The Curiosity Club hosts Dr. Charles Boardman speaking on endoscopy. Endoscopes are viewing devices which can be used to see inside the body. They are usually tubes and they usually are used to see inside the tubes that are our respiratory, digestive and circulatory systems, or they are introduced into bulk tissue, including for endoscopic surgery. Dr Boardman has many other curious interests as you can read in the event link. www.handeyesupply.com/blogs/curiosityclub/12531293-charles-boardman-ohsu-04-29-14, A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
UO has a photography lecture Photography Shoots Itself: The Objectification of the Photograph from Jiro Takamatsu to Camille Henrot. The speaker is Michael Darling, noted museum contemporary curator operating in Seattle, LA and Chicago. aaa.uoregon.edu/conversations. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch. 5:00PM Reception, 5:30 Talk Free
Holocene and PNCA have teamed up for an evening which you can read about on their respective websites. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM-late Free
Monday, April 28, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
April 27 Surplus Research
The Research Club is taking a more entrepreneurial bent. The friendly and interesting potlucks continue. Bring food, drink and your own plate cup and utensils please. The Research Club www.research-club.org at Flux Hackerspace, 412 NW Couch #222. Buzz the doorbell and go straight up the big stairs. Noon-2 Free
Surplus Space, created by Gabe Flores post Place opens drawings and installations by Daniel Duford and Caitlin Rose Sweet respectively. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9plus Space 6PM-9
Surplus Space, created by Gabe Flores post Place opens drawings and installations by Daniel Duford and Caitlin Rose Sweet respectively. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9plus Space 6PM-9
Saturday, April 26, 2014
April 26 J+Dance
We are excited about the potential of Yu. They have been reaching, curating, international artists. Too early to see where they land. But landing there tonight is Japanese artist Yuji Agematsu who makes mixed media work of found, often natural, objects gathered from streets. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6
Flock is a new group of modern dancers and their studio in the Disjecta building. They open their space tonight with movement and a video work by Kelly Rauer. Meanwhile in big Disjecta, the Oregon Biennial has their closing party. Flock www.flockpdx.com at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM-10 Free
Flock is a new group of modern dancers and their studio in the Disjecta building. They open their space tonight with movement and a video work by Kelly Rauer. Meanwhile in big Disjecta, the Oregon Biennial has their closing party. Flock www.flockpdx.com at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 7PM-10 Free
Sunday, April 20, 2014
April 20 Sun Propeller
Huun Huur Tu, Хүн Хүртү, translated as sun propeller, is a group of singers from Tuva who have been bringing the music of their region to the outer world. They bring it to Portland tonight. Tuvan throat singing establishes a resonance which allows the singer to sing more than one note simultaneously. If you enjoy the diversity of music the world offers, you will find a jewel tonight, amid a sizable community of Portland enthusiasts. Huun Huur Tu at the Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta. Doors 7PM, show 8. 7:00 $25 advance, $28 door
Thursday, April 17, 2014
April 19 Obsession Velocity Broadcast
Richard Tracy, RichArt is an outsider artist in the Raw Vision tradition. He lives in Centralia, Washington, where he has transformed his yard into a fantastical installation. Over 30 years he has built a beautiful thing. He gives 55 minute tours to visitors for $5. Sadly his Art Yard was dismantled in 2013, but not before it was captured by filmmaker Vanessa Renwick who befriended the artist. Tonight his works on paper will be shown in the gallery and Renwick will screen a short film about the artist. Cellist Lori Goldston also performs.
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Filmed by Bike is one of Portland's great seasonal bike confabs. 45 films show over three days. Saturday 4PM-9:30 is the bike street party. There is storytelling, adventure night and raffles. Filmed by Bike www.filmedbybike.org at the Clinton Street Theater 26th and SE Clinton. Saturday films 5PM, 7, 9; Sunday 3, 5, 7; Monday 7l Tuesday 6, 8. $10 individual films, $30 pass
Many people consider broadcast television, really broadcast of any kind, including print, a thing of the past. Public television, especially the BBC, is better. But in the US, public television is struggling to capture new audiences. Nonetheless, public television, and Oregon public television, does some things well. One is a series on Oregon artists. With a broad audience, public television takes a broad view of art. But that broad view has captured a few artists that interest us.
Their production is Oregon Art Beat, documenting 15 years of artists. For two months, they show visual artists and present live performances by 15 years of artists. In a mall. Very broad minded and without controversy.
