Dates / Times
This work is on view from September 16 through October 3, 2021 | Open Hours: 12:00—6:00 PM Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
ACCESSIBILITY
This project contains a virtual reality (VR) experience through a shared set of VR goggles. People may experience some spatial disorientation which could cause dizziness or imbalance. A seat will be provided for audience members who would like to wear the goggles while sitting if that is preferred to standing.
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
THE DRIFT PUBLICATION
A catalog for The Drift is also debuting alongside the film and installation for the TBA Festival. Designed by Omnivore, the 96-page publication features contributions by scholar Brook Colley, artists Garrick Imatani and Travis Stewart, who also serves as Curator and Manager of the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and curator Ashley Stull Meyers. The edition of 100 catalogs is fitted with an embossed cover, printed in full color on 2 different paper types, and serves as both an index and mirror of the non-linear, cyclic installation in the PICA exhibition.
The catalog is available for sale through PICA. $45 for in-person/on-site pickup or $50 for shipping within the continental US via media mail rate. Books will ship at the conclusion of the festival. PURCHASE HERE.
Garrick Imatani and Travis Stewart
(Portland, OR / Grand Ronde, OR)
The Drift
Description
The Drift is a visual archive of the future, where the politics and excuses for failed Indigenous repatriation are bypassed through an inexplicable force that returns all that is lost and stolen. Echoing the circular path from extraction to healing, The Drift presents the culmination of a multi-year project undertaken by Garrick Imatani with Travis Stewart and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Combining virtual reality, a publication and screening, digital fabrication, and photography, this installation takes form as a map, countdown, and inner eye to a scene within and beyond human control.
About the artists
Travis Stewart is a contemporary Northwest artist of Chinook, Kalapuya, and Rogue River descent. He lives in Grand Ronde, Oregon, and works in a variety of mediums to depict stories defined by the cultural landscape and design of the Willamette Valley and Columbia River people. He also works as a curator at Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center (Grand Ronde, OR) and has devoted his life to the preservation of the art and culture of the tribes of Western Oregon. Travis is a founding member of the Shawash Ili?i Kanim Tilixam, which is a nonprofit cultural preservation group and canoe family that works to impart traditional teachings to at-risk tribal youth through song, dance, language, and art.
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Garrick Imatani is an artist who uses performance, functional objects, or interaction to bring people into their own body and subject. Working across sculpture, photography, video, and installation, Garrick's recent projects focus on reimagining racialized historical erasures into more believable and inspired futures. Past works have included collaborating with illegally-surveilled activists to readjust city archives, re-enacting labor on the transcontinental railroad, and working with members of Grand Ronde Tribes to replicate their sacred meteorite held at the American Museum of Natural History.
SPONSORSHIP
Funded in part by The Ford Family Foundation