments in ear person. You can't do that at Amazon or the synth warehouse! They are one of the nodes of Portland synth community and well worth meeting up with, including at their free events. And you can stop by anytime to try and learn about synths.
This afternoon they give a free introduction to two things you would do with modular synthesizers. They will give an introduction to voltage controlled oscillators and frequency modulation. If you don't know what that means, you should come. If you do know what that means, you should come. And bring your ears. Because at the end of the talk, and some hands-on experimentation yourself, your ears will understand too!
Patching your musical ear vision https://www.facebook.com/events/1699247557016810/ at Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 1PM-2 Free
March 25 Raquel!
Raquel Racquel is a show by Rachel Malin and Raque Ford, artists-in-residence at S1.
Malin has graphic elements mixed in with impressionistic figure elements. She is from Cal Long Beach and Rutgers. Ford, minted at Pratt and Rutgers mixes loose painting and cutout opaque panels as sculptural elements with a word or two. They have a psychedelic feel to me.
Their show opens tonight at S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7PM-10 Free
Malin has graphic elements mixed in with impressionistic figure elements. She is from Cal Long Beach and Rutgers. Ford, minted at Pratt and Rutgers mixes loose painting and cutout opaque panels as sculptural elements with a word or two. They have a psychedelic feel to me.
Their show opens tonight at S1, formerly Multiplex, www.s1portland.com 4148 NE Hancock Map 7PM-10 Free
Saturday, March 19, 2016
March 20 Dr Strangelove
What do nuclear weapons mean to you? They were a thing for Hiroshima & Nagasaki, then the fear of them, then not so much a thing, maybe they will be a thing again with North Korea and Iran?
For Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick they are a thing.
In the 1960s, American military bombers flew straight toward Russia 24x7 armed with nuclear weapons to attack. They turned around just before the Russian border, every day. The film Dr Strangelove is a fictionalized version.
The filmmaker's grandfather was one of those pilots.
His grandfather's plane, carrying nuclear bombs crashed in Maryland. The crash was caused by the tail of the plane breaking off, a known design flaw. He survived, walking out a snowstorm at night. The bombs did not go off.
Matt McCormick is previewing his feature film Buzz One Four about the crash and the Cold War program tonight. It's a rough cut. And he is interested in audience feedback.
At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard.7PM $10
For Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick they are a thing.
In the 1960s, American military bombers flew straight toward Russia 24x7 armed with nuclear weapons to attack. They turned around just before the Russian border, every day. The film Dr Strangelove is a fictionalized version.
The filmmaker's grandfather was one of those pilots.
His grandfather's plane, carrying nuclear bombs crashed in Maryland. The crash was caused by the tail of the plane breaking off, a known design flaw. He survived, walking out a snowstorm at night. The bombs did not go off.
Matt McCormick is previewing his feature film Buzz One Four about the crash and the Cold War program tonight. It's a rough cut. And he is interested in audience feedback.
At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard.7PM $10
Friday, March 18, 2016
March 15 - April 3 International Butoh in Little Portland
Butoh is a contemporary dance performance movement from Japan. Water in the Desert brings some top butoh artists from Japan, Germany, Mexico and the US for three weeks of classes and public performances. The classes are sold out.
The founders of butoh were men. They were in a deep experiment with themselves, their bodies and a new performance form based on nature. They could not comprehend in the early days what explorations women would make.
Natsu Nakajima became the first woman butoh collaborator with the founders at age 19. She formed her own company, Muteki-sha, at age 26. She is an early pioneer incorporating intellectually disabled individuals into performances and continues to work at age 73.
Koichi Tamano was an early principal dancer with the founder beginning about age 19. He met his wife Hiroko in the founder's butoh dance studio when she was 18. They came to the United States in the 1970's to form their own troupe Harrupin-ha and teach in Berkeley. They also operated the wild sushi restaurant, Country Station, in the Mission, pre-gentrification. He often uses an about 10 foot diameter clear plastic sphere, performing inside it, like a giant egg. He continues to work at age 70.