You can see the performance schedule at www.opb.org/artsandlife/event/oregon-art-beat-exhibition-performance-schedule/.
Oregon Arts Beat retrospective www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/oregon-art-beat-exhibition-celebrates-15-years-of-creativity/ at Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com and the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 2PM-9 Free
At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM-10 Free
Filmed by Bike is one of Portland's great seasonal bike confabs. 45 films show over three days. Saturday 4PM-9:30 is the bike street party. There is storytelling, adventure night and raffles. Filmed by Bike www.filmedbybike.org at the Clinton Street Theater 26th and SE Clinton. Saturday films 5PM, 7, 9; Sunday 3, 5, 7; Monday 7l Tuesday 6, 8. $10 individual films, $30 pass
Many people consider broadcast television, really broadcast of any kind, including print, a thing of the past. Public television, especially the BBC, is better. But in the US, public television is struggling to capture new audiences. Nonetheless, public television, and Oregon public television, does some things well. One is a series on Oregon artists. With a broad audience, public television takes a broad view of art. But that broad view has captured a few artists that interest us.
Their production is Oregon Art Beat, documenting 15 years of artists. For two months, they show visual artists and present live performances by 15 years of artists. In a mall. Very broad minded and without controversy.
You can see the performance schedule at www.opb.org/artsandlife/event/oregon-art-beat-exhibition-performance-schedule/.
Oregon Arts Beat retrospective www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/oregon-art-beat-exhibition-celebrates-15-years-of-creativity/ at Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com and the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 2PM-9 Free
April 18-19 Butoh in Portland, US, North America, World
On May 24, fifty five years ago, butoh dance was birthed by Tatsumi Hijikata in Daiichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Trained in European modern dance and ballet, Hijikata was part of a rebellious nationalist movement joined by artists occupying the streets of Japan. The piece was inspired by a homoerotic novel by Mishima of the same name, Forbidden Colors.
Since butoh has spread worldwide. It is an improvisational form, so each culture, and each individual brings their own spirit. One is Diego Piñón from Mexico. Piñón has studied with Kazuo Ohno, Hijikata's early collaborator, who performed into his 90's, Min Tanaka, famous for wild performances by students working on his rice farm, and Natsu Nakajima, one of the first female butoh performers. The influences of each are evident in Piñón's work. He also brings a relationship with the landscape, nature and shamanistic traditions of his homeland.
Piñón travels internationally performing. Over years he has attracted students who perform in his ensemble under the umbrella Body Ritual Movement. Tonight Sheri Brown, Amelia Burns, Leslie Castellano, Mizu Desierto, Nathan Montgomery, Christopher Mankowski, & Kevin Cochran, many of whom have worked with Piñón for more than ten years join him on stage.
Diego Piñón and Body Ritual Movement at the Headwaters Theater - information and tickets link: www.witd.org/service/diego-pinon-and-the-brm-dance-ensemble/diego-pinons-north-american-brm-dance-ensemble/, 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7:30PM. Students $12, $15
Since butoh has spread worldwide. It is an improvisational form, so each culture, and each individual brings their own spirit. One is Diego Piñón from Mexico. Piñón has studied with Kazuo Ohno, Hijikata's early collaborator, who performed into his 90's, Min Tanaka, famous for wild performances by students working on his rice farm, and Natsu Nakajima, one of the first female butoh performers. The influences of each are evident in Piñón's work. He also brings a relationship with the landscape, nature and shamanistic traditions of his homeland.
Piñón travels internationally performing. Over years he has attracted students who perform in his ensemble under the umbrella Body Ritual Movement. Tonight Sheri Brown, Amelia Burns, Leslie Castellano, Mizu Desierto, Nathan Montgomery, Christopher Mankowski, & Kevin Cochran, many of whom have worked with Piñón for more than ten years join him on stage.
Diego Piñón and Body Ritual Movement at the Headwaters Theater - information and tickets link: www.witd.org/service/diego-pinon-and-the-brm-dance-ensemble/diego-pinons-north-american-brm-dance-ensemble/, 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7:30PM. Students $12, $15
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
April 17 Whither Society?
Photolucida is an international curation and art photographer resource based in Portland. Tonight they bring photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield to present her work.
