ACCESSIBILITY

CART captioning will be provided.   

Artist Conversation: rubén garcía marrufo and maximiliano with jaleesa johnston

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.

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.

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. 

ABOUT TBA:21 INSTITUTE

TBA Institute is a series of free, public programs that connect artists and audiences through deep discussion and critical conversation and serve to illuminate the ideas and inquiries behind festival artists' projects. Through the Institute, artists share their processes of creating and collaborating; their forms of engagement with communities and publics; and the social, political, cultural, and aesthetic contexts and concerns surrounding their work. Through guest artist lectures, panels and dialogues with invited moderators, and interactive workshops, the TBA Institute offers a range of ways to engage more deeply with the festival and with each other. 

Please note that some TBA Institute events will be virtual (streamed online), while others will be held in-person for a limited-capacity, masked audience/participant group in the PICA Pavilion (back lot of PICA). We know that not everyone is able to gather in place right now. As such, most in-person events will be recorded and made available and accessible online shortly thereafter. Some of these recorded videos will be captioned.

Please refer to the TBA Festival website for a full Institute schedule, specific information about each event, accessibility, and other details. 

Please note that a few events will require pre-registration, with instructions provided on the event webpage. 

All virtual events (streamed online) will be captioned via auto- or CART captioning. 

Some virtual events and some live, in-person events will be ASL-interpreted. These will be noted on each event listing on the TBA website. 

All of the above information regarding access will be updated as confirmed.