Modou Dieng is moving Worksound to mobile. His curatorial work will now be found around the city in a variety of spaces. He is closing the 820 Alder fixed location version of Worksound August 30th.
Over 5 years, he has shown international, national and local artists. Most were group shows and many artists used his 820 space for installations. He also hosted residencies and collaborations between artists, writers and curators.
The last show is Tim Sullivan and Chris Corrente from San Francisco plus Carl Diehl, Cris Moss and Hannah Piper Burns from Portland.
At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 7PM-10
PNCA's Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies opens their studios tonight. You are welcome to stop by to see the work and chat with the artists. At PNCA www.pnca.edu, in the Stevens Studios 1432 N.W. Johnson 5PM-8
Carlos Gonzalez presents his performance tonight What Goes Up Must Come Down at Recess Gallery. Unlike many descriptions of shows, this one makes sense:
"The stairway is used as a metaphor of achievement or loss of station. It’s a widespread, spatially-oriented metaphor for hierarchy in democratic society. ‘Climbing the social ladder’, we continue to gage our social status on our vertical mobility up or down the steps. In a performance designed for the space, Gonzalez narrates this anxiety with movement influenced by the physical structure of stairs and others. This movement mirrors the rapid fluidity between success and loss in a goal-oriented atmosphere.
Carlos presents intimate performances that explore barriers and secret byways of communication. Examining the knot of personal identity through abstracted acts of sport, Gonzalez offers his body as a source and site of meaning, thereby making physical the semiotic barriers that criss-cross daily existence."
At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map Doors 8PM, performance 9