Cultural processes sometimes produce extremes which are not in accord with human values. A certain direction, value or behavior can be amplified, becoming its own end, unteathered. Greenfield is noted for her photography of young women, the societal psychodynamics of beauty, and her documentary Thin. She continuously seeks new moving documentary and still photography projects focused on individuals in relation to common social narratives. Her topic tonight is "From Gordon Gekko to The Queen of Versailles: A journey in pictures, film, and culture", including an exploration of her documentary on an extreme example of the 2008 financial bubble.
Photolucida at the W+K atrium. RSVP required info (at) photolucida.org. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 7PM Free
The other event tonight is Happening#12 organized by the PSU Time Art Club. It's a sprawling Spring rain edition with live music by step kid and Ch2, video by Riley King, Isaac Fletcher Weiss & Tim Ferrell, diva runway for Frankie Knuckles by Manny Layers, Two-Minute Party by Stephanie J. Brachmann, live painting by Leif J. Lee, installations by Annalise Reinhardt & Kayleigh Nelson and performances by LICHI & Jah Justice. Time Arts Club www.facebook.com/TimeArtsClub. All ages. In the PSU Art Building parking garage SW 5th and Jackson. 7PM-9 Free
Cultural processes sometimes produce extremes which are not in accord with human values. A certain direction, value or behavior can be amplified, becoming its own end, unteathered. Greenfield is noted for her photography of young women, the societal psychodynamics of beauty, and her documentary Thin. She continuously seeks new moving documentary and still photography projects focused on individuals in relation to common social narratives. Her topic tonight is "From Gordon Gekko to The Queen of Versailles: A journey in pictures, film, and culture", including an exploration of her documentary on an extreme example of the 2008 financial bubble.
Photolucida at the W+K atrium. RSVP required info (at) photolucida.org. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 7PM Free
The other event tonight is Happening#12 organized by the PSU Time Art Club. It's a sprawling Spring rain edition with live music by step kid and Ch2, video by Riley King, Isaac Fletcher Weiss & Tim Ferrell, diva runway for Frankie Knuckles by Manny Layers, Two-Minute Party by Stephanie J. Brachmann, live painting by Leif J. Lee, installations by Annalise Reinhardt & Kayleigh Nelson and performances by LICHI & Jah Justice. Time Arts Club www.facebook.com/TimeArtsClub. All ages. In the PSU Art Building parking garage SW 5th and Jackson. 7PM-9 Free
Sunday, April 13, 2014
April 14 Sun Tube
Getting to Know You(Tube) has collections by Jessica Hickey, Stacey Tran and Briar Levit At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5
Saturday, April 12, 2014
April 13 Northwest Migrations
Vanessa Renwick is a filmmaker, installationist and provocateur. She has a great rich history of work. One of the themes of her work has been the fauna of the Northwest. This show is centered around birds. She has made a video of the vaux swifts, scored by Sam Coomes, and projections of a loon, a snowy owl, a raven, a woodpecker and a peregrine. She will give a gallery talk May 8 at 12:30PM. At the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map Noon-3 Free
Friday, April 04, 2014
April 4 Eastside Art Openings
Collage with squares arranged according to the laws of chance is a show by Michael Dopp, Rachel Foullon, Israel Lund, Niall Macdonald, Brian Sharp, Josh Tonsfeldt. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
Redux is back with a new curator and show of printmakers Adam Burke and Noelle Barce. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30
Black Box has Grayscale, monochrome photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Grays the Mountain Sends and Roll on Columbia is a show at Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Go big or is a show at Homeland. Many studios in the building are also open tonight. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Redux is back with a new curator and show of printmakers Adam Burke and Noelle Barce. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9:30
Black Box has Grayscale, monochrome photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Grays the Mountain Sends and Roll on Columbia is a show at Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Go big or is a show at Homeland. Many studios in the building are also open tonight. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
April 3 Westside Art Openings
Hellion has a show themed around the Portland collection of artists curated into the book Tall Trees of Portland. Matt Wagner, gallery principal, summarizes his curatorial philosophy in a Creative Mornings video. He is too humble. One of his projects is to uncover the tall trees: artists in select cities who are taking risks beyond others, and taking risks that reward. The meme comes from Japan where taking those risks is highly discouraged. He has found artistic risk takers in Tokyo, now Portland, in progress, Rio. Tonight is the Portland book debut with artists AJ Fosik, JShea, Zach Johnsen, Meredith Dittmar, Souther Salazar, Jennifer Parks, Amy Ruppel, Keith Carter, Peter Gronquist, Bradley Delay, Blaine Fontana, Tripper Dungan, Stephanie Buer, Brett Superstar, Brin Levinson, Cole Gerst, Craig Thompson, Ryan Bubnis, Josh Keyes, Ren Sakurai, Jason Graham, Jen Lobo, Martin Ontiveros, Keegan Onefoot, Maryanna Hoggat, Morgaine Faye, APAK, Neil Perry, Susannah Kelly and Jon MacNair, all featured in the book. Tall Trees 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 Suite 208. Map 7PM-10 Free
