December 2010
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RACC workshop at PLACE
We are very excited to be working with RACC and hosting one of their 2011 workshops at PLACE. Chris Haberman from a couple stores down at PEOPLES will be on the panel. Actually, Chis is from everywhere. Love Chris and love Tonisha Toler. What better place to discuss artists in the changing market than downtown at the mall. Looking forward to this.
The following was lifted from RACC’s...
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PORT's comment section from "Final Thoughts" by...
Below is the Comment Section From PORT’s essay”Final Thoughts 2010:First Impressions by Patrick Collier
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Well there are many layers to the Portland art scene and one of the easiest distinctions or lines of division are those who those who show constantly and then those who really avoid anything but the most important or suitable situations.
Perhaps a dialectic of saturation...
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WatchEmily Nachison working on her “Suspension, Stage 1” her in-process installation up at PLACE.
Here’s a bit of info about Emily from her Bio:
Emily Nachison was born and raised in San Diego, California. She attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan where she earned an MFA in 2010. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. In...
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From PORT - Final thoughts on 2010: First...
Patrick Collier of PORT looks at Jim Neidhardt’s installation “10,000 Artists” at Worksound and touches on TJ Norris’ “Spread Ego” at PLACE. Patrick gives his take on Portland’s often incestuous and self-congratulatory curation versus the ability to say “no” to the live-and-let-live curation prevalent in Portland.
Very much enjoyed...
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Watchtradepdx:
Max Ogden created an interactive installation of the wide variety of maps produced by his software which visualizes open and publicly-owned data available in geographically-useful ways. Visitors are encouraged to explore a scroll of maps on an overhead projector or to view local geography through an augmented reality application.
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Watchtradepdx:
Research Club’s mission is to foster the exchange of ideas across many communities and to find ways that those communities can both support and benefit from their most passionate and inquisitive members. We feel that every active mind produces a body of research as it tries to satisfy its curiosity.
Too often this research is lost or devalued in the attempt to fit it into the...
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Support needed for Golden Rule!
The Settlement is off to a running start. We are so thankful and appreciative to those who have come to our aide during a very quick turn around getting started for the holiday season. One of our contributors to TRADE is going through a bit of a rough patch though and we encourage anyone who is interested in supporting the highly dynamic Golden Rule to do so now. Golden Rule is incredibly...
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Tori Abernathy’s “Performativity Parlour” and how we are sometimes in control of our message, but still having to respond to the medium available.
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WatchThe development of Rhoda London’s piece on immortality “To Give the Unspeakable a Recognizable Space …”
Very special thank you to Jerry Gilmer for his table saw genius and making things fit.
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Gwenn Seemel's "Art in the Mall" →
Gwenn Seemel’s look into art in the mall. Gwenn’s “Serene Pokerface” is part of TJ Norris’ “Spread Ego.”
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WatchJoshua Berger’s “Collateral Damage” marking an “X” documenting estimated Iraqi civilian casualties.
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WatchVanessa Calvert’s “Wall Shade” with an interaction by Sung Kim.
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WatchBefore PLACE was PLACE: Gabe and Palma take a break.
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WatchEmily Nachison working on “Corridor” at Place with Michael Endo lending a hand.
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Mercury Article "Between Two Escalators" →
Matt Stangel’s article “Between Two Escalators”
Quote from article - “This will be a place to keep an eye on in 2011.”
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SHIFT
SHIFT
AN ESSAY & SELF-GUIDED TOUR. PLEASE, RETURN COPY.
By Victor Maldonado
For its inaugural exhibit STORE presents SHIFT, a concept driven visual, performance and installation art exhibit about the myth of the clash of civilization, creating nuance in an age of easy dichotomies, the mass ritual of self-design and experiments in liberation, presenting the shifting values of a free...
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WatchWalking through Store, PNCA’s BFA collaboration with The Settlement. Victor Maldonado’s Ethics and Transgressions class presents their conceptual response to the class title. Very excited to be working with their gallery manager Zachary Sea.
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WatchWalking through People’s during the opening last night at The Settlement: Occupation. Chris Haberman and Jason Brown really did a fantastic job of creating a really active gallery space. Alex Cummings is managing the gallery and there are big plans for this gorgeous space.
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Occupation -- CULTUREPHILE: PORTLAND ARTS →
A Very nice mention in the Portland Monthly blog about Golden Rule’s Wynde Dyer and the projects in Trade and the rest of The Settlement.
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WatchBobby Jones is talking to Gary, Palma, and Gabe about his soundtrack for TJ Norris’ “Spread Ego” at Place.
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The Aspens project at Trade
The Aspens project at Trade Gallery / December 18 - Feb 1
As part of the launch of the Settlement, The Aspens project will occupy Trade Gallery until February 1, 2011.
