A Last Hurrah/ Thank You!
in collaboration w/senseofplace LAB
November 20th, 2015
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In collaboration with senseofplace Lab's exhibition "a commemoration in several parts; an investigation into a relationship of a place (SURPLUS)." Michael Reinsch, Cathy Cleaver, Eli Coplan, and Avery Gilbert activated Surplus for our final closing/goodbye. Michael Reinsch will be performing a tar and feathering outdoors, Cathy Cleaver activated the kitchen in recognition of domestic repetition, Avery Gilbert II's sound-based performance explored boundaries in relation to the body in the black box, and Eli Coplan explored event documentation and circuits of memory in the Parlor. Our Resident Contractor, Jerry Gilmer, created a take-away of the renovation process he led in making the house again habitable.
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I'll always love you
For the rest of my days You have won my heart and my soul With your sweet, sexy ways You gave me hope When I needed someone near You bring me happiness Everyday of every year And I'll always love you For all that you are You have made my life complete You're my lucky star Your are the one That I'd been searching for You are my everything Tell me who could ask for more And I'll always love you Honey, this will never end I need you by my side, baby You're my lover my friend Oh, my friend You gave my world A thrill I've never known And filled my eager heart With a love to call my own And I'll always love you You must know how much I do You can count on me forever And I will take good care Of you I'll always love you I'm so happy that your mine I always love you Till the end of time. - Taylor Dayne, "I'll Always Love You," 1988 |
Before I Go
Cathy Cleaver
Kitchen
Cathy Cleaver is a sculptor and a performance artist from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon (2010) and her BFA from Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon (2007). Her work deals with issues of obsessive behaviors, body image, and futility while questioning constructs of gender roles. Cleaver currently co-owns and operates Ingrid’s Scandinavian Food, a food cart in Portland, Oregon, with her daughter.
Documentation (Surplus Space, 20 November 2015, 10:00:00 pm)
Eli Coplan
Parlor
A computer-controlled DSLR will take a photograph at exactly 10:00:00 pm. After this point, the photograph will constitute the work. Those present in the photograph will be given a high quality digital copy in a lossless file format, on the condition that the image shall never be reproduced online.
Eli Coplan is an artist living and working in Portland, OR. His practice is formed across physical and virtual spaces, investigating digital modes of production with an eye toward history and materiality. Eli has shown at Surplus Space in Portland, Hideout in Vancouver, WA, PUNCH gallery in Seattle, Black Box Festival in
Seattle, and recently attended Triple Canopy's Publication Intensive in New York City. He graduated from Reed College in 2015.
Eli Coplan is an artist living and working in Portland, OR. His practice is formed across physical and virtual spaces, investigating digital modes of production with an eye toward history and materiality. Eli has shown at Surplus Space in Portland, Hideout in Vancouver, WA, PUNCH gallery in Seattle, Black Box Festival in
Seattle, and recently attended Triple Canopy's Publication Intensive in New York City. He graduated from Reed College in 2015.
Inside the NorthEast Park Black Box
--become worrisome...short-term action and long-term problem solving
Avery Gilbert II
Black box
A performance including real time audio/vocal looping, intricately layered guitar textures, varying percussive inter-lay via the material of metal, and use of the body.
Avery Gilbert II, who performs under the moniker ADOS 33, was born in Dallas Tx, and raised in Los Angeles, Ca, where he studied film and music video under Alan Calzatti. He began playing music at the age of 7 with piano first, and then guitar at 13.
In Los Angeles, Gilbert II spent most of his time filming rock bands, playing music shows, organizing in POC communities, and doing homeless activist work with varying organizations.
Gilbert II arrived in Portland in 2010. In that time, he was just 20 years old. Now at 25, he's in a different state of being and so is Portland... Over the span of living in Portland, Gilbert II has worked as an educator in various child centers, high schools, a detention center, and elementary schools. Gilbert II isn't looking to just start conversations; he's looking to create formulaic conclusions and solutions to his own internal problems and to the external world with his sonic and literary explorations, as well as charge physical space in real time.
Avery Gilbert II, who performs under the moniker ADOS 33, was born in Dallas Tx, and raised in Los Angeles, Ca, where he studied film and music video under Alan Calzatti. He began playing music at the age of 7 with piano first, and then guitar at 13.
In Los Angeles, Gilbert II spent most of his time filming rock bands, playing music shows, organizing in POC communities, and doing homeless activist work with varying organizations.
Gilbert II arrived in Portland in 2010. In that time, he was just 20 years old. Now at 25, he's in a different state of being and so is Portland... Over the span of living in Portland, Gilbert II has worked as an educator in various child centers, high schools, a detention center, and elementary schools. Gilbert II isn't looking to just start conversations; he's looking to create formulaic conclusions and solutions to his own internal problems and to the external world with his sonic and literary explorations, as well as charge physical space in real time.
The Joke is on me.
Michael Reinsch
Outdoors
For "The Joke Is On Me" Performance artist Michael Reinsch will be generating a nonsense poem from jokes taken from all levels of appropriateness as he tars and feathers himself to Sousa marches while dressed as a rubber chicken.
A one man mob meting out his own punishment he is his own worst critic, especially considering the current political climate.
If he has to explain it the joke is ruined.
A one man mob meting out his own punishment he is his own worst critic, especially considering the current political climate.
If he has to explain it the joke is ruined.
Photo and Video Commemoration
Chris Freeman
Bathroom/Hallway
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