Eva Lake is the artist's artist and accomplished cultural explorer with a solid geometric painting practice and stunning collages. She also propels smart discussion of Portland art in a radio show podcast. Augen has represented her geometric op art paintings using vibratory color contrasts, and now they dip into her collage. There are two bodies, Targets and Anonymous Woman. I did suggest she take some of her work into commercial reuse, and she declined that cup, wisely. But just saying, buy now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Tom Prochaska is a printmaker and painter. His impressionistic figures have a resonance hard to describe. See if you agree. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Lee Kelly is a long time Portland sculptor. Sculpture you can store outside for eons is less popular currently in an era of ephemera. Welding stainless is not for the feint of heart but Kelly is not feint of heart. Nonetheless worth contemplating his era, what comes and what lasts. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Patricia Galagan has Objects of Desire, portraits in Havana 2011 of individuals situated with items they selected as being their most meaningful. In many cases that was people not things. Shows with Craig Hickman. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
We cast a jaundiced eye on pop culture sampling in art. So the frame of this listing is keep Portland weird. Floating World has invited artists to sample an early 1990's network television series, Twin Peaks, set in Northwest, USA, planet earth. You can see how weird at Floating World Comics www.floatingworldcomics.com 400 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Shohei Takasak has a show of energistic illustration-style work. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Portland is living on the fault line. The big one is a few miles out to sea, but it will destroy us. The other is our volcanic bud Hood which could erupt and destroy us. So the show, Dig: A Tectonic Art Show, may be relevant. Don't recognize any, but as always have your own experience. At Pond Gallery pondpdx.com 920 W Burnside 5PM-11
Some say that the journey of a thousand miles (li) begins with a single step. That was the philosophy of John Muir who walked from Indiana to Florida, from San Francisco to Yosemite, and in the Sierras. Migrations and documented explorations on foot, supported and not, have been equally epic. And so is the experience of Arthur Hitchcock who walked over 170 days from California to Maine. You can see photographs of opening tonight. At The Good Mod 1313 W Burnside 4th floor. 7PM-9 Free i
Upfor has Tim Flowers and Rebecca Ripple. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Expanse is a new installation by Marissa Green of cut paper geometries. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
Fight clubs gained name from a novel, but boxing clubs and variants go back; way. Photographer Jim Lommasson has traveled around the country photographing them. He shows American Fight Clubs at a private business Cargill Communications 819 NW Glisan. It is open tonight, but otherwise by appointment only in the month of April (503 939-1939). 6PM-8 Free
Grace Weston makes miniature scenes and photographs them with lensbaby-angles. Her latest is Unfamiliar Faces from a series Neo Noir. The work is inspired by film genres noir, pulp and spy. She speaks at the gallery April 13, 11AM. Grace Weston at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 424 NW 12th 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 ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
Eva Lake is the artist's artist and accomplished cultural explorer with a solid geometric painting practice and stunning collages. She also propels smart discussion of Portland art in a radio show podcast. Augen has represented her geometric op art paintings using vibratory color contrasts, and now they dip into her collage. There are two bodies, Targets and Anonymous Woman. I did suggest she take some of her work into commercial reuse, and she declined that cup, wisely. But just saying, buy now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Tom Prochaska is a printmaker and painter. His impressionistic figures have a resonance hard to describe. See if you agree. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis
Lee Kelly is a long time Portland sculptor. Sculpture you can store outside for eons is less popular currently in an era of ephemera. Welding stainless is not for the feint of heart but Kelly is not feint of heart. Nonetheless worth contemplating his era, what comes and what lasts. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Patricia Galagan has Objects of Desire, portraits in Havana 2011 of individuals situated with items they selected as being their most meaningful. In many cases that was people not things. Shows with Craig Hickman. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
We cast a jaundiced eye on pop culture sampling in art. So the frame of this listing is keep Portland weird. Floating World has invited artists to sample an early 1990's network television series, Twin Peaks, set in Northwest, USA, planet earth. You can see how weird at Floating World Comics www.floatingworldcomics.com 400 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Shohei Takasak has a show of energistic illustration-style work. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Portland is living on the fault line. The big one is a few miles out to sea, but it will destroy us. The other is our volcanic bud Hood which could erupt and destroy us. So the show, Dig: A Tectonic Art Show, may be relevant. Don't recognize any, but as always have your own experience. At Pond Gallery pondpdx.com 920 W Burnside 5PM-11
