Saturday night at PSU’s Lincoln Hall, vocalist and musician Liz Harris (aka Grouper) and experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson performed Hypnosis Display for the first time on US soil. The 75-minute, live audiovisual collaboration, commissioned by Opera North, is sourced from Harris’ field recordings and Clipson’s in-camera-edited films that capture naturalistic and manmade American landscapes. The […]
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Review: Hypnosis Display
Last night at PSU’s Lincoln Hall, vocalist and musician Liz Harris (aka, Grouper) and experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson performed Hypnosis Display for the first time on US soil. The 75-minute, live audiovisual collaboration, commissioned by Opera North, is sourced from Harris’ field recordings and Clipson’s in-camera-edited films that capture naturalistic and man-made American landscapes. The […]
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Review: Tim Hecker @ PSU’s Lincoln Hall
PICA/Tracy Van Oosten I’d follow general blogging procedure and start this post with a picture from last night’s packed-past-capacity Tim Hecker set at PSU’s Lincoln Hall, but all you’d see is a black box hovering above this sentence. When the lights went down for the hour-long, no-stops musical experience, they didn’t come back on until […]
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Introducing TBA:14’s Visual Art Programming
PICA Each year for the Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy assembles artists around a theme. This year, that theme is poetry. It sounds pretty antique on the surface, but poetry was chosen for very good reason: these days, International Art English is everywhere, artists are getting tired of using it, and […]
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EFFing Portland
What to See (and Why to See It) at Portland’s Experimental Film Festival
What to see (and why to see it) at Portland’s Experimental Film Festival.
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Mirror Mirror
Daniel Barrow, Auteur of the Overhead Projector
Daniel Barrow does things to an overhead projector that would horrify your seventh grade math teacher.
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“Life Events”
Representation, Reality, and Instagram
In a world of digital metaphors, Krystal South investigates representation and reality.
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Music in the Dark
Third Angle’s Pitch-Black Performance
Third Angle performs a composition in absolute darkness.
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The Beauty of Fear
Profiling Saddam Hussein’s Former Portrait Artist
Profiling Saddam Hussein’s portrait artist.
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Lecturing Tonight: Natalie Sept and Israel Bayer, Creators of The Dishwasher Project
Natalie Sept Stop by the Falcon Art Community tonight at 6pm for the inaugural installment of the live-work community’s Wednesday Night Lecture Series ($10 suggested donation, 5415 N. Albina Ave). Tonight’s lecture will feature painter and Falcon Art Community member Natalie Sept, alongside photographer Israel Bayer, who Sept teamed up with to produce The Dishwasher […]
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Into the Pit
Portraits of Labor in the Dishwasher Project
Dishwasher Project documents life in the dish pits of Portland.