The Projects is a different kind of comics festival.
Matt Stangel
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Food Carts, Strip Clubs, and Wu-Tang
Portland Is Now a Place in American Poetry
Thanks to Matthew Dickman’s Mayakovsky’s Revolver, Portland is now a place in American poetry.
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A Geek’s Curator
Josephine Zarkovich Likes Sci-Fi (and Now She Has the Keys to Disjecta)
Josephine Zarkovich likes sci-fi (and now she has the keys to Disjecta).
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Review: Voices & Echoes
PICA Akio Suzuki There was a point during poet Gozo Yoshimasu and experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide’s performance for Voices & Echoes at PSU’s Lincoln Hall when Yoshihide started throwing loose change at his modified turntable— the contact mics inside it amplifying the metallic collisions— and I was reminded of this time that I asked a […]
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Claudia Meza’s Listening to Space: Sonic City PDX
Claudia Meza Yesterday afternoon I stopped by for the live presentation of Claudia Meza’s Listening to Space: Sonic City PDX, billed as a QR code walking tour consisting of “thirty local musicians, composers, and sound artists’… favorite local sonic spaces.” East of the river under the Morrison Bridge, performances of experimental compositions spanned the sublime […]
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End Things: Claudia Meza’s “Water”
Brian Echon Claudia Meza Friday afternoon I stopped by the White Box (21 NW 1st Ave) for Claudia Meza‘s TBA:12 End Things installation, “Water”— a sound piece composed of field recordings of the titular liquid. In a semicircle around the gallery, roughly 30 Califone tape recorders hang from the ceiling like a giant, abstract chandelier. […]
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Review: Sam Green and Yo La Tengo’s The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Kate Holly Sam Green and Yo La Tengo Just gonna put it out there: I pretty much want to live in The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, the live documentary written and performed by filmmaker Sam Green and scored by Yo La Tengo (originally commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to […]
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End Things: Alex Cecchetti’s “Summer Is Not the Prize of Winter”
Chelsea Petrakis Alex Cecchetti and Lisa Radon “If a sculpture is a story, the inverse process is also possible,” states artist, novelist, and performer Alex Cecchetti in an interview with PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy, commenting on the combination of performance, object-based story telling, and installation that’s presented in his TBA:12 End Things contribution, […]
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Review: Global and Mobile Pop
Madeline Blount Brainstorm at Washington High School Last night for THE WORKS, Global and Mobile Pop filled the stage at Washington High School with screens in triplicate and African-sourced sounds. Curated by musician Chris Kirkley, aka Sahel Sounds, the night featured performances by local experimental-pop trio Brainstorm, Somali pre-civil war legends Iftin Band, and sound […]
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Interview: PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy (On All Things End Things)
PICA When I met up with PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy, beyond digging into TBA:12’s pared-down visual art program, End Things, I wasn’t sure about where our conversation would go. Kennedy showed me to a cluster of comfortable chairs in PICA’s swanky new office and event space, and, without much build-up, began speaking very […]
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Bringing Up Bucky
Sam Green and Yo La Tengo Collaborate on The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Sam Green and Yo La Tengo collaborate to document the life of R. Buckminster Fuller.