Some say that the journey of a thousand miles (li) begins with a single step. That was the philosophy of John Muir who walked from Indiana to Florida, from San Francisco to Yosemite, and in the Sierras. Migrations and documented explorations on foot, supported and not, have been equally epic. And so is the experience of Arthur Hitchcock who walked over 170 days from California to Maine. You can see photographs of opening tonight. At The Good Mod 1313 W Burnside 4th floor. 7PM-9 Free i
Upfor has Tim Flowers and Rebecca Ripple. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Expanse is a new installation by Marissa Green of cut paper geometries. At Duplex Collective www.duplexcollective.com 219 NW Couch 6PM-9
Fight clubs gained name from a novel, but boxing clubs and variants go back; way. Photographer Jim Lommasson has traveled around the country photographing them. He shows American Fight Clubs at a private business Cargill Communications 819 NW Glisan. It is open tonight, but otherwise by appointment only in the month of April (503 939-1939). 6PM-8 Free
Grace Weston makes miniature scenes and photographs them with lensbaby-angles. Her latest is Unfamiliar Faces from a series Neo Noir. The work is inspired by film genres noir, pulp and spy. She speaks at the gallery April 13, 11AM. Grace Weston at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 424 NW 12th 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 ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
April 2 Ducks, Dolls & Robots: a Genealogy of Socio-Technical Anxieties
This blog is mostly about visual art. Sometimes performance. Art and performance interesting to us and maybe to you. But we sometimes dip into other events which may be interesting to you too.
Ethnography and anthropology applied to current time are in my toolkit. Those tools of mine are well worn. One of the uses for that type of tool is the coadaption of people to change. Technology is its own self-generating change agent. The response of individuals to that change is the topic of a talk tonight.
Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist who leads a team of anthropologists who study how people use technology, and how they might use future technology. You can find many videos of her talks by search.
Tonight she speaks about about technology anxiety and coping in a talk - Ducks, Dolls & Robots: a Genealogy of Socio-Technical Anxieties. We will see if she taps narrative as a coping tool.
The talk is at Puppet Labs (thanks Puppet Labs!) 926 NW 13th 2nd floor. Arrive early event could reach capacity. Doors 6:30PM, intro 7, talk follows. $5
Ethnography and anthropology applied to current time are in my toolkit. Those tools of mine are well worn. One of the uses for that type of tool is the coadaption of people to change. Technology is its own self-generating change agent. The response of individuals to that change is the topic of a talk tonight.
Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist who leads a team of anthropologists who study how people use technology, and how they might use future technology. You can find many videos of her talks by search.
Tonight she speaks about about technology anxiety and coping in a talk - Ducks, Dolls & Robots: a Genealogy of Socio-Technical Anxieties. We will see if she taps narrative as a coping tool.
The talk is at Puppet Labs (thanks Puppet Labs!) 926 NW 13th 2nd floor. Arrive early event could reach capacity. Doors 6:30PM, intro 7, talk follows. $5
Saturday, March 29, 2014
March 30 Research Place is No Place
The contemporary gallery Place in the mall closes tonight. Borne of the recession of shopping, the gallery occupied a mall. Over the lifecycle of Place, there were many stellar shows. With those shows, it has been a place for creative thinkers to compare notes. While the closing is regrettable, all good things must come to an end. It is an fine excellent dénouement. At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW Fifth. 2PM-5 Free
Join, bring, eat Research Club brunch. It's a creative potluck brunch with a few creative talks. This afternoon XRAY.FM and The Black Portlanders chat about their creative projects. Bring food, drink and your own plate cup and utensils please. The Research Club www.research-club.org at Flux Hackerspace, 412 NW Couch #222. Buzz the doorbell and go straight up the big stairs. Noon-2 Free
Join, bring, eat Research Club brunch. It's a creative potluck brunch with a few creative talks. This afternoon XRAY.FM and The Black Portlanders chat about their creative projects. Bring food, drink and your own plate cup and utensils please. The Research Club www.research-club.org at Flux Hackerspace, 412 NW Couch #222. Buzz the doorbell and go straight up the big stairs. Noon-2 Free
March 29 The Ice Man Goeth
Usually we do not note school galleries. Some, like Linfield College in Mcminville and the UO museum in Eugene are consistently excellent. PCC Cascade and Sylvania have cycles, as does Clark College in Vancouver. Reed often pulls stunners. We count on other other blogs to cover. We cover UO Portland because they are excellent and you can bike.
