For your lovely Summer Saturday you may find beautiful things.
Stephanie Simek is a sculptor. At False Front, she showed her famous vinyl record player in which the record was a stack, decreasing in diameter bottom, to top, with each platter having its own tone arm, played symultaneously. I think in that show was a vintage video of synchronized swimmers where light sensors across the projection screen triggered a synthesizer. Today brings Binnenstebuiten (whole #33), 33 of a series of sculptures. 1-32 were a pattern of cross sections presented as one work. For this, Jordan Dykstra provides a soundtrack.
Be sure to notice Bruce Conkle's Killing Me Softly sculpture
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 8PM-10 Free
Korean artist in Portland Hyun Jung Jung brings The Way Home 집으로 가는 길.
"Hyun Jung Jung reflects on how she is learning to embrace the grey areas of becoming an immigrant by visualizing the uncertain belongings and blurred memories.
While living in America, Jung was often in denial of the interwoven self that she was becoming, because it felt like she was giving up on the Korean identity. But over time, she has learned the fluidity of how these cultures merge and coexist to inform one another in her.
Living far from her motherland, Jung often ponders what Korean-ness means to her. In this search, she has been continuously revisiting her childhood moments, the years she lived in Korea. One example includes learning about her past through looking at old photographs from her childhood. Although she does not have memories from some of these early days, the images bring emotional reactions, reminding her that these moments are still at her core, grounding her."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sobre o anseio, o gesto, o grito. Regarding the wish, the gesture, the shout… opens.
The artist is Marcelo Fontana from Brazil, now Portland, with collaborator Gian Gigi Spina and text by Chris Ticas.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Katherine Spinella and John Whitten present Windblown, Sand, and Sun. It is their account of visiting Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. They are part of the Thunderstruck Collective. Their travelogue is 6. The 26 minute "making of Sun Tunnels" from 1978 is on loop.
Sun Tunnels https://umfa.utah.edu/sun-tunnels is a remote work on the land from the era of land art. It is in the region of the Spiral Jetty, I have visited, by her partner Robert Smithson https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/robert-smithson-spiral-jetty. Both are conserved by the Dia Foundation. They are a remote road trip. You can camp there.
Friend, many know, Matt McCormick, visited Sun Tunnel,s and related his story. He was a longtime volunteer with the animal shelter, walking dogs on days when no one came. He traveled there with one of the shelter dogs he adopted. Let out of the vehicle, the dog took off running. It was an intense moment, but the dog came back.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
For your +1 I have an interest in modern dance, and unusual dance like butoh. There is a big anniversary happening at the famous Performance Works Northwest you should look up. Of interest to me is Public Nature project by Danielle Ross https://www.daniellerossperformance.com/about. Three artists who have not previously worked together, a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, collaborate for a one time performance.
Tonight it is Tom DeBeauchamp (text), Juniana Lanning w/ special guest dancer (sound), and Midnight Variety Hour (performance).
Public Nature at Performance Works NW 4625 SE 67th 5:45PM doors, show 6 believe $15/donation
