Princess Bouton, Emily Jones, Satpreet Kahlon, Hannah Krafcik, Harun Morrison, and Pallavi Sen
(Portland, OR / Portland, OR / Seattle, WA / Portland, OR / River Lea and Regent’s Canal, UK / Berkshires, MA)
Creative Exchange Lab
DESCRIPTION
PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab has been designed to promote artistic exchange, instigate peer-to-peer dialogue, and foster the development of new works with a focus on serving artists working at the intersection of different forms. The residency program is comprised of two labs annually taking place each spring and fall. For TBA 2022 we have invited a diverse intergenerational cohort of artists, emerging and established, from a spectrum of disciplines and cultural perspectives. Our fall 2022 Creative Exchange Lab artists are Princess Bouton (Portland, OR), Emily Jones (Portland, OR), Satpreet Kahlon (Seattle, WA), Hannah Krafcik (Portland, OR), Harun Morrison (River Lea and Regent’s Canal, UK), and Pallavi Sen (Berkshires, MA).
Reflecting a field-wide need for in-depth cross-disciplinary research opportunities for artists, the labs offer essential generative time for research and experimentation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and self-directed interaction between the participating local, national, and international artists.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Emily Jones (she/they) is a dancer and choreographer based in Portland, OR. Emily’s choreography materializes from sensitivity and intuition, and they are curious about the tensions that exist between social power dynamics and unnamed personal needs. In recent years Emily has been collaborating with Hannah Krafcik. Their performances together are shaped by consent, emphasizing relationality over virtuosity. Emily and Hannah’s performances have included self-made components such as sound scores and video and audio descriptions — they seek to broaden accessibility through the use of multiple mediums. Emily and Hannah’s work has been presented at New Expressive Works (Portland, OR), Art Klub NOLA (New Orleans, LA), Pieter Performance Space (Los Angeles, CA), Performance Works NW, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR). Emily has also performed in others’ works in Portland and the Bay Area. Additionally Emily facilitates movement practices and is a bodyworker.
Satpreet Kahlon is a Panjabi-born artist, organizer, and educator based in Seattle, WA. She earned her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 on a full fellowship. In addition to her studio practice, which has been featured in Hyperallergic and Artforum, she is co-founder and vice president of yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives, an organization that has supported over 400 artists in the Pacific Northwest with over $2 million in opportunities since its 2017 founding. For this work, she was named one of the most influential people in Seattle by Seattle Magazine in 2019. She is a 2022 Roddenberry Fellow for “new and innovative strategies to safeguard human rights and ensure an equal and just society for all.” She has been supported by Brown University, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Magnum Foundation, and others. Satpreet is a 2022 Neddy finalist in painting, and she won the 2022 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial Curatorial Excellence Award, where she will have a solo show in 2023.
Hannah Krafcik (they/them) is a Portland-based interdisciplinary neuroqueer artist and writer whose work emerges from ongoing reflections on social patterning and censorship, (over)stimulation, perseveration, and intuition. Their practices span dance, writing, new media, and sound design. Hannah continues to be influenced by their collaboration with artistic partner Emily Jones.
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based on the River Lea and Regent’s Canal. He is currently a UK associate at Delfina Foundation & Horniman Museum and Designer and Researcher in Residence at V&A Dundee. His forthcoming novel The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2023. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. He is a former trustee of the Black Cultural Archive (est. 1981).
Pallavi Sen is from Bombay, India. She works with installation, printmaking, textiles, and intuitive, musical movement. Current interests include planting gardens and meadows, inner lives of birds and animals, the grief of the anthropocene, South Asian costumes, domestic architecture, altars, atheism and magical thinking, pattern histories, friendship + love, past/presen/future lover, work spaces, work tables, eco-feminism, love poems, the gates to Indian homes, walking, seeds, and twice daily cooking.
She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the Assistant Professor of Multiples + Distributed Art at Williams College and dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is the author of Dead Planet Cookbook, and is currently working on her second book about a garden based curriculum.