But a little trafficked photography gallery is on the menu this month. And they are not a drive.
The Camerawork Gallery is downstairs Peterson Hall at Linfield College Nursing Campus. This month they have a National Geographic-landscape photographer, Camille Seaman with The Last Iceberg.
It is the type of photography foreign to the art world because it is commissioned. The travel costs are high and the time involved is substantial. As art, this type of landscape photography struggles with a one note chord of beauty.
But this material is an important topic. We are all for beauty in art and these are beautiful. Very. They also have a very heavy narrative which art likes.
Seaman has photographed icebergs afloat. Icebergs separate from the ice floes and glaciers covering Greenland, parts of Alaska and Antarctica. Smaller ones are pieces of the Arctic sea ice - the vast ocean around the North Pole.
Explorers for oil and gas, as well as seabed minerals, are in hot pursuit of drilling all those places. Without ice it would be significantly easier. Their devils' handiwork is the destruction of that ice and other externalities to the detriment of life. And we are all complicit in our use of energy.
Other artists have approached the topic including Susan Robb with her proposed Sea Ice Life Boat. Here is new research result of loss of ice from satellite earth studies.
You can see Seaman's work at Camerawork Gallery www.TheCameraworkGallery.org, Linfield College Nursing Campus Peterson Hall, 2255 NW Northrup. See the website for hours. Free
But a little trafficked photography gallery is on the menu this month. And they are not a drive.
The Camerawork Gallery is downstairs Peterson Hall at Linfield College Nursing Campus. This month they have a National Geographic-landscape photographer, Camille Seaman with The Last Iceberg.
It is the type of photography foreign to the art world because it is commissioned. The travel costs are high and the time involved is substantial. As art, this type of landscape photography struggles with a one note chord of beauty.
But this material is an important topic. We are all for beauty in art and these are beautiful. Very. They also have a very heavy narrative which art likes.
Seaman has photographed icebergs afloat. Icebergs separate from the ice floes and glaciers covering Greenland, parts of Alaska and Antarctica. Smaller ones are pieces of the Arctic sea ice - the vast ocean around the North Pole.
Explorers for oil and gas, as well as seabed minerals, are in hot pursuit of drilling all those places. Without ice it would be significantly easier. Their devils' handiwork is the destruction of that ice and other externalities to the detriment of life. And we are all complicit in our use of energy.
Other artists have approached the topic including Susan Robb with her proposed Sea Ice Life Boat. Here is new research result of loss of ice from satellite earth studies.
You can see Seaman's work at Camerawork Gallery www.TheCameraworkGallery.org, Linfield College Nursing Campus Peterson Hall, 2255 NW Northrup. See the website for hours. Free
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
March 27 Surplus Naught
The alt space energy is always shifting. The next wave is Surplus Space. There, The Naught Collective has a performance, participation, installation on the teaching industry. Maybe it operates similarly to the profitable disease treatment industry. Instead could they be replaced with the learning industry and the optimum health industry? Come tonight and see if you want to join their experiment. At Surplus Space www.surplusspace.org 3726 NE 7th 6PM-9
Saturday, March 15, 2014
March 15 Place Place Place
Place opens Linda Kliewer and Portia Roy while continuing Paul Clay, John Dougherty and Michael Reinsch. At Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland have events. Free
At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland have events. Free
Monday, March 10, 2014
March 14 Zeitgeist
Portland photographer Holly Andres had an interesting childhood. But so did we all. Andres has been able to recall the emotional resonances of those childhood experiences in the time, and recreate them, in photography, now. There are many, many photographers traversing this space. For few, if any, I know, is it personal. Andres recreates the feelings of those childhood dreams with friends as actors in a stop motion narrative. You may not know the story, but you know there is a story. And at a subconscious level those story lines are forming tendrils around your story lines.
