Swing Shift
Tori Abernathy
Job Creator 1, 2, 3
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen
Monks Bond
Jabari Jordan-Walker
Guest Curation in Kitchen/Hallway by Fo(u)rt Collective
Featured artists: Braeden Cox, Rachel Mulder, Damon Sneed
August 30 - September 20, 2014
Swing Shift
Tori Abernathy
Swing Shift is a series of duets responding to the movements of Downtown Clean and Safe public maintenance and sanitation workers. Dancers in the Swing Shift ensemble act when the Clean and Safe crew is off-duty. Workers and dancers alike respond to surges in waste production. Formalizing the interplay that already occurs between maintenance workers and unexpected zones of local activity, Swing Shift recasts these work patterns into a visual choreographic score and subsequent movement.
Swing Shift is directed by Tori Abernathy, with choreographic score produced by Grace Poetzinger, costume design by Alyssa Beers, performances by Hannon Welch, Keyon Gaskin, Leah Wilmoth, Simone Wood, and the Clean and Safe Crew.
Bio
Tori Abernathy is an artist, activist, curator, and writer from Miami living in Portland. She is founder and co-director of RECESS. She is founder and co-director of RECESS. Her collaborative, interdisciplinary practice adopts methods from advertising, surveillance, media, and other large institutional strategies in an effort to expose their limits on autonomous movement while championing the capacities of human subjectivity.
toriabernathy.com
Job Creator 1, 2, 3
Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen
Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen present a small selection of pieces that play on the signage and choreography of roadside sign dancers.
Bio
Gray and Paulsen are a collaborative artist team whose current interests center around reading and writing holes into the political and institutional predicaments that make life worse. Their projects have been seen at PDX Contemporary Art, The San Diego Museum of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Publication Studio, and PICA's Time-Based Arts Festival.
.ryannaprojects.com
Monks Bond
Jabari Jordan-Walker
Image taken from reportpdx.tumblr.com
Image taken from reportpdx.tumblr.com
Jabari Jordan-Walker is a writer and artist currently based in Portland, OR. Jordan-Walker’s work employs video and sculpture as meditative elements toward a wave of ephemeral objectives that architecture and sociopolitical policies produce between an individual’s relationship within the aesthetic and bureaucratic function of architecture as an esoteric discipline. His work, Monks Bond, borrows its title from a masonry term describing a form of brickwork used in early 20th century Flemish architecture. Here it is used to characterize the site where Jordan-Walker will be using three bonded bricks recovered from a demolished Portland apartment complex as a relic to meditate on the “brick” as natural material. As a relationship toward an investigation on the Mount Angel Abbey Library, Alvar Aalto’s last project before his death, the performance which will conclude at Surplus Space with the construction of a brick wall, will ultimately be dictated by Jordan-Walker’s pilgrimage.
Guest Curation in Kitchen/Hallway by FO(u)RT Collective
Featured artists: Braeden Cox, Rachel Mulder, Damon Sneed
Image taken from fourtcollective.com
Image taken from fourtcollective.com
FO(u)RT Collective is a multi-disciplinary collective comprised of four artists whose combined conceptual interests drives their creative practice and research inquiries. Based in Portland, Oregon--Sarah Abbott, Jessie Spiess, Lauren Seiffert, and Rachel Wolf--the members of FO(u)RT collectively and individually engage a variety of artistic practices including, but not limited to: photography, sculpture, installation, printmaking, writing, and video. Their breadth of experience through practice and personal histories provides FO(u)RT with a broad spectrum of visions and voices, which culminates in collective works, exhibitions, and public and private events.
fourtcollective.com
fourtcollective.com