Diego Piñón is a new generation butoh performer who combines psychodrama, Mexican shamanism, inspiration by the landscape of Mexico and butoh.
Yumiko Yoshioka was an early member of the female butoh group Ariadone. She now operates from the international performance center Schloss Bröllin in Germany. Each year, they gather a small number of butoh performers to collaborate.
There are a series of public talks which you can register for on the Water in the Desert Website. They are free.
Wednesday, March 16th 7pm The slowing of Time in Butoh Aesthetics
Wednesday, March 23rd 7pm Rewilding the Body
Wednesday, March 30th 7pm Unpacking Our Domestication and Domination
Sunday, April 3rd 7pm The Future of Feminine through Embodiment
There are also a series of performances with the guest artists joined by Portland and Seattle dancers. They are at 8PM and tickets are available on the Water in the Desert Website. Admission is $12-18 for each.
Saturday, March 19th Natsu Nakajima will be joined by Meshi Chavez, Teresa Venderkin, Tracy Broyles and Kay MacMillan
Friday, March 25 Koichi & Hiroko Tamano will be joined by Stephanie Lanckton, Pepper Pepper and Wobbly.
Thursday, March 31 Diego Piñón will be joined by Mizu Deiserto, Douglas Allen, Christopher Mankowski and Dreaming Body.
Saturday, April 2 Yumiko Yoshioka will be joined by Mizu Deiserto, Stephanie Lanckton, Sheri Brown, Helen Thorsen and Mary Cutera.
Butoh performances www.witd.org/witd-on-stage/ at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map various dates see above
The founders of butoh were men. They were in a deep experiment with themselves, their bodies and a new performance form based on nature. They could not comprehend in the early days what explorations women would make.
Natsu Nakajima became the first woman butoh collaborator with the founders at age 19. She formed her own company, Muteki-sha, at age 26. She is an early pioneer incorporating intellectually disabled individuals into performances and continues to work at age 73.
Koichi Tamano was an early principal dancer with the founder beginning about age 19. He met his wife Hiroko in the founder's butoh dance studio when she was 18. They came to the United States in the 1970's to form their own troupe Harrupin-ha and teach in Berkeley. They also operated the wild sushi restaurant, Country Station, in the Mission, pre-gentrification. He often uses an about 10 foot diameter clear plastic sphere, performing inside it, like a giant egg. He continues to work at age 70.
Diego Piñón is a new generation butoh performer who combines psychodrama, Mexican shamanism, inspiration by the landscape of Mexico and butoh.
Yumiko Yoshioka was an early member of the female butoh group Ariadone. She now operates from the international performance center Schloss Bröllin in Germany. Each year, they gather a small number of butoh performers to collaborate.
There are a series of public talks which you can register for on the Water in the Desert Website. They are free.
Wednesday, March 16th 7pm The slowing of Time in Butoh Aesthetics
Wednesday, March 23rd 7pm Rewilding the Body
Wednesday, March 30th 7pm Unpacking Our Domestication and Domination
Sunday, April 3rd 7pm The Future of Feminine through Embodiment
There are also a series of performances with the guest artists joined by Portland and Seattle dancers. They are at 8PM and tickets are available on the Water in the Desert Website. Admission is $12-18 for each.
Saturday, March 19th Natsu Nakajima will be joined by Meshi Chavez, Teresa Venderkin, Tracy Broyles and Kay MacMillan
Friday, March 25 Koichi & Hiroko Tamano will be joined by Stephanie Lanckton, Pepper Pepper and Wobbly.
Thursday, March 31 Diego Piñón will be joined by Mizu Deiserto, Douglas Allen, Christopher Mankowski and Dreaming Body.
Saturday, April 2 Yumiko Yoshioka will be joined by Mizu Deiserto, Stephanie Lanckton, Sheri Brown, Helen Thorsen and Mary Cutera.
Butoh performances www.witd.org/witd-on-stage/ at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map various dates see above
Sunday, March 13, 2016
March 15 Sad Night Live
Winter is sad time in Portland. Let's celebrate it! Especially since we are on the upswing in solar hours. That is Sad Night Live.