This morning she speaks in Portland. The event is fully subscribed. Tickets are no longer available for his talk, but the video will soon be available on the Creative Mornings website. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings @Portland_CM at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free
This morning she speaks in Portland. The event is fully subscribed. Tickets are no longer available for his talk, but the video will soon be available on the Creative Mornings website. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings @Portland_CM at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free
March 10 SpringTube
Getting To Know You(Tube) is in with four contestants tonight! Tubes by Alexander Mackworth, Cecilia Ailicec, Timothy James Kelly and Rob Walmart. Tonight's contestants have been curated by Dalas Verdugo. At Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard. 7:30PM $5
Sunday, March 09, 2014
March 9 Color is Good
Sometimes people make fun of curators and galleries. The intent of art is not to get it, or make fun because you self-select as not getting it. The intent of art is pleasure. You have a set of pleasure receptors and I do too. Let's respect that each both. One of Portland's fine curators instantiates at Nationale. My pleasure receptors in art respect the curatorial accomplishments of Nationale.
Today Nationale opens painter Amy Bernstein in her first solo show at the gallery. Though calligraphy springs from another source, this work reminds. You make like. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 2PM-5 Free
Today Nationale opens painter Amy Bernstein in her first solo show at the gallery. Though calligraphy springs from another source, this work reminds. You make like. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 2PM-5 Free
Friday, March 07, 2014
March 8 Black Chime Metal Music Machine
Many curators are artists. They can be quite creative in their rivalries. And of course the biennial is opening tonight. So.
The International Invitational Triennial of Contemporary Wind Chimes opens tonight. Artists include Brad Adkins, Portland, OR; Jesse Albrecht, Bozeman, MT; Chase Allgood, Portland, OR; Ásmundur Ásmundsson, Reykjavik, ICE; Dan Attoe, Washougal, WA; Gordon Barnes, Portland, OR; Steve Beatty, Portland, OR; Chase Biado, Portland, OR; Philippe Blanc, Paris, FR; Keith Boadwee, Emeryville, CA; Mike Bray, Eugene, OR; Nadia Buyse, Portland, OR; Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Brooklyn, NY; Brenden Clenaghen, Portland, OR; Bruce Conkle, Portland, OR; Fiona Connor, LA, CA; David Corbett, Portland, OR; David Dunlap, Iowa City, IA; Grier Edmundson, Montreal, CAN; Alex Felton, Portland, OR; Derek Franklin, NY, NY; Eric Franklin, Portland, OR; Mary George, London, ENG; Matthew Green, LA, CA; Amelie Guerin, Montreal, CAN; Alex Felton, Portland, OR; Linda Ford, San Francisco, CA; Jason Hirata, Seattle, WA; KeKe Hunt, SF, CA; Flint Jamison, Portland, OR; Sarah Johnson, Las Vegas, NV; Kristan Kennedy, Portland, OR; Brian Kennon, LA, CA; Arnold Joseph Kemp, Richmond, VA; Jennifer Locke, SF, CA; Brendan Lott, LA, CA; Marne Lucas, NY, NY; Pam Martin, Marin, CA; Alicia McDaid, Portland, OR; Mack McFarland, Portland, OR; Michelle Liccardo, Portland, OR; Reuben Lorch Miller, NY, NY; Thomas Moecker, Leipzig, DE; Donald Morgan, Eugene, CA; FUCK MOUNTAIN, Portland, OR; Lucas Murgida, SF, CA; Johann Neumeister, Vienna, AU; Paul Nudd, Chicago, IL; Joshua Pieper, San Francisco, CA; Ralph Pugay, Portland, OR; Amy Rathbone, San Francisco, CA; Sean Regan, Portland, OR; Michael Reinsch, Portland, OR; William Rihel, Portland, OR; Gary Robbins, Portland, OR; Zach Rose, Seattle, WA; Jay Schmidt, Bozeman, MT; Krystal South, Portland, OR; Tim Stigliano, Portland, OR; Brian Storts, Ventura, CA; Jesse Sugarmann, LA, CA; Tim Sullivan, San Francisco, CA; Joe Thurston, Portland, OR; Ian Treasure, San Francisco, CA and Ian Trout, LA, CA & Carl Alexander, HOU, TX. Moar chimes! At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free
Chiaroscuro is a conceptual performance by Matt Doyle. He has perfected the wall surfaces of the Recess Gallery, painted them black, then painted them white. Tonight's show is the documentation. Recess will also release a book on curation and custody by Tori Abernathy, gallery principal, artist and curator. Doyle is the sound designer for film Automated Futures. It places high frequency trading of financial instruments in the context of the post industrial decline of the rust belt economy. The vehicle is a road trip along a privately owned $300 million optical communication cable built by Spread Networks which connects the Nasdaq and NY Stock Exchange data centers in New Jersey with the Chicago board of trade. It also connects to a large multi tenant data center building owned by Google in Chelsea. While there are many fibers on that route, this one is a few milliseconds faster because it is shorter.
