DATES / TIMES
This work is on view at PICA from September 16 through October 3, 2021 | Open Hours: 12:00—6:00 PM Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
In-person performances of this work will take place at PICA on September 23, 24, and 25 at 7:00 PM each night. Seating is limited for these in-person performances, as such, if you would like to attend please make a free reservation through your Festival pass confirmation email or contact the TBA:21 Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or call 503-224-PICA.
ACCESSIBILITY
PICA’s main warehouse space is on the ground floor and is accessible to those with mobility aids. ADA-accessible, gender-neutral restrooms and a water cooler are located inside of PICA. If you have questions about accessibility you can contact us at boxoffice@pica.org or call 503-224-PICA.
VIDEO TORTAS
[VIDEO PRINTS]
A VIDEO TORTA is an editioned print (of 2) that plays a single soundless video file on loop, on a 7” diagonal IPS LCD display screen. Encased in a clear acrylic frame, the VIDEO TORTA comes with a certificate of authenticity, and mag-safe style USB power cable. It can be hung or free standing.
Specifications:
Documentation: Mario Gallucci
5.7” x 8.4” x 0.9” / 7” Diagonal IPS LCD Display / 1024 x 576px
Mag-Safe style USB Power Cable
Certificate of Authenticity Included
$666
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rise x fall (rubén garcía marrufo, jaleesa johnston, maximiliano)
(Portland, OR)
AT THE END OF EMPIRE
World Premiere
DESCRIPTION
AT THE END OF EMPIRE exists as live performance, large-scale three-channel video installation, and collectible video art tortas.
An audiovisual montage of documentary performance presents the artists in their day-to-day, performing the actions necessary to transit the inbetween. In undressing and veiling they will find stranding echoes of the forgotten eternal.
A ritual performance shows bodies engaging in the metamorphoses of space and self, rupturing with violent change, and imbibed into membrane as geometric choreography. A collapse, merging, and final discarding.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Conjured from liminal space, the artists of rise x fall consider the rise and fall of an empire and the possibilities between stability and instability. Taking inspiration from the ocean’s crashing waves against the earth, rise x fall simultaneously inhabits the space between the pain and fear of death, and the hope and growth of rebirth.
rubén garcía marrufo is a border artist.
Jaleesa Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and arts administrator currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been the recipient of the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Centrum’s Emerging Artist Residency, and Open Signal’s New Media Fellowship. She has exhibited her work in cities along the West Coast, including San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, and she occasionally facilitates workshops and classes in new media and performance art. Jaleesa also organizes public programs as Programs Lead in the Learning and Community Partnerships Department at the Portland Art Museum.
mononymously named, maximiliano, is a conceptual artist working in BLKwvv, a generative multimedia mythos: a Black reclamation rococo aesthetic and agenda based in exploring and expanding the multiplicity and fluidity of the Black self through pleasure, desirability, innocence, and imagination as performance, video, GIF, sculpture, thought, and publications.
Performers:
Mazey Moon
Coco Madrid
Breana DePriest
Inaki Morales
Onyx Andra
Eric Fury
Stevie Biga
Samantha DeJarnett
SPONSORSHIP
Sponsored by Alberta Abbey Foundation, Caldera Arts, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Compliance Division, Spaceness 2018, Familia Garcia Marrufo, Roxana Gomez, and Sharita Towne.