Musicians Michael Hurley, Shelley Short and Dragging an Ox Through Water will sing their sad songs and writers Patrick DeWitt and Jon Raymond read sad stories.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Musicians Michael Hurley, Shelley Short and Dragging an Ox Through Water will sing their sad songs and writers Patrick DeWitt and Jon Raymond read sad stories.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Saturday, March 12, 2016
March 13 Capture or Not
Dance, like all performance, is ephemeral. It is difficult to record for vibrant experience later. It is a challenge for videomakers. It has an unusually large dynamic range in lighting, cameras are challenged to capture it. Color management is challenging. A multi camera setup is ideal. Synching across takes requires using the score as the timeline. There is a school of thought that a single long shot of the whole stage is the only way to record dance. That approach tends to be boring.
Today is an afternoon of dance videos from the 2015 Outlet Dance Project and a discussion with local videomakers Karl Lind, Wobbly Dance, SubRosa Dance Collective and more.
Discussion 3PM-4, Videos 4:30PM-6.
At Performance Works Northwest www.performanceworksnw.org 3PM-6 Free
Pure Surface, a collaborative performance between a mover, a filmmaker and a writer is back with Claire Barrera - movement, Kelly Rauer - video and A.M. O'Malley - text. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6PM, performance 7 sharp Free
Today is an afternoon of dance videos from the 2015 Outlet Dance Project and a discussion with local videomakers Karl Lind, Wobbly Dance, SubRosa Dance Collective and more.
Discussion 3PM-4, Videos 4:30PM-6.
At Performance Works Northwest www.performanceworksnw.org 3PM-6 Free
Pure Surface, a collaborative performance between a mover, a filmmaker and a writer is back with Claire Barrera - movement, Kelly Rauer - video and A.M. O'Malley - text. Pure Surface www.puresurface.info at Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny. Doors 6PM, performance 7 sharp Free
Friday, March 11, 2016
March 12 Foster Dive Music That Counts
Some would say that SE Foster Road between 50th and about 74th gets no respect. But it has been quietly sprouting creative businesses for several years.
Portland has art walks First Thursday in NW, First Friday Eastside, Second Thursday N Mississippi, Last Thursday NE Alberta. Foster joins with Second Saturdays.
They are a little disorganized on getting the information out, we are guessing it is between noon and 8. More at http://fosterpowellpdx.com/2016/03/07/foster-gets-art-walk-2-0-will-commence-saturday/ Free
Volt Divers is a monthly show of analog synth performances.
Electronic music goes back in time - see www.120years.net. Robert Moog was an early pioneer in modular analog synthesizers, beginning in 1963. Analog synthesizers use modules such as tone generators, filters, compressors, gates, modulators, samplers and sequencers. The modules are connected in the musician's choice of patch cords. They often have a keyboard and a myriad of knobs.
Each musician essentially builds their own instrument by connecting the modules with patch cord wires and setting the knobs. The instrument can be changed, and is, within and between performances.
The Volt Divers evening consists of 6-10 short performances, accompanied by live visual projections. Performers this month are: Ross Fish, Dump Shock, Rise of Necropolis, Strange Haze, Dr Strangeknob, LoFI Freq, Dweomer, Grease Envelope and E*t My Shit. The event starts on time and sells out free. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM-10 Free
Disjecta has always had a musical vector. Portland is very early in the vector of social practice art.
The social practice artists at Portland State University: Emma Colburn, Roz Crews, Amanda Leigh Evans, Emily Fitzgerald, Harrell Fletcher, Lauren Moran, Anke Schuettler, Renee Sills and Kimberly Sutherland have curated Kenton neighborhood musicians for a project opening this evening.
Musical collaborators include Zahra Ahmed, De La Salle North Catholic High School Choir, Dorian Neira and Daniel “D.J. Max” Lasuncet, Austin Green, Robin Gordon and the Celebration Tabernacle Ministry of Music, Kenton Brass, Kenton Church Choir, Shirley A. Meador, The Obo Addy Legacy Project, Peninsula School in collaboration with Caldera, Heather Perkins, André Roberson, Lisa Schonberg, Norman Sylvester and The World Famous Kenton Club.