At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10
Metal Music Machine is a lengthy and legendary noise work by musician Lou Reed. Tonight is is reprised by March Music Moderne, presenter of dozens of events of 21st century music around town. Joan Laage, Sheri Brown and Alan Sutherland, butoh artists from Seattle perform. At Three Friends Coffee House 201 Se 12th 11PM Free
The International Invitational Triennial of Contemporary Wind Chimes opens tonight. Artists include Brad Adkins, Portland, OR; Jesse Albrecht, Bozeman, MT; Chase Allgood, Portland, OR; Ásmundur Ásmundsson, Reykjavik, ICE; Dan Attoe, Washougal, WA; Gordon Barnes, Portland, OR; Steve Beatty, Portland, OR; Chase Biado, Portland, OR; Philippe Blanc, Paris, FR; Keith Boadwee, Emeryville, CA; Mike Bray, Eugene, OR; Nadia Buyse, Portland, OR; Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Brooklyn, NY; Brenden Clenaghen, Portland, OR; Bruce Conkle, Portland, OR; Fiona Connor, LA, CA; David Corbett, Portland, OR; David Dunlap, Iowa City, IA; Grier Edmundson, Montreal, CAN; Alex Felton, Portland, OR; Derek Franklin, NY, NY; Eric Franklin, Portland, OR; Mary George, London, ENG; Matthew Green, LA, CA; Amelie Guerin, Montreal, CAN; Alex Felton, Portland, OR; Linda Ford, San Francisco, CA; Jason Hirata, Seattle, WA; KeKe Hunt, SF, CA; Flint Jamison, Portland, OR; Sarah Johnson, Las Vegas, NV; Kristan Kennedy, Portland, OR; Brian Kennon, LA, CA; Arnold Joseph Kemp, Richmond, VA; Jennifer Locke, SF, CA; Brendan Lott, LA, CA; Marne Lucas, NY, NY; Pam Martin, Marin, CA; Alicia McDaid, Portland, OR; Mack McFarland, Portland, OR; Michelle Liccardo, Portland, OR; Reuben Lorch Miller, NY, NY; Thomas Moecker, Leipzig, DE; Donald Morgan, Eugene, CA; FUCK MOUNTAIN, Portland, OR; Lucas Murgida, SF, CA; Johann Neumeister, Vienna, AU; Paul Nudd, Chicago, IL; Joshua Pieper, San Francisco, CA; Ralph Pugay, Portland, OR; Amy Rathbone, San Francisco, CA; Sean Regan, Portland, OR; Michael Reinsch, Portland, OR; William Rihel, Portland, OR; Gary Robbins, Portland, OR; Zach Rose, Seattle, WA; Jay Schmidt, Bozeman, MT; Krystal South, Portland, OR; Tim Stigliano, Portland, OR; Brian Storts, Ventura, CA; Jesse Sugarmann, LA, CA; Tim Sullivan, San Francisco, CA; Joe Thurston, Portland, OR; Ian Treasure, San Francisco, CA and Ian Trout, LA, CA & Carl Alexander, HOU, TX. Moar chimes! At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free
Chiaroscuro is a conceptual performance by Matt Doyle. He has perfected the wall surfaces of the Recess Gallery, painted them black, then painted them white. Tonight's show is the documentation. Recess will also release a book on curation and custody by Tori Abernathy, gallery principal, artist and curator. Doyle is the sound designer for film Automated Futures. It places high frequency trading of financial instruments in the context of the post industrial decline of the rust belt economy. The vehicle is a road trip along a privately owned $300 million optical communication cable built by Spread Networks which connects the Nasdaq and NY Stock Exchange data centers in New Jersey with the Chicago board of trade. It also connects to a large multi tenant data center building owned by Google in Chelsea. While there are many fibers on that route, this one is a few milliseconds faster because it is shorter.
At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10
Metal Music Machine is a lengthy and legendary noise work by musician Lou Reed. Tonight is is reprised by March Music Moderne, presenter of dozens of events of 21st century music around town. Joan Laage, Sheri Brown and Alan Sutherland, butoh artists from Seattle perform. At Three Friends Coffee House 201 Se 12th 11PM Free
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