UPCOMING TIME-RELEASED PROGRAMS

Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper

Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP

August 17, 18, and 19: GLOOP is a lifestyle. GLOOP is a brand. GLOOP is a modality. GLOOP is Glamorous Ladies of Opulent Persuasion. GLOOP is Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper—Portland, Oregon’s premier avant-garde drag duo—bringing you an evening-length, partially improvised drag explosion sending up whiteness and wellness culture.

In GLOOP, Carla and Pepper are slated to lead a psychedelic wellness seminar in Sedona until their party bus runs out of gas at PICA, where they are left with no choice but to teach homodalities and hole-istic healing practices—and all before the mushrooms kick in. Tackling art therapy, micro-dosing, land acknowledgments, and demonstrating what it looks like when a drag queen has a meltdown while lip-syncing on an actively-inflating airbed, GLOOP will teach you how to overcome (and monetize) your limiting beliefs through a gauntlet of spectacularly unhinged drag from two of Portland’s most beloved grifters. 

Seba Calfuqueo

Alka domo

All programs with Seba Calfuqueo are curated by Christian Viveros-Faun￩ and co-presented with Converge 45 as part of its 2023 citywide exhibition Social Forms: Art As Global Citizenship.

August 24–September 24: Alka domo is a video installation and performative work that recontextualizes a story about Caupolicán, the legendary toki of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous community. A toki symbolizes strength and perseverance in the face of adversity. Caupolicán led the Mapuche army in an uprising against the Spanish conquistadors lasting from 1553 to 1558. Caupolicán was elected military leader by the Mapuche people of Chile after holding a log on his shoulders for two days and one night. Today, his name is a symbol of Native American resistance.

In Alka domo, Seba Calfuqueo holds a hollowed-out tree trunk above their head at places of personal history and significance to the artist as well as at various public sites, representing the complex interaction between Mapuche and Chilean culture.⁠

Seba Calfuqueo

Flowing Like Waterfalls

August 26: Seba Calfuqueo (b. 1991, Santiago, Chile) is an internationally celebrated artist of Indigenous Mapuche origin. Their work appeals to their Indigenous inheritance to propose critical reflections on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean society, Latin America, and the world. Calfuqueo’s work marshals, among other elements, installation, ceramics, performance, and video art to explore the cultural similarities, differences, and stereotypes produced by the melding of Indigenous and Western ways of thinking. Their work often starts from the broad field of performance and extends into videos that are frequently exhibited later with elements used in the action itself.

Flowing Like Waterfalls is a 20-minute performance that approaches the power of water’s fluidity as a means to explore the body, gender, sexuality, and the relationship of water with life, forests, and ecosystems.

Seba Calfuqueo with Malcolm Peacock, Vo Vo, and moderator Derek Franklin

Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls

August 29: Join us for a panel discussion with Seba Calfuqueo, artist Malcolm Peacock, radical educator Vo Vo. Moderated by Converge 45 Artistic Director Derek Franklin. 

Will Rawls

[siccer] 

EXHIBITION: SEPTEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 5 / PERFORMANCES: OCTOBER 6, 7, and 8: In [siccer], Will Rawls experiments with stop-motion, a filmmaking technique in which still photographs are strung together to produce a moving image. Through a dance performance and accompanying video installation, Will Rawls experiments with stop-motion filmmaking to invite us to consider the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in the media. Throughoutﾠ[siccer]'s live performance, five dancers are suspended in an uncanny reenactment of an iconic American film. When the camera’s shutter closes momentarily between photographs, a gap in surveillance occurs that allows Rawls and collaborators to play within this interval through physical and vocal improvisations. 

The project's title is driven by the usage of “[sic],” a Latin adverb that indicates incorrect spelling within a quotation. [sic] is often employed to contrast Black vernacular with standard English. Upturning this perceived conflict, [siccer] illuminates the verbal, physical play that marks how Black performance actively eludes capture and speculates on the potential for collective strategies of narrating the world, uncorrected.

Joseph Keckler, in collaboration with Holland Andrews 

Cove of Harmony, Episode 1

OCTOBER 18:ﾠCommissioned by PICA in 2022 and now being released in full,ﾠCove of Harmony, Episode 1 is a musical film about a mysterious and transformative encounter, showcasing an in-studio performance by vocalist and composer Holland Andrews, and a conversation between Joseph and Holland.

Featuring new works, exclusive performances, and intimate conversations about life and art,ﾠCove of Harmony is a new music and variety program that embraces the idea that with moments of uncertainty comes a weird invitation to dream. The program’s name is inspired by Cave of Harmony, Elsa Lanchester’s 1920s London nightclub.

Allie Hankins and Hannah Krafcik

By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE

OCTOBER 19 - NOVEMBER 5: THE ACHE is the third installment of Allie Hankins’ five-part performance series of projects entitled By My Own Hand. Developed in collaboration with Hannah Krafcik,ﾠTHE ACHE takes shape as 1) a video exhibition, 2) a publication release, and 3) a series of free, intergenerational art-making workshops facilitated by local artists dee bustos, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Midori Hirose, and Ralph Pugay.ﾠ

THE ACHE calls attention to the myriad ways selfhood can be constituted and remixed through creative acts of self-determination, exploring the tension between points of distinction and gradients of interrelation. It was conceived out of a desire to create more crossover between artistic field-based microcosms, to share knowledge of mediums, explore overlaps and divergences across practices, and to embolden artistic exploration of self by anyone at any age. 

DB Amorin

long shadow

Co-presented with Third Angle New Music

OCTOBER 28: DB Amorin's "long shadow" is a 45-minute soundwalk composition inspired by the desire to return to that which may no longer be familiar to us. The layered audio experience, drawing on the artist’s memories of the Ko’olau mountain range, the transition of seasons, and the longing for vanishing eras, is designed to trace the path of the MAX Red Line from the urban center of Portland to the Portland International Airport as a soundtrack for the movement towards unreachable places.  

Outfitumentary K8 Hardy

November 9 : Co-presented with the lumber room. On the occasion of their exhibition The Rose, curated by Justine Kurland, which closes October 28th.

Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson

Make Banana Cry

November 17 and 18: In Make Banana Cry, six artists confront Western society’s perception of “Asianness” in a critical performance that reclaims, protests against, and subverts clichés. Sitting in the tension between identity and stereotypes, the performers continuously deconstruct cultural codes using an arsenal of randomly selected objects in an attempt to shake off the weight of violent representation and fetishization.

Make Banana Cry is a continuous barrage of body politics, a durational parade that contemplates the problematics of “universal” Western popular culture while drawing on the artistic background of each of the invited artists. Visual artist Dominique Petrin creates an immersive fake museum “exhibition” as the container for the work, encouraging the public to consider the history of colonization within cultural institutions and museums.