There are musical events throughout the month.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
Emily Counts shows her sculptures tonight. Her work uses materials richly, in a step just beyond minimalism. The gallery website has a much more eloquent exposition. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
Portland has art walks First Thursday in NW, First Friday Eastside, Second Thursday N Mississippi, Last Thursday NE Alberta. Foster joins with Second Saturdays.
They are a little disorganized on getting the information out, we are guessing it is between noon and 8. More at http://fosterpowellpdx.com/2016/03/07/foster-gets-art-walk-2-0-will-commence-saturday/ Free
Volt Divers is a monthly show of analog synth performances.
Electronic music goes back in time - see www.120years.net. Robert Moog was an early pioneer in modular analog synthesizers, beginning in 1963. Analog synthesizers use modules such as tone generators, filters, compressors, gates, modulators, samplers and sequencers. The modules are connected in the musician's choice of patch cords. They often have a keyboard and a myriad of knobs.
Each musician essentially builds their own instrument by connecting the modules with patch cord wires and setting the knobs. The instrument can be changed, and is, within and between performances.
The Volt Divers evening consists of 6-10 short performances, accompanied by live visual projections. Performers this month are: Ross Fish, Dump Shock, Rise of Necropolis, Strange Haze, Dr Strangeknob, LoFI Freq, Dweomer, Grease Envelope and E*t My Shit. The event starts on time and sells out free. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM-10 Free
Disjecta has always had a musical vector. Portland is very early in the vector of social practice art.
The social practice artists at Portland State University: Emma Colburn, Roz Crews, Amanda Leigh Evans, Emily Fitzgerald, Harrell Fletcher, Lauren Moran, Anke Schuettler, Renee Sills and Kimberly Sutherland have curated Kenton neighborhood musicians for a project opening this evening.
Musical collaborators include Zahra Ahmed, De La Salle North Catholic High School Choir, Dorian Neira and Daniel “D.J. Max” Lasuncet, Austin Green, Robin Gordon and the Celebration Tabernacle Ministry of Music, Kenton Brass, Kenton Church Choir, Shirley A. Meador, The Obo Addy Legacy Project, Peninsula School in collaboration with Caldera, Heather Perkins, André Roberson, Lisa Schonberg, Norman Sylvester and The World Famous Kenton Club.
There are musical events throughout the month.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
Emily Counts shows her sculptures tonight. Her work uses materials richly, in a step just beyond minimalism. The gallery website has a much more eloquent exposition. At Carl & Sloan Contemporary www.carlsloan.com in the Disjecta building. 8371 N Interstate Ave #1 Map 6PM-10 Free
March 11 Make Fourteen Published Objectives
Portland has a healthy maker movement. It is not all dedicated to art. Tonight a new maker space opens, Hedron Technology. You can find all about them at www.hedron.technology. Opening at Manifestation 2020 SE Bush 7PM-10 Free
Jon Raymond drops a new book of collected portland art writings tonight. Covering 1997 to 2016, The Community, will be presented in a reception tonight. At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 7:30PM-9 Free
Fourteen30 has a show by Julia Haft-Candell, Kristan Kennedy and Evan La Londe. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8 Free
HQ Objective is sprung from PNCA. Tonight current PNCA student Joseph McGehee has a performance or other as part of a class project, Hot Pants. At Fortune Gallery & Press, formerly HQHQ Objective, www.hqobjective.org 2235 W Burnside 6PM-9 Free
As previously mentioned To pick up what we set down, the installation by Maggie Heath, has a performance tonight at 8. At Composition Gallery www.facebook.com/compositiongallery 625 N.W. Everett St., #102 (mid-block on NW6th) 7PM-9 Free
Jon Raymond drops a new book of collected portland art writings tonight. Covering 1997 to 2016, The Community, will be presented in a reception tonight. At Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz 717 SW Ankeny Map 7:30PM-9 Free
Fourteen30 has a show by Julia Haft-Candell, Kristan Kennedy and Evan La Londe. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8 Free
HQ Objective is sprung from PNCA. Tonight current PNCA student Joseph McGehee has a performance or other as part of a class project, Hot Pants. At Fortune Gallery & Press, formerly HQHQ Objective, www.hqobjective.org 2235 W Burnside 6PM-9 Free