The Settlement - Trade Gallery 3rd floor, Pioneer Place mall 700 SW Fifth Avenue December 18 6-10 PM The Aspens’ project is to collect and consider the ways certain ideas and patterns manifest in cultural organizations,...
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WatchWynde Dyer is working on installing 20 plus years of correspondence between her mom and someone close to her mom.
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Wynde Dyer's piece in process at Trade →
Some before shots as well as process photos of Wynde Dyer’s installation at Trade
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Check out the Oregonian coverage of Place and TJ... →
Last week Bob Hicks popped into Place to chat about the mall and have a closer look at TJ Norris’ “Spread Ego” and here is the coverage. Very nice : )
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WatchTori Abernathy is tell us a bit about the Aspens Project at Trade part of The Settlement.
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WatchElizabeth Lamb and Tori Abernathy working on Max Ogden’s data visualization area in Trade next to Place all part of The Settlement. They’re wondering also about solo shows vs. collaboration.
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WatchA glimps of Dustin Zemel altering his video installation at Place.
News programs on television paradoxically incorporate a purely artificial visual landscape so that the facts they purport can be watched more easily. It is no coincidence that the best rated news shows also ßhave the highest amount of visual flare. News magazine shows like Current Affair may not be taken as seriously as other...
Port and Place →
On the 3rd floor of Pioneer Place we’re welcoming a couple of new neighbors.
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WatchTJ Norris at Place doing measurements for “Spread Ego” here he is posing for a picture while I do video instead.
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Gwenn Seemel's "Serene Pokerface" TJ Norris →
Gwenn Seemel’s creative and thought process behind “Serene Pokerface” her contribution to TJ Norris’ “Spread Ego.”
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Cynthia Mosser's TJ Norris →
A look at Cynthia Mosser’s glitter painting for TJ Norris’ “Spread Ego”
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TJ Norris' "Spread Ego"
Horia Boboia
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.” - Leo Tolstoy
SPREAD EGO
Is it really possible to feed the ego?
I’m a difficult subject. The whole notion of posing really makes me uncomfortable, silly. In years past I’ve referred to myself as ‘an acquired...
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WatchJeff Diteman
The De-scission Cycle, a serieis of poems about Philo Farnsworth, Marcel Duchamp, television, Oedipus and Idaho.
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Watchwww.pilotbooksseattle.com
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WatchRachel Hays performance was awesome! www.rachelhays.com
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WatchZaccaria Fulton is a poet based in Seattle, Wa.. His poetry is a shell Game where language, body and mind can hide truth, or a shiny penny.
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WatchHiram Lucke is a Portland based performer and plays in The Harvey Girls. www.TheHarveyGirls.com. theharveygirls@gmail.com
band of looks, cats, and Melissa and hiram. Playing in the NW and writing things for Circle into Square, a Portland based label and magazine.
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WatchThis last Saturday Pilot Books with the help of Vivian Hua held the Indie Roadshow at Place. Very awesome event! The next few post will be of some of the readings and performances. We look forward to working with Pilot Books in the future.
Pilot Books is a small Press bookstore in Seattle, Wa. owned and operated by Summer Robinson. They focus on new, living, emerging, experimental, 100%...
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The Settlement: Occupation
Time Saturday, December 18 · 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location People’s, Place, Store, and TradePioneer Place 700 SW 5th AvePortland, OR
December 18, 2010 from 6pm - 10pm, The Settlement ignites the 3rd floor of Pioneer Place Mall with “Occupation” comprised of four artist-run gallery spaces including: People, Place, Store, and Trade. People’s - spearheaded by Chris Haberman and...
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Portland - Indie Lit Roadshow
REDEFINE magazine (http://www.redefinemag.com/) + PILOT BOOKS (http://www.pilotbooksseattle.com/) are teaming up to bring you an afternoon of literary readings, music, and a pop-up book shop just in time for the holidays. Come hang out in the mall — yes, the mall — for an afternoon celebrating independent press, literature, music, and a lot of anti-stereotypically-“mall”...
Place's roster for 12/18
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18th 6pm - 10pm
PLACE Terror and Ego
TJ Norris by Gabriel Liston
Joshua Berger December 18th 2010 6pm - 10pm Place is opening Terror and Ego in it’s 3rd floor gallery space in Pioneer Place Mall. Place was created with the intention of functioning as a flexible art laboratory that engages with the public in an inclusive dialogue that...
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Gary and Gabe Talking To Eva Lake on KBOO →
Gary Wiseman and Gabe Flores go on Art Focus with Eva Lake and discuss the reopening of Place and the development of The Settlement.