TBA:19 Partner Program

Organized by Roland Dahwen and Stephanie Snyder

In Roland Dahwen’s film-based installations, sound, image, and texture weave a self-poetics in which memory, social ritual, and political history migrate time and space. The installations spill into choreographed and spontaneous performances that are polyvocal, literary, and digested through food and touch. The Overseas Banquet is one such occasion, an unpredictable “banquet” that celebrates the intimacy and awkwardness of living hybridity in migration’s unendingly in-between psyche. The evening includes food, music, readings, and screenings of Dahwen’s 8mm films. The Overseas Banquet is an extension of Dahwen’s installation Overseas, in the exhibition The Autopoets, on view at the Cooley Gallery from August 10 through October 6, 2019. Overseas also includes a commissioned text by black studies teacher and scholar d.a. carter.

refreshments included

Roland Dahwen’s experimental and documentary films and installations have been shown widely at institutions including: the California Institute of the Arts; the Portland Art Museum; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival; Northwest Film Center; and galleries and film festivals in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. In 2018, Dahwen received an Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, and was an artist-in-residence in the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Creative Exchange Lab. In 2013, Dahwen founded Patuá Films, a studio and production house based in Portland that creates films, installations, and music videos in collaboration with a wide range of interdisciplinary artists, musicians, and writers. Dahwen is based in Portland, OR.

The Overseas Banquet is commissioned by the Cooley Gallery, Reed College for the exhibition The Autopoets, a collaboration between the Cooley and Converge 45, co-curated by C45 Artistic Director Lisa Dent and Cooley curator Stephanie Snyder.