As previously mentioned To pick up what we set down, the installation by Maggie Heath, has a performance tonight at 8. At Composition Gallery www.facebook.com/compositiongallery 625 N.W. Everett St., #102 (mid-block on NW6th) 7PM-9 Free
Sunday, March 06, 2016
March 7 Spring Buds
Spring Buds is a timely painting show by Lora Baize, Annie McLaughlin and Claire Redman. We like the curatorial spirit at Nationale. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-6 Free
Friday, March 04, 2016
March 5 Edit Ritual Identity
The PDX Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit Party is a fun thing you can do today. Wikipedia is crowd sourced, and the crowd can be you! A lot of yous will be sitting down all day, or drop in and out as you like, to work on improving Wikipedia articles on art, artists and feminism. You can find out all the things at www.facebook.com/events/1107483612616621/. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 10AM-5PM Free
Lucien Shapiro is an Oakland artist. He constructs costumes and ritual objects from consumer waste. Then he performs with them live and on video as his own personal voodoo.
Many cultures today incorporate masks, ritual objects and ceremony. Many more lost cultures assuredly did too.
There is a much more detailed description of the work on the artist's website.
At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th second floor. Map 6PM-9
Menorah Horwitz is an artist resident at Rainmaker. Miss U.S. of Heya is her graphic novel about a future beauty pageant with only one rule, be fabulous! Reception and performance. www.facebook.com/events/1653410058257136/ 6PM-9
Lucien Shapiro is an Oakland artist. He constructs costumes and ritual objects from consumer waste. Then he performs with them live and on video as his own personal voodoo.
Many cultures today incorporate masks, ritual objects and ceremony. Many more lost cultures assuredly did too.
There is a much more detailed description of the work on the artist's website.
At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th second floor. Map 6PM-9
Menorah Horwitz is an artist resident at Rainmaker. Miss U.S. of Heya is her graphic novel about a future beauty pageant with only one rule, be fabulous! Reception and performance. www.facebook.com/events/1653410058257136/ 6PM-9
March 4 Eastside Art Openings
Per Schumann and Zefrey Throwell present Innenraum, installation, video and social practice. At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-9 Free
Newspace Photo has a show by its members. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
David Bray has Amateur Occult Club, flat naive style schematic figures. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
Forest for the Trees is a ceramics show by Ted Vogel and Jeff Irwin inspired by patterns in nature. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Newspace Photo has a show by its members. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
David Bray has Amateur Occult Club, flat naive style schematic figures. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
Forest for the Trees is a ceramics show by Ted Vogel and Jeff Irwin inspired by patterns in nature. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, March 03, 2016
March 4-5 La Centenare
Eunice Parsons turns 100 this year. She continues to make collages in her Portland studio. She moved to Portland at age 22, cofounded the 12×16 Gallery and taught at the Museum Art School between 1957 and 1979, before it became PNCA. The show includes her collages and a photographic portrait of her in a cloak covered in her collages. On Saturday, the artist will be present for a reception in the afternoon. Eunice Parsons www.rollupspace.com/exhibition/eunice-parsons-la-centenaire/ at the Roll Up Space www.rollupspace.com, a studio-gallery in a residential garage 1715 SE Spokane. 6PM-9 Friday, 2PM-5 Saturday. Free
March 4 Brain on Energy
Amory Lovins studied the intersection of energy, physics and economics at Harvard and Oxford. He was the first to bring back to earth inflated and costly plans to build hundreds of new power plants. His thesis, resisted mightily by electric utilities in the time, has proved true: energy efficiency is more cost effective than endless growth in generation and mining fossil fuels. Loving speaks today on Disruptive Oil and Electricity Futures. He has successfully disrupted them before, and continues to do so today. Amory Lovins speaks www.reed.edu/events/posts/2015-16/lecture-amory-lovins.html at in the Vollum Lecture Hall at Reed College 3203 Southeast Woodstock Noon Free
March 3 Westside Art Openings
Illustrator printmaker Sarah Horowitz has Lepidoptera, from her study of the University of Oregon collection of moth specimens. Recommended. Painter and printmaker Tom Prochaska has Baulmes, inspired by the Swiss town he lived in for a time at age 10 and to which he returned to visit. Both artists speak about their work Saturday at 11AM At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Variable States: Print Now is a show of 8 printmakers whose process has been updated by technology. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Jenene Nagy has Mass - abstract geometric charcoal on paper work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Christine Bourdette has Drawing to Planet Earth, finely detailed drawings that remind of Western geological landscapes. Also showing are bright abstracts from Charlene Liu. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
To pick up what we set down is an installation by Maggie Heath. It opens this evening. On March 11, DieAna Dae performs with the work at 8. Heath is one half of the Bronco Gallery, so worth a look to see her thinking solo. At Composition Gallery www.facebook.com/compositiongallery 625 N.W. Everett St., #102 (mid-block on NW6th) 6PM-9 Free
Paccarik Orue has El Muqui, photographs of the city Cerro de Pasco, Peru. The town is being consumed by an open pit mine as its residents profit from its expansion and are cursed by its lead poisoning. Azimuth: Terrain and Direction: Deciphering the West are photographs by William Binzen. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Nature is a Metaphor is a print show with Raymond Arnold, Jonnel Covault, Nancy Friese, Etsuko Fuzuki, Gary Groves, James Lavadour, Nancy Macko, Ryan Pierce, Rita Robillard, Christy Wyckoff and Koichi Yamamoto. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Honey Honey is a show of surreal illustration art by Amandine Urruty. She is an artist in the Hellion-curated Tall Trees of Paris project to uncover compelling artists. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free
The Museum of Contemporary Craft closes this month. This will be their last Free First Thursday. Some of the current show like the CARPA show will move to PNCA. At the www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing in Winter is 9ish
Variable States: Print Now is a show of 8 printmakers whose process has been updated by technology. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Jenene Nagy has Mass - abstract geometric charcoal on paper work. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Christine Bourdette has Drawing to Planet Earth, finely detailed drawings that remind of Western geological landscapes. Also showing are bright abstracts from Charlene Liu. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
To pick up what we set down is an installation by Maggie Heath. It opens this evening. On March 11, DieAna Dae performs with the work at 8. Heath is one half of the Bronco Gallery, so worth a look to see her thinking solo. At Composition Gallery www.facebook.com/compositiongallery 625 N.W. Everett St., #102 (mid-block on NW6th) 6PM-9 Free
Paccarik Orue has El Muqui, photographs of the city Cerro de Pasco, Peru. The town is being consumed by an open pit mine as its residents profit from its expansion and are cursed by its lead poisoning. Azimuth: Terrain and Direction: Deciphering the West are photographs by William Binzen. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Nature is a Metaphor is a print show with Raymond Arnold, Jonnel Covault, Nancy Friese, Etsuko Fuzuki, Gary Groves, James Lavadour, Nancy Macko, Ryan Pierce, Rita Robillard, Christy Wyckoff and Koichi Yamamoto. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8 Free
Honey Honey is a show of surreal illustration art by Amandine Urruty. She is an artist in the Hellion-curated Tall Trees of Paris project to uncover compelling artists. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style. 19 NW 5th second floor. Map 7PM-10 Free
The Museum of Contemporary Craft closes this month. This will be their last Free First Thursday. Some of the current show like the CARPA show will move to PNCA. At the www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing in Winter is 9ish
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
March 2-6 Reed Remains Raw
Reed Arts Week, RAW, runs today through Sunday. It is a student-curated and student-run look at the state of art. You can see the entire schedule at http://www.reed.edu/raw/2016/ Reed Arts Week at Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
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