February 2012
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READINGS OF WRITINGS BY OTHER PEOPLE On March 15th...
READINGS OF WRITINGS BY OTHER PEOPLE is an unprecedented endeavor, wherein established writers are asked over the course of a month to produce a work of literature they would never have produced themselves.
To do this, they are challenged to return to decisions they have made throughout their careful cultivation as artists and entertain the possibilities they have abandoned for the sake...
January 2012
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December 2011
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D O T M A T R I X (performance)
D O T M A T R I X places its two performers on a round bed surrounded by thousands of rubber bouncy balls. They execute a series of actions, sharing intimate space in a discombobulated world. You are invited to come and go as you please to witness this live display of moving bodies in a static space.
Performance scheduled for January 5 - 7th 4pm - 8pm
madhause is the shared company...
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November 2011
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Barry Johnson's Reflection on Jason King's... →
Barry Johnson gives a first hand account of attending PositionMax Beta. Love that he refers to Jason King as being the creepy smile guy because I couldn’t tell if Jason was just smiling at me creepily. Very nice reflection though beyond that on what to do while witnessing new technologies.
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Thank you PORT for posting details of our closing! →
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October 2011
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Portland Monthly's Culturephile Pick →
Nice mentions by Anne Adams from the Portland Monthly, who is always lovely and super engaging. Looking forward to future chats with her.
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SCREEN Opening (located inside Place)
Screen (located inside Place)
curated by Hannah Piper Burns
translations
Jamie Marie Waelchli
translations continues the relational thread of linguistic/language manipulation that has dictated all of the work shown so far in Screen. It will be projected, bright, colorful, and silent, on the wall, waiting to be encountered.
Description in the artists own words:
“When you send a text...
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Place Openings
Place (former Pottery Barn):
Opening: 10/15/11 6 - 9pm
Last day of show: 12/04/11
and …
Rhoda London & Harrison Higgs
Rhoda London and Harrison Higgs are working collaboratively on and … , an installation combining artifacts, video, and drawings used in a way that asks the audience to reflect on what’s next . London’s previous two works presented at Place...
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Place Openings
Place (former Present Perfect)
Opening: 10/15/11 6 - 9pm
Last day of show: 11/27/11
For Sale By Owner: 1751 Easy St.
Wynde Dyer
Following the vein of Portland-based artist Wynde Dyer’s work in the area of architecture and memory, For Sale By Owner: 1751 Easy St., features a 1/3-sized scaled replica of the artist’s childhood home. A process-based piece...
August 2011
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PORT: "Defending Beauty?" - Jeff Jahn →
Jeff Jahn’s pre-thoughts on Jason Brown’s and Grant Hottle’s Praxis discussion “In the Defense of Beauty: The Guise and The Intangible.”
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Oregon ArtsWatch Review by Lisa Radon →
Review covering:
Krystal South’s A Mirror Unto Itself
Ashley Sloan’s Itinerary
Jason Doizé’s Punching Out Requires Punching In
Hannah Piper Burns’ The Gene Kelly Suite
Thank you Lisa for taking the time to stop by and consider the work!
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Review: Felicity Fenton's "De-consume"
Written by Will Justice
De-consume is an installation art piece by Felicity Fenton. The title, De-consume, is the kind that could reasonably pass as a product of modern marketing. Though ‘de consume’ does not necessarily carry a substantial amount of meaning in actual French, the title does appear to successfully pass as a plausible French influenced boutique name. Here, it appears...
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"Five" concludes this weekend.
From Felicity Fenton’s De-Consume:
From Viande de Brousse by Roger Peet and Ryan Burns:
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Literary Leisure?
Leisure Practicum II: Literary Leisure? August 13th @ Place 530p - 10p Readings begin at 7:15 “[L]eisure in Greek is skole, and in Latin scola, the English ‘school’… ‘School’ does not, properly speaking, mean school, but leisure.” —Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture On Saturday, August 13th Place invites you to cultivate your leisure practice, skolen...
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Review: Ray Boyle’s "Mirrors" and Sarah Farahat’s...
Written by Lisa Hunt
[Sarah Farahat’s Can You See Me Now? (Part 1)]
Politics, war, art, society— never are these words able to be free from one another. Place is currently housing a collection of work handling contemporary issues of war and protests in the Middle East. Sarah Farahat is addressing the topic of Israeli and Palestinian conflicts with the recent bombing of Gaza. Ray Boyle...
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Viande de Brousse in Portland Mercury's Blogtown →
July 2011
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Best Mallrats! Willamette Week's Best of Portland... →
Best Mallrats
Most people who’ve spent the better part of the year at a shopping mall have a sort of defeated air about them: They are second-mortgage shoe junkies, perhaps; goth-liner anemics; mall cop second-chancers; perfume-counter asthmatics. Up on the third floor of downtown’s Pioneer Place Mall, however, it feels a little different. In one corner there might be a woman cutting up old...
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Review: Mauveing On Up
Written by L. Hunt
Humor is the topic of choice for the latest show at Store. A subject highly disregarded by art historians yet ever so prominent and important in art history, Mauvism is the word of the re-nuanced movement of absurdity in art. Formulated by Alexander Florence, Eric Florence and Grant Brooks, the concept of Mauvism intends to equitably address every aspect of culture and...
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The Environment of Performance and Production
Written by R.Bitterman
The Settlement had their latest opening on Saturday, which involved a myriad of art productions: from political fluid expression to ongoing installations morphing into performance aspects in Place gallery, there were blind transient dough makers autonomously moving to each gallery, as well as Mauveing on Up curated by Alexander Florence in his inaugural curation at...
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Review: Project Everyone
Review: Project Everyone
By Lisa Hunt
Marina Tait and Stephen Kurowski are the creative team behind Project Everyone, which is a “lofty” attempt to interview everyone in the world. The project is comprised of an average of five-minute film shorts asking each participant the same 8 questions, each of which seems capable of being answered universally and the responses are visceral, varying...
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June 2011
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Performance: I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I June 18, 6p - 9p Wynde Dyer I Know You Are But What Am I is an on-going interactive performance that appropriates sand painting in order to provide an experience of communal catharsis. Dyer invites participants to climb into a sandbox with her and to share the worst statement someone has ever said to them. Using a double-sided tape dispenser, she...
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6.11
Exhibition: 6.11 June 18 – July 10, 2011 Opening Reception: June 18, 6p – 9p Artists: Will Justice, James Mulvaney, Rebecca Steele, Ním Wunnan Identitas, the Identity Store and Exchange Will Justice Identitas, the Identity Store and Exchange is a participatory installation that plays off of the fact that it is an artwork that is to be presented in a mall. There’s something about the...
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Five
Exhibition: Five June 18 – August 14, 2011 Opening Reception: June 18, 6p – 9p Artists: Felicity Fenton, William Rihel III, Ryan Burns and Roger Peet, Stephen Kurowski and Marina Tait Exhibition: Five
De-consume Felicity Fenton Fenton’s multimedia installation De-consume mirrors a high-end boutique; its interior exhibits objects, smells, and actions not usually found in stores. Throughout...
May 2011
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PORT - The Score 2: space to grow →
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“In the past year PLACE, an evolving alternative space in Portland’s Pioneer Place Mall has gone from being a somewhat shambling experimental space to a legitimate and increasingly well considered destination (past works by Mack McFarland in particular) and the new show “Survival is a Confusing Attempt” by Katherine Groesbeck is no exception. Yes, Ive...
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